2018 Conference Championships *Conference Champs Central *Broadcast Info

• SEC: *Results *Meet Home
• Sydney McLaughlin Smashes NCAA 400H Record With 52.75 To Win SECs By More Than 3 Seconds McLaughlin dropped a ridiculous .85 seconds off her PR/world junior record she set two weeks ago. Not only that, but she’s now the 9th fastest all-time. Kentucky’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn also had a big day, winning the 100H in 12.40, just .01 off Brianna Rollins‘ collegiate record.
  *MB: Sydney McLaughlin 52.75 400h
• Grant Holloway Has Huge SEC Meet With #2 All-Time 13.15 In The 110H It was the fastest collegiate mark since 1979. Holloway also won the long jump and ran legs on Florida’s 3rd place 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays.
• Florida Sweeps Men’s And Women’s SEC Titles For The First Time In Program History Both meets were close as the men beat Texas A&M by 11 points and the women finished only 2.5 points in front of LSU. *Gainsville.com Article
• Alabama Goes 1-3 In SEC Men’s 10,000 As Vincent Kiprop Wins In 29:16 Other distance action: Miss. State’s Rhianwedd Price-Weimer beating out Karissa Schweizer in the 1,500 (4:18.79), Texas A&M dominating the 800s with Sammy Watson (2:03.37) and Jazmine Fray (2:03.55) going 1-2 and Devin Dixon winning (1:46.76). Schweizer won the 5,000 in 15:58 and Vincent Kiprop competed the 5k/10k double with a 13:48.49 victory.
• Tennessee’s Stamatia Scarvelis Wins Women’s Hammer On Her Last Throw At SECs

• PAC-12: *Results *Meet Home
• Sam Prakel And Sprinter Cravon Gillsepie Lead Oregon Men To A 12th Consecutive PAC-12 Track Title Prakel won the 1,500 in 3:40.20 over Grant Fisher (3:41.97) and Sean McGorty (3:43.19). and was 3rd in the 800 while Gillespie won the 100 in a wind-aided 10.05 and was runner-up in the 200.
• USC Women Claims First PAC-12 Title Since 1996 They beat out Oregon by 14 points.
• Video Interview: Colorado’s Ben Saarel (14:11.23) And Zach Perrin (14:12.07) Go 1-2 In The 5,000
• Oregon Women Get Distance Wins From Sabrina Southerland (2:02.18) ANd Jessica Hull (4:21.65) Stanford’s Elise Cranny won the 5,000.
• Oregon Men Remain On Pace For Pace 12 Title, USC And ORegon In Tussle For Women’s Title
  
• Oregonian: Can USC Steal Oregon’s Thunder At PAC-12 Champs?
  

• Big 10: *Results *Meet Home
• Minnesota Takes Women’s Big 10 Title Michigan’s Claire Borchers won he steeple in 9:58).
• Ohio State Men Win Big Ten Champs Penn State’s Isaiah Harris highlighted the distance action with a 1:45.31 win in the 800.
• MB: ERIN FINN RUNS HERSELF INTO THE GROUND! WINS 10 K SOMEHOW With splits of 15:52 and 16:53, Finn won by almost a minute in 32:45. *Michigan Article

• Big 12: *Results *Meet Home
• Kansas State Women Repeat As Big 12 Champions Oklahoma’s Sarah Scott won the steeple in 9:59.53 in a close race with West Virginia’s Amy Cashin (10:00.040).
• Texas Tech Men Win Big 12 Champs They had a comfortable 48 point win over Texas.

• ACC: *Results *Meet Home
• Hosts Miami Women Win ACC Championships As It Comes Down To The Last Event They beat out Virginia Tech by just by 6 points. VT’s Rachel Pocratsky dominated the mid-d races with a double win in the 1500 (4:10.03) and 800 (2:03.36).
• FSU Men Beat Out Syracuse By Eight Points To Take ACC Title Virginia Tech was just another three points back in third.
• Depth: Syracuse Take Six Of The Top Seven Spots In The Men’s 5000 Justyn Knight lead the way with 13:58 to get the win.
• Virginia Tech Goes 1-2 In Men’s 1500 With Vincent Ciattei (3:46.37) And Diego Zarate (3:46.52) Justyn Knight was a not very distant 4th in 3:46.96.
• Friday Recap Syracuse dominates the steeple as Paige Stoner wins women’s race in 9:50 and Noah Affolder (8:46) leads a 1-2 for the men.

