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NCAA Track and Field Leaders
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Laney track and field shines at State meet. Once again Laney track and field head coach Curtis Taylor showed up with a small group of young ladies to the California state meet trying to do the un-thinkable.
Win a team title. Once again, they came up just short, finishing third behind 2008 state champion Cerrito’s (101pts) and second place West Valley (92.5pts). Laney finished with 77pts. Laney was able to score big points in the sprints. Ebony Collins was supposed to go to LSU this year, but the freshman out of LA ended up at West LA College instead and she prevented a Laney one, two three sweep in the 100m dash by winning in a photo finish over Laney’s Shahnel Woodley. They both hit the tape in 11:53, but the win went to Collins. Laney placed second (Woodley), third (Candise Maxwell) , fourth (B.J. Triplett) and sixth (Robyn Hunte) in the finals. All that speed Laney had rose to the top in the 4x100m relay finals. Simply put, the race was over when the starter said “on your marks”. Laney won in 45.02, more than a full second ahead of West LA College who got the stick around the track in 46.11. The 200m dash was a repeat of the 110m, but San Francisco City College’s Chauncey Davis-Jacobs won in 23.89. Woodley was again second (24.20), Maxwell third (24.49), BJ was fourth (24.67) and Hunte was eighth with a time of (25.01) Hunte must have been using the sprints to get loose because the sophomore shocked the JC world by winning a state title in the long jump with a leap of 5.88 meters. She never trained for the event and the only reason why she was jumping is because coach Taylor asked her to do the Long Jump at the conference meet to score points and help Laney win a team title. Robin kept advancing and before she knew it she was a state champ. The young women from San Francisco City had a good day as well. Davis-Jacobs made it a daily double by winning the 400m dash in 54.86. Her teammate LaSahnnda Worthy was second in 56.27. San Francisco City transferred that speed to the 4x400m relay, winning in 3:48.14. Riverside was second (3:49.86), West LA College was third (3:52.04) and Laney had enough left in the tank to place fourth with a time of 3:54.78. Complete meet results click here
Pac 10's in the books for 2008 The best track and field athlete's in the Pac 10 descended on the campus of Arizona St. for the 2008 championships. The Arizona St. Women's squad showed they are looking to defend their NCAA D1 title. The Lady Wildcats took the overall team title. Richmond's Charonda Williams picked right up where she left off at Laney in the 2007 JC state championships by again sweeping the 1 and 200m dashes. This time it was in the Pac 10 finals. She crossed the line in 11:45 tied with Cal freshman Cherrelle Garrett. Williams then broke off a personal best 23.09 to win the 200m dash. Stanford's Wopamo Osaisai got over several humps to win become Pac 10 champion in the 100m dash, winning in 10.47. He became the first Stanford athlete to win the 100 at the Pac 10's since 1963. Wopamo also plays football has had injuries and three different football coaches telling to lift weights instead of going to track practice. Kevin Craddock backed up his 2007 110m high hurdles Pac 10 championship with another in 2008. This time Craddock, a Jr. from James Logan High , won in 13:58. Stanford Erica McClain finished off her career at Stanford by sweeping the Long and Triple jumps. They were her 7th Pac 10 titles out of a possible eight in her stellar four year career. That is something only Gail Devers and Dawn Dumble of UCLA has done in the history of the Pac 10 championship's. She busted out a 44'6and 3/4" triple jump to win Saturday. Friday her 21'4" leap was a season best for McLain. Stanford's Garrett Heath out kicked the pack to win the 1,500m in 3.42.02 Cal had a good weekend at the Pac 10 finals. Alysia Johnson defended her 800m title with a meet record 2.054 second run. The Bears also got a win in the 100 hurdles by sophomore Kimyon Broom, who won in 13.26. The Bears also placed second in the women's 4x100 relay. Complete results go to www.pac10.org
American collegiate records fall at the NCAA Finals
That set a new American colligate record in the event and Willard dropped her person best by six seconds. Willard did not make a push for the lead until there was just over one lap to go. She paced herself well, pulling away from the pack with every stride she took. Her victory helped Michigan end a very successful season, finishing third at the 2007 NCAA track and field championships held at Sacramento St. Top honors went to Arizona St. The Lady Sun Devils wrapped up a dream season in which they won both the indoor and outdoor national championships in 2007. ASU clinched the title on the final day of competition when Jessica Pressley won the shot put with a toss of 59'3/4". Teammate Sarah Stevens was third (57'2.75"). Latosha Wallace scored some big points when she placed fourth in the 400m hurdles with a time of 56.35. LSU was second, seven points back of ASU with 53pts. Going into the last two events of the championships, the triple jump and 4x400m relay, ASU held a big lead. LSU had one chance for a title, but they had to win both events. Andrea Linton placed fifth in the triple jump (43'10.5"). She needed to win to make LSU's victory in the 4x400m relay mean anything. Florida St came away with the title on the men's side scoring 54pts. Walter Dix had a NCAA Finals to remember. He blazed his way to a new American collegiate record in the 100m dash, winning in 9.93.
