Official 2024 NCAA East Regionals Discussion Thread

So any big misses on Day 1? Anybody expected to make nationals bomb of the top 12 in the field events or not make the top 24 for the next round? Biggest name i saw was Brian Herron in the 400 not make it. I also saw that Erin Brown who has a big online following didn't advance in the 100/200. Evans Kiplagat in the 10k. Tarsis Orogot, jordan ware, Cameron Rose in the 100. Conor Murphy 1500, Kennedy Lightner, Kennedy Harrison 400. Sam Austin, Tyrese Reid. Da'marcus Fleming 200.

Also, feel free to mention athletes who would be considered a longshot to make it who qualified.

Akron's Hunter Garrettson is ranked #1 nationally in the PV (5.83m) but he no heighted yesterday. Sadly, he did something similar at NCAA Indoors where he was one of the top seeds and NHed. He's a senior, but I don't know if he has any more eligibility.

Speaking of PV - women's PV got moved to tomorrow AM due to the weather.

Hammer and javelin are now warming up, per website at 11:15

I've heard of that being proposed in the past so it makes sense that it happened last night.

Unlike you, I LOVE it. You don't want to take the top 12 seed times as people don't go all out in the season inn the 10k. You don't want to re-run it as bad weather is forecast and plus it tires people out for the 5000.

All of these people have flown to Kentucky to run in the regional qualifier. If you are 6k in, I doubt the results would be much different if they kept going until 12k.

I'll relent that none of the options are great. But running some arbitrary distance, then ringing a bell to complete the race over some distance less than or equal to 400 meters seems like the worst of them. To begin with, there are 48 people on the track, so it already looks like a glorified road race. If, on top of that, we can't honor the distance that they're trying to qualify for, it makes the entire thing a charade. Also, my source tells me this announcement was made ON THE STARTING LINE. The field has to transition from being ready to run 10k, to possibly running a 6K hard tempo followed by a 400 meter race.

How is that a reasonable solution and a fair method for advancing qualifiers?

I was in the race and this is the first I’m hearing of this. Either this didn’t happen or the officials did a poor job communicating it. The only unusual thing I heard from the officials on the line was most of them yelling at the starter to start the race asap.

Why 12k?

Alia Armstrong of LSU, with #3 time in NCAA is probably out of the 100 HH

Yeah, being last in your heat will do that for you. I wonder if she hit a hurdle hard and it threw off her rhythm? Anyone who watched the race knows what happened?

Over in the women's javelin, Princeton's Shea Greene threw a 5m PB to "win" the event - 56.18m. She was ranked 30th nationally going in, and her new PB puts her 7th.

they started the stream with about 80m of the first heat already run

She might be the most significant miss, 4th place at '22 worlds and 23rd fastest ever. I didn't see the race but she hasn't looked as sharp as she has in 2022/2023.

May is making heat 1 a pretty fast heat.

4:07.00 - new collegiate lead

(although Ramsden ran 4:02 last weekend at LA Grand Prix, but I guess it doesn't count?)

While heat 2 starting slowly

Live results show Armstrong was DQed for pushing over a hurdle with her hand, but the results are "under protest" (IDK if it is due to this DQ or something else)

Just like "the 10" does not qualify for qualifying time

4 second different between the first 300ms, when you compare Heat 1 (48 second) with 2 (52 second)

I get it, but I find it amusing that Jenny Barringer's 3:59 is from the Prefontaine meet but it's considered the collegiate record.