#2 NCAA all time and world junior record. Frosh Lynna Irby 2nd in 50.62, #4 NCAA all time. Bright future.
#2 NCAA all time and world junior record. Frosh Lynna Irby 2nd in 50.62, #4 NCAA all time. Bright future.
Wow!
Tough wrote:
#2 NCAA all time and world junior record. Frosh Lynna Irby 2nd in 50.62, #4 NCAA all time. Bright future.
Lynna Irby, Indianapolis Pike alumni, go Hoosiers.
Dang. Two incredibly talented young women. Should be fun to watch them over the next few years (or however it takes either one to go pro) in the SEC.
Sydney was tying up big time and the second place girl nearly caught her.
I remember reading that Sydney's coach was going to have her focus on speed this year not her main events.
coach wrote:
I remember reading that Sydney's coach was going to have her focus on speed this year not her main events.
I believe it was said that she would step away from the 400 hurdles this year. I don't recall her coach saying she would skip the 400 though.
sub 50 outdoors likely this year and then just a matter of time before the 400MH record is hers.
Not surprising at all now that she is wearing Nikes instead of NBs...
But what could she run in the 800?
Tough wrote:
#2 NCAA all time and world junior record. Frosh Lynna Irby 2nd in 50.62, #4 NCAA all time. Bright future.
DAMN. 2 freshman just ran over a second faster than anyone else in the world this year. Forget the hurdles, she could make outdoor teams in the flat 400 with this kind of a time indoors. What a machine.
Any photo evidence of this run?
PrZ wrote:
Tough wrote:
#2 NCAA all time and world junior record. Frosh Lynna Irby 2nd in 50.62, #4 NCAA all time. Bright future.
DAMN. 2 freshman just ran over a second faster than anyone else in the world this year. Forget the hurdles, she could make outdoor teams in the flat 400 with this kind of a time indoors. What a machine.
Forget just "making teams." She split 49.85 running both curves in lane two last spring. She could have medaled in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9m9Z1QwvQIThe top 2 women at the U.S. Indoor Championships last weekend ran 51.16 and 51.17, beating out World Champion Phyllis Francis (51.18) in the process. Those two are going to the World Championships next week. McLaughlin and Irby were faster. I cannot tell if Irby won the 200 meters at the SEC meet before or after the 400. But what a double!!
SEC speed wrote:
The top 2 women at the U.S. Indoor Championships last weekend ran 51.16 and 51.17, beating out World Champion Phyllis Francis (51.18) in the process. Those two are going to the World Championships next week. McLaughlin and Irby were faster. I cannot tell if Irby won the 200 meters at the SEC meet before or after the 400. But what a double!!
It was after, it honestly would have been nice to see McLaughlin go for the 4/2 double as well, but she probably wanted to concentrate on the 4x4. She "only" split 51.8 in the 4x4 so I imagine she was pretty spent from the open which makes Irby's 22.66 look even more impressive.
It's amazing how these 2 girls could literally go 1-2 at World indoors. I kind of wish this weren't an off year outdoor as I'd like to see them both make a team.
WatchedIt wrote:
Sydney was tying up big time and the second place girl nearly caught her.
Sydney tied up big time, she had a solid 3 stride lead on Irby coming off the turn and almost got caught. I video timed Sydney 200 in-route between 23.3 and 23.6, that's way too fast. Her first 200 would have placed in the SEC 200 finals; Irby usually gets out fast, but she willingly allowed Sydney to get the cut-in. Syd has never run in a competitive 400m, her whole life she has either been has been racing against the clock or walking people down, plain and simple, the girl knows how to run hard and win, but she does not know how to race. I suspect someone said to Syd the importance of getting the break and she took it literally. Sydney is a freshman with only a couple of races under her belt, she will learn. - It's scary to think what she could have run if she had run a more measured race.
Her split was 23.75, so 23.75/26.77. She has some headroom in the event just from evening out the pace.
Thanks for your correction on the splits; can't believe I missed the clock showing the split. When I was in H.S., I was running 49x going out around 24 flat. Btw, it wasn't just her 200m split, she started like she was in a 60m dash, which is not how she normally runs the 400. You can't say someone ran a bad race when they are the SEC champ as a freshman, but I would have let Irby have the break and passed going into or coming off the final turn. After re-watching the race, it's apparent that Sydney wasn't just interested in winning, she had a time goal as well.
I forget which journalist recently wrote about how American track and field is nothing short of a miracle... how despite limited professional opportunities in a corrupt sport that really only gets serious attention for a few weeks every 4 years, our country continues to churn out new and promising talent, year after year after year.
Incredible performances... we could have two true freshman girls go sub-50 by the end of outdoors. Staggering.
I've been wanting to see Pechenkina's 52.34 record go down for some time now in the 400H. We've had a few close calls but no one has cracked it and its been something like 15 years now. I hate putting expectations on athletes as young as this- but McLaughlin seems like she could be the one to do it. I don't remember the last hurdler to have sub-50 speed (besides Perec, who never really ran the event seriously).
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