2017 DI NCAA Outdoor ChampionshipsJun 8, 2017 by Johanna Gretschel
LIVE UPDATES: 2017 DI NCAA Outdoor Championships Day 2
LIVE UPDATES: 2017 DI NCAA Outdoor Championships Day 2
LIVE UPDATES: 2017 DI NCAA Outdoor Championships Day 2
Follow along for our live updates of the women's semifinals and 10K final. All times Eastern. The events are listed in chronological order.
Heat 1... USC is killin it! 3:27.64 for the win. Florida also advances in 3:29.45. Texas A&M anchor runs fastest split in 50.67; Aggies take third in 3:29.94 and will now play the waiting game to see if they get in.
Heat 2... Brooke Feldmeier gets passed by three teams on the third leg... but comes up huge in the homestretch to take back the lead for the Ducks! This girl has got a kick. People tried to start a whoop when she got passed, but none of these Oregon fans were having it, lol. Raevyn Rogers splits 51.05 on the anchor to break it open for Oregon as the Ducks win in 3:31.76 over Miami, 3:33.41. Arkansas' anchor is fastest in 50.98.
Heat 3... Zola Golden getting it done out here for Texas! OU, Texas, LSU nearly neck and neck at second exchange. Golden splits 51.9, and all the Longhorns' anchor Chrisann Gordon needs is to be within striking distance. She splits 50.3 to hand it off to Serenity Douglas with a healthy lead and the true freshman holds off her competitors to cross the line first in 3:30.79. LSU also advances with a second-place, 3:32.26 finish.
The first running final of the evening! I'll try to keep some solid splits for y'all here... My pre-race pick is redshirt freshman Anna Rohrer of Notre Dame, who ran the seventh-fastest time in NCAA history (31:58.99) in her debut this season.
400m: 1:16.5 (Bothma)
800m: 2:36.7 (Rohrer)
1200m: 3:53.3 (76.4, Rohrer)
1600m: 5:13 (79.2, Rohrer)
2K: 6:31.97 (Rohrer)
2400m: 7:51.5 (Rohrer)
2800m: 9:10 (Rohrer)
3200m: 10:31 (Rohrer)
3600m: 11:50.9 (Rohrer)
4K: 13:11.14 (Rohrer)
4400m: 14:31.2 (80.4, Rohrer) -- slowest lap so far. Rohrer leads Alice Wright, Charlotte Taylor, Sharon Lokedi
Alice Wright just took over the lead! She's trying to gap the field. Now Rohrer in fifth
4800m: 15:50 (78.2, Wright)
5K: 16:28.3 (Wright)
5200m: 17:06.5 (76.7, Wright) -- early leader Rohrer has slipped back to 11th
5600m: 18:25 (Wright)
6K: 19:42 (77.6, Wright)
6400m: Wright, Taylor, Lokedi, Snyder
6800m: 22:19 (Wright)
7200m: 23:38 (Wright) -- Taylor, Lokedi following close behind with Snyder in fourth a few meters back; another chase pack of five women is much further back
7600m: 24:57 (Wright)
8K: 26:17.15 (Wright) - Wright, Tayor and Lokedi all in contention as Snyder drops into no-man's-land between the two packs
8400m: 27:36 (78.8, Wright) - Wright, Taylor, Lokedi
8800m: 28:54.5 (Wright)
9200m: 30:12.9 (Wright) - Lokedi moving up on the side to pass Taylor second. It's going to get hot soon! Okay, I'm changing my pick to Lokedi.
9600m: 31:30 (77.3, Taylor) - Taylor with a huge surge! It's on! She just put 10 meters on Wright and Lokedi with 200m to go -- it's over!!!
10K: 32:38.56 Taylor is your champion!
Taylor raises her arms above her head and has a huge smile on her face at the finish - she can't believe what she just did. Wright holds off Lokedi for second. Early leader Rohrer takes 16th place in 33:56.64; she can take some consolation as finishing as the top freshman, two seconds ahead of fellow redshirter Makena Morley of Colorado.
