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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RRW: Indoors Or Cross? NCAA Coaches Make Tough Choices
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(09-Mar) A year ago this Thursday America’s top collegiate track and field teams had gathered in Albuquerque for the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships hosted by the University of New Mexico. There had only been a handful of COVID-19 cases in the United States so far, but the warning signs were there that the first pandemic of the 21st century was about to sweep America. Things unraveled quickly in Albuquerque.
The women’s lead pack at the 2019 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships (photo by David Monti for Race Results Weekly)
RRW: After Trials Disappointment & COVID, Matt Llano Ready To Race In Atlanta
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(23-Feb) On a Monday last September Matt Llano was on an easy training run in Flagstaff when he unexpectedly began to struggle. He started to feel an acute shortness of breath, and he did something he rarely does in training: he stopped.
Matt Llano training in Flagstaff (photo courtesy of Matt Llano)
“I wasn’t, like, running fast,” he told Race Results Weekly in a telephone interview yesterday. “It was supposed to be an easy run, and I was breathing so hard. I stopped halfway out. I was five miles out on some random dirt road in Flagstaff. I walked for a few minutes, which I just don’t do.”