A Fan's Guide To Day 1 Of The 2010 USA Track And Field Championships
By LetsRun.com
June 23, 2010
To help you follow the 2010 USA Track and Field championships, we have created the following preview for you. We preview all of the distance events - 800 and up - and tell you when they'll take place. We also give you last year's results, this year's entrants and then give you predictions for what we think will happen. We hope you enjoy the meet.
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Thursday's Distance Events (Not counting Juniors)- All Times Listed are Central
4:45 Women's 800 1st Round
5:05 Men's 800 1st Roun
5:50 Women's 1,500 1st Round
8:20 Men's 10,000 Final
8:55 Women's 10,000 Final
Note: Robby Andrews runs in the junior 800 at 1:10 pm.
4:45 PM - Women's 800 - 1st Round: The Start Of A Great Event
Once again USATF has idiotically set up the heats in the 800. We complained about this two years ago at the Olympic Trials, but they apparently don't listen. Thursday's action is the first of three rounds of the 800. For the women, there will be 31 women in the women's 800 and for the men there will be 29. You think given those numbers they'd have four heats of 7 or 8 and let the athletes start in lanes, as all elite level 800s should start in lanes in our book. Instead,
they will run three heats with 9, 10 or 11 in each heat.
Ridiculous. For the record. USATF, please do yourself a favor and let in 32 athletes each year for the 800 and put them in four heats of 8.
Anyway, the women's 800 is one of the more loaded events in the meet. The event features four women with qualifying times under 2:00 - Maggie Vessey (1:57.84), Christin Wurth (1:59.35), Alysia Johnson (1:59.60), and Hazel Clark (1:59.96). Plus the field also includes the NCAA champ from 2008 and 2009 in Geena Gall, the 2010 NCAA champ in Phoebe Wright, 2008 US Olympian Alice Schmidt and 2:00.01 performer Morgan Uceny. One of those women will win. The question is who?
And that is why this event is worth watching.
It should be noted that Wurth is attempting the 800/1,500 double. The first round of the 1,500 is one hour and five minutes after the 800 first round. The 1,500 final is on Saturday - a day when there are no rounds of the 800.
It also is worth noting that - despite all of the publicity that others brought to the event last year - it was the veteran Clark who was the US champion last year. In fact, Clark has won USAs two years in a row and five times in her career.
Predictions: We'll wait until the final to make a firm prediction. We'd go with Johnson if we knew what was up with her, but this is her first outdoor 800 of the year. It's hard to imagine Vessey getting the tactics right to win it, although over 60% of the LetsRun.com visitors are picking her to win and Wurth isn't really an 800 runner in our minds. That would leave us with Clark, whom we just can't imagine would win yet again.
LRC Prediction: 1) Johnson 2) Vessey 3) Wurth
This year's entrants and last year's results appear below.
2010 Entrants
Event 8 Women 800 Meter Run Senior/Open
16 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat plus Next 7 Best Times
Thursday 6/24/2010 - 4:45 PM
2 Alleys-6 inside and 3 outside
World: 1:53.28 7/26/1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova, CZE
American: 1:56.40 8/11/1999 Jearl Miles-Clark, Reebok
Name Year Team
Heat 1 Prelims
1 630 Andria Nussey Angelo State
2 927 Phoebe Wright Tennessee
3 389 Holli Hosch unattached
4 866 Maggie Vessey New Balance
5 346 Lindsey Hartman Indiana
6 487 Annick Lamar unattached
7 66 Molly Beckwith Indiana
8 888 Christine Whalen Georgetown
9 858 Morgan Uceny Reebok
10 708 Christina Rodgers Arizona
11 235 Heather Dorniden Team USA Min
Heat 2 Prelims
1 458 Tamika Kinchen unattached
2 554 Kimarra McDonald unattached
3 682 Mary Quiett DePaul
4 439 Lauren Johnson unattached
5 832 Latavia Thomas LSU
6 599 Treniere Moser Nike
7 211 Ty Davis Team Indiana
8 169 Hazel Clark Nike
9 435 Alysia Johnson Nike
