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• SEC: *Meet Home/Info *Full Results
• Florida Men Win SEC Title Over Arkansas With 4 Individual Crowns They beat out Arkansas by 15 points. Texas A&M’s Devin Dixon won the 800 in 1:47.47.
• Arkansas Women Win Their 5th-Straight SEC Title They won easily, beating Texas A&M by 81 points. Texas A&M’s Jazmine Fray won the 800 in 2:05.42.
• Tahar Triki Wins SEC TJ, Breaking His Own School And Algerian Record With 17.12m
• Day 2 Recap/Highlights: Razorbacks, Gators Claim SEC Track Titles
• Day 1 Recap/Highlights
• Pre-Meet:Arkansas Men Have Won 22 Out 27 SEC Indoor Champs They’ve Competed At But Come In As Underdogs

• MPSF: *Meet Home/Info *Full Results
• Team Effort Earns BYU Men MPSF Title By 17 Points Over UCLA Distance wins went to USC’s Isaiah Jewett in the 800 (1:47.20), Arizona State’s William Paulson in the mile (3:58.07) over CU’s Joe Klecker (3:58.51) and UCLA’s Robert Brandt in the 3,000 (7:50.27 to BYU’s Conner Mantz‘s 7:50.90). A Stanford DMR team with Grant Fisher won in 9:31.39.
• USC Women WIn Their 5th MPSF Title In 6 Years They dominated the meet with Stanford and Oregon a distant 2nd and 3rd. BYU’s Erica Birk took the mile in 4:34.59 and Stanford’s Fiona O’Keeffe won the 3,000 in 8:58.58. The Oregon women put up the 7th-fastest time in the NCAA this year with a 10:57.87 DMR win.

• ACC: *Meet Home/Info*Full Results
• Florida State And Virginia Tech Men Tie For SEC Title With 117 Points Apiece VT got a win from Peter Seufer (7:59.60) in the 3,000 to go up 113 to 107 over FSU, but FSU took the 4×400 in 3:10.61 to tie the meet. Notre Dame’s Yared Nuguse dominated the mile in 3:57.93 while Wake Forest’s Robert Heppenstall won the 800 in 1:46.87.
• Miami Women Initially Tie, Then Win ACC Champs Title After A DQ Costs FSU The Meet They beat out FSU by just 6 points with VT another point back in 3rd. FSU had initially tied for the win, but were DQed from their 3rd place 4 x 400 finish, which gave the meet to Miami. This was Miami’s third win in four years. VT’s Rachel Pocratsky put down a 2:03.43 to win the 800.
• Good Read:FSU Men Rally To Tie For The Win While The Women Leave Heartbroken By 4 X 400 DQ
• VT Men Clinch A Share Of ACC Indoor Title
• ACC Event-By-Event Thursday/Friday Highlights
• Pre-Meet: Florida State Men And Women Race To Defend Their ACC Indoor Titles

• Big 12:*Meet Home/Info *Full Results
• Texas Tech Men Repeat As Big 12 Champions They won comfortably, 70 points ahead of second place. Kansas’ Bryce Hopped won the 800 in 1:46.84.
• Texas Women Win Their Fifth Big 12 Indoor Title In The Last Six Years They beat out Texas Tech by 19.5 points. Kansas’ Marleena Eubanks took the 800 in 2:03.99.

• Big Ten: *Meet Home/Info *Full Results
• Nebraska Men Just Beat Out Indiana By 2 Points To Take Big Ten Champs Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald got a dominant 13:37.85 win in the 5,000.
• Ohio State Women Crowned Big Ten Champions They beat out Indiana by 29 points. Distance winners included Penn State’s Danae Rivers in the 800 (2:03.45), Michigan’s Hannah Meir in the mile (4:32.46) and Alicia Monson won the 3k/5k double.

• Mountain West:*Meet Home/Info*Full Results/Start Lists
• Colorado State Men And Women Sweep Mountain West Champs Allie Ostrander won the 3,000 in 9:11.61 over Charlotte Prouse (9:13.64), but lost the mile to Kelati Weini (4:37.75 to 4:41.38).

• Ivy League: *Meet Home/Info*Results
  
• Princeton Completes Five-Peat At Heps Champs They beat out Penn by 28.5 points. They’re also now two-thirds of the way through another triple crown.
• University Of Pennsylvania Repeats As Heps Champions Harvard was runner-up 34 points back.
• MB: Calling on all Ivy League Track and Field alums. Come to the Heps reception in Boston on Saturday(6-8:30 pm ET). Extra tickets added after sellout.

Other Distance News

• MB:Luke Puskedra Retires From The Sport To Become A Real Estate Agent The 2:10:34 man made the announcement on Instagram, saying, “For a long time, life was that thing that happened somewhere between one training session and the next. After twenty years, I have made the decision to start lacing up a different pair of shoes between runs.”
• 2016 Canadian 1,500 Olympian Charles Philibert-Thiboutot Shares Video Collage From Three Days On The Summer European Circuit The video is titled simply, 72 Hours.

