T&F 2008 News & Stories
Nov 25: DVC Winter All Comers Meets Announced (updated 1/5/09)Nov 18: Clay, Brown Trafton win 2008 Jesse Owens Awards
Story & photo courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics.
Beijing 2008
Quick link to USATF Beijing Reports8-24: "Baer Tracks from Beijing" - PA Media Chair Fred Baer's Beijing Reports: Men's Marathon with Americans placing 9th (Dathan Ritzenhein) and 10th (Ryan Hall); in depth report on Shannon Rowbury's 1500m finals.
8-23: Women's 1,500m final: Shannon Rowbury achieves best ever US Olympics finish - 7th in 4:03:58. USATF report "It's hard to explain, but sometimes when you want to go, it's just not there. I tried to stay with them as much as I could. I was trying to go with them, but I didn't have my legs today." more quotes from day 9
8-22: Hyleas Fountain - moves up to a Heptathlon silver medal after Lyudmila Blonska (Ukraine) fails drug test: read more
8-21: Shannon Rowbury makes 1500m final. Read more about Rowbury in Fred Baer's "Baer Tracks from Beijing" updated 8/22. USATF Report
8-21: Stephanie Brown-Trafton declared USATF "Athlete of the Week." read more...
DISCUS GOLD for STEPHANIE BROWN-TRAFTON! |
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| photo by Bridget Michelsen Stephanie's Olympic Journal updated 8/20/08 - with a first hand recap in her own words of her Gold Medal winning performance! More photos courtesy of sports.yahoo.com Stories, Links • The Significance of Stephanie Brown Trafton & a response to the San Jose Mercury News, by Larry Eder: read Larry's article... • USATF Report: "Historic gold for Brown Trafton" • Watch the video! courtesy of nbcolympics.com • KCRA.com report • NBCOlympics.com report • LA Times report |
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8-20: Palo Alto Daily Article - Upshaw continues family tradition
8-19: Grace Upshaw qualifies in Long Jump: USATF Report; USATF quotes
8-16: Hyleas Fountain is first American woman to win a medal in the heptathlon since Jackie Joyner-Kersee... read more
More Olympic Journal Links:
Stephanie Brown-Trafton, discus
Shannon Rowbury, 1500m
Ian Dobson, 5000m
Ryan Hall, Marathon
8/14 - USATF Beijing Athletics 8-15 Track & Field preview features Amy Acuff (HJ), Grace Upshaw (LJ), Erica McClean (TJ), and Hyleas Fountain (Heptathlon) read more...
Stephanie Brown-Trafton, discus
Shannon Rowbury, 1500m
Ian Dobson, 5000m
Ryan Hall, Marathon
8/14 - USATF Beijing Athletics 8-15 Track & Field preview features Amy Acuff (HJ), Grace Upshaw (LJ), Erica McClean (TJ), and Hyleas Fountain (Heptathlon) read more...
8/13 - Lodi News Sentinel article on Stephanie's husband's support: "Stand by your woman"

