Relive the 2014 USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships!
Presented by The Pacific Association/USATF and the Sacramento Sports Commission
HELPFUL LINKS
NEWS
Updated July 8, 2014
- Links to Videos of Championships Action
- Spectacular Slide Show of Championships Action from Sacramento Sports Commission Photographer Bryan Patrick
- Capitol Shot Put Men’s Final; Entire Event
- Capitol Shot Put Women’s Final
- News 10 Interview with Michelle Carter
- FloTrack Results and Interviews
- Bernard Lagat 5,000m Win
- Conley/Hasay 10,000m Battle
- Galen Rupp’s 10,0000m Win
- Huddle takes on Rowbury for the 5,000m Win
- Highlights of Men’s and Women’s 100m. Michael Rodgers and Tianna Bartoletta win.
- 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships Overview
- Day 2 Report from KCRA News
- Is Sac on Track for more Track & Field? by Alice Voisin, courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 5: Tarmoh finally earns 200 meter title. by Mark Winitz
- Is Sac back on track for more events? courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Kori Carter wins first national title in 400-meter hurdles courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Sacramento Bee Final News & Notes featuring PA’s Stephanie Brown Trafton’s Return to Competition
- Day 5 News & Notes courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Photo Galleries courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 4: Day Four Yields Solid Performances at 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. by Mark Winitz
- Day 4 News courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 3: Huddle and Rowbury Wage Memorable Duel for 5,000 meter crown. by Mark Winitz
- Golden West Invitational Results
- Echo Summit Dedication Press coverage
- KCRA Video: “Paying tribute to Olympic heroes in Echo Summit”
- Mountain Democrat: “Protest duo at documentary showing”
- Tahoe Daily Tribune: “Olympians return to Echo Summit”
- USATF News: “1968 Olympians Return to Echo Summit”
- Day 2: Conley and Rupp Garner 10,000 meter Titles. by Mark Winitz
- Kim Conley wins W10,000m: Press Release from John Schumacher
- Juniors Star in Decathlon on Day 2: Press Release from Fred Baer
- Michelle Carter at the Capitol Shot Put from Joe Davis, Sacramento Bee
- Day 1 – Capitol Shot Put: In Depth Article by Mark Winitz
- Pacific Association Athletes Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List
- Californians Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List (courtesy of Mark Winitz)
- Sacramento Bee’s very helpful Guide to 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Local favorite Kim Conley will compete in the 10,000m. Run the Billy Mills 10K (7 pm, 6/26) and then stay to cheer her on! Entry to the Billy Mills 10K includes a ticket for the Nationals June 26 events.
- Echo Summit Track Dedication to be held the morning of June 27. Press Release
- “Capitol Shot” will kick off Championships… at the State Capitol on June 25! Read more.
- 2-Day TF Champs Tickets Are Now Available
- TF Outdoor Champs to host Billy Mills 10K on June 26, 7 pm, before the TF Champs 10,000m event. Entry includes TF Champs ticket!
- 55th Annual Golden West Invitational will be held in conjunction with National Outdoor TF Championships on Saturday, June 28.
- Click HERE for online ticket sales.
- Tickets are available!
- Official USATF Press Release
- FloTrack.com Report
- KCRA News Report
- Sacramento Bee Report
► PACIFIC ASSOCIATION STRONG AT USATF NATIONAL CLUB AND NATIONAL JUNIOR OLYMPIC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Winitz
Pacific Association/USATF Communications Manager
Tel: (650) 948-0618 Direct
PACIFIC ASSOCIATION STRONG AT USATF NATIONAL CLUB AND NATIONAL JUNIOR OLYMPIC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
FOLSOM, CALIF. – December 13, 2007 – Last weekend, Pacific Association/USA Track and Field athletes and teams turned in outstanding performances at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships and the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships.
USATF NATIONAL CLUB CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
The USATF National Club Cross Country Championships, held December 7 in West Chester, Ohio, featured the top clubs from across the United States vying for top honors and bragging rights as the nation’s top cross country team. Over 110 clubs and 1,130 competitors participated at the event with clubs competing for a total prize purse of $25,000, with $20,000 going to the top open teams. Open and masters races were held at distances of 10-kilometers for men and 6-kilometers for women. The event was held under cloudy skies, with temperatures beginning in the high 30s.
In the open men’s championship club competition, the Pacific Association’s Asics Aggies Running Club finished third and Oakland, Calif.-based Transports adidas Racing Team finished fourth. The Asics Aggies’ squad was led by 2007 Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo All-American Phillip Reid (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) who finished 11th overall. Transports adidas’ first finisher was recent University of California-Berkeley standout Giliat Ghebray (Union City, Calif.) who finished 9th. 2006 Stanford University graduate and Watsonville, Calif. resident Brett Gotcher (currently training in Albuquerque, New Mexico) was 7th overall, and first PA/USATF man.
Among open women, Katy Trotter (Palo Alto, Calif.) finished 4th overall, representing her Peninsula Distance Club (no scoring team) well. Kara June (San Luis Obispo) finished 19th, and was the top scorer for the Asics Aggies, which was the top placing PA/USATF women’s team (13th).
Led by Ryan Warrenburg’s (Blowing Rock, NC) overall win, the men from North Carolina-based ZAP Fitness won their second consecutive USATF national team championship, while the Run Ohio Racing Team won the women’s title.
In the masters championship, PA/USATF’s San Francisco-based Impala Racing Team placed first in the women’s age 50 to 59 division and Marin County, Calif.-based Tamalpa Runners placed 2nd in the men’s age 50 to 59 age division. Michele Montgomery (Kentfield, Calif.) was the top scorer for Impala and Brian Pilcher (Ross, Calif.) anchored Tamalpa’s team.
USATF NATIONAL JUNIOR OLYMPIC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
On December 8th, more than 2.100 athletes aged 8 to 18 from all 57 USATF Associations competed for boy’s and girls’ titles in five age divisions at the 2007 USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships presented by Finish Line at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas. The Rim Rock Farm course over hill and dale is considered one of the most difficult and most “pure” cross country courses in the nation.
The USATF Junior Olympic program’s age divisions are bantam (born 1997 or later) racing over 3 kilometers; midget (born 1995 or 1996) racing 3 km; youth (born 1993 or 1994) racing 4 km; intermediate (born 1991 or 1992) racing 5 km; and young men/women (born 1989 or 1990) racing 5 km.
PA/USATF’s Buffalo Chips Running Club, based in the Sacramento area, won the national team titles in the intermediate girls’ and young women’s age divisions. Kelsey Smith (age 16, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.) placed third individually for the Buffalo Chips intermediate girls’ team, and was narrowly nabbed by less than a second by Team Idaho’s Elizabeth Brandan at the finish. Crystal Esparza (age 17, Riverbank, Calif.) led the Buffalo Chips young women’s