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Patrick SmithGetty Images Athing Mu, the 19-year-old phenom who turned pro last week after rewriting the collegiate record book in the 400 and 800 meters, won the women’s 800-meter final on June 27 at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. Her time was a dazzling 1:56.07, which broke a 25-year-old Olympic Trials record and was the fastest time in the world so far this year. In the final 150 meters, she simply ran away from a world class field. “It feels awesome,” Mu said in a virtual ...

Women’s 800: The Epic Final Everyone Wanted Is All Set June 25, 2021 EUGENE, Ore. — It’s on. The final we all wanted to see in the women’s 800 at the 2020 US Olympic Track and Field Trials is all set – Athing Mu (2021 US leader at 400 and 800) vs Ajee Wilson (best US 800 m runner of the last decade) vs Raevyn Rogers (2019 Worlds Silver Medallist) vs Kate Grace (2016 Olympic finalist). The 4 previously mentioned runners took the top 4 qualifying spots for Sunday’s final. They’l...

Cambrea Sturgis of North Carolina A&T swept the women’s 100 and 200 meters Saturday in the NCAA outdoor track and field championships. Southern California won its third outdoor women’s national title, with Texas A&M finishing second.

Meyer, a grad transfer from Delaware, entered the year with a 2:03.40 pb. Today, she ran 2:00.28 to claim the national title in her first NCAA appearance.

Arkansas finished the NCAA Championships on Saturday with 17 points to place 15th in team scoring after Krissy Gear supplied four points in the 1,500m at Hayward Field, earning her fourth All-America honor this season.

Sturgis won the 100 in a wind-aided 10.74 seconds, the fastest all-weather time in NCAA history. USC’s Anna Cockrell won the 100 and 400 hurdles, becoming just the second woman to pull off the double in those events in the NCAA meet.

Michaela Meyer became the first female competitor in the Virginia track and field program’s history to win an individual NCAA title.

We take a look at the wild regional meets which were great for one teen phenom (Athing Mu) but not so great for some others like Nico Young and Katelyn Tuohy who will be watching NCAAs on tv. Plus did you know there is another US teen, Graham Blanks, who ran 13:27 last week but also won't be at NCAAs as he hasn't even started college yet?

The UVA women’s track and field team had a successful final day at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Fla.