10 494 Anna Layman Washington S
Heat 3 Prelims
1 294 Geena Gall Oregon TC El
2 844 Renee Tomlin Georgetown
3 742 Lindsey Schnell unattached
4 872 Lea Wallace Cal State Sa
5 318 Nikeya Green unattached
6 88 Joan Bohlke New Balance
7 928 Christin Wurth Nike
8 739 Alice Schmidt Nike
9 424 Laura Januszewski Team NoDak
10 81 Keri Bland West Virgini
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Last Year's Results Event 8 Women 800 Meter Run
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2 Alleys-6 inside and 3 outside
World: W 1:53.28 7/26/1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova, CZE
American: A 1:56.40 8/11/1999 Jearl Miles-Clark, Reebok
Hayward: S 1:57.57 1997 Maria Mutola, Mozambique
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Hazel Clark Nike 2:00.79
2 Geena Gall Oregon TC Elite 2:01.01
3 Phoebe Wright Tennessee 2:01.12
4 Maggie Vessey unattached 2:01.19
5 Laura Hermanson North Dakota State 2:01.28
6 Morgan Uceny Reebok 2:01.32
7 Alysia Johnson Nike 2:01.58
8 Katie Waits Reebok 2:01.69
9 Brenda Martinez Cal Riverside 2:09.44
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5:05 PM 800 Men - 1st Round - The Start Of The Nick Symmonds Show
Seeing the entrants for the men's 800 is a bit depressing, as this event could have been the event of the championships. Unfortunately, 2010 NCAA outdoor 800 and 1,500 champ Andrew Wheating isn't running USAs this year. Wheating's rival in freshman phenom Robby Andrews is running USAs - but only the junior meet as he wants to go the world juniors.
So what does that leave us? It leaves us with Nick Symmonds. He's in fantastic form and will win. The question is who gets second. The leading contenders are LetsRun.com favorite Khadevis Robinson, who ran 1:45 at the adidas Grand Prix in New York, and Duane Solomon, who ran 1:45 on June 12th in Indianapolis. They both are in form and have credentials behind them. The other guys who have run 1:45 this year are Cory Primm of UCLA and Karjuan Williams of UCLA.
LRC Prediction: 1) Symmonds 2) Robinson 3) Solomon
2010 Entrants
Event 7 Men 800 Meter Run Senior/Open
16 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat plus Next 7 Best Times
Thursday 6/24/2010 - 5:05 PM
2 Alleys
World: 1:41.11 8/24/1997 Wilson Kipketer, KEN
American: 1:42.60 8/28/1985 Johnny Gray, Santa Monica TC
Name Year Team
Heat 1 Prelims
1 740 Alan Schmitz unattached
2 177 Golden Coachman US Army
3 680 Cory Primm Cal Los Ange
4 870 Ryan Waite Brigham Youn
5 790 Duane Solomon Saucony
6 602 Tyler Mulder Oregon TC El
7 367 Jacob Hernandez Nike
8 726 Michael Rutt Connecticut
9 792 Erik Sowinski unattached
10 293 Brian Gagnon Connecticut
Heat 2 Prelims
1 895 Mark Wieczorek Oregon TC El
2 125 Ryan Brown Asics
3 705 Khadevis Robinson Nike
4 413 Blake Irwin Missouri
5 320 Elijah Greer Oregon
6 632 James O'Brien Indiana Inva
7 445 Richard Jones LSU
8 761 Brandon Shaw unattached
9 908 Karjuan Williams adidas
10 228 Aaron Dixon Missouri
Heat 3 Prelims
1 432 Charles Jock Cal Irvine
2 853 Sean Tully NYAC
3 738 Matt Scherer Oregon TC El
4 712 Lance Roller Virginia
5 819 Nick Symmonds Oregon TC El
6 594 Jeff Moriarty Columbia
7 212 Owen Dawson Penn State
8 538 Ryan Martin Cal Santa Ba
9 702 Patrick Roach unattached
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Last Year's Results Event 7 Men 800 Meter Run
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2 Alleys
World: W 1:41.11 8/24/1997 Wilson Kipketer, KEN
American: A 1:42.60 8/28/1985 Johnny Gray, Santa Monica T
Hayward: S 1:44.01 2008 Alfred Kirwa Yego, Kenya
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Nicholas Symmonds Oregon TC Elite 1:45.86
2 Khadevis Robinson Nike 1:45.97
3 Ryan Brown Asics 1:46.67
4 Christian Smith Nike 1:46.92
5 Tevan Everett Texas 1:47.06
6 Michael Rutt Connecticut 1:47.57
7 Karjuan Williams unattached 1:47.87
8 Tyler Mulder Northern Iowa 1:47.98
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5:50 PM - Women's 1,500 - A Race For the Ages - Rowbury, Wurth Or Pierce?
