New track club gets a name.Byline: TRACK & FIELD NOTEBOOK By Curtis Anderson The Register-Guard The new post-collegiate running club based in Eugene finally has a name - Oregon Track Club Elite. The current group of 19 middle distance and distance runners has been living and training in the Eugene-Springfield area for the past four months under the tutelage TUTELAGE. State of guardianship; the condition of one who is subject to the control of a guardian. of veteran coach Frank Gagliano. Nine of those athletes are scheduled to make their 2007 competitive debuts Saturday at the UW Indoor Preview meet at Dempsey Indoor on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Cack v. i. 1. To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. Ferrell and Brianna Dahm are both entered in the women's mile at 10:50 a.m., and Kevin Elliott, Courtney Jaworski, Brandon Shaw and Nick Symmonds Nick Symmonds is regarded as one of the U.S.'s top 800m and 1,500m runners.[1] The Willamette University graduate won the 800 and 1,500m NCAA championship race as a freshman, junior, and senior. will race in the men's mile at 11:05 a.m. The OTC-Elite will be represented by James Hatch and Marc Sylvester in the men's 800 meters at 2 p.m., and Lucas Meyer is expected to line up in the men's 3,000 meters at 3 p.m. Live results from the UW Indoor Preview will be available at www.GoHuskies.com by clicking on `track' from the sports pull-down menu Also called a "drop-down menu" or "pop-down menu," the common type of menu used with a graphical user interface (GUI). Clicking a menu title causes the menu items to appear to drop down from that position and be displayed. . Eap plans to compete in national championships Sopagna Eap, a 25-year-old graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. , is set to compete in the USA Half Marathon A half marathon is a road running event of 21,097.5 meters, or 13 7/64 miles, about 13.1 miles. It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. national championships in Houston on Sunday. Eap, a two-time NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II all-American in the 3,000 and 5,000 at UC Davis, set her personal best of 1 hour, 17 minutes and 22 seconds with an eighth-place finish at the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Half Marathon this past August. Eap competes for Team Eugene. The women's race features defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del tÃtulo defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Annie Bersagel, of Minneapolis, who will travel from Oslo, Norway, where she is a Fulbright Scholar studying political science at the University of Oslo The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo, Latin: Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University . Bersagel faces a field that includes two-time U.S. Olympian Elva Dryer and Virginia's Samia Akbar, who placed third in the 10,000 meters at the U.S. national outdoor track and field championships last summer. The men's and women's half marathon champion will each receive $12,000 of the total prize purse of $59,500. A bonus of $5,000 goes to anyone who breaks the U.S. record - 1:00:55 (men) and 1:07:34 (women) - and $4,000 for lowering the existing race records of 1:02:07 (men) and 1:10.55 (women). Skipper will open season in Reno Tommy Skipper, who enters his senior season as Oregon's second four-time NCAA champion, following the lead of distance legend Steve Prefontaine Steve Roland Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) (nicknamed Pre) was an American Olympic runner who inspired a running boom in the 1970s along with contemporaries Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers. , is set to open the indoor season at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nev., on Jan. 19-20. Skipper is entered in the elite section on Friday night, along with former UO vaulters Becky Holliday and Niki McEwen. Seven other current Duck vaulters will make the trip and jump Saturday. They include seniors David Moore and Emily Enders, sophomores Adam Redmond and Tara Rhein and freshmen Brian McGinty, Colin Witter-Tilton and Eniko Eros, a native of Budapest, Hungary. Eugene athletes finish in national top 10 Ten track and field athletes with ties to Eugene finished the 2006 season ranked among the top 10 Americans in their respective events, according to the January issue of Track & Field News magazine. Two-time Olympian Marla Runyan was ranked in three events. The 38-year-old distance runner was third in the marathon (2:32:17), sixth in the 10,000 (32:11.92) and seventh in the 5,000 (15:15.00). Two former UO women's pole vaulters made the rankings with identical clearances of 14 feet, 7 1/4 inches. Becky Holliday ended up sixth and Niki McEwen was eighth. Oregon's two NCAA champions - pole vaulter Tommy Skipper and middle distance runner Rebekah Noble - were both ranked fifth, while UO hammer thrower Britney Henry was sixth with a PR of 221-7. Skipper cleared 19-0 at the Oregon Preview in his first outdoor meet of the season, while Noble clocked 2:02.07 to become the first freshman to win the women's 800-meter title at the NCAA championships. The other four ranked athletes are members of Oregon Track Club Elite. They include Tom Brooks in the 3,000 steeplechase steeplechase Either of two distinct sporting events: (1) a horse race over a closed course with obstacles, including hedges and walls; or (2) a footrace of 3,000 m over hurdles and a water jump. (fourth, 8:28.24), Sean Graham in the 5,000 (seventh, 13:29.30), Nick Symmonds in the 800 (seventh, 1:45.83) and Kevin Elliott in the 800 (1:46.42, eighth). |
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