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Also, Camryn Newton-Smith 5818 in the heptathlon in South Carolina, three points off her overall PB, with new event PBs in high jump and shotput.
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Sun Belt Conference Championships, Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium, Myrtle Beach, SCOriginally posted by typpo View Post
Camryn Newton-Smith (b.2000) (Qld), Arkansas State JR, won the Heptathlon with 5818, her 2nd best ever and just down on her 5821 PB set in winning the Qld Champs in December 2022. She also set an outdoor HJ PB with 1.78 (1.81i '23)
There is some dispute over whether the performance was windy with the IAAF saying "w" due to a +8.1 wind in the hurdles. However, the Sun Belt site gives +3.1 for an overall legal average of +1.8. Who to believe?
If the IAAF is right, it's windy, if the Sun Belt website, then it's legal, giving her a new NCAA best, beating her own 5536 at last year's Conference champs. Oh, and it's also a facility, meet and Sun Belt Conference record, that beat the following marks:
Sun Belt Emile Berge - South Alabama 5718 3/28/2019
MR Meet Jade Bontke - UT-Arlington 5692 5/12/2022
FR Facility Bryanna Craig - UNA 5117 3/28/2021
The Sun Belt results:
Events: 13.62 (+3.1) - 1.78 - 12.94 - 25.52 (-0.2)/ 6.04 (+2.3) - 41.47 - 2:28.59 [D2 2269]
Points: 1033 - 953 - 723 - 840 [D1 3549]/862 - 696 - 711 [5818]
The IAAF list is a bit of a shambles with the LJ missing despite it being in her profile:
( 13.62/+8.1 - 1.78 - 12.94 - 25.52/-0.2 / N/A - 41.47 - 2:28.59 )
Newton-Smith is not just good at the combined events, she also has the following positions on the Arkansas State all time lists.
Outdoor:
1. Hep 5821
1. JT 47.79
3. LJ 6.26
5. HJ 1.78
5. 13.62
Indoor:
1. Pent 4356
2. 60H 8.35
3. HJ 1.81
3. LJ 6.16
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Sun Belt Conference Championships, Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium, Myrtle Beach, SC
Colby Eddowes (b. 2002) (ACT), Arkansas State [FR], won the Decathlon with 7349. This is only his second big boy decathlon after he scored 7543 PB on debut at the Bryan Clay Invitation one month ago.
We spoke about Eddowes earlier in the indoor season when he moved to `#3 AT on the AUS MHEP list with 5805 PB in his only Hep of the year.
His Sun Belt performance.
Events: 10.83 (-0.1) - 7.41 - 12.25 - 1.99 - 50.50 - 14.27 - 34.93 - 4.16 - 44.47 - 4:43.64
Points: 899 - 913 - 622 - 794 - 792 [D1 4020]/ 940 - 562 - 662 - 507 - 658 [3329]
Like Newton-Smith, he also has multiple appearances onn the Arkansas State all time lists.
Outdoor:
1. Dec 7543
6. LJ 7.75
7. 110H 13.83
Indoor:
1. Pent 5805
5. 60H 7.95
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Pac 12 Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships, Hilmer Lodge Stadium, Walnut, CA
Incomplete coverage for all but Oregon. I will slowly cover off other AUS athletes.
Izzy Thornton-Bott (b.1998) (NSW), Oregon SR, had a successful appearance at the Pac-12 Championships, finishing 3rd in the W1500 in 4:11.99 after a 4:16.54 Heat. It's worth noting that her Heat time was faster than her PB at the end of 2021, showing her rapid progress over the last few years.
She finished last year with a 4:13.75 PB at the Oregon Relays in April before smashing that with 4:08.64 for 6th at AUS champs in April 2023. A month aftter Nationals, she trimmed it further to 4:08.33 in Walnut, California. Between those runs, she squeezed in her 2nd fastest 800 ever with 2:04.36 at the Payton Jordan Invitational.
Hopefully, she can avoid repeating last year's late season decline in form, which saw her finish 8th in the semi of NCAA Outdoors. This year she looks primed to at least make the final this time around.
Update and old news on the only other AUS at Oregon.
Tomas Palfrey (b.2003) (ACT), also at Oregon, has not competed at all this year but remains on the roster. I didn't think I covered him at all last year when he did compete, so here's some out of date news by way of apology!
