UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS 2017 OREGON TRACK & FIELD Penn Relays OSU High Performance Meet April 27-29 April 28-29 Philadelphia, Pa. Corvallis, Ore. This Week: The Men and Women of Oregon will be split between two meets this week, 2017 OUTDOOR SCHEDULE the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa., and the OSU High Performance Meet at March 30-April 1 Florida Relays (Gainesville, Fla.) Oregon State in Corvallis. The Ducks will compete in a number of relays in Philadelphia March 31-April 1 Stanford Invitational (Palo Alto, Calif.) while also getting some of their throwers some action, and a large number of Ducks April 12-15 Mt. SAC Relays (Torrance, Calif.) will head to Corvallis seeking qualifying marks in individual events. April 13-15 Beach Invitational (Long Beach, Calif.) April 13 Bryan Clay Invitational (Azusa, Calif.) How to Follow: The Penn Relays will be available to be streamed live on USATF.TV with a +Plus subscription. There will not be a live stream offered for the meet in Corvallis. April 27-29 Penn Relays (Philadelphia, Pa.) Links to live results for both meets can be found on the track and field schedule on April 28-29 OSU High Performance (Corvallis, Ore.) goducks.com. Updates from both meets will be provided on Twitter via @OregonTF May 4 West Coast Invitational (Salem, Ore.) and @Run4Ducks. May 5 Oregon Twilight (Eugene, Ore.) May 6-7 Pac-12 Multi-Event Championships (Corvallis, Ore.) Entries - Penn Relays: The Ducks will have the opportunity to run multiple relays at one of the biggest meets in the country this week in Philadelphia. The Men of Oregon May 13-14 Pac-12 Championships (Eugene, Ore.) will run the 4x100, 4x400 and 4xMile relays along with the distance medley relay, and May 25-27 NCAA West Regionals (Austin, Texas) the Women of Oregon will run the 4x100, 4x400 and 4x1500 relays as well as the sprint June 7-10 NCAA Championships (Eugene, Ore.) medley. Individually, Alaysha Johnson will run in the 100 hurdles, Jackson Mestler June 22-25 USATF Championships (Sacramento, Calif.) will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Cody Danielson and John Nizich will throw the javelin and Ryan Hunter-Simms will throw both the discus and the shot put. OREGON ENTRIES Entries - OSU High Performance: There will be much more of an individual focus for the Ducks that stay in Oregon to compete in Corvallis. Joshua Rambert will run the Men Women 400 hurdles, Braxton Canady will go in the 110 hurdles and Khadejah Jackson will race in both the 100 and 400 hurdles. Freshman Rhesa Foster will also run the 100 Penn Relays Penn Relays hurdles, in addition to competing in the long jump. Cody Danielson - Javelin Alaysha Johnson - 100H Ryan Hunter-Simms - Discus, SP 4x100 In the middle distance, Austin Tamagno run the 800 meters for the men, while Jackson Mestler - 3,000 Steeple 4x400 freshman standout Katie Rainsberger and Brooke Feldmeier will also run the John Nizich - Javelin 4x1500 800. Travis Neuman, Bryan Fernandez and Perrin Xthona will all race in the 5,000 4x100 Sprint Medley meters, and Brianna Nerud and Frida Berge will make her season debut in the 3,000 4x400 steeplechase. 4xMile OSU High Performance In the throws, Cullen Prena, Drake Brennan and freshman Sebastian Barajas will DMR Frida Berge - 3,000 Steeple all throw the discus, while Brennan and Barajas will also throw the shot put and Prena Chaquinn Cook - TJ the hammer. Senior Austin White will also join Barajas in the shot put. For the women, OSU High Performance Brooke Feldmeier - 800 Kiana Phelps, Maddie Rabing and Ronna Stone will all throw the shot put and the Sebastian Barajas - SP, Discus Rhesa Foster - 100H, LJ discus, and Rabing will also join Madeline Middlebrooks in the hammer throw. T.J. Brassil - SP Khadejah Jackson - 100H, 400H Drake Brennan - SP, Discus Senior Cole Walsh will lead the Ducks in the jumps as he looks to top the PR he set Madeline Middlebrooks - HT in the pole vault two weeks ago, and Ben Milligan will aim for a new top mark in the Braxton Canady - 110H, 100 Brianna Nerud - 3,000 Steeple high jump in his first action of the outdoor season. Chaquinn Cook will go in the triple Joe Delgado - 110H, PV, SP Kylee O’Connor - 400H jump for the women. Multi-even athletes Mitch Modin and Joe Delgado will both Bryan Fernandez - 5,000 Kelly O’Neill - 1,500 compete in the 110 hurdles, the pole vault and the shot put as they prepare for the Max Lydum - HT Kiana Phelps - SP, Discus Pac-12 Multi-Event Championships next weekend. Ben Milligan - HJ Maddie Rabing - SP, HT, Discus Mitch Modin - 110H, PV, SP Katie Rainsberger - 800 Oregon Shines in California: Competing at three different meets in California two Travis Neuman - 5,000 