Eight

members of the Fayette Flames youth track club competed

last Saturday in the eighth annual Bell and Schlau

Community Youth Track and Field Meet held at Charleston

Southern university in Charleston, S.C. The team competed

against over 300 participants from teams from Georgia and

South Carolina.

In the boys

age 8-9 group, David Mathis took first place in the 200

meter dash witha time of 32.85. His older brother, James,

took first place in the 100 and 200 mete dash in the age

11-12 age group, running a 14.59 and a 30.79

respectively. Success stayed in the family as their

sister, Nicole Mathis, achieved her personal best in the

400 meter. Nicole ran a 1:20 which was four seconds off

of her time in last year's District Georgia Parks and

Recreation Association meet.

Her

teammate, Monique Hawkins, took first in the 400 meter

with a time of 1:09. Hawkins also placed first in the 200

meter (29.66) and the 100 meter dash (13.89). Briana

Sharp took first place in the girls 9-10 age group for

the 100 meter dash with a time of 16.06, while Dashiva

Rodgers reached his personal best, 1:25, in the boys 9-10

age group for the 400 meter dash.

While at

the meet, the Fayette Flames also participated in a track

and field seminar with former U.S. Olympic greats Mel

Pender and Charlie Green. Pender and Green were members

of the 1968 US Olympic team.

The Bell

and Schlau Track and Field meet was organized by Thaddeus

J. Bell, a Charleston physician, and Robert Schlau, a

Charleston stock broker. both men are world class masters

athletes and created the meet to promote physical fitness

and good citizenship among youth in the Charleston area.

This is the second consective year, however, that the