LaTavia Thomas of LSU has been named the College Women’s Athlete of the Meet for relay events after anchoring the Tigers to victories in both the 4×800m and sprint medley relays. The West Catholic High grad also ran the third leg on LSU’s second-place 4×400m relay.
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College Women’s Athlete of the Meet
April 26, 2008ECAC and IC4A 4×400s
April 26, 2008This is it, the last two races of the day.
In the ECAC event Morgan State takes first in 3:42.34. Results are posted here.
Cornell holds off a pack of late challengers to win the IC4A race in 3:11.66. Results are here.
College Men’s 4×400 Championship
April 26, 2008Our final championship is the College Men’s 4×400. The entered teams are Auburn, Michigan, LSU, TCU, St. Augustine’s, Florida, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M.
First, like for the women, we have a consolation heat with a number of fine entrants. Despite a very shaky final handoff (which probably cost them 1-2 seconds), South Carolina [...]
College Women’s 4×400 Championship
April 26, 2008If LSU wins this race, they will break the Carnival record for most wins by a women’s college team in a single meet. The Tigers already have four victories: 4×100, shuttle hurdles, sprint medley and 4×800.
But first, the consolation final. Texas Christian had the lead most of the way, lost it to Auburn, then came [...]
College Men’s Athletes of the Meet
April 26, 2008The University of Texas Longhorn standout Leonel Manzano was named the Athlete of the Meet for relay events for anchoring the ‘Horns to victory in the distance medley relay and the 4xmile relay, both repeat wins. Manzano is also a repeat winner of the Athlete of the Meet award, the first back-to-back winner since Kim [...]
College Men’s 4×800 Championship
April 26, 2008The 4×800 is our first relay following the individual finals, and first of our final set of relay events.
Columbia is the defending champion, a sentence that has not been used since 1939 (it was quite an upset last year). The 4×800, as the last of the three “distance” relays, usually is very exciting especially [...]
College Women’s Athlete of the Meet
April 26, 2008The College Women’s Athlete of the Meet for individual events is Purdue University’s Kara Patterson, who won the javelin throw championship with a throw of 184-1 (56.10 meters). That was the second-longest throw in Penn Relays’ history.
Straightaway Finals
April 26, 2008Event 241 College women’s 100-meter hurdles: Nickeisha Wilson of LSU wins in 13.03 with Georgia Tech’s Shantia Moss second in 13.17. Results here.
Event 242 Olympic Development women’s 100-meter hurdles: Candice Davis wins by more than half a second in 12.92. Results here.
Event 243 College men’s 110-meter hurdles: Jason Richardson of South Carolina wins in 13.68. [...]
College Women’s 4×800 Championship
April 26, 2008Michigan isn’t running, so Tennessee will try to move up to the top spot after two runner-up finishes already this week. Tennessee is going for its sixth Penn title in this race.
After two legs the Lady Vols are in the lead, with Georgetown and LSU close behind. Boston College quickly joins the leaders.
Going into the [...]
College Men 4×200 Championship
April 26, 2008The College Men’s 4×200 Championship is on the track . . . with our top seeds being Tennessee, St. Augustine’s, Florida, and Mississippi State.
Florida has had a bad 2nd handoff, and is out of contention !
Tennessee wins in 1:22.20, followed by Florida State in 1:23.01 and Mississippi State in 1:23.19.
Quotes: Tennessee 2nd Leg Evander Wells [...]