Update on pain ruling for 10K vs. decathlon 1500m = 10K wins
Upset city as Georgia's Kate Hall and Keturah Orji score big points with a 1-2 sweep. Both girls fouled three times, but posted big enough marks to take home the hardware!
The last event of a grueling two days is here. Texas A&M's Lindon Victor, the NCAA record holder, will need to run 4:44 to take down Ashton Eaton's NCAA meet record. His PR is 4:43. Victor is 3:44 at the bell. I do not think this is happening.
Oregon's Joe Delgado crosses first in 4:14, which the announcer says is a new PB.
Lindon crosses the line in about 4:55, clinches the outdoor title. I'm not sure what looks more gruesome -- the splatter of bodies on the ground at the end of a 10K or a decathlon 1500m. Leaning towards the latter, but we'll find out in a moment as the women's 10K final is up next!
Heat 1... SEC champ Kyra Jefferson of Florida runs 22.60 for the win; Deanna Hill of USC runs 22.83 (+0.4) for the other auto spot.
Heat 2... NCAA leader Deajah Stevens of Oregon is here. I think we'll see something fast, she's probably still mad about barely scraping into the 100m final... Stevens wins in 22.31; Brittany Brown of Iowa runs 22.55, defending champ Ariana Washington of Oregon runs 22.60. She'll have to wait and see if she qualifies but I bet that's fast enough for the final.
Heat 3... Gabrielle Thomas of Harvard, who missed qualifying in the 100m, takes the win here over Aaliyah Brown of Texas A&M as both run 22.83. Defending NCAA champ Ariana Washington will advance based on time, as will LSU's Jada Martin.
Heat 1... Kymber Payne of LSU (56.05) and Symone Black of Purdue (57.15) advance automatically. Wisconsin's Brenna Detra dislocates her knee after falling on a hurdle and does not finish the race.
Heat 2... Olympian Sage Watson of Arizona runs like the favorite she is, almost PBs in 54.88 -- the fastest time in the NCAA this year. She runs well ahead of Amalie Iuel of USC (55.84).
Heat 3... USC's Anna Cockrell wins in 55.64; Jade Miller of Harvard runs 56.98.
The time qualifiers are Ariel Jones of Texas (56.61) and Katrina Seymour of East Tennessee State (57.22).
Heat 1... 2016 runner-up Olivia Baker stars here... 28.4 opening 200m! UCLA leads at 400m (60.8). 200m to go, it's Kopp of Duke, and now Baker going by with Kaylee Dodd of Ok State making a late push for the win! Dodd and Baker both auto advance in 2:04. Dodd closed in 62 seconds to make her first NCAA final. Kopp (2:04.79) and Whitney Adams of Kansas (2:05.74) will wait and see if their times make it to the final.
Heat 2... NCAA record holder and 4x champ Raevyn Rogers gets a nice ovation from the crowd. Freshman stars Ruby Stauber of LSU, Danae Rivers of Penn State also here. Opening 200m in 29.9, 1:05.25 at 400m led by UC Davis. They reach 600m in 1:36.6; Rogers takes the lead and the crowd goes crazy down the homestretch! 2:05.62 for the win. UC Davis' Goins will take the second auto spot in 2:06.76. Rogers' closer was 60.3. Kopp and Adams from heat 1 are still the fastest time qualifiers for now.
Heat 3... NCAA indoor record holder Jazmine Fray of Texas A&M here. Fray takes it out in 27.4, 59.57 - that's the fastest so far! Fray is trying to get away, but Collinsworth of BYU and Green of Virginia Tech are right there. Wow! Big run from Oregon's Brooke Feldmeier to take the heat win in 2:03.43 while Green hangs on for 2:03.72. Clayton of Vanderbilt and Collinsworth of BYU sneak in on time; Fray takes sixth place overall and will not make the final.
