Quenee' Dale of Saline High School is the No. 3 seed in the girls 17-18 100-meter hurdles.

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More than 1,000 athletes from all over the country will be coming to Washtenaw County this week to compete in the 2013 AAU Junior Olympic Games.

But some won’t have to go very far at all.

Several participants from Washtenaw County high schools will be among those competing in the weeklong national championship event. Detroit is the official host-city, but track and field events are at Eastern Michigan University's Rynearson Stadium, the swimming is at the University of Michigan’s Canham Natatorium, and the field hockey tournament will be played at Ocker Field in Ann Arbor. The "Celebration of Athletes" is at 7 p.m. at Rynearson on Monday.

Complete event schedules are available at the event's web site.

Lincoln High School incoming senior Savannah Roberson has the best chance at bringing home a local national championship in track and field, as the top seed in the girls 17-18 100-meter dash and the second seed in the 200-meter dash.

In the 200, she is the second seed to Kendall Baisden, the state champion from Detroit Country Day who will run at UCLA next year. The 200-meter final will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at Rynearson.

Other area female athletes scheduled to compete include Quenee’ Dale of Saline, who is the No. 3 seed in the 100-meter dash, the event in which she won a Division 1 high school state title in June.

Charde Madoula-Bey of Skyline High School will compete in two events: she is the No. 11 seed in the 15-16 discus and the No. 17 seed in the shot put. Two of her Skyline teammates will also be competing in the 400: Anita Vandermeulen and Sophie Steinberg.

Taylor Withrow of Manchester will compete in the high jump, while Courtney Freeman of Ypsilanti will compete in the heptathalon.

On the boys side, Charles Spratt of Ypsilanti has the highest seed, No. 10 in the steeplechase. He is also scheduled to compete in the 1,500-meter run.

Brandon Morgan, a freshman at Willow Run High School last year, will also compete in two events: the 200-meter dash, where he is the No. 16 seed, and the 100-meter dash, where he is the No. 23 seed.

Other high school-aged male athletes competing include Robie Webster of Lincoln in the 110 hurdles, Duane Boyd of Huron High School in the 200-mteter dash, Kyle Sowell-Peeples of Ann Arbor in the 400-meter hurdles and Joseph Codrington of Ann Arbor in the 800-meter run.

Several local athletes will also be competing in the 14-and-under divisions, and local teams will also be sending several relays to the meet. Complete entries and results are available on the AAU’s track web site.

Maggie Cole.

Photo courtesy of Leslie Fry

The AAU Junior Olympics field hockey tournament begins on Wednesday at Michigan's Ocker Field with games scheduled every day through Saturday, August 3. Chelsea High School sophomore-to-be Maggie Cole will be playing for the Gold team. Cole plays for the Washtenaw Whippets. Huron junior Tulin Babbitt will also be participating.

Swimming

Competition for swimming began on Saturday at Canham Natatorium and will wrap up on Monday. Three sessions are scheduled on Monday, the first began at 8:30 a.m., the second will begin at 1 p.m. and the third and final session will begin at 6 p.m. Full swimming results and a schedule are available at the AAU Junior Olympics website.