Stephanie Brown-Trafton Profile
by Bob Burns
Brown-Trafton, Powell-Roos and Acuff article in Stockton Record
Courtesy of Fred Baer, Women's T&F Chair, T&F PA Grand Prix Director.
7/20 - 2008 PA/USATF Track & Field Grand Prix Standings are now posted for 10-day review period. Standings will be declared final on July 30, unless discrepancies are reported by July 29, 2008.
7/19 - Shannon Rowbury runs fastest 1500m by an American in 6 years at the Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis Press Release
Report from Fred Baer
7/18 - 2008 Pacific Association's Track & Field Grand Prix Point Totals for Review (pdf)
7/11 - IAAF launches new Web site: spikesmag.com. Read Press Release.
Shannon Rowbury wins 1500m final; Aarik Wilson wins TJ - more quotes & updates
6/25 - PA's McMahon sets San Mateo Co. Hammer record: Press Release from Fred Baer
6/24 - Chabot All Comers Meets start Tuesday, June 24
6/12 - PA's Stephanie Brown-Trafton featured in Stockton Record
"Throwing at a dream Galt resident peaking just in time for Olympics" read more.
5/22 - Gary Shaw Big Throwers Classic Results
5/20 - PA/USATF 2008 Open T&F Championships Meet Preview- updated
May 25 - Pacific Association T & F Championships Results
5/20 - PA/USATF 2008 Open T&F Championships Meet Preview- updated
5/7 - Stephanie Trafton-Brown tosses 217+ (possible world best!) at Hartnell; full story courtesy of Track & Field News. Results
5/12 - Calif. Invite/Modesto Highlights & Results
5/4 - Payton Jordan Invitational: Shalane Flanagan (Marblehead, Mass.) runs 30:34.49 10K - AR record by 17 seconds, world leader for 2008 and the fastest 10,000 ever by a woman on North American soil. Read bio. Read teleconference.
5/4 - PA Athletes Star at Payton Jordan Invitational ...read more....
4/25 - Brown-Trafton & Barnes Receive USATF Development Grants
by Bob Burns, PA/USATF Feature Story Reporter
Photo courtesy of Kirby Lee, Image of Sport
by Bob Burns, PA/USATF Feature Story Reporter
Photo courtesy of stanford.com

by Mark Winitz, PA/USATF Feature Stories and News Manager
Photo courtesy of the Clay Shaw/Sport 35 Photography
For Blake Russell, finishing an oh-so-close-but-oh-so-distant 4th at the 2004 U.S. Women�s Olympic Marathon Trials read more...
Photo courtesy of the New York Road Runners
4/17 - PA 2008 Track & Field Grand Prix Standings as of 4/17
4/7 - Brown-Trafton my58 Video
Olympic Throws Hopeful
read more...
by Bob Burns
Photos by Don Gosney
4/1 - 2008 PA T & F Grand Prix Info; $15,000 purse!
Olympic 800 Meter Team Hopeful
read more...
by Silver Lumsdaine, PA/USATF Communications
Photos by Don Gosney
3/10 - Maui Discus Challenge, PA/USATF Athletes Slated !
March 3 - PA T&F Championships Meet Info & Online Entry !
2/23 - PA's Acuff (HJ), Camarena (SP) & Rowbury (3000m) win at USA Indoors ... Read More D!
2/23 - PA's Rowbury "New distance threat" at USA Indoors... Read More !
2/1 - Acuff Wins at Millrose Games ... Read More Discus Toss at Stanford!
1/28 - Tiger Bar Sports Joins Tri-Valley Athletics ... Read More
Olympic 1500 Meter Team Hopeful
read more...
by Bob Burns
Photos by Don Gosney
Olympic 10,000 Meter Team Hopeful
read more...
by Bob Burns
Photos by Clay Shaw / Sports 35 Photography
"World discus leader Stephanie Brown Trafton and American women�s javelin record holder Kim Kreiner scored impressive victories Sunday at USA Track & Field�s Pacific Association Championships at College of San Mateo." Read more...
PA Athletes at 2007 USA Champs
Alysia Johnson has a flair for the dramatic. The 22-year-old 800-meter specialist will graduate from University of California, Berkeley in June...
read more...
by Silver Lumsdaine, PA/USATF Communications Intern; Photos by Don Gosney

Read about her 4.01.61 - 1500 meter time at the adidas Track Classic May 18 (fastest U.S. time in 6 years and the 2008 world leading time).
No Leap of Faith for Second Olympic Berth
read more...
by Mike Fanelli, PA/USATF Communications Intern
Photos by Don Gosney
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FAYFOTO/Boston
4/25 - BAA Report on U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials
4/15 - PA Women's Olympic Marathon Trials Stories & Interviews
4/11 - Amy Acuff Interview
4/10 - Coach McDaniels at the Torch Relay




