Sprints Dominate Conferences

 The Collegiate Conference scene is normally dominated by the SEC!
And while that Conference did produce a large number of top marks, and even a Collegiate Record, there were great marks spread across other Conferences, particularly the Big 10, Big 12, and the ACC!

The best race, both for marks and for competitiveness, was the Women's 4 X 400 Relay at the SEC!
It was left to some amazing individual stars from various short events to decide the placings.
Kentucky's Abby Steiner took care of the 3rd lap in just 48.78 seconds, then handed off to Alexis Holmes, whose 49.60 was enough for her team to hold off Texas A&M, and get the Collegiate Record.
Their time was 3:21.93, which is a time that even a USA National team would be happy with!!
It's also a Meet Record, of course!
A&M had Laila Owens run 49.52 on 3rd leg, then passing to Charokee Young!
She split 48.90, bringing her team in at 3:22.01, making them 2nd A-T School!
Arkansas got a fantastic 48.60 from Britton Wilson, and that served as the fastest split of the day!!
Their 3:22.55 makes them 3rd A-T School!
South Carolina was 4th in 3:25.45, making them 9th A-T School!
Florida got an anchor of 49.84 from Talitha Diggs, timing 3:26.85 in 5th!!

Britton Wilson, in particular, had a great series of times--besides her relay split!
She beat Charokee Young in the open 400, 50.05 to 50.45!
That time makes her 6th A-T Collegiate!
Holmes was 3rd in 50.74.
She also ran the 400H, which was supposedly her specialty!
She took her heat in a PR of 54.23!
Then she took that down to 53.75 in the final, making her 6th A-T Collegiate!
She's also 17th A-T US, and misses the Soph Class Record by just 0.01 seconds!!
Anna Hall was 2nd in 55.36, but had run 54.91 in her heat!!
This makes the star Heptathlete faster at 400H than JJK ever ran (55.05)!
What that says about her future in the Hept is something to ponder!

The Showdown was exciting, but both short sprints went to Favour Ofili over Abby Steiner!
They made the SEC the place to be for Sprint Wars!
Neither PR'd, but they were close!
Ofili's 22.04 edged Steiner's 22.07 in the 200, with Ofili nabbing the Meet Record!
No MR, but Ofili's 10.93 (INTO a wind of 0.7!) beat Steiner's 11.02 in the Century!

The Big 12 gave the SEC a real battle for supremacy in the short stuff, with St Lucia's Julien Alfred leading the way!
Her 10.80 took the final, but it was wind-aided (2.4)!
But she'd run 10.81 in her heat...with a legal breeze!!
It's the MR, and the Soph Class Record, and breaks her own National Record!
She ranks 3rd A-T Collegiate!
However, she took just 4th in the 200 final, time of 22.64.
She ran 22.46 in her heat, and that also breaks her own NR of St Lucia!

With a max legal wind of 2.0, Kynnedy Flannel won that 200 in a solid 22.23!
It's the Big 12 Meet Record, and ranks her 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Kevona Davis stayed close, her 22.26 making her 18th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Davis had ended 2nd in the 100 final with a windy 10.83!
But her 10.95 heat time makes her 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!

Another speedy race was the 100H at the Big 12!
A pair of Jamaicans fought to the wire, with Demisha Roswell winning over Ackera Nugent!
Roswell's 12.44 is the MR, and ranks her 4th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Nugent's 12.45 ranks her 6th A-T Collegiate!
There's some confusion as to her class!
T&FN lists her as a Frosh, but she ran in the 2021 NCAA, so that supposedly makes her a Soph!
I'll dig into it, because IF she's a Frosh, then she'd DESTROY that Class Record!!

Stacey Ann Williams won the Big 12 400 in 50.21, after running her heat in 50.29!
The 50.21 makes her 9th A-T Collegiate!
Kennedy Simon was 2nd in 50.68!

Besides the CR, there were more fast Relays!
Virginia Tech took the Men's 4 X 100 at the ACC in a Meet Record of 38.69!
This ranks them 20th A-T School!
Ohio State got the Big 10 MR with their 39.12 time!
TCU took the Big 12 short relay in 38.50, also the Meet Record!
No MR, and no real surprise, but Baylor won the 4 X 400 Relay in 3:02.73 at the Big 12.

Florida got the SEC Meet Record with their 2:59.44 in the 4 X 400 Relay!
They needed all of it, as Kentucky's 2:59.93 made them 7th A-T School!
Ohio State ran 43.20 to win at the Big 10!
They're ranked 19th A-T School!
Texas took the 4 X 100 at the Big 12, time of 42.35 making them 5th A-T School, and giving them the Meet Record!
Texas Tech's 42.75 in 2nd makes them 10th A-T School!
Baylor's 3:26.92 in the longer Relay is also a Big 12 Meet Record, and ranks them 13th A-T School!
Finally (in the Relays), we have LSU's 42.59 nipping Kentucky's 42.63 to win at the SEC!

Other sprint times of note at the Conferences---
Trey Cunningham's 110H heat time of 13.13 got him the ACC Meet Record!
But his time in the final was 13.16!
A huge surprise came in the Big 10 110H's!
Great Britain's Josh Zeller amazed with his 13.19, which deservedly gave him the MR!
And, I was told, 5th place on the A-T list for GB!!
He ranks 7th A-T Collegiate!!
At the Big 12, Micaiah Harris had a giant wind of 3.8 to help him, but his 19.72 over 200 meters is still worth noting!

