NCAA Women’s Photo Gallery*Men’s Photo Gallery

Portland Track Festival *Recap And “A” Results

LRC Clayton Murphy Turns Pro And Misses Olympic Standard By .03 At Portland Track Festival Murphy wins again and goes pro.

Rest Of Meet Recap:Galen Rupp Gives The Hometown Fans What They Came To See, Kate Grace Keeps Running Well, High School Girls Amaze In 1,500

More Post-NCAA Stuff

• Good Read:Sean McGorty Talks About His Strategy Racing Edward Cheserek, Getting “Closer And Closer” And Hoping To Beat Him At Some Point Is McGorty the next Chris Derrick? Derrick never won an NCAA title, but often finished second to Lawi Lalang.
• Ken Goe Would Like Oregon Coach Robert Johnson To Be More Open With Fans“Refusing to acknowledge high-profile departures leads to speculation there is something to hide. Not every question or criticism about what happens in the UO program is a personal attack.”
• Kentucky Coach Says Freshman NCAA 100H Champ Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Can Be A “Megastar” Camacho-Quinn, who incidentally trains alongside American record holder Keni Harrison, also scored in the 200 (8th) and ran on Kentucky’s 5th place 4 x 100.
• Two Jamaican Discus Throwers Qualify For Rio At NCAAsKellion Knibb and Shadae Lawrence both got their Olympic qualifying marks. Knibb’s runner-up 61.44m set a Jamaican record.
• LA Times:USC Women Drop The Baton, But Still Finish Top 10 In The NCAA

Oscar Pistorius Re-Sentencing Starts Today

• Oscar Pistorius Records First TV Interview Since The Shooting The interview will air June 24th. Pistorius talks about the shooting, the court case and more.
• Mike Rowbottom: Oscar Pistorius Takes His Dishonorable Place Among Convicted Former Olympians He is far from the first.
• Oscar Pistorius Will Appear In Court On Monday For Sentencing After Being Found Guilty Of Murder The case could last through Friday and minimum sentence is 15 years, although it could be reduced for time served and “mitigating factors.”
• AP:A Glance At Oscar Pistorius’ Re-Sentencing, Now For Murder Pistorius is going back to jail; the question is for how long?

Doping Updates

• IAAF Bans Seb Coe’s Former “Right-Hand Man” Nick Davies And His Wife For Taking Payments To Cover Up Russian Doping Two more IAAF officials were also banned for their part in the cover-up. Davies is the one who wrote a passionate letter to LetsRun.com about IAAF drug testing.
  *Telegraph Article
  *LRC ArchivesNick Davies Writes LetsRun.com About Reports IAAF Did Not Follow Up For Retesting 150 Suspicious Samples From 2006-2008
  *LRC ArchivesBBC World: Why Did IAAF General Secretary Nick Davies Write A Passionate Letter To LetsRun.com Instead Of Issuing A More Traditional Statement
• The Telegraph:Usain Bolt Reveals “Heartbreak” At Prospect Of Being Stripped Of One Of His Olympic Titles Bolt said: “Things happen in life, so when it’s confirmed or whatever, if I need to give back my gold medal, I’d have to give it back, it’s not a problem for me.”
• NY Times:Cycling Officials Combat “Mechanical Doping” As if biological doping wasn’t pathetic enough, cyclists also hide tiny electrical motors in their frames and magnets in their wheels to boost their performance.

NCAA Men’s Photo Gallery

Thursday’s NCAA Action

LRC DOMination: Arkansas’ Scott Claims First NCAA Outdoor Title In Women’s 10,000Dominique Scott dominated the final 2 laps to help the Razorbacks team title hopes.

LRC Women’s Day 1 Thursday Recap: PRs But Not A Ton Of Drama In Distance Qualifying, NCAA Records In Jav, Shot, Oregon’s Title Hopes All But Gone Raven Saunders of Ole Miss got the NCAA shot record, Maggie Malone of Texas A&M got the NCAA jav record, Arkansas’ title hopes started well while Oregon’s likely fell by the wayside.
*Squire: Thoughts On Day 2

• Thursday Results 
• MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Discussion Thread 
• LRCThursday Video InterviewsDominique Scott, Claudia Sanders, Elise Cranny, Courtney Freirechs and more.

