"...and Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it!"
That's a line from my favorite Bob Dylan song (lyrically speaking, that is!), "Visions of Johanna".
But "Louise", in this case, is aka "Swift Girl" on Twitter.
And she HATES Justin Gatlin with a passion!
So I'm certain (Check her tweets from today!) she went apoplectic seeing the result from the Men's 200 at the Senior USATF meet, which ended a few hours ago.
Gatlin sped his 200 in 19.57, cleaning everyone else's clock in the process!
It was no contest!
Just for the Record (which is what this blog is all about, right?), he broke his own Age 33 record.
He nabbed the USATF Meet Record.
He moves from 6th to 3rd on the A-T US list.
And he moves from 8th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 5th.
But he also improves his place on my 100-200 Combined Events list.
His times of 9.74 and 19.57 add to 29.31.
So he moves from 6th to 4th on that list!
The sprints--both Men's and Women's--produced some incredible times.
And only SOME of them were wind-aided!
One that wasn't was the Women's Semi, where English Gardner ran 10.79, improving her PR by 0.05.
She moves from 11th A-T US to 7th, tied with 1 other.
On the World DDD, she becomes 13th A-T, tied with 3 others.
Her entrance onto the World list eliminated some BIG names FROM the list!
Three women had 10.83's that are now gone.
Sheila Echols's time dated from 1988.
Juliet Cuthbert's time dated from 1992.
And the WR holder in the 400, Marita Koch's 10.83 dated from 1983!
Other's connected to the meet's venue, aka Oregon Ducks, had good marks.
Jenna Prandini won the 200 in an 0.01 PR of 22.20.
But she remains 20th A-T US, except now she's not tied with anyone.
Jasmine Todd ran 10.92 in the 100 final.
She's now 24th A-T US, tied with 3 others.
She also LJ'ed 22-5.25.
But she misses my US DDD by one-half inch!!
Trayvon Bromell offered some excitement to the crowd by timing 9.84 in a 100 heat!
It tied the USATF Meet Record.
It broke his own Age 19 Record.
In fact, no one under the age of 21 has run faster!
He moves from 13th A-T US to 4th.
He's also 10th A-T World, tied with 2 others.
Diondre Batson ran 9.94 in a heat.
He's now 23rd A-T US, tied with 1 other.
Taken OFF my list was a super (in every sense) oldie.
Jim Hines, who ran the first automatic-timed sub-10, a 9.95 dating from 1968 (!!), is no longer on my list!
Before leaving the sprints, I have to add some GREAT news about Kaylin Whitney.
If you read my USATF Junior Championships post, you know she ran 22.75 in her heat, plus a windy 11.18 in her 100 heat.
Well, she slightly improved on her HS PRO Record in the 200!
In the Semi, she matched her PR from last year, running 22.49.
In the final, she missed a ticket to Beijing by one place, but improved her HS PRO Record to 22.47!
(And she gets the HS PRO Junior Class Record also!!)
A truly GREAT meet by a young lady who can't even vote yet!!
Both 3000 Steeplechase races gave us some good marks---not to mention some spills and thrills (in the Women's race).
Evan Jager towed Dan Huling and Don Cabral to fast times.
In the process, he carved out a new USATF Meet Record time of 8:12.29.
Huling missed his PR by less than a second, but Cabral sliced his by about 6 seconds!
His 8:13.37 moves him from 18th A-T US up to 7th!
After allowing Stephanie Garcia to lead the first few laps, American Record holder Emma Coburn took control, increased the pace, headed to a USATF Meet Record time of 9:15.59.
It was her own MR she broke!
Garcia got a PR, but almost crashed in the final 100 meters, paying the price of her fast early pace.
Her time of 9:23.48 was a PR by 0.80 seconds.
But her 4th A-T US list placing doesn't change.
The battle for 3rd was a replay of the NCAA, when Colleen Quigley raced against Leah O'Connor.
Except here, as they came to the final water jump, Quigley cleared it cleanly, while O'Connor slipped on the hurdle, took a dive, getting up to race again, but finding herself with a gap she couldn't close.
Quigley thus stamped her passport to China with her 3rd place time of 9:24.92.
(She finished in a sprint, almost catching the fading Garcia!)
She moves from 9th A-T US, tied with 1 other, into 7th.
O'Connor recovered enough to also get a PR.
Her 9:31.03 moves her up one spot on the A-T US list, from 14th to 13th.
The short hurdles also produced a couple of shocks.
Lolo Jones made it to the final.
Lolo Jones ain't going to China.
Queen Harrison didn't made it to the final.
Queen Harrison isn't going to Beijing either.
One who more than made the cut was Sharika Nelvis.
She ran 12.34---in a heat!
(The final was slower, won in the 12.5's!)
However, her time moves her from 17th to 4th on the A-T US list!
She also becomes 7th A-T World!
She just missed (by 0.01) the Age 25 Record, set by Yordanka Donkova in 1987!
Her entering the World DDD erases 2 significant names from it.
Cornelia Oschkenat's time dates from 1987.
Ginnie Crawford is still running, but is also gone from my list.
Her time dated from 2007.
While I'm on the hurdles, I'll mention a race held in Jamaica over the weekend.
Omar McLeod beat Hansle Parchment, running 12.97, easily bettering his PR of 13.21.
He's now 14th A-T World, tied with 1 other.
Oh, and BTW, he ALSO knocked a couple of iconic names OFF my World list!
Gone are Reggie Torian from 1998.
But even more important, gone also is Greg Foster, whose time dated from 1981.
Marquis Dendy won the LJ, but his winning jump of 28-5.75 had an aiding wind of 3.7!
However, he also had a legal mark of 27-6.50.
This makes him 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other.
Dendy lost the Triple Jump to Omar Craddock's massive PR, but his 56-6.50 mark makes him 18th A-T US.
Craddock's PR of over a foot and a half, 57-6.25, makes him 11th A-T US, tied with 1 other.
The Women's TJ produced a mildly shocking winner in Christina Epps.
Her 46-2.75 makes her 11th A-T US.
Keturah Orji didn't PR, but finished 3rd, making the team for the WC---IF she can get the Qualifying mark in the next few weeks!
(Same goes for Ms Epps and the other placer.)
While on the Triple Jump, I found a VERY old mark I need to report.
No, it's not a few MONTHS old!
It's from---2013!
Somehow I missed April Sinkler's 45-7 mark from 2 years ago!
She's thus 21st A-T US!!
Is this report too long already?
I hope not, because I still have LOTS to report.
So if you're tired, take a break, then come back and continue reading!
Turning to the Throws, let's go first to Poland, where it was reported Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own HT World Record with a toss of 261-11.
One problem.
It's NOT going to be ratified!
Even Anita said so!
Why?
It was thrown from a platform built on one side of a river, and the ball and chain was thrown to the other bank.
I don't know the official ruling, but take my word---NO WR!!
The USATF meet's Women's Javelin had great depth--at least if you consider ONLY American depth!
Kara Winger won the event easily, but no PR.
Neither did Shelbi Vaughan, who finished 2nd, PR.
But the next three changed their status on my DDD's.
The resurgent Hannah Carson got a MASSIVE PR of 10 feet 4 inches (!!), throwing the spear out 195-5!
She thus moves all the way from 24th to 8th on my US DDD list!
Kimberley Hamilton's mark of 193-8 moves her up 2 spots on the A-T US list, from 11th to 9th.
And Karlee McQuillen's throw of 186-3 makes her 21st A-T US.
DeAnna Price, who won the NCAA Hammer Throw with a PR of 234-6, increased that mark to 237-2 in taking a close 2nd in the event here.
She steps up one notch on the A-T US list, from 9th to 8th.
Jessica Ramsey's HT of 225-8 makes her 24th A-T US.
A deep Men's Shot Put found Ryan Whiting finishing just 7th, throwing 68-2.50.
But sometimes 7th place gains you a Record!
Whiting's mark is the best-ever 7th Place!!
The Women's SP also had some depth.
Michelle Carter won with her longest toss in years, as she hit 65-8!
But it missed the Meet record by about 9 inches, and it wasn't a PR, as SHE holds that MR!!
Three women DID get PR's.
Tia Brooks's throw of 62-1.25 moves her from 12th to 10th on the A-T US list.
Jeneva Stevens threw the ball out 61-9.75.
She moves from 17th to 13th on the A-T US list.
And Jessica Ramsey's 60-5.25 makes her 23rd A-T US.
Raven Saunders got a good 6th round mark, giving her the "Collegiate" lead.
Meaning, she beat all the other 5 or 6 Collegians in the meet, thus winning this "Alternate NCAA"!
LOL
Sean Furey's winning Javelin Throw of 272-7 moves him from 14th to 12th on the A-T US list!
Both HJ's were interesting---in different ways.
Eric Kynard won the Men's side with 7-9.25.
This tied the USATF Meet Record.
It also tied his PR, which was first hit in 2013.
He then tried 3 times at the American Record height of 2.41, or 7-10.75!
JaCorian Duffield jumped 7-8.
He's now 14th A-T US, tied with 4 others.
Comebacking Mama Chaunte Lowe won the Women's HJ with 6-3.25, failing 3 times at the Beijing Q of 6-4.25.
Almost-40 (July 27th!) Amy Acuff finished 3rd with a 6-2 leap.
This ties her 2015 best.
But if she'd been 40 now, she would've missed the Age 40 Record by 0.75 inches!
One of them will have to jump 6-4.25 in order to secure their ticket to Beijing!
It's ironic (??) that 17 year old HS Junior, Vashti Cunningham---who won the USATF Junior Championships HJ with a mark of 6-0.75---HAS the necessary Beijing Q mark!!
Too bad she chose to jump with her peers, instead of with her "elders"!!
The Women's Pole Vault turned into its expected 3-way battle, with Jenn Suhr, and recent College Grads-turned Pro's, Sandi Morris and Demi Payne, playing passing games as the bar was raised to the 15 foot level.
While none of the 3 got a PR--Suhr won with 15-9.75, then came Morris at 15-3, and Payne at 15-1--three others did!
Following the Big 3 came Katie Nageotte's 14-11.
This makes her 19th A-T US, tied with 1 other.
Kristin Hixson and Leslie Brost both jumped 14-9.
Hisxon's vault matched her 2013 PR.
She's 22nd A-T US, tied with 7 others.
One of those 7 is Brost, whose 14-9 also makes her 22nd, tied with 7 others!
Tianna Bartoletta LJ'ed 23-4.50 for the win.
She moves from 7th to 4th on the A-T US list!
But she misses my World list by a mere 0.75 inches!
The Heptathlon saw a mildly shocking winner.
Barbara Nwaba outran Sharon Day-Monroe in the 800, thus extending her mere 7 point lead for the comfortable victory.
Her PR total of exactly 6500 points moves her from 13th to 6th on the A-T US list!
Erica Bougard added 38 points to her recent PR, scoring 6288 in third.
But there's no change in her list status, so she's still 17th A-T US.
Heather Miller-Koch scored 6274 points.
This makes her 18th A-T US.
Are you struggling with my masochistic-length post?
Well, hang in there, we're almost finished!!
Georgeanne Moline crashed and burned in the 400H, but Cassandra Tate didn't.
Her 2nd place mark (to Shamier Little's non-PR time of 53.83) of 54.01 makes her 14th A-T US.
Moved OFF my DDD was LaTanya Sheffield, whose 1983 mark was the oldest on my US DDD!!
Also removed from a United States DDD was----MARY SLANEY!!!
It took a SPECTACULAR race in the Women's 5000 to make that happen!
While the time wasn't SUPER fast, it was fast enough to remove Slaney's one-time American Record time from my list!
Her 15:06.53 dated from 1985!
Anyway, it was a great race to watch!
(And I'll be watching it again and again---and again!!)
Nicole Tully led awhile, then Shalane Flanagan took over, as she is won't to do.
(Thank you, Shalane, for making EVERY race you run FAST!!)
The K's went by in 3:02, 3:00, then 3:05.
That was when Tully retook the lead, with (among others) Marielle Hall and Abbey D'Agostino joining the party.
The next 1000 or so found them in a tight-knit little group.
The pace didn't sag, but it also didn't increase much.
Until the last 600 or so.
ALL of them tried to take the lead at the same time, forcing a 3-wide line around the penultimate curve.
The expected flat-out SPRINT then started, with Tully's speed winning the day---BARELY!!
Her 15:06.44 beat Hall's 15:06.45---by the thinnest of hairs!
And not far back, also sprinting hard, came Abbey D, finally back to her domineering strength from her collegiate years!
Tully's time wasn't a PR, but Hall's was.
She's now 23rd A-T US!
And SHE was the one that forced Ms Slaney OFF the list!
Abbey ALMOST caused another SUPER Icon OFF my list.
But Suzy Favor Hamilton's 15:06.48 remains, Abbey's time just 0.12 from removing Suzy!
In 4th came Emily Infeld, whose 15:07.18 missed my US DDD by just 0.70 seconds!
(You think Suzy will survive the summer??)
There was a BIG upset in the Women's 20000 meter Walk, held on Agate St, just outside Hayward Field!
Miranda Melville and AR holder Maria Michta-Coffey battled it out for 15K, before Melville took off.
She gained about 30 seconds on each of the last 5 K's, winning by about 2 minutes!
The 800's were won by two folks who were coming back from assorted "problems".
Nick Symmonds forgot his Beer Miles and "Life Outside the Oval Office" to win the Men's race from Casimir Loxsom's first sub-1:45.
Returning-from-pregnancy Alysia Montano returned also to her USATF Championship-winning ways, defeating Brenda Martinez with a solid 1:59.15!
(And yes, she had a flower in her hair, and the cutest little baby in her arms when she was interviewed afterwards!)
The races also saw 2 serious contenders fall (??), both Maggie Vessey and Duane Solomon finishing their respective races in over three minutes!!
Vessey's mishap apparently caused Ajee Wilson to lose a shoe, forcing her to finish the race with one shoe'd foot, and one in socks!!
She managed to finish in the Bronze medal position!
Finally----YES, FINALLY!!!---there was the women's 1500.
Remember me saying (in my USATF Junior post) that Sarah Feeny and Stephanie Jenks led that race through 800 in around 2:20?
Well, the "ADULT" women went through THEIR 800 in around 2:26!!
Kate Murphy won that Junior race in 4:16.98---as a HS Soph!!
World Champion and Diamond League winner Jenny Simpson had to sprint a 58+ last 400 to secure HER win in 4:14 and change, just 2 seconds faster than Murphy!!
And Mary Cain?
Nope!
The girl who made the 2013 WC team at age 17 is now 19, but just not the same Mary Cain!
While the first 7 women sprinted that final 400 in times ranging from 58.81 (Shannon Rowbury) to 59.95 (Treniere Moser), Cain ran hers in "just" 60.48!!
The "old" Mary would have run that lap in 57 seconds!!
And thus, I'll end this "little" post with another Bob Dylan lyric.
"Oh, I was so much older then---I'm younger than that now!"
Oh, really?
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Hayward crowds love the Juniors
This post is entirely about the USATF Junior Championship, held the past 3 days alongside the Senior version at historic Hayward Field!
Remembering the World Junior Championships held there in 2014---with some of the same people competing here!---the Hayward crowds know quality when they see it, and duly show their appreciation.
And boy, was there ever MUCH to appreciate!
I'm doing this separate post for a good reason.
The Junior meet produced so many GREAT marks, that I knew I couldn't fit all of the Junior news into my Senior meet post.
In fact, I MIGHT be doing TWO Senior meet posts---one for each gender---if the final day (Sunday) gives me as much material as I've compiled from the first 3 days!
So with the Junior meet now finished, let's check out what happened.
Noah Lyles, a "junior" in HS, came of age here, winning two VERY fast sprints!
The 100 came first, and his 10.14 took down the co-favorite, Ryan Clark, as well as some solid back-ups.
Using a max wind of 2.0, Lyles's mark broke the Junior Class Record.
He moves from 10th A-T HS, tied with 4 others, into 5th.
But it was his 200 that rocked Hayward!
His competition wasn't exactly slow, as he had 20.30 guy Michael Norman and 20.58 guy Ryan Clark to charge him up!
Running like a veteran, he charged the curve, came into the straight even with Norman, then blasted the straight, winning in 20.18.
It's the USATF Jr Meet Record.
It's also the Junior Class Record.
The former record was held by the overall HSR holder, Roy Martin, who had run 20.28 in his 11th Grade year.
That was 1984!
Lyles came within 0.05 of Martin's HSR of 20.13!
He moves from 13th to 3rd on the A-T HS list!
Norman finished in 20.24.
His 0.06 PR moves him up one spot on the A-T HS list, from 6th to 5th.
Clark improved too, from his previous 20.58 to 20.46.
He moves from 21st A-T HS, tied with 3 others, up to 12th, tied with 1 other!
The Women's sprints, with 10.98 HSR holder Candace Hill absent, weren't as noteworthy, but don't tell Teahna Daniels that!
She set 2 PR's in the 100.
In her heat, she ran 11.29, which moved her from 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 21st, tied with 2 others.
Then, in the final, she improved again, to 11.24.
This moved her from that 21st spot into 16th, tied with 1 other.
While Dior Hall won the 100H in what was, for her, a pedestrian time of 13.02, Misana Viltz took the Men's 110H in a USATF Jr Meet Record time of 13.21.
The PV's produced some excitement.
Eugene is known for its T&F knowledge and sophistication.
HA!
In the Women's PV, the winner went 13-9 and change.
No big deal in this world of 14-0 HS vaults!
So it came down to a jump-off for 2nd place, and for a spot on the Pan Am Jr meet team for Edmonton, Alberta this summer.
Except the officials supposedly began the jump-off for SECOND before the winner had finished vaulting!
She was going to attempt 14 feet!
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the confusing officiating made some people shake their heads, wondering what's going on!
Desiree Freier made her jump-off height, so she's heading for Canada!
A Collegiate frosh won the Men's vault at 18-0.50.
But a couple of HS'ers got over 17-10.50.
Sean Collins had fewer misses, so his 17-10.50 makes him 10th A-T HS, tied with 2 others.
One of those "two others" is Paulo Benavides.
His 17-10.50 moves him from 18th A-T HS, tied with 3 others, into 10th, where he's tied with 2 others, one of those being Collins!
Both failed in their attempts at 18-0.50!
But Collins's entrance ON my DDD caused 4 (I said FOUR!!) "oldies" to have to exit!
Steve Stubblefield's 17-6 dated from 1980!
Jayson Lavender's 17-6 was from 1990.
Jake Davis's 17-6 was from 1994.
But the one from 1992 became rather famous!
His name is Lawrence Johnson, and his 17-6 is from 1992.
Johnson is otherwise known as the CURRENT holder of the Collegiate Record, at 19-7.50!!
I said this post was going to be entirely about the Junior USATF meet.
But since we're concentrating on HS'ers (or mostly HS'ers, it seems!!), I must bring in news here from a High Schooler who ran in the Senior meet!
Kaylin Whitney turned Professional a few months ago.
But she's still in High School, having just ended her Junior year!
So her times are eligible for my "HS PRO" Record Department!
Her 11.18 in her 100 heat was wind-aided, but she ran 11.43 earlier this year, so that is the HS PRO record!
But while she didn't make it into the final, her 22.75 in the 200 Semi is her fastest time as a Pro, so stands as the HS PRO record!
And it seems she's ready for much more!
(I'll report on Alexa Efraimson's race in the Senior meet tomorrow. But HINT: No HS PRO records were broken by her!)
But who needs Alexa when you have Kate Murphy?
Who??
Ms Murphy is a HS Soph who blasted the final straight in the Junior meet 1500, leaving Sarah Feeny behind like she's stuck in cement!
Her winning time was a totally unexpected 4:16.98!!
The race was relatively slow for the first 800, reached in 2:20.
Feeny, now a Collegian, but who ran 4:39+ in the Mile as a HS'er last year, took over from early leader Stephanie Jenks.
Reaching the bell in 3:10, Feeny led Jenks, with Murphy about 4 seconds back.
Finally, on the backstretch, Jenks had fallen back, but Murphy was starting to rev it up!
Her last 400 was 63 (Similar to Mary Cain's 62.5 in her Penn Relays Mile while a Soph in 2012!), but while I don't have an exact time for it, I'm willing to bet her final 200 was UNDER 30 seconds!
She blasted past Feeny just before the end of the final curve, then ran like a sprinter the final 100 meters.
I mean, this girl looked AT LEAST as fast that final 150 meters as in any of Mary Cain's BEST kicks!
She is now 10th A-T HS.
Erased FROM my DDD was another "oldie"!
(Seems a LOT of "oldies" got axed this weekend!)
Cherie Williams's time dated from...1978!!
The 400H races gave me some new marks to put into my T&F Record Book.
Anna Cockrell, who's having a pretty good June, won the Women's race in 56.67.
She jumps all the way from 21st to 5th on the A-T HS list!
Reonna Collier followed in 57.27.
She's now 14th A-T HS.
The Men's race was won by a Collegian, but 2nd was HS'er Norman Grimes.
His time of 50.59 makes him 23rd A-T HS.
Carlton Orange had supposedly never broken 1:50 in the 800.
Until Saturday's final, that is!
His 1:47.67 was run off a 51.4 first 400!
This makes him 5th A-T HS!!
Not a bad breakthrough into the sub-1:50 group!
Oh yes, ANOTHER oldie was erased from my DDD!
His name is Jeff Van Wie, whose time dated from 1983!
College Frosh Raven Saunders competed in BOTH meets in the SP!
She easily won the Junior meet, but no Meet Record, as I thought likely!
(See my Women's Preview post!)
However, Sophia Rivera came through with another PR---She's had a few this year!
Her newest reached 53-5.75.
It moves her up 2 spots on the A-T HS list, from 10th to 8th!
Kaylee Hinton won the Heptathlon with a PR score of 5245 points.
She's now 17th A-T HS.
Before I close, I have a few old HS marks to report.
(Thank you, T&FN website, for being a VERY valuable source of material!!)
Laura Marty PV'ed 13-7.
This makes her 19th A-T HS, tied with 3 others.
Kirsten Webber Vaulted 13-6.50.
She's now 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
Oh yes, and she's from BELLINGHAM!!!
There's 3 HS's here (Sehome, Bellingham, and Squalicum), and she's from Squalicum!
Peyton Montgomery threw the Javelin 162-5, making her 22nd A-T HS.
Finally, Jacob Beene threw the Hammer 231-11.
He's 17th A-T HS, tied with 2 others.
Overall, this Junior version of the USATF was a fun exciting meet.
(I watched most of it on USATF-TV--as well as large chunks from the "Adult" USATF meet!)
But it could have been Sooooo much better!!
As I noted earlier, the new record-SMASHER of the Women's 100 HSR, Candace Hill, didn't compete.
Neither did 22-5 LJ HSR holder Kate Hall.
Milers Ryen Frazier, Christine Aragon, Danielle Jones, Katie Rainsberger, and Jordyn Colter, among others, were also AWOL.