Palfrey finished up in AUS after the 2021 domestic season with PBs of 1:48.26/3:40.79 both set in Feb/Mar in Canberra. His first run for Oregon, was early in 2022 at the Dempsey Indoor with a promising 1:48.38, just off his PB. Curiously, the IAAF has this listed as an outdoor performance but maybe it was?
Unfortunately, the rest of the year was not up to that standard with no other sub-1:50 runs or a 1500 within 4 seconds of his PB. He finished his main season at the 2022 Pac-12 Champs with 1:50.18Ht/1:51.97F for 8th place and a DNF in the 5000. He has not competed since, other than a 3:47.36 1500 in June last year.
Hopefully, whatever ails him can be put aside so he can improve on his youthful performances
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A few Aussies lining up in the Seiko GP in Yokohama on Sunday, a Gold level event.
(M100) Browning, Doran
(M110H) McCorry
(M3000) Thomas, Bruce
(M300St) Clarke
(MHJ) Baden
(MLJ) Frayne
(MJT) McIntyre
(W100) Masters, Lewis
(W3000) Davies, Batt-Doyle
(W100H) Mucci, Jones
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Last of the AUS athletes at the Pac-12 Conference (I think).
Pac 12 Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships, Hilmer Lodge Stadium, Walnut, CA
Ky Robinson (b.2002) , Stanford [JR], came 2nd in the M1500 with 3:42.99 PB, just 0.77s behind winner Nathan Green, Washington and over a second clear of 3rd place.
Robinson hadn't run a 1500 since 2020, when he finished the year with a 3:52.75 PB. That changed this year, when he ran 3:45.64 PB at Berkeley at the end of April, then a 3:43.35 PB in the Heat at Pac-12 Champs.
Robinson has focused on the longer distances in recent years, including finishing 6th in the long race at last year's CWG in 27:44.33 PB to add to a 5000 PB of 13:21.85 earlier in 2022.
Robinson also ran in the 5000, coming 3rd in 14:14.28 in what seemed to be a slow tactical race with nobody sub-14 despite much faster times this season for the winner Brian Fay, Washington, 14:08.03 and Stanford teammates Cole Sprout (2nd) and Meika Beaudoin-Rousseau (4th).
Robinson opening 5000 this year resulted in a 13:29.44 at the Bryan Clay Invitational in mid-April, which was his 4th fastest ever.
Carley Thomas (b.2000), Washington [JR], won her heat of the W800 in 2:04.88 before finishing 2nd in the final with 2:02.40. This left her unable to repeat her historic win last year, the first Washington event winner ever, despite finishing faster than her 2:02.93 time in 2022.
Still, this is her NCAA best and 3rd fastest time ever behind her PB of 2:01.01 (London 2019) and 2:01.13 (U-20 WC silver, Tampere 2018), just the sort of times she needed to be competitive with Stanford's Juliette Whittaker's winning time of 2:01.19.
Hopefully, she can get some Euro opportunities later this year but it will need some major sub-2:00 effort to even be considered for her 2nd AUS WC team, after her appearance in 2019.
There are two other Australians on the Stanford roster:
Nicola Hogg (2:06.79/4:15.13/9:29.01)
Imogen Gardner (2:09.08/4:20.34/9:36.36)
All their PBs were set some time ago in AUS and their outings in the USA this year have been of modest standard. Most likely they are focused on their studies rather than sport, so I won' t bother reporting on them.
Ed Trippas (b.1998), Washington [SR], won the M3000SC with 8:37.26, 5 seconds clear of 2nd place. Trippas was at Princeton last year PB but must have considered proximity to active volcanoes more desirable. His time here is down on his SB of 8:31.40 but he normally drops about 10 seconds when he peaks, indicating something around 8:20 later in the year. However, as we saw last year, when he finished 6th, low 8:20s won't get him out of a WC Heat. His rather dated PB remains the 8:19.60 he set in 2021.
Also, in his first 5000 since 2017 (!) he finished 19th in 14:52.03 PB, improving marginally on his 14:53.24 from Sydney in Feb 2017. I doubt he broke out the champagne for this one but you never know.
Elle Rutherford (b.2002), Washington [SO], was a DNF in the W800. Another athlete who has not improved in the NCAA with her 400, 800 and 1500 PBs dating back to 2015, 2019 and 2016, respectively.