Outside Coverage

• The Oregon Ducks’ Chances For The NCAA Women’s Track Title Fizzle On A Damp Day The Ducks dropped the stick in the 4 x 400 and saw star Hannah Cunliffe pull up injured in the 100.
• Austin Meek: Oregon’s Hayward Magic Vanishes
• Arkansas Has Great Day 1 – Picks Up 2 Event Wins And 26 Points To Put Themselves In The Driver’s Seat
• RR Jesse Squire’s Thoughts On Day 1 This is actually about day 1 for the men but it’s so good you need to read it. He rips the TV commentating.
• Raven Saunders Shatters 33-Year-Old Collegiate Record In Women’s Shot
• Texas A&M’s Maggie Malone Sets New CR In Javelin (204′)
• DeAnna Price’s Broke Her Own NCAA Meet Record In The Hammer
• DeAnna Price Talks Being Comfortable About Your Body After Winning NCAA Hammer
• Georgia’s Chanice Porter Battles Back And Wins Long Jump On Final Jump
• Not All Was Bad For Oregon – Sasha Wallace Set A School Record In 100H

Thursday Men’s Update:LRC Freshman 800m Phenom Donavan Brazier Says He Will NOT Run The Olympic Trials And Has No Idea Who Jim Ryun Is

LRCBailey Roth, American High School Record Holder In The Steeplechase, Is Back With 8:37 PR After Running 9:14 At End Of May Medical issues had his season going in the wrong direction, but now it’s trending up.

Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page

NCAAs Wednesday Day 1

Day 1 Full Results King Ches won his 14th title, the 800 prelims were amazing and there was a sub-10 100.

LRC Business As Usual: Edward Cheserek Cruises To Third Straight NCAA 10,000 Title King Cheserek is back on top. As expected, no one could match Cheserek on the final 400m Wednesday. Futsum Zeinasellassie was 2nd and Gabe Gonzalez a surprise 3rd.

LRCDay 1 Recap – Look Out – Tremendous 800 And 1,500 Finals Set For Friday As McBride, Brazier, Yorks, Murphy, Kidder, Wynne Look Great Jim Ryun‘s NCAA record turns 50 on Friday and now is officially in jeopardy. We recap all of day 1’s distance action plus Texas’s Senoj-Jay Givans went sub-10 for first time.

LRCMen’s Day 1 Video Interviews

Day 1 On The Message Board

• MB: Official 2016 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track And Field Discussion Thread
  
• MB: Please post your apologies here if you wrote him off. Donavan Brazier just jogged a 1:45.03!!!
  
• MB: Cheserek with the win!
  
• MB: Men’s 10k Shaun Thompson 51 for lap 3
  
• MB: Pierce Murphy NOT a Blue Collar/Walk-on Type Guy

Women Compete Thu./Saturday: *MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track And Field Discussion Thread

Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page

• USTFCCCA:It Was A Rough Day For Texas A&M As Their Title Hopes Plummet They came in ranked #1, but only got 3 athletes through to the finals on the track and had two no-heights in the PV. *AP Day 1 Recap
• Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson Dominates LJ And Qualifies For Finals In Three More Events Lawson won the LJ with 8.15m and made finals in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100. In other field action, Jake Blakenship won the PV (6.60m), Filip Mihaljevic the SP (20.71m), Curtis Thompson the javelin (77.64m) and Nick Miller the hammer (73.98m).
• Ken Goe Catches Up With Two Ex-Ducks Who Tell Him Why They Transferred Out As Oregon Won’t Even Acknowledge That Jasmine Todd Has Left The TeamNikki Hiltz, who scored in the mile as a frosh for Oregon, says Oregon reneged on its verbal scholarship offer and so she left for Arkansas.
  *MB:Bait and Switch: Schools not following through on verbal scholarship offers – How common is it? What’s the solution?
• Register-Guard:Michigan’s Mason Ferlic Stays Dry In Winning His Steeplchase Semi Ferlic had an epic diving fall in the steeple pit at NCAAs last year.
• Edward Cheserek On Early Season Struggles: “I was worried a little bit. We sat down with the staff and coaches (and said), ‘Can we try to get me healthy?'”
• Oregon’s Greg Skipper Got Third In Hammer With PR And Credits His Dad: “My dad is my best friend.”
• Oregon’s Cody Danielson Scores Two Unexpected NCAA Points In Javelin Despite Injury
• Register-Guard:Oregon Men Stay On Pace After Opening Day Of NCAAs
• Duck Men Get An Unexpected Point In The Hammer And 2 In The PV

