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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou associate track and field head coach Dan Lefever has been selected as the head coach of the menÂ’s USA Track and Field Thorpe Cup Team, which pits the nationÂ’s top combined event athletes in a head-to-head competition against Germany. The competition will be held in Chula Vista, Calif., from August 13-14.

 

The Thorpe Cup is an international track and field competition between the USA and Germany. Teams are made up of up to seven men and seven women who compete in decathlon and heptathlon. Athletes received a predetermined number of points based upon their performances in each of the events in the decathlon and heptathlon. The top five menÂ’s and top three womenÂ’s scores are added together to determine the overall menÂ’s and womenÂ’s team winners.

 

Lefever, who has coached his fair share of successful decathletes at Mizzou, will share the coaching responsibilities of this yearÂ’s team with Matt Chisam, the combined events coach at Harvard. A familiar face will join Lefever as a member of the US Thorpe Cup team as former Tiger All-American Nick Adcock will compete with the US. Also competing for the United States will be Miller Moss, Chris Randolph, Mark Jellison, Matthew Johnson, Matthew Clark and Joe Detmer.

 

A live stream of the competition can be found at USATF.org. For all the latest on Mizzou track and field, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on twitter @MIZ_TrackField.