(Imagine the race if Aragon had been in the 1500 with Kate Murphy!!)
Vashti Cunningham WAS here.
She won easily, but missed her 3 tries at 6-3.25!
The Weeks twins, Tori and Lexi, were missing.
As was Mondo Duplantis.
(He had a pretty good excuse, as he's stated he'll be competing Internationally for Sweden, thus making him ineligible for US teams!)
Anyway, you get the picture.
While this complaint isn't new---the exact same complaint can be made about most Senior USATF meets!---it still shouldn't have to be!
What could add more to a young athlete's life than to be able to represent the United States in some International competition?
Most, if not all, athletes who DO wind up on a team say they're SUPER proud to be able to wear the USA uniform!
Well, I guess the Pan Am Junior meet isn't important enough for them.
I guess they'd rather "hang" with friends, or work their shift at Burger King!
Rant is over!
You can open your eyes again!
LOL
As noted, I'll have the Senior USATF meet report ASAP after the meet finishes late tomorrow afternoon!
A teaser.
I have almost FOUR full pages of great Records & Marks already compiled, and ready to report!
By the end of the meet, I wouldn't be surprised for that number to almost double!!
Hang tight!
And be sure to look for my post in LESS than 24 hours!!
Remembering the World Junior Championships held there in 2014---with some of the same people competing here!---the Hayward crowds know quality when they see it, and duly show their appreciation.
And boy, was there ever MUCH to appreciate!
I'm doing this separate post for a good reason.
The Junior meet produced so many GREAT marks, that I knew I couldn't fit all of the Junior news into my Senior meet post.
In fact, I MIGHT be doing TWO Senior meet posts---one for each gender---if the final day (Sunday) gives me as much material as I've compiled from the first 3 days!
So with the Junior meet now finished, let's check out what happened.
Noah Lyles, a "junior" in HS, came of age here, winning two VERY fast sprints!
The 100 came first, and his 10.14 took down the co-favorite, Ryan Clark, as well as some solid back-ups.
Using a max wind of 2.0, Lyles's mark broke the Junior Class Record.
He moves from 10th A-T HS, tied with 4 others, into 5th.
But it was his 200 that rocked Hayward!
His competition wasn't exactly slow, as he had 20.30 guy Michael Norman and 20.58 guy Ryan Clark to charge him up!
Running like a veteran, he charged the curve, came into the straight even with Norman, then blasted the straight, winning in 20.18.
It's the USATF Jr Meet Record.
It's also the Junior Class Record.
The former record was held by the overall HSR holder, Roy Martin, who had run 20.28 in his 11th Grade year.
That was 1984!
Lyles came within 0.05 of Martin's HSR of 20.13!
He moves from 13th to 3rd on the A-T HS list!
Norman finished in 20.24.
His 0.06 PR moves him up one spot on the A-T HS list, from 6th to 5th.
Clark improved too, from his previous 20.58 to 20.46.
He moves from 21st A-T HS, tied with 3 others, up to 12th, tied with 1 other!
The Women's sprints, with 10.98 HSR holder Candace Hill absent, weren't as noteworthy, but don't tell Teahna Daniels that!
She set 2 PR's in the 100.
In her heat, she ran 11.29, which moved her from 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 21st, tied with 2 others.
Then, in the final, she improved again, to 11.24.
This moved her from that 21st spot into 16th, tied with 1 other.
While Dior Hall won the 100H in what was, for her, a pedestrian time of 13.02, Misana Viltz took the Men's 110H in a USATF Jr Meet Record time of 13.21.
The PV's produced some excitement.
Eugene is known for its T&F knowledge and sophistication.
HA!
In the Women's PV, the winner went 13-9 and change.
No big deal in this world of 14-0 HS vaults!
So it came down to a jump-off for 2nd place, and for a spot on the Pan Am Jr meet team for Edmonton, Alberta this summer.
Except the officials supposedly began the jump-off for SECOND before the winner had finished vaulting!
She was going to attempt 14 feet!
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the confusing officiating made some people shake their heads, wondering what's going on!
Desiree Freier made her jump-off height, so she's heading for Canada!
A Collegiate frosh won the Men's vault at 18-0.50.
But a couple of HS'ers got over 17-10.50.
Sean Collins had fewer misses, so his 17-10.50 makes him 10th A-T HS, tied with 2 others.
One of those "two others" is Paulo Benavides.
His 17-10.50 moves him from 18th A-T HS, tied with 3 others, into 10th, where he's tied with 2 others, one of those being Collins!
Both failed in their attempts at 18-0.50!
But Collins's entrance ON my DDD caused 4 (I said FOUR!!) "oldies" to have to exit!
Steve Stubblefield's 17-6 dated from 1980!
Jayson Lavender's 17-6 was from 1990.
Jake Davis's 17-6 was from 1994.
But the one from 1992 became rather famous!
His name is Lawrence Johnson, and his 17-6 is from 1992.
Johnson is otherwise known as the CURRENT holder of the Collegiate Record, at 19-7.50!!
I said this post was going to be entirely about the Junior USATF meet.
But since we're concentrating on HS'ers (or mostly HS'ers, it seems!!), I must bring in news here from a High Schooler who ran in the Senior meet!
Kaylin Whitney turned Professional a few months ago.
But she's still in High School, having just ended her Junior year!
So her times are eligible for my "HS PRO" Record Department!
Her 11.18 in her 100 heat was wind-aided, but she ran 11.43 earlier this year, so that is the HS PRO record!
But while she didn't make it into the final, her 22.75 in the 200 Semi is her fastest time as a Pro, so stands as the HS PRO record!
And it seems she's ready for much more!
(I'll report on Alexa Efraimson's race in the Senior meet tomorrow. But HINT: No HS PRO records were broken by her!)
But who needs Alexa when you have Kate Murphy?
Who??
Ms Murphy is a HS Soph who blasted the final straight in the Junior meet 1500, leaving Sarah Feeny behind like she's stuck in cement!
Her winning time was a totally unexpected 4:16.98!!
The race was relatively slow for the first 800, reached in 2:20.
Feeny, now a Collegian, but who ran 4:39+ in the Mile as a HS'er last year, took over from early leader Stephanie Jenks.
Reaching the bell in 3:10, Feeny led Jenks, with Murphy about 4 seconds back.
Finally, on the backstretch, Jenks had fallen back, but Murphy was starting to rev it up!
Her last 400 was 63 (Similar to Mary Cain's 62.5 in her Penn Relays Mile while a Soph in 2012!), but while I don't have an exact time for it, I'm willing to bet her final 200 was UNDER 30 seconds!
She blasted past Feeny just before the end of the final curve, then ran like a sprinter the final 100 meters.
I mean, this girl looked AT LEAST as fast that final 150 meters as in any of Mary Cain's BEST kicks!
She is now 10th A-T HS.
Erased FROM my DDD was another "oldie"!
(Seems a LOT of "oldies" got axed this weekend!)
Cherie Williams's time dated from...1978!!
The 400H races gave me some new marks to put into my T&F Record Book.
Anna Cockrell, who's having a pretty good June, won the Women's race in 56.67.
She jumps all the way from 21st to 5th on the A-T HS list!
Reonna Collier followed in 57.27.
She's now 14th A-T HS.
The Men's race was won by a Collegian, but 2nd was HS'er Norman Grimes.
His time of 50.59 makes him 23rd A-T HS.
Carlton Orange had supposedly never broken 1:50 in the 800.
Until Saturday's final, that is!
His 1:47.67 was run off a 51.4 first 400!
This makes him 5th A-T HS!!
Not a bad breakthrough into the sub-1:50 group!
Oh yes, ANOTHER oldie was erased from my DDD!
His name is Jeff Van Wie, whose time dated from 1983!
College Frosh Raven Saunders competed in BOTH meets in the SP!
She easily won the Junior meet, but no Meet Record, as I thought likely!
(See my Women's Preview post!)
However, Sophia Rivera came through with another PR---She's had a few this year!
Her newest reached 53-5.75.
It moves her up 2 spots on the A-T HS list, from 10th to 8th!
Kaylee Hinton won the Heptathlon with a PR score of 5245 points.
She's now 17th A-T HS.
Before I close, I have a few old HS marks to report.
(Thank you, T&FN website, for being a VERY valuable source of material!!)
Laura Marty PV'ed 13-7.
This makes her 19th A-T HS, tied with 3 others.
Kirsten Webber Vaulted 13-6.50.
She's now 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
Oh yes, and she's from BELLINGHAM!!!
There's 3 HS's here (Sehome, Bellingham, and Squalicum), and she's from Squalicum!
Peyton Montgomery threw the Javelin 162-5, making her 22nd A-T HS.
Finally, Jacob Beene threw the Hammer 231-11.
He's 17th A-T HS, tied with 2 others.
Overall, this Junior version of the USATF was a fun exciting meet.
(I watched most of it on USATF-TV--as well as large chunks from the "Adult" USATF meet!)
But it could have been Sooooo much better!!
As I noted earlier, the new record-SMASHER of the Women's 100 HSR, Candace Hill, didn't compete.
Neither did 22-5 LJ HSR holder Kate Hall.
Milers Ryen Frazier, Christine Aragon, Danielle Jones, Katie Rainsberger, and Jordyn Colter, among others, were also AWOL.
(Imagine the race if Aragon had been in the 1500 with Kate Murphy!!)
Vashti Cunningham WAS here.
She won easily, but missed her 3 tries at 6-3.25!
The Weeks twins, Tori and Lexi, were missing.
As was Mondo Duplantis.
(He had a pretty good excuse, as he's stated he'll be competing Internationally for Sweden, thus making him ineligible for US teams!)
Anyway, you get the picture.
While this complaint isn't new---the exact same complaint can be made about most Senior USATF meets!---it still shouldn't have to be!
What could add more to a young athlete's life than to be able to represent the United States in some International competition?
Most, if not all, athletes who DO wind up on a team say they're SUPER proud to be able to wear the USA uniform!
Well, I guess the Pan Am Junior meet isn't important enough for them.
I guess they'd rather "hang" with friends, or work their shift at Burger King!
Rant is over!
You can open your eyes again!
LOL
As noted, I'll have the Senior USATF meet report ASAP after the meet finishes late tomorrow afternoon!
A teaser.
I have almost FOUR full pages of great Records & Marks already compiled, and ready to report!
By the end of the meet, I wouldn't be surprised for that number to almost double!!
Hang tight!
And be sure to look for my post in LESS than 24 hours!!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
USATF Preview (Seniors & Juniors): Women
The Women!
(See my Men's Preview for all the B.S. about what it's about!)
MEET Records
The Most Likely to be broken are the 1500 (4:01.75), 800 (1:58.33), PV (16-0.50).
Next in line for consideration are the 400 (49.27), 3000SC (9:19.72), 10000 (30:59.97, TJ (46-8.75), JT (218-8), HT (248-5), DT (221-9)
Might as well toss aside the 100 (10.71), 200 (21.88), 5000 (14:51.75), 100H (12.26), 400H (52.97), HJ (6-8..75), LJ (23-7.25), SP (66-5), Hept (6979)
Now for who's most likely to make it to the next rounds, or to make the Final 8 in some of the field events.
100 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Jenna Prandini, Kaylin Whitney, Morolake Akinosun, Barbara Pierre
(2) Tianna Bartoletta, Carmelita Jeter, Kim Duncan, Jasmine Todd
(3) English Gardner, Jeneba Tarmoh, Dezerea Bryant
(4) Tori Bowie, Aliyah Brown, Candyce McGrone
200 (Top 2, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Prandini, Gardner
(2) Bowie, Tarmoh, Muna Lee
(3) Jeter, K Duncan, Whitney, Kyra Jefferson
(4) Kamaria Brown, Akinosun
(5) Shalonda Solomon, Tiffany Townsend
400 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest.)
(1) Allyson Felix, Shakima Wimbley, Robin Reynolds
(2) Natasha Hastings, Kendall Baisden, Taylor Ellis-Watson, Jessica Beard
(3) Fran McCorory, Phyllis Francis, Courtney Okolo
(4) Sanya Richards-Ross, DeeDee Trotter, Ashley Spencer
800 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Ajee Wilson, Alysia Montano, Charlene Lipsey, Geena Lara
(2) Molly Ludlow, Hanna Green, Erin Donahue, Claudia Saunders
(3) Brenda Martinez, Phoebe Wright, McKayla Fricker, Lauren Wallace
(4) Maggie Vessey, Chanelle Price, Dana Mecke
1500 ((Top 3, plus 3 fastest)
(1) Shannon Rowbury, Morgan Uceny, Shelby Houlihan, Stephanie Brown, Mary Cain
(2) Jenny Simpson, Heather Kampf, Treniere Moser, Stephanie Charnigo, Katrina Coogan
(3) Alexa Efraimson, Sarah Brown, L Wallace, Mecke, Gabe Grunewald
5000 (Final)
Rowbury, Molly Huddle, Katie Mackey, Nicole Tully, Marielle Hall, Emily Infeld
Abbey D'Agostino, Shalane Flanagan, Alexi Pappas, Jessica Tonn, Des Linden, Kara Goucher
Grunewald, Alisha Williams, Brie Felnagle
10000 (Final)
Huddle, Flanagan, Emily Sisson, Hall, Infeld
Linden, Erin Finn, Amy Cragg, Pappas, Emma Bates, Katie Matthews
3000SC (Top 4, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Stephanie Garcia, Nicole Bush, Courtney Frerichs, Leah O'Connor, Shalaya Kipp
(2) Emma Coburn, Bridget Franek, Ashley Higginson, Colleen Quigley, Marisa Howard, Jamie Cheever
100H (Top 4, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Queen Harrison, Kendra Harrison, Bridgett Owens, Sasha Wallace
(2) Brianna Rollins, Jasmine Stowers, Lolo Jones, Ginnie Crawford
(3) Dawn Harper-Nelson, Kristi Castlin, Sharika Nelvis, Morgan Snow
400H (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Kori Carter, K Harrison, Akela Jones
(2) Shamier Little, Delilah Muhammed
(3) Georgeanne Moline, Lashinda Demus, T'Erea Brown
(4) Turquoise Thompson, Tiffany Williams
HJ
Chaunte Lowe, Amy Acuff, Tynita Butts, Liz Evans
LJ (Top 8 to final)
(1) J Todd, Janay DeLoach, Andrea Geubelle, Whitney Gipson
(2) Bartoletta, Prandini, Brittney Reese, Chelsea Hayes, Funmi Jimoh, Quenesha Burks
TJ
(1) Blessing Ufodiama, J Todd, Toni Smith
(2) Keturah Orji, Ciarra Brewer, Amanda Smock
PV
Demi Payne, Jenn Suhr, Sandi Morris, Mary Saxer, Becky Holliday
Megan Clark, Stephanie Richartz, Kylie Hutson, Kaitlin Petrillose, Melissa Gergel
Carolina Carmichael, Kayla Caldwell, Melinda Withrow, April Steiner-Bennett
SP
(1) Kelsey Card, Kearsten Peoples, Brittany Mann, Jill Rushin
(2) Michelle Carter, Tia Brooks, Raven Saunders, Brittney Smith, Jeneva Stevens, Tori Bliss, Jill Camarena-Williams, Felicia Johnson, Toni Bunch
DT
(1) Stephanie Brown-Trafton, Valerie Allman, Maggie Ewen, Alex Collatz
(2) Gia Lewis-Smallwood, Shelbi Vaughan, Whitney Ashley, Liz Podominick, Kiah Hicks, Card
JT
(1) Megan Glasmann, Sophia Rivera
(2) Kara Winger, Brittany Borman, Hannah Carson, Liz Herrs, Ariana Ince, Leigh Petranoff
HT
(1) K Peoples
(2) Amanda Bingson, Amber Campbell, Gwen Berry, Britney Henry, DeAnna Price, Brook Pleger, J Stevens
Hept
Sharon Day-Monroe, Barbara Nwaba, Erica Bougard,
Sami Spenner, Alex Gochenour
20000 Walk
Maria Michta-Coffey, Melinda Melville, Erin Gray, Erin Taylor-Talcott
Now it's the Juniors turn!
As with the Men, I'll first look at which MEET Records might be broken.
Best chances are in the SP (57-7.75), HJ (6-2.75), 100H (12.87), 800 (2:03.1)
Not quite as likely, and maybe MUCH less likely are in the 3000 (9:15.81), PV (14-1.25), JT (175-0), 3000SC (10:15.3),
Least likely, and some with practically NO chance are in the 100 (11.10), 200 (22.49), 400 (50.69), 1500 (4:14.74), 5000 (16:10.60), 400H (55.43), LJ (21-8), TJ (44-11.75), DT (198-9), HT (223-6), Hept (5600)
Here's the featured Women at the Junior USATF.
100 Ky Westbrook, Teanna Daniels
200 Westbrook
400 Olivia Baker, Zola Golden
800 Raevyn Rogers, Brooke Feldmeier
1500 Stephanie Jenks, Sarah Feeny
3000 Hannah DeBalsi, Jenks, Paige Stoner
5000 Caroline Alcorta, Stoner, Audrey Belf
3000SC Kristin Garcia (NOTE: I know NOTHING about her times or medals, but she's from MY County, so I'm featuring her!)
100H Dior Hall, Mecca McGlaston, Anna Cockrell
400H Cockrell
HJ Vashti Cunningham
LJ Courtney Corrin, Chyna Ries
PV Desiree Freier, Kaitlin Merritt, Mackenzie Shell, Meagan Gray, Alexia Romero, Denk
SP Raven Saunders, Sophia Rivera, Ashlie Blake, Lena Giger
DT Haley Showalter
JT Kate Gochenour, Tairyn Montgomery, Rivera
HT Showalter
Hept Shaina Burns
10000 Walk Katie Michta
Of course, missing from the Women's Juniors meet are Kate Hall, Candace Hill, Sydney McLaughlin, plus all the great Milers we've seen this HS season, not to mention Tori and Lexi Weeks, etc etc etc!!
Oh, what MIGHT have been!
(Actually, many of the names I just listed could even have qualified for the SENIOR meet!!)
Well, folks, the meet starts in just a few hours!
Check with USATF-TV for their FREE webcast schedule!!
They're providing LOTS of hours of free viewing!!
I'll be watching!
See you in a few days with----HOPEFULLY!!----TONS of great Records and Marks to report!!
And just maybe the DEMISE of a guy named Alberto!
LOL
(See my Men's Preview for all the B.S. about what it's about!)
MEET Records
The Most Likely to be broken are the 1500 (4:01.75), 800 (1:58.33), PV (16-0.50).
Next in line for consideration are the 400 (49.27), 3000SC (9:19.72), 10000 (30:59.97, TJ (46-8.75), JT (218-8), HT (248-5), DT (221-9)
Might as well toss aside the 100 (10.71), 200 (21.88), 5000 (14:51.75), 100H (12.26), 400H (52.97), HJ (6-8..75), LJ (23-7.25), SP (66-5), Hept (6979)
Now for who's most likely to make it to the next rounds, or to make the Final 8 in some of the field events.
100 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Jenna Prandini, Kaylin Whitney, Morolake Akinosun, Barbara Pierre
(2) Tianna Bartoletta, Carmelita Jeter, Kim Duncan, Jasmine Todd
(3) English Gardner, Jeneba Tarmoh, Dezerea Bryant
(4) Tori Bowie, Aliyah Brown, Candyce McGrone
200 (Top 2, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Prandini, Gardner
(2) Bowie, Tarmoh, Muna Lee
(3) Jeter, K Duncan, Whitney, Kyra Jefferson
(4) Kamaria Brown, Akinosun
(5) Shalonda Solomon, Tiffany Townsend
400 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest.)
(1) Allyson Felix, Shakima Wimbley, Robin Reynolds
(2) Natasha Hastings, Kendall Baisden, Taylor Ellis-Watson, Jessica Beard
(3) Fran McCorory, Phyllis Francis, Courtney Okolo
(4) Sanya Richards-Ross, DeeDee Trotter, Ashley Spencer
800 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Ajee Wilson, Alysia Montano, Charlene Lipsey, Geena Lara
(2) Molly Ludlow, Hanna Green, Erin Donahue, Claudia Saunders
(3) Brenda Martinez, Phoebe Wright, McKayla Fricker, Lauren Wallace
(4) Maggie Vessey, Chanelle Price, Dana Mecke
1500 ((Top 3, plus 3 fastest)
(1) Shannon Rowbury, Morgan Uceny, Shelby Houlihan, Stephanie Brown, Mary Cain
(2) Jenny Simpson, Heather Kampf, Treniere Moser, Stephanie Charnigo, Katrina Coogan
(3) Alexa Efraimson, Sarah Brown, L Wallace, Mecke, Gabe Grunewald
5000 (Final)
Rowbury, Molly Huddle, Katie Mackey, Nicole Tully, Marielle Hall, Emily Infeld
Abbey D'Agostino, Shalane Flanagan, Alexi Pappas, Jessica Tonn, Des Linden, Kara Goucher
Grunewald, Alisha Williams, Brie Felnagle
10000 (Final)
Huddle, Flanagan, Emily Sisson, Hall, Infeld
Linden, Erin Finn, Amy Cragg, Pappas, Emma Bates, Katie Matthews
3000SC (Top 4, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Stephanie Garcia, Nicole Bush, Courtney Frerichs, Leah O'Connor, Shalaya Kipp
(2) Emma Coburn, Bridget Franek, Ashley Higginson, Colleen Quigley, Marisa Howard, Jamie Cheever
100H (Top 4, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Queen Harrison, Kendra Harrison, Bridgett Owens, Sasha Wallace
(2) Brianna Rollins, Jasmine Stowers, Lolo Jones, Ginnie Crawford
(3) Dawn Harper-Nelson, Kristi Castlin, Sharika Nelvis, Morgan Snow
400H (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Kori Carter, K Harrison, Akela Jones
(2) Shamier Little, Delilah Muhammed
(3) Georgeanne Moline, Lashinda Demus, T'Erea Brown
(4) Turquoise Thompson, Tiffany Williams
HJ
Chaunte Lowe, Amy Acuff, Tynita Butts, Liz Evans
LJ (Top 8 to final)
(1) J Todd, Janay DeLoach, Andrea Geubelle, Whitney Gipson
(2) Bartoletta, Prandini, Brittney Reese, Chelsea Hayes, Funmi Jimoh, Quenesha Burks
TJ
(1) Blessing Ufodiama, J Todd, Toni Smith
(2) Keturah Orji, Ciarra Brewer, Amanda Smock
PV
Demi Payne, Jenn Suhr, Sandi Morris, Mary Saxer, Becky Holliday
Megan Clark, Stephanie Richartz, Kylie Hutson, Kaitlin Petrillose, Melissa Gergel
Carolina Carmichael, Kayla Caldwell, Melinda Withrow, April Steiner-Bennett
SP
(1) Kelsey Card, Kearsten Peoples, Brittany Mann, Jill Rushin
(2) Michelle Carter, Tia Brooks, Raven Saunders, Brittney Smith, Jeneva Stevens, Tori Bliss, Jill Camarena-Williams, Felicia Johnson, Toni Bunch
DT
(1) Stephanie Brown-Trafton, Valerie Allman, Maggie Ewen, Alex Collatz
(2) Gia Lewis-Smallwood, Shelbi Vaughan, Whitney Ashley, Liz Podominick, Kiah Hicks, Card
JT
(1) Megan Glasmann, Sophia Rivera
(2) Kara Winger, Brittany Borman, Hannah Carson, Liz Herrs, Ariana Ince, Leigh Petranoff
HT
(1) K Peoples
(2) Amanda Bingson, Amber Campbell, Gwen Berry, Britney Henry, DeAnna Price, Brook Pleger, J Stevens
Hept
Sharon Day-Monroe, Barbara Nwaba, Erica Bougard,
Sami Spenner, Alex Gochenour
20000 Walk
Maria Michta-Coffey, Melinda Melville, Erin Gray, Erin Taylor-Talcott
Now it's the Juniors turn!
