July 2009 Track and Field Articles

Harvard junior Dan Chenoweth took 42nd at last year's NCAA Cross Country Championships. Chenoweth is looking for another solid summer of running leading up to this year's fall championship. Let's see how he does! Can you sum up your 2008-2009 season? (Laughs) I guess it was kind of a long season, obviously. They were a couple of different seasons. I felt like the fall was a really good step for me. Personally, for me and my team, things went really well for us I think. Also, I had a strong season my freshman year and I had that next step… more »

  Flotrack is happy to announce the addition of PACE Sports Management to the Flonetwork. Ricky Simms heads up PACE, based in Teddington, England, and his athletes include Leo Manzano, Mo Farah, 2007 World Champ Christine Ohuruogu, and the fastest most exciting figure in track and field, Usain Bolt.  Pace represents over 80 Sprint, Middle, and Long Distance Runners, with several Field athletes (See all here).  Keep an eye out for PACE athletes at World Champs! PACE Sports Management Flonetwork More about PACE Sports Management: PACE Sports Management is one of the world's leading athlete management companies. PACE clients include many of the top stars in track & field, road, cross-country… more »

Oregon Duck junior, Alex Kosinski, took eighth at last year's NCAA Cross Country Championships, as her team took second behind Washington. Not racing this summer, Kosinski and the Ducks are getting another shipment of the top recruits in the country, including Jordan Hasay, and look to take the national championships this fall. Can you sum up your outdoor season after you didn't make the finals in the 1,500 at the NCAA and USA Championships? I wasn't super excited about it, but I wasn't disappointed either because I was consistently running my PR for the year. I was waiting for a… more »

© - Copyright – 2009 – Christopher Kelsall The Arthur Lydiard Phenomenon - A method of any other way could only be of a lesser standard.Certainly no other endurance pioneer, no matter how successful, could possibly have experimented with or applied as steadfastly in their toil as Lydiard did. Not Percy Cerutty, not Emil Zatopek, nor even Bill Bowerman set research and application parameters as high as he did.Keith Livingstone recently gave the legend full-on credit by writing the book, Healthy Intelligent Training, The Proven Principles of Arthur Lydiard. When famed Oregon coach, Bill Bowerman received a special medal from… more »

DESONDRE Justine BEL/ACME 100M 11"88 LIBERT Laetitia BEL/CABW 100M 11”83 DOWNIE Stacey SCO 100M 12"30 (2008) DE JANS Marlien BEL/DEIN 100M 12"35 RUTJENS Sarah BEL/OB 100M 12"53 WOSTYN Lore BEL/VS 100M 12"53 BAUDREZ Charline BEL/CABW 100M 12"59 DESMET Sylvie BEL/RCG 100M 12"61 ROBBEN Elise BEL/DCLA 100M 12"69 ASOMANING Stephanie BEL/RCG 100M 12"80 NURUMBI Deborah BEL/LAT 100M 12"89 VERBOVEN An BEL/RAM 100M 12”23 PAURISSE Isabelle FRA 100M 12”63 DE BAETS Soetkin BEL/ACME 100M 13"05 DEBOT Aurelie BEL/VITA 100M 13"05 PICCAVET Elien BEL/FLAC 100M 13"14 VAN DEN EEDE Veerle BEL/LAT 100M 13"21 LESEULTRE Charlotte BEL/CABW 100M 13"26 ASTAES Maud BEL/OB 100M 13"31… more »

LAWSON Chris USA 100M 10"21 HUNTER Thomas USA 100M 10"26 AMBLER David NZL 100M 10"35 HERREMAN Ingmar BEL/KKS 100M 10"64 VAN DE WOESTYNE Denis BEL/STAX 100M 10"71 HERREMAN Lars BEL/KKS 100M 10"80 MÜLLER Pascal SUI 100M 10"84 WILLIAMS Chris JAM 100M 10”05 SPIER Virgil NED 100M 10”56 BALOGUN Tunde GBR 100M 11"10 HOET Niels BEL/FLAC 100M 11"20 VANMULDER Robbe BEL/DAC 100M 11"21 HOET Jorg BEL/FLAC 100M 11"31 VERMEIRE Roman FRA 100M 11"43 SORTINO Jérémi BEL/ABES 100M 11"50 STEIN Sten NED 100M 11"57 LEPLAT Pierre-Alexis FRA 100M 11"58 SCHAAFSMA Kay BEL/OEH* 100M 11"65 JOBE Mustapha BEL/KAAG* 100M 11"79 LEFEBVRE Sylvain BEL/USTA… more »

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Brigham Young University junior Rich Nelson won his preliminary round of the steeplechase at the NCAA Championships in 8 minutes 41.85 seconds and went on to take 10th in the final. At the USA Track and Field Championships, Nelson took 16th in the prelim against top US competition. Going into his last year as a Cougar, his goals are to be an All-American in cross country. Are you running right now or are you still taking time off? I'm just barely up and running again… more »

     According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, “to lose” can be defined as: (1) “to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place” or (2) “to suffer deprivation of.”  To the man, English tries to simplify this simple word into an even simpler meaning; the vernacular tries to make the word “loss” a black-and-white term which thus tarnishes the running world’s definition – to NOT take 1st place.  But what if there was a man who truly understood the meaning of a loss, and simply doesn’t care what YOU think the term means?  To Coach Paul Williams, “to… more »

Air Force Academy Falcon Sean Houseworth took 15th place at the NCAA Championships in the 10,000-meter run before competing in the longest track event at the USA Championships. Houseworth recently graduated and is toying with the idea of moving up to the half-marathon/marathon distances before making a run at the 2012 Olympic Trials. Since the USA Championships, what have you been doing? Any running? I'm taking some time off. I'm back home where I grew up in Illinois. I'm just back home, hanging out with the family and golfing a lot. You pretty good? Decent. I play quite a bit… more »

© - Copyright – 2009 – Christopher Kelsall I WAS DOWN ON THE TRACK watching the Victoria Track Classic, wondering (as writers of athletics often will) what's up with a particular athlete these days. I noticed Geoff Martinson holding court shortly after his 1500m win, he was with friends who were leaning over the white railing that separates the spectators from the stadium track; they were laughing, he was entertaining the troops shortly after his 1500m Invitational win. Geoff is one of the good guys of sport. He may soon qualify to run internationally for Canada, until then, he can… more »

INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track & Field announced Friday the Team USA roster for the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships,  July 8-12, in Bressanone, Italy. A total of 55 athletes, 27 girls and 28 boys, will be part of the U.S. delegation for the World Youth Championships. At the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships, the U.S. finished atop the medal table with 14, including an all-time high of seven golds. Team USA looks to continue its excellent record in Bressanone. Leading Team USA at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships will be World Youth Trials champions Ashton Purvis, Kori Carter, Prezel Hardy and… more »

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> UC Riverside junior Brenda Martinez recently took ninth place in the 800-meter final of the USA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Or., where she competed last summer in the Olympic Trials. Martinez has a personal best time of 2 minutes, 2.34 seconds in the half-mile and is heading over to Europe to race this summer. What are your plans for this summer? I'm going to Europe for a couple weeks to race out there. I'm still not done, still training right now. Which races… more »