For most fans of Collegiate T&F, it's "Rah Rah Rah for the Home Team!".
All the individual athletes do is score points for their team, to help make them Conference Champion, and maybe later, National Champion!
Not here, not me!
In this blog, my ONLY interest is how fast an athlete runs, how far they throw things, and how high or far they jump!
Points? Blah!
Team winners? Sorry!
As the following will show, there's more than enough news of Top 24 A-T Marks and all sorts of Records broken to keep me--and my millions of readers (Snicker!)--busy!
And none were more remarkable---or least shocking (To me, at least!)--than Keturah Orji's MASSIVE leap forward in the Triple Jump!
Yes, it was wind-aided, but this is SERIOUS, folks!!
The startlingly talented Georgia Soph TJ'ed 47-11 to win the SEC title!
It had a 2.9 wind, but if legal, would have broken the American Record by 6 inches!
As it turned out, her earlier jump of 46-6.75 was legal, and an OUTdoor PR!
(That was more than a foot and a half ahead of the 2nd placer!! The 47-11 was almost 3 feet ahead!!)
It;s the SEC Meet Record.
It moves her from 4th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others, to 4th, but with no ties!!
She also moves from 9th to 7th A-T US!
Watch this woman fly!
A LEGAL 47-11 isn't out of reach!
BTW, that 2nd placer was Simone Charley, whose 45-0.50 gave her 24th place on the A-T Collegiate list, tied with 3 others!
Once again, Field events were strong across the board.
Kelsey Card continued to rack up street cred.
She nabbed TWO Big 10 Meet Records.
Her DT mark of 204-2 was a PR, and moves her up one spot on the Collegiate list, from 11th to 10th.
She remains 18th on the US list!
While not a PR, her SP mark of 59-9.50 got the MR.
The SEC Women's JT winner was Maggie Malone, her 195-2 the new Meet Record.
Behind her, Marija Kucenovic's 189-8 moves her from 20th A-T Collegiate to 18th.
Malone's mark wasn't a PR.
Raven Saunders totally dominated the SEC Shot Put, her winning mark of 60-11.50 another Meet Record!
In the Big 12 meet, Avione Allgood upset favored Hannah Carson, her JT mark of 192-11 good for the MR!
She moves from 15th to 11th on TWO different lists---the US and Collegiate DDD's!
Carson wasn't able to get past 186 feet!
While not a MR, or any record my T&F Record Book is normally concerned with, I must mention the Men's PV results at the ACC meet!
Virginia Tech's Men took the first SEVEN places!!
Their marks ranged from the winning 17-7.25 down to 7th placer 16-7.50!!
On the normal scoring system, that means they scored 38 points for VT!!!
Lexi Weeks zoomed over the PV bar set at 15-0---a non-PR, but enough to win the SEC.
She missed her 3 tries at 15-6.25!
The ACC saw a mild upset in their Women's PV, as Alysha Newman's clearance at 14-7.50 beat Duke's Megan Clark's best of 14-3.50!
In one of the lesser known Conferences, Morgann LeLeux continued her strong 2016 season, PR'ing slightly to 14-10.
She remains 9th A-T Collegiate, but becomes 24th A-T US, tied with 1 other!!
She missed her 3 attempts at 15-1.
Annie Rhodes won the Big 12 meet with a non-PR Vault of 14-5.50.
Finally (in the PV, that is!), Sydney Clute PR'ed at 14-6 to win the Big 10 meet, and get its Meet Record!!
She misses my Collegiate DDD by just 0.75 inches!!
Akela Jones's non-PR LJ of 22-1.75 gave her the Meet Record at the Big 12.
Der-Reme Freeman's 21-5.50 LJ gave her the ACC Meet Record.
Tierra Williams got the Big 10 MR with her TJ of 44-6.
Kellion Knibb nabbed the ACC Meet Record in the DT with her non-PR distance of 198-11.
Nick Miller, a British Hammer Thrower, got the Big 12 MR with his 245-5.
He moves from 17th to 13th on the A-T Collegiate list!
Stefan Brits---who I assume is NOT a Brit!! (pun intended!!)--LJ'ed 26-11.75 for the Meet Record of the ACC.
It also makes him 24th A-T Collegiate!
Nick Scarvelis's SP mark of 67-4.75 won the PAC 12, but fell 2.25 inches short of the Collegiate Top 24 Performers list--my DDD thingy!!
Finally--in the field events!--Avion Jones HJ'ed a US and Collegiate leading 7-7.
He's an East Carolina athlete.
This makes him 21st A-T Collegiate, tied with 6 others!!
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is having HER year in the 100H.
