The results are in and a winner has been crowned. After a weekend of epic proportions and crazy performances in the world of track & field, you have deemed one most impressive of them all...

and that is Lukas Verzbicas going sub-4 to join the Dream Mile.

For the first time since Alan Webb broke the 4-minute mile in 2001, another prep runner joins the exclusive club. He becomes American #5 to gain entry. Furthermore, his historic run makes him just the second to do so in a race comprised solely of high school runners. Here is a breakdown of the results...



Robby Andrews was hanging tight in the vote throughout, but unlike in so many of his 800's, he was unable to close the gap on Verzbicas. The Virginia sophomore won the NCAA Championships with a monsterous closing kick. He swung wide coming off the curve and tracked down Charles Jock of UC Irvine the final 100 meters, catching him for the win at the line. Robby's time of 1:44.71 missed the NCAA Meet record by one hundredth of a second, set by Florida's Mark Everett 21 years ago. (sidenote: With his closing speed and racing savvy, is Andrews now a favorite to make the Daegu team?)

While these two performances were absolutely deserving of praise, we were surprised by the discrepancy in votes, particularly with some of the world-class marks that were set by Makusha, Taylor and Duncan. Also, the fact that Texas A&M has been able to consistently rise to the occasion on both sides for the past three years is unbelievable. The Aggies seemed to be in trouble midway through Satruday's action, but they stay composed and did what they had to do to come away NCAA Champs.

Meanwhile, Makusha's 9.89 in the 100 tied Steve Mullings for the 4th fastest mark in the world this year and his long jump of just over 27'6" is second in the world. Furthermore, he came away with 3 National Titles!!! Where's the love Flotrack nation?!

Kimberlyn Duncan almost completed her own sweep, but came up just shy of a 100 win. Her 22.24 puts her #1 in the world, ahead of one Allyson Felix. She also anchored LSU to a 4x100 win to start the final day of competition. 

Christian Taylor comes away with a world #4 mark after his jump of 57'1", but he was actually even more impressive than that. His jump of nearly 58'5" would have been the #1 mark in the world by .12 meters had it been wind legal!

We had many comments calling for Sheila Reid to be nominated for performer of the weekend. While Reid kicked impressively to wins in both the 1500 and the 5k, there can't really be any comparison to these world-class performances, can there? Reid won the 1500 in 4:14, as she admitted afterward that she benefitted from the rest of the field failing to make the race honest and take advantage of her and Jordan Hasay doubling back from the 5k. She took advantage and looked unbelievable in the closing 200 meters, wrapping up an impressive double.

Her 5k win from the night before was fantastic as well, but if you are looking at performances that transcended the NCAA ranks and opened eyes around the world, we didn't think her weekend compared to some of these others. Could be wrong - let us know what you think.

Regardless, it was a pretty amazing weekend of action across the country, and we have reason to be all the more excited about what we may see at USA's next week.