bill82
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Post by bill82 on May 9, 2018 6:30:00 GMT -8
Looks like we will end up 11th or 12th again. Scored 2 points last weekend with the heptathlon. This weekend we have a chance to score in just 7 of 21 events. Comparing our season's bests with results from last year's finishers, our best chances are in the long jump, javelin and the lightly contested steeple chase. We have an outside chance to score in the 800M, discus, hammer. We probably score between 15 and 25 points, after scoring 20+ last year.
I follow the T&F team on twitter and with all of the school records we broke this year I thought we might be on the upswing.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 9, 2018 7:33:17 GMT -8
We are on the upswing. Louie signed an outstanding recruiting class, and we have an excellent young thrower from Oklahoma who is redshirting, an excellent pole vaulter who is redshirting, and a solid javelin thrower (# 2 or 3 behind Dawson, depending on the day) who is redshirting.
The transfer of the Me'Arpino twins to uo hurt our sprints and relays but sprints and the short relay are never going to be an emphasis of the new program, even the old program had seen the light. The path to T&F success here is in the throwing, jumping and distance events, and in the heptathlon, where we have scored the last two years.
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Post by bill82 on May 13, 2018 4:14:09 GMT -8
One surprise this weekend. Senior pole vaulter Annie Sidor had a PR to get a point for the team. Otherwise things went as expected. We score under 20 points and finish next to last. Venessa D'Arpino may score a point today in the 100M for the schmucks, so even her presence would not have saved this season from falling short of last year's effort. Best event by far was the javelin with two athletes scoring for the team.
Anyone else have a fear of javelins at track meets?
My HS track coach, Will Stephens, use to have a women's AAU team he coached, and he would have javelin throwers practicing at the same time we were running laps. I hated that. Could not get the idea of one hitting my legs out of my mind. He went on to coach Oregon State's women's team where I helped him out a couple seasons - and I still hated those javelins. He threw the himself in senior competitions. Maybe they will name the javelin apron after Stephens if no one else buys it.
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Post by bill82 on May 14, 2018 9:32:10 GMT -8
We had a miserable second day only scoring one point (800m). Here is the spin on the day from sports information spin machine:
"STANFORD, Calif. – Junior Saskia McNairy, sophomore Ann Wingeleth and the 4x400-meter relay team set all-time top-10 marks on Sunday to lead the Oregon State University track & field team on Day 2 of the Pacific-12 Conference Track & Field Championships at Cobb Track & Angell Field hosted by Stanford University.
Wingeleth and McNairy had their first crack at the triple jump this season with both student-athletes reaching marks to vault them into the top-10 in OSU history. Wingeleth jumped 37' 11.5" for the eighth-best mark all-time, meanwhile McNairy set the ninth-best mark of 35' 6.5". Both Beavers had their best jump on their second attempt.
The 4x400-meter relay team notched the sixth-best time all-time in the final event of the championships late Sunday evening. Nicole Goecke, Kala Kopecek, Tarisa Olinski and Dakota Steen combined for a time of 3:51.12 taking 10th place overall."
Now, about these three "top ten" performances. The two "top ten" performances in the triple jump were good for 18th and 20th out of twenty competitors. The 4x400 relay team finished next to last, just beating a WSU team that dropped their bottom and had to run backwards several yards to retrieve the baton and continue with the race. I think they need to focus on the athletes who scored in the meet, and perhaps talk about the team's outlook for next year. This constant repetition about school records and top ten performance that are simply not competitive in the Pac 12 does not project a positive future for the team. I agree with another poster that they had a good recruiting year, with several athletes that can score points right away at the Pac 12 meet. That should be the focus.
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Post by mbabeav on May 14, 2018 10:18:47 GMT -8
Yah, this "top ten" stat is pretty meaningless when most of the top 10 were set 30+ years ago, and current performance in general has well outdistanced those marks.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 14, 2018 13:48:40 GMT -8
I guess I'll disagree.
It matters not when the previous marks were set. Anytime someone replaces a current top-10 mark with a new one, it signifies improvement over what came before.
They are not all yet competitive with their Pac-12 peers. But we are improving. That much is undeniable, and new all-time top-10 marks in many events are tangible proof.
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