NOTE--This and the following post covers the INdoor NCAA T&F Championships, and the 2020 edition of the NCAA Cross Country Championships--held in mid-March due to Covid! I decided to split the posts by sex; thus this one covers the Men's results from both, while the next will cover the Women's results! One of these days, I'll be caught up with the backlog of Records & Marks! BTW, sometime soon I'll do my INdoor Athletes of the Year, etc! Enjoy!
No Collegiate Records fell to the Men, but the depth of several events made this a pretty fair set of results!
The 5000 began with a first K of 2:31--OUTdoor World Record pace!!
But Winner Wes Kiptoo inevitably (and sensibly!) slowed, yet his 13:23.77 set the Meet Record, the Junior Class Record, and made him 11th A-T Collegiate!!
Then followed a trail of runners that pretty much rewrote the bottom part of my Top 24 A-T Performers list!!
Eric Hamer's 13:29.60 makes him 18th A-T Collegiate!
Morgan Beadlescomb (LOVE that name!!) ran 13:29.96, ranking him 19th A-t Collegiate!
Adriaan Wildschutt ended in 13:30.55 to rank 20th A-T Collegiate!
Aaron (Sic!) Bienenfeld was right behind in 13:31.65, making him 21st A-T Collegiate!
Shea Foster's 13:32.38 makes him 22nd A-T Collegiate!
Alec Bastien ran 13:32.98 for 23rd A-T Collegiate!!
The 200 was also solid!
Matt Boling got around 1 lap in 20.19, fulfilling much of the hype he's gotten the past year or two!
He makes 3 lists--he's 5th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, 4th A-T US, tied with 1 other, and 6th A-T World, also tied with 1 other!
He needed all of that to stop Terrance Laird's 20.20!
Laird ranks 7th A-T Collegiate, and 6th A-T US and World, the latter in which he's tied with 1 other!
The 400 saw a trio of speedsters take high places on my lists!
Run in sections (as was the 200), Noah Williams took a chunk off his PR, winning in 44.71!
He gets the Junior Class Record!
He ranks 5th A-T Collegiate, and 4th A-T on both the US and World lists!
Randolph Ross dipped under 45 with his 44.99!
He's 9th A-T Collegiate, 8th A-T US, and 11th A-T World!
In 3rd came Jacory Patterson's 45.14.
This makes him 13th A-T Collegiate and US, as well as 19th A-T World!
Want more depth?
Check out the 60H results!
Damion Thomas wasn't the fastest winner ever, but his 7.51 makes him 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!
Jamal Britt's 7.52 ranks him 10th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!
Trey Cunningham was right behind in 7.53, but it wasn't a PR!
Phil Lemonnonia (Sp??) ran 7.54, and is ranked 16th A-T Collegiate!
And Eric Edwards ended in 7.58, making him 22nd A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
The Distance Medley Relay saw Oregon threaten its own Collegiate Record, missing by just 0.46 seconds!
Their 9:19.98 saw Cooper Teare run a 3:52 anchor!
It is, however, a Meet Record!
Mississippi's 9:20.75 makes them 2nd A-T School!
Texas ran 9:22.73, making them 3rd A-T School!
North Carolina became 4th A-T School with their 9:25.80!
And Virginia Tech's 9:27.67 makes them 9th A-T School!
The Field Events had some good depth!
Especially the Long Jump, which saw 3 Men top 27 feet!
JuVaughn Harrison's 27-8.75 makes him 3rd A-T Collegiate!
And he's 3rd A-T US, tied with 1 other, as well as 8th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
(BTW, he also took the HJ with 7-6.50!! That makes him 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with a full DOZEN others!!)
Isaac Grimes's 27-4.75 makes him 6th A-T Collegiate, 11th A-T US, and 24th A-T World!
And Corey McLeod's 27-1.25 makes him 12th A-T Collegiate!1
An upset in the Heptathlon, as unknown (to me!) Karel Tilga won it with 6264 points over Kyle Garland's 6200 points!
For Tilga, he gets Estonia's National Record and the Soph Class Record!
He's 2nd A-T Collegiate, behind only Ashton Eaton's CR of 6499!!
He ranks 24th A-T World!
Garland ranks 4th A-T Collegiate, and 10th A-T US!
Ayden Owens's 5995 misses my Collegiate DDD by one point!!
The other events saw a variety of list makers and Record breakers!
Micah Williams--after a 6.52 heat--took the 60 in a PR tying 6.49.
He's 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Charles Hunter didn't PR, but his 1:45.90 was just enough to edge Finley McLean's 1:45.91 in the 800.
This ranks him 8th A-T Collegiate!
Cole Hocker (the cover boy of April's T&FN!) took both the Mile and 3000!
His 3:53.71 sets the Meet Record!
Eliud Kipsang's 3:55.92 ranks him 23rd A-T Collegiate!
Hocker's 3K winning time was 7:46.15!
He ranks 17th A-T Collegiate!
Teammate Cooper Teare ended in 7:46.23, making him 18th A-T Collegiate!
The 4 X 400 Relay had good depth also!
North Carolina A&T won it in 3:03.16!
They are 5th A-T School!
Kentucky's 3:03.61 makes them 7th A-T School!
Tennessee ran 3:04.10 for Bronze!
Georgia's 3:04.84 makes them 19th A-T School!
Emmanuel Ihenteje's TJ of 56-7.50 gives him the Frosh Class Record!
He ranks 7th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Turner Washington was the sole Shot Putter to reach 70 feet, his 70-1 a clear winner!
Thomas Mardal threw the WT 80-3, giving him Norway's National Record!
This event is mostly an American concept, so anytime a European gets an NR, it's usually when competing for a US College!!
He ranks 5th A-T Collegiate, and 11th A-T World!
Israel Lloyd's 78-0.75 ranks him 15th A-T Collegiate!!
The Pole Vault saw KC Lightfoot (Who else??) win it with his 19-5.50 Meet Record!
Zach McWhorter's 19-0.25 was a respectable 2nd, making him 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others!!
So why all the great marks--especially on the track--at this meet?
Some insist it's the athletes wearing some version of the controversial shoes!
Some say it's because their 2020 INdoor NCAA Championship--and their entire OUTdoor season--was stolen from them by Covid!
Some say it's that this year's crop of athletes are just better than in many previous years!
Pick and choose, but IMO, this was one of the better SET of results I've seen in the INdoor NCAA!!
And then there's the 2020--Yes, I said TWENTY TWENTY!!--edition of the NCAA XC Championships, postponed from its November date to mid-March by the Covid wipeout last year!!
There was some question as to how competitors in the INdoor meet would do in the XC race just a few days later!
At least one major team chose to forego the Hill & Dale race in favor of the banked track of INdoors!!
That was Oregon's Ducks!!
Connor Mantz took individual honors over the 10000 meter course, winning by 22 seconds in 29:26.1.
The Top 10--after Mantz, was--
Adrian Wildschutt in 29:48
Wes Kiptoo in 29:54
Nico Young (first Frosh!) in 29:58
Patrick Dever in 29:59
Blaise Ferro in 30:02
Abdi Nor in 30:05
Isai Rodriguez in 30:09
Luis Grijalva in 30:10
In 10th came Danny Kilrea's 30:11
Others included--
Casey Clinger running 30:19 in 13th
Cole Sprout running 30:20 in 15th
And Brodey Hasty's 30:50 in 44th!
Northern Arizona took the team title with 60 points over Notre Dame's 87!
See you soon with my women's report!
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