Finish Of The Day
Danae Rivers makes the right moves & becomes the 800m #ncaaTF Indoor Champion. pic.twitter.com/f4AG1amVNe
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) March 9, 2019
- Jordan Hasay runs 71:06 at Rome Half in race won in 66:40
- FRESHMAN TAKES DOWN ATHING MU - Wins 800 at New Balance Nationals
- Gjert Ingebrigtsen shares the secret to his sons' success - high mileage - and claims "they don’t have any natural speed.
- 4 month old Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max plane crashes on takeoff to Nairobi - All 157 on board are killed
- NY Times says running is “overwhelmingly white.”
- Erika Kemp, Relative Unknown, wins Gate River Run
- Sam Affolder greatest triple ever at nationals?
- Any OMAD (one meal a day) people on here?
- Craig Virgin on Caster Semenya
2019 NCAA Indoors *Schedule / Results *Post-Race Interviews*Broadcast Information *LRC Previews: 800s, Miles,3ks/5ks, Team *D2 Schedule*Free D2 Stream*D3 Schedule*Free D3 Stream *All LRC Coverage
LRC Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald and Oregon’s Jessica Hull Cross Finish Line 1st Yet Again in 3000s at 2019 NCAA Indoors The men’s race came down to McDonald vs. Fisher as we hoped it would. Monson vs. Hull never materialized in the women’s race.
LRC Penn State’s Danae Rivers (Narrowly) and Kansas’ Bryce Hoppel (Convincingly) Win 2019 NCAA Indoor 800 Titles Danae Rivers was just 5th coming off the final turn but somehow she got the win over Penn’s Nia Akins at the line. In the men’s race, Kansas’ Bryce Hoppel was clearly the best.
LRC Ohio State’s Julia Rizk and NAU’s Geordie Beamish Pull Off Upsets To Win 2019 NCAA Indoor Mile Titles Two runners who had never even been in an NCAA final before won the mile titles tonight in Birmingham. Men’s winner Geordie Beamish only has a 4:06 pb.
MB: Dude with 4:06 mile PB – Geordie Beamish – just won the 2019 NCAA indoor mile title
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Previous Non-NCAA News
- UTEP Steeplechase Legend Anthony Rotich Is Now An American Citizen And He’s Eyeing A 2020 Olympic Spot
*MB: Andy Bayer’s worst nightmare – 3-time NCAA steeple champ Anthony Rotich just became a US citizen 
Daniel Rudisha’s father had two very close co-wives The article says David Rudisha’s mother only agreed to marry his father if he also agreed to marry another woman, one of her best friends from childhood.
*MB: David Rudisha’s mother only agreed to marry his father if he also married her great friend- Athletics Canada Names David Bedford Chief Executive Officer No, it’s not the Dave Bedford of London Marathon fame.
Recommended Read Racewalkers Unite To Save Their Sport The IAAF has proposed two radical changes. 1) Changing 50k and 20k to 30 and 10k and 2) to require all racers to wear a chip that helps determine if they are walking or not.
*MB: Racewalkers unite in opposition to insoles in chips being mandated by IAAF that would determine it they are actually walking- Wayde Van Niekerk Says He Wants To Run 42-Second 400 Before He Concentrates On 100m And 200m “I think I want to seal the 42, that is where my mind is at and my heart is at.I want to focus and invest properly and get that 42, then I can get back to what I really want to do which is the 100m and 200m.”
- Geoffrey Kamworor Writes A Letter Giving Advice To His Younger Self Some fun facts: Kamworor had to run 8k to and from school each day and used to race with friends and pretend to be either Haile Gebrselassie or Eliud Kipchoge.
- In Iten, Kenya, The Famed Kamariny Public Training Ground Track Is Closed And Some Big Names Aren’t Happy About It Even Colm O’Connell isn’t pleased about it.
RIP News: David Rudisha’s Father Has Died
1968 Olympic 4 X 400 Silver Medalist Daniel Rudisha Dies At Age 73 The father of 800m WR holder David died from a heart attack Wednesday night after spending some days in the hospital recovering from kidney failure. David said, “It was shocking that he passed on. He is my hero and the man behind my athletic success.”- IAAF Tribute:USA’s 1960 Olympic Pole Vault Champion Don Bragg Dies At Age 83
- MB: 49-Year-Old Keith Flint Of British Band, The Prodigy, Dies Two Days After Running 21:22 For 5k
Non-LRC NCAA Coverage
- IAAF recap of day 2 of NCAA indoors
USTFCCCA meet recap: Florida Men, Arkansas Women Capture Team Titles- Floridagators.com: UF Repeats as NCAA Men’s Indoor Champs, Win Three Individual Titles Grant Holloway led the way with wins in the 60h (American record of 7.35) and 60 (6.50).