As with the Men, I'll first look at which MEET Records might be broken.
Best chances are in the SP (57-7.75), HJ (6-2.75), 100H (12.87), 800 (2:03.1)
Not quite as likely, and maybe MUCH less likely are in the 3000 (9:15.81), PV (14-1.25), JT (175-0), 3000SC (10:15.3),
Least likely, and some with practically NO chance are in the 100 (11.10), 200 (22.49), 400 (50.69), 1500 (4:14.74), 5000 (16:10.60), 400H (55.43), LJ (21-8), TJ (44-11.75), DT (198-9), HT (223-6), Hept (5600)
Here's the featured Women at the Junior USATF.
100 Ky Westbrook, Teanna Daniels
200 Westbrook
400 Olivia Baker, Zola Golden
800 Raevyn Rogers, Brooke Feldmeier
1500 Stephanie Jenks, Sarah Feeny
3000 Hannah DeBalsi, Jenks, Paige Stoner
5000 Caroline Alcorta, Stoner, Audrey Belf
3000SC Kristin Garcia (NOTE: I know NOTHING about her times or medals, but she's from MY County, so I'm featuring her!)
100H Dior Hall, Mecca McGlaston, Anna Cockrell
400H Cockrell
HJ Vashti Cunningham
LJ Courtney Corrin, Chyna Ries
PV Desiree Freier, Kaitlin Merritt, Mackenzie Shell, Meagan Gray, Alexia Romero, Denk
SP Raven Saunders, Sophia Rivera, Ashlie Blake, Lena Giger
DT Haley Showalter
JT Kate Gochenour, Tairyn Montgomery, Rivera
HT Showalter
Hept Shaina Burns
10000 Walk Katie Michta
Of course, missing from the Women's Juniors meet are Kate Hall, Candace Hill, Sydney McLaughlin, plus all the great Milers we've seen this HS season, not to mention Tori and Lexi Weeks, etc etc etc!!
Oh, what MIGHT have been!
(Actually, many of the names I just listed could even have qualified for the SENIOR meet!!)
Well, folks, the meet starts in just a few hours!
Check with USATF-TV for their FREE webcast schedule!!
They're providing LOTS of hours of free viewing!!
I'll be watching!
See you in a few days with----HOPEFULLY!!----TONS of great Records and Marks to report!!
And just maybe the DEMISE of a guy named Alberto!
LOL
USATF Preview (Seniors & Juniors): Men
It's going to be HOT in Eugene the next few days.
And I'm not talking just about the expected 90+ temperatures!
NOP's Chief "I;m innocent, HE's not!" technician, Alberto Salazar finally released his gossip-ridden Manifesto yesterday, not only calling THE most honest woman in our sport (Kara Goucher)a LIAR, but by doing that (and so much MORE filthy shit!), he despoiled MY 71st Birthday celebration.!
Unforgivable!
But I'm here to Preview the "dual" meet, as both the Seniors and the Juniors will go at it over the next 4 days.
I'll tell you which MEET Records might be broken.
I'll list the favorites in each event, even heat by heat, flight by flight.
And I'm not talking just about the expected 90+ temperatures!
NOP's Chief "I;m innocent, HE's not!" technician, Alberto Salazar finally released his gossip-ridden Manifesto yesterday, not only calling THE most honest woman in our sport (Kara Goucher)a LIAR, but by doing that (and so much MORE filthy shit!), he despoiled MY 71st Birthday celebration.!
Unforgivable!
But I'm here to Preview the "dual" meet, as both the Seniors and the Juniors will go at it over the next 4 days.
I'll tell you which MEET Records might be broken.
I'll list the favorites in each event, even heat by heat, flight by flight.
I'll list the Meet Records.
And I'll tell you who's NOT in Eugene, and what it might mean.
First, which MEET Records might be broken?
Men
Most probable are the 100 (9.84), 3000SC (8:17.27), SP (72-10.75).
Next in line, but far less likely, are the 800 (1:43.27), 1500 (3:34.32), HJ (7-9.25), TJ (58-4.50).
Might as well forget the 200 (19.62), 400 (43.66), 5000 (13:12.76), 10000 (27:34.4), 110H (12.93), 400H (47.03), LJ (28-10.25), PV (19-9), DT (233-9), JT (299-6), HT (270-8), Dec (8844W).
Now, let's look at each Heat, each Flight, and see who might finish highest (in the Finals), and who might MAKE each Final!
The numbers in parentheses on the left connote the Heat or Flight number.
100 (Top 3 in each Heat, plus next 4 fastest)
(1) Marvin Bracy, Isaiah Young, Clay Vaughn, Trell Kimmons
(2) Mike Rodgers, Walter Dix, Bryce Robinson
(3) Tyson Gay, Mookie Salaam, Jarrion Lawson
(4) Trayvon Bromell, Ryan Bailey
200 (Top 2, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Gay, Ameer Webb, Joe Morris, Aldrich Bailey
(2) Justin Gatlin, Dix, I Young, Aaron Ernest, R Bailey
(3) Wallace Spearmon, B Robinson
(4) Bromell, Curtis Mitchell
(5) Dedric Dukes, Harry Adams, Kendell Williams
400 (same as 200)
(1) David Verburg, Tony McQuay, Mike Cherry
(2) LaShawn Merritt, Mike Berry, Bryshom Nellum
(3) Gil Roberts, Kind Butler
(4) Vernon Norwood, A Bailey, Brycen Spratling, , Manteo Mitchell
(5) Najee Glass, James Harris, Jeremy Wariner, Angelo Taylor
800 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Duane Solomon, Casimir Loxsom, Mark Wieczorek, Brandon Lasater
(2) Boris Berian, Brandon Johnson, Eric Sowinski, Rich Jones, Harun Abda
(3) Charles Jock, Nick Symmonds, Mike Rutt
(4) Brannon Kidder, Ryan Martin
1500 (Top 3, plus 3 fastest)
(1) Will Leer, Kyle Merber, Jordan McNamara, Andy Wheating, Christian Soratos
(2) Matt Centowitz, Ben Blankenship, Chris Noelle, Robby Andrews
(3) Leo Manzano, Dave Torrence, Mac Fleet, Pat Casey, Robby Creese
5000 (Final)
Lopez Lomong, Galen Rupp, Bernard Lagat, Ben True, David Torrence
Chris Derrick, Garrett Heath, Eric Jenkins, Ryan Hill, Hassan Mead
Riley Masters, Diego Estrada, Ben Bruce, AJ Acosta, Paul Chelimo
10000 (Final)
True, Rupp, Derrick
Aaron Braun, Bobby Curtis, Mead, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Ryan Vail, Brian Shrader
3000SC(Top 4, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Evan Jager, Bruce, Craig Forys, Tabor Stevens, Stan Kebenai
(2) Dan Huling, Cory Leslie, Don Cabral, Andy Bayer
110H (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Spencer Adams, Aries Merritt
(2) Aleec Harris, Jeff Porter
(3) Jason Richardson, David Oliver, Kevin Craddock
(4) Ronnie Ash, Omar Osaghae, Ron Brookins, Jarrett Eaton
400H ((Same as 110H)
(1) Michael Tinsley
(2) Mike Stigler, Jeshua Anderson, Justin Gaymon
(3) Bershawn Jackson, Kerron Clement
(4) Eric Futch, Johnny Dutch
HJ
Eric Kynard, Jesse Williams, Dusty Jonas
Bryan McBride, JaCorian Duffield, Nick Ross, James Harris
LJ (Top 8 to final)
(1) Marquis Goodwin
(2) Marquis Dendy, Christian Taylor, J Lawson, Ashton Eaton, Jeff Henderson
TJ (Same as LJ)
(1) Jeremiah Green
(2) Dendy, Taylor, Chris Carter, Omar Craddock, Chris Benard
PV
Brad Walker, Jake Blankenship, Sam Kendricks, Andrew Irwin
Mark Hollis, Jack Whitt, Jordan Scott
SP
(1) NO ONE!
(2) Joe Kovacs, Reese Hoffa, Christian Cantwell, Ryan Whiting, Jordan Clarke, Kurt Roberts, Jonathan Jones, Darrell Hill, Cory Martin
DT
(1) Ryan Crouser, Casey Malone, Hayden Reed
(2) Rod Brown, Andy Evans, Mason Finley, Russ Winger
JT
(1) NO ONE!
(2) Tim Glover, Sean Furey, Cy Hostetler, Sam Crouser, Riley Dolezal, Sam Humphreys
HT
(1) Rudy Winkler
(2) AG Kruger, Kibwe Johnson, Conor McCullough, Mike Lihrman, Chuk Enekwechi, Jake Freeman, Matthias Tayala
Dec
Trey Hardee, Jeremy Taiwo, Curtis Beach, Garrett Scantling, Dakotah Keys
20000 Walk
John Nunn, Pat Stroupe
That's the Senior meet.
Now we'll take a much briefer look at the Men's side of the Junior USATF.
MEET Records, and their chances of being broken.
Most probable are the 1500 (3:42.8), 3000SC (8:48.2), 5000 (13:55.7), 800 (1:47.45)
Far less likely are the 200 (20.29), PV (18-2).
Practically zero chance of going down are the 100 (10.00), 400 (45.01), 10000 (29:11.2), 110H (13.23), 400H (49.28), HJ (7-5.25), LJ (26-9.75), TJ (55-2.75), Dec (8016)
I didn't even consider the SP, DT, JT, and HT, as I believe they use "Junior" weights. I only know about (or care about) weights used in US High Schools.
Some of the featured athletes are:
100 Ryan Clark, Noah Lyles
200 Lyles, Clark, Michael Norman
800 Myles Marshall, Donavan Btazier
1500 Andrew Hunter, Blake Haney, Grant Fisher, Matt Maton
5000 Maton, C Geberkidane, Levi Thomet
10000 Geberkidane
3000SC Bailey Roth
110H Grant Holloway, Chad Zallow
400H Ken Solomon
HJ Randall Cunningham
LJ Nate Moore, Holloway, KeAndre Bates
TJ Bates, Moore
PV Paulo Benavides, Deakin Volz
SP Matt Katnik, Willie Morrison
HT Bobby Colantonio, Adam Kelly
Dec Harrison Williams
If Fisher and Maton DO meet, there could be a MAJOR drop in the Meet Record!
And will Maton REALLY double in the 5000?
What can a 3:59.38 Miler run?
The 100 and 200 should be FAST....and competitive!
I'll have the Women's Preview up in 2 or 3 hours!
And I'll tell you who's NOT in Eugene, and what it might mean.
First, which MEET Records might be broken?
Men
Most probable are the 100 (9.84), 3000SC (8:17.27), SP (72-10.75).
Next in line, but far less likely, are the 800 (1:43.27), 1500 (3:34.32), HJ (7-9.25), TJ (58-4.50).
Might as well forget the 200 (19.62), 400 (43.66), 5000 (13:12.76), 10000 (27:34.4), 110H (12.93), 400H (47.03), LJ (28-10.25), PV (19-9), DT (233-9), JT (299-6), HT (270-8), Dec (8844W).
Now, let's look at each Heat, each Flight, and see who might finish highest (in the Finals), and who might MAKE each Final!
The numbers in parentheses on the left connote the Heat or Flight number.
100 (Top 3 in each Heat, plus next 4 fastest)
(1) Marvin Bracy, Isaiah Young, Clay Vaughn, Trell Kimmons
(2) Mike Rodgers, Walter Dix, Bryce Robinson
(3) Tyson Gay, Mookie Salaam, Jarrion Lawson
(4) Trayvon Bromell, Ryan Bailey
200 (Top 2, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Gay, Ameer Webb, Joe Morris, Aldrich Bailey
(2) Justin Gatlin, Dix, I Young, Aaron Ernest, R Bailey
(3) Wallace Spearmon, B Robinson
(4) Bromell, Curtis Mitchell
(5) Dedric Dukes, Harry Adams, Kendell Williams
400 (same as 200)
(1) David Verburg, Tony McQuay, Mike Cherry
(2) LaShawn Merritt, Mike Berry, Bryshom Nellum
(3) Gil Roberts, Kind Butler
(4) Vernon Norwood, A Bailey, Brycen Spratling, , Manteo Mitchell
(5) Najee Glass, James Harris, Jeremy Wariner, Angelo Taylor
800 (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Duane Solomon, Casimir Loxsom, Mark Wieczorek, Brandon Lasater
(2) Boris Berian, Brandon Johnson, Eric Sowinski, Rich Jones, Harun Abda
(3) Charles Jock, Nick Symmonds, Mike Rutt
(4) Brannon Kidder, Ryan Martin
1500 (Top 3, plus 3 fastest)
(1) Will Leer, Kyle Merber, Jordan McNamara, Andy Wheating, Christian Soratos
(2) Matt Centowitz, Ben Blankenship, Chris Noelle, Robby Andrews
(3) Leo Manzano, Dave Torrence, Mac Fleet, Pat Casey, Robby Creese
5000 (Final)
Lopez Lomong, Galen Rupp, Bernard Lagat, Ben True, David Torrence
Chris Derrick, Garrett Heath, Eric Jenkins, Ryan Hill, Hassan Mead
Riley Masters, Diego Estrada, Ben Bruce, AJ Acosta, Paul Chelimo
10000 (Final)
True, Rupp, Derrick
Aaron Braun, Bobby Curtis, Mead, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Ryan Vail, Brian Shrader
3000SC(Top 4, plus 6 fastest)
(1) Evan Jager, Bruce, Craig Forys, Tabor Stevens, Stan Kebenai
(2) Dan Huling, Cory Leslie, Don Cabral, Andy Bayer
110H (Top 3, plus 4 fastest)
(1) Spencer Adams, Aries Merritt
(2) Aleec Harris, Jeff Porter
(3) Jason Richardson, David Oliver, Kevin Craddock
(4) Ronnie Ash, Omar Osaghae, Ron Brookins, Jarrett Eaton
400H ((Same as 110H)
(1) Michael Tinsley
(2) Mike Stigler, Jeshua Anderson, Justin Gaymon
(3) Bershawn Jackson, Kerron Clement
(4) Eric Futch, Johnny Dutch
HJ
Eric Kynard, Jesse Williams, Dusty Jonas
Bryan McBride, JaCorian Duffield, Nick Ross, James Harris
LJ (Top 8 to final)
(1) Marquis Goodwin
(2) Marquis Dendy, Christian Taylor, J Lawson, Ashton Eaton, Jeff Henderson
TJ (Same as LJ)
(1) Jeremiah Green
(2) Dendy, Taylor, Chris Carter, Omar Craddock, Chris Benard
PV
Brad Walker, Jake Blankenship, Sam Kendricks, Andrew Irwin
Mark Hollis, Jack Whitt, Jordan Scott
SP
(1) NO ONE!
(2) Joe Kovacs, Reese Hoffa, Christian Cantwell, Ryan Whiting, Jordan Clarke, Kurt Roberts, Jonathan Jones, Darrell Hill, Cory Martin
DT
(1) Ryan Crouser, Casey Malone, Hayden Reed
(2) Rod Brown, Andy Evans, Mason Finley, Russ Winger
JT
(1) NO ONE!
(2) Tim Glover, Sean Furey, Cy Hostetler, Sam Crouser, Riley Dolezal, Sam Humphreys
HT
(1) Rudy Winkler
(2) AG Kruger, Kibwe Johnson, Conor McCullough, Mike Lihrman, Chuk Enekwechi, Jake Freeman, Matthias Tayala
Dec
Trey Hardee, Jeremy Taiwo, Curtis Beach, Garrett Scantling, Dakotah Keys
20000 Walk
John Nunn, Pat Stroupe
That's the Senior meet.
Now we'll take a much briefer look at the Men's side of the Junior USATF.
MEET Records, and their chances of being broken.
Most probable are the 1500 (3:42.8), 3000SC (8:48.2), 5000 (13:55.7), 800 (1:47.45)
Far less likely are the 200 (20.29), PV (18-2).
Practically zero chance of going down are the 100 (10.00), 400 (45.01), 10000 (29:11.2), 110H (13.23), 400H (49.28), HJ (7-5.25), LJ (26-9.75), TJ (55-2.75), Dec (8016)
I didn't even consider the SP, DT, JT, and HT, as I believe they use "Junior" weights. I only know about (or care about) weights used in US High Schools.
Some of the featured athletes are:
100 Ryan Clark, Noah Lyles
200 Lyles, Clark, Michael Norman
800 Myles Marshall, Donavan Btazier
1500 Andrew Hunter, Blake Haney, Grant Fisher, Matt Maton
5000 Maton, C Geberkidane, Levi Thomet
10000 Geberkidane
3000SC Bailey Roth
110H Grant Holloway, Chad Zallow
400H Ken Solomon
HJ Randall Cunningham
LJ Nate Moore, Holloway, KeAndre Bates
TJ Bates, Moore
PV Paulo Benavides, Deakin Volz
SP Matt Katnik, Willie Morrison
HT Bobby Colantonio, Adam Kelly
Dec Harrison Williams
If Fisher and Maton DO meet, there could be a MAJOR drop in the Meet Record!
And will Maton REALLY double in the 5000?
What can a 3:59.38 Miler run?
The 100 and 200 should be FAST....and competitive!
I'll have the Women's Preview up in 2 or 3 hours!
Sunday, June 21, 2015
High School Kids go INSANE!
Even after two GREAT HS Miles at Pre and Adidas, I knew the New Balance Nationals (Considered by most to be THE High School Championships, just like the NCAA is for Collegiates!) would "end" their season with some spectacular marks.
That may be the UNDERstatement of the Century!!
But this Record-breaking spree wasn't limited to the NBN.
This year's Brooks PR meet blasted into the HS mainstream in a HUGE way, making this past few days some of the WILDEST in HS history!!
Candace Hill's 10.98 HSR in the 100 led the way in Seattle.
This was soon followed by the great leap forward (Pun VERY intended!! LOL) by Kate Hall in the Long Jump, her HSR of 22-5 breaking a 39 year old Record!
Here's the details.
At the Adidas Dream 100, Hill (Just a 16 year old Soph! Born February 11, 1999.) faced a negative wind of 1.7, yet ran the fastest 100 of 2015, an 11.21.
In the Brooks meet, she would face Lauren Rain Williams, among several other 2015 greats.
They didn't stand a chance, folks!
She BLASTED from the blocks, strode strongly into an early lead, then disappeared!!
At the tape, she was 0.28 seconds ahead of 2nd place!
And THAT girl--Zaria Francis--ran 11.26, which moves her from 23rd A-T HS, tied with 2 others, to 18th, tied with 1 other.
The wind was the max allowable--2.0.
Besides the HSR, Hill also gets the Soph Class Record!
And the Age 16 Record.
(In my T&F Record Book, in my Individual Year Age Records section, I don't have an Age 16 Record. I begin my lists with the designation "0-17", meaning that Record is the best by someone up to and including Age 17. I do a similar thing with my Age 40 listing. That's listed as "40 and over", so could be by someone Age 40 to Age Infinity!!)
Given what I just wrote, Hill's time is listed in my Book as the Age 0-17 Record holder!
She'll have until February 10, 2017 to break that Record!
She moves from 12th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, into 1st.
If she was in College, her mark would rate as 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Finally, she just misses the A-T United States list--by 0.06 seconds!!
Moving across the country to Greensboro, North Carolina, Miss Kate Hall also EXPLODED into instant celebrity with her LJ of 22-5, which FINALLY surpassed the iconic Kathy McMillan's 1976 mark of 22-3.
This leap came on the final jump of the event, making for a thrilling finish.
In a battle with Frosh Class Record holder Courtney Corrin--who was having a pretty good series--heres what happened.
Hall fouled her 1st jump, but then used a 2.8 wind to jump 20-7.75 to take the lead.
After 2 jumps in the 19's, Corrin inched her way towards Hall, going from 20-2.75 in the 3rd round to 20-5.75 in the 4th, to 20-7 in the 5th.
Jumping immediately after Corrin, Hall then took the lead in that 5th round with a good 20-11.25 into a minus 0.2 wind.
But Corrin responded well, hitting what WOULD have been a PR, but for a wind of 2.1, with a 21-5.50.
So Hall, from the Great State of Maine, took off into space, hitting the sand 22-5 further out!
Besides the HSR, she also gets Carol Lewis's Senior Class Record, dating from 1981.
And the NBN Meet Record.
She moves from 17th A-T HS (Her 5th round jump!) into 1st!
If she was a Collegian, her mark would rank 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
(Exactly like with Hill's mark!)
And she misses the US A-T list by just 0.75 inches!!
Moved OFF my list were 3 A-T Greats!
JJK---aka Jackie Joyner-Kersee--is GONE, her mark dating from 1980.
Also gone is Wendy Brown--who was maybe better known as one of the first great TJ'ers--her mark being from 1984.
A much more modern icon is also outta here--Kendell Williams, the Heptathlete, her mark dating from 2013.
Is that IT??
Hardly.
Ryen Frazier, as did her sister Wesley in the 2013 NBN, tripled, winning the 5000, Two Mile, and One Mile on consecutive days.
Her 16:20.72 in the 5K makes her 14th A-T HS.
She followed that with a 10:07.16 Deuce, making her 12th A-T HS.
Finally, she won the Mile in 4:45+.
But Wesley's times in 2013 add up to about a 26 second "victory" over her kid sister!
They'll be teammates at NC State this fall!
Speaking of 2 Mile races (NOT 3200's!!), let's skip back west to see what happened in Shoreline (NEAR Seattle!!) WA.
Anna Rohrer, Destiny Collins, and Hannah DiBalsi battled it out for several laps, before it settled into a two-woman race, Rohrer with a slight edge over Collins.
Negative splitting it (5:06 and 4:53 for the winner), Rohrer sprinted ahead, JUST dipping into the 9's with her 9:59.96.
That makes her 4th A-T HS.