We will barely bother to criticize USATF for only accepting 20 people into the women's 1,500 when they clearly should let at least 12 run per heat. That is old news, just as it is with the 800.
Even more so than the women's 800, the women's 1,500 is one of the better events in the championships. It's worth the price of admission alone!!!
Last year, three USA women broke 4:00 for 1,500 (Jenny Barringer, Anna Pierce and Christin Wurth) and a fourth ended up with the bronze at the World Championships (Shannon Rowbury). Three of the four are running the 1,500 this week, as Barringer has opted for the 5,000 of all events. Also in the field are 2008 Olympian Erin Donohue as well as 2008 Olympic 10k bronze medallist Shalane Flanagan. Flanagan, who is now trained by Jerry Schumacher of Nike, is clearly going for the Galen Rupp/Nike training plan of racing under-distance as she prepares for her marathon debut this fall. Three-time US champion Treniere Moser (Clement) is also in the field, as is former NCAA champ Sarah Bowman.
But let's be honest, this race is going to be won by one of the sub-4 women in Pierce or Wurth or the bronze medallist Rowbury. Since Wurth is doubling, most people are discounting her chances, including us. That leaves us Pierce or Rowbury. The LetsRun.com visitors are giving the edge to Pierce over Rowbury, 49.7% to 44%, but we don't understand why. Rowbury is the bronze medallist and Rowbury won last year. Thus it's disrespectful
not to say she is the favorite until she is beaten.
LetsRun.com Prediction: 1) Rowbury 2) Pierce 3) Wurth
Editor's Addition: It's just been pointed out to us that Rowbury is also entered in the 5,000. Thus Pierce is the only one fresh. As a result, we'll switch our picks to Pierce, Rowbury, Wurth.
2010 Entrants
Event 10 Women 1500 Meter Run Senior/Open
12 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat plus Next 6 Best Times
Thursday 6/24/2010 - 5:50 PM
World: 3:50.46 9/11/1993 Yunxia Qu, CHN
American: 3:57.12 7/26/1983 Mary Slaney, Athletics West
Name Year Team
Heat 1 Prelims
1 90 Lauren Bonds Kansas
2 269 Shalane Flanagan Oregon TC El
3 205 Heidi Dahl New Balance
4 410 Margaret Infeld NYAC
5 599 Treniere Moser Nike
6 411 Emily Infeld Georgetown
7 498 Molly Lehman NYAC
8 718 Shannon Rowbury Nike
9 928 Christin Wurth Nike
10 273 Katherine Follett Brooks
Heat 2 Prelims
1 598 Amy Mortimer Reebok
2 328 Lauren Hagans unattached
3 347 Jordan Hasay Oregon
4 233 Erin Donohue Nike
5 29 Gabriele Anderson Minnesota
6 331 Sara Hall Asics
7 100 Sarah Bowman New Balance
8 158 Lauren Centrowitz unattached
9 661 Anna Pierce Nike
10 336 Karly Hamric unattached
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Last Year's Results Event 10 Women 1500 Meter Run
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World: W 3:50.46 9/11/1993 Yunxia Qu, CHN
American: A 3:57.12 7/26/1983 Mary Slaney, Athletics West
Hayward: S 3:59.19 1984 Mary Slaney, USA
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Shannon Rowbury Nike 4:05.07
2 Christin Wurth Nike 4:06.00
3 Anna Willard Nike 4:07.70
4 Erin Donohue Nike 4:08.96
5 Treniere Clement Nike 4:09.10
6 Lauren Centrowitz Stanford 4:11.21
7 Heidi Dahl East Tenn St 4:11.58
8 Molly Lehman Duke 4:12.13
9 Amy Mortimer Reebok 4:12.94
10 Margaret Infeld Georgetown 4:13.25
11 Sarah Bowman Tennessee 4:16.29
12 Lauren Hagans unattached 4:17.05
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8:20 PM - Women's 10,000 Final: Lisa Koll Or Amy Begley?