Heat 1... Chrisann Gordon! Texas senior takes the win in 50.39, a lifetime best and NCAA leading mark! She wants that title. Jaevin Reed of Texas A&M also advances. Oregon duo Elexis Guster and Makenzie Dunmore will have to wait and see if they make it through on time. If Guster doesn't make it, Oregon loses a projected 4 points.
Heat 2... NCAA indoor champ and former NCAA leader Shakima Wimbley is in this one. 51.16 win for Wimbley; she is so tall! Made it look easy going by Cameron Pettigrew in the final meters, who takes third. Sharika Barnett, true freshman from Florida, closes well to take the final auto spot. Dunmore is officially out of the running for a time qualifier to the final. Guster's 51.93 could still stand.
Heat 3... Kendall Ellis of USC (51.80) and Daina Harper of Arkansas (51.92) are your top two. Guster and Pettigrew make the final on time, which is fair, as they are the No. 4 and No. 6 ranked women in the NCAA this year.
Heat 1... LSU Tigers making up for 4x1 DQ. Mikiah Brisco (11.19) and Aleia Hobbs (11.28) go 1-2 with headwind of -1.2. How did Hobbs run 10.85 this year?? Not hating but... she does not look like a 10.85 runner right now, which should not offend anyone as that is the second-fastest time in collegiate history!
Heat 2... Oregon crowd going crazy for Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington. Washington swept the 100m/200m this year and Stevens has never won an NCAA title. Both are Olympians. OKAY HI Teahna Daniels! Texas sophomore has an AMAZING start and keeps it rolling all the way to end in 11.17 (+0.2), taking down super favs Ari/Deajah, who finish just third and fourth behind Aaliyah Brown from Texas A&M! Ok time for this last heat to see if they get in on time...
Heat 3... ok Ducks got lucky! Last heat is slow. Ashley Henderson wins in 11.25 and Ky Westbrook of USC is second in 11.39, so both Wasington and Stevens will advance to the finals. Take a deep breath, Duck nation, title hopes live on!
Heat 1... Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.84) from UK and Rushelle Burton (12.94) from Texas
Heat 2... Tobi Amusan just SMOKED everybody! 12.79, she finished a full stride ahead of Dior Hall and Sasha Wallace, who will have to wait and see if her time is fast enough to make the final...
Heat 3... Alaysha Johnson of Oregon 12.87, Anna Cockrell of USC 12.89 (PB); it looks like Devynne Charlton will be a time qualifier in 13.06
Wallace, the 2017 NCAA 60m hurdles champion for Oregon, is the last time qualifier in! She ran 13.10 to edge out Florida's Skylar Ross-Ransom (13.11). Ducks need those points, because Georgia is looking super dangerous right now for that team title. I picked Amusan to win the title and she looks like a safe bet after that blazing round.
Heat 1... Top seed Elinor Purrier is in this one .... Purrier and Grayson Murphy of Utah lead the pack with three laps to go, with Madie Boreman of Colorado and Brianna Illardo of Providence following. Abrahamson of Wake Forest is next. Currently running at 9:58 pace. Sorry for lack of updates on this one, was following NCAA record holder LSU's official DQ from 4x1!
77.7, 78.2, 77.6 on last two laps... bell lap! Wow! Boreman just took the lead on the last water barrier! Pac-12 champ looks like an animal, crosses first in 9:50.99 -- pretty sure that's a big PR. Yep, just checked it -- her previous best was 10:06 to win Pac-12s! She's definitely looking like a dark horse to win this thing on Saturday. Your other auto qualifiers are Purrier, Murphy, Ilarda and Abrahamson; Paige Stoner of Syracuse (10:02) and Nell Crosby of Columbia (10:05) could qualify based on time
Heat 2... Katy Kunc of Kentucky tries to gap the field over the first lap but it doesn't last long. Tori Gerlach of Penn State and Allie Ostrander are now leading with five laps to go.
The top three just passed through in 78.3, 77.6, 78.4, 77.7 at the bell lap! I think we're going to see a sub-9:50 here. Gerlach and Ostrander run side by side with Hope Schmelzle of NIU just behind in third. Ostrander is trying to pass Gerlach, but the redshirt senior isn't letting her by! Oh - Ostrander is first to the water pit and is trying to put it away now down the homestretch. Schmelzle and Gerlach are actually first across the line as Ostrander slows up and all three run 9:50... "you get a PB, you get a PB, you get a PB!"
