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!
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