Her SEC heat time of 12.80 missed the Collegiate Frosh Class record of Dior Hall by just 0.06 seconds, and missed the Collegiate DDD by 0.03!!
But not to worry!
She proceeded to win the final in a Frosh Class record time of 12.69, helped not much by a wind of 0.7.
It also got her the Age 19 record, as she won't turn 20 until August 21st!
It makes her 12th A-T Collegiate!
But she falls 0.06 short of the US list!!
Devon Allen ran a PAC 12 Meet Record--in his HEAT!!
His 110H time of 13.32 makes him 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
In the 400H, Shamier Little's non-PR time of 54.72 easily took the SEC title, but not the MR!!
Eric Futch ran 49.24, but can't remember where!
Alexis Franklin got the Big 10 MR by winning in 55.66.
In other sprint action, Felicia Brown won her SEC 200 heat in a speedy 22.19.
Too bad it had a 2.6 wind attached to it!!
Then, in the final---AGAINST a wind of 1.3!!--she ran 22.26!!
This makes her 8th A-T Collegiate!
She misses the US list by a mere 0.03 seconds!!
(It shows the strength of the SEC that it's NOT a Meet Record!!)
Taylor Ellis-Watson moved down in distance to finish 2nd in 22.48.
She misses the Collegiate DDD by that self-same 0.03 seconds!!
Jada Martin's 22.60 was 3rd!
But Ellis-Watson won the SEC 400 in a non-PR 50.81.
Felicia Majors was 2nd in 51.29.
Nathaneel Mitchell-Blake blazed a 19.95 in his 200 race, wind of 0.4.
This makes him 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
It also places him 2nd on the A-T list of Great Britain, according to a source!
Renard Howell was 2nd in 20.15.
Howell misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.05 seconds!
Hannah Cunliffe had a solid meet at the PAC 12.
She won the 100 and 200, her fastest 100 coming in the heats--11.08.
Her 200 was a PR, her 22.49 being run INTO a wind of 1.1.
The longer distance is the PAC 12 Meet Record!
She misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.04!!
She also ran on UO's 4X100 Relay winner of 42.71.
That was another Meet Record!!
BTW, Jasmine Todd didn't qualify for the final, finishing 10th overall in the 100 heats, time of 11.59.
As an aside, I'm willing to lay 75-25 odds that Ms Cunliffe follows the path set by Jenna Prandini last year, when, after a super successful year of sprinting for the Ducks, she signed a Pro contract immediately following the NCAA meet!!
I'm getting the sense that Cunliffe is thinking along the same lines!
She's already stated she's trying to compete for Italy in Rio, claiming some Great-Great-something or other had Italian roots!!
I've followed her on Twitter since her HS days, and I must say, she's a strange beautiful woman!!
Shakima Wimbley missed both of HER ACC Meet Records (!!), but won the 200 and 400 with times of 22.56 and 50.90.
Margaret Bamghose took 2nd in the 400 with her 51.11.
Courtney Okolo breezed to an easy Big 12 win in the 400 with her 50.76.
Tevin Hester's 20.13 in the ACC 200 gave him the MR.
But he misses the Collegiate Top 24 Performers list by 0.03 seconds!!
While NOT a Collegian anymore, I should mention here that Fran McCorory took the Guadeloupe 400 in 50.73.
(For more on the Guadeloupe meet, see my previous post!!)
Some 4X400 Relays were good for Record Book consideration!
Miami's Women took the ACC Meet Record with their 3:30.61 winner.
LSU's Men got the SEC Meet Record with their 3:00.48 winner.
The Men of Nebraska ran 3:03.74 for the Big 10 MR!
Iowa's Women's team ran 3:31.22 for the Meet Record at the Big 10.
In the 4X100 Relay, LSU got the SEC Meet Record with their 38.33.
As per normal in Conference meets, the middle and long distance events didn't produce much in the Records and Marks departments!
But there were some interesting developments.
Ed Cheserek won the PAC 12 10000 in a tortoise-speed 28:58 and change.
Then something akin to UFO sightings in New Mexico in the 1940's developed in the 5000.
I checked the results, and I SWEAR I saw Ches's name in about 35th place (!!) with a time of about 14:41 in the 5K.
Then I looked again a couple of minutes later.
His name was GONE!!
Later, I saw a thread on this on the Let's Run Forum, most of the comments saying the same thing I just said---that his name WAS there, then it wasn't!!
Now, I know that UFO sightings are a very, um, personal thing---read up on ANY tale of their sightings!!--but when several L-R folks say the EXACT same thing, the "evidence" demands some answers!