Post-race take: It's definitely going to take a sub-9:50 race to win the final, something only Elinor Purrier has done this year (9:43). Allie Ostrander, Tori Gerlach and Hope Schmelzle all looked good in heat 2, and Madie Boreman has a ferocious kick. I still think Purrier is the favorite, with Ostrander the top challenger and Boreman the dark horse pick.
IMO the most exciting event of this weekend! Here we go.... two heats, top five auto advance per heat to the final, plus next two fastest times
Both Aragon sisters (Christina from Stanford and Dani from Notre Dame) are in the second heat
Heat 1... Jessica Harris is taking it out about 10m ahead of the field, 1:03.17 for the first lap; 2:09 at 800m. Megan Moye of NC State and Rhianwedd Price lead chase pack. Harris is at 3:00 at the bell! Pack is about five seconds back. THE Dani Jones starting to move up. Harris is 3:17 at 1200m.
200m to go, the pack is closing HARD on Harris! Jones, Schwanz, Hiltz, Neale all go by... Final lap for Jones for 64.9, she takes the heat win in 4:10.74. Hiltz, Schwanz, Neale and Phelan (Michigan) auto advance.
Harris takes seventh in 4:12, behind Price, so she could still advance if the next heat is slower
Heat 2... Another Notre Dame jersey up front.. Dani Aragon takes it through in 1:11, significantly slower than heat 1. The pack passes through 800m in 2:27, 19 seconds slower! It's Aragon, Edwards, Nelson, Rainsberger up front. Aragon still leads at the bell lap, 3:16 on the clock -- 67.5 for that last lap. 1200m passed in 3:31.61 (64.6). Dani Aragon still leads, her sister, Christina just came out of nowhere! Nelson to the front, and it's Nelson, Aragon, Aragon, Rainsberger, Mehra. 2016 NCAA indoor mile champion Kaela Edwards does not make the cut for the final -- the biggest upset for this event!
UPDATE: LSU and Texas A&M are officially disqualified
WOW co-collegiate record holders LSU are going to be disqualified! They win the first heat in 42.76 but a flag went up on the backstretch (second leg)... it looks like the first exchange was out of the zone
Second heat is up... Alabama takes heat 2 in 43.08, holding off a fast-closing Texas A&M (43.14). Florida, Arkansas and Purdue are the other auto qualifiers so far
Heat 3... Kentucky 43.45 leads Clemson, San Diego State to top three
Maggie Ewen of Arizona State wins in 73.32m (240-7), a new NCAA record! The junior's previous best was 72.81m.
LIVE RESULTS HERE
Women's 4x400m
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Heat 1... USC is killin it! 3:27.64 for the win. Florida also advances in 3:29.45. Texas A&M anchor runs fastest split in 50.67; Aggies take third in 3:29.94 and will now play the waiting game to see if they get in.
Heat 2... Brooke Feldmeier gets passed by three teams on the third leg... but comes up huge in the homestretch to take back the lead for the Ducks! This girl has got a kick. People tried to start a whoop when she got passed, but none of these Oregon fans were having it, lol. Raevyn Rogers splits 51.05 on the anchor to break it open for Oregon as the Ducks win in 3:31.76 over Miami, 3:33.41. Arkansas' anchor is fastest in 50.98.
Heat 3... Zola Golden getting it done out here for Texas! OU, Texas, LSU nearly neck and neck at second exchange. Golden splits 51.9, and all the Longhorns' anchor Chrisann Gordon needs is to be within striking distance. She splits 50.3 to hand it off to Serenity Douglas with a healthy lead and the true freshman holds off her competitors to cross the line first in 3:30.79. LSU also advances with a second-place, 3:32.26 finish.