• Big East: *Results *Meet Home
• Mountain West: *Results

• Big Sky: *Results
• T&F News: 8 Questions For Conference Champs Weekend
• All Conference Champs Broadcast Info

Hayward Field Updates

• Hayward Field’s East Grandstand “Appears Doomed” After Eugene City Council Votes Against Pursuing Historic Landmark Designation Bob Penny, one of the leaders behind the effort to save the East grandstand, says the university worked behind the scenes to convince the council to vote against it.
• Register-Guard: “Iconic Hayward Field Stands Aren’t In Grand Shape” Jim Petsche, the project manager for the Hayward Field project, argues that the east grandstand  is in bad shape and needs to be scrapped.
• Report Suggests That The East Grandstand Is In Generally Good Shape
• Ken Goe Says He’s Heard That The Real Reason The East Grandstand Is Being Scrapped Is Because It Was Going To Get In The Way Of Having A 9-Lane Track
• Ken Goe Gives His Take On The Controversy Over The Hayward Field Reconstruction He also gives a few links to op-ed pieces with arguments on both sides of the stadium demolition.
• Register-Guard: “Hayward Field Back In 2020 Trials Contention”

This Weekend On The Roads

• Saturday: Aliphine Tulimuk Eyes Three-Peat At USATF 25K Champs Just One Week After Winning The US Half Championships She’ll face Lindsey Scherf, Emma Bates and Esther Atkins while the men’s race has Parker Stinson, Jared Ward and Scott Fauble.
• Emily Lipari Repeats As Medtronic TC 1 Mile Champion; Australian Sam McEntee Wins Men’s Title Lipari won in 4:39.8 outkicking Cory McGee (4:41.0) and Sarah Brown (4:41.7) while McEntee won in 4:03.0 over Daniel Herrera (4:03.7).
• 2017 Tokyo Marathon Champ Sarah Chepchirchir (2:19:47) Leads Field For Dalian Marathon In China As Ednah Mukwanah (2:30:24) Tries To Defend Her Title Mulu Seboka (2:21:56) is also in the women’s race while Willy Ngelel (2:10:50) will try to defend his title against several sub-2:10 men, including Victor Kipchirchir (2:07:39).
• Deep Field Set For Okpekpe 10K With Amdework Walelegnat (27:37 / 59:50 Half) And Asefa Mengistu Negew (2:04:06 In Dubai) World leader Sandra Tuei (30:57) leads the women’s race.

Reality TV Meets The Marathon

LRC Big Prize Money, Big Charity Donation, But No Drug Testing: What’s Up With Chip Gaines’ Silo District Marathon? Reality TV star Chip Gaines wanted to run a marathon so he created one from scratch. Since raising money for the Brave Like Gabe Foundation was the goal, everyone – even the pros like Betsy Saina – had to pay the $150 entry fee. Saina is glad she did as she walked away with the easiest $10,000 of her life.

Upcoming Action

• Thursday: Defending Champ Emily Lipari Faces Cory McGee, Sarah Brown And Natalija Piliusiina At The TC 1 Mile Men’s race has Lawi Lalang, last year’s runner-up Daniel Herrara and Brandon Hudgins.
• May 26: Great Matchup Set For Pre Classic 5,000 With Genzebe Dibaba Vs. Hellen Obiri And Sifan Hassan Field also has Marielle Hall, Dominique Scott, Worlds 5th placer Margaret Chelimo, World XC bronze medalist Lilian Kasait, Olympic 10k 4th placer Alice Aprot.
• MB: Stacked field for Pre Classic 2-mile… Paul Chelimo, Ben True, Edward Cheserek, Muktar Edris, Ryan Hill, Eric Jenkins and more.
• June 9: Boston Champ Des Linden And Top Three Finishers Sarah Sellers And Krista DuChene Lead NYRR New York Mini 10K Field
• May 27: European Heptathlon Champ Anouk Vetter Joins Field For Gotzis Hypo Multi Event Meeting World gold and silver medalists Nafissatou Thiam and Carolin Schafer were previously announced.
• May 31: World Champ Sam Kendricks Vs. Olympic Champ Thiago Braz Set For Rome Pole Vault The long jump will have World champ Luvo Manyonga and silver/bronze medalists Jarrion Lawson and Ruswahl Samaai.

