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May 1, 2009
Half Dozen Ducks Head to Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational
Rupp, Buckman to run the 800.
THIS WEEK
While most of the
second-ranked Oregon track and field teams will take the weekend off, a half
dozen Ducks are entered in the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, which will
be held Saturday at Cobb Track and Angell Field in Stanford, Calif. Galen Rupp
and Zoe Buckman are entered in the men’s and women’s 800 meters,
respectively, while Matthew Centrowitz and Nicole Blood follow suit in the
men’s and women’s 1,500 meters. Senior Chris Winter is slated to
run the men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase, while freshman Luke Puskedra is
entered in the men’s 10,000 meters. The men’s steeplechase goes off
at 6:53 p.m., followed by the women’s 800 (7:13 p.m.), men’s 800
(7:21 p.m.), women’s 1,500 (7:31 p.m.) and men’s 1,500 (7:45 p.m.).
The men’s 10,000 is scheduled for 10:45 p.m.
RESULTS
Live results for the Payton
Jordan Cardinal Invitational can be found at:
http://www.sml1.com/recordtiming/stanford/pjc09/. Final results will also be
posted on www.goducks.com.
DUCKS APPROACH 70 NCAA QUALIFIERS
Heading into the first weekend
in May, Oregon has already amassed 68 NCAA qualifying marks, 33 for the men and
35 for the women. By comparison, at the same point last season, the Ducks had
51 NCAA marks. That list includes NCAA Championships automatic marks by Galen
Rupp, Shadrack Biwott and Luke Puskedra in the men’s 10,000 meters,
Ashton Eaton in the decathlon and Brianne Theisen and Kalindra McFadden in the
heptathlon, as well as NCAA provisional marks by Mattie Bridgmon in the
women’s 10,000 meters, Diego and Danny Mercado in the men’s 10,000
meters and Marshall Ackley in the decathlon.
TUESDAYS IN TRACK
TOWN
Tuesday, May 5 will mark the
next date in the popular series of “Tuesdays in Track Town” town
hall meetings. This coming Tuesday, competitors from the University of Oregon
and the Oregon Track Club Elite will discuss the four-mile relay college and
American record attempt at the upcoming Twilight Meet. The 60-minute session
runs from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will be held at the Bowerman Building. The final
town hall will be June 2.
Team to
Challenge Four-Mile Relay Records at Twilight Meet
Oregon will attempt to break
the collegiate and American records in the four-mile relay at the Twilight Meet
on May 9. The Ducks will be joined by a team from Oregon Track Club Elite,
among others, in an effort to break Michigan’s 2005 collegiate mark of 16:04.54
(Andrew Ellerton, Mike Woods, Nick Willis, Nate Brannen), and the American
record of 16:08.54, set by Athletics West (Dan Aldridge, Doug Padilla, Tom
Smith, Chuck Aragon) at Hayward Field in 1984. Oregon’s pool of milers
includes Galen Rupp, Matthew Centrowitz, Andrew Wheating, Shadrack Biwott,
Scott Wall and James Withers. The world four-mile record, 15:49.08, was set by
Ireland in 1985.
ALUMNI
INVITED TO SPECIAL RECEPTION AT THE PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Oregon track and field
programs are inviting all track and field alumni to a reception that will be
held Saturday, May 16 in conjunction with the upcoming Pacific-10
championships. The reception will be held at Historic Hayward Field following
the completion of the first day of the Pac-10 meet, which runs May 16-17.
Oregon staff will join alumni for the reception, which will include food and
beverages, bringing together generations of Duck track and field
athletes. Alumni are encouraged to take advantage of this special opportunity
to reconnect with teammates, coaches, and friends. To order both homecoming
reception and meet tickets, download the reservation request form available on
www.goducks.com. (Contact Info: Patrick Werhane, 541-346-2260, email:
pwerhane@uoregon.edu).
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