2016 Raleigh RelaysMar 24, 2016 by Meg Bellino
NCAA Champs, Studs Taking Over This Weekend's Raleigh Relays
NCAA Champs, Studs Taking Over This Weekend's Raleigh Relays
FloTrack will be live from not 1, not 2 but 3 OUTDOOR TRACK MEETS this weekend, including Raleigh Relays! WATCH THE RALEIGH RELAYS ON MARCH 25th & 26th LIVE
FloTrack will be live from not 1, not 2 but 3 OUTDOOR TRACK MEETS this weekend, including Raleigh Relays!
WATCH THE RALEIGH RELAYS ON MARCH 25th & 26th LIVE!
Some of track’s biggest high school, NCAA and professional stars will be at the Raleigh Relays this weekend, hosted by North Carolina State.
SCHEDULE AND ENTRIES
What to Watch: Women
Newly crowned All Americans Megan Moye (NC State) and Ce’aira Brown (Hampton) highlight the women’s 800m. Brown brings 2:03 speed to the table, while Moye ran 4:37 in the mile this season—an eight second improvement—and could mix it up with the best half milers in Raleigh.
2014 World Indoor 800m Champion Chanelle Price will test her strength in the 1500m. After taking the indoor season off, she ran 4:20.93 last weekend at the UCF Black and Gold Challenge. Price will be challenged by North Carolina’s Elizabeth Whelan, Dartmouth’s Dana Giordano and Michigan State’s Lindsay Clark, in her first race since last May's NCAA East Prelim.
The women’s 5000m and 10000m typically produce NCAA regional qualifying marks. This year should be no different.
Furman All American Allie Buchalski is on the 5000m start list, as well as Furman Elite steeplechasers Victoria Voronko and World finalist Stephanie Garcia. Last year Garcia showed great range by running three IAAF “A” standards in the 1500m, 5000m and steeplechase.
Wake Forest All American Samantha Jones, Michigan State stars Alexis Wiersma and Rachele Schulist—making her highly anticipated return from injury—and teen marathoner Alana Hadley highlight the women’s 10,000m.
Fresh off his NCAA Indoor 800m victory, Akron’s Clayton Murphy is entered in the 1500m, as well as the 4x1500m and 4x800m. Always one to test out the longer races (last year he ran 14:15 in the 5000m at this event), Murphy established himself as one of the NCAA's best middle distance athletes by running 3:57.11 in the mile
Watch Clayton Murphy surge to his first NCAA 800m title!
The men’s 5000m features U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials fifth-place finisher Tyler Pennel, former Loyola miler Sam Penzenstadler, and ZAP Fitness’ Joe Stilin. NCAA studs Meron Simon and Graham Crawford (NC State) and Stephen Scroeder (Navy) will be looking for NCAA qualifying marks.
The men's 10,000m should be a competitive field. NCAA All Americans Jacob Thomson (Kentucky), Caleb Rhynard (Michigan State), Ernest Kibet (Louisville) and Hassan Omar (UMBC) should lead the charge. Shaun Thompson (Duke), Willy Fink (Eastern Michigan), Jimmy Clark (Florida) and Lawrence Kipkoech (Campbell) will be in the mix, as well, with Sam Parsons trying to defend his home track in his first outdoor meet for NC State.
If fast is your thing, you won't want to miss the 400m featuring North Carolina’s Ceo Ways duking it out with Johnny Dutch and Jeffery Gibson, two of the world’s most prominent 400m hurdlers. Ways was an All American over 400m last spring, as well as a 200m qualifier. Dutch ran the fourth-fastest mark (48.13) in the 400m hurdles in the world for 2015, while Gibson was the World bronze medalist in Beijing.
Dutch tested his strength over 800m and ran 1:53.54 at the Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach last weekend, while Gibson ran 47.45 in the open 400m.
WATCH THE RALEIGH RELAYS ON MARCH 25th & 26th LIVE!
Some of track’s biggest high school, NCAA and professional stars will be at the Raleigh Relays this weekend, hosted by North Carolina State.
SCHEDULE AND ENTRIES
What to Watch: Women
Newly crowned All Americans Megan Moye (NC State) and Ce’aira Brown (Hampton) highlight the women’s 800m. Brown brings 2:03 speed to the table, while Moye ran 4:37 in the mile this season—an eight second improvement—and could mix it up with the best half milers in Raleigh.
2014 World Indoor 800m Champion Chanelle Price will test her strength in the 1500m. After taking the indoor season off, she ran 4:20.93 last weekend at the UCF Black and Gold Challenge. Price will be challenged by North Carolina’s Elizabeth Whelan, Dartmouth’s Dana Giordano and Michigan State’s Lindsay Clark, in her first race since last May's NCAA East Prelim.
The women’s 5000m and 10000m typically produce NCAA regional qualifying marks. This year should be no different.
Furman All American Allie Buchalski is on the 5000m start list, as well as Furman Elite steeplechasers Victoria Voronko and World finalist Stephanie Garcia. Last year Garcia showed great range by running three IAAF “A” standards in the 1500m, 5000m and steeplechase.
Wake Forest All American Samantha Jones, Michigan State stars Alexis Wiersma and Rachele Schulist—making her highly anticipated return from injury—and teen marathoner Alana Hadley highlight the women’s 10,000m.
What to Watch: Men
Fresh off his NCAA Indoor 800m victory, Akron’s Clayton Murphy is entered in the 1500m, as well as the 4x1500m and 4x800m. Always one to test out the longer races (last year he ran 14:15 in the 5000m at this event), Murphy established himself as one of the NCAA's best middle distance athletes by running 3:57.11 in the mile
Watch Clayton Murphy surge to his first NCAA 800m title!
The men’s 5000m features U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials fifth-place finisher Tyler Pennel, former Loyola miler Sam Penzenstadler, and ZAP Fitness’ Joe Stilin. NCAA studs Meron Simon and Graham Crawford (NC State) and Stephen Scroeder (Navy) will be looking for NCAA qualifying marks.
The men's 10,000m should be a competitive field. NCAA All Americans Jacob Thomson (Kentucky), Caleb Rhynard (Michigan State), Ernest Kibet (Louisville) and Hassan Omar (UMBC) should lead the charge. Shaun Thompson (Duke), Willy Fink (Eastern Michigan), Jimmy Clark (Florida) and Lawrence Kipkoech (Campbell) will be in the mix, as well, with Sam Parsons trying to defend his home track in his first outdoor meet for NC State.
If fast is your thing, you won't want to miss the 400m featuring North Carolina’s Ceo Ways duking it out with Johnny Dutch and Jeffery Gibson, two of the world’s most prominent 400m hurdlers. Ways was an All American over 400m last spring, as well as a 200m qualifier. Dutch ran the fourth-fastest mark (48.13) in the 400m hurdles in the world for 2015, while Gibson was the World bronze medalist in Beijing.
Dutch tested his strength over 800m and ran 1:53.54 at the Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach last weekend, while Gibson ran 47.45 in the open 400m.