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⚡ Top 5 from a huge weekend for track and field (and running)
Published Apr 30, 2013
Here it is Tuesday and we’re still processing all that happened in track and field over the weekend. It was a massive weekend that produced an endless stream of results. Here is a look at Five Things that stood out as they relate to track and field in Oregon: Jordan Hasay at Stanford. The charismatic [...] Read more...
The return of the U.S. Olympic Trials to be celebrated at May 7 TrackTown Tuesday Event
Published Apr 30, 2013
EUGENE, Ore. – (April 30, 2013) – In what promises to be an exciting night, Nike Running Eugene in the Oakway Center will host next week’s TrackTown Tuesday event at 7 p.m. Read more...
⚡ Kinsey Gomez calls racing at home “an incredible feeling”
Published Apr 29, 2013
There was something altogether refreshing about watching the Women of Oregon State track stick around to the end of the High Performance Meet on Friday to take down flags, put away all the cones and makers, and pick up trash. The first wave of athletes to compete on Oregon State’s new track is sincerely thankful [...] Read more...
⚡ Sam Crouser’s first impression a positive for new OSU track
Published Apr 29, 2013
Oregon State’s volunteer high jump coach, John Radetich, likes to begin every meet with the bar set to the world record height of 8 feet, ½ inch. It’s a preposterously high bar, but one that gives every high jumper a perspective on what’s humanly possible. At Oregon State, which hosted its second home track meet [...] Read more...
⚡ Saturday at Drake Relays: Six more worlds bests
Published Apr 29, 2013
BY MIKE MAHON for TrackFocus DES MOINES, IOWA – Olympians continued their assault on producing world bests during the early outdoor track and field campaign with six more top marks established Saturday pushing the total to 11 during 104th running of the Drake Relays. Thirteen Drake Relays records were set during the four-day meet which [...] Read more...