More Semenya News

• Athletics Weekly:Caster Semenya And IAAF Case Continues To Divide Opinion Athletes to voice their opinion included Paula Radcliffe who said the effects of elevated testosterone “can’t be ignored” and tennis great Billie Jean King who called the IAAF testosterone rules “barbaric, dangerous, and discriminatory”.
• The Guardian‘s Sean Ingle:“Court Has Caster Semenya’s Career In Its Hands = And Decision Could Affect All Of Sport” Story includes a quote from the IAAF’s lawyer Jonathan Taylorwho explained how they fear if they lose the CAS case it could open the door for transgender athletes to compete as women, meaning “women with normal female testosterone levels will not have any chance to win.”
• Independent: Caster Semenya’s Lawyers Claim IAAF Testosterone Limit Is “Flawed And Hurtful” Allowing her to compete untreated is hurtful to all female athletes who weren’t born intersex.
• AP:Sports’ Future In Balance With Semenya-IAAF Showdown

Doping Admin News

• IAAF Approves The Application Of 21 Russians To Compete As Neutral Athletes
• Dominican Republic’s Former Long Distance Swimmer Marcos Diaz Launches Campaign For WADA Presidency There are currently four candidates running to succeed Craig Reedie. A final choice will be made at a WADA meeting in May.
• Nigeria Reinstated By WADA After It Had Being Declared Non-Compliant In November

More Distance Stuff

• Eliud Kipchoge Wins Laureus Exceptional Achievement Award This award is actually a “discretionary award” that has only been handed out three times previously in the history of the event (one of them was to Michael Phelps). Kipchoge was also a finalist for the World Sportsman of the Year award, which went to tennis champion Novak Djokovic.
• Noah Droddy (28:32) And Kellyn Taylor (32:13) Come Away With The Wins At The Pacific Pursuit 10k Taylor beat out her NAZ Elite teammate Stephanie Bruce (32:15) in what was set up as an early season opportunity for athletes to hit USATF qualifying standards. *Discuss
• Podcast:Carrie Tollefson Catches Up With Emily Infeld Discussing Her Recent Injury And Surgery
• Olympic And World Steeplechase Champ Conseslus Kipruto Leads Coast Region Team For Kenyan National XC Champs This Weekend

Post-Weekend NCAA News

• No Changes To The Top Seven Men’s Teams As Texas Tech, Texas A&M And Florida Top Updated NCAA Rankings
• Arkansas And Southern California Top Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings As Oregon Moves Up To 3rd
• Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend There were some fast mile times at the UW Last Chance Meet where seven men went sub-4, led by Arizona’s Carlos Villarreal, who won in 3:57.27 over Oregon’s Charlie Hunter (3:57.74) and James West (3:57.75). UW’s Katie Rainsberger had the fastest collegiate mile with 4:35.15 for 4th place as China’s Xu Shuangashuang won the race in 4:33.53 over Eleanor Fulton (4:33.91).
  *Arizona Article*Full UW Results
• BYU Men And Colorado Women Are 2018 Scholar XC Teams Of The Year
• Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald And Oregon’s Jessica Hull Are 2018’s DI Scholar XC Athletes Of The Year

Road / XC Results: Two WRs Go Down In Monaco

• Ethiopians Ayana Tsedat (2:06:36) And Guteni Shone (2:24:29) Win Seville Marathon The men’s race was super tight as Tsedat beat Belay Asefa by 3 seconds with the next three places all finishing within the next 10 seconds. Fourth place went to rabbit Okubai Tsegay, who stayed in the race to set an Eritrean national record of 2:06:46.
• Julien Wanders And Sifan Hassan Both Break World Records At Herculis 5k In Monaco Wanders ran 13:29 to just sneak inside the old record by one second while Sondre Moen finished 8 seconds back. Hassan ran 14:44, beating the previous record of 14:48 and dominating the race by 45 seconds.
  *Note: The fastest road 5ks ever run are actually by Sammy Kipketer (12:59.5 at Carlsbad 5,000 in 2000) and Joyciline Jepkosgei (14:32 for the first half of her 10k WR in 2017), but the IAAF only started recognizing the 5k road record in 2017.
• Kenya’s Barnabas Kiptum (2:09:20) And Belarus’ Volha Mazuronak (2:26:13) Break Course Records To Win Hong Kong Marathon
• Kenyan Ezekiel Cheboitibin Breaks 38-Year-Old Course Record At Ome 30k In Japan Japan’s Kaori Yoshida won the women’s race.
• Team USA Sweeps The Senior Titles At NACAC XC Champs Team USA’s Abbabiya Simbassa and Breanna Sieracki got the individual wins, but in the junior races the Canadians dominated.

News From The IAAF

• Interesting Look Back On The Origin Of Cross-Country Running Which Started As A School “Hunt Club” In 1819 Random fact: Charles Darwin actually attended this school as a child.
• Stanford Officially Selected As Site Of 2019 Prefontaine Classic With the construction on Hayward Field, the meet had to be moved for this year’s Pre Classic. There were reports of this last month, but it wasn’t official.
• World First Biomechanics Research On Indoor Track Released In Birmingham The IAAF released analysis from performances of 161 athletes across 13 events.
• Olympic And World Pole Vault Champ Katerina Stefanidi Says Biomechanics Reports Provide Useful Coaching Insights Something really interesting Stefanidi said was that she usually knows “the second she takes off” whether she’ll make the bar or not.
• Doha 2019 Unveil Mascot For World Champs It’s a falcon named Falah.
• CAS Dismisses Karim Ibrahim’s Appeal Against IAAF Decision To Remove Him From IAAF Council CAS found that “there was nothing unfair about the process” and that Ibrahim had “failed to meet his disclosure obligations.”

Kemoy Campbell News

• Kemoy Campbell Issues Statement Full Of Gratitude And Posts Video Of Him Walking. Says he was little dizzy. Sorry ladies, he’s taken.
• Outside Publishes Article On “Crisis Of Runners’ Healthcare” As independent contractors, most runners don’t get health insurance from their sponsors as it can cost more than $20k for a family in the US.