Olympic Schedule of Events – Track & Field- Aug. 15-24 Friday, August 15, 2008 Sunday, August 17, 2008 9:00 a.m. 100m Hurdles W heptathlon 7:30 a.m. Marathon W final 9:05 Shot Put M 1st round 7:00 p.m. 100m Hurdles W 1st round 9:45 100m M 1st round 7:10 Hammer Throw M final 10:30 High Jump W heptathlon 7:45 100m W semifinal 10:40 Hammer Throw - Group A M 1st round 8:10 400m Hurdles W 1st round 11:10 800m W 1st round 8:20 High Jump M 1st round 12:10 p.m. Hammer Throw - Group B M 1st round 9:00 400m W semifinal 7:00 Shot Put W heptathlon 9:30 3,000m Steeple W final 7:10 1,500m M 1st round 9:35 Triple Jump W final 7:45 100m M quarterfinal 9:55 1,500m M semifinal 7:55 Discus Throw - Group A W 1st round 10:25 100m W final 8:25 3,000m Steeple W 1st round 10:45 10,000m M final 9:00 Shot Put M final 9:15 200m W heptathlon Monday, August 18, 2008 9:20 Discus Throw - Group B W 1st round 9:00 a.m. 400m M 1st round 9:40 Triple Jump W 1st round 9:10 Hammer Throw - Group A W 1st round 9:55 400m Hurdles M 1st round 10:00 Triple Jump M 1st round 10:45 10,000m W final 10:05 200m M 1st round 10:40 Hammer Throw - Group B W 1st round Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:10 110m Hurdles M 1st round 9:00 a.m. 20km Race Walk M final 7:00 p.m. Discus Throw W final 9:10 Shot Put W 1st round 7:20 Pole Vault W final 9:20 3,000m Steeple M 1st round 7:40 100m Hurdles W semifinal 9:50 Long Jump W heptathlon 8:05 200m M quarterfinal 10:10 Pole Vault W 1st round 8:10 Long Jump M final 10:40 Discus Throw - Group A M 1st round 8:45 400m Hurdles W semifinal 10:50 100m W 1st round 9:10 3,000m Steeple M final 12:05 p.m. Discus Throw - Group B M 1st round 9:35 800m W final 12:10 400m W 1st round 10:00 400m Hurdles M final 7:00 Javelin Throw - Group A W heptathlon 7:30 800m W semifinal Continued on inside back cover … 8:00 Long Jump M 1st round 8:05 100m M semifinal 8:10 Javelin Throw - Group B W heptathlon 8:35 100m W quarterfinal 9:15 400m Hurdles M semifinal 9:20 Shot Put W final 9:45 800m W heptathlon 10:30 100m M final 2008 Olympic Games Team USA Media Kit – Track & Field TABLE OF CONTENTS Olympic Track & Field schedule of events, August 15-18.................................Inside Front Cover Team USA Media Contacts.........................................................................................................1 Team USA Coaches’ Bios...........................................................................................................3 Olympic Team Announcement ....................................................................................................9 Track & Field roster (alphabetical).............................................................................................14 Roster by state..........................................................................................................................18 Roster by age ...........................................................................................................................21 Average Ages of Olympic T&F Teams ......................................................................................25 Team USA Olympians...............................................................................................................26 Team USA Athlete Bios ............................................................................................................29 Records Set at 2008 Olympic Trials........................................................................................186 U.S. Medalists at the Olympic Games.....................................................................................187 American Records ..................................................................................................................198 Top American marks at the Olympic Games ...........................................................................200 Olympic schedule of events, August 19-24 ...................................................... Inside Back Cover 2008 Olympic Games Team USA Media Kit – Track & Field Team USA Olympic Activities and media contacts Many members of Team USA for the 2008 Olympic Games will take part in Team Training Camp, in Dalian, prior to the start of the Olympics in Beijing. Media may schedule interviews with athletes at the camp from August 1-9. USATF Communications Coordinator Vicky Oddi will be with the team in Dalian. To inquire about scheduling interviews during Team Training Camp, you may contact Oddi, beginning August 1, on her Chinese cell phone (numbers listed below). Several informal press events will be organized at Team Training Camp. To receive information on those events, email Oddi at: [email protected]. YOU MUST BE SPECIALLY CREDENTIALED IN ORDER TO HAVE ACCESS TO TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES. The team will travel to Beijing for Olympic competition throughout the Games, with most athletes residing at the Athletes’ Village. To arrange athlete interviews in China, contact the USATF staff listed below. MEDIA