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As we say goodbye to the 115th Penn Relays, here’s what some of our friends in the media have to say about the meet:
• The Associated Press has one report on the USA vs The World races and another focusing on Tennessee’s record-setting women’s 4×800.
• Also covering the USA vs The World: Universal Sports and the IAAF.
• The Jamaica Observer looks at the disappointing injury of Asafa Powell in the USA vs the World men’s 4×100. National sprint coach Donald Quarrie isn’t concerned about the U.S.’s 37.90 victory: “We ran 37.10 last year and we’ll run 36 seconds in August” at the world championships.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer focuses on Tennessee freshman Chanelle Price — from Easton, PA — who ran on all three of the Lady Vols’ winning relays this weekend. Price also gets attention from the Allentown Morning Call.
• The Inquirer also has a nice story about Jamaican sprint prodigy Nickel Ashmeade of St. Jago H.S. — silver medalist in the 200 at last year’s IAAF World Junior Championships — who bounced back from a baton drop in the 4×100 heats to anchor the winning high school boys 4×400 relay.
• The Newark Star-Ledger talks to shot putter Nick Vena, who was named the Relays’ high school boys outstanding performer for individual events for the second year in a row.
• There’s another Star-Ledger story on what it calls “a race for the ages,” the amazing battle in the boys 4×800 between Albemarle (VA) and Morris Hills (NJ). Both teams smashed the national record in the event on Saturday, with Albemarle winning in 7:30.67.
The Penn Relays are the largest annual track and field meet in the United States and the largest annual relay meet in the world. Over the course of three days, 19,000 athletes from all levels will race in front of 115,000 spectators. The 2010 Penn Relays will be from April 22-24.