USATF Half Champs Sunday At Pittsburgh *Results *Post-Race Video

Aliphine Tuliamuk Back To Her Winning Ways (1:10:04), Chris Derrick (1:02:37) Outlasts Stinson, As Gwen Jorgensen 4th (1:10:58) At USATF Half Marathon Championships Tuliamuk took it out hard and dropped everyone, but outlasted a charge from Sara Hall at end.

• Gwen Jorgensen Humble Pie In Her Half Marathon Debut
• Fikadu Girma Teferi (2:13:47) And Sydney Devore (2:32:39) Win Pittsburgh Marathon Teferi beat out Kipkoech Ruto by just 5 seconds while Devore ran 2:32 in her marathon debut.
  *Good Profile On Sydney Devore From Last Year Devore didn’t run for over four years after college due to injury, but started back up again in 2015.
• Discussion: Official Gwen Jorgensen Prediction / USATF Half Marathon Champs In Pittsburgh Thread Plus an interview with Gwen pre-race.

More Road News

• Buze Diriba And Jemal Yimer Win Bloomsday 12K
• Props To Boston: Boston Marathon Pays Out $21,700 In Prize Money To Five Non-Elite Women From Boston Five women had chip times that would get them prize money, but didn’t do the separate start with the elite field. This included 5th placer Jessica Chichester, who got $15,000 for her 5th place chip time.
• William Yegon (2:12:10) And Amelework Fekadu (2:38:05) Win Geneva Marathon Titles

More Weekend Action – USA Half Champs On Sunday *All Weekend NCAA Results

• Raevyn Rogers And Devon Allen Put On A Show With Victories And Meet Records At The Oregon Twilight Rogers won the 400 in 52.06 over Olympic 800 silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba (53.48). In doing so she broke Maria Mutola 20-year-old meet record. Allen won the 110H in 13.42 and the 100m in 10.29. *Results
• MB: Are You READY For the FIRST Big Event of the Year?? Yes, it’s IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships from Taicang 2018!!

A Dark Day For The Sport – Asbel Kiprop Reportedly Tests Positive

LRC Athletics Integrity Unit Responds: “No Mix-Up Or Tampering,” Kiprop’s “A” And “B” Samples Positive They deny Kiprop’s claims of tampering.
On The Boards: Kiprop Being Dirty & Not Paying a Bribe is More Likely Than Him Being Clean and Being Extorted

LRC Asbel Kiprop Releases Detailed Statement Of His Innocence, Explosive Allegations Of Breaches In Testing Protocols, Implies His Sample Was Sabotaged As a message board thread says, “Kiprop responds, and it’s wild.” Kiprop states testing protocols were violated, he sent cash to a tester, and the IAAF offered him a role as an anti-doping ambassador if he admitted his guilt. None of this proves his innocence, but he deserves his day in court.

LRC Asbel Kiprop Tests Positive For EPO – What Does It Mean? 5 Takeaways The greatest 1,500 runner in a generation has reportedly tested positive for EPO. What does it mean? The Rosas certainly have more explaining to do.

• Asbel Kiprop Responds To Doping Reports “I would not want to ruin all what I have worked for since my first international race in 2007. I hope I can prove that I am a clean athlete in every way possible.”
• Athletics Kenya Spokesmen Say They “Cannon Confirm Or Deny” The Asbel Kiprop Doping Report
• On The Boards: Olympic and world champion Asbel Kiprop has tested positive 
• Nick Willis dancing around the breakfast table fist pumping celebrating his 2008 Olympic Gold medal
• Doping experts, why would a distance athlete like Kiprop be on EPO at the end of the year? 
• Kiprop the biggest bust since??? 

