2018 NCAAs *Schedule & Results *TV & Streaming *Post-Race Interviews *Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

MB: Official 2018 NCAA Outdoors Day 3 Discussion Thread The meet has started with a bang. Who needs hot weather. It’s cold and rainy and yet Houston just smashed the 29-year old 4x 100 record.

LRC Final Sharon Lokedi Wins NCAA 10,000m As Six Women Break 30-Year-Old Meet Record Great run by Lokedi. Full recap with video of finish.

LRC Women’s Day 1 Recap: Comeback Stories (& Fast Times) In The 1,500, A Great Day Of Sprinting, & A Slugfest Is Brewing In The Team Competition A great day of action. The only bad news is the weather forecast for Saturday – cold AND rain.

Post-Race Interviews:

• Wednesday On The Boards: Karissa Schweizer goes home DEVASTATED 
• NCAA decathlon champ is the ONLY guy in field who hasn’t broken 5:00 for 1500. What can we do to help him? 
• re-ranking the Women’s 5k after Schweizer ends up 3rd in 10k 
• What happened to Ariana Washington? 

LRC Predictions And Favorites For All The Running Events At NCAAs We tabulated the votes in our Running Warehouse prediction contest.

NCAAs Day 1 Men (Wednesday)

LRC Upset City! Michigan’s Ben Flanagan Stuns Everyone To Win 10,000m Title Ben Flanagan had never broken 29 minutes in his life before Wednesday, but he believed in himself and he stunned the NCAA track and field world by winning the 10,000m title.
*Ben Flanagan Raves About Coach Kevin Sullivan After His 10k Win “He cares so much about his athletes and instills a level of self-belief that is incredibly humbling, yet motivating. I hope everyone gets the chance to meet Sully, it really is a special privilege.”
*SI’s Chris Chavez Talks With Flanagan’s Mom

LRC Day 1 Recap: Terrific Field Action As Denzel Comenentia Leads The Meet By Himself, Josh Kerr Is Thinking NCAA Record, & Florida’s Title Chances Take A Hit A great day 1 is in the books and Comenentia won the hammer and the shot.
*Despite LJ Struggles, Florida Men Still Projected To Win By 13 At NCAAs

Full Day 1 Results On 1 Page  Ben Flanagan of Michigan pulled the upset in the men’s 10,000m, Chris Nilsen of South Dakota broke the NCAA meet record in the pole vault, and Georgia’s Denzel Comenentia won the shot put and the hammer throw. Grant Holloway of Florida was a non-scorer in 9th in the long jump.

Tonight In Boston (Concord, MA)

2018 Adrian Martinez Preview

Have You Ever Seen The Last 2 Laps Of The 1964 Olympic 5,000m? (We Hadn’t Either Until This Article)

LRC On the Eve Of The Final Meet At Hayward Field, A Tribute To American Track And Field Legend, “The Magician,” Bill Dellinger Dellinger may be most known for coaching at Oregon but he got an Olympic medal in 1964 as well. Worth a read/quick watch.

Previous Outside NCAA Coverage

• A Look At UTEP’s Forgotten Man – Jonah Koech Koech, who beat NCAA record holder Michael Saruni twice at conference, has opted for the 800, not the 1,500, at NCAAs as that’s where his passion is.
• USF’s Charlotte Taylor Tries For Another NCAA Title In 10,000 Taylor, who grew up playing soccer with boys, describes herself as a “vicious” as a child, is 1 of 13 foreigners on the team and they are getting 6 more for next year.
• Oregon Women Will Fight To Retain Their NCAA Women’s Track Title This Week They are seeded 3rd – 4 points out of 1st – but easily could win if Arianna Washington, the 2016 NCAA 100 and 200 champ, returns to form (but she’s not projected to score).

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San Diego Marathon “Shooting”

The San Diego Tribune: Police Arrest Woman Shooter In Downtown San Diego Near Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon She was only armed with an airsoft gun, but an officer accidentally shot himself while pursuing her (his injuries aren’t life threatening).
*The Washington Post: Officer Accidentally Shot Self During Suspect Chase *CBS News
*MB: Shooter arrested at Roll ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon

Weekend US Action

• LRC Solid Distance Results At The 2018 Music City Distance Carnival Highlights included Emily Richards (2:00.67) and Thomas Staines (1:45.57) taking the 800 wins and steeple wins from Genevieve Lalonde (9:38) and Anthony Rotich (8:34). 4:05.69 win by Marta Freitas in the 1,500.
  *DyeStat: Caitlin Collier (2:00.85 800) And Brodey Hasty (8:00.92 3,000) Come Up Big At Music City Distance Carnival Collier: “This was a much bigger mental battle against myself. I realized I could go out and run against all those other women.”
  *MileSplit: Caitlin Collier Runs #5 All-Time 800 With 2:00.85
  *MB: Caitlin Collier 2:00.85
  *MB: Brodey Hasty Runs #3 All-Time 3000 With 8:00.92 At Music City
• RRW: Sarah Pagano Wins Freihofer’s Run With Big Final Surge Diane Nukuri had a small lead towards the end, but Pagano surged past her in the final kilometer to win in 15:48 with Stephanie Bruce 2nd (15:53) and Nukuri 3rd (15:56).
• MileSplit Video Interview: Anthony Schwartz Runs 4th All-Time High School 100m With 10.09
• MB: Sophomore Matt Strangio Closes In 57 To Win California State Meet 3200 In 8:56
• Anna Hall Breaks National High School Heptathlon Record with 5798 She destroyed Kendell Williams‘ record by 220 points and she’s only a junior in HS.
• Katelyn Tuohy Runs Double US#1s Ahead Of New York State Meet 4:22 for 1,500 and 9:15 for 3k at the same HS meet is pretty darn impressive.
• MB: Zach Miller’ Amazing North Face 50 Miler Finish

Sprints And Jumps

• Recommended Read: Dawn Harper Nelson Tells The Story Behind Her 2008 Olympic 100H Gold Harper talks about coming back to the athlete village and sharing a room with teammate Damu Cherry, who was 4th. “All night she was crying in bed and I am in the other bed knowing I am Olympic champion, bursting with emotion.”
• Bahamas 400 Runner Steven Gardiner Shares The High And Low Of His Career Apparently third time was the charm for Gardiner as e won World silver last year after having the two lows of his career at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2015.
• IAAF: 100 Years After Her Birth, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen’s Legacy Lives On She is most remembered for winning four golds at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles and 4 x 100.
• Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games TJ Champ Kimberly Williams Explains Her Love For The Sport “The best thing about triple jump is that it is very technical and it feels easy when you do it right. I often know it is a good jump when I’m going into the jump phase because it feels like I have been in the air forever.”

Week That Was

LRC Sara Hall Moves Into US Top 10, Linden Hall Breaks Aussie Record, Geoffrey Kamworor Cashes In, The LetsRun.com Singlet PRs Plus the news of an LRC visitor driving to the Pre Classic to find out the meet was already over and an update on Yomif Kejelcha who didn’t run Pre.