Ken Goe doesn't mention it in his Oregonian column!
Several others INSIST he didn't even start the 5K!!
Anywayyyyy, it looks as though Cheserek may have his foot BACK in the door for the NCAA!
That said, his Washington foe Colby Gilbert (Remember, he defeated Ches awhile back in a 5K!!) won that PAC 12 5000 in a good 13:35.20, about a 9 second PR!
Katie Knight took the Women's 10K in Eugene in a MR time of 33:20.02!!
Colorado's Erin Clark took the PAC 12 3000SC in the MR time of 9:48.72.
It's a PR for her, but she misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.56 seconds!!
The SEC also saw its 3000SC MR fall.
Jessica Kamilos ran 9:48.16.
She's now 24th A-T collegiate!
Cornelia Griesche was 2nd in 9:51.66, while Devin Clark was 3rd in 9:54.83.
Megan Moye ran the fastest Collegiate 1500 of 2016, her 4:11.91 nabbing the ACC Meet Record!
BTW, that record belonged to one Shalane Flanagan, her record set in 2003!!
Sam Affolder--brother of Noah--ran 9:38.00 in the 3000SC for the HS Frosh Class record!!
The PAC 12 1500's were won by Elise Cranny (4:17.72) and Izaic Yorks (3:39.14).
But it was 2nd placer (in the Men's race) Matthew Maton who gave the race some juice!
His 3:39.97 in 2nd was a PR by a couple of seconds, maybe 3!!
The SEC Men's 800 was a good race, if not spectacularly fast!
Brandon McBride took the Gold with 1:45.68, while Hector Hernandez's 1:46.15 nipped Donovan Brazier's 1:46.19 for 2nd!
The ACC Women's 800 was also a good race.
Hanna Green ran 2:02.45, edging Anima Banks, who ran 2:02.50!
In a race of Professionals in the Portland Twilight meet, Kate Grace ran her first 800 in 2 years, winning in 2:00.05.
Second--in the PR time of 2:00.99--was Alexa Efraimson!!
Shelby Houlihan's 2:01.56 took 3rd, with Justine Fedronic's 2:01.99 in 4th!!
In a separate race, Jordan Hasay finished in 5th place with a sluggish 2:11.18.
I should mention here that Molly Seidel is out of the NCAA (and most likely, the Olympic Trials as well) with a sacral stress fracture!
The Multi's produced some good marks.
The best of those was Lindon Victor's AMAZING 1000 point PR (!!!!) in the Decathlon at the SEC!!
His point total of 8446 saw him PR in 7 or 8 of the 10 events, to also nab Kurt Felix's National Record of Grenada!!!
It makes him 4th A-T Collegiate!!
And his competition wasn't exactly a group of ragdolls!!
Maicel Uibo scored 8316, but wasn't a match for this out-of-nowhere attack!!
Devon Williams PR'ed in 3rd, his 8116 making him 24th A-T Collegiate!!
Erica Bougard scored 6170 to take SEC's Heptathlon.
Annie Kunz's PR of 5976 in 2nd misses my DDD by 35 points!
Next in line came Payton Stumbaugh's 5955, followed by Taliyah Brooks's 5855 and Alex Gochenour's 5804.
Amelie Iuel took the PAC 12 Hept--held a week ago--with 6011 points, for 24th place on the A-T Collegiate list!
And FINALLY, I should mention Chaunte Lowe's experience, as revealed to me in a Tweet!
She said she paid her own way to Rio to compete in an Olympic test event there!!
She HJ'ed 6-5 for the World leading mark!
But she also apparently started a Heptathlon!!!
She Tweeted that she "blew the 1st day, so I will have to try again another time"!!!
Could Ms Lowe be America's next great Heptathlete, even at Age 32???
(I Tweeted back that she should consider doing Talence after the Olympics. Haven't heard back from her on that---yet!!)
Had enough for one post---or one WEEK??
Well, sorry, but I want to give you some more numbers!!
Hang in there!!
After all the above Marks were entered on my various DDD's, I counted the 2016 totals for my 4 categories (World, US, Collegiate, HS) to see where the season stood.
As you know, I normally get a final count of between 300 and 400 marks each year.
With all the major meets yet to occur, the numbers are as follows.
World Men have 7 marks dating from 2016.
World Women have 12.
US Men total 8.
US Women have 24 so far!
Collegiate Men have 18 marks dated 2016.
Collegiate Women double that with 36.
And HS Men have 12.
HS Women have 22.
Men's total 45.
Women's total 94.
The Grand Total is 139!!
See you later this week, as there's a couple of significant European meets coming up!
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