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Sophie O'Sullivan (b.2001) (IRL), Washington [JR], won the W1500 Heat in 4:16.29 before finishing 4th in the final in 4:12.19, one place behind Izzy Thornton-Bott. O'Sullivan finished 2022 with a PB of 4:17.54 before running 3 times outdoors for 3 consecutive PBs: 4:17.46, 4:16.29 in the Heat and 4:12.19 in the Final.
A very productive season so far but still some distance from mum's 3:58.85. Still, you gotta have goals!
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Not sure if the entry lists are complete, but McSweyn (M5000), Hull, Caldwell (both w1500) and Kennedy (WPV) are all down to compete at the Rome DL in a couple of weeks.Comment
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Many of the above athletes have qualified for the NCAA Regionals and many will (hopefully) qualify for the NCAA finals. The latter might be the best possibility to pb in their events.Originally posted by El Toro View PostComment
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Mountain West Championships, Veterans Memorial Stadium, Clovis, CA
Two athletes from Melbourne's Xavier College are on the roster for Colorado State.
Tom Willems (b. 2000), Colorado State [SR], clocked 21.15 (+1.6) PB in the Heats but lost a half second in the final to trail in 8th place with 21.64 (+0.9).
In the 400, he finished 6th with a SB of 46.99, a substantial drop in standard compared to his fine running last year, when he finished 2nd with a 46.14 PB, before running 45.97 PB and 45.99 in the West region heat and final. Hopefully, as this seems to be his last year, he might be saving his peak for later in an attempt to make the AUS 4x400 team for WC, not that I'm expecting a qualifying time...
Grace Goldsworthy (b.2001), Colorado State JR, left AUS after the 2020 domestic season with PBs of 25.15/54.79 and a 3rd in the VIC U-20 champs with her 400 PB. Since being in the USA, she has not improved her 200 outdoor best but did run a 54.67 PB last year. Indoors, she set an absolute 200 PB of 25.01 this year and an indoor best of 54.75 last year, both at altitude in Albuquerque. Despite her promising start to the year, she has not competed since
Three AUS athletes at the University of San Francisco, which is not part of a conference but is in the West region.
Ruby Smee (b.2000) (TAS), San Francisco [SR], has continued her steady improvement, setting new outdoor PBs this year of 9:04.93 and 32:30.60, improving from last year's 9:06.24 and 34:00.88. Her SB at 5000 of 15:38.08 is her 2nd best ever after her 15:36.04 last year.
Without a conference championship, Smee went straight to the 2022West Regionals where she finished 9th at the 2022 West Regionals in 16:33.55. Hopefully, she can move further up towards the medals this year.
Hannah Anderson (b.2003), San Francisco [SO], finished in Australia at the end of 2022 with PBs of 4:44.39/9:49.81/17:11.78 with that 5000 time producing a silver at the 2022 AUS U-20 championships.
This year, she has improved to 4:36.54/9:34.06/16:28.35 but I am not sure if any of those times qualify her for the West Regionals.
Ebony Webb (b.2000), San Francisco [Grad], is also from TAS like Smee but with much more modest PBs, although she was good enough to win the 2022 TAS championships over 3000 and 5000. Unlike Smee, she did her studies in AUS and this is her first appearance on the San Francisco roster. Given her modest standard, I won't report on her.Comment
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Big Ten Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Billy Hayes T& F Complex, Bloomington, IN
Jackson Sharp (b. 2000) (NSW), Wisconsin Redshirt JR, won the M1500 with 3:42.72 and the M3000 in 7:51.53, a big improvement on his 6th and 3rd places from last year. Overall he has had a good year across his range with the following PBs:
Indoor: 7:44.10 (also absolute) was 7:48.56 ('22)
Outdoor: 1:50.87/7:51.53/13:29.84 was 1:52.49 ('18)/8:00.01('22)/13:33.77 ('22)
That 7:44 should put him in the top 15 AUS all time performers on the combined list and the 5000 at 40th. To match his 3000 ranking, he needs to better the 13:17.76 of Shaun Creighton.
Adam Spencer (b.2001) (VIC), Wisconsin [SO], came 2nd in the M800 in 1:46.84 PB. This was a change in focus from last season where he won the 1500 before going on to finish 8th in the NCAA Champs.
His 800 PB at the end of 2022 was 1:50.21 at the Oregon Relays in April last year but started the outdoor season with 1:48.75 PB, DNF, 1:47.74 PB heat and 1:46.84 PB. Although that DNF might have been pacemaking Jackson Sharp to his 1:50.87PB.