(Remember, I don't list 3200 times, or times converted FROM 3200's!!)
She also makes the A-T US list!!
She's now 20th on that list!
Collins finished in 10:00.90, her 2 Mile PR.
(See note above!)
She's now 5th A-T HS.
She's also 21st A-T US.
And she gets the Junior Class Record!
After that great 3200 race with Collins in the California State meet, Fiona O'Keefe ran 10:11.87 for the full 2 Miles here, rating her 19th A-T HS.
The Brooks Men's race produced a bit of a shock.
Grant Fisher, newly-minted sub-4:00 HS'er, faced Andrew Hunter, whose 8:16.31 3000 is the Soph Class Record.
And Fisher LOST!!
He was out-kicked!
Hunter's 8:42.51 is 7th A-T HS.
Fisher's 8:43.57 is 8th A-T HS!!
The NBN 400H races produced some good marks.
BOTH of them!
In the Men's race, Rai Benjamin---coming in with a 50.45 PR--broke 50, finishing in 49.97.
He moves from 18th to 8th on the A-T HS list.
Not far behind him came Taylor McLaughlin, whose 50.20 ranks him 15th A-T HS.
The latter fellow is the elder brother of Soph Sydney McLaughlin, who destroyed the Women's field with a time of 55.87.
Not quite a PR--She ran 55.63 last year in the World Junior meet, finishing 2nd to future NCAA Champion Shamier Little!!--her time nonetheless is the new NBN Meet Record.
It's also the Soph Class Record.
(The Junior Class Record is also the HSR, that being 55.20 by Leslie Maxie, dating from 1984.)
But the McLaughlin's didn't limit themselves to just the 400H.
Taylor anchored at least one Relay, somewhere in the 45's!
Sydney's anchor of 51.2 in the 4X400 Relay brought her Union Catholic team the NBN Meet Record of 3:35.90.
She also anchored a "Swedish Relay" (What's that??) in 51.28!!
Second in the Women's 400H was Brandee Johnson.
Her time of 57.63 rates her 18th A-T HS.
Third was Anna Cockrell, her time of 57.70 ranking her 21st A-T HS.
Another NBN Meet Record was set by the Women's 4X200 Relay team from Northwestern in Florida.
Their time was 1:34.87.
In 3rd in that Men's 400 at NBN was Tyrese Cooper.
This dude just happens to be a 14 year old 8th Grader (or just finished his 8th Grade year!).
His time of 46.44 broke the Age 14 Record belonging to one Mr Kirani James!!
You read that right!!
The Women's 400 was won by Sharrika Barnett, whose time of 52.25 is now ranked 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
A great 200 race took place in North Carolina.
Noah Lyles just edged Ryan Clark--perhaps 2015's hottest Male sprinter!--20.54 to 20.58.
Lyles's time wasn't a PR, but Clark's was.
He's now ranked 21st A-T HS, tied with 3 others.
The race was run INTO a 1.0 wind!!
Lyles also won the 100, PR'ing in 10.21
He's now 13th A-T HS, tied with 4 others.
(Noah's brother Josephus won the 400 in 45.99.)
The bi-coastal 800's produced some quality marks.
In Seattle (Sorry, Shoreline!!), Adidas Mile winner Christine Aragon PR'ed in 2:04.00, which rates her 18th A-T HS.
In Greensboro, John Lewis ran 1:48.33, rating him 15th A-T HS.
He beat favored Myles Marshall, who also ran sub-1:49, but didn't PR.
But the best HS 800 came from the Brooks affair.
Donavan Brazier, who had run a 1:48.07 this year, completely dominated the race, improving to 1:47.55.
He moves from 8th to 4th on the A-T HS list!
Another HSR was broken at NBN.
Rush Henrietta HS broke the Women's Sprint Medley Relay Record, timing out in 3:47.65.
Soph Sammy Watson ran a great 800 anchor, time of 2:03.08!
Think all the good marks were on the Track?
Nope!
Here's the Field events that were popping!
Sophia Rivera won the NBN Shot Put with a throw of 53-1.
This makes her 10th A-T HS.
Willie Morris pushed (putted??!!) past the 70 foot barrier, hitting 70-2.50.
He's now 21st A-T HS.
Adam Kelly threw the Hammer 241-7, moving him from 13th to 9th on the A-T HS list!
And Nicole Green stayed consistent over 6 feet, winning the NBN High Jump with a 6-1.50.
She missed her 3 attempts at tying Amy Acuff's Meet Record of 6-2, dating from 1993.
(Keep in mind that Acuff, nearing 40 years of age, is vying for a spot on the WC team to Beijing. Her 2015 best--so far!-- is 6-2!)
Anyway, Greene's winning mark ranks her 17th A-T HS, tied with 5 others.
Moving away from those two HS-only meets, I have 4 other marks to report.
Back to the HS category for a moment---but, as noted, NOT in either Shoreline (Sic!) or Greensboro--Jack Jibb ran a fast 3000SC, his time of 8:57.34 ranking him 5th A-T HS!
Though the name isn't widely known, Jibb's entrance ON my DDD caused a mark from 1967 to be axed FROM my list!
That's right, I said 1967!!
BTW, Jibb DID run at NBN, but in the 2000SC, which he won in 5:51+.
I don't keep lists or records for the 2K Steeple.
It turns out Arkansas's Men's 4X100 Relay time at NCAA's was a School Record!
Their 38.47 is a PR, but they remain 7th A-T School.
A BIG Discus Throw mark came out of Cuba!
Dania Caballero threw the plate 231-10!!
This is the Age 25 Record!
It makes her 21st A-T World--and not too far removed from Sandra Perkovic's PR of 233-2!.
But she just misses the National Record of Cuba--by 8 inches!!
Finally, Angelica Bengtsson PR'ed in the Pole Vault, her 15-1 breaking her own National Record of Sweden.
Oh yes, speaking of the PV, I might mention that Tori and Lexi Weeks both jumped 13-7.25 at NBN, but failed in their attempts at a Meet Record of 13-9.
Tori won, with fewer misses.
And Pauli Benavides beat Brandon Bray at NBN, but didn't get over 17-9, ending his run at 17-6.
What's next?
HUGE stuff!!
In just 4 days, the USATF meets, both Senior and Junior versions, begin in Eugene.
Beginning June 30th, in Lisle, Illinois, will be the World Youth Trials for the US.
The WYC is scheduled for Cali, Colombia, starting July 15th!
BIG questions are coming from these meets, maybe especially the US portions.
WHO will compete for spots on the WYC team?
And WHICH HSR's--if any!--will be broken in the process?
At USATF (Senior meet!), HS fans will be looking to see how the 2 HS Professionals fare.
Alexa Efraimson is in the 1500.
Kaylin Whitney will double in the 100 and 200.
This blog will have a Preview post for both the Senior and Junior USATF meets--sometime before the meets begin!!
They should be VERY interesting---with perhaps added "tension" being produced by the heavy presence of the NOP gang!
Only Mo Farah, who is British, won't be running there.
And rumors have it that embattled NOP Chief Alberto Salazar will also NOT be there.
At least not where the media can SEE him!!
See you soon!!
And please feel free to comment in the spaces below my posts---any time, on any subject!!
That may be the UNDERstatement of the Century!!
But this Record-breaking spree wasn't limited to the NBN.
This year's Brooks PR meet blasted into the HS mainstream in a HUGE way, making this past few days some of the WILDEST in HS history!!
Candace Hill's 10.98 HSR in the 100 led the way in Seattle.
This was soon followed by the great leap forward (Pun VERY intended!! LOL) by Kate Hall in the Long Jump, her HSR of 22-5 breaking a 39 year old Record!
Here's the details.
At the Adidas Dream 100, Hill (Just a 16 year old Soph! Born February 11, 1999.) faced a negative wind of 1.7, yet ran the fastest 100 of 2015, an 11.21.
In the Brooks meet, she would face Lauren Rain Williams, among several other 2015 greats.
They didn't stand a chance, folks!
She BLASTED from the blocks, strode strongly into an early lead, then disappeared!!
At the tape, she was 0.28 seconds ahead of 2nd place!
And THAT girl--Zaria Francis--ran 11.26, which moves her from 23rd A-T HS, tied with 2 others, to 18th, tied with 1 other.
The wind was the max allowable--2.0.
Besides the HSR, Hill also gets the Soph Class Record!
And the Age 16 Record.
(In my T&F Record Book, in my Individual Year Age Records section, I don't have an Age 16 Record. I begin my lists with the designation "0-17", meaning that Record is the best by someone up to and including Age 17. I do a similar thing with my Age 40 listing. That's listed as "40 and over", so could be by someone Age 40 to Age Infinity!!)
Given what I just wrote, Hill's time is listed in my Book as the Age 0-17 Record holder!
She'll have until February 10, 2017 to break that Record!
She moves from 12th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, into 1st.
If she was in College, her mark would rate as 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Finally, she just misses the A-T United States list--by 0.06 seconds!!
Moving across the country to Greensboro, North Carolina, Miss Kate Hall also EXPLODED into instant celebrity with her LJ of 22-5, which FINALLY surpassed the iconic Kathy McMillan's 1976 mark of 22-3.
This leap came on the final jump of the event, making for a thrilling finish.
In a battle with Frosh Class Record holder Courtney Corrin--who was having a pretty good series--heres what happened.
Hall fouled her 1st jump, but then used a 2.8 wind to jump 20-7.75 to take the lead.
After 2 jumps in the 19's, Corrin inched her way towards Hall, going from 20-2.75 in the 3rd round to 20-5.75 in the 4th, to 20-7 in the 5th.
Jumping immediately after Corrin, Hall then took the lead in that 5th round with a good 20-11.25 into a minus 0.2 wind.
But Corrin responded well, hitting what WOULD have been a PR, but for a wind of 2.1, with a 21-5.50.
So Hall, from the Great State of Maine, took off into space, hitting the sand 22-5 further out!
Besides the HSR, she also gets Carol Lewis's Senior Class Record, dating from 1981.
And the NBN Meet Record.
She moves from 17th A-T HS (Her 5th round jump!) into 1st!
If she was a Collegian, her mark would rank 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
(Exactly like with Hill's mark!)
And she misses the US A-T list by just 0.75 inches!!
Moved OFF my list were 3 A-T Greats!
JJK---aka Jackie Joyner-Kersee--is GONE, her mark dating from 1980.
Also gone is Wendy Brown--who was maybe better known as one of the first great TJ'ers--her mark being from 1984.
A much more modern icon is also outta here--Kendell Williams, the Heptathlete, her mark dating from 2013.
Is that IT??
Hardly.
Ryen Frazier, as did her sister Wesley in the 2013 NBN, tripled, winning the 5000, Two Mile, and One Mile on consecutive days.
Her 16:20.72 in the 5K makes her 14th A-T HS.
She followed that with a 10:07.16 Deuce, making her 12th A-T HS.
Finally, she won the Mile in 4:45+.
But Wesley's times in 2013 add up to about a 26 second "victory" over her kid sister!
They'll be teammates at NC State this fall!
Speaking of 2 Mile races (NOT 3200's!!), let's skip back west to see what happened in Shoreline (NEAR Seattle!!) WA.
Anna Rohrer, Destiny Collins, and Hannah DiBalsi battled it out for several laps, before it settled into a two-woman race, Rohrer with a slight edge over Collins.
Negative splitting it (5:06 and 4:53 for the winner), Rohrer sprinted ahead, JUST dipping into the 9's with her 9:59.96.
That makes her 4th A-T HS.
(Remember, I don't list 3200 times, or times converted FROM 3200's!!)
She also makes the A-T US list!!
She's now 20th on that list!
Collins finished in 10:00.90, her 2 Mile PR.
(See note above!)
She's now 5th A-T HS.
She's also 21st A-T US.
And she gets the Junior Class Record!
After that great 3200 race with Collins in the California State meet, Fiona O'Keefe ran 10:11.87 for the full 2 Miles here, rating her 19th A-T HS.
The Brooks Men's race produced a bit of a shock.
Grant Fisher, newly-minted sub-4:00 HS'er, faced Andrew Hunter, whose 8:16.31 3000 is the Soph Class Record.
And Fisher LOST!!
He was out-kicked!
Hunter's 8:42.51 is 7th A-T HS.
Fisher's 8:43.57 is 8th A-T HS!!
The NBN 400H races produced some good marks.
BOTH of them!
In the Men's race, Rai Benjamin---coming in with a 50.45 PR--broke 50, finishing in 49.97.
He moves from 18th to 8th on the A-T HS list.
Not far behind him came Taylor McLaughlin, whose 50.20 ranks him 15th A-T HS.
The latter fellow is the elder brother of Soph Sydney McLaughlin, who destroyed the Women's field with a time of 55.87.
Not quite a PR--She ran 55.63 last year in the World Junior meet, finishing 2nd to future NCAA Champion Shamier Little!!--her time nonetheless is the new NBN Meet Record.
It's also the Soph Class Record.
(The Junior Class Record is also the HSR, that being 55.20 by Leslie Maxie, dating from 1984.)
But the McLaughlin's didn't limit themselves to just the 400H.
Taylor anchored at least one Relay, somewhere in the 45's!
Sydney's anchor of 51.2 in the 4X400 Relay brought her Union Catholic team the NBN Meet Record of 3:35.90.
She also anchored a "Swedish Relay" (What's that??) in 51.28!!
Second in the Women's 400H was Brandee Johnson.
Her time of 57.63 rates her 18th A-T HS.
Third was Anna Cockrell, her time of 57.70 ranking her 21st A-T HS.
Another NBN Meet Record was set by the Women's 4X200 Relay team from Northwestern in Florida.
Their time was 1:34.87.
In 3rd in that Men's 400 at NBN was Tyrese Cooper.
This dude just happens to be a 14 year old 8th Grader (or just finished his 8th Grade year!).
His time of 46.44 broke the Age 14 Record belonging to one Mr Kirani James!!
You read that right!!
The Women's 400 was won by Sharrika Barnett, whose time of 52.25 is now ranked 24th A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
A great 200 race took place in North Carolina.
Noah Lyles just edged Ryan Clark--perhaps 2015's hottest Male sprinter!--20.54 to 20.58.
Lyles's time wasn't a PR, but Clark's was.
He's now ranked 21st A-T HS, tied with 3 others.
The race was run INTO a 1.0 wind!!
Lyles also won the 100, PR'ing in 10.21
He's now 13th A-T HS, tied with 4 others.
(Noah's brother Josephus won the 400 in 45.99.)
The bi-coastal 800's produced some quality marks.
In Seattle (Sorry, Shoreline!!), Adidas Mile winner Christine Aragon PR'ed in 2:04.00, which rates her 18th A-T HS.
In Greensboro, John Lewis ran 1:48.33, rating him 15th A-T HS.
He beat favored Myles Marshall, who also ran sub-1:49, but didn't PR.
But the best HS 800 came from the Brooks affair.
Donavan Brazier, who had run a 1:48.07 this year, completely dominated the race, improving to 1:47.55.
He moves from 8th to 4th on the A-T HS list!
Another HSR was broken at NBN.
Rush Henrietta HS broke the Women's Sprint Medley Relay Record, timing out in 3:47.65.
Soph Sammy Watson ran a great 800 anchor, time of 2:03.08!
Think all the good marks were on the Track?
Nope!
Here's the Field events that were popping!
Sophia Rivera won the NBN Shot Put with a throw of 53-1.
This makes her 10th A-T HS.
Willie Morris pushed (putted??!!) past the 70 foot barrier, hitting 70-2.50.
He's now 21st A-T HS.
Adam Kelly threw the Hammer 241-7, moving him from 13th to 9th on the A-T HS list!
And Nicole Green stayed consistent over 6 feet, winning the NBN High Jump with a 6-1.50.
She missed her 3 attempts at tying Amy Acuff's Meet Record of 6-2, dating from 1993.
(Keep in mind that Acuff, nearing 40 years of age, is vying for a spot on the WC team to Beijing. Her 2015 best--so far!-- is 6-2!)
Anyway, Greene's winning mark ranks her 17th A-T HS, tied with 5 others.
Moving away from those two HS-only meets, I have 4 other marks to report.
Back to the HS category for a moment---but, as noted, NOT in either Shoreline (Sic!) or Greensboro--Jack Jibb ran a fast 3000SC, his time of 8:57.34 ranking him 5th A-T HS!
Though the name isn't widely known, Jibb's entrance ON my DDD caused a mark from 1967 to be axed FROM my list!
That's right, I said 1967!!
BTW, Jibb DID run at NBN, but in the 2000SC, which he won in 5:51+.
I don't keep lists or records for the 2K Steeple.
It turns out Arkansas's Men's 4X100 Relay time at NCAA's was a School Record!
Their 38.47 is a PR, but they remain 7th A-T School.
A BIG Discus Throw mark came out of Cuba!
Dania Caballero threw the plate 231-10!!
This is the Age 25 Record!
It makes her 21st A-T World--and not too far removed from Sandra Perkovic's PR of 233-2!.
But she just misses the National Record of Cuba--by 8 inches!!
Finally, Angelica Bengtsson PR'ed in the Pole Vault, her 15-1 breaking her own National Record of Sweden.
Oh yes, speaking of the PV, I might mention that Tori and Lexi Weeks both jumped 13-7.25 at NBN, but failed in their attempts at a Meet Record of 13-9.
Tori won, with fewer misses.
And Pauli Benavides beat Brandon Bray at NBN, but didn't get over 17-9, ending his run at 17-6.
What's next?
HUGE stuff!!
In just 4 days, the USATF meets, both Senior and Junior versions, begin in Eugene.
Beginning June 30th, in Lisle, Illinois, will be the World Youth Trials for the US.
The WYC is scheduled for Cali, Colombia, starting July 15th!
BIG questions are coming from these meets, maybe especially the US portions.
WHO will compete for spots on the WYC team?
And WHICH HSR's--if any!--will be broken in the process?
At USATF (Senior meet!), HS fans will be looking to see how the 2 HS Professionals fare.
Alexa Efraimson is in the 1500.
Kaylin Whitney will double in the 100 and 200.
This blog will have a Preview post for both the Senior and Junior USATF meets--sometime before the meets begin!!
They should be VERY interesting---with perhaps added "tension" being produced by the heavy presence of the NOP gang!
Only Mo Farah, who is British, won't be running there.
And rumors have it that embattled NOP Chief Alberto Salazar will also NOT be there.
At least not where the media can SEE him!!
See you soon!!
And please feel free to comment in the spaces below my posts---any time, on any subject!!
Friday, June 19, 2015
The Legacy of Ron Clarke
Ron Clarke's death this week left a deep hole in our sport and in my heart.
While I've said Gerry Lindgren was my first hero as a runner, it was Clarke who dominated 60's distance running, and in fact, revolutionized it.
The numbers speak for themselves.
He broke 21 WR's, with 3 of those being INdoor WR's.
But that wasn't the legacy I speak of, even though this blog is all about Records--and of course especially about World Records!
No, Ron Clarke's greatest contribution to our sport was his endurance--and I don't mean about the distances he ran.
Here's the number of races he ran in his greatest years, from 1964 to his retirement on August 5th, 1970.
1964--Ran in 44 races.
1965--Ran in 55 races.
1966--Ran in 58 races.
1967--Ran in 42 races.
1968--Ran in 52 races.
1969--Ran in 38 races.
1970--Ran in 29 races (But retired after August 5th race!)
Here's his OUTdoor WR's.
December 18th, 1963--27:17.8 (6 Miles) and 28:15.8 (10000)
December 3rd, 1964---13:07.6 (3 Miles)
January 6th, 1965------13:34.8 (5000)
February 1, 1965------13:33.6 (5000)
March 3rd, 1965------47:12.8 (10 Miles--on a track!)
June 4th, 1965--------13:00.4 (3 Miles) and 13:25.8 (5000)
June 16th, 1965-------28:14.0 (10000)
July 10th, 1965--------12:52.4 (3 Miles--first to break 13 minute barrier--Gerry Lindgren 2nd in 13:04)
July 14th, 1965--------26:47.0 (6 Miles--broke Lindgren & Billy Mills record of 27:11.6) and 27:39.4 (first to go under 28:00)
October 27, 1965-----59:22.8 (20000--on a track! first 10K in 29:03.0!) and 12 Miles 1006 Yards (Hour Run)
July 5th, 1966---------12:50.4 (3 Miles) and 13:16.6 (5000)--Kip Keino had broken Clarke's 13:25.8 WR with his 13:24.2. Clarke then SHATTERED Keino's WR!)
June 27th, 1967-------8:19.8 (2 Miles)
August 24th, 1968----8:19.6 (2 Miles)
His 3 INdoor WR's.
February 22nd, 1964--13:18.4 (3 Miles)
February 25th, 1966---8:28.8 (2 Miles)
January 24th, 1969----13:12.6 (3 Miles)--His final WR!
He raced at distances ranging from 800 meters to the Marathon.
He won a vast majority of his races.
His times, when he wasn't breaking WR's, or Australia's National Records, or just setting Personal Records (short of those WR's!), were invariably fast.
In the great book called "Ron Clarke Talks Track" (TAFNEWS Press, 1972, by Jon Hendershott--110 pgs), which is essentially a VERY long and entertaining and informative interview with Clarke, he's asked "Why do you think you were so popular with track fans?".
Here's the key part of his reply.
".....I always tried. They always knew it would be a spectacular race if I was in it.....If I was beaten, it would be a fast time, or at least a very hard race with surging. There were few races......where there was a lot of fiddling around....with a last lap stand. I think (fans) would rather see a record....than someone demonstrating his superiority by sprinting away in the last lap.---which is easy to do."
Hmmm.
Do you think Clarke could have been foreseeing the destructive forces toward his legacy in the guises of such future runners as Ed Cheserek and Mo Farah?
I think so.
Ron Clarke wasn't really unique in his day.
Distance runners raced often, and often raced fast.
And these were "amateurs", so probably held "day jobs" to support their lifestyle as globe-trotting runners.
Clarke raced everywhere--Europe, Asia, the United States, and of course, Australia.
I saw him race 3 times--his 13:00.4/13:25.8 WR's, and a 2 day double in July 1966--13:28 & 28:13 for 5K and 10K.
I strongly recommend you buy (and read) his 3 books--The Lonely Breed, The Unforgiving Minute, and Ron Clarke Talks Track.
(I gathered all the facts about his career above from the latter book's Appendix, which lists EVERY race he ran, from 1953 (He was 16 then!) through 1970, with all the details of each race (pace, opponents, place, records broken, etc) provided!!)
Rest In Peace, Ron Clarke.
Instead of doing a separate "extra" post, I'd like to comment a bit on the Diamond League set-up, as well as what other meets do....or don't....provide.
Garry Hill of Track and Field News has written a few editorials in his magazine about the scheduling of DL's.
But I believe the problems go beyond their dates on the calendar.
