July 25, 2005
Six State Champions Highlight 2005-06 Track Recruit Class
    Youngstown -- Six state champions and nine student-athletes from Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties highlight Youngstown State's 2005-06 track and field recruiting class, head coach Brian Gorby announced.
    Four former state champions, including South Range High's Dan Nemergut, will join the men's squad while 10-time All-Ohioan Jen Grayson from Maplewood High and Kari Kreutzfeld of Port Clinton High headline the women's class.
    Nemergut captured the individual crown at the 2004 Division III OHSAA State Cross Country Championships in November with a first-place time of 16:13. He was also the runner-up at the state meet as a junior and placed second in the state in the 3,200-meters as a senior.
    Jeff Dobbins of Wadsworth High, Harold Jones of Wyoming High and Chillicothe Unioto High's Michael Perri will also enter as former state champions. Dobbins won the state title in the pole vault during the indoor season with a mark of 15 feet and was ranked 34th nationally in the event. Jones, a Cincinnati native, won the 800 at State as a junior and finished as the runner-up in the event as a senior. He was also ranked 15th nationally as a senior in the indoor 800. Perri won the indoor state championship in the high jump with a mark of 6-6 and ranked 38th nationally.
    Local standout Aaron Merrill of Leetonia also joins the class. Merrill finished second in the state in the shot put and eighth in the discus as a senior after placing fifth in the shot and seventh in the discus as a junior. As a senior, he set the Tri-County League record in the shot put with a mark of 60-3, a mark that ranked 23rd nationally. He was also the TCL champion in the shot three straight years.
    State runner-up in the indoor pole vault Corey Schreck (Wadsworth High) and high jump All-Ohioan Martin Vieth (Oregon Clay High) complete the class.
    Grayson, who signed early with YSU in November, garnered All-Ohio honors in the 300 hurdles, 100 hurdles and high jump as a senior after winning the high jump as a junior. Her personal-best mark of 5-7 1/4 in the high jump as a junor ranked 57th nationally and would break both of YSU's current high jump records. Kreutzfeld also earned a State title in the indoor 200 and was on Port Clinton's 4x100 relay that placed second in the state and the fifth-place 4x200 relay.
    Joining Grayson from the area are Canfield's Stephanie Jarvis and Newton Falls' Jacquline Clonch. Jarvis also signed in November and will enter with a personal-best mark in the pole vault that is two feet higher than the YSU record. She finished seventh in the state as a junior and broke the meet record at the Division I Youngstown Districts with a first-place mark of 10-7. Clonch placed fifth in the state in the discus with a mark of 128-3.
    Darcelle Formby of Cleveland Rhodes High finished 12th in the 100 and 16th in the 200 as a senior at the Division I state meet after finishing seventh in the state in the 200 as a junior. She earned All-Ohio honors in the 60, 200 and the long jump at the indoor state meet, and her personal-best time of 25.10 in the 200 is the fastest incoming time in the event in school history. Katie Wells of Lakewood High placed fifth in the 100 hurdles in 2004 and finished third in the 60 hurdles in the indoor season.
    Youngstown State's men's squad won the Horizon League Indoor Track and Field title in 2003 while the women's team has won four-straight conference titles.

2005-06 RECRUIT BIOGRAPHIES

MEN

Jeff Dobbins
Wadsworth, Ohio
Wadsworth High School

Was the 2005 Ohio State Indoor Track and Field Champion in the pole vault with mark of 15-0…ranked 34th nationally in the pole vault during the 2005 indoor season according to Dyestat.com.

Harold Jones
Cincinnati, Ohio
Wyoming High School

Won the 800 at the 2004 Division II Ohio State Track and Field Championship with a time of 1:54.41…placed second in the 800 as a senior with a time of 1:54.65…ran a time of 1:55.07 in the 800 as a senior during the indoor season to rank 15th nationally according to Dyestat.com. 

Aaron Merrill
Leetonia, Ohio
Leetonia High School

Finished second in the shot put at the 2005 Division III Ohio State Track and Field Championships as a senior with a mark of 58-3 1/4…added an eighth-place distance of 160-0 in the discus at State…placed fifth in the state in the shot (56-4 3/4) and seventh in the discus (159-0) as a junior…set the Tri-County Meet record in the shot with a personal-best mark of 60-3 as a senior…that mark ranked 23rd nationally in 2005 according to Dyestat.com…was the TCL champion in the shot put three straight years.

