Another brilliant race from Olivia in the Steeplechase, along with a 10 second PR. Bided her time behind the leader, sitting about 10-20 yards back until the last lap. Absolutely devastating last 400 meters to win going away!! Congrats!
3 events remaining
Alaina Brady currently 10th
and Alaina leading the way. Starts Events ND has participants:
Long Jump (Heptathlon) — Alaina Brady & Jadin O’Brien
Javelin (Heptathlon) — Alaina Brady & Jadin O’Brien
High Jump (Final) — Madison Schmidt
3,000M Steeplechase (Final) — OLIVIA MARKEZICHT
800M (Heptathlon) — Alaina Brady & Jadin O’Brien
5,000M (Final) — Siona Chisholm
Looks like it’s not going to happen
I'm also willing to say that I was not very good, AT ALL, but I attribute that to my own physical limitations and having no throwing coach for the team. Still, it was a solid experience, I did score some points for the team, and am proud to say I was a teammate with Chuck Aragon, Jacques Eady and some other notable Irish track athletes.
Congratulations to John Keenan!
Congrats. One of the scariest things I remember is seeing a kid laying on the track at Woodland Park (Seattle) with a javelin sticking out his leg. It must be hard for throwing event athletes to train wirth the rsiks to others.
ESPN did a whole story on him - javelin was just centimeters from his aorta
At the Olympics he won a Bronze medal as part of the American Mixed 4 × 400 meters relay team
He has like the 4th or 5th best time in the 400 this year
over junior high school, high school and college, as well as post-collegiate competitions. The most common incident would be someone from another sport coming by, asking if they could try and throw since they often were more athletic than I, and hit themselves in the back of the head with the javelin due to throuwing it like a ball versus through the point as required. It was a quick lesson that technique, in addition to athleticism, is required.
Top 8 gets you First Team, 9th to 16th 2nd team, apparently, since 2011.
Additional details from Wikipedia: "Administered by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the selection rules are that the top eight finishers in each individual event, as well as American competitors who finish outside the top eight in their event but are among the top eight of the American finishers in an event, earn All-America designation. Relays are judged strictly on a top-eight basis. The cutoff of eight places is the same for both indoor and outdoor competition. The student-athlete's team must be a member of the USTFCCCA.[15] Eligible students from all three NCAA divisions and the NAIA are chosen."