Women's 10K
Taylor drops a 68 second last lap to take the 10,000m victory, Alice Wright takes second, Sharon Lokedi third. #NCAATF pic.twitter.com/tjmJSOGnaq
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The first running final of the evening! I'll try to keep some solid splits for y'all here... My pre-race pick is redshirt freshman Anna Rohrer of Notre Dame, who ran the seventh-fastest time in NCAA history (31:58.99) in her debut this season.
400m: 1:16.5 (Bothma)
800m: 2:36.7 (Rohrer)
1200m: 3:53.3 (76.4, Rohrer)
1600m: 5:13 (79.2, Rohrer)
2K: 6:31.97 (Rohrer)
2400m: 7:51.5 (Rohrer)
2800m: 9:10 (Rohrer)
3200m: 10:31 (Rohrer)
3600m: 11:50.9 (Rohrer)
4K: 13:11.14 (Rohrer)
4400m: 14:31.2 (80.4, Rohrer) -- slowest lap so far. Rohrer leads Alice Wright, Charlotte Taylor, Sharon Lokedi
Alice Wright just took over the lead! She's trying to gap the field. Now Rohrer in fifth
4800m: 15:50 (78.2, Wright)
5K: 16:28.3 (Wright)
5200m: 17:06.5 (76.7, Wright) -- early leader Rohrer has slipped back to 11th
5600m: 18:25 (Wright)
6K: 19:42 (77.6, Wright)
6400m: Wright, Taylor, Lokedi, Snyder
6800m: 22:19 (Wright)
7200m: 23:38 (Wright) -- Taylor, Lokedi following close behind with Snyder in fourth a few meters back; another chase pack of five women is much further back
7600m: 24:57 (Wright)
8K: 26:17.15 (Wright) - Wright, Tayor and Lokedi all in contention as Snyder drops into no-man's-land between the two packs
8400m: 27:36 (78.8, Wright) - Wright, Taylor, Lokedi
8800m: 28:54.5 (Wright)
9200m: 30:12.9 (Wright) - Lokedi moving up on the side to pass Taylor second. It's going to get hot soon! Okay, I'm changing my pick to Lokedi.
9600m: 31:30 (77.3, Taylor) - Taylor with a huge surge! It's on! She just put 10 meters on Wright and Lokedi with 200m to go -- it's over!!!
10K: 32:38.56 Taylor is your champion!
Charlotte Taylor becomes the first ever track and field champion for @DonsAthletics, she's the 2017 #NCAATF 10,000m champion! pic.twitter.com/meo6L33ABR
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 9, 2017
Taylor raises her arms above her head and has a huge smile on her face at the finish - she can't believe what she just did. Wright holds off Lokedi for second. Early leader Rohrer takes 16th place in 33:56.64; she can take some consolation as finishing as the top freshman, two seconds ahead of fellow redshirter Makena Morley of Colorado.
Update on pain ruling for 10K vs. decathlon 1500m = 10K wins
Women's Long Jump
Upset city as Georgia's Kate Hall and Keturah Orji score big points with a 1-2 sweep. Both girls fouled three times, but posted big enough marks to take home the hardware!
Men's 1500m Decathlon
3 women advance out of heat three of the 200m, Gabby Thomas takes it with Aaliyah Brown and Jada Martin advance. Full #NCAATF 200m final q's pic.twitter.com/P1hqLl2rH6
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The last event of a grueling two days is here. Texas A&M's Lindon Victor, the NCAA record holder, will need to run 4:44 to take down Ashton Eaton's NCAA meet record. His PR is 4:43. Victor is 3:44 at the bell. I do not think this is happening.
Oregon's Joe Delgado crosses first in 4:14, which the announcer says is a new PB.
Lindon crosses the line in about 4:55, clinches the outdoor title. I'm not sure what looks more gruesome -- the splatter of bodies on the ground at the end of a 10K or a decathlon 1500m. Leaning towards the latter, but we'll find out in a moment as the women's 10K final is up next!