That was also the fastest time in the world by anybody this year. Dix became the first person since San Jose St.'s John Carlos in 1969 to win the 100, 200m dashes and 4x100m relay in the same year. Dix came back Saturday to claim the 200m dash title in 20.32. Ricardo Chambers victory in the 400m dash clinched the title for the Seminoles. They were the only points (20) they scored on the final day of the championships, just enough to hold of LSU, who scored 48pts. Cal got a big time performance from 800m runner Alysia Johnson. The Jr. set a new Cal record, holding off Michigan's Katie Erdman, winning in 1:59.29. It was the second fastest time in NCAA Championship history and third best all time collegiately. She became the first women from Cal to win a title at the NCAA Championships. Stanford's Erica McLain came away with a second place finish in the triple jump. McLain lead the competition with a leap of 44'10" until Hampton's Yvette Lewis bounced her way out to a 45'.5" jump to win the event on her final attempt. McLain could only answer with a jump of 44'7" on her final jump of the meet. The Cardinal also got third place finishes in both the men's and women's 1500m runs. Russell Brown crossed the line in 3:37.48 while Arianna Lambie finished her race in 4:12.29. Lopez Lomong won the men's 1500mrun. Lopez, from Sudan, was one of the Lost Boy's, a group of young boys who escaped an attempt by the Islamic led government to exterminate them by trekking to a refugee camp in Kenya.
He will become a US citizen later this year, which should give him a chance to compete at the Olympics trials next year in Eugene Oregon. Washington St. Diana Pickler had a rude ending to her season. Leading the Heptatilon heading into the final day, Pickler won her heat of the 200m dash with a personal best time of 23.39. She was ruled to have run out of her lane, which disqualified her and leaving her point less in the discipline. That dropped her from first to 24th in the event, ending her chance at a title. This was the final year of a three year stay in sacramento for the D1 NCAA track and field championships. It brings to an end quite a run of major track and field championships in Sacramento. The last four years have seen three D1 NCAA Championships and one Olympic Trials held at Sacramento St.
NCAA track meet kicks off in Sacramento
Arizona St. women ready themselves for a shot at a national championship in track and field The Lady Sun Devils came into the Pac 10 Championships ranked second in the nation and they showed the sold out crowd at Stanford's Cobb Track and Angell Field that a national title is not out of the question June 6-9 at Sacramento St.
She busted out a 51.97 to win the 400m dash. Wallace bounced back to finish second in the 400m hurdles (57.55) and run a leg on ASU's wining 4x400m relay squad that turned four laps in 3:33.14. Host Stanford placed second on the women side led by a 1-2-3 finish in the 1500m run. Arianna Lambie led the sweep, winning in 4:19.12 followed closely by Lauren Centrowitz (4:19.76) and Alicia Follmar (4:21.72). Lambie doubled up and won the 5000m in 15:57.59. Triple jumper Erica McLain put her mark on the championships with a American collegiate record jump of 46'5" making her the favorite to win at the NCAA Championships June 6-9 at Sacramento St. Stanford needed every point to hold off the women of Troy 118. 5 to 113. USC sprinter Carol Rodriguez did her best to help her team win a title. The junior won the 100m (11.29), 200 (23.33) and anchoring USC's winning 4x100m relay team (44.20). That was just a sample of what went on over the weekend at Stanford.
A Galen Rupp 5,000 (14:02.00) and 10,000m (29:07.84) double later it all came down to the 4x400m relay. That's the way it should be, after two days of competition the championship came down to the last event of the meet. Marcus Dillion ran the anchor leg of his young life to snatch 4th place away from UCLA 3:09.93 to 3:09.94. That 4th place gave Oregon 114pts. Arizona St. missed out on a sweep by three points scoring 111 and USC was third with 110. Dillion also placed third in the 400m (46.62). USC got a big time performance from freshmen Ahmad Rashad in the 100 and 200m dashes. He introduced himself with a 10.20 and 20.56 to win both races. USC won both relays, (39.66, 4x100) and (3:07.36, 4x400). USC's Lionel Larry tried to set the track on fire with a blazing 44.73 winning time in the 400m dash.
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2007 Pac 10 Track and Field Championship photo gallery
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Michigan's Anna Willard came on strong at the end of her 3000m steeplechase final at the 2007 NCAA track and field championships to win going away in 9:38.08.
He gave Northern Arizona their only national championship in 2007.