weeks ago, highlighted by the famous Mt. SAC Relays, the Men and Women of Oregon Ronna Stone - SP, Discus came away with another incredible performance with multiple record-breaking Cullen Prena - HT, Discus Annie Whitfield - Javelin showings. Raevyn Rogers stole headlines by breaking the 27-year-old collegiate Joshua Rambert - 400H Perrin Xthona - 5,000 record in the 800 meters in an astounding 1:59.10. The quartet of Makenzie Dunmore, Austin Tamagno - 800 Hannah Cunliffe, Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington topped their own Austin Tharp - HT collegiate record in the 4x100 relay in a blazing 42.12. Cole Walsh - PV Austin White - SP In the individual sprints, Stevens and Washington each set personal-bests to finish 1-2 in the invite 100 meters, with Stevens winning in 11.00 and Washington taking a close second in 11.06 in a field that featured former Duck greats Jenna Prandini and Jasmine Todd. The duo put on another impressive performance later in the day in the 200 meters, where Stevens took over the NCAA and world leads in 22.31 with Washington finishing in 22.93. Coaches: Head Coach - Robert Johnson; Assoc. HC - Andy Powell; Assoc. HC - Curtis Taylor; AC - Jamie Cook; AC - Maurica Powell; The Men of Oregon broke a record of their own in the 4x100. The foursome of Damarcus AC - Erik Whitsitt Simpson, Kyree King, Julius Shellmire and Marcus Chambers ran the fastest time in Oregon history in 39.18. King won two individual events, and ran a lifetime best 10.23 in the University Quick Facts 100 meters while also winning the 200 in 20.78. In the field events, seniorCole Walsh hit a new PR and finished as the top collegian in the field by clearing 5.50m/18’0.5”. President: Michael Schill Freshman phenom Katie Rainsberger made more headlines for the Women of Oregon, Athletic Director: Rob Mullens finishing second in the invite 1,500 meters in 4:13.25, a new NCAA-leading time. Faculty Representative: Tim Gleason Facility: Hayward Field (10,500), founded 1919 Ducks Enjoy Record-Breaking Start to Outdoor Season: A highly productive weekend at Conference: Pacific-12 (www.pac-12.org) the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla., was highlighted by a pair of collegiate records for the Enrollment: 24,500 Women of Oregon. The quartet of Makenzie Dunmore, Hannah Cunliffe, Deajah Stevens Location: Eugene, Oregon and Ariana Washington smashed the collegiate record in the 4x100 relay, flying to a win in Mascot: Ducks 42.34, before breaking it again two weeks later at Mt. SAC. The same four Ducks came back out a few hours later and moved their names to the top of the all-time collegiate list in the Colors: Yellow and Green 4x200 with a time of 1:28.78. Both marks took the top spot in the Oregon record books as (Pantone 567, Pantone 107) well. The two collegiate records marked the third and fourth for the Women of Oregon so Duck Ticket Office: (541) 346-4461 far in 2016-17 (60m, DMR), and first two of the outdoor season. The Men of Oregon had an 1-800-WEB-FOOT impressive showing of their own in the 4x100, as Damarcus Simpson, Kyree King, Julius Athletic Dept. Phone: (541) 346-4481 Shellmire and Marcus Chambers secured the second-fastest time in school history with a Athletic Dept. Phone (TTY): (541) 346-5418 third-place time of 39.39. Athletic Communications Contact: Nate Krueger Alaysha Johnson enjoyed a tremendous start to the season, winning the 100-meter hurdles SID E-mail: [email protected] in an Oregon record and personal-record (PR) 12.69 seconds. Sasha Wallace, the indoor Office Phone: (541) 346-5475 national champion in the 60 hurdles, finished sixth in 12.94.Chaquinn Cook claimed the Cell Phone: (253) 569-9468 victory in the college long jump with a PR mark of 6.15m/20’2”, getting her first outdoor Press Box Phone: (541) 346-4497 or 346-4496 season as a Duck off to a strong start. Senior Cole Walsh opened his final outdoor season Web Site: www.goducks.com with a win in the pole vault, clearing 5.42m/17’9”. Indoor A-A Performances Returning/Lost: Men: 7/4 The Ducks also received a strong start from their distance runners at the Stanford Invitational. Seventeen-time national champion Edward Cheserek opened outdoors with a win in the Women: 13/3 10,000 meters in 28:46.48, which is currently 10th in the nation and 12 seconds better than his Outdoor All-Americans Returning/Lost: 10K qualifying time from last season (28:58.57). Lilli Burdon (4:17.07), Emma Abrahamson Men: 6/2 (4:18.62) and Jessica Hull (4:19.50) all hit PRs in the college 1,500, and senior Samantha Women: 9/3 Nadel, the fourth-place finisher in the 3,000 at the Indoor Championships, crushed her PR NCAA Championships: 30 in the 5,000 meters to win her section in 15:49.26.