The DL's (which replaced the Grand Prix system) are seen by athletes (and fans) as sort of a "play-off" scheme in which athletes compete for points, the winner getting a fat check and bragging rights, as well as a free pass into the next World Championship meet.
Proponents of DL's will of course say they're a lot more than that.
But again, my pet peeve with DL's isn't about their stated reason for being.
It's with what that system causes to happen--in a sort of ripple effect.
There's 14 meets each year.
Seven of them have certain events, each the same in all 7 meets.
The other 7 have other events, also the same in those meets.
But what happens to events NOT on the DL program?
I speak mainly of the 10000 meters and the Hammer Throw---although there's others.
The Bislett Games--Oslo's DL--used to be the site of a VERY fast 10K.
This was before their DL designation--back when it was an Invitational, such as the ones in Zurich (Weltklasse) and Berlin (ISTAF) and Brussels (Van Damme).
It was in the latter meet where Ken Bekele set his WR of 26:17.53 ten years ago.
Today?
The best 10K is on the "non-DL" first night of the Prefontaine Classic, or Eugene DL.
There are also good 10K's at the Payton Jordan meet.
As for those HT'ers, there is now a "World Hammer Challenge", which is basically its own "DL" series.
If people are wondering the reasons why Bekele's 10K WR has stood so long (as has his 5K), one can point to the facts I spoke of--DL's not having any 10K's on their official schedule---and except at Pre, not at all!!
But the other reason---and I return to the legacy Ron Clarke left us---is that even when a 10000 race IS scheduled, the runners normally race to win, to medal, or to qualify for a Championship meet.
Those races invariably turn into what Clarke said he never did---"fiddling around....with a last lap stand".
Mr Cheserek and Mr Farah---among MANY others!---should look back to Ron Clarke for guidance and inspiration.
He did it.
Why can't they?
While I've said Gerry Lindgren was my first hero as a runner, it was Clarke who dominated 60's distance running, and in fact, revolutionized it.
The numbers speak for themselves.
He broke 21 WR's, with 3 of those being INdoor WR's.
But that wasn't the legacy I speak of, even though this blog is all about Records--and of course especially about World Records!
No, Ron Clarke's greatest contribution to our sport was his endurance--and I don't mean about the distances he ran.
Here's the number of races he ran in his greatest years, from 1964 to his retirement on August 5th, 1970.
1964--Ran in 44 races.
1965--Ran in 55 races.
1966--Ran in 58 races.
1967--Ran in 42 races.
1968--Ran in 52 races.
1969--Ran in 38 races.
1970--Ran in 29 races (But retired after August 5th race!)
Here's his OUTdoor WR's.
December 18th, 1963--27:17.8 (6 Miles) and 28:15.8 (10000)
December 3rd, 1964---13:07.6 (3 Miles)
January 6th, 1965------13:34.8 (5000)
February 1, 1965------13:33.6 (5000)
March 3rd, 1965------47:12.8 (10 Miles--on a track!)
June 4th, 1965--------13:00.4 (3 Miles) and 13:25.8 (5000)
June 16th, 1965-------28:14.0 (10000)
July 10th, 1965--------12:52.4 (3 Miles--first to break 13 minute barrier--Gerry Lindgren 2nd in 13:04)
July 14th, 1965--------26:47.0 (6 Miles--broke Lindgren & Billy Mills record of 27:11.6) and 27:39.4 (first to go under 28:00)
October 27, 1965-----59:22.8 (20000--on a track! first 10K in 29:03.0!) and 12 Miles 1006 Yards (Hour Run)
July 5th, 1966---------12:50.4 (3 Miles) and 13:16.6 (5000)--Kip Keino had broken Clarke's 13:25.8 WR with his 13:24.2. Clarke then SHATTERED Keino's WR!)
June 27th, 1967-------8:19.8 (2 Miles)
August 24th, 1968----8:19.6 (2 Miles)
His 3 INdoor WR's.
February 22nd, 1964--13:18.4 (3 Miles)
February 25th, 1966---8:28.8 (2 Miles)
January 24th, 1969----13:12.6 (3 Miles)--His final WR!
He raced at distances ranging from 800 meters to the Marathon.
He won a vast majority of his races.
His times, when he wasn't breaking WR's, or Australia's National Records, or just setting Personal Records (short of those WR's!), were invariably fast.
In the great book called "Ron Clarke Talks Track" (TAFNEWS Press, 1972, by Jon Hendershott--110 pgs), which is essentially a VERY long and entertaining and informative interview with Clarke, he's asked "Why do you think you were so popular with track fans?".
Here's the key part of his reply.
".....I always tried. They always knew it would be a spectacular race if I was in it.....If I was beaten, it would be a fast time, or at least a very hard race with surging. There were few races......where there was a lot of fiddling around....with a last lap stand. I think (fans) would rather see a record....than someone demonstrating his superiority by sprinting away in the last lap.---which is easy to do."
Hmmm.
Do you think Clarke could have been foreseeing the destructive forces toward his legacy in the guises of such future runners as Ed Cheserek and Mo Farah?
I think so.
Ron Clarke wasn't really unique in his day.
Distance runners raced often, and often raced fast.
And these were "amateurs", so probably held "day jobs" to support their lifestyle as globe-trotting runners.
Clarke raced everywhere--Europe, Asia, the United States, and of course, Australia.
I saw him race 3 times--his 13:00.4/13:25.8 WR's, and a 2 day double in July 1966--13:28 & 28:13 for 5K and 10K.
I strongly recommend you buy (and read) his 3 books--The Lonely Breed, The Unforgiving Minute, and Ron Clarke Talks Track.
(I gathered all the facts about his career above from the latter book's Appendix, which lists EVERY race he ran, from 1953 (He was 16 then!) through 1970, with all the details of each race (pace, opponents, place, records broken, etc) provided!!)
Rest In Peace, Ron Clarke.
Instead of doing a separate "extra" post, I'd like to comment a bit on the Diamond League set-up, as well as what other meets do....or don't....provide.
Garry Hill of Track and Field News has written a few editorials in his magazine about the scheduling of DL's.
But I believe the problems go beyond their dates on the calendar.
The DL's (which replaced the Grand Prix system) are seen by athletes (and fans) as sort of a "play-off" scheme in which athletes compete for points, the winner getting a fat check and bragging rights, as well as a free pass into the next World Championship meet.
Proponents of DL's will of course say they're a lot more than that.
But again, my pet peeve with DL's isn't about their stated reason for being.
It's with what that system causes to happen--in a sort of ripple effect.
There's 14 meets each year.
Seven of them have certain events, each the same in all 7 meets.
The other 7 have other events, also the same in those meets.
But what happens to events NOT on the DL program?
I speak mainly of the 10000 meters and the Hammer Throw---although there's others.
The Bislett Games--Oslo's DL--used to be the site of a VERY fast 10K.
This was before their DL designation--back when it was an Invitational, such as the ones in Zurich (Weltklasse) and Berlin (ISTAF) and Brussels (Van Damme).
It was in the latter meet where Ken Bekele set his WR of 26:17.53 ten years ago.
Today?
The best 10K is on the "non-DL" first night of the Prefontaine Classic, or Eugene DL.
There are also good 10K's at the Payton Jordan meet.
As for those HT'ers, there is now a "World Hammer Challenge", which is basically its own "DL" series.
If people are wondering the reasons why Bekele's 10K WR has stood so long (as has his 5K), one can point to the facts I spoke of--DL's not having any 10K's on their official schedule---and except at Pre, not at all!!
But the other reason---and I return to the legacy Ron Clarke left us---is that even when a 10000 race IS scheduled, the runners normally race to win, to medal, or to qualify for a Championship meet.
Those races invariably turn into what Clarke said he never did---"fiddling around....with a last lap stand".
Mr Cheserek and Mr Farah---among MANY others!---should look back to Ron Clarke for guidance and inspiration.
He did it.
Why can't they?
Monday, June 15, 2015
HSR closes out BUSY week!
If you read my NCAA post, you know the Collegians closed out their OUTdoor season with a bang!
Well, the official Collegiate season may be over, but there's still the Professionals and HS'ers keeping my BIC pens busy revising my T&F Record Book with fantastic Records and Marks from around the world!
With that fabulous NCAA meet now behind us, let's travel to NYC for their DL meet, to Oslo, where the venerable Bislett Games were held last week, to Boston, where a small "Twilight" meet gave us a couple of good marks, to Cuba (of all places!!), where a couple of US HS'ers had some list-changing performances, to Portland, where the Portland Track Festival may have had a better meet than Payton Jordan, and finally, to Arkansas, where.......Oh heck, why don't we start THERE?
Take off your OUTdoor hats for a moment, and put on your INdoor ones!
We have ourselves a brand new INdoor HSR in the Pole Vault!!
Tori Weeks, just graduated from HS and soon on her way to the University of Arkansas with her twin sister, Lexi, broke her sister's INdoor HSR in a meet called the "AVC School's Out Open".
"AVC" stands for Arkansas Vault Club, which puts on some small meets which often feature the Weeks twins.
In their meet yesterday, Tori vaulted over 13-8, then 14-0, then with the bar set at 14-4, she soared over with room to spare!
How do I know?
Because the AVC puts out videos of their jumps--all of them---with the highest one in slow motion!!
Make sure you look for it.
I put it on Twitter, or look at T&FN MB in the thread titled "Year of the Vault".
Anyway, Tori moves from 5th A-T HS to 1st.
She also becomes the INdoor Senior Class record holder.
Both records were held by her sister!
We'll now move back to OUTdoors for the remainder of this post!
Let's do this in chronological order, starting with the Bislett Games.
As seems to be the case with Diamond League meets of late (maybe starting last year??), they've become kind of hit-or-miss affairs.
Meaning some are outright DUDS, and some are FILLED with record-smashing performances!
Well, Oslo wasn't a "dud", but it also wasn't that great either!
The stand-out was Genzebe Dibaba's 14:21.29 5000.
Yet that run could also stand as metaphor for what I said above!
She'd SAID she would be shooting for sister Tirunesh's WR, set in that same meet in 2008.
But bad pacing and weather (plus lack of competition!) put paid to her intentions!
Laura Muir is having a good year.
She beat Faith Kipyegon, Dawit Seyaum, and Abeba Aregawi in a 1500, running 4:00.39.
Asbel Kiprop won the Mile in 3:51.45.
But the only record set in that race was by Pieter-Jen Hannes of Belgium, whose 3:51.84 is their new National Record!
Another National Record was set by the Women's JT winner, Marharyta Dorezhon, whose 211-10 throw is the new National Record of Israel.
Kaliese Spencer beat Georgeanne Moline in the 400H, 54.15 to 54.29.
Muriel Ahoure took down Veronica Campbell-Brown in the 100, 11.03 to 11.08.
And maybe a bit symbolic of the "duddiness" of this DL was the Men's HJ results!
With a solid field filled with men who had reached 2.40, the win fell to China's Guowei Zhang's 2.36.
Behind him were the Big B Boys, Mutaz Barshim and Bogdan Bondarenko, who could reach just 2.33.
The Adidas NY DL returned DL-dom to its proper position on the Track and Field's world's schedule.
It wasn't the greatest DL ever---or even this year!---but there were some glorious moments!
And as at the Prefontaine meet, perhaps none came nearer to greatness than the Girls "Dream Mile".
Let's take a look.
The winner, in 4:37.91, was Christine Aragon.
Favored in the Pre Mile because she'd run the 1500 in 4:16 recently, she came in 3rd there.
But in NY, she outkicked Ryen Frazier in a time that moves her from 18th A-T HS up to 5th!
Frazier's 4:38.59 moves her from 12th A-T HS up to 6th.
AND she broke the Frazier family record, beating sister Wesley's HS best.
She teasingly tweeted her sister with...."How does it feel to be 2nd?"
OUCH!
In 3rd was Amanda Gerlach, who ran 4:40.25.
She's now 17th A-T HS.
Next came Katie Rainsberger, whose 4:40.92 makes her 20th A-T HS.
Then, Julia Heymach's 4:41.31 made her 24th A-T HS!!
My HS Girls DDD now has EIGHT marks from 2015 on it, one-third of the Top 24 A-T marks!!
Another list that took a beating in NY was my Women's US 1000 Meter DDD.
In a non-DL race, Mary Cain made her first appearance since leaving NOP's headquarters to return home.
(In a post-race interview, she seemed happy and her usual loquacious self, but she refused to answer a question about the NOP scandal!)
In the race, Erin Donohue continued her comeback with the win, running 2:37.42.
This makes her 10th A-T US.
She was followed by another NOP member running her first race since the bombs hit.
Treniere Moser (who, in her post-race interview-denied using drugs, saying she knew nothing about it, having joined the group after the nefarious activities had allegedly started!) ran 2:37.53, almost catching Donohue with a hard sprint down the straight.
She's now 14th A-T US.
Dana Mecke was next, running 2:37.80.
She's now 17th A-T US.
Then came Cain, who looked in finer fit than she was in her 3 poor 1500's this spring, but who faded in the last 200, running 2:38.57.
But her "comeback" didn't bring her to the US DDD.
The 3 women ahead of her prevented Cain from making the list.
She missed out by just 0.09 seconds!!
The NCAA meet featured that great Women's PV battle between Sandi Morris and Demi Payne.
I talked about the Weeks twins earlier.
Well, in NY, you had a pretty fair battle going on between Greece's National Record holder, Nikoletra Kiriakopoulou, and the "Ancient Warrior", Fabiana Murer of Brazil.
They both made 15-9, with Murer winning.
She broke her own Age 34 record!
Kiriakopoulou's 15-9 broke her own NR.
It also moves her from 16th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 10th, also tied with 1 other.
Christobel Netty got the NY Meet Record with her LJ of 22-8.50.
Ruth Beitia and Blanka Vlasic both HJ'ed 6-5.50, both getting the NY Meet Record.
Daniel Rudisha was one of NY's featured athletes, and he came through with the win, in the 1:43+ category.
But it was the 2nd place man who made the headlines---even if the TV commentators didn't know who he was!!
Boris Berian, who seems to have come out of nowhere this year, ran a startling 1:43.84, and almost catching Rudisha!!
He's now 10th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Watch out for him at USATF!
Matt Centrowitz was another NOPian present in NY.
(Their Coach was nowhere to be seen!!)
Centro, in a speed test, ran a PR in that 800 race, running 1:44.62.
He misses my US DDD list by only 0.08 seconds!
Fran McCorory became the first Woman in 2015 to go under 50 seconds in the 400.
Her winning time of 49.86 became the new NY Meet Record!
The Men's 400 found a relative newcomer EXPLODING through to a contender's position for a medal in Beijing!
Wayde van Niekerk ran 44.24, becoming the new National Record holder of South Africa.
But he missed LaShawn Merritt's MR from 2014 of 44.19!
He also misses my World DDD list by just 0.03 seconds!!
I'll close my NY report by returning to those HS "Dream" races.
Candace Hill won the Women's Dream 100 convincingly, running 11.21.
This 16 year old Soph moves from 21st A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 12th, also tied with 1 other.
Keep in mind that at 16, and still a Soph (until August 31st!), Candace has a shot at Kaylin Whitney's HSR, and Soph Class record of 11.10!
Is she yet another HS candidate for the Pro world?
The Men's Dream Mile was won by Grant Fisher in 4:01 and change.
(Since when does a 4:01 HS Mile fail to excite?? LOL)
But the 2 who finished behind him made some news.
Andrew Hunter ran 4:02.36, becoming 18th A-T HS.
And Mikey Brannigan, who is autistic, ran 4:03.18.
But he misses my HS DDD by 0.46 seconds!
Let me break the forward sequence of my reportage by returning to some old news.
After my previous results post (the one before the NCAA post!), some news came in that I saved for my next results post.
But the NCAA post was too long for me to fit it in, so I'll do it here instead!
The Asian Games, held in the week before Oslo, produced some good marks.
Femi Ogunode sprinted the 100 in 9.91, setting a National Record for Qatar.
Another Qatar National Record came in the Men's 4X400 Relay.
They ran it in 3:02.50.
A Bahrain National Record was set in the Women's 400H.
Kemi Adekoye ran it in 54.31.
Ling Li PV'ed 15-3.50 for the National Record of China.
Apparently, "foreigners" are allowed in the Asian Games.
Because 3 Americans produced solid marks.
Dani Bunch threw the Shot 61-0, becoming 19th A-T US.
Whitney Ashley threw the Discus 212-7, moving from 14th to 11th on the A-T US list!
Liz Podominick's DT of 209-6 moves her from 18th to 15th on the A-T US list!
Four HS'ers provided the other "old" news.
That California State HS meet Women's 3200 race had enroute times taken at 3000 meters.
(BTW, why don't ALL the HS meets who run the 3200 do that? If they're not going to allow the kids to run the 2 Mile, at least time them officially at a widely accepted distance, like the 3000! It would be so easy too. Just time them at the usual 200 meter starting line! Duh! Same goes for the 1600. If they refuse to let them run the Mile, then time them officially at the more accepted distance of 1500 meters! Again, so very easy to do!!)
Anyway, in that GREAT 3200 battle between Fiona O'Keefe and Destiny Collins, O'Keefe was timed at 3000 meters in 9:21.3.
She's now 21st A-T HS at that distance!
Collins was timed at 3000 in 9:20.7.
She's 17th A-T HS!!
Grant Holloway's LJ of 25-8.75 makes him 23rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
And Hannah Long ran a fast 800, her 2:04.23 making her 19th A-T HS.
Sticking with High Schoolers for awhile longer, let's move to that meet in Cuba I mentioned.
Don't know the details, but apparently a whole group of American kids made the trip, as well as some from Caribbean nations.
Jamaica's 15 year old Christopher Taylor continues to excel.
He broke his own World Age 15 record in the 400, running a phenomenal 45.55.
(His previous PR was 45.69, run a few weeks ago!)
Noah Lyles PR'ed in the 200, sprinting a fine 20.48.
This was in a MINUS 0.17 wind!!)
He's now 13th A-T HS.
Pushed OFF my DDD was iconic Floyd Heard, whose 20.61 dated from 1985!
And Ryan Clark dazzled with a PR of 10.18 in the 100.
He moves from 23rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 7th, also tied with 1 other.
There was a World Challenge meet in Rabat, Morocco.
The best mark came from Almaz Ayana, who PR'ed by about 2 seconds in the 3000, running 8:22.22.
She moves from 17th to 11th on the A-T World list.
BTW, just ahead of her, in 10th, is the 8:22.20 by Marathon WR holder Paula Radcliffe, dating from 2002!
Returning to meets in the United States, let's go first to Massachusetts.
In that Twilight meet I mentioned, Molly Huddle practically soloed the 5000 in a good time of 14:57.23.
(Second was Amy Cragg (formerly Hastings) in 15:30 and change.)
Good warm-up for her USATF 10000!!
Perhaps a speed test for her USATF 5000, Abbey D'Agostino won the 1500 in a PR time of 4:08.04, beating her previous best from 2014 INdoors, when she ran 4:09.77 enroute to that 4:28.31 Mile!
Second, about 5 seconds back, was Corey McGee.
We'll end this post in Portland.
Remember, at the end of my NCAA post, I said the Portland Track Festival (PTF) was sort of a "Minor League Payton Jordan"?
Well, I may have been just a wee bit off in my rush to label!
This year's version of the PTF was just shy of ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR....in a Payton Jordan-ish sort of way!! LOL
Where to begin?
Let's start with the best Men's mark of the 2 day meet. (Saturday and Sunday evenings!)
Evan Jager, his iconic mane tied tightly in a ponytail, won the High-Performance section of the 1500 in a fantastic 3:32.97!!
We knew he was speedy, but this was pretty much out of the blue!
It set a new PTF Meet Record.
And it makes him 12th A-T US.
Garrett Heath ran a solid race too, hitting 3:34.13.
However, he missed his PR by a mere 0.01 seconds!!
There was a special Men's 600 with a CLASSY field!
Charles Jock prevailed over Harun Abda, Mark Wieczorek, and Nick Symmonds.
Jock ran 1:14.33.
I don't keep OUTdoor 600 records, but I looked it up in my 2015 edition of Peter Matthews Athletics Annual.
They list just the Top 7 Performers.
But with the 7th best being a 1:13.9, I imagine Jock's time to be close to the Top 10, or at worst about 12th or 13th.
Abda's time was 1:15.07.
Wieczorek ran 1:15.81.
And Symmonds came in 4th in 1:16.13.
Jock's time became the automatic PTF Meet Record, as I believe it was run there for the first time!
Cam Levins came within 1 second of Dathan Ritzenhein's 2012 Meet Record in the 5000, winning it easily in 13:20.68.
(Levins was one of several NOP members in Portland. But he wasn't talking, and Salazar was nowhere to be seen!!)
Andy Bayer nabbed the PTF Meet Record in the 3000SC, winning easily in 8:26.75.
Back in the pack was HSR holder Bailey Roth, who came close to his HS PR, running 8:48.53.
I have no idea where he's attending college---if anywhere---or whether he's a Professional now!
The Women's races provided a lot of good results.
I'll start with the 3000SC.
Shalaya Kipp won easily in 9:45.90.
On the first night, they ran the Women's High-Performance 5000 and 10000 meter races.
Marathoner Des Linden led most of the way in the 10K, leading a few women to USATF Qualifiers.
Her winning time was 32:50.93.
Next came Sara Hall--Ryan's wife--who ran 32:50.96, just behind Linden.
They were followed by Natasha LeBeaud's 32:51.02, and Amy Van Alstine's 32:52.74.
The 5000 had Emily Infeld beating Shalane Flanagan, 15:07.19 to 15:11.15.
They ran together until about a mile to go, trading the lead every 800, then began to race!
Back a ways came Brie Felnagle in 15:37.17, Kara Goucher (in her first track race in a couple of years!) in 15:40.81, followed by NOP member Jordan Hasay (returning from injury), who ran 15:45.10, and TrackTown Movie maker Alexi Pappas, who clocked in at 15:46.38.
BTW, Infeld's time misses my US DDD list by just 0.66 seconds!
And it's the new PTF Meet Record!!
The last NOP person in Portland, Shannon Rowbury, doubled in the 800 and 1500....both run inside of a half hour of each other!!
She came in third in the 1500, but almost catching winner Lauren Johnson's 4:07.33 with a deadly sprint.
Canadian Sasha Gollish was 2nd in 4:07.47.
Rowbury's time was 4:07.52.
Other notable finishers included Canadian Sheila Reid in 4:09.14, Hannah Fields in 4:11.00, NCAA 3rd placer in that 1500, Sara Sutherland, competing just a couple of days later, and running a 2 second PR of 4:11.06, and 800 specialist (and Twitter and blogger Wit!!) Phoebe Wright, who ran 4:11.62.
Running in a separate heat, Oregon HS'er, Ella Donaghu, won her heat in 4:20.83.
She became 23rd A-T HS!
Forgot to mention it, but Johnson's time of 4:07.33 is the new PTF Meet Record.
