USA vs. The World Quotes
We have a few quotes from the USA vs. The World press conference.
Q: What are your thoughts on this year’s Penn Relays?
A: Shelley Ann Fraser: Every year I come to the Penn Relays it gets different and a lot more exciting. I look forward to the good competition.
CW Individual Events: Relays stage is set for hurdler Queen Harrison
Queen Quedith Harrison has been on a tear lately. This week she’ll bring her show to the Penn Relays, where she is scheduled to run the college women’s 100-meter hurdles as well as a leg on her Virginia Tech team’s shuttle hurdle relay.
Harrison is the current world leader in both hurdle events, the 100 and [...]
CM Individual Events: Henning, McCullough meet again in the hammer
Walter Henning of LSU returns to this year’s Penn Relays to defend his championship in the men’s hammer throw. A year ago he won his first Relays championship, throwing 225-6.
This year, he renews acquaintance with an old friend, young Conor McCullough, now a freshman hammer thrower at Princeton University. Henning, two years older, is a [...]
HS Individual Events – Wars at 3K: Campbell-Hatz-Hurysz in boys, Sveinsson-Lipari-Cuffe in girls
The high school 3,000-meter runs promise to be great duels at Penn Relays this year, for both boys and girls.
In the boys’ race, two U.S.-leading American runners, Alex Hatz of New York and Jake Hurysz of North Carolina, will face Kemoy Campbell of Jamaica, the winner of numerous titles at the Jamaican Champs at various [...]
HSB Relays: Serra, Poly, Rio Mesa coming from California
The best three boys’ teams in the state of California — Long Beach Poly, Rio Mesa of Oxnard and Junipero Serra of Gardena — will be competing in the high school relays at Penn this year. They promise to be a factor in all of the races they enter.
In the 4×1 and 4×4 they will [...]
HSG Relays: Manchester, Holmwood Tech lead Jamaican girls; Saratoga Springs faces Blacksburg in DMR
Manchester – winner of one Penn Relays title – and Holmwood Tech, winner of 13, lead another strong group of Jamaican girls’ teams at this year’s Relays.
CM Sprint Relays: It’s Gators versus Aggies
The powerhouse sprint squads at Florida and Texas A&M will square off at this year’s Penn Relays, with LSU and Florida State ready in the wings should anyone slip up.
A&M won the NCAA Indoor 4×4 last month, in 3:04.40, and would seem to be the favorite in that event – except that Florida ran 3:00.31 [...]
CW Sprint Relays: A&M, LSU and UTech are challenged by pesky Ducks
The three schools that have dominated the women’s sprint relays this decade return for 2010 – LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina. They will be joined by a host of talented challengers – Auburn, Texas, Clemson, Arkansas, Miami, Florida State, Penn State, UTech – and one surprising newcomer to the Relays, the Oregon Ducks.
CM Distance Races: Invasion of the Ducks
For a team that’s never won a race at the 115-year-old Penn Relays, the Oregon Ducks are getting a lot of attention this year. On the men’s side, they have entered the three distance relay races – the 4×800, distance medley relay and 4xmile. They have the horses to contend in all three.
Although they are [...]
CW Distance Races: Tennessee loses Bowman but not its step
Sarah Bowman ran on three championship distance relay teams for Tennessee at last year’s Penn Relays, was named Outstanding Competitor, then graduated a month later. Yet Coach J.J. Clark’s Volunteers are back with a powerhouse women’s group this season and again are the team to beat.
That’s in part because they have Phoebe Wright, Kimarra McDonald [...]