In terms of pacing, ithis is a 4 x mile. Normally you can string this baby out.
Penn had a great team. 343, 346 348 and awad.
The smartly put the weak link on the 1st leg. Maybe if gtown had put their guns on the opening two legs they could have broken away but that's a risky strategy as normally it's a wind tunnell.
Wind seems to be next to nothign this year.The facts are it didn't appear to be that windy and the guys jogged around for 3 legs.
WTF is with flotrack.
The America s the world men's 4 x 400 was being run 20 minutes ago and we are getting an interview with Wallace Spearmon and the endless ads about Obea Moore and Alan Webb.
The one race I wanted to see -- and perhaps the premier race of the entire meet -- and they don't show it?
Jon,
90 minutes to call top 5 teams in distance events? When some even overlap.
Like if Nova is in each featured MD/Distance relay, what does it take, 10 minutes to call Marcus to find out Tiernan is not even on the East Coast? How hard is that ? So that folks could even pretend they are informed.
How can you look at the Track at race time in 4 x mile as a race announcer and mistake Ben Malone for Patrick Tiernan in any year?
Same thing yesterday, these folks calling the legs of high visibility teams, and that is all I am referring to here, make so many mistakes it is scary.And I know lineups get moved around. There seems to be no real feel for who people are or Intel on the races. This has been going on for years now.
If I know who they are, how can folks whose job it is to know make so many errors, this is at every meet. It is really 101 type stuff and it is awful. It's inferior, but the only thing out there.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Houston coach Leroy Burrell (whose Cougars were second in the College Championship of America 4x100, top U.S. team) had some pointed comments on the state of the U.S. relay teams on the NBCSN broadcast:
"I think we’ve gotta put our team together a little earlier if possible. I think we’ve had the same coaches working with these guys for many years and we’ve had failure after failure. It’s possible that it might be time for a bit of a regime change with the leadership. And I think the athletes have to be the catalyst that makes that happen. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to get the stick around. I saw thousands of relays teams yesterday -- maybe not thousands, but hundreds of relays team yesterday get it around. But the professionals can’t. And that’s just not good for our sport."
He's right but the choice has already been made and it's unlikely to change.
Georgetown women won the 4x800 to go with Thursday's DMR title. They had a big lead with 200 to go but OK State's Kaela Edwards almost erased it, running 2:00.83 on the anchor leg.
PL SCHOOL/AFFILIATION MARK ATHLETES ID
1 Georgetown 8:26.02 Heather Martin (2:07.96), Sabrina Southerland (2:06.35), Emma Keenan (2:06.27), Sarah Schmidt (2:05.46) AB
2 Oklahoma State 8:26.34 Kaylee Dodd (2:06.74), Clara Nichols (2:08.79), Anna Boyert (2:10.00), Kaela Edwards (2:00.83) AA
3 Princeton 8:32.23 Ashley Forte (2:08.01), Cecilia Barowski (2:03.74), Jackie Berardo (2:11.12), Zoe Sims (2:09.37) AE
4 Clemson 8:33.82 Imani McGowan (2:10.75), Ersula Farrow (2:08.31), Tanisha Coppin (2:05.80), Brianna Blanton (2:08.97) AF
5 Columbia 8:34.23 Brittney Wade (2:08.76), Libby Kokes (2:09.28), Olivia Sadler (2:09.39), Sarah Hardie (2:06.82) AG
6 UConn 8:35.78 Kat Vodopia (2:08.94), Katie Foley (2:08.71), Sydnee Over (2:09.94), Alexis Panisse (2:08.19) AH
7 St. John's 8:41.95 Marlow Schulz (2:13.49), Stephanie Vanpelt (2:05.66), Claire Mooney (2:05.22), Jasmine Burkett (2:17.59) AI
8 Indiana 8:45.20 Brenna Calder (2:09.40), Kellie Davis (2:09.14), Kendell Wiles (2:11.15), Olivia Hippensteel (2:15.53) AK
9 Penn State 8:47.67 Greta Lindsley (2:12.24), Sarah Jane Underwood (2:07.32), Julie Kocjancic (2:11.63), Victoria Crawford (2:16.49)
Penn State cruised in the men's race. Superfrosh Isaiah Harris broke it open with a 1:48.50 third leg and Brannon Kidder brought it home for the win in 1:48.59.
PL SCHOOL/AFFILIATION MARK ATHLETES ID
1 Penn State 7:17.37 Robby Creese (1:50.25), Jordan Makins (1:50.05), Isaiah Harris (1:48.50), Brannon Kidder (1:48.59) AB
2 Columbia 7:20.41 Josiah Langstaff (1:51.95), Sam Ritz (1:50.16), Alek Sauer (1:48.89), Rob Napolitano (1:49.44) AL
3 Indiana 7:23.73 Jordan Huntoon (1:52.14), Joseph Murphy (1:51.31), Daniel Kuhn (1:48.38), Rorey Hunter (1:51.91) AF
4 Georgia Tech 7:24.05 Chris Burnett (1:51.67), Nico Metzler (1:52.29), Andres Littig (1:49.46), Avery Bartlett (1:50.63) AA
5 Penn 7:24.47 Elias Graca (1:51.35), Jeff Wiseman (1:50.20), Joseph Novak (1:52.31), Drew Magaha (1:50.63) AJ
6 Duke 7:24.94 Thomas Meister (1:52.47), Kyle Francis (1:51.44), Michal Filipczak (1:48.94), Alec Kunzweiler (1:52.10) AD
7 Houston 7:26.73 Brian Bell (1:49.70), Cameron Laverty (1:50.54), Chris Ibarra (1:54.08), Drake Murphy (1:52.42) AR
8 Coppin State 7:29.57 Ronaldo Ball (1:54.33), Michael James (1:48.97), Fabian Hayles (1:54.42), Mark London (1:51.86) AK
9 Binghamton 7:33.13 Eric Holt (1:51.51), Adam McIe (1:54.95), Nathaniel Howe (1:55.71), Jesse Garn (1:50.98) AM
10 St. Joseph's PA 7:34.56 Dylan Eddinger (1:52.77), Eddison Gulama (1:52.05), Jack Magee (1:53.89), Steve Thompson (1:55.88) AP
Jonathan Gault wrote:
2 Columbia 7:20.41 Josiah Langstaff (1:51.95), Sam Ritz (1:50.16), Alek Sauer (1:48.89), Rob Napolitano (1:49.44) AL
3AP
Nice run by Columbia. I always wanted to be the first Ivy team under 7:20 at Cornell. Columbia almost did it today.
Even when they won, they weren't under 7:20.
Mais Oui wrote:
WTF is with flotrack.
The America s the world men's 4 x 400 was being run 20 minutes ago and we are getting an interview with Wallace Spearmon and the endless ads about Obea Moore and Alan Webb.
The one race I wanted to see -- and perhaps the premier race of the entire meet -- and they don't show it?
Flotrack likely doesn't have the rights to US vs the World. You have to watch that on NBC Sporst network.
The meet seems to be slowly changing to more of an East Coast affair. Noticeable teams who were MIA; Michigan, Stanford, Oregon, Texas, and UVA.
You missed Arkansas and LSU.
BillCarr wrote:
She tripped on the rail and/or fell down with 100 to go.
thanks
Tyson Gay says faulty exchange in 4x100 was his mistake.
Stanford and Oregon men are at Stanford tomorrow to get qualifiers. UVA is at a local invitational because ACC's are next week. LSU stayed at home because of rules regarding finals.
Both Penn and Drake will be losing the entire SEC next year.