Week That Was

WTW Penn Still Triumphs For Collegiate Relays, Lawi Lalang Is Almost A US Citizen, Jenny Simpson Has Some Work To Do + Laura Thweatt And Anna Rohrer Are Back Penn had the crowds and the fastest collegiate times this weekend, which made us happy, and hopefully Houston gets a recruiting bump for bringing it on the national stage.

More NCAA News From The Weekend

• Maggie Ewen Breaks NCAA Shot Put Record With 19.46m She adds this to her collegiate hammer throw record.
• Sammy Watson (2:02.49) And Devin Dixon (1:45.62) Gave Texas A&M An 800 Sweep At LSU Invy
• LSU Men And Women Get 8 Wins At Home Invitational
• A Result We Missed Last Week: Grant Fisher Runs 13:36.77 To Win Cardinal Classic 5,000 Fisher just beat out Colorado’s Zach Perrin (13:37.06) while Sean McGorty was 5th (13:41.19) in his first 5,000 since 2016. *Results
• LSU Women Remain #1 In Updated NCAA Rankings As Oregon Moves Up To 2nd Southern California and Arkansas are 3-4.
• No Changes To The Top 4 Men’s Teams In Updated NCAA Rankings Florida and Texas Tech are still 1-2.
• UTEP’s Michael Saruni And Arizona State’s Maggie Ewen Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Saruni broke the NCAA 800 record while Ewen threw 19.46m in the SP to become the first woman since Jenny Simpson to hold two or more NCAA records at once.
• Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend

US Road 10k Record Goes Down *Results

RRW A New Kenyan Star? 18-Year-Old Rhonex Kipruto Blasts 27:08 In Central Park To Break US All Comers 10k Record He’s only raced twice outside of Africa, but Kipruto has run 27:13 and 27:08 each time on the roads. He picked up a nice $40,000.

Penn Relays News *Schedule, Results *TV & Streaming

Day3: Team USA Dominates USA Vs. The World At The Penn Relays As Raevyn Rogers Anchored The Sprint Medley Team To A New WR Rogers split 50.48 to bring the team home in 1:35.20, breaking the previous record of 1:35.59. Team USA also got a win in the men’s 4 x 100, where the Justin Gatlin-led team ran 38.39 and the men’s 4 x 400, women’s 4 x 400 and men’s SMR. Jamaica won the women’s 4 x 100.

• University Of Houston Has A Huge Penn Relays, Taking The Men’s 4 X 100 And 4 X 400 They won the 4 x 400 thanks to a 43.38 anchor leg from Kahmari Montgomery. His split was the fastest in Penn Relays history.
• Jamaica’s Calabar HS Dominates, Sweeping The Boys 4 X 100, 4 X 400 And 4 X 800 Included meet records in the 4 x 400 (3:03.79) and 4 x 800 (7:26.09).
• Philly.com: Villanova Concludes A Banner Penn Relays With Five Championships The Villanova men got the 4 x mile win in 16:23 to add to the DMR title while the women took the 4 x 800 in 8:19 to complete their sweep of all three distance relays for the second straight year.
  *Villanova Men’s 4 X Mile Recap
• Philly.com: US Women Set WR In Sprint Medley, Dominate USA Vs. The World Relays Raevyn Rogers: “Although you’re on U.S. ground, [the Jamaican fans] still make it seem like it’s their territory.”
• Johnny Gregorek Makes Successful Penn Relays Return With 3:54.94 Olympic Development Mile Win It was the 3rd-fastest mile in Penn Relays history. In the women’s mile, Charlene Lipsey won in 4:31.19 as Ajee Wilson was 3rd (4:35.75).
• IAAF: Women’s SMR World Best Highlights Penn Relays
• Post-Race Video Interview With Justin Gatlin

Day 2:

• Day 2 Penn Recap By Philly.com: Inspired By Women’s Team’s Dominance, Villanova Men Win Distance Medley Relay At Penn Relays The ‘Nova men hadn’t won the men’s DMR since 2011. The Villanova women and Nicole Hutchinson continued to roll in the women’s 4 x 1,500.
  *Villanova Women’s 4 X 1,500 Win Recap
• MB: Isaiah Harris gets stick down by nearly 4 seconds, guy in leads runs 1:48 but Harris wins thanks to 1:44.74 The MB poster thinks it’s one of the best relay carries in Penn Relays history.
  *Penn State Article
• MB: Casey Comber gives Nova upset win in men’s DMR He went from from 3rd to 1st, Notre Dame 2nd, Princeton third.
• Recommended Read: Former Irish 3-Time Olympian Eamonn Coghlan Looks Back At When He Ran His First Sub-4 Mile At The Penn Relays It wasn’t his “official” first since it was anchor leg for the Villanova DMR.

