TRACK : Manship to Attend 6-Day Heptathlon Clinic Emphasizing Training, Nutrition Programs

When she’s not on the track, she’ll be on the treadmill. When she’s not being subjected to a back-breaking training regimen, she’ll be the subject of scholarly inspection.

Sharon Manship, a June graduate of Thousand Oaks High and the Valley-area record holder in the girls triple jump, will attend a heptathlon training camp for junior athletes (19 and under) at the United States Olympic Committee Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from July 16-21.

Lyle Knudsen, one of the nation’s leading heptathlon coaches and a member of the University of Florida staff, will direct the camp, which is designed to educate athletes and coaches about the training and nutritional programs of world-class heptathletes.

When Manship is not asking probing questions on technique and style, there’s a good chance she’ll be helping with USOC research.

Manship, 17, who will attend UCLA this fall, also will undergo physiological tests for body-fat content analysis and aerobic lung capacity. The research is designed to help athletes maximize their potential and to understand the effects of training on the study participants.

Manship placed third in the triple jump and fifth in the 300-meter low hurdles at the state championships in Sacramento this season.

She has personal bests of 39 feet in the triple jump, 42.88 in the 300 hurdles and 4,544 points in the heptathlon.

Watts-powered: Although it has been more than a month since he won state titles in the 100 and 200 meters, Quincy Watts of Taft High shows no signs of slowing down.

Last weekend, Watts led the West Valley Eagles Track Club to the team title in the young man’s division (17-and 18-year-olds) of The Athletics Congress junior national championships in Philadelphia.

The Eagles, led by Watts’ victories in the 100 (10.41) and 200 (20.91) meters, scored 48 points to win the team title. In addition to his individual victories, Watts anchored the victorious 400 and 1,600-meter relays, in 40.89 and 3:16.51.

Watts was pushed in the 100 by teammate Tony Miller, who placed second in 10.48. Miller, who finished his junior year at San Francisco Riordan High in June, has a personal best of 10.41. Watts has run 10.36 in the 100 and 20.67 in the 200.

The Eagles’ 400-meter relay was composed of David Feinstein, Sean Roberts, Percy Knox and Watts, and Miller, Knox, Roberts and Watts formed the 1,600 relay.

Knox graduated from Antelope Valley High last month and Feinstein and Watts just completed their junior seasons at Taft. Roberts, in only his second season of track, graduated from Taft last month.

The Eagles, a youth club team, take their road show to Tulare this weekend, where they’ll compete in the regional Junior Olympics on Saturday and Sunday at Bob Mathias Stadium.