Fiona Benson, a Canadian, set a PTF Meet Record in the 800, winning it in 1:59.94.
Once again, there was a solid line-up of elite women following her.
Like I said earlier, as part of her 1500-800 double, Rowbury finished 2nd here in a fast 2:00.53.
That means she started with this 800, "rested" about 20 minutes, then ran her 1500!!
Two more Canadians followed her.
Melissa Bishop's time was 2:00.67, and Jessica Smith's time was 2:01.07.
Then came Katie Mackey, PR'ing in 2:01.20.
She was followed by Annie LeBlanc, who also got a PR with her 2:01.87.
Well, folks, that about wraps things up for THIS week!!
But fear not!
Because we'll soon be having the NBN meet upon us!!
And THAT has proven to be a real workload for this Old Record Book keeper!!
Yet there's ANOTHER big HS meet coming up soon---the Brooks PR meet!
And in 2 weeks is the USATF---also known this year as the World Championships Trials!!
Not sure yet if I'll have a Preview post for the NBN.
I'm going to wait and see who's going to be there!
But I DO plan one for the USATF meet!!
Meanwhile, have a great week, and see you soon!
Well, the official Collegiate season may be over, but there's still the Professionals and HS'ers keeping my BIC pens busy revising my T&F Record Book with fantastic Records and Marks from around the world!
With that fabulous NCAA meet now behind us, let's travel to NYC for their DL meet, to Oslo, where the venerable Bislett Games were held last week, to Boston, where a small "Twilight" meet gave us a couple of good marks, to Cuba (of all places!!), where a couple of US HS'ers had some list-changing performances, to Portland, where the Portland Track Festival may have had a better meet than Payton Jordan, and finally, to Arkansas, where.......Oh heck, why don't we start THERE?
Take off your OUTdoor hats for a moment, and put on your INdoor ones!
We have ourselves a brand new INdoor HSR in the Pole Vault!!
Tori Weeks, just graduated from HS and soon on her way to the University of Arkansas with her twin sister, Lexi, broke her sister's INdoor HSR in a meet called the "AVC School's Out Open".
"AVC" stands for Arkansas Vault Club, which puts on some small meets which often feature the Weeks twins.
In their meet yesterday, Tori vaulted over 13-8, then 14-0, then with the bar set at 14-4, she soared over with room to spare!
How do I know?
Because the AVC puts out videos of their jumps--all of them---with the highest one in slow motion!!
Make sure you look for it.
I put it on Twitter, or look at T&FN MB in the thread titled "Year of the Vault".
Anyway, Tori moves from 5th A-T HS to 1st.
She also becomes the INdoor Senior Class record holder.
Both records were held by her sister!
We'll now move back to OUTdoors for the remainder of this post!
Let's do this in chronological order, starting with the Bislett Games.
As seems to be the case with Diamond League meets of late (maybe starting last year??), they've become kind of hit-or-miss affairs.
Meaning some are outright DUDS, and some are FILLED with record-smashing performances!
Well, Oslo wasn't a "dud", but it also wasn't that great either!
The stand-out was Genzebe Dibaba's 14:21.29 5000.
Yet that run could also stand as metaphor for what I said above!
She'd SAID she would be shooting for sister Tirunesh's WR, set in that same meet in 2008.
But bad pacing and weather (plus lack of competition!) put paid to her intentions!
Laura Muir is having a good year.
She beat Faith Kipyegon, Dawit Seyaum, and Abeba Aregawi in a 1500, running 4:00.39.
Asbel Kiprop won the Mile in 3:51.45.
But the only record set in that race was by Pieter-Jen Hannes of Belgium, whose 3:51.84 is their new National Record!
Another National Record was set by the Women's JT winner, Marharyta Dorezhon, whose 211-10 throw is the new National Record of Israel.
Kaliese Spencer beat Georgeanne Moline in the 400H, 54.15 to 54.29.
Muriel Ahoure took down Veronica Campbell-Brown in the 100, 11.03 to 11.08.
And maybe a bit symbolic of the "duddiness" of this DL was the Men's HJ results!
With a solid field filled with men who had reached 2.40, the win fell to China's Guowei Zhang's 2.36.
Behind him were the Big B Boys, Mutaz Barshim and Bogdan Bondarenko, who could reach just 2.33.
The Adidas NY DL returned DL-dom to its proper position on the Track and Field's world's schedule.
It wasn't the greatest DL ever---or even this year!---but there were some glorious moments!
And as at the Prefontaine meet, perhaps none came nearer to greatness than the Girls "Dream Mile".
Let's take a look.
The winner, in 4:37.91, was Christine Aragon.
Favored in the Pre Mile because she'd run the 1500 in 4:16 recently, she came in 3rd there.
But in NY, she outkicked Ryen Frazier in a time that moves her from 18th A-T HS up to 5th!
Frazier's 4:38.59 moves her from 12th A-T HS up to 6th.
AND she broke the Frazier family record, beating sister Wesley's HS best.
She teasingly tweeted her sister with...."How does it feel to be 2nd?"
OUCH!
In 3rd was Amanda Gerlach, who ran 4:40.25.
She's now 17th A-T HS.
Next came Katie Rainsberger, whose 4:40.92 makes her 20th A-T HS.
Then, Julia Heymach's 4:41.31 made her 24th A-T HS!!
My HS Girls DDD now has EIGHT marks from 2015 on it, one-third of the Top 24 A-T marks!!
Another list that took a beating in NY was my Women's US 1000 Meter DDD.
In a non-DL race, Mary Cain made her first appearance since leaving NOP's headquarters to return home.
(In a post-race interview, she seemed happy and her usual loquacious self, but she refused to answer a question about the NOP scandal!)
In the race, Erin Donohue continued her comeback with the win, running 2:37.42.
This makes her 10th A-T US.
She was followed by another NOP member running her first race since the bombs hit.
Treniere Moser (who, in her post-race interview-denied using drugs, saying she knew nothing about it, having joined the group after the nefarious activities had allegedly started!) ran 2:37.53, almost catching Donohue with a hard sprint down the straight.
She's now 14th A-T US.
Dana Mecke was next, running 2:37.80.
She's now 17th A-T US.
Then came Cain, who looked in finer fit than she was in her 3 poor 1500's this spring, but who faded in the last 200, running 2:38.57.
But her "comeback" didn't bring her to the US DDD.
The 3 women ahead of her prevented Cain from making the list.
She missed out by just 0.09 seconds!!
The NCAA meet featured that great Women's PV battle between Sandi Morris and Demi Payne.
I talked about the Weeks twins earlier.
Well, in NY, you had a pretty fair battle going on between Greece's National Record holder, Nikoletra Kiriakopoulou, and the "Ancient Warrior", Fabiana Murer of Brazil.
They both made 15-9, with Murer winning.
She broke her own Age 34 record!
Kiriakopoulou's 15-9 broke her own NR.
It also moves her from 16th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 10th, also tied with 1 other.
Christobel Netty got the NY Meet Record with her LJ of 22-8.50.
Ruth Beitia and Blanka Vlasic both HJ'ed 6-5.50, both getting the NY Meet Record.
Daniel Rudisha was one of NY's featured athletes, and he came through with the win, in the 1:43+ category.
But it was the 2nd place man who made the headlines---even if the TV commentators didn't know who he was!!
Boris Berian, who seems to have come out of nowhere this year, ran a startling 1:43.84, and almost catching Rudisha!!
He's now 10th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Watch out for him at USATF!
Matt Centrowitz was another NOPian present in NY.
(Their Coach was nowhere to be seen!!)
Centro, in a speed test, ran a PR in that 800 race, running 1:44.62.
He misses my US DDD list by only 0.08 seconds!
Fran McCorory became the first Woman in 2015 to go under 50 seconds in the 400.
Her winning time of 49.86 became the new NY Meet Record!
The Men's 400 found a relative newcomer EXPLODING through to a contender's position for a medal in Beijing!
Wayde van Niekerk ran 44.24, becoming the new National Record holder of South Africa.
But he missed LaShawn Merritt's MR from 2014 of 44.19!
He also misses my World DDD list by just 0.03 seconds!!
I'll close my NY report by returning to those HS "Dream" races.
Candace Hill won the Women's Dream 100 convincingly, running 11.21.
This 16 year old Soph moves from 21st A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 12th, also tied with 1 other.
Keep in mind that at 16, and still a Soph (until August 31st!), Candace has a shot at Kaylin Whitney's HSR, and Soph Class record of 11.10!
Is she yet another HS candidate for the Pro world?
The Men's Dream Mile was won by Grant Fisher in 4:01 and change.
(Since when does a 4:01 HS Mile fail to excite?? LOL)
But the 2 who finished behind him made some news.
Andrew Hunter ran 4:02.36, becoming 18th A-T HS.
And Mikey Brannigan, who is autistic, ran 4:03.18.
But he misses my HS DDD by 0.46 seconds!
Let me break the forward sequence of my reportage by returning to some old news.
After my previous results post (the one before the NCAA post!), some news came in that I saved for my next results post.
But the NCAA post was too long for me to fit it in, so I'll do it here instead!
The Asian Games, held in the week before Oslo, produced some good marks.
Femi Ogunode sprinted the 100 in 9.91, setting a National Record for Qatar.
Another Qatar National Record came in the Men's 4X400 Relay.
They ran it in 3:02.50.
A Bahrain National Record was set in the Women's 400H.
Kemi Adekoye ran it in 54.31.
Ling Li PV'ed 15-3.50 for the National Record of China.
Apparently, "foreigners" are allowed in the Asian Games.
Because 3 Americans produced solid marks.
Dani Bunch threw the Shot 61-0, becoming 19th A-T US.
Whitney Ashley threw the Discus 212-7, moving from 14th to 11th on the A-T US list!
Liz Podominick's DT of 209-6 moves her from 18th to 15th on the A-T US list!
Four HS'ers provided the other "old" news.
That California State HS meet Women's 3200 race had enroute times taken at 3000 meters.
(BTW, why don't ALL the HS meets who run the 3200 do that? If they're not going to allow the kids to run the 2 Mile, at least time them officially at a widely accepted distance, like the 3000! It would be so easy too. Just time them at the usual 200 meter starting line! Duh! Same goes for the 1600. If they refuse to let them run the Mile, then time them officially at the more accepted distance of 1500 meters! Again, so very easy to do!!)
Anyway, in that GREAT 3200 battle between Fiona O'Keefe and Destiny Collins, O'Keefe was timed at 3000 meters in 9:21.3.
She's now 21st A-T HS at that distance!
Collins was timed at 3000 in 9:20.7.
She's 17th A-T HS!!
Grant Holloway's LJ of 25-8.75 makes him 23rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other.
And Hannah Long ran a fast 800, her 2:04.23 making her 19th A-T HS.
Sticking with High Schoolers for awhile longer, let's move to that meet in Cuba I mentioned.
Don't know the details, but apparently a whole group of American kids made the trip, as well as some from Caribbean nations.
Jamaica's 15 year old Christopher Taylor continues to excel.
He broke his own World Age 15 record in the 400, running a phenomenal 45.55.
(His previous PR was 45.69, run a few weeks ago!)
Noah Lyles PR'ed in the 200, sprinting a fine 20.48.
This was in a MINUS 0.17 wind!!)
He's now 13th A-T HS.
Pushed OFF my DDD was iconic Floyd Heard, whose 20.61 dated from 1985!
And Ryan Clark dazzled with a PR of 10.18 in the 100.
He moves from 23rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 7th, also tied with 1 other.
There was a World Challenge meet in Rabat, Morocco.
The best mark came from Almaz Ayana, who PR'ed by about 2 seconds in the 3000, running 8:22.22.
She moves from 17th to 11th on the A-T World list.
BTW, just ahead of her, in 10th, is the 8:22.20 by Marathon WR holder Paula Radcliffe, dating from 2002!
Returning to meets in the United States, let's go first to Massachusetts.
In that Twilight meet I mentioned, Molly Huddle practically soloed the 5000 in a good time of 14:57.23.
(Second was Amy Cragg (formerly Hastings) in 15:30 and change.)
Good warm-up for her USATF 10000!!
Perhaps a speed test for her USATF 5000, Abbey D'Agostino won the 1500 in a PR time of 4:08.04, beating her previous best from 2014 INdoors, when she ran 4:09.77 enroute to that 4:28.31 Mile!
Second, about 5 seconds back, was Corey McGee.
We'll end this post in Portland.
Remember, at the end of my NCAA post, I said the Portland Track Festival (PTF) was sort of a "Minor League Payton Jordan"?
Well, I may have been just a wee bit off in my rush to label!
This year's version of the PTF was just shy of ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR....in a Payton Jordan-ish sort of way!! LOL
Where to begin?
Let's start with the best Men's mark of the 2 day meet. (Saturday and Sunday evenings!)
Evan Jager, his iconic mane tied tightly in a ponytail, won the High-Performance section of the 1500 in a fantastic 3:32.97!!
We knew he was speedy, but this was pretty much out of the blue!
It set a new PTF Meet Record.
And it makes him 12th A-T US.
Garrett Heath ran a solid race too, hitting 3:34.13.
However, he missed his PR by a mere 0.01 seconds!!
There was a special Men's 600 with a CLASSY field!
Charles Jock prevailed over Harun Abda, Mark Wieczorek, and Nick Symmonds.
Jock ran 1:14.33.
I don't keep OUTdoor 600 records, but I looked it up in my 2015 edition of Peter Matthews Athletics Annual.
They list just the Top 7 Performers.
But with the 7th best being a 1:13.9, I imagine Jock's time to be close to the Top 10, or at worst about 12th or 13th.
Abda's time was 1:15.07.
Wieczorek ran 1:15.81.
And Symmonds came in 4th in 1:16.13.
Jock's time became the automatic PTF Meet Record, as I believe it was run there for the first time!
Cam Levins came within 1 second of Dathan Ritzenhein's 2012 Meet Record in the 5000, winning it easily in 13:20.68.
(Levins was one of several NOP members in Portland. But he wasn't talking, and Salazar was nowhere to be seen!!)
Andy Bayer nabbed the PTF Meet Record in the 3000SC, winning easily in 8:26.75.
Back in the pack was HSR holder Bailey Roth, who came close to his HS PR, running 8:48.53.
I have no idea where he's attending college---if anywhere---or whether he's a Professional now!
The Women's races provided a lot of good results.
I'll start with the 3000SC.
Shalaya Kipp won easily in 9:45.90.
On the first night, they ran the Women's High-Performance 5000 and 10000 meter races.
Marathoner Des Linden led most of the way in the 10K, leading a few women to USATF Qualifiers.
Her winning time was 32:50.93.
Next came Sara Hall--Ryan's wife--who ran 32:50.96, just behind Linden.
They were followed by Natasha LeBeaud's 32:51.02, and Amy Van Alstine's 32:52.74.
The 5000 had Emily Infeld beating Shalane Flanagan, 15:07.19 to 15:11.15.
They ran together until about a mile to go, trading the lead every 800, then began to race!
Back a ways came Brie Felnagle in 15:37.17, Kara Goucher (in her first track race in a couple of years!) in 15:40.81, followed by NOP member Jordan Hasay (returning from injury), who ran 15:45.10, and TrackTown Movie maker Alexi Pappas, who clocked in at 15:46.38.
BTW, Infeld's time misses my US DDD list by just 0.66 seconds!
And it's the new PTF Meet Record!!
The last NOP person in Portland, Shannon Rowbury, doubled in the 800 and 1500....both run inside of a half hour of each other!!
She came in third in the 1500, but almost catching winner Lauren Johnson's 4:07.33 with a deadly sprint.
Canadian Sasha Gollish was 2nd in 4:07.47.
Rowbury's time was 4:07.52.
Other notable finishers included Canadian Sheila Reid in 4:09.14, Hannah Fields in 4:11.00, NCAA 3rd placer in that 1500, Sara Sutherland, competing just a couple of days later, and running a 2 second PR of 4:11.06, and 800 specialist (and Twitter and blogger Wit!!) Phoebe Wright, who ran 4:11.62.
Running in a separate heat, Oregon HS'er, Ella Donaghu, won her heat in 4:20.83.
She became 23rd A-T HS!
Forgot to mention it, but Johnson's time of 4:07.33 is the new PTF Meet Record.
Fiona Benson, a Canadian, set a PTF Meet Record in the 800, winning it in 1:59.94.
Once again, there was a solid line-up of elite women following her.
Like I said earlier, as part of her 1500-800 double, Rowbury finished 2nd here in a fast 2:00.53.
That means she started with this 800, "rested" about 20 minutes, then ran her 1500!!
Two more Canadians followed her.
Melissa Bishop's time was 2:00.67, and Jessica Smith's time was 2:01.07.
Then came Katie Mackey, PR'ing in 2:01.20.
She was followed by Annie LeBlanc, who also got a PR with her 2:01.87.
Well, folks, that about wraps things up for THIS week!!
But fear not!
Because we'll soon be having the NBN meet upon us!!
And THAT has proven to be a real workload for this Old Record Book keeper!!
Yet there's ANOTHER big HS meet coming up soon---the Brooks PR meet!
And in 2 weeks is the USATF---also known this year as the World Championships Trials!!
Not sure yet if I'll have a Preview post for the NBN.
I'm going to wait and see who's going to be there!
But I DO plan one for the USATF meet!!
Meanwhile, have a great week, and see you soon!
Saturday, June 13, 2015
NCAA--Collegians Rip Apart the Record Book
First, a little brag.
Did you read both of my NCAA Preview posts?
See how many I was RIGHT on?
If I do say so myself.....blah, blah, blah!!
That said, let's see how the athletes themselves did.
In a city overrun (pun intended!) with distance runners, and a whole history of collegiate and professional track and field to back it up, TrackTownUSA came through most...in the sprints!
Only the wind prevented some SUPER fast times from entering my Record Book.
But there were enough LEGAL times to satisfy.
After seeing what Canadian Andre De Grasse did, I posted one of my best-ever puns on the T&FN MB.
I said....
"Andre didn't let De GRASSe grow under his feet!"
Okay, now that you've stopped laughing, I'll tell you what he did.
How about a 9.75 in the 100.
Add to that a 19.58....NOT a typo!....in the 200.
So the winds were past the legal limit.
So what!
This was the fastest one-day sprint double in all of Collegiate history...and yes, WORLD history!
And to add to the amazement, he beat (in both races!) the pre-meet favorite, Trayvon Bromell.
He didn't exactly roll over and play dead, either, as he ran 9.88 and 19.86.
But this blog is about Records, so let's look at some LEGAL sprint times.
In the Women's 200, a foursome of Dezerea Bryant, Jenna Prandini, Kamaria Brown, and Kyra Jefferson rewrote my Collegiate AND United States DDD's!
Bryant won, running 22.18.
She moves from 21st A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, all the way up to 2nd!
Only the altitude-aided CR of Dawn Sowell (22.04) is better!
She also became 16th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Prandini's time of 22.21 moves her from 18th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, up to 4th!
She also enters the A-T US list, in 20th!
Kamaria Brown's 22.24 makes her 6th A-T Collegiate.
She's also new to the A-T US list, in 23rd, tied with 1 other.
That "1 other" is Kyra Jefferson, who also ran 22.24.
This ties the Collegiate Soph Class record!
But there's also bad news....of a sort.
You see, because so many came ON the list, Jefferson, who was already ON the list (with her previous PR of 22.26, which she TIED in her prelim race!), dropped 1 spot, going from 4th to 5th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She also entered the A-T US list in 23rd, tied with Brown!
Also, in her heat, Aaliyah Brown sprinted the 100 in 11.08, which makes her 23rd A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others.
Returning to the Men, there WERE some legal sprint times.
In the prelims, Bromell sprinted the 100 in 9.90 with a wind of 1.7.
This moves him from 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others, to 2nd.
He also becomes 12th A-T US!
But there's more!
He nabbed the Collegiate Soph Class record.
AND the Age 19 record!
That's the WORLD Age 19 record!
In his 200 heat, he ran 20.03, with the max-allowable wind of 2.0.
This makes him 12th A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
Not bad for a guy who LOST both finals!!
The horizontal jumps, both Men's and Women's, did battle with the Hayward winds too.
But there were, nonetheless, some REALLY GREAT (legal) marks.
Marquis Dendy nabbed a "Dendy Double", winning both the LJ and TJ.
But it was in the LJ where he shined.
His best mark was a windy 27-8.
But he got a legal jump of 27-4.50 too.
This makes him 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Jarrion Lawson, though finishing 2nd, also had a legal 27-4.50 LJ.
He's also 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with Dendy!
Keturah Orji entered another phase of her rise to the top of American female TJ'ing.
INdoors, she exploded into the 45 foot world.....BIG time!....as she ALMOST reached 46 feet!
Well, she entered THAT world in Eugene.
Her winning jump of 46-5.25 becomes the Collegiate Frosh Class record!
She's less than 4 inches from the Collegiate Record!
She moves from 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 4th, also tied with 1 other.
She also moves from 20th A-T US, tied with 3 others, all the way to 9th!
Orji's main rival was supposed to be Ciarra Brewer, but Brewer fouled her 3 prelim jumps!
In the Women's LJ, though won by Quenesha Burks, it was a couple of legal jumps by Jenna Prandini and Sha'Keela Saunders that made my Record Book.
Prandini's jump of 22-3.75 makes her 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Saunders's 22-1.75 makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others.
The Women's Throws produced several good marks.
Irena Sediva won the JT, as expected.
Her throw of 192-9, a four inch PR, did NOT move her up my list.
She remains 9th A-T Collegiate.
But Hannah Carson, who finished 2nd, continued her upward momentum.
Her mark of 189-4 moves her from 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 12th.
DeAnna Price shocked everyone, including the favorites Brooke Pleger and Julia Ratcliffe, in the HT.
She exploded out to 234-6 on her final throw!!
This broke the NCAA Meet Record!
It moves her from 20th A-T Collegiate all the way to 3rd!
And it makes her 9th A-T US!!
The Shot Put favorite was Raven Saunders.
But with a few meets during both the INdoor and OUTdoor seasons, where she performed relatively poorly, seeing her not in 1st after 5 rounds made folks nervous.
But Saunders has proven one thing in her career, and maybe particularly in her Freshman year at Southern Illinois.
She COMES THROUGH when it counts!!
And did she ever!
Her final toss went out 60-2.50!
This broke her own Collegiate Frosh Class record, and was her first OUTdoor 60 footer!
She moves from 13th A-T Collegiate up to 9th, tied with 1 other.
She also finally enters the US list, at 23rd, tied with 1 other.
Kelsey Card also PR'ed, out to 58-11.25.
She's now 21st A-T Collegiate!
While I'm with the Throws, the Men produced a few good marks too.
As expected, Conor McCullough nabbed the HT win, throwing it a PR distance of 252-4.
But he remains 7th A-T Collegiate.
Sam Crouser threw the Javelin 259-9.
He moves from 24th A-T Collegiate to 20th.
