2021 NCAA Women’s Indoor: Arkansas Repeats, Athing Mu Gets Beat (Then Runs the Fastest Indoor 4×400 Split Ever), Courtney Wayment Double
March 13, 2021
The 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships concluded in Fayetteville, Ark., and the Arkansas Razorbacks won the title 68 to 57 over Texas A&M with a true team performance. The Razorbacks didn’t win a single individual event (the Oregon men won six en route to their title), but scored in 10 of the 17 events and clinched the title with 17 points in the 3000m. It added up to the second-highest score in meet history, behind only the 84 logged by Oregon’s triple crown winners of 2017.
NBIGP Preview: The Best US Indoor Meet of 2021 Season Is Saturday
February 12, 2021
While the Millrose Games and USATF Indoor Championships have both fallen by the wayside in 2021, the third mainstay of the US professional indoor circuit, the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, has endured. Despite a move to Staten Island’s Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex (the meet’s usual venue, the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, is being used as a mass vaccination site), NBIGP will be back for its 26th edition on Saturday.
And thank goodness for that, because this meet is
stacked. There are sprint stars (
Trayvon Bromell,
Track Is Back, Baby! Athing Mu 2:01, Selemon Barega 27:58 at 7,700 Feet, & Recapping Track’s First Big Weekend of 2021
January 19, 2021
Maybe it’s because it has felt like ages since we’ve had a full weekend of track & field action. Maybe it’s because there were a slew of athletes bursting at the seams for an opportunity to compete…because it
has been ages since we’ve had a full weekend of track & field action with meets being scaled back because of COVID-19. Whatever the reason, indoor track was back in a big way last weekend, from a triple jump world record in France to a collegiate phenom making her debut in Texas to a slew of high school stars showing off in Virginia. And if that wasn’t enough, we had some