- Arkansasrazorbacks.com: Lexi Jacobus and Arkansas pole vaulters lead Hogs to their third NCAA title Jacobus racked up the 4th NCAA title of her career as the Arkansas vaulters scored 21.
- Payton Otterdahl becomes 2nd man in history to sweep shot and weight throw titles at NCAAs
- D2: Ashland Men, Adams State Women Win National Titles
- D3: North Central Men, Williams Women Victors
Day 1 At NCAAs
LRC On, Wisconsin! Badgers Morgan McDonald & Alicia Monson Sweep 2019 NCAA 5Ks The only debate we have is which Badger was more dominant?
LRC Notre Dame Men And Yared Nuguse Edge Stanford & Grant Fisher (3:54 Anchor) For 2019 NCAA DMR Title; Oregon Women Repeat Iowa State had a massive 6+ second lead heading into the anchor in the men’s race but it didn’t matter as Yared Nuguse got the job done with a 3:56 split.
*MB: Grant MF Fisher splits 3:54.24 and loses!!!
LRC2019 NCAA Mile Semis: Top 7 Seeds All Move On To Tomorrow’s Mile Final; 800 Semis Produce A Little More Drama Includes post-race interviews with Sam Worley, WilliamPaulson, and Karisa Nelson. Updated with 800 interviews: Danae Rivers, DevinDixon, and Marco Arop.
Non-LRC Day 1 NCAA News
- IAAF Day 1 Recap: Duplantis and Holloway shine on day 1
Rayvon Grey (7.97, 26’ 1.75” LJ) And Mondo Duplantis (5.83 , 19’ 1.50” PV) Win National Titles For LSU To Give Them Day 1 Lead- Florida Gators And Grant Holloway Open Spectacularly Holloway got third in the LJ (7.95m, he was in 1st when he stopped jumping), broke the NCAA meet record in the 60H in the semis (7.44), and had the fastest time of the day in the flat 60 (6.53).
North Dakota State Star Payton Otterdahl Is Looking To Be 1st Man To Win SP And Weight Throw At NCAAs Since 2004 He’s halfway there as he won the shot (21.71m, 71-02.75) to become the 1st individual national champ for North Dakota State in any sport.- Arkansas women’s coach Lance Harter is confident after day 1, “I think we’re going to be in good shape tomorrow,”
- Arizona State’s Samantha Noennig Comes Up Huge On Final Throw (17.91/58-9.25) To Win Shot By 2 cm
The Inside Scoop From The NCAA Press Conference
LRC Grant Holloway Is Too Fast For His Own Good; Now He’s Attempting An Audacious NCAA Indoor Quadruple This weekend will Grant Holloway explode from NCAA megastar into a full-blown legend like Jesse Owens? Mike Holloway hopes so: “If Grant’s not in shape to run a couple of 60s and take four to six long jumps, then I haven’t done my job.”
LRCAnswers To The Big Questions At 2019 NCAA Indoors: How To Build An NCAA Program, How To Win NCAAs, & Why Mondo Duplantis Didn’t Turn Pro Texas Tech coach Wes Kittley shares the secrets of how he’s built a national title contender from scratch and Florida coach Mike Holloway tells you how to actually win it all, ” You win championships with quality, not quantity. … Just because you have 100 kids at the meet doesn’t mean that you have 100 kids that can score.”
LRCTeam Preview: Can Wisconsin Win NCAAs With A Two-Man Team? And Can Anyone Stop The Arkansas Women? We don’t think Wisco will win and instead are projecting Texas Tech to win the first NCAA title in any men’s sport in school history.
Outside LRC Pre-NCAA Coverage
- TFN/Jeff Hollobaugh: 10 Things To Watch For At The NCAAs
- DyeStat.com: 10 Men’s Story Lines To Follow At NCAAs
- DyeStat.com: 10 Women’s Story Lines To Follow At NCAAs
- Arkansas Women Talented, Favored To Win Meet “I think this team may be the strongest that we’ve ever had, and that’s saying a lot considering we’ve won two national titles. … We’ve got experience, we’ve got talent and we’ve got depth.”