Women's 200m
3 women advance out of heat three of the 200m, Gabby Thomas takes it with Aaliyah Brown and Jada Martin advance. Full #NCAATF 200m final q's pic.twitter.com/P1hqLl2rH6
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Heat 1... SEC champ Kyra Jefferson of Florida runs 22.60 for the win; Deanna Hill of USC runs 22.83 (+0.4) for the other auto spot.
Heat 2... NCAA leader Deajah Stevens of Oregon is here. I think we'll see something fast, she's probably still mad about barely scraping into the 100m final... Stevens wins in 22.31; Brittany Brown of Iowa runs 22.55, defending champ Ariana Washington of Oregon runs 22.60. She'll have to wait and see if she qualifies but I bet that's fast enough for the final.
Heat 3... Gabrielle Thomas of Harvard, who missed qualifying in the 100m, takes the win here over Aaliyah Brown of Texas A&M as both run 22.83. Defending NCAA champ Ariana Washington will advance based on time, as will LSU's Jada Martin.
Women's 400m Hurdles
#NCAATF women's 400m hurdles final qualifiershttps://t.co/KMDfXmaqUZ pic.twitter.com/UxvKSj9688
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Heat 1... Kymber Payne of LSU (56.05) and Symone Black of Purdue (57.15) advance automatically. Wisconsin's Brenna Detra dislocates her knee after falling on a hurdle and does not finish the race.
Heat 2... Olympian Sage Watson of Arizona runs like the favorite she is, almost PBs in 54.88 -- the fastest time in the NCAA this year. She runs well ahead of Amalie Iuel of USC (55.84).
Heat 3... USC's Anna Cockrell wins in 55.64; Jade Miller of Harvard runs 56.98.
The time qualifiers are Ariel Jones of Texas (56.61) and Katrina Seymour of East Tennessee State (57.22).
Women's 800m
Full list of #NCAATF 800m final qualifiers. Indoor collegiate record holder Jazmine Fray will not advance to 800m #NCAATF final. pic.twitter.com/NGLSfUnwtB
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 9, 2017
Heat 1... 2016 runner-up Olivia Baker stars here... 28.4 opening 200m! UCLA leads at 400m (60.8). 200m to go, it's Kopp of Duke, and now Baker going by with Kaylee Dodd of Ok State making a late push for the win! Dodd and Baker both auto advance in 2:04. Dodd closed in 62 seconds to make her first NCAA final. Kopp (2:04.79) and Whitney Adams of Kansas (2:05.74) will wait and see if their times make it to the final.
Heat 2... NCAA record holder and 4x champ Raevyn Rogers gets a nice ovation from the crowd. Freshman stars Ruby Stauber of LSU, Danae Rivers of Penn State also here. Opening 200m in 29.9, 1:05.25 at 400m led by UC Davis. They reach 600m in 1:36.6; Rogers takes the lead and the crowd goes crazy down the homestretch! 2:05.62 for the win. UC Davis' Goins will take the second auto spot in 2:06.76. Rogers' closer was 60.3. Kopp and Adams from heat 1 are still the fastest time qualifiers for now.
Heat 3... NCAA indoor record holder Jazmine Fray of Texas A&M here. Fray takes it out in 27.4, 59.57 - that's the fastest so far! Fray is trying to get away, but Collinsworth of BYU and Green of Virginia Tech are right there. Wow! Big run from Oregon's Brooke Feldmeier to take the heat win in 2:03.43 while Green hangs on for 2:03.72. Clayton of Vanderbilt and Collinsworth of BYU sneak in on time; Fray takes sixth place overall and will not make the final.
Women's 400m
#NCAATF women's 400m final qualifiershttps://t.co/KMDfXmaqUZ pic.twitter.com/MKgWf6AC4s
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Heat 1... Chrisann Gordon! Texas senior takes the win in 50.39, a lifetime best and NCAA leading mark! She wants that title. Jaevin Reed of Texas A&M also advances. Oregon duo Elexis Guster and Makenzie Dunmore will have to wait and see if they make it through on time. If Guster doesn't make it, Oregon loses a projected 4 points.
