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NEWS: Thomas Vanoppen Scratches From Mile Finals After Breaking Toe in Prelims

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The Stride Report has confirmed that Wake Forest star Thomas Vanoppen, a 3:54 miler and 1500 meter All-American from last spring, has scratched out of the mile finals at the NCAA Indoor Championships. During the mile prelims...

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Ouch.

thanks for the update.

I hate to be "that person," but I'm glad Ryan (WA) now gets in the final; he got clawed with a spike (it looked like this, at least...not a great camera angle so I didn't see exactly what happened) - his teammate's, no less - and ended up finishing last in his heat. Though he was in a good spot up until the collision, with only like 100 m to go.

Although it was the fast heat (with only 7 runners) so now it looks like he's going to the final.

1) Ryan isn't going to get the final. When someone scratches, they don't move the next person in.

2) Fay easily and I think should have been DQd for fouling Ryan.

3) I don't think Fay's fouling of Ryan caused him to lose all momentum.

People were writing in the other thread for the women's mile and 800. But we wanted all day 2 threads here so it's easier for newcomers to catch up. The thread on yesterday and hte first half of the women's meet for day 2 was here:

Okay…

ANOTHER Collegiate Record for Julien Alfred! GEEZ!

That 200 gets ar and TX closer

Lame move Rojo

Greatest single day in Women’s NCAA history. And still a couple races to run. Wow!

Also going to pick up points in the Triple to pull within a couple. Going to come down to the 4x4

It was awkward. Oh well.

3000 is on!!!

Lauren Gregory has no regrets whatsoever as she battled heroically

If you don’t at first succeed, try, try again. Gregory came to Arkansas as a big-time recruit but she certainly didn’t find instant success. The 3-time Colorado XC 5A state champion and four-time HS state champion on the track (2 x 3200, 1 x 1600 and 1 x 800) who was 3rd at NXN in 2016 had HS pbs of 2:10.94 for 800, 4:41.11 for the mile and 10:05.26 for the 2 mile.

Yet, when she first showed up at NCAAs in 2017 in cross country, she finished 252nd. The next year she went back and dropped out. As a sophomore, she did place 7th in the 3k indoors and 10th in the mile but she didn’t make it outdoors. As a junior, she was just 72nd in xc before Covid wiped out NCAA indoors and outdoors in 2020. So in her first three years of college, Gregory had never finished higher than 7th in track or 72nd in xc.

We compiled all those stats this afternoon thinking Gregory would be the NCAA champ but she came up a little bit short. Still, she had a spectacular weekend as remember she also split 4:31 in the DMR yesterday and took Arkansas from 6th to second.

When we asked her how what impact the DMR had on her today, she said, “Not at all. That’s what I wanted to do. (Coach) left it to my choice and that’s what I wanted.”
In terms of tactics, Gregory also had no regrets, “I’m not upset about second. I will take a race anyday and htat tactically I wouldn’t change a thing. I just didn’t have the final push,” said Gregory. “It’s just sad to be done. It’s just sad.”

“(Tactically) that’s exactly how I hoped it would play out.So when it got going, I was like, ‘Ok we’re going.’”

If Gregory had won today, it would have been interesting that a former NCAA 10,000 participant won her first the NCAA title in the mile. When we asked her what direction she’d be planning to do outdoors, she said 1500 and 5 was what she was thinking but acknowledged she may not be able to do either.

“I have some health concerns so outdoors is a maybe,” said Gregory who was visibly limping in the awards area and instead of walking away ended up jumping on a guys back and being carried away.

Lauren Gregory at NCAAs
2017-2018
XC: 252nd
Indoors: DNC
Outdoors: DNC

2018-2019
XC: DNF
Indoors: 10th mile, 7th 3k
Outdoors: DNQ (Dnf in regional 5k)

2019-2020
XC: 72nd
Indoors: Cancelled
Outdoors: Cancelled

2020-21
XC: didn’t compete (XC was held right after indoors. Did indoors)
Indoor: 2nd in DMR. 2nd in 3k.
Outdoor: 21st in 5k

2021-22
XC: 19th
Indoors: 3rd 3k, 4th 5k
Outoors: 5k - 5th. 10k DNF.

NC State really does have a chance to podium!

Nice ESPN + . No splitscreen?!

“Let’s step aside for some field events” (Right as the 3000m starts, and less than 400m into it).

NO!!!!

GOOD lord they’re a 1/3 into the race and we’re just now seeing it!

Espn showed me the 3k women standing on the line for like 5 minutes and then skipped the first 3 minutes of the actual race to show field events wtf

They are pretty bunched up

Arkansas will have a 2 point lead over Texas heading to the 4x4.