Samuels Top High School Boy Of 2005

North Carolina sprinter J-Mee Samuels (Mt. Tabor High, Winston-Salem) is a unanimous choice as 2005's leading boys high school performer in the annual Track & Field News poll.

Samuels, now attending Arkansas, tallied a perfect score of 240 points to claim AOY honors. He ranked as the No. 1 All-America in both the 100m and 200m for '05 and became the first dash doubler to grab AOY honors since Derrick Florence in 1986.

Samuels' 100-meter best of 10.08 broke Florence's national High School Record. He won the elite Nike Outdoor Nationals meet as well as the U.S. National Junior century title.

Over 200, Samuels led the nation at 20.32, a time which makes him the No. 5 high school half-lap performer of all-time. He scored a double win at the Nike Nationals as he won that 200 and later placed 3rd in the USATF Junior race.

Following Samuels in the Top 10 AOY voting: 2. Ryan Whiting (Central Dauphin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) No. 1 in the shot and discus; 3. Scott Sellers (Cinco Ranch, Katy, Texas) No. 1 high jumper; 4. Justin Oliver (Redan, Stone Mountain, Georgia) No. 1 at 400; 5. Mark Matusak (Loyola, Los Angeles) No. 1 at the mile and 2-mile;
6. Scott Roth (Granite Bay, California) No. 1 in the pole vault; 7. Greg Offerman (Charles City, Iowa) No. 1 in the 400 hurdles; 8. David Klech (California, San Ramon, California) nationally-ranked in the 300 and 400 hurdles plus high jump and long jump; 9. Robert Rands (East, Bellevue, Nebraska) No. 1 long jumper; 10. Michael Morrison (Great Bend, Chesapeake, Virginia) No. 1 in decathlon, No. 2 pole vaulter).