Who in the world is Kennedy Allen and where in the world did she come from?

Just a sophomore, Allen has zoomed her way straight to the head of the class, the front of the line, two-time defending Far East Tennis Tournament champion Seoul American's No. 1 girls singles seed.

I don't think anybody needs any more proof than what occured on Friday at Camp Walker and Saturday at Daejeon, where Allen dispatched Taegu American's top singles seed Vanessa Fernandez-Torres and Taejon Christian International's Christina Cho without dropping a single game.

This one bears considerable watching.

-- So, too, does junior Andrew Quallio of Zama American. Already the school record holder for the mile and six seconds off the school's two-mile standard, Quallio on Saturday ran the 2.2-mile cross-country course at Negishi Heights Naval Housing Area in 13 minutes, 30.9 seconds. That's nearly 21 seconds better than the old mark. Call it the long-distance running equivalent of a tape-measure home run.

-- Three races so far this season, three victories for Guam High's Robert Fry. But the surprise in Panthers country is Susan Smith, a freshman who's won the last two Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam girls races. Coach Joe Taitano predicts that she'll be "a force" for Guam High.

-- John Lohr of Seoul American got off to a flying start, winning his season-opening Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Conference race in 18:04 at International Christian-Uijongbu. That was 28 seconds behind overall winner Logan Bennett of Seoul Foreign, but that could easily change as the season wears on. And it makes Lohr one of the favorites in the Far East meet Nov. 5-6 on Okinawa.

Who do you think bears considerable watching? Sound off! Let me hear it! And remember, you've entered THE "no-hate zone." :)