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Abby Steiner took 3rd in the 100m, won the 200m in WL (21.80) and anchored Kentucky to the 4x400m title! Who said 100/200 can't run the 400m? photo by Cierra Hitner
Shining Moments Abound
Eugene, Oregon
University of Oregon
Hayward Field
June 11th, 2022
Coming on the heels of the men's terrific finals the day before, the NCAA women were given center stage to show what they could do on the concluding day of the 100th anniversary NCAA collegiate outdoor track & field championships. And they didn't disappoint.
Read more: NCAA / Women / Day Four: Florida Gators Run the Team Title Table
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Florida celebrates their 2022 NCAA Men's victory! photo by Kevin Neri
Eugene, Oregon
Univeristy of Oregon
Haywatd Field
June 10th, 2022
This is the day the men have been waiting for. Those athletes who have worked, have trained, have met qualifying standards, and have made it through regional competition and preliminary rounds in this championship setting know today is the day. It is the day to focus and to perform at your highest level.
With points being earned today in the 14 remaining men's events, here are the current standings of the top schools in the race for the team title heading into this final NCAA Championship session for the men: Tennessee 21 points; Texas 20 points; Florida State 16 points; Princeton 15 points; Arkansas 12 points.
On the men's final day of the competition, here are some of the truly stunning performances:
Read more: NCAA Men: Gators Romp as Florida's Fanbulleh Snags Sprint Double!
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Camryn Rogers, Hammer throw Champion (set a Canadian NR as well), 2022 NCAA Champs, June 9, 2022, photo by
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Eugene, Oregon
Hayward Field
University of Oregon
June 9th, 2022
After the performance of the men on Day One, which, among other things, featured a gripping pole vault competition that resulted in a new national record; a buzzer-beating 6th-round winning heave in the shot put; and a dramatic 10,000-meter race in the sole track final of the opening day, it was time for the women to take center stage. Could they match the excitement the men had provided? No problem. The collegiate women are exceptionally talented, are poised and at the moment, and are tough as nails. While there were many notable moments on Day Two, here are four athletes who truly stood out:
Read more: NCAA / Day Two: Exceptional Women; Outstanding Performances
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Dylan Jacobs, (Notre Dame) used a 55.45 last lap to hold off Alex Maier (Oklahoma State) to take the Men's 10,000m, June 8, 2022, photo by Cierra Hitner
Without question, the collegiate track & field championships are exciting, hard-fought contests. But one of the special and rare aspects of these gatherings is the quest for the team title. Global championships aside, most professional meets are all about individual performances - individual athletes focusing on running the fastest, jumping the highest, and throwing the farthest. There are no team titles in the Diamond League. But at this NCAA championship meet, there is a duality. The collegians, of course, want to perform at their best. But they also want to ring up points for their alma mater, to contribute to the ultimate goal: for their school to take home that coveted national championship trophy.
Read more: Men's NCAA / Day One /10,000m: Attempted Larceny Foiled
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Nick Willis, 2020 New Balance Indoor GP, photo by Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts
June 1, 2022
It is difficult to become a professional athlete. Aspiring athletes in all sports must perform at a very high level to even enter the professional ranks. Once there, all athletes face the difficult task of maintaining - or improving - their performance level. Most eventually find it too difficult over time. That is why professional athletes who miraculously maintain that superior performance level over extended periods of time are rare indeed. Oh, there are a few: consider football's Tom Brady (7 Super Bowl rings; widely considered as the greatest of all time; going strong at age 44)); basketball's LeBron James (the 37-year-old James has 4 NBA Championship rings; is definitely in the conversation for NBA's G.O.A.T, and will become NBA's all-time leading scorer next year - his 20th NBA season) and baseball's Cal Ripken (31 year MLB career; holds MLB record of competing in 2,632 consecutive games). And worthy of joining that select company of long-enduring, high-performing athletes is a well-accomplished track & field middle-distance specialist: New Zealand's Nick Willis.