Jonathan Jones is going strong this season!
Full demonstration came in the Big 12 one lapper, where he ran 44.43 for the MR!
It breaks his own National Record of Barbados, and ranks him 18th A-T Collegiate!
Another Big 12 Meet Record fell in the 400H, where Nathaniel Ezekiel ran 48.42, ranking him 14th
A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Isaiah Levingston was a good 2nd, time of 48.82.
Randolph Ross's 44.61 took the Big South 400!
In the Lone Star Conference, Ben Azamati had a strong 3.0 wind to push him to the final win in 9.86!
But he also ran 9.96 legal in a heat!

Micah Williams had a good double at the PAC-12!
His 100 time of 9.93 is the MR, and ranks him 8th A-T Collegiate, tied with 7 others!
He won the 200 in 20.05!
Matt Boling claimed a mild upset in the SEC 200, winning over Joseph Fahnbullah, 20.01 to 20.13!
Eric Edwards timed 13.28 over the 110H, making him 17th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!
Champion Allison won the SEC 400 in 44.74, with Elijah Godwin timing 44.81 in 2nd!

Kemba Nelson took the PAC-12 100 in 11.05.
Alia Armstrong used a wind of 2.1 to time 12.46 in the 100H.
And Melissa Jefferson won the Sun Belt Conference 100 in 10.88!
This ranks her 5th A-T Collegiate, and 24th A-T US, tied with 1 other!!
She also won the 200 in 22.48!

There were some decent distance marks also!
Dylan Jacobs got the ACC Meet Record with his 13:23.45 in the 5000!
Ahmed Muhumed's 28:48.69 is another ACC Meet Record!
Patrick Kiprop won the SEC 5000 in the MR time of 13:41.05!

CR holder Eliud Kipsang was upset by Mario Romo in the SEC 1500, 3:36.91 to 3:39.09!!
Olivia Makezich won the ACC 3000SC in 9:45.31.
Lauren Ryan timed 32:56.53 to win the ACC 10000!
However, the big distance news from the ACC came from Katelyn Tuohy, who discovered she can sprint in the 1500!
She and Maudie Skyring were running together at the bell, but Tuohy took care of her in the final lap, her 4:06.84 getting the ACC Meet Record, and ranking her 6th A-T Collegiate!
Skyring ended in 4:09.83, missing the Collegiate list by 0.30 seconds!

Maddy Boreman won the PAC-12 3000SC in 9:42.22.
Abby Nichols nabbed the PAC-12 MR with her 10000 in 32:27.25!
Alessia Zarbo was 2nd in 32:28.57.
Frosh Emily Covert took 3rd in 32:30.82!
Imogen Barrett won the SEC 800 in 2:01.42.
A pair of SEC Meet Records fell in the Women's 5000 and 1500.
Mercy Chelangat showed no mercy (sic!) over the last mile in the 5K, her 15:22.99 winning by nearly 10 seconds over the 15:32.41 by Parker Valby.
Chelangat also won the 10000 in 33:15.66.
Sinteyehu Vissa's time in the 1500 was 4:08.72.
It makes her 14th A-T Collegiate!
Second went to the 4:09.73 by Lauren Gregory!

The field events were led by the Collegiate Record (on his 6th throw!) by Mykolas Alekna in the Discus Throw!
It measured 225-6, and also serves as the PAC-12 Meet Record, the Frosh Class Record, and the Age 19 Record (where he broke his own mark!)!!
In fact, a better mark doesn't come until Age 22!!
Raiford Mullings, a Jamaican Frosh, was 2nd with 208-3!

Ethan Dabbs shocked in the ACC Javelin Throw, with his 272-0 getting the Meet Record, and making him 8th A-T Collegiate, and 17th A-T US!!
Claudio Romero's 217-2 won the ACC Discus Throw!
Sondre Guttormsen won the Heps Pole Vault by topping 18-9.25!
Gabriela Leon won the ACC Pole Vault with her 14-9.
Remember Madison Wiltrout??
She got the HSR in her Soph year with a great 185-8 in the Javelin Throw!
Then she needed surgery, and she fell off that height over the next few years!
She finally PR'ed earlier this season, but not by much!
Until the ACC!!
There, she blew apart her previous best by about 8 feet, her 196-11 being the MR, and ranking her 10th A-T Collegiate, and 11th A-T US!!

Johannes Erm won the SEC Decathlon with 8132 points!
Kristine Blazevica's Heptathlon score at the Big 12 was 6064, making her 24th A-T Collegiate!
Adelaide Aquilla won the Big 10 SP with her 60-6.75!
Kaitlin Heri PV'd 14-3.50, but it was enough for the Mountain West MR!
Camryn Rogers's HT sailed out 241-10 to win the PAC-12!
There's a great article about her on the T&FN website!
Jasmine Moore doubled at the SEC, LJ'ing 22-1, and TJ'ing 46-1.50 legal to win there--and had a windy jump of 47-5.25!
Ana da Silva won the SEC Shot Put with her 60-6.75!
It ranks her 17th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!

Lamara Distin won the SEC High Jump with 6-4.75!
Amanda Fassold won the SEC Pole Vault over the favorite, her 14-9 beating the 14-7.25 by Lisa Gunnarsson!!
It makes Fassold 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others!
Finally, we have the Big 12 Women's Long Jump!
Monae Nichols won with the World Leader of 22-10.50!
This tied the Big 12 MR, and makes her 3rd A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
Ruth Usoro took 2nd with 22-3, making her 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others!
But it also took OFF the Collegiate list a true icon of the sport!!
Gail Devers, better known as a sprinter and hurdler, was a pretty decent Long Jumper as well!
But her 22-2.50 from 1988 is GONE from my list!!

Be back soon with more from this past weekend!!