Non-NCAA Weekend US Results

This Coming Weekend: RRW: Desi Linden, Paul Chelimo Ready for United Airlines NYC Half On Sunday Linden faces a deep women’s field with WR holder Joyciline Jepkosgei, two-time world marathon champ Edna Kiplagat and defending champ Buze Diriba. The men’s race has USA marathon champ Brogan Austin and Cam Levins.

LRCAmerican Record Holder Athing Mu Gets Beaten By High School Freshman Roisin Willis, Who Sets National Freshman Record For 800 Two weeks after running faster than any American ever at 600m indoors, 16-year-old sensation Athing Mu got beaten by a high school freshman at 800m. Yes, you read that correctly. That’s what happens when you go for sub-2 and tie up.
*Loudoun Valley Sweeps Men’s Distance Relay With 2 National Records

Shadrack Kipchirchir And Unknown Erika Kemp Win USATF 15km Titles At Gate River Run $12,000 for the winners.
*Top 10 Results
*MB:Erika Kemp, Relative Unknown, wins Gate River Run

Jordan Hasay Runs 71:06 At Rome Half The race was won in 66:40 by Lonah Salpeter Chemtai. Guye Adola won the men’s race in 60:17. *IAAF Recap

2019 NCAA Indoors*Results*Post-Race Interviews*Broadcast Info

LRCWisconsin’s Morgan McDonald And Oregon’s Jessica Hull Cross Finish Line 1st Yet Again In 3,000s At 2019 NCAA IndoorsThe 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 TitlesDanae 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 TitlesTwo 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 PR.
MB: Dude with 4:06 mile PB – Geordie Beamish – just won the 2019 NCAA indoor mile title

MB Chatter

• MB:Official 2019 NCAA Indoor Day 2 Discussion Thread
• MB:Grant Holloway – What level of greatness are we witnessing with this guy?
• MB: Dude with 4:06 mile PB – Geordie Beamish – just won the 2019 NCAA indoor mile title
• MB:It’s official: Morgan McDonald > Grant Fisher
• MB:Grant Fisher = Emily Infeld

Women In Sport News

• First Female IAAF Vice President To Be Elected In 2019 The IAAF has added “minimum gender targets” to its constitution meaning that some positions will be open to women only.
• French Sportswear Retailer Decathlon Cancels Plan To Sell Sports Hijab For Women Runners After Public Outcry The company said they received 500 calls and emails with insults and even threats. Apparently France has strict laws that actually ban the Muslim headscarf in state schools and some public buildings (but it is allowed in public spaces).
• On International Women’s Day, Laura Muir Says Girls Should “Just Go Out And Have Fun” With Sport

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 Previews: 800s, Miles,3ks/5ks, Team *D2 Schedule*Free D2 Stream*D3 Schedule*Free D3 Stream *All LRC Coverage

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.

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