Read more: Nick Willis: His Enduring Career
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Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Nageotte Is A Steely Performer
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Katie Nageotte, 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, photo by Kevin Morris / @kevmofoto
May 2022
We've all seen it before: the game-winning field goal with no time left; the late-inning walk-off homer; the Game 7 buzzer-beater. Those game-ending come-from-behind victories comprise some of the most exciting moments in all of sport. And, yes, track & field has those electrifying moments as well: a stirring anchor leg; a torrid finishing kick; or a final round throw or jump that lifts a down-and-out field athlete to the top step of the podium. Katie Nageotte, USA's Olympic gold medalist in the women's pole vault, has been there. But she first had to travel a pathway that featured disappointment, courage, revamping, and self-confidence.
Read more: Vaulting Hot While Staying Cool
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Athing Mu takes the 600m at Penn, photo by Kevin Morris / @kevmofoto
Room For All At Franklin Field
The Penn Relay Carnival
Philadelphia, PA
Franklin Field
April 28-30, 2022
For more than a century, the Penn Relay Carnival has been one of Philadelphia's unmistakable signs of spring. But the onset of COVID interrupted all of that as the Penn Relays simply could not take place in 2020 and only a small, provincial gathering was held in 2021. But now with the pandemic ebbing and apparently under better control, the Penn Relays have returned in full force. Spring is in the air. Blossoms are in bloom. Rowers are flexing their muscles on the Schuykill. Villanova students, loud and proud, claim as their turf the seating at the top of the backstretch near the 1500m start line. On each of the three days of competition Penn's daily attendance has grown larger with Saturday's final day drawing nearly 48,000 fans, many of whom are rabid Jamaicans donned in yellow, gold, and black and ready to cheer on their countrymen and countrywomen. High school boys and girls, collegians, and even the professionals sway nervously in the paddock, eagerly awaiting their opportunity to compete on the big stage. The Penn Relay Carnival is back, baby!
Read more: The Penn Relays' Big Tent
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Peres Jepchirchir added a hard fought Boston Marathon win to her list of accomplishments!
by Kevin Morris / @kevmofoto
The 126th B.A.A Marathon
Patriots' Day / 18 April 2022
In a year when the Boston Marathon celebrated the 50th anniversary of the race's long-awaited addition of an official women's division, Olympic gold medalist Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir and unheralded Ethiopian Ababel Yeshenah, locked horns in the final 2 kilometers of this historic racecourse. After running together for 40 kilos, racing side-by-side, chatting, and even sharing water, these two talented and determined young women engaged in what will long be remembered as the most electrifying women's battle for the laurel wreath in the history of the Boston Marathon.
Read more: Boston Women: Jepchirchir's Win Is One For The Ages
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The 126th B.A.A Marathon
Patriots' Day / 18 April 2022
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Evans Chebet takes his first win in Boston, April 18, 2022,
photo by Kevin Morris / @kevmofoto
Even before the starter's pistol was fired in Hopkinton today, the April return of the Boston Marathon and all that surrounds it just felt right. No falling leaves - just blooming flowers. No MLB playoff game under the Fenway lights, but the traditional late morning ball game which would accommodate those fans who want to scramble out to watch the decisive final 5K of the race. The caution required by the pandemic's foreboding presence since March of 2020 has been replaced by the springtime hope that COVID might, at last, be coming under control. Back to its traditional Patriots Day calendar slot, the Marathon assembled star-studded athletes who were eager to engage in a 26 mile, 385 yard battle on arguably the world's most revered course. Once again, all was right in Beantown.
Read more: Boston Men: Chebet's Game Plan Results In Patriots' Day Victory
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Eliud Kipchoge .jpgEliud Kipchoge defends his Rio 2016 gold with Tokyo 2021 gold! photo by Orangepictures.NL
August 8th, 2021
Heading into the Tokyo Olympics there had been a sizeable legion of observers who considered Eliud Kipchoge to be the greatest marathoner ever. However, a significant number of other observers, while acknowledging the Kenyan's accomplishments, were not quite ready to award him that title. After Kipchoge's total domination and sterling overall performance in the men's Olympic marathon, there simply cannot be any remaining disbelievers. Eliud Kipchoge has confirmed that, without question, he is the greatest marathoner of all time.
Read more: OG/Day Ten: Kipchoge's Coronation
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Dave Hunter is a track & field journalist, announcer, and broadcaster. Dave reports on the premier track & field gatherings around the globe, frequently serves as an arena or stadium announcer for championship events, and has undertaken foreign and domestic broadcast assignments in the sport.
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