More NCAA News / Rankings
Latest NCAA Rankings Have Texas Tech Men #1 And Florida #2 LSU moved up to 3rd and Texas A&M down to 4th. *Last Week’s Rankings- No Changes To Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings As Arkansas, Southern California And LSU Sit 1-3 Ohio State jumped up from 7th to 4th. *Last Week’s Rankings
- Men’s Pre-NCAA Bowerman Watch List Includes Distance Runners Grant Fisher, Oliver Hoare, And Devin Dixon Freshman pole vault star Mondo Duplantis is also on the list.
- Women’s Pre-NCAA Bowerman Watch List Includes Three Distance Runners: Jessica Hull, Ednah Kurgat And Danae Rivers
- 2019 NCAA DI Indoor T&F Regional Award Winners
The New Balance US HS Nationals Are This Weekend As Well *Schedule / Meet Info *Results *2019 Entries *Free Live Webcast
UPSET CITY: MB: FRESHMAN TAKES DOWN ATHING MU – Wins 800 at New Balance Nationals
- List of 2019 New Balance Nationals Winners – The Big Board
- Sam Affolder And Loudoun Valley Break DMR Record (9:54.41); Katelyn Tuohy Leads Team To 4th Straight DMR Win The splits were as follows: Jacob Hunter (3:01), Akere Simms (50.92), Connor Wells (1:55) and Affolder (4:06.21). Tuohy split 4:41.
*MB: Sam Affolder greatest triple ever at nationals? Two 4:06 splits and a 1:51. - MB: Transgender Connecticut Sprinter Accepted to New Balance Indoor Nationals
- 10 Boys Story Lines To Follow At New Balance Nationals Indoor 2019
- 10 Girls Story Lines To Follow At New Balance Nationals Indoor 2019 Naturally, #1 is Athing Mu.
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2019 NCAA Indoor Individual Previews
LRC 3k/5K Previews: Can Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald & Alicia Monson Sweep All Four Distance Races? Or Will Grant Fisher, Jessica Hull, Or Someone Else Play Spoiler? We break down the longest individual races at NCAAs for you.
LRC 2019 NCAA DMR Preview:Why Every Men’s Team Won’t Win The DMR (& Why The Oregon Women Will) We break down the DMRs for the upcoming NCAA indoor champs by starting by telling you why each team won’t win.
*MB: Rojo claims “several” NCAA footballers can split 46 for 400m in a DMR. Is that true?
LRC800 Preview: Devin Dixon & Danae Rivers Try To Cap Stellar Seasons With Their First NCAA Titles We think Texas A&M’s Devin Dixon, who set the American collegiate record of 1:45.27 this year, and NCAA women’s 1,000m record holder, Penn State’s Danae Rivers, will be tough to beat in the 800s at NCAAs.
LRCMile Preview: Ollie Hoare Favored To Win Men’s Title; Can Hannah Meier Complete A Comeback For The Ages In Wide-Open Women’s Race? Prior to this year, Michigan’s sixth-year senior Hannah Meier hadn’t PRed since high school. Yet she enters the NCAA mile as the #1 seed. Can she win it?
Sprint / Field Event News
Up-And-Coming Australian Decathlete Ashley Moloney Is Being Compared To WR Holder Kevin Mayer Who knows how he’ll progress, but 18-year-old World U20 champ Moloney is actually better than Mayer was at the same age.- IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast With Lolo Jones Jones talks about some of her experiences from the summer and winter Olympics.
- IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Serbia’s World Indoor LJ Champ Ivana Spanovic
LRC Weekly Exclusives
LRC Podcast Kejelcha Is King, Gregorek Joins Sub-3:50 Club, 2019 Euro Indoors, Tokyo, Wife Audio, Transgender Sport And “Scalping” We’ve got a big show for you this week which includes audio from Wejo’s wife as she watches the Tokyo marathon.
LRC WTW: Racing And Time Trialing Are Very Different, Laura Muir Is Dominant, And The Olympic Marathon Trials Will Be Hilly If you thought Kejelcha’s world record was all that happened last week, think again.
Kejelcha Gets The Mile World Record
LRC Final Yomif Kejelcha 3:47.01 Mile World Record! As Johnny Gregorek Is Seventh American To Go Sub-3:50 What a race!
Discuss: YOMIF KEJELCHA WR
*CAN GREGOREK TAKE DOWN THE INDOOR MILE AR?
*CRAZY or GENIUS? Alberto Salazar Says Kejelcha is Going for BOTH 1500 AND Mile records at same time
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