Weekend Collegiate Action *All Results/Schedules

• Live Results / Entry / Schedule From 2015 Notre Dame Meyo Invitational
• Preview Of This Weekend’s Top NCAA Action: Meyo Mile, Top Women’s PVers Highlight
• Oregon Athletes Focused On Training With Big Indoor Meets Coming Up Coach Andy Powell talks about their emphasis on outdoor over indoor and XC.
• Syracuse’s Superstar In The Making And True Frosh Justyn Knight’s 3:59.51 Indoor Mile Was A Canadian Jr. Record Teammate Martin Hehir also broke 4 in the race.

T&F’s New Kiwi Star?

LRC Q&A Zane Robertson Discusses His 59:47 Shocker, His 10,000 Plans And Why He Knew Hayle Lemi Was Going To Win Dubai LRC caught up with Robertson, who’s got big plans for 2015, on Thursday morning after his spectacular half marathon debut in Japan.

• MB: Mo, Galen are you ready? Zane Robertson’s got big 10,000 plans: “I would really like to challenge for a gold medal.”
  
• Zane Robertson Q&A With Alberto Stretti
  
• Robertson: “I said to Koech in Swahili, let’s go man, sub-60 is possible.”

Bizarre

• Philly Man Trying To Fly To Half Marathon Is Detained By TSA, Thrown In Jail For 23 Hours Because He Had Power Bars And A Running Watch Apparently Power Bars resemble a bomb that can be detonated by a watch. Surveillance footage showed the TSA’s allegation that he threatened an agent was false.
• Rojo Is Happy: Princeton Tiger Mascot Destroyed Other Mascot From Tri-State Area In 60m Dash At Armory Last Weekend
• 64 Riot Police To Run Tokyo Marathon With Surveillance Cameras And Pepper Spray In Counter-Terrorism Operation
  *MB: Would US cops be fit enough to do this?

Interesting Reads

• Photocrop: Lauren Fleshman Is Irate That New USATF Commercial Crops Out The Logos Of All Non-Nike Athletes Ignoring that key point, the ad is well done. *MB: USATF Commercial #YoureWelcome
• It’s Official: Bruce Jenner’s Mother Confirms He’s Transitioning To A Woman – “(I’m) more proud of him now than … when he put that gold medal around his neck.” *Discuss
  *Washington Post: The Forgotten History Of Bruce Jenner: How The 1970s All-American Hero Ended Up Here
  *WP: Civilities: When It Comes To Transgender Etiquette, Choose To Be Kind
• Words Of Wisdom: Q&A With Nijel Amos Amos says he doubted himself until this year’s Pre Classic when Taoufik Makhloufi came up to him and told him he’s the future. He also says his mind was weak at 2011 World Youths.
• Nick Willis Ready To Battle This Weekend At NBIGP: “I’m planning to run negative splits and be ready for anything.” It’s worth noting that the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix – not Millrose – is the only IAAF permit meet in the US this winter.
• Cathal Dennehy Gives Galen Rupp An “F” For His 2-Mile Last Week An F for a rust buster is a bit harsh.
• Northport (N.Y.) High’s Mikey Brannigan Is SI’s Feb. High School Athlete Of The Month – He Gets Huge Profile As A Result

Mutaz Essa Barshim Becomes 8th Man To Jump 2.40m In Banska Bystrica His outdoor PR is 2.43m.

Video Of The Week: Watch 38-Year-Old Kim Collins Run 6.48 WL From Last Weekend

Sub-2 Hour Project Holds Its 1st Meeting – Haile G/Jos Hermens Attend

News From Africa

• 2013 Comrades Runner-Up Jonas Buud Won’t Race In 2015 Due To Stress Fracture Of Pelvis
• Haile G Going To South Africa In April To Embrace Running Community (Not Race) At Two Oceans Marathon
  

Looking Ahead

• 2015 Beijing Worlds Are Less Than 200 Days Away – Liu Xiang’s Chances Of Competing “Seem To Be Very Limited” Due To Injuries
• Preview Of Next Week’s XL Galan Meet In Sweden Featuring Genzebe Dibaba’s WR Attempt She’s far from the only big name to be competing.
• Justin Gatlin And Asafa Powell Will Clash At 100m At Jamaica International Invitational In Kingston May 9th Many top female stars like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Allyson Felix will be competing as well.

NCAA News *All College Weekend Results

• Great Podcast Q&A With Mark Wetmore Hear about his track aspirations for this year and how Colorado is going to start attracting more sprinters, throwers and jumpers. Also why he stopped coaching Jenny Simpson when she graduated.
• Weekend Collegiate Highlights: Texas A&M Men’s 4 X x400 Finish Just .03 Short Of Their 3:03.20 Collegiate Record Leah O’Connor ran a 4:34.28 mile at the Michigan-Michigan State dual. Florida’s Najee Glass just missed the collegiate all-time top 10 with a 45.34 400 to win at Arkansas. DII Hjer Erika Kinsey set a collegiate lead with a 1.90m (6-2¾) clearance.
• Arkansas PVer Sani Morris And Florida Sprinter Najee Glass NCAA Athletes Of The Week Morris jumped the all-time best non-altitude jump by a collegiate with 4.65m.
• Ken Goe Asks “Where Should We Expect Edward Cheserek to Race In 2015?” Goe talks to Oregon coach Robert Johnson about riding the line between what’s best for the athletes/team and the Hayward fans. Team priorities could keep Cheserek from racing much at home.
• Updated DI Rankings: Oregon Men And Florida Women Stay #1 Top 6 men’s teams stayed the same while Arkansas moved from 5th to 3rd on the women’s side.
• Top 10 NCAA Marks From Each Event From The Weekend
• Podcast Q&A With Recent NCAA Pole Vault Record Holder Demi Payne If you didn’t know, Payne is a mother and took a year off from competing in college to have her baby.
• Podcast Q&A With Recent Wisconsin’s Michael Lihrman, Who Recently Broke The NCAA Weight Throw Record

Third Season Of IAAF Inside Athletics Starts With Ato Boldon Interviewing Qatar HJer Mutaz Essa Barshim

• NYT: In London, An Olympic Park Anchors A Resurgence For everyone who thinks the Olympics are huge waste of money leaving only “white elephants,” go to London where the leftovers have sparked a revitalization.
• London Mayor Appoints VINCI Stadium, Operator Of Stade de France, To Manage The Former Olympic Stadium

More Weekend XC Results

• Defending Champ Genet Yalew And “Relative Unknown” Tamirat Tola Win Ethiopian World XC Trials Tola won over an extremely deep field that included former world XC champ Imane Merga, track studs Hagos Gebrehiwet and Yenew Almirew, and world marathon bronze medalist Tadesse Tola.
• Turkey Cleans Up At European Club Championships As Their Teams Win Women’s Senior And Both Junior Races A team from Spain won the men’s team title as France’s Othmane El Goumri got the individual win. Turkey’s Irene Cheptai won the women’s race. *Results