Dan Nemergut
South Range High School
Youngstown, Ohio

Was the 2004 Division III cross country state champion, running a time of 16:13…was runner-up at the state meet as a junior (16:11) and 32nd as a sophomore (16:51)…placed second in the 3,200 at the 2005 Division III Ohio State Track and Field Championships with a school-record time of 9:29.89…placed eighth in the state in the 3,200 as a junior (9:44.96).

Michael Perri
Chillicothe Unioto High School
Chillicothe, Ohio

Ran the first leg of Chillicothe Unioto’s 4x800-meter relay that placed ninth at the 2005 Division II Ohio State Track and Field Championships...also ran the third leg of the 4x400…placed 14th in the high jump with a mark of 6-0…was the state champion in the indoor high jump with a mark of 6-6, which ranked 38th nationally according to Dyestat.com.

Corey Schreck
Wadsworth High School
Wadsworth, Ohio

Was the runner-up in the pole vault at the Division I Ohio State Track and Field Championships as a senior with a mark of 15-0. 

Martin Vieth
Oregon Clay High School
Oregon, Ohio

Placed 10th in the high jump at the 2005 Division I Ohio State Track and Field Championships with a mark of 6-4…earned All-Ohio honors in the indoor high jump with a mark of 6-7, which ranked 25th nationally according to Dyestat.com.

WOMEN

Jacquline Clonch
Newton Falls High School
Newton Falls, Ohio

Finished fifth in the discus with a mark of 128-3 at the 2005 Ohio State Track and Field Championships.

Darcelle Formby
Cleveland Rhodes High School
Cleveland, Ohio

Finished 12th in the 100 (12.72) and 16th in the 200 (25.76) as a senior at the Division I Ohio State Track and Field Championships…also anchored Cleveland Rhodes’ eighth-place 4x200 and led off the 4x400 relay at State as a senior…as a junior, placed seventh in the state in the 200 and helped pace the 4x200 to a sixth-place finish…holds a personal-best time of 25.10 in the 200 to have the fastest incoming time in the event in YSU history...also has a personal-best time of 12.00 in the 100-meter dash…placed third in the 60 (7.25) and third in the 200 (25.71) at the state indoor championship…also earned All-Ohio honors in the long jump with a mark of 17-4.

Jennifer Grayson
Maplewood High School
Cortland, Ohio

Was a 10-time All-Ohioan at Maplewood…finished second in the 300 hurdles (44.82), third in the 100 hurdles (15.12) and fourth in the high jump (5-5) as a senior at the 2005 Division III Ohio State Track and Field Championships…won the state high jump title as a junior with a mark of 5-6…also finished fourth in the 300 hurdles and sixth in the 100 hurdles as a junior…her personal-best mark of 5-7 1/4 in the high jump as a junior ranked 57th nationally.

Stephanie Jarvis
Canfield High School
Canfield, Ohio

Placed seventh in the pole vault in Division I at the state meet as a junior with a mark of 10-4…broke the Division I Youngstown District pole vault record with a first-place mark of 10-7 as a senior…will enter with a personal-best mark that is already more than two feet higher than the school record.

Kari Kreutzfiel
Port Clinton High School
Port Clinton, Ohio

Anchored Port Clinton’s 4x100 relay that placed second and the 4x200 that placed fifth at the 2005 Division II Ohio State Track and Field Championships…placed sixth in the 200 at the state meet with a time of 25.67 as a junior…also competed in the second-place 4x100 and third-place 4x200 at State as a junior…won the Division II state title in the indoor 200 with a time of 26.60 and placed second in the 400 (60.30)…also earned All-Ohio honors in the 55 meter dash (7.48)…identical twin of Shari Kreutzfeld.

Katie Wells
Hebron, Ohio
Lakewood

Placed fifth in the 100 hurdles at the 2004 Ohio State Track and Field Championships with a time of 15.13…placed third in the 60m hurdles at the indoor state championships with a time of 8.85 seconds.