2016 Has Been A Big Year For Alexi Pappas

• USA Today:Alexi Pappas Makes Her Family Proud By Making Greek Team For Rio Pappas’ grandmother (or “yiayia”) is pumped that’s Pappas will be Greece’s first-ever women’s 10,000m Olympian.
• Alex Pappas’ Movie “Tracktown” Gets Favorable Review As Viewer Calls It “A Charming Coming-Of-Age Story With Legs” Pappas starred, co-wrote and co-directed the film, which premiered at the LA Film Festival.
  *MB:An actual Tracktown movie review, with plot summary.

USATF News: Update On Youth Dispute

• USATF Association President And Former Elite Athlete Cliff Wiley Speaks Out On USATF Youth Executive Committee Dispute In an open letter, Wiley wrote, “It is difficult for me to accept that the organization that has been so much a part of my life for the past 38 years, now resembles a third world dictatorship …”
• Youth Executive Committee Claims USATF’s Suspension Was Illegal And Have Filed A Complaint With The USOC This open letter gives a rundown of the dispute (which started over hiring a timing company) from the Youth Committee’s point of view.
  *MB:USATF & Max Siegel Continue Their Powergrab – This Time Against The Youth
  *LRCUSATF Controversy Archives
• USA Today Profile:“CEO Max Siegel Is Marketing ‘Genius’ Leading USATF” The article gives some background on Siegel, who had a tough upbringing in a broken/abusive home and turns to what he’s done with USATF, including the controversial 23-year deal with Nike.

Some Good Reads From Across The Pond

• Jo Pavey Concedes Her Dream To Make A Fifth Olympic Games Is Probably Over, But At The Age Of 43, She Doesn’t Plan On Retiring Yet She missed in the 10K and can still run the 5K at the British Trials, but doesn’t have the 15:20 standard and only ran 15:47 in Birmingham.

• Recommend Read:After 3 Years Of Injury, Olympic Hurdler Perri Shakes-Drayton Says “I’ve Been Through Hell” But Is Happy To Be Back She injured her knee during 2013 Worlds and after needing surgery switched from the 400H to the flat 400.
• RR:HJer Robbie Grabarz Not Taking Things For Granted After Years Struggling Back From Injury“In 2012 I didn’t really appreciate it all but this time I feel I’ve really earned to be back in shape …”
• 400 Runner Martyn Rooney Is “Granted Permission” To Defend His European 400 Title Before Rio UKA had initially said he couldn’t go because they wanted him to focus on Rio.
• Interesting:400 Runner Christine Ohuruogu Apparently Shared Some 400m Training Advice With Caster Semenya Last Year Ohuruogu says she’s happy Semenya isn’t running the 400 in Rio after she dropped a 50.7 earlier this year.
• Random Q&A With Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson She says she was a tomboy as a kid, believes in the “supernatural” and only drinks alcohol in September.

David Torrence Will Run For Peru In 2016 Olympics

LRC Q&A:David Torrence Talks About Why He’s Switching Nationalities To Peru, Seb Coe’s Criticism And Why He Wants To Run The 800/1,500 Double In Rio Torrence said he’s hoping to inspire the people of Peru by representing them in Rio and said that he had to do some soul searching before reaching a decision. “I’ll acknowledge that getting to the Olympics now is a much easier task. But if anything, that made me want to run for the U.S. even more.”
*MB: David Torrence request to compete for Peru granted!

Other Citizenship News: GB Olympian Julia Bleasdale Hopes To Run For Germany In Rio She was 8th in the 5K and 10K at London 2012.