We take a look at the wild regional meets which were great for one teen phenom (Athing Mu) but not so great for some others like Nico Young and Katelyn Tuohy who will be watching NCAAs on tv. Plus did you know there is another US teen, Graham Blanks, who ran 13:27 last week but also won't be at NCAAs as he hasn't even started college yet?
Hayward Field’s Grand Reopening Is Friday, And a Ton of NCAA Stars Will Be Racing
April 1, 2021
When the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field reopens on Friday with the Hayward Premiere meet, 1,028 days will have passed since it last hosted a track meet.
Back then, on June 9, 2018, the marathon world record was 2:02:57, the Nike Oregon Project still existed,
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Phil Knight‘s bulldozers razed old Hayward to the ground? It was pretty good:
With an estimated cost of $270 million, “new” Hayward is easily the most expensive track & field-specific facility ever built in the United States and immediately becomes the center of the American track & field universe: over the next 16 months, the stadium will host two NCAA championships, the US Olympic Trials, and the 2022 World Championships. Based on everything we’
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Conner Mantz Ends The American Drought, NAU Men Reassert Themselves As Kings At 2020 NCAA Cross Country Championships
March 15, 2021
With three straight NCAA cross country titles from 2016-2018, the Northern Arizona men cemented themselves as a dynasty a couple of years ago. But today at the 2020 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the men from Flagstaff unveiled their Mona Lisa.
On a sunny (59 degrees), windy (18 mph) day on a brutal Oklahoma State course that left would-be rivals and #1-ranked BYU grasping for air, Northern Arizona won its fourth national title in five years with the finest performance in school history. The Lumberjacks, led by true freshman
PROVO Conner Mantz isn t afraid to say it.
While most collegiate athletes at BYU and around Utah speak of a game-by-game mentality, and for good reason the day-by-day approach to winning in their collective sphere, Mantz has larger goals on the horizon.
He wants to win a national title.
This week, he ll get that chance and he s definitely a contender.
Mantz will lead the top-ranked BYU cross country team into the NCAA national meet in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and he ll likely be among the favorites to win an individual championship when the gun goes off at OSU Cross Country Course.
And while the Sky View High product recognizes the need to prepare with the same one-day-at-a-time mentality, he also isn t afraid to set big goals.