¶wJavelin: Rachel Yurkovich (Oregon) 195-7 (59.62) CL

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T&FN formchart:

1. Rachel Yurkovich Oregon
2. Kara Patterson Purdue
3. Katie Coronado New Mexico
4. ***Anna Wessman’ UTEP
5. **Karlee McQuillen Penn State
6. *Evelien Dekkers’ Florida
7. *Michelle Thompson Georgia
8. **Laura Asimakis Texas A&M
9. **Kim Hanslovan Penn State
10. Amanda Martin Connecticut

[Marlow]

Titanic struggle of epic proportions. First to 200 wins?

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Preliminaries
1 Anna Wessman FR Texas-El Paso 55.30mq 181-05
50.45m 55.30m x
2 Kara Patterson SR Purdue 54.74mq 179-07
54.74m x x
3 Rachel Yurkovich SR Oregon 54.33mq 178-03
52.19m 54.33m x
4 Evelien Dekkers JR Florida 51.63mq 169-05
51.63m 47.66m 45.28m
5 Marissa Tschida SO Washington State 51.36mq 168-06
50.44m 51.36m 49.08m
6 Katie Coronado SR New Mexico 51.20mq 168-00
45.86m 51.20m 47.23m
7 Kristine Busa SO Southern California 50.80mq 166-08
50.80m 50.26m 49.64m
8 Kim Hamilton SR Kent State 49.33mq 161-10
46.95m 45.02m 49.33m
9 Brooke Pighin SO Washington 49.03mq 160-10
47.80m 47.94m 49.03m
10 Meghan Briggs JR Virginia 48.97mq 160-08
45.52m 48.87m 48.97m
11 Laura Asimakis SO Texas A&M 48.92mq 160-06
48.69m 48.92m 47.45m
12 Karlee McQuillen SO Penn State 48.54mq 159-03
47.85m 48.54m 48.54m
13 Brittany Williams JR Houston 48.04m 157-07
48.04m 43.58m 47.10m
14 Michelle Thompson JR Georgia 47.76m 156-08
43.91m FOUL 47.76m
15 Kim Hanslovan SO Penn State 47.61m 156-02
46.54m 47.61m 44.81m
16 Amanda Martin SR Connecticut 47.42m 155-07
47.42m 46.46m 46.85m
17 Ali Pistora SO Kansas State 46.85m 153-08
46.51m 46.85m 46.02m
18 Emalie Humphreys SO Texas A&M 46.04m 151-00
45.78m 46.04m 44.94m
19 Sasa Kampic FR Boise State 45.67m 149-10
45.67m FOUL 41.14m
20 Stephanie Ralls JR Northridge 45.54m 149-05
45.54m 43.37m FOUL
21 Ilze Gribule FR Brigham Young 44.97m 147-06
44.97m 43.29m FOUL
22 Leslie Bourgeois JR Nicholls State 43.61m 143-01
38.73m 43.61m 41.94m
23 Emily Tyrrell SO Montana State 43.56m 142-11
43.56m 40.08m 39.95m
24 Anna Lyons SR LSU 43.51m 142-09
42.44m 43.29m 43.51m
25 Michelle Coombs FR Eastern Washington 43.43m 142-06
38.95m 43.43m 40.36m
26 Samantha Espiricueta

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formchart damage

in:
1. Rachel Yurkovich Oregon
2. Kara Patterson Purdue
3. Katie Coronado New Mexico
4. ***Anna Wessman’ UTEP
5. **Karlee McQuillen Penn State
6. *Evelien Dekkers’ Florida

8. **Laura Asimakis Texas A&M

out:
7. *Michelle Thompson Georgia
9. **Kim Hanslovan Penn State
10. Amanda Martin Connecticut

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Wessman's 181-5 is farthest Qin meet history. Old was 179-11 54.85 Andrea Kvetová 08

[Jnathletics]

1. Rachel Yurkovich Oregon 197+?

I believe I heard the announcers say she is in the lead with a 197? throw?

2. Kara Patterson Purdue last throw 57.60 (189'-0")

Yurkovich just throw 59.53 (195-3)

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Finals
1 Rachel Yurkovich SR Oregon 59.62m 195-07 10
54.02m 54.65m 56.05m 59.62m 59.53m 59.60m
2 Kara Patterson SR Purdue 57.96m 190-02 8
52.34m 57.47m 56.79m 57.96m 57.17m 57.60m
3 Anna Wessman FR Texas-El Paso 54.43m 178-07 6
52.89m 54.43m FOUL FOUL PASS 53.99m
4 Evelien Dekkers JR Florida 53.16m 174-05 5
46.06m 53.16m 49.22m FOUL FOUL 51.88m
5 Kim Hamilton SR Kent State 50.80m 166-08 4
46.32m 50.80m 49.96m 50.69m 46.23m 50.49m
6 Marissa Tschida SO Washington State 50.72m 166-05 3
47.76m 50.72m 47.53m 49.31m 42.13m 49.38m
7 Brooke Pighin SO Washington 50.53m 165-09 2
50.53m FOUL FOUL 45.30m FOUL 50.53m
8 Kristine Busa SO Southern California 50.21m 164-09 1
46.84m 50.21m FOUL 46.94m 49.02m 49.25m
9 Meghan Briggs JR Virginia 50.05m 164-02
46.65m 50.05m 48.90m 48.38m 49.20m FOUL
10 Karlee McQuillen SO Penn State 49.77m 163-03
47.64m 47.89m 49.77m
11 Katie Coronado SR New Mexico 49.24m 161-06
49.24m 46.68m 40.95m
12 Laura Asimakis SO Texas A&M 48.16m 158-00
48.16m 46.22m 46.72m

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Yurkovich (with stunning series) gets nice PR but still stays as No. 6 on the all-time collegiate list

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61.82 202-10 Irina Kharun' (In) 6/13/03
61.56 202-0 Kara Patterson (Pur) 5/17/08
60.26 197-8 Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi' (UTEP) 5/06/00
60.24 197-8 Tsiolakoúdi' 6/03/00
59.64 195-8 Serene Ross (Pur) 5/30/02
Dana Pounds (AF) 5/13/06
59.62 195-7 Rachel Yurkovich (Oregon) 6/12/09
59.60 195-6 Yurkovich ! 6/12/09
59.53 195-3 Yurkovich ! 6/12/09
59.05 193-8 Kharun' ! 6/13/03

all-time collegiate performances 7-8-9 for Yurkovich, within 4 inches of each other!

[26mi235]

2 Kara Patterson SR Purdue 57.96m 190-02 8
52.34m 57.47m 56.79m 57.96m 57.17m 57.60m

This was a consistently good series as well - she led [edit] until passed by RY's sequence of 59m throws in rounds 4/5/6.

[Half Miler]

all-time collegiate performances 7-8-9 for Yurkovich, within 4 inches of each other!

That's a rather amazing stat. :shock:

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2 Kara Patterson SR Purdue 57.96m 190-02 8
52.34m 57.47m 56.79m 57.96m 57.17m 57.60m

This was a consistently good series as well - she lead until passed by RY's sequence of 59m throws in rounds 4/5/6.

first 190-footer not to win in meet history

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and, of course, Yurkovich and Patterson grew up in high school throwing not many miles apart.

[CougarMVP]

Good job for Marissa of WSU. This young lady is only a sophomore!