Now this race will certainly be one to excite the crowd, as the Des Moines fans will be cheering madly for Iowa State's Lisa Koll. She will be challenged by Olympian Amy Begley. Unfortunately for the fans in Des Moines, as good as Koll is, Begley is even better. It needs to be remembered that Begley stunned the Olympic medallist Flanagan to win the 10k last year at USAs and then went on to get 6th at the World Champs. Begley's PRs also are better than Koll's and Begley is in good
form. Begley PRed in the 10k the last time she ran it (31:13 at Worlds) and she PRed in the 5,000 earlier this year (15:05). For comparison's sake, Koll has run 31:18 and 15:17 this year.
Even if Koll had the better PRs, we'd have to go with Begley, as she's more experienced and used to racing at the elite level, whereas Koll is used to running away from people. The battle for third should come down to Katie McGregor, Amy Hastings and Desiree Davila. Davila ran 32:06 to Hastings' 32:30 at Stanford, so she's the favorite for 3rd, although the veteran McGregor can't be discounted.
LRC Prediction: 1) Begley 2) Koll 3) Davila
2010 Entrants
Section 1 Timed Finals
1 231 Danielle Domenichelli Cal Santa Ba
2 262 Nicole Feest Boulder Runn
3 38 Meghan Armstrong Team USA Min
4 315 Clara Grandt West Virgini
5 810 Tara Storage Infinite Run
6 93 Rachel Booth New Balance
7 184 Kim Conley Asics Aggie
8 724 Blake Russell Reebok
9 308 Amanda Goetschius Charlotte
10 882 Brooke Wells Impala Racin
11 482 Natasha LaBeaud Georgetown
12 672 Sarah Porter unattached
13 935 Tanya Zeferjahn Queens Univ-
14 247 Megan Duwell unattached
15 774 Cassandra Slade Boulder Runn
16 809 Kara Storage Infinite Run
17 608 Erin Nehus unattached
18 255 Tara Erdmann unattached
19 313 Allison Grace ZAP Fitness
20 617 Katherine Newberry NYAC
21 381 Megan Hogan George Washi
22 557 Katie McGregor Team USA Min
23 348 Amy Hastings Brooks
24 209 Desiree Davila Hansons-Broo
25 471 Lisa Koll Iowa State
26 68 Amy Begley Nike
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Event 14 Women 10000 Meter Run
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2 alleys, 1 turn stagger
World: W 29:31.78 9/8/1993 Junxia Wang, CHN
American: A 30:22.22 8/15/2008 Shalane Flanagan, Nike
Hayward: S 31:34.81 2008 Shalene Flanagan, USA
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Amy Begley Nike 31:22.69S
2 Shalane Flanagan Nike 31:23.43S
3 Katie McGregor Reebok 32:08.04
4 Magdalena Lewy Boulet unattached 32:20.45
5 Molly Huddle unattached 32:43.11
6 Amy Hastings adidas 32:56.20
7 Serena Burla RIADHA 32:56.40
8 Melissa Cook New Balance 33:02.90
9 Sally Meyerhoff unattached 33:03.19
10 Allison Grace ZAP Fitness 33:12.34
11 Katherine Newberry N Y A C 33:21.56
12 Jill Steffens New Balance 33:27.43
13 Kara Storage RUNOHIO R T 33:27.75
14 Melissa White Hansons-Brooks D P 33:34.64
15 Erin Nehus unattached 33:37.76
16 Tara Storage RUNOHIO R T 33:39.57
17 Danielle Domenichelli unattached 33:41.72
18 Catherine White Arkansas 33:42.55
19 Mattie Bridgmon Oregon 34:10.51
20 Clara Grandt West Virginia 34:13.76
21 Alissa McKaig ZAP Fitness 35:41.80
22 Aileen Conlon Nike Central Pk 35:51.52
-- Wendi Robinson Indiana DNF
-- Lisa Koll Iowa State DNS
-- Denise Bargiachi Arkansas DNS
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8:50 PM - Men's 10,000 Final - The Galen Rupp Show
Galen Rupp earned his first USATF outdoor title last year at USAs. We fully expect him to repeat, as he's run the #2 time in the history of the country already this year at 27:10. The next best entry mark is 28:00 for New Balance's Fasil Bizuneh, as 27:30 guys Tim Nelson and Bobby Curtis are running the 5,000. Bizuneh has been doing road races so far this year, so we don't expect him to amaze. Last year's 4th placer in James Carney is entered but he's coming off an April
marathon (2:15:50).