CONTACT INFORMATION Jill M. Geer, USATF Director of Communications (General media inquiries, August 10-25) Beijing mobile number: +1-391-068-4388; [email protected] Susan Hazzard, USATF Associate Director of Communications (Athlete interviews in Beijing, August 14-25. Phone via USOC MPC media offices) [email protected] Vicky Oddi, USATF Communications Coordinator (Team Training Camp August 1-9; athlete interviews in Beijing August 10-25) Beijing mobile number: 1-391-073-4777 [email protected] 1 2 2008 Olympic Games Team USA Media Kit – Track & Field 2008 OLYMPIC TEAM STAFF Bubba Thornton and Jeanette Bolden will serve as head coaches for Team USA’s men’s and women’s 2008 Olympic Teams, respectively, for track and field. Thornton and Bolden and the Team USA staff will guide the World’s #1 Track & Field Team at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Biographies of the coaching staff follow. Bubba Thornton — Men’s Head Coach In 11 seasons at the helm of the University of Texas men’s track and field program, Thornton has transformed the Longhorns into a national title contender, and Texas athletes have won 10 NCAA individual titles. He has produced 34 indoor All-Americans and 35 outdoor All-Americans, and his athletes hold 14 of the 19 indoor school records and 11 of the 21 modern outdoor records. Under his leadership, the Longhorns have logged 11 top-10 NCAA finishes (five indoor, six outdoor) and seven Big 12 conference titles (two indoor, five outdoor). Thornton came to Texas following a 14-year run as head coach of Texas Christian University’s men’s and women’s track and field programs, where he developed 72 NCAA All-Americans and guided the men’s squad to five NCAA top-10 finishes (1983-87-88-89-91). He coached the Horned Frogs to five NCAA 4x100-meter relay championships (1986-87-89-91-95) and the 1983 4x400-meter relay national title. Thornton was Team USA’s men’s head coach at the 2003 World Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Paris and at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Sydney, Australia. He was an assistant coach for the 2000 Olympic team in Sydney. Jeanette Bolden — Women’s Head Coach Currently in her 14th year at the helm of her alma mater of UCLA, Bolden has continued UCLA’s reputation as an NCAA powerhouse. Her squads have won three NCAA team championships – outdoors in 2004 and indoors in 2000 and 2001 – and were runners-up at the 2005 NCAA Outdoors. In all, she has been part of five NCAA Champion teams, both as a coach and athlete. Her UCLA teams have a 72-0 dual meet record, with 13 consecutive wins over archrival USC. The Bruins have been rated the nation’s top dual meet team on nine separate occasions. In 1999, Bolden was an assistant coach of the U.S. women’s team at the World Outdoor Championships, and in 1998 she was named the USOC Track & Field Developmental Coach of the Year. At the completion of the ‘94 collegiate campaign, Bolden served as an assistant coach for the West squad at the Olympic Festival in St. Louis. An Olympic gold medalist as part of Team USA’s 4x100m relay at the 1984 Olympic Games, she placed fourth in the 100 at those Games and was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. 3 MEN’S TEAM STAFF James Li - men’s head manager: USA Track & Field’s 2007 Nike Coach of the Year, Li is an assistant coach at the University of Arizona, where he directs the distance runners and cross country program. He previously had coached for more than 10 years at Washington State University, where he coached cross country and distance athletes to seven individual NCAA titles, including current 1,500m American record holder and two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat. A native of China, Li became a U.S. citizen in 1998 and was part of Team USA’s staff at the 2001 World University Games in Beijing. He has previous coaching experience at the Sichuan Sports Technique Institute in Sichuan, China, and he was a provincial team coach from 1983 to 1985. Harvey Glance – Sprints/Hurdles: A 16-time All-American, three-time Olympic Team qualifier and 1976 gold medal winner, Glance is in his 10th season as the men’s track and field head coach at the University of Alabama, where he has coached 66 All-Americans, 35 conference champions and eight national champions. Glance was the men’s head coach at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. He also was an assistant sprints/hurdles coach for Team USA at the 2003 World Championships in Paris and the assistant sprints/hurdles coach at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing. Ron Mann – Middle Distance: In his fourth season as head coach at the University of Louisville, Mann spent the previous 24 years coaching at his alma mater, Northern Arizona. He guided the Lumberjacks to a combined 58 Big Sky Conference championships in cross country and track and field and 16 top 10 NCAA finishes. He produced 107 All-Americans, five Olympians and four individual national champions and earned 57 league coach of the year awards.