And Jonathon Jones surprised Crouser's brother Ryan, winning the SP with a PR toss of 68-2.25.
But he remains 23rd A-T Collegiate.
The two Multi's were good battles, and produced a few surprises.
The Decathlon was won, as expected, by Maicel Uibo.
He got a PR of 8356 points, adding 30 to his previous total.
But he remains 4th A-T Collegiate.
The shocker on the Men's side was Pau Tonnesen!
While he wasn't unknown, he produced a big PR total of 8247 points in 2nd.
He becomes 9th A-T Collegiate.
The Women's Heptathlon also produced some shocks.
Erica Bougard, pretty much the consensus favorite coming in, had a relatively poor day, scoring "only" 6050 points, 200 down from her best!
So Akela Jones took the reins, and rode the horse all the way to the top of the podium!
Her massive PR of 6371 points moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate all the way up to 4th.
She also gets the National Record of Barbados!
Kendell Williams keeps on keeping on.
Her point total 6223 gained over 200 points over her previous best!
She moves from 21st A-T Collegiate up to 6th!
And she becomes 19th A-T US!
But I saved the best for last!
She nabbed the Collegiate Soph Class Record.
So you're saying.....That's the BEST???
YES!!
Because she now holds EVERY Class Record from the 9th Grade of HS up through her Soph year of College!
That's SIX CONSECUTIVE years of holding Class Records!!
IF....and it's a qualified IF, because she MIGHT turn Pro before she leaves College!....IF she continues attending Georgia, she COULD wind up holding ALL EIGHT Class Records, which would be a first!!
(Amy Acuff once held all 4 HS Class Records in the HJ, but none in College!)
Next in line was Quintunya Chapman, whose 6147 point total was a ONE point PR!!
While that's good news, it resulted in some BAD news!
Because of Jones's and Williams's rise, Chapman fell!
She moves DOWN the A-T Collegiate list, from 8th to 10th!
She also loses a spot on the A-T US list, dropping from 23rd to 24th!
The 100H was won by Kendra Harrison in 12.55.
But the two who finished 2nd and 3rd had times that altered a few lines in my Record Book!
Cindi Ofili, sister of Tiffany (Ofili) Porter, former US citizen, now a British hurdler, was 2nd in 12.60, a super PR.
She becomes 4th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She also becomes 21st A-T US.
BTW, someone on the T&FN Message Board suggested that she MIGHT follow her sister to Great Britain!
Jon Mulkeen tweeted that Tiffany's and Cindy's combined 100H times are now the best-ever by sisters!
The old record was held by the sisters Kallur, led by Susanna.
Third was Dior Hall's 12.74.
She's another spectacular Freshman who keeps getting better.
She broke her own Collegiate Frosh Class record, this time by 0.15 seconds!
She becomes 19th A-T Collegiate.
But even more important, she is now the WORLD Age 19 record holder.
In fact, she's the best Under-20 EVER!!
Speaking of outstanding Freshmen, the Women's 800 produced somewhat of an upset.
Raevyn Rogers scored 10 big points for the victorious Ducks (They won both the Men's and Women's Team battles!).
Her time of 1:59.71 makes her 4th on the A-T Collegiate list!
She also breaks---no, SHATTERS!---her own Collegiate Frosh Class record.
It had been 2:01.57!
Remember my "brag" at the beginning of this post?
Well, I'm probably most proud of being right on this one, as i not only predicted Rogers could win the race, but that she ALSO could dip under the 2 minute barrier!
(Thanks, Raevyn!! LOL)
But 2 others changed my list with fast times.
Claudia Saunders of Stanford came in 2nd, her time being 2:00.63.
She's now 10th A-T Collegiate.
And Hanna Green ran 2:01.17, making her 20th A-T Collegiate!
The Women's 400H was a good race too.
Shamier Little used her flat 400 speed (in the 51's) to run 53.74 for the win.
This is the new Collegiate Soph Class record!
It moves her from 16th A-T Collegiate up to 4th!
And she becomes 12th A-T US!!
Kendra Harrison doubled in the 400H. (See above for her win in the 100H!)
Her 2nd place mark of 54.09 moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate up to 5th.
She also becomes 14th A-T US.
Moved OFF my Collegiate DDD was a biggie!
Kendra's namesake, Queen Harrison, is no longer on the list!
Her time dated from 2010.
The Women's HJ didn't go very high!
But Kimberly Williamson, who took 2nd, jumped 6-2.75, making her 23rd A-T Collegiate, tied with 6 (!) others!
The other Women's vertical jump, the PV, was maybe the featured event of the whole meet in the days before.
And the event's two biggest stars came through for their teams, for the enthusiastic Hayward crowd, and for a truly historic legacy!
Demi Payne beat Sandi Morris, 15-5 to 15-3.
No PR's.
No CR's.
No Class Records.
Just a whole lot of CLASS!!
Payne's win DID get her the NCAA Meet Record.
But that record, held by a FEW women at 14-7.25, was pretty much GONE even before the event began!
We all KNEW that record had ZERO chance of survival!
The two women played a little passing game, but they were pretty much perfect all the way to their ending heights.
Payne then tried 3 times at 15-7, which would have been the OUTdoor CR, but she missed all 3.
Two others made the Women's PV what it was.
Stephanie Richartz, also having her best year, went over 14-7.25.
She's now 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others.
And in a bit of a surprise, University of Washington's Kristina Owsinski went over the bar set at 14-5.25.
She's 23rd A-T Collegiate, but tied with 6 others!
Duke's Megan Clark, one of the expected Top 5, No Heighted!!
Desiree Freier tied her best vault of the year, going over 14-3.25.
I'll close with a couple of Women's distrance events, the 1500 and the 3000SC.
But first, let me "editorialize" just a little bit!
I'm NOT reporting any MEN's distance events fior a good reason.
As my blog is all about Records and Top 24 marks, well, there were NONE to report from the Men!
As expected, the Ducks Ed Cheserek and Eric Jenkins went 1-2 in both the 5000 and 10000 meters!
The times weren't EXCRUCIATINGLY slow....but they might as well have been.
Those two guys are EXCELLENT runners, fully capable of WORLD CLASS times!!
But they came nowhere near World Class!
In fact, their times weren't even respectable on the AVERAGE Collegiate level!!
I know the drill.
In Championship meets, you run for Medals and/or Points, NOT to break records!
Okay, I understand.
I just don't LIKE it!!
In fact, I HATE it!!
But it wasn't all Ches's and Eric's fault.
The 3000SC was won in 8:32 or so..
The 800 was taken in....about 1:48.
And the 1500?
Don't ask!!!
Oh Hell, I'll tell you anyway!
Let's put it this way.
If Genzebe Dibaba had been running her 3:55.17 INdoor WR in this race, she would have finished FOURTH!!!
Their last lap was about 52, but who cares!!!
It was a crying SHAME!!
But hold your stones!!
Because the WOMEN (for the most part!) saved the day!
Their 10K wasn't too special, well over 33 minutes, won by Molly Seidel in a bit of a shocker, and the 5000 was good, with Emily Sisson pulling away in the final 3 laps, then cruising in with a slow 75 last lap for the win in about 15:34.
But while those times weren't much higher quality than what the two Ducks ran, they were made up for by the 1500 and Steeplechase.
Rhianwedd Price came in with the fastest seed time, but Shelby Houlihan was still the favorite.
And they didn't waste time.
Coming through 1100 meters in 3:06+, they then sprinted the final 400 in about 63's, with Price winning in 4:09.56 over Houlihan's 4:09.67.
They both found themselves on the A-T Collegiate list, Price in 13th, and Houlihan in 14th.
But it was the Steeple that REALLY demonstrated for the men how a race SHOULD be run!!
Hitting fifth gear from the gun, they ran a truly competitive.....but FAST.....race throughout.
Why?
Because they knew their competitors had some wheels, and they wanted to make sure those wheels lost enough tread to keep them from a strong finish.
It was a battle to see who was toughest!
Mr Steven Prefontaine would have LOVED it!!
In the end, it was Colleen Quigley who broke the tape first, running an excellent 9:29.32.
This moves her from 4th to 3rd on the A-T Collegiate list.
It also moves her from 13th A-T US to 9th, tied with 1 other.
Only Jenny (Barringer) Simpson and Emma Coburn are ahead of her on the Collegiate list!
That is CLASSY company!!
Also getting a PR was Courtney Frerichs, who ran 9:31.36.
But despite a PR of 0.76 seconds, she FELL from 3rd to 4th on the Collegiate list!!
She also fell DOWN on the US list!
She went from 12th to 13th on the latter list!
Leah O'Connor, who started the race as the slight favorite, finished 3rd in the PR time of 9:33.38.
But she remains 5th A-T Collegiate.
However, she does move up two spots on the US list, from 16th to 14th!
Marisa Howard was a bit of a surprise in 4th.
Her time of 9:37.84 moves her from 13th to 6th on the A-T Collegiate list!
She also enters the US list, at 18th!
Erin Teschuk, a Canadian, finished 5th, running 9:42.15.
She moves from 16th to 12th on the A-T Collegiate list!
Right behind her came Rachel Johnson, whose time of 9:42.93, moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate up to 13th!
Well, that's it from the NCAA's!
But I have LOTS more to report to you!
This weekend has been....and continues to be!....VERY busy with quality Track and Field!!
Earlier this week, there was the Oslo DL, the Bislett Games.
And earlier today, there was the New York DL.
Tonight and tomorrow, there's the Portland Track Festival, which has some top name runners.
Consider it sort of a Minor League Payton Jordan.
There's also the HS meet, the Golden West Invitational!
But this post is long enough.
Besides, I want to wait for the end of the Portland meet before I post again.
I now have SEVERAL pages of Records and Marks to report!
I'll almost certainly have a couple or three more by tomorrow night.
So expect another LONG post either late tomorrow night or very early Monday morning, FILLED with news from our favorite sport!
See you then!
Did you read both of my NCAA Preview posts?
See how many I was RIGHT on?
If I do say so myself.....blah, blah, blah!!
That said, let's see how the athletes themselves did.
In a city overrun (pun intended!) with distance runners, and a whole history of collegiate and professional track and field to back it up, TrackTownUSA came through most...in the sprints!
Only the wind prevented some SUPER fast times from entering my Record Book.
But there were enough LEGAL times to satisfy.
After seeing what Canadian Andre De Grasse did, I posted one of my best-ever puns on the T&FN MB.
I said....
"Andre didn't let De GRASSe grow under his feet!"
Okay, now that you've stopped laughing, I'll tell you what he did.
How about a 9.75 in the 100.
Add to that a 19.58....NOT a typo!....in the 200.
So the winds were past the legal limit.
So what!
This was the fastest one-day sprint double in all of Collegiate history...and yes, WORLD history!
And to add to the amazement, he beat (in both races!) the pre-meet favorite, Trayvon Bromell.
He didn't exactly roll over and play dead, either, as he ran 9.88 and 19.86.
But this blog is about Records, so let's look at some LEGAL sprint times.
In the Women's 200, a foursome of Dezerea Bryant, Jenna Prandini, Kamaria Brown, and Kyra Jefferson rewrote my Collegiate AND United States DDD's!
Bryant won, running 22.18.
She moves from 21st A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, all the way up to 2nd!
Only the altitude-aided CR of Dawn Sowell (22.04) is better!
She also became 16th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Prandini's time of 22.21 moves her from 18th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, up to 4th!
She also enters the A-T US list, in 20th!
Kamaria Brown's 22.24 makes her 6th A-T Collegiate.
She's also new to the A-T US list, in 23rd, tied with 1 other.
That "1 other" is Kyra Jefferson, who also ran 22.24.
This ties the Collegiate Soph Class record!
But there's also bad news....of a sort.
You see, because so many came ON the list, Jefferson, who was already ON the list (with her previous PR of 22.26, which she TIED in her prelim race!), dropped 1 spot, going from 4th to 5th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She also entered the A-T US list in 23rd, tied with Brown!
Also, in her heat, Aaliyah Brown sprinted the 100 in 11.08, which makes her 23rd A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others.
Returning to the Men, there WERE some legal sprint times.
In the prelims, Bromell sprinted the 100 in 9.90 with a wind of 1.7.
This moves him from 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others, to 2nd.
He also becomes 12th A-T US!
But there's more!
He nabbed the Collegiate Soph Class record.
AND the Age 19 record!
That's the WORLD Age 19 record!
In his 200 heat, he ran 20.03, with the max-allowable wind of 2.0.
This makes him 12th A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
Not bad for a guy who LOST both finals!!
The horizontal jumps, both Men's and Women's, did battle with the Hayward winds too.
But there were, nonetheless, some REALLY GREAT (legal) marks.
Marquis Dendy nabbed a "Dendy Double", winning both the LJ and TJ.
But it was in the LJ where he shined.
His best mark was a windy 27-8.
But he got a legal jump of 27-4.50 too.
This makes him 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Jarrion Lawson, though finishing 2nd, also had a legal 27-4.50 LJ.
He's also 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with Dendy!
Keturah Orji entered another phase of her rise to the top of American female TJ'ing.
INdoors, she exploded into the 45 foot world.....BIG time!....as she ALMOST reached 46 feet!
Well, she entered THAT world in Eugene.
Her winning jump of 46-5.25 becomes the Collegiate Frosh Class record!
She's less than 4 inches from the Collegiate Record!
She moves from 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 4th, also tied with 1 other.
She also moves from 20th A-T US, tied with 3 others, all the way to 9th!
Orji's main rival was supposed to be Ciarra Brewer, but Brewer fouled her 3 prelim jumps!
In the Women's LJ, though won by Quenesha Burks, it was a couple of legal jumps by Jenna Prandini and Sha'Keela Saunders that made my Record Book.
Prandini's jump of 22-3.75 makes her 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Saunders's 22-1.75 makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others.
The Women's Throws produced several good marks.
Irena Sediva won the JT, as expected.
Her throw of 192-9, a four inch PR, did NOT move her up my list.
She remains 9th A-T Collegiate.
But Hannah Carson, who finished 2nd, continued her upward momentum.
Her mark of 189-4 moves her from 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 12th.
DeAnna Price shocked everyone, including the favorites Brooke Pleger and Julia Ratcliffe, in the HT.
She exploded out to 234-6 on her final throw!!
This broke the NCAA Meet Record!
It moves her from 20th A-T Collegiate all the way to 3rd!
And it makes her 9th A-T US!!
The Shot Put favorite was Raven Saunders.
But with a few meets during both the INdoor and OUTdoor seasons, where she performed relatively poorly, seeing her not in 1st after 5 rounds made folks nervous.
But Saunders has proven one thing in her career, and maybe particularly in her Freshman year at Southern Illinois.
She COMES THROUGH when it counts!!
And did she ever!
Her final toss went out 60-2.50!
This broke her own Collegiate Frosh Class record, and was her first OUTdoor 60 footer!
She moves from 13th A-T Collegiate up to 9th, tied with 1 other.
She also finally enters the US list, at 23rd, tied with 1 other.
Kelsey Card also PR'ed, out to 58-11.25.
She's now 21st A-T Collegiate!
While I'm with the Throws, the Men produced a few good marks too.
As expected, Conor McCullough nabbed the HT win, throwing it a PR distance of 252-4.
But he remains 7th A-T Collegiate.
Sam Crouser threw the Javelin 259-9.
He moves from 24th A-T Collegiate to 20th.
And Jonathon Jones surprised Crouser's brother Ryan, winning the SP with a PR toss of 68-2.25.
But he remains 23rd A-T Collegiate.
The two Multi's were good battles, and produced a few surprises.
The Decathlon was won, as expected, by Maicel Uibo.
He got a PR of 8356 points, adding 30 to his previous total.
But he remains 4th A-T Collegiate.
The shocker on the Men's side was Pau Tonnesen!
While he wasn't unknown, he produced a big PR total of 8247 points in 2nd.
He becomes 9th A-T Collegiate.
The Women's Heptathlon also produced some shocks.
Erica Bougard, pretty much the consensus favorite coming in, had a relatively poor day, scoring "only" 6050 points, 200 down from her best!
So Akela Jones took the reins, and rode the horse all the way to the top of the podium!
Her massive PR of 6371 points moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate all the way up to 4th.
She also gets the National Record of Barbados!
Kendell Williams keeps on keeping on.
Her point total 6223 gained over 200 points over her previous best!
She moves from 21st A-T Collegiate up to 6th!
And she becomes 19th A-T US!
But I saved the best for last!
She nabbed the Collegiate Soph Class Record.
So you're saying.....That's the BEST???
YES!!
Because she now holds EVERY Class Record from the 9th Grade of HS up through her Soph year of College!
That's SIX CONSECUTIVE years of holding Class Records!!
IF....and it's a qualified IF, because she MIGHT turn Pro before she leaves College!....IF she continues attending Georgia, she COULD wind up holding ALL EIGHT Class Records, which would be a first!!
(Amy Acuff once held all 4 HS Class Records in the HJ, but none in College!)
Next in line was Quintunya Chapman, whose 6147 point total was a ONE point PR!!
While that's good news, it resulted in some BAD news!
Because of Jones's and Williams's rise, Chapman fell!
She moves DOWN the A-T Collegiate list, from 8th to 10th!
She also loses a spot on the A-T US list, dropping from 23rd to 24th!
The 100H was won by Kendra Harrison in 12.55.
But the two who finished 2nd and 3rd had times that altered a few lines in my Record Book!
Cindi Ofili, sister of Tiffany (Ofili) Porter, former US citizen, now a British hurdler, was 2nd in 12.60, a super PR.
She becomes 4th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She also becomes 21st A-T US.
BTW, someone on the T&FN Message Board suggested that she MIGHT follow her sister to Great Britain!
Jon Mulkeen tweeted that Tiffany's and Cindy's combined 100H times are now the best-ever by sisters!
The old record was held by the sisters Kallur, led by Susanna.
Third was Dior Hall's 12.74.
She's another spectacular Freshman who keeps getting better.
She broke her own Collegiate Frosh Class record, this time by 0.15 seconds!
She becomes 19th A-T Collegiate.
But even more important, she is now the WORLD Age 19 record holder.
In fact, she's the best Under-20 EVER!!
Speaking of outstanding Freshmen, the Women's 800 produced somewhat of an upset.
Raevyn Rogers scored 10 big points for the victorious Ducks (They won both the Men's and Women's Team battles!).
Her time of 1:59.71 makes her 4th on the A-T Collegiate list!
She also breaks---no, SHATTERS!---her own Collegiate Frosh Class record.
It had been 2:01.57!
Remember my "brag" at the beginning of this post?
Well, I'm probably most proud of being right on this one, as i not only predicted Rogers could win the race, but that she ALSO could dip under the 2 minute barrier!
(Thanks, Raevyn!! LOL)
But 2 others changed my list with fast times.
Claudia Saunders of Stanford came in 2nd, her time being 2:00.63.
She's now 10th A-T Collegiate.
And Hanna Green ran 2:01.17, making her 20th A-T Collegiate!
The Women's 400H was a good race too.
Shamier Little used her flat 400 speed (in the 51's) to run 53.74 for the win.
This is the new Collegiate Soph Class record!
It moves her from 16th A-T Collegiate up to 4th!
And she becomes 12th A-T US!!
Kendra Harrison doubled in the 400H. (See above for her win in the 100H!)
Her 2nd place mark of 54.09 moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate up to 5th.
She also becomes 14th A-T US.
Moved OFF my Collegiate DDD was a biggie!
Kendra's namesake, Queen Harrison, is no longer on the list!
Her time dated from 2010.
The Women's HJ didn't go very high!
But Kimberly Williamson, who took 2nd, jumped 6-2.75, making her 23rd A-T Collegiate, tied with 6 (!) others!
The other Women's vertical jump, the PV, was maybe the featured event of the whole meet in the days before.
And the event's two biggest stars came through for their teams, for the enthusiastic Hayward crowd, and for a truly historic legacy!
Demi Payne beat Sandi Morris, 15-5 to 15-3.
No PR's.
No CR's.
No Class Records.
Just a whole lot of CLASS!!
Payne's win DID get her the NCAA Meet Record.
But that record, held by a FEW women at 14-7.25, was pretty much GONE even before the event began!
We all KNEW that record had ZERO chance of survival!
The two women played a little passing game, but they were pretty much perfect all the way to their ending heights.
Payne then tried 3 times at 15-7, which would have been the OUTdoor CR, but she missed all 3.
Two others made the Women's PV what it was.
Stephanie Richartz, also having her best year, went over 14-7.25.
She's now 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others.
And in a bit of a surprise, University of Washington's Kristina Owsinski went over the bar set at 14-5.25.
She's 23rd A-T Collegiate, but tied with 6 others!
Duke's Megan Clark, one of the expected Top 5, No Heighted!!
Desiree Freier tied her best vault of the year, going over 14-3.25.
I'll close with a couple of Women's distrance events, the 1500 and the 3000SC.
But first, let me "editorialize" just a little bit!
I'm NOT reporting any MEN's distance events fior a good reason.
As my blog is all about Records and Top 24 marks, well, there were NONE to report from the Men!
As expected, the Ducks Ed Cheserek and Eric Jenkins went 1-2 in both the 5000 and 10000 meters!
The times weren't EXCRUCIATINGLY slow....but they might as well have been.
Those two guys are EXCELLENT runners, fully capable of WORLD CLASS times!!
But they came nowhere near World Class!
In fact, their times weren't even respectable on the AVERAGE Collegiate level!!
I know the drill.
In Championship meets, you run for Medals and/or Points, NOT to break records!
Okay, I understand.
I just don't LIKE it!!
In fact, I HATE it!!
But it wasn't all Ches's and Eric's fault.
The 3000SC was won in 8:32 or so..
The 800 was taken in....about 1:48.
And the 1500?
Don't ask!!!
Oh Hell, I'll tell you anyway!
Let's put it this way.
If Genzebe Dibaba had been running her 3:55.17 INdoor WR in this race, she would have finished FOURTH!!!
Their last lap was about 52, but who cares!!!
It was a crying SHAME!!
But hold your stones!!
Because the WOMEN (for the most part!) saved the day!
Their 10K wasn't too special, well over 33 minutes, won by Molly Seidel in a bit of a shocker, and the 5000 was good, with Emily Sisson pulling away in the final 3 laps, then cruising in with a slow 75 last lap for the win in about 15:34.
But while those times weren't much higher quality than what the two Ducks ran, they were made up for by the 1500 and Steeplechase.
Rhianwedd Price came in with the fastest seed time, but Shelby Houlihan was still the favorite.
And they didn't waste time.
Coming through 1100 meters in 3:06+, they then sprinted the final 400 in about 63's, with Price winning in 4:09.56 over Houlihan's 4:09.67.
They both found themselves on the A-T Collegiate list, Price in 13th, and Houlihan in 14th.
But it was the Steeple that REALLY demonstrated for the men how a race SHOULD be run!!
Hitting fifth gear from the gun, they ran a truly competitive.....but FAST.....race throughout.