Day 1:

• MB: Anna Rohrer is back…. Wins Penn Relays 10k in her 1st race in 10 months
• Villanova Women’s DMR Wins DMR Yet Again That’s 6 out of 7 thanks to a dominant 1,200 leg by Nicole Hutchinson.
  
• HS DMR Saratoga Springs’s Kelsey Chmiel (4:49.22) Comes From 12 Seconds Down To Win
• Recommended Read N.J.’s 47 Greatest Performances Of All Time At The Penn Relays From Marty Liquori to Carl Lewis to King Ches, they have you covered.
• Justin Gatlin, Fred Kerley And Raevyn Rogers Are All In US Relay Pool For Penn
• Leroy Burrell Is Back At Penn Relays With His Fleet Houston Cougars Burrell, the former 100 WR holder, says one of his career highlights came at Penn. Did you know Burrell won a PA state title by himself in HS?
• Nesta Carter Headlines Announced Jamaica Team For Penn Relays

LRC Analysis/Opinion

LRC Week That Was: Eliud Kipchoge Is The GOAT, Paula Radcliffe Is Too, Josh Kerr Runs Fast, But Nick Willis Is Still King Plus Commonwealth Games, Joshua Cheptegei, Tim Don update. And Sarah Sellers wasn’t the only one to negative split Boston.

LRC Mo Farah Showed Us The “Size Of His Balls” And Earned Even More Respect Farah tested his limits in London.

Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Results

LRC New Mexico’s Josh Kerr Runs 3:35.01 To Break NCAA 1,500m Record As impressive as Josh’s run was, Jim Ryun ran 3:33.1 as a collegiate sophomore 51 years ago but it wasn’t during the collegiate season. In our minds, anything achieved before you go pro or up through the NCAAs of your senior year is the real collegiate record.
Discuss: *Josh Kerr breaks NCAA record 3:35.01!! @Clay Invite
*Why Isn’t Jim Ryun’s 3:33.1 in 1967 the American Collegiate Record?

• Grenada Invitational: Justin Gatlin Runs 10.05 To Win 100m Over Isiah Young (10.11) And Mike Rodgers (10.17); Tori Bowie Wins 200m In 22.75 Other winners included LaShawn Merritt (200 – 20.57), Hannah Cunliffe (100m – 11.42), Shamier Little (400 – 51.45) and Kori Carter (100H – 12.79).
• Mt. SAC Relays: USC’s Twanisha Terry Runs Fourth-Fastest Under-20 100m In History With 10.99 At Mt. SAC Recent world indoor record setter Michael Norman won the 400 in a PR of 44.53 while World U20 silver medalist Lynna Irby won the women’s race in 50.95. Other winners included Brianna Rollins in the 100H (12.43), Fred Kerley in the 200 (20.48), Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad in the 400H (55.25), Jeff Demps in the 100 (10.08).
  *Results Georgia’s Jessica Drop won the 5,000 in 15:38 while Japan’s Yuki Fukuda took the 1,500 in 4:16.64 over Charlene Lipsey (4:16.76).
• World Champions Justin Gatlin And Tori Bowie Headline At Saturday’s Grenada Invitational
• Thursday @ Bryan Clay: Evan Jager (13:24) And Marielle Hall (15:39) Start Seasons Off With Wins As DII’s Sydney Gibaduday Beats D1’s Matthew Baxter For Top NCAA Honors Nice run by Gibaduday for top NCAA honors. Acceptable rust buster for Jager in our book, but at least one guy disagrees.
  *Discuss Meet *Jager Looked BAD