Heat 2... NCAA indoor champ and former NCAA leader Shakima Wimbley is in this one. 51.16 win for Wimbley; she is so tall! Made it look easy going by Cameron Pettigrew in the final meters, who takes third. Sharika Barnett, true freshman from Florida, closes well to take the final auto spot. Dunmore is officially out of the running for a time qualifier to the final. Guster's 51.93 could still stand.
Heat 3... Kendall Ellis of USC (51.80) and Daina Harper of Arkansas (51.92) are your top two. Guster and Pettigrew make the final on time, which is fair, as they are the No. 4 and No. 6 ranked women in the NCAA this year.
Women's 100m
Ashley Henderson + Ky Westbrook advance out of heat three. The Oregon women, Washington + Stevens will sneak into #NCAATF 100m final on time pic.twitter.com/CSPDekyJcP
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 9, 2017
Heat 1... LSU Tigers making up for 4x1 DQ. Mikiah Brisco (11.19) and Aleia Hobbs (11.28) go 1-2 with headwind of -1.2. How did Hobbs run 10.85 this year?? Not hating but... she does not look like a 10.85 runner right now, which should not offend anyone as that is the second-fastest time in collegiate history!
Heat 2... Oregon crowd going crazy for Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington. Washington swept the 100m/200m this year and Stevens has never won an NCAA title. Both are Olympians. OKAY HI Teahna Daniels! Texas sophomore has an AMAZING start and keeps it rolling all the way to end in 11.17 (+0.2), taking down super favs Ari/Deajah, who finish just third and fourth behind Aaliyah Brown from Texas A&M! Ok time for this last heat to see if they get in on time...
Heat 3... ok Ducks got lucky! Last heat is slow. Ashley Henderson wins in 11.25 and Ky Westbrook of USC is second in 11.39, so both Wasington and Stevens will advance to the finals. Take a deep breath, Duck nation, title hopes live on!
Women's 100m Hurdles
#NCAATF women's 100m hurdles final qualifiershttps://t.co/KMDfXmaqUZ pic.twitter.com/gc5WuWqrMB
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Heat 1... Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.84) from UK and Rushelle Burton (12.94) from Texas
Heat 2... Tobi Amusan just SMOKED everybody! 12.79, she finished a full stride ahead of Dior Hall and Sasha Wallace, who will have to wait and see if her time is fast enough to make the final...
Heat 3... Alaysha Johnson of Oregon 12.87, Anna Cockrell of USC 12.89 (PB); it looks like Devynne Charlton will be a time qualifier in 13.06
Wallace, the 2017 NCAA 60m hurdles champion for Oregon, is the last time qualifier in! She ran 13.10 to edge out Florida's Skylar Ross-Ransom (13.11). Ducks need those points, because Georgia is looking super dangerous right now for that team title. I picked Amusan to win the title and she looks like a safe bet after that blazing round.
Women's 3K Steeplechase
Schmelzle takes heat two, Gerlach and Ostrander all run 9:50. Full list of women's steeplechasers advance to #NCAATF final pic.twitter.com/AVxDGTI7b2
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 9, 2017
Heat 1... Top seed Elinor Purrier is in this one .... Purrier and Grayson Murphy of Utah lead the pack with three laps to go, with Madie Boreman of Colorado and Brianna Illardo of Providence following. Abrahamson of Wake Forest is next. Currently running at 9:58 pace. Sorry for lack of updates on this one, was following NCAA record holder LSU's official DQ from 4x1!
77.7, 78.2, 77.6 on last two laps... bell lap! Wow! Boreman just took the lead on the last water barrier! Pac-12 champ looks like an animal, crosses first in 9:50.99 -- pretty sure that's a big PR. Yep, just checked it -- her previous best was 10:06 to win Pac-12s! She's definitely looking like a dark horse to win this thing on Saturday. Your other auto qualifiers are Purrier, Murphy, Ilarda and Abrahamson; Paige Stoner of Syracuse (10:02) and Nell Crosby of Columbia (10:05) could qualify based on time
Heat 2... Katy Kunc of Kentucky tries to gap the field over the first lap but it doesn't last long. Tori Gerlach of Penn State and Allie Ostrander are now leading with five laps to go.