Why?
Because they knew their competitors had some wheels, and they wanted to make sure those wheels lost enough tread to keep them from a strong finish.
It was a battle to see who was toughest!
Mr Steven Prefontaine would have LOVED it!!
In the end, it was Colleen Quigley who broke the tape first, running an excellent 9:29.32.
This moves her from 4th to 3rd on the A-T Collegiate list.
It also moves her from 13th A-T US to 9th, tied with 1 other.
Only Jenny (Barringer) Simpson and Emma Coburn are ahead of her on the Collegiate list!
That is CLASSY company!!
Also getting a PR was Courtney Frerichs, who ran 9:31.36.
But despite a PR of 0.76 seconds, she FELL from 3rd to 4th on the Collegiate list!!
She also fell DOWN on the US list!
She went from 12th to 13th on the latter list!
Leah O'Connor, who started the race as the slight favorite, finished 3rd in the PR time of 9:33.38.
But she remains 5th A-T Collegiate.
However, she does move up two spots on the US list, from 16th to 14th!
Marisa Howard was a bit of a surprise in 4th.
Her time of 9:37.84 moves her from 13th to 6th on the A-T Collegiate list!
She also enters the US list, at 18th!
Erin Teschuk, a Canadian, finished 5th, running 9:42.15.
She moves from 16th to 12th on the A-T Collegiate list!
Right behind her came Rachel Johnson, whose time of 9:42.93, moves her from 17th A-T Collegiate up to 13th!
Well, that's it from the NCAA's!
But I have LOTS more to report to you!
This weekend has been....and continues to be!....VERY busy with quality Track and Field!!
Earlier this week, there was the Oslo DL, the Bislett Games.
And earlier today, there was the New York DL.
Tonight and tomorrow, there's the Portland Track Festival, which has some top name runners.
Consider it sort of a Minor League Payton Jordan.
There's also the HS meet, the Golden West Invitational!
But this post is long enough.
Besides, I want to wait for the end of the Portland meet before I post again.
I now have SEVERAL pages of Records and Marks to report!
I'll almost certainly have a couple or three more by tomorrow night.
So expect another LONG post either late tomorrow night or very early Monday morning, FILLED with news from our favorite sport!
See you then!
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
2015 OUTdoor NCAA Preview--Women
I'll use the same format for the Women.
See my Men's preview for all the format details.
So, without further ado.....!!
Women
100 (MR 10.78) (24th A-T Collegiate 11.08)
That 10.78 is an outlier if ever there was one!
Absolutely SAFE!!
(But how I would LOVE to be wrong!!)
That said, Ducks Jenna Prandini and Jasmine Todd are probably the favorites.
I said "probably" because,the Collegiate sprint depth is impressive this year.
Besides Prandini and Morolake Akinosun, both of whom are on my Top 24 list, other speedy women include Cierra White, Ky Westbrook, Cindy Ofili, Aliyah Brown, Ashton Purvis, Dezerea Bryant, and Jennifer Madu.
200 (MR 22.04) (24th A-T Collegiate 22.48)
Dawn Sowell had quite the meet back in 1989!
So unless Kyra Jefferson has another HUGE PR hidden away somewhere (as when she recently ran 22.26!), I believe the MR will remain Ms Sowell's.
But Jefferson will have to do battle with basically the same slate of women she will in the 100.
Thus, look for Prandini, White, Purvis, Westbrook, Akinosun, Bryant to be close.
Add Kamaria Brown to the mix for good measure!
Prandini, Jefferson, and Bryant are on my list already.
400 (MR 50.10) (24th A-T Collegiate 50.87)
Few have broken 51 so far this year Collegiately.
One who has was a shocker.
Shakima Wimbley had a great double at her Conference, 22.43 in the 200 and 50.84 in the 400.
With speed like that, she COULD approach the 50 second barrier.
But I believe she'll have to wait a year....or somehow get into a DL race against the Big Girls!
Ashley Spencer, Kendell Baisden, and Taylor Ellis-Watson will give her a good battle.
Baisden, Wimbley, and Spencer are on my list.
800 (MR 1:59.11) (24th A-T Collegiate 2:01.43)
The MR will remain Suzy's. (Do you REALLY need her last name??)
But don't be surprised if speedy Raevyn Rogers (She can run 52 for 400!) edges below 2:00.
Probably up to whether she goes for time, or just for the win.
Natoya Goule HAS hit the 1:59's, but I think this is Rogers's year.
Other possible list entries are Sabrina Southerland, Claudia Saunders, Brooke Feldmeier, and Hanna Green.
1500 (MR 4:06.19) (24th A-T Collegiate 4:10.79)
The talent is there for a FAST time---even to the level of the MR!
But as with most distance races in Championship settings, it's more likely to be tactical---i.e. jog and kick!
So the talents of Shelby Houlihan and Elise Cranny are likely to be kept in the closet in Eugene.
But can they go sub-4:10---even in a tactical race?
Sure.
The talent is there.
Look for Rhianwedd Price, Katrina Coogan, Sara Sutherland, Rosie Clarke, Angel Piccirillo, Natalya Piluisina, and Stephanie Schappert to give chase.
No one in the field is on my list.
If no one makes it here, it will be a sad day indeed!
5000 (MR 15:15.08) (24th A-T Collegiate 15:30.60)
This, even more than in the 1500, has candidates able to attack the MR with some degree of realistic ambition.
The question is the same as for the Men--WILL they jog the first 4600 meters, or will they RUN a RACE??
If the latter, pick and choose from among Emily Sisson, Jess Tonn, Kate Avery, Dominique Scott, Erin Finn, Rachele Schulist, Shelby Houlihan, Liv Westphal, Bethan Knights, Maddie Meyers, and Emma Bates!
Only Tonn, Avery, and Finn are currently on my list!
ALL of the others CAN join them!!
(But most won't!!)
10000 (MR 32:28.57) (24th A-T Collegiate 32:32.75.)
And here we go again---same story as in the 5K!
Lots of candidates, but who's gonna RUN??
(Be more folks running for PRESIDENT than running for fast times here!! LOL)
If I'm wrong, watch for that MR to be slashed to pieces!
(BTW, I saw that race back in 1998!!)
The favorites are probably Dominique Scott and Emma Bates.
But watch also for Molly Seidel, Waverly Neer, Chelsea Blaase, Elvin Kibet, Katy Moen, Laura Nagel, and Alice Wright.
Bates and Scott are on the list.
(Avery is too, but she's not doubling, apparently.)
3000SC (MR 9:25.54) (24th A-T Collegiate 9:49.01)
The MR COULD go down!
The operative word is "COULD"!
The talent and potential for a MR (and Collegiate Record!) are there!
You have Leah O'Connor, Courtney Frerichs, Colleen Quigley, Rachel Johnson, and Erin Teschuk---for starters.
One person to watch might be Lipscomb University's Maddie Talbert, who ran 9:50 in her first sub-10 at her Regional.
There are several of the entrants already on my list.
Talbert, among others, could be added!
100H (MR 12.39) (24th A-T Collegiate 12.79)
Kendra Harrison, with a 12.50 PR, should be the clear favorite.
But as was proven in the Rome disaster, anything can happen in the sprint hurdles!
If all are left standing at the finish line, watch for Dior Hall, Bridgette Owens, and Morgan Snow to give chase, with the biggest breakthrough to come from Hall!
Another to watch is Oregon's Sasha Wallace, who will have the Hayward crowd propelling her forward!
Only Owens and Harrison are on my list.
400H (MR 53.21) (24th A-T Collegiate 55.12)
The MR is VERY safe!
Shamier Little may have 53 second potential, but I strongly doubt she's there yet!
However, her open 400 speed gives her the clear advantage here.
But Kendra Harrison is doing both Hurdles races, so watch for her!
Their PR's are just 0.08 seconds apart!!
HJ (MR 6-5) (24th A-T Collegiate 6-2.75)
One of the two favorites--Jeasnnelle Scheper--has a PR equal to the Meet Record!
So if she just matches it, she'll TIE the record!
One inch behind her is Greece National Record holder Leontia Kallenou.
Behind those 2, the field is pretty weak!
They're already on the list.
The Collegiate Record of 6-6.25 might even fall----or the bar will!! LOL
LJ (MR 22-9.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 21-11)
Quenelle Burks has the best mark this year (22-5.25).
But watch for the Ducks Jasmine Todd and Jenna Prandini.
Also watch for Super Frosh Keturah Orji, although she's better in the Triple Jump!
Only Burks is currently on my list.
TJ (MR 46-7.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 45-0.25)
As noted in my LJ preview, Keturah Orji is far better in the TJ than in the LJ.
She's just shy of the 46 foot barrier, and could easily get it here.
But Ciarra Brewer should give her hot pursuit!
Both are in the Top 24!
I doubt anyone else will join them!
PV (MR 14-7.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 14-5.25)
Take a close look at that MR.
Then kiss it BYE BYE!!
Demi Payne has gone almost a whole foot higher!
And Sandi Morris isn't far behind.
I won't repeat their competitive history.
Just re-read all my posts from this year, INdoors and OUTdoors!
But this COULD be the Ali-Frazier PV Fight of the Century!!
If either of them should have a bad day (and both HAVE had bad days, relatively speaking!), keep your eyes on Megan Clark, Stephanie Richartz, Annie Rhodes, Carolina Carmichael, and Desiree Freier!
This is the Year of the Vault--and the Collegiate Women are right at the forefront!
SP (MR 62-0.50) (24th A-T Collegiate 58-6.50)
If this is the best year in Collegiate Women's Pole Vaulting, their collective weight (pun intended!!) in the Shot Put is a clear second!
Just as Morris and Payne have done battle in the PV, so have--though to a lesser extent!--Tori Bliss and Raven Saunders in the SP.
Each have had bad days, but each have had spectacular days too!
Bliss leads Saunders OUTdoors by over 10 inches.
But Saunders has the better PR, her INdoors 61-1.25.
Saunders, if either of them do, probably has the better shot at the MR, as she often improves her PR's by a foot or more!
Jill Rushin, Christina Hillman, Kelsey Card, and Brittany Mann of Oregon will probably make the final 8.
DT (MR 210-10) (24th A-T Collegiate 196-7)
Shelbi Vaughan is the clear favorite---not only for the win, but for the MR too.
Kiah Hicks is also on my Top 24 list, but she's about 15 feet behind Vaughan!
JT (MR 202-10) (24th A-T Collegiate 183-5)
Irena Sediva has the best mark this season so far, at 192-5.
But not far behind are Hannah Carson, Fawn Miller, and Elizabeth Herrs.
All of the above named are currently listed!
And as noted in the Men's Preview, the JT is unpredictable.
So watch for that UNEXPECTED big throw!
HT (MR 232-0) (24th A-T Collegiate 220-6)
Julia Ratcliffe threw 230-7 last year for the Collegiate lead AND the National Record of New Zealand.
She hasn't been as hot this year, thus leveling the playing field a bit!
Enter Brook Pleger, this year's leader at about 228-9.
Deanna Price and Daina Levy are also both on my list.
Kiah Hicks, Jillian Weir, and Kearsten Peoples are others to watch.
Weir is on the list too.
Hept (MR 6527) (24th A-T Collegiate 6003)
Here's yet ANOTHER Women's event that is DEEP!!
While Erica Bougard seems to be the consensus favorite going in, you can NOT overlook a long list of wannabe's!
Kendell Williams, Jess Herauf, Alex Gochenour, Lindsay Vollmer, Jena Hemann, Quintunya Chapman, Akela Jones, and Xenia Rahn!!
Seven of the NCAA entrants are now on my list!
But the MR (and CR!) are safe!
4X100R (MR 42.36) (24th A-T Collegiate 43.60)
As with the Men's Relays, I'm not familiar with each team's members.
But with all the great sprinters around, I wouldn't be surprised to see a time in the 42's for the winner.
How close they can get to that 42.36 is a very good question---that I have no answers for!
That said, watch for the UO (if they enter a team!), LSU, Florida, Kentucky, Texas, and Texas A&M to do battle.
Kentucky and Florida are on my list with times from 2015.
4X400R (MR 3:24.21) (24th A-T Collegiate 3:29.41)
With the Team winner possibly still undecided at this point, this could be an all-out WAR in the final!
USC, Arkansas, Florida State, Kentucky, Clemson, LSU, and Florida are the teams most likely to be there at the end.
Clemson, Ohio State, and USC all have 2015 marks on my list!
And that's a wrap, folks!
Enjoy the meet!
Since there's so much happening this weekend (besides the NCAA meet!!!), I'll be having MULTIPLE results posts---although I won't have any until Saturday (the NCAA's!!).
See you then!
See my Men's preview for all the format details.
So, without further ado.....!!
Women
100 (MR 10.78) (24th A-T Collegiate 11.08)
That 10.78 is an outlier if ever there was one!
Absolutely SAFE!!
(But how I would LOVE to be wrong!!)
That said, Ducks Jenna Prandini and Jasmine Todd are probably the favorites.
I said "probably" because,the Collegiate sprint depth is impressive this year.
Besides Prandini and Morolake Akinosun, both of whom are on my Top 24 list, other speedy women include Cierra White, Ky Westbrook, Cindy Ofili, Aliyah Brown, Ashton Purvis, Dezerea Bryant, and Jennifer Madu.
200 (MR 22.04) (24th A-T Collegiate 22.48)
Dawn Sowell had quite the meet back in 1989!
So unless Kyra Jefferson has another HUGE PR hidden away somewhere (as when she recently ran 22.26!), I believe the MR will remain Ms Sowell's.
But Jefferson will have to do battle with basically the same slate of women she will in the 100.
Thus, look for Prandini, White, Purvis, Westbrook, Akinosun, Bryant to be close.
Add Kamaria Brown to the mix for good measure!
Prandini, Jefferson, and Bryant are on my list already.
400 (MR 50.10) (24th A-T Collegiate 50.87)
Few have broken 51 so far this year Collegiately.
One who has was a shocker.
Shakima Wimbley had a great double at her Conference, 22.43 in the 200 and 50.84 in the 400.
With speed like that, she COULD approach the 50 second barrier.
But I believe she'll have to wait a year....or somehow get into a DL race against the Big Girls!
Ashley Spencer, Kendell Baisden, and Taylor Ellis-Watson will give her a good battle.
Baisden, Wimbley, and Spencer are on my list.
800 (MR 1:59.11) (24th A-T Collegiate 2:01.43)
The MR will remain Suzy's. (Do you REALLY need her last name??)
But don't be surprised if speedy Raevyn Rogers (She can run 52 for 400!) edges below 2:00.
Probably up to whether she goes for time, or just for the win.
Natoya Goule HAS hit the 1:59's, but I think this is Rogers's year.
Other possible list entries are Sabrina Southerland, Claudia Saunders, Brooke Feldmeier, and Hanna Green.
1500 (MR 4:06.19) (24th A-T Collegiate 4:10.79)
The talent is there for a FAST time---even to the level of the MR!
But as with most distance races in Championship settings, it's more likely to be tactical---i.e. jog and kick!
So the talents of Shelby Houlihan and Elise Cranny are likely to be kept in the closet in Eugene.
But can they go sub-4:10---even in a tactical race?
Sure.
The talent is there.
Look for Rhianwedd Price, Katrina Coogan, Sara Sutherland, Rosie Clarke, Angel Piccirillo, Natalya Piluisina, and Stephanie Schappert to give chase.
No one in the field is on my list.
If no one makes it here, it will be a sad day indeed!
5000 (MR 15:15.08) (24th A-T Collegiate 15:30.60)
This, even more than in the 1500, has candidates able to attack the MR with some degree of realistic ambition.
The question is the same as for the Men--WILL they jog the first 4600 meters, or will they RUN a RACE??
If the latter, pick and choose from among Emily Sisson, Jess Tonn, Kate Avery, Dominique Scott, Erin Finn, Rachele Schulist, Shelby Houlihan, Liv Westphal, Bethan Knights, Maddie Meyers, and Emma Bates!
Only Tonn, Avery, and Finn are currently on my list!
ALL of the others CAN join them!!
(But most won't!!)
10000 (MR 32:28.57) (24th A-T Collegiate 32:32.75.)
And here we go again---same story as in the 5K!
Lots of candidates, but who's gonna RUN??
(Be more folks running for PRESIDENT than running for fast times here!! LOL)
If I'm wrong, watch for that MR to be slashed to pieces!
(BTW, I saw that race back in 1998!!)
The favorites are probably Dominique Scott and Emma Bates.
But watch also for Molly Seidel, Waverly Neer, Chelsea Blaase, Elvin Kibet, Katy Moen, Laura Nagel, and Alice Wright.
Bates and Scott are on the list.
(Avery is too, but she's not doubling, apparently.)
3000SC (MR 9:25.54) (24th A-T Collegiate 9:49.01)
The MR COULD go down!
The operative word is "COULD"!
The talent and potential for a MR (and Collegiate Record!) are there!
You have Leah O'Connor, Courtney Frerichs, Colleen Quigley, Rachel Johnson, and Erin Teschuk---for starters.
One person to watch might be Lipscomb University's Maddie Talbert, who ran 9:50 in her first sub-10 at her Regional.
There are several of the entrants already on my list.
Talbert, among others, could be added!
100H (MR 12.39) (24th A-T Collegiate 12.79)
Kendra Harrison, with a 12.50 PR, should be the clear favorite.
But as was proven in the Rome disaster, anything can happen in the sprint hurdles!
If all are left standing at the finish line, watch for Dior Hall, Bridgette Owens, and Morgan Snow to give chase, with the biggest breakthrough to come from Hall!
Another to watch is Oregon's Sasha Wallace, who will have the Hayward crowd propelling her forward!
Only Owens and Harrison are on my list.
400H (MR 53.21) (24th A-T Collegiate 55.12)
The MR is VERY safe!
Shamier Little may have 53 second potential, but I strongly doubt she's there yet!
However, her open 400 speed gives her the clear advantage here.
But Kendra Harrison is doing both Hurdles races, so watch for her!
Their PR's are just 0.08 seconds apart!!
HJ (MR 6-5) (24th A-T Collegiate 6-2.75)
One of the two favorites--Jeasnnelle Scheper--has a PR equal to the Meet Record!
So if she just matches it, she'll TIE the record!
One inch behind her is Greece National Record holder Leontia Kallenou.
Behind those 2, the field is pretty weak!
They're already on the list.
The Collegiate Record of 6-6.25 might even fall----or the bar will!! LOL
LJ (MR 22-9.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 21-11)
Quenelle Burks has the best mark this year (22-5.25).
But watch for the Ducks Jasmine Todd and Jenna Prandini.
Also watch for Super Frosh Keturah Orji, although she's better in the Triple Jump!
Only Burks is currently on my list.
TJ (MR 46-7.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 45-0.25)
As noted in my LJ preview, Keturah Orji is far better in the TJ than in the LJ.
She's just shy of the 46 foot barrier, and could easily get it here.
But Ciarra Brewer should give her hot pursuit!
Both are in the Top 24!
I doubt anyone else will join them!
PV (MR 14-7.25) (24th A-T Collegiate 14-5.25)
Take a close look at that MR.
Then kiss it BYE BYE!!
Demi Payne has gone almost a whole foot higher!
And Sandi Morris isn't far behind.
I won't repeat their competitive history.
Just re-read all my posts from this year, INdoors and OUTdoors!
But this COULD be the Ali-Frazier PV Fight of the Century!!
If either of them should have a bad day (and both HAVE had bad days, relatively speaking!), keep your eyes on Megan Clark, Stephanie Richartz, Annie Rhodes, Carolina Carmichael, and Desiree Freier!
This is the Year of the Vault--and the Collegiate Women are right at the forefront!
SP (MR 62-0.50) (24th A-T Collegiate 58-6.50)
If this is the best year in Collegiate Women's Pole Vaulting, their collective weight (pun intended!!) in the Shot Put is a clear second!
Just as Morris and Payne have done battle in the PV, so have--though to a lesser extent!--Tori Bliss and Raven Saunders in the SP.
Each have had bad days, but each have had spectacular days too!
Bliss leads Saunders OUTdoors by over 10 inches.
But Saunders has the better PR, her INdoors 61-1.25.
Saunders, if either of them do, probably has the better shot at the MR, as she often improves her PR's by a foot or more!
Jill Rushin, Christina Hillman, Kelsey Card, and Brittany Mann of Oregon will probably make the final 8.
DT (MR 210-10) (24th A-T Collegiate 196-7)
Shelbi Vaughan is the clear favorite---not only for the win, but for the MR too.
Kiah Hicks is also on my Top 24 list, but she's about 15 feet behind Vaughan!
JT (MR 202-10) (24th A-T Collegiate 183-5)
Irena Sediva has the best mark this season so far, at 192-5.
But not far behind are Hannah Carson, Fawn Miller, and Elizabeth Herrs.
All of the above named are currently listed!
And as noted in the Men's Preview, the JT is unpredictable.
So watch for that UNEXPECTED big throw!
HT (MR 232-0) (24th A-T Collegiate 220-6)
Julia Ratcliffe threw 230-7 last year for the Collegiate lead AND the National Record of New Zealand.
She hasn't been as hot this year, thus leveling the playing field a bit!
Enter Brook Pleger, this year's leader at about 228-9.
Deanna Price and Daina Levy are also both on my list.
Kiah Hicks, Jillian Weir, and Kearsten Peoples are others to watch.
Weir is on the list too.
Hept (MR 6527) (24th A-T Collegiate 6003)
Here's yet ANOTHER Women's event that is DEEP!!
While Erica Bougard seems to be the consensus favorite going in, you can NOT overlook a long list of wannabe's!
Kendell Williams, Jess Herauf, Alex Gochenour, Lindsay Vollmer, Jena Hemann, Quintunya Chapman, Akela Jones, and Xenia Rahn!!
Seven of the NCAA entrants are now on my list!
But the MR (and CR!) are safe!
4X100R (MR 42.36) (24th A-T Collegiate 43.60)
As with the Men's Relays, I'm not familiar with each team's members.
But with all the great sprinters around, I wouldn't be surprised to see a time in the 42's for the winner.
How close they can get to that 42.36 is a very good question---that I have no answers for!
That said, watch for the UO (if they enter a team!), LSU, Florida, Kentucky, Texas, and Texas A&M to do battle.
Kentucky and Florida are on my list with times from 2015.
4X400R (MR 3:24.21) (24th A-T Collegiate 3:29.41)
With the Team winner possibly still undecided at this point, this could be an all-out WAR in the final!
USC, Arkansas, Florida State, Kentucky, Clemson, LSU, and Florida are the teams most likely to be there at the end.
Clemson, Ohio State, and USC all have 2015 marks on my list!
And that's a wrap, folks!
Enjoy the meet!
Since there's so much happening this weekend (besides the NCAA meet!!!), I'll be having MULTIPLE results posts---although I won't have any until Saturday (the NCAA's!!).
See you then!
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