NCAA Men's 110 Hurdles

Table Of Contents From The Editor — As Always, The Athletes Ride To The Rescue . 3 2018 NCAA Championships — Just Singin’ In The Rain . 4 NCAA Men’s Teams — Georgia Turns The Tables On Florida . 5 NCAA Men’s 100 — A 1–2–8 Keeps Houston In The Running . 6 NCAA Men’s 200 — To Win Is Divine . 7 NCAA Men’s 400 — A Collegiate Record For Norman . 8 Collegiate Outdoor Athletes Of The Year — Michael Norman & Maggie Ewen . 10 NCAA Men’s 800 — Harris Was Ready For Any Kind Of Pace . 11 NCAA Men’s 1500 — An “Amazing Result” For Hoare . 12 NCAA Men’s Steeple — When Barraza Went Down, Ali Went By . 13 NCAA Men’s 5000 — Let’s Go Out Slow And See Who Kicks The Best . 14 NCAA Men’s 10,000 — Formchart? Flanagan Didn’t Need Any Stinking Formchart . 15 A Great NCAA For The Houston Men . 16 NCAA Men’s 110 Hurdles — Holloway Now 4 For 4 . 17 NCAA Men’s 400 Hurdles — A Stunning Collegiate Record For Rai Benjamin . 17 Hobbs Had To Stay In Her Zone . 18 NCAA Men’s 4 x 100 — Loaded Houston Foursome Claims Collegiate Record . 19 NCAA Men’s 4 x 400 — USC Claims The Collegiate Record . 20 “I’m Far From Perfecting The Race,” Says Michael Norman . 22 NCAA Men’s High Jump — Shankar Gave His Jump The Highest Rating . 23 NCAA Men’s Pole Vault — Nilsen Claims The Meet Record . 24 NCAA Men’s Long Jump — Bazile Finds The Magic . 24 NCAA Men’s Triple Jump — Triki Living The Dream . 25 NCAA Men’s Shot — Comenentia Pulls Off Rare 1-Day Double . 26 NCAA Men’s Discus — Definitely Not According To Form . 27 NCAA Men’s Hammer — Comenentia Seals It Early, But Gets Better . 28 NCAA Men’s Javelin — Peters Leads Mississippi State 1–2 . 29 NCAA Men’s Decathlon — Duckworth Best, 7 Events Or 10 . 29 Conditions Didn’t Faze Irby: She’s Had Worse Days . 31 Benjamin’s Fast Flight Of Hurdles Puts Him Among Legendary Names . 32 Norman, Benjamin & The 4×4 — An Hour And A Half Of Trojan Brilliance . 33 NCAA Women’s Teams — A Fairytale Ending For USC . 34 NCAA Women’s 100 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain? . 35 American Record — Gwen Berry Reclaims The Hammer Standard . 36 NCAA Women’s 200 — An Upset Win Keeps USC’s Team Hopes Alive . 37 NCAA Women’s 400 — Irby’s Aggressive Attack Pays Off . 37 Kendall Ellis Rides To The Rescue On A Trojan Horse . 39 NCAA Women’s 800 — Teenager Watson Doesn’t Panic . 40 NCAA Women’s 1500 — Hull Pumps Up The Home Crowd . 40 NCAA Women’s Steeple — New Plan For The Second Time Around . 41 NCAA Women’s 5000 — Schweizer’s Successful Defense . 42 NCAA Women’s 10,000 — Lokedi Goes Out In Style . 43 NCAA Women’s 100 Hurdles — Camacho-Quinn Makes The Most Of Tough Situation . 44 NCAA Women’s 400 Hurdles — One And Done For McLaughlin . 44 NCAA Women’s 4 x 100 — The Collegiate Record May Have Fallen If… . 45 NCAA Women’s 4 x 400 — You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! . 46 Anna Hall Claims High School Heptathlon Record . 48 NCAA Women’s High Jump — A (Low) Mark For The Ages . 49 NCAA Women’s Pole Vault — A Successful Defense For Gruver . 49 NCAA Women’s Long Jump — Orji Starts A Double . 50 NCAA Women’s Triple Jump —Orji Finishes Her Double, And More . 51 June 2018 PDF — Page 2 NCAA Women’s Shot — Forget The Triple, A Double Will Be Fine . 52 NCAA Women’s Discus — A Wild & Crazy Final Round . 53 NCAA Women’s Hammer — A Massive Improvement For Stewart . 53 NCAA Women’s Javelin — An Historic 1–2 For Stanford . 54 NCAA Women’s Heptathlon — In Doubt Until The Very End . 55 Stockholm Diamond League — A Big Night For Jumpers . 56 Oslo Diamond League — Samba Dances To Victory Over Local Hero Warholm . 58 Rome Diamond League — Baker’s World-Leading 9.93 Takes Down Coleman Again . 60 Tori Franklin Finds Triple Jump Magic In A New Coach . 62 American Record Hammer By DeAnna Price: 254-9 (77.65) . 64 ON YOUR MARKS — June . 65 STATUS QUO — June . 66 FOR THE RECORD — June . 67 LAST LAP — June . 67 CALENDAR — June . 