Overall, it's been quite the successful season, especially as he also ran his 2nd fastest time of 3:37.72 at the Bryan Clay Invitational as well as Mile PBs of 3:55.61i/4:03.94 was 3:57.291 ('22)/4:05.99 ('22).
If he can repeat that indoor mile time outdoors, he will be in the AUS top 25 all time, just behind Graham Crouch but ahead of Merv Lincoln. On the much less competitive AUS indoor list, he sits at 5th ahead of Gregson (6), McSweyn (8) and Hillardt (9), amongst others.
Olli Raimond (b.2001) (NSW), Michigan [JR], finished 6th in the M5000 in 14:10.67 in a fairly slow race. The winning time was only 13:51.31. Raimond's PB from last year is 13:57.56.
While not improving over the 5000, he has set PBs at shorter distances with 3:43.92/4:00.61/8:06.75 was 3:44.33 ('22)/4:00.82 ('22)/8:09.95 ('20) & 7:59.43i ('22)Comment
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Big Ten Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Billy Hayes T& F Complex, Bloomington, IN
Jackson Sharp (b. 2000) (NSW), Wisconsin Redshirt JR, won the M1500 with 3:42.72 and the M3000 in 7:51.53, a big improvement on his 6th and 3rd places from last year. Overall he has had a good year across his range with the following PBs:
Indoor: 7:44.10 (also absolute) was 7:48.56 ('22)
Outdoor: 1:50.87/7:51.53/13:29.84 was 1:52.49 ('18)/8:00.01('22)/13:33.77 ('22)
That 7:44 should put him in the top 15 AUS all time performers on the combined list and the 5000 at 40th. To match his 3000 ranking, he needs to better the 13:17.76 of Shaun Creighton.
Adam Spencer (b.2001) (VIC), Wisconsin [SO], came 2nd in the M800 in 1:46.84 PB. This was a change in focus from last season where he won the 1500 before going on to finish 8th in the NCAA Champs.
His 800 PB at the end of 2022 was 1:50.21 at the Oregon Relays in April last year but started the outdoor season with 1:48.75 PB, DNF, 1:47.74 PB heat and 1:46.84 PB. Although that DNF might have been pacemaking Jackson Sharp to his 1:50.87PB.
Overall, it's been quite the successful season, especially as he also ran his 2nd fastest time of 3:37.72 at the Bryan Clay Invitational as well as Mile PBs of 3:55.61i/4:03.94 was 3:57.291 ('22)/4:05.99 ('22).
If he can repeat that indoor mile time outdoors, he will be in the AUS top 25 all time, just behind Graham Crouch but ahead of Merv Lincoln. On the much less competitive AUS indoor list, he sits at 5th ahead of Gregson (6), McSweyn (8) and Hillardt (9), amongst others.
Olli Raimond (b.2001) (NSW), Michigan [JR], finished 6th in the M5000 in 14:10.67 in a fairly slow race. The winning time was only 13:51.31. Raimond's PB from last year is 13:57.56.
While not improving over the 5000, he has set PBs at shorter distances with 3:43.92/4:00.61/8:06.75 was 3:44.33 ('22)/4:00.82 ('22)/8:09.95 ('20) & 7:59.43i ('22)Comment
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Big East Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Josh Phillips (b.1999) (NSW), Villanova [SR], came 2nd in the M5000 in 13:44.93 (PB) was 13:45.85 set winning the Penn Relays this year ahead of teammate Haftu Strintzos in 2nd. This result turned the tables on Strintzos who finished ahead of him in 4th at the indoor version in February where Phillips was 6th.
Haftu Strintzos (b.1999) (VIC), Villanova [JR], came 3rd in the M5000 in 13:45.70 PB was 13:47.32 ('21), although he did flag the potential for improvement with a 13:47.54 at the Penn Relays. This is a one place improvement on his 4th place earlier this year in the Indoor version.
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There's loads of Aussies in action at Sunday's Golden Grand Prix in Yokohama (Conti Tour Gold).
Entry lists at https://goldengrandprix-japan.com/2023/athlete/
The TV window starts at 3pm Japan time.
