(4/18) TCU head track & field coach Monte Stratton has announced the signing of eight prep standouts to letters of intent with the Horned Frogs.
The group includes sprinter Dywana Crudup, from Fort Worth Dunbar, middle distance runner Heidi Francen of Grapevine, sprinter Shareen Sharrieff of Euless L.D. Bell, sprinter Michael Ashton of Fort Worth O.D. Wyatt, sprinter Johnny Collins of Fort Worth O.D. Wyatt, distance ace David Lagat of Eldoret, Kenya, distance specialist Adrian Martinez from McKinney and hurdler Michael Whitmarsh of Prosper, Texas.
Dywana Crudup, one of Texas' top prep sprinters, currently holds the fastest high school marks in both the 200 meters (24.07) and the 400 meters (56.16). She has also posted the area's third quickest 100-meter time (11.91) as well as running a leg on the Wildcats 4 x 100 relay.
Grapevine High's Heidi Francen has posted best times of 2:16.68 at 800 meters and 5:14.26 at 1600 meters this spring.
Shareen Sharrieff, a native of Euless, has the area's second-best 100-meter clocking (11.88) and has run 25.48 at 200 meters.
A pair of standouts at O.D. Wyatt, Michael Ashton and Johnny Collins, boast some of the area's best sprint marks. Ashton has been clocked at 10.48 at 100 meters as well as running a leg on the Chaps' top-ranked 4x100 relay, while Collins has turned a 48.20 at 400 meters and is a member of Wyatt's 4 x 400 quartet, also one of the state's best.
David Lagat, one of Kenya's top prop distance runners, has clocked times of 3:48 at 1500 meters, 14:25 at 5,000 meters and 30:41 at 10,000 meters.
McKinney High's Adrian Martinez, the Texas High School Class AAAA cross country individual champion, recently placed third in the 3,200 meters (9:36) at the Texas Relays.
The lone hurdler of the group is Prosper's Michael Whitmarsh. Thus far in 1996, he holds the area's top time in the 110 hurdles (13.83) and the area's second quickest time in the 300 hurdles (38.19).
This group brings the number of prep signees inked by first-year head coach Monte Stratton to 10. A pair of local prospects signed during the November early-signing period, Alison Harvey, a senior at Fort Worth Arlington Heights and senior Tameka Rodriguez of Carrollton Newman Smith.