The top three just passed through in 78.3, 77.6, 78.4, 77.7 at the bell lap! I think we're going to see a sub-9:50 here. Gerlach and Ostrander run side by side with Hope Schmelzle of NIU just behind in third. Ostrander is trying to pass Gerlach, but the redshirt senior isn't letting her by! Oh - Ostrander is first to the water pit and is trying to put it away now down the homestretch. Schmelzle and Gerlach are actually first across the line as Ostrander slows up and all three run 9:50... "you get a PB, you get a PB, you get a PB!"
Post-race take: It's definitely going to take a sub-9:50 race to win the final, something only Elinor Purrier has done this year (9:43). Allie Ostrander, Tori Gerlach and Hope Schmelzle all looked good in heat 2, and Madie Boreman has a ferocious kick. I still think Purrier is the favorite, with Ostrander the top challenger and Boreman the dark horse pick.
Women's 1500m
IMO the most exciting event of this weekend! Here we go.... two heats, top five auto advance per heat to the final, plus next two fastest times
Both Aragon sisters (Christina from Stanford and Dani from Notre Dame) are in the second heat
Heat 1... Jessica Harris is taking it out about 10m ahead of the field, 1:03.17 for the first lap; 2:09 at 800m. Megan Moye of NC State and Rhianwedd Price lead chase pack. Harris is at 3:00 at the bell! Pack is about five seconds back. THE Dani Jones starting to move up. Harris is 3:17 at 1200m.
200m to go, the pack is closing HARD on Harris! Jones, Schwanz, Hiltz, Neale all go by... Final lap for Jones for 64.9, she takes the heat win in 4:10.74. Hiltz, Schwanz, Neale and Phelan (Michigan) auto advance.
Harris takes seventh in 4:12, behind Price, so she could still advance if the next heat is slower
Heat 2... Another Notre Dame jersey up front.. Dani Aragon takes it through in 1:11, significantly slower than heat 1. The pack passes through 800m in 2:27, 19 seconds slower! It's Aragon, Edwards, Nelson, Rainsberger up front. Aragon still leads at the bell lap, 3:16 on the clock -- 67.5 for that last lap. 1200m passed in 3:31.61 (64.6). Dani Aragon still leads, her sister, Christina just came out of nowhere! Nelson to the front, and it's Nelson, Aragon, Aragon, Rainsberger, Mehra. 2016 NCAA indoor mile champion Kaela Edwards does not make the cut for the final -- the biggest upset for this event!
Women's 4x100m
OFFICIAL #NCAATF women's 4x100m qualifiers -- LSU, Texas A&M + Miami DQ'd. Neither collegiate records Oregon, LSU will win the 2017 title. pic.twitter.com/wYHpV92jFV
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 9, 2017
UPDATE: LSU and Texas A&M are officially disqualified
WOW co-collegiate record holders LSU are going to be disqualified! They win the first heat in 42.76 but a flag went up on the backstretch (second leg)... it looks like the first exchange was out of the zone
LSU takes heat one 4x100 victory, but they might have ran out of exchange zone... So we wait. #NCAATF pic.twitter.com/oYP94C5CjR
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 8, 2017
Second heat is up... Alabama takes heat 2 in 43.08, holding off a fast-closing Texas A&M (43.14). Florida, Arkansas and Purdue are the other auto qualifiers so far
Heat 3... Kentucky 43.45 leads Clemson, San Diego State to top three
Women's Hammer Throw
Maggie Ewen of Arizona State wins in 73.32m (240-7), a new NCAA record! The junior's previous best was 72.81m.
When you throw a COLLEGIATE RECORD! @SunDevilTFXC's Maggie Ewen launches the 240-7 (73.32) for a #ncaaTF Record. pic.twitter.com/pqtIrpMvSs
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 8, 2017