As a result, the battle for second may come to former 27-minute guys Scott Bauhs and Ed Moran. Bauhs has run 13:29 this spring and is a former 27:48 guy and Moran ran 13:29 on June 11th and is a former 27:43 guy. Between the two, Moran gets the edge in our book, as his 13:29 was on June 11th whereas Bauhs ran his in April.
Prediction: 1) Rupp 2) Moran 3) ??? Bauhs?
2010 Entrants
Section 1 Timed Finals
1 392 Sean Houseworth US Air Force
2 312 Jimmy Grabow unattached
3 591 Edward Moran Nike
4 693 Sergio Reyes Asics Aggie
5 165 Robert Cheseret unattached
6 421 David Jankowski ZAP Fitness
7 33 Marco Anzures Cal Los Ange
8 763 Ryan Sheehan Hansons-Broo
9 566 Brian Medigovich Hansons-Broo
10 869 Christian Wagner Hansons-Broo
11 580 Joshua Moen Team USA Min
12 758 Charlie Serrano unattached
13 285 Crosby Freeman Asics Aggie
14 474 Jonathan Kotter Brigham Youn
15 37 Jesse Armijo Brooks
16 479 Michael Krisch Georgetown
17 786 Patrick Smyth Team USA Min
18 736 Mikhail Sayenko Club Northwe
19 771 Josh Simpson NYAC
20 146 James Carney New Balance
21 127 Daniel Browne unattached
22 61 Scott Bauhs adidas
23 78 Fasil Bizuneh New Balance
24 723 Galen Rupp Nike
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Last Year's Results Finals 1 Galen Rupp Oregon 27:52.53 2 Dathan Ritzenhein Nike 27:58.59 3 Tim Nelson Oregon TC Elite 28:01.34 4 James Carney New Balance 28:13.37 5 Edward Moran Nike 28:34.54 6 Meb Keflezighi Nike 28:35.49 7 Patrick Smyth unattached 28:35.70 8 Abdi Abdirahman Nike 28:35.79 9 Jorge Torres Reebok 28:42.13 10 Forest Braden Brooks ID / Brooks 28:43.98 11 Josh Rohatinsky Nike 28:46.65 12 Seth Pilkington New Balance 28:50.86 13 Joshua Moen Team USA Min/Str 28:57.31 14 Jeremy Johnson Team Indiana/Brk 29:02.64 15 Charlie Serrano unattached 29:04.63 16 Luke Puskedra Oregon 29:11.32 17 Lucas Meyer Boston A A 29:14.08 18 James Strang Arkansas 29:17.96 19 Juan Carlos Trujillo unattached 29:31.01 20 Michael Kilburg Hansons-Brooks D P 29:48.14 21 David Jankowski Hansons-Brooks D P 30:15.82 -- Scott Bauhs adidas DNF -- Michael Krisch Georgetown DNF -- Edwardo Torres Reebok DNF -- Sean Houseworth unattached DNF -- Mikhail Sayenko unattached DNF -- Louis Luchini Oregon TC Elite DNS -- Stephen Haas Team Indiana/Brk DNS |
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