On Saturday, Chris Giesting was inducted into the Indiana Track & Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame. Giesting, a 2011 Batesville High School grad, finished his high school career with a 400m IHSAA State Championship(47.33) after placing third in 2010. He attended Notre Dame, and along with Patrick Feeney (New Palestine), they rewrote the
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Bruce Kidd – a champion of fairness and equity ever since his days as an Olympic runner – has been named the University of Toronto’s next ombudsperson.
A professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education and former vice-president and principal of U of T Scarborough, Kidd was appointed to the position for a three-year term, beginning July 1.
He says it’s a job he has essentially been training for all his life.
“I learned through my early years in track and field to become an ally,” he said.
Operating independently of university administration and accountable to the Governing Council, U of T’s Office of the Ombudsperson was first established in 1975 and helps students, staff, faculty and alumni deal with university-related issues and complaints when other avenues have been exhausted. The office also alerts Governing Council and university leadership of broader systemic issues that need attention.
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Isaac Updike ran the steeplechase for the first time in 2011, when he was a college freshman at Eastern Oregon University. When the team was doing hurdle mobility drills, his coach plucked out a few who looked at ease and steered them toward the steeple.
Updike was among them. In his first attempt at the event, at the Northwest Nazarene Open in Nampa, Idaho, he ran 9:46.05 an underwhelming result that would have put him about a lap behind the best runners in the NCAA.
A decade later, on April 24, Updike ran the steeplechase at the Oregon Relays at the new Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. With the television cameras rolling for the meet broadcast on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), he ran 8:17.74, including a final lap in 59.13 seconds, and won by a couple of steps over Mason Ferlic. It’s the fastest time in the world so far this year and under the Olympic standard (8:22.00).