It's my understanding that the 3000m races that close the programme will not be shown in the TV window but there will be YouTube streams for those and also for the field events before the TV window. For details of those stay tuned to my Live Streaming Links thread at https://forum.athleticsweekly.com/fo...aming-linksComment
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It's nice that we Aussies don't have to mess around with VPNs for this meet.Comment
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Mountain West Championships, Veterans Memorial Stadium, Clovis, CA
Today, I'm catching up with AUS athletes at the University of New Mexico, located in Albuquerque at an elevation of 1,619m just a bit higher than Dinner Plain, Australia's highest town without a ski lift at 1570m. However, population wise, Albuquerque wins hands down 916,528 (metro) to 230!
One of the very good things about the athlete pages at NM is the use of an audio player with name pronunciation - watch, listen and learn, IAAF. They also provide competition profiles for all the major USA data sites as well as the IAAF. Here's a sample:https://golobos.com/sports/track/ros...a-leszczynska/
Amelia Mazza-Downie (b.1999) (VIC), New Mexico [JR], won the W5000 in 15:44.37 well clear of 2nd place teammate, Gracelyin Larkin in 16:03.44. This is her first conference win at this distance after finishing 3rd in both 2021 and 2022. While down on her 15:18.54 PB from the Husky Classic in February, she should be ready to improve on her 16th place at last year's NCAA Champs in a few weeks time.
Mazza-Downie also broke Weini Kelati (USA). formerly (ERI)’s, New Mexico record in the 10,000 at the Bryan Clay Invitational earlier this year, running 32:07.62. Again, she should be in a position to improve her 9th placing from last year but it's a matter of seeing whether she does both races like last year or goes for her best distance.
It's worth noting that her NM record beat Kelati’s record of 32:09.10 from 2019, the year she won the NCAA W10000 title. Kelati has since improved to 31:10.08 and represented USA at the WXC in Bathurst this year, finishing in 21st place. Hopefully and indicator of good times ahead for Mazza-Downie.
In the AUS context, at the end of last year, Mazza-Downie was at 37th on the AUS all time list for W10000 but now resides at 22nd ahead of Jess Trengove, Krishna Stanton and not far behind the 32:06.32 of Genevieve Gregson in 20th. The 5000 position were 44(!) and 18, one place ahead of Linden Hall.
Ethan Brouw (b.2002) (NSW), New Mexico [SO], came 3rd in the M800 in 1:49.65 after a 1:54.56 Heat. He was also a DNF in the M5000
He's set PBs this year of 1:47.21/1:48.67i in his main event, as well as more modest results over 1500/mile of 3:48.07 and 4:16.03i. Brouw has hovered in the 1:51-1:52 range since his schooldays in AUS, so this is the first year where he has substantially improved.
He now sits at 9th on the AUS season list but only in the high 50s on the AT list, just behind Tony Blue's 1:47.2h from 1960 but well ahead of now coaching guru, Justin Rinaldi.
Despite all that, he still has some way to go to beat the NM record of 1:46.22 set 46 years ago in 1977 by Sammy Kipkurgat (KEN). It's not hard to believe how long it's lasted when you realise that Kipkurgat made the 1976 Kenyan OG team, along with legend Mike Boit, only to miss out due to the African boycott.
Annamaria Leszczynska (b.2000) (ACT), New Mexico [JR], came 2nd in the W400H in 59.06 after a 60.50 Heat.
Her flat times haven't improved from her AUS competition days where she had 2018 PBs of 25.44 (+0.1)/56.32. However, in her main event the 400H, she ran 58.57 PB at the Bryan Clay Invitational this year. A run that finally improved her 2018 400H best of 58.87 set in the AUS Champs SF, the same year she made the U-20 WC team.
Klara Dess (b.2000) (VIC), New Mexico [Grad], did not compete. She is in her first year at NM after looking like she attended uni in the ACT and making a few finals at Nationals with PBs of 2:07.24/4:21.08 set in 2022. At NM earlier this year, she was a member of the winning Distance Medley Relay team at the Mountain West Indoor Champs in a time of 11:31.55.
Sarah Eckel (b.1999) (SA), New Mexico [SO] finished 16th in the W5000 in 17:00.61 PB (debut). It's worth noting by way of comparison that she did run a 16:16 road 5k in 2021.
Like Dess, she was also a member of the winning relay team at the Mountain West Indoors and has also set a number of modest indoor bests, also on debut this year. Her highest quality performances are still from AUS where she set PBs of 2:05.24 ('18)/4:14.11 ('18)/9:26.10 ('19), with her 1500 PB good enough for 6th at Nationals to go along with a U-20 title, and a trip to Tampere for the U-20 WC.Comment
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