Thursday, March 13, 2014

NCAA--Meet Record Possibles

I'm not going to predict which, if any, HSR's or CR's will fall at the New Balance Indoor Nationals or the NCAA meets.
I won't even predict who's going to win each event, or which teams will win at the NC's.
(But.....Go DUCKS!!!)

Anyway, these pre-meet(s) posts will offer up those events where the MEET Records MIGHT fall, and the likely candidates to break them.
I'll start with the "adults", the Collegians.
(The NBIN report will follow in a separate post!)
The NCAA meet is in Albuquerque, NM, and starts tomorrow, ends Saturday.

Men
60          The MR of 6.51 MIGHT be tied by Cameron Burrell, Aaron Brown, Prezell Hardy, or Dentarius Locke.
400      I doubt the MR will fall--It's also the WORLD Record!!!--but Deon Lendore and Arman Hall could go sub-45.
800       Edward Kemboi has the best chance at the 1:45.33 MR.  He's the only one with a sub-1:46 time, albeit on an OT!
1 Mile   Lawi Lalang.  But if he doubles (or triples!!), he'll probably run just to win.
3000    Lalang and Edward Cheserek.  Besides them doubling, there's also the altitude factor.  But if anyone is going to break 7:45, it will be these two.
5000    Lalang & Cheserek.  (See the 3000.)
60H     Eddie Lovett.  If he gets the MR (or even the CR!!), please don't say "Gotta Lov-ett!".
4X400R     Texas A&M, Florida & LSU should provide a thrilling race, if not a record-shattering one!
DMR   Just about EVERY team has a chance at the 9:27.77 MR!!  Should be a CLASSIC!!
PV       Sam Kendricks, Shawn Barber, and Andrew Irwin all have a fair chance at the 19-2.25 MR.
SP       This one's a toughie at 71-3.25 (Ryan Whiting!!), but Ryan Crouser is a possibility, even though his best is "just" 69-8.
WT     Amazing that the MR isn't over 80 feet.  But Michael Lihrman and Chuk Enekwechi might take care of that!

Women
60       The MR of 7.09 is tough, but Dezerea Bryant is a superstar in the making, and might at least tie it!
200     Kamaria Brown and Bryant are prime candidates to get Bianca Knight's venerable MR (and CR!!) of 22.40!
400    Again, the MR is hard to beat, it being 50.54 by Francena McCorory.  But Ashley Spencer has the wheels.  Only question is, can she steer them around ABQ's oval fast enough to get that mark?
800    We're talking MR, not the CR!!  In that regard, Laura Roesler is almost certain to get the 2:01.77 MR of Hazel Clark, now 15 years in the past!  Competition could come from Megan Malasarte, Ejiroghene Okoro, as well as super-frosh Sabrina Southerland.
1 Mile    Cory McGee ran 4:06.67 last year for a WC qualifier.  That's equal to about 4:24 for the mile.
 The MR is 4:29.72 by Sarah Bowman (Brown).
3000/5000  The same goes for Abbey D'Agostino's chances as stated above for Lalang & Cheserek in the same events.  With her doubling, and the altitude, the MR's appear safe another year!
4X400R     Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, and Oregon could ALL get the MR of 3:27.66 (by Texas in 2003).  Wouldn't it be something if the FOURTH place team ran 3:26??!!
DMR    This MR is VERY tough, it being also the CR.  There's several great teams here, but NONE of them have that Pro-level miler who can clinch the record!!  So this mark appears safe, while the RACE looks like a barnburner!
TJ   Shaneika Thomas has an outside chance at the MR of 46-9.  She's the only one with a PR over 46.
PV  The Collegiate Women's PV this year is VERY strong.  Emily Grove, Morgann Leleux, Kaitlin Petrillose, Megan Clark, Martina Schultze & Natalia Bartnovskaya all have a fair shot at that 14-10.50 MR.
Pent.    Erica Bougard and Kendell Williams should go 1-2 (in no particular order!!), but might fall short of the 4550 MR by Brianna Thiesen (Eaton).

The NBIN report will follow shortly.

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