70 From The Editor — As Always, The Athletes Ride To The Rescue by E . Garry Hill You are, of course, familiar with a 13:04.4); 1973—He brings the Sun Devils only into 3rd, with the old saw, “Everybody but an historic 43.4y anchor on the Arizona State 4×4 by Maurice complains about the weather, but Peoples. I left the split on my stopwatch for months; 1974—an nobody does anything about it.” expletive-laden SP win for Jesse Stuart; 1975—a 3M/6M double That wasn’t exactly the case in by Washington State’s John Ngeno; 1978—a meet that belongs to Eugene, as the athletes did some- Henry Rono, with MRs in the steeple heats and final and 5K heats; thing utterly amazing about it; they 1979—Renaldo Nehemiah of Maryland with the fastest flight of made people forget the extreme hurdles in history, 12.91w. conditions. Two days of some of the most 1980s — Women Welcomed To The Party, At Last compelling track & field I’ve ever seen at any level didn’t make Hay- 1980—Carl Lewis’s first NCAA appearance produces the lon- ward Field any drier or warmer, gest jump, albeit windy, in meet history; 1981—Lewis’s final NCAA but it certainly made most people forget about the conditions. All appearance for Houston produces the meet’s first legal 27-footer as those Collegiate Records, plus riveting team battles for both sexes. he wins by more than a foot; 1982—an all-time high is reached as Stereotypically, I could be expected—as I move deeper and women finally join the NCAA fray; there’s also an all-time low as deeper into old-fartdom—to get all gushy in talking about the a misbegotten 12-place scoring system is introduced; 1983—Jackie good old days. You know, “back when I was young…” Perhaps Joyner sets a CR in the heptathlon and for good measure scores in as more years go by the excitement of the 2018 moment will fade the 100H and triple jump, plus both hurdles; 1984—a super hori- a bit, but for now, this year’s meet is at the top of my NCAA list. zontal jump double by Mike Conley of Arkansas, with 4×1 points For various reasons I’ve missed a few here and there since I started to boot; 1985—Conley doubles again, plus relay points and tacks at T&FN in December of ‘69, but this year’s edition was No. 41 on on a runner-up finish in the 200; 1986—a masterful 5/10 double my attendance list. for Wisconsin’s Stephanie Herbst, the latter in CR time; 1987—the If there’s one thing that stands out as a constant in those five smoothness of Buckeye Butch Reynolds as he lowers the MR to decades of watching, it’s how the athletes make you forget the 44.13; 1988—UCLA’s legendary foursome cracks 3:00 in the 4×4; little annoyances in life. You know: scorching heat, freezing cold, 1989—Provo’s altitude helps, but Dawn Sowell’s 10.78/22.04 double boiling humidity, rains of Biblical proportions, lighting, hail. No for LSU is nonetheless boggling. plagues of locusts, though. Ask somebody else who was at the meets and they’ll come up 1990s — I Missed Quite A Few with a different list, but here’s my choices for the athlete who left the most indeligible impression on me at each of those NCAAs: 1991—a 10.03w/19.90w sprint double by BYU’s Frank Fred- ericks; 1992—USC’s Quincy Watts sets a CR of 44.00, a mark that 1970s — Prefontaine & Rono Rewrite Distance Records lasts 25 years; 1993—OK, I admit it; the athletes get trumped by the delights of the French Quarter in this New Orleans staging; 1971— Steve Prefontaine for his 13:20.1 MR in the 3M; 1972— 1994—Erick Walder of Arkansas scores an LJ/TJ double, winning Pre again, an MR 13:31.4 for 5000m (crushing his 3M MR en route the former on best second jump; 1995—UCLA women have a great June 2018 PDF — Page 3 field-event meet, claiming MRs in the HJ (Amy Acuff) and shot steeple; 2009—Barringer lowers her steeple CR, winning for the (Valeyta Althouse) plus a discus win for Dawn Dumble; 1996— third time in a row. Lawrence Johnson of Tennessee raises the MR to 19-1 (a mark that lasts until this year); 2010s — A Lot Of Time At Hayward Field 2000s — The Dawn Of The Regionals Era 2010—this one is easy: nobody who was there will ever forget the lid blowing off Hayward Field as Andrew Wheating, A.J. 2001—who can forget the first NCAA for Justin Gatlin of Acosta and Matthew Centrowitz forged a Duck 1-2-3 in the 1500; Tennessee, who wins the 100 in.

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