Can anyone explain why there are so many UNAT-University athletes competing here at Raleigh Relays? My understanding was that if you are running unattached for your university, it is bc you don't want to use your eligibility for the season when you're not a scorer for your team. But if your qualify for Raleigh you have to be pretty seasoned. My team only enters freshmen this way...
It doesn't appear to be a very prestigious meet. They have 16 heats of the 1500 men's and the entry standard for women's javelin was 40m and had a few throw 26m. Sound like a money grab and anyone can enter.
LOL, that was sort of my point. Historically, this meet provides a service for the East Coast. It's a warm weather rust buster for northern schools. With 96 qualifiers for nats, pressure for fast times not as intense as indoor.
The meet takes anyone with a heartbeat, including smaller d1 schools, unattached runners and lesser pros.
It's never really been an Elite meet, but wow after men's 1500/5000/10000 last night, you just might be able to put together a 'fast heat' window with some great racing.
A series of meets following the weather north with NC, Virginia, Penn Relays, NY, Boston might even be a great weekly way to package ncaa track in it's current form.
Margot Appleton 4:08.33 last month at BU, 4:05.68 today.
Not surprised. Appleton was really ticked after that NCAA mile final a couple of weeks ago. Maatoug went to everybody one by one after the race, just like Bol does. All the other competitors offered the standard warm greeting, no matter how they were feeling. Not Appleton. She barely acknowledged and stormed away.
It doesn't appear to be a very prestigious meet. They have 16 heats of the 1500 men's and the entry standard for women's javelin was 40m and had a few throw 26m. Sound like a money grab and anyone can enter.
Lol. The East Coast meet that has produced more distance qualifiers than any other meet in the country isn't prestigious? Raleigh Relays has been as good as Stanford for a few years and better in some events.
W 5000 was a bust. Out of 179 finishers, only 1 under 15:30 (but 3 DQs for shoes).
there was only 2 women in the entire ncaa who broke 15:30 last year in before April 11. One at Raleigh Relays and 1 at Standford Invitational. This isn't indoors, you just need a low pressure regionals qualifier.
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It doesn't appear to be a very prestigious meet. They have 16 heats of the 1500 men's and the entry standard for women's javelin was 40m and had a few throw 26m. Sound like a money grab and anyone can enter.
LOL, that was sort of my point. Historically, this meet provides a service for the East Coast. It's a warm weather rust buster for northern schools. With 96 qualifiers for nats, pressure for fast times not as intense as indoor.
The meet takes anyone with a heartbeat, including smaller d1 schools, unattached runners and lesser pros.
It's never really been an Elite meet, but wow after men's 1500/5000/10000 last night, you just might be able to put together a 'fast heat' window with some great racing.
A series of meets following the weather north with NC, Virginia, Penn Relays, NY, Boston might even be a great weekly way to package ncaa track in it's current form.
Maybe women 1500 thru 10000 will be fast.
Yes, it looked like a "take anyone meet". My kids school sent a few top distance runners but could've sent the whole team as most would've out performed most in the field events.
she ran it pretty much solo. if she ran The Ten she coulda latched onto someone and broke 31 minutes.
feels like thats a weirdly comfortable place for her. Several of her best efforts this year on the track have ended solo. This 10k, the 15:19 flat track 5k and 4:24 mile
The Valby effect. Only two runners came within 20 seconds of Lisa Koll's NCAA Record 31:18 from 2010 to 2023; Valby pops a 30:50 and suddenly other collegiate runners realize, "Hey, it might be possible to run low 31's."