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Callahan Sisters Having Great Sports Summer
Sisters Cassie Callahan and Abigail Callahan are experiencing a great summer of sports competition in 2009. Starting with Cassie (The Elder), the junior-to-be at CHS was a member of the San Diego Surf Soccer Club that recently won the National Championship for the U15 Girls Division. The Surf qualified by winning the State National Championships and then earned a berth in the Regional Championships.
The four regional champions qualify for the Nationals. Confusing, yes, but the upshot is that Cassie played on a high-level National title team. Callahan helped lead the Surf defensive backfield on their title run.
Callahan the Elder is no stranger to the sport of track and field either, as she was a point scoring machine for the Islanders last year, competing in the 300-meter hurdles, the long jump and triple jump events.
That sport segue leads us to Callahan the Younger and CHS Head Track Coach George Green brings us up to date on Abigail’s exploits. “The Coronado Middle School track program was well-represented at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics in Greensboro, N.C. last week in the person of 13 year old and rising eighth grader Abigail Callahan.
Junior Olympic age divisions are based on year of birth and her division (Youth) consists basically of 13 and 14 year olds.  Thursday she placed seventh in the pole vault clearing 2.4 meters (a little under 8 feet) despite jumping with a rented pole (shipping vaulting poles across the county is now cost prohibitive) and very little practice because of the track's closure to replace the turf at Niedermeyer Field.
Her main event, however, was the high jump on Friday, where she went head-to-head with 6-foot, 2-inch tall Kira Larson jumping for Team Nodak out of North Dakota. Larson's 11-inch height advantage was a bit too much for Abigail to overcome and Larson won the event by clearing 5-5. Abigail and Mylana Hearn from Houston both cleared 5-3 for second and third place respectively, with Abigail taking the silver medal based on fewer misses at that height. Very few 13-year olds do well in the Youth Division and except for Abigail, the medal winners, or the top eight competitors, were all at the top of the age division.
Next year's Junior Olympics will be in Sacramento and Abigail's already looking forward to that event, where she'll still be in the same age division. Giving credit where credit's due, she's coached by our high school high jump and hurdle coach Kerry Elders, a 7-2 high jumper himself.”
Callahan the Younger is also a talented soccer player and played a starring role on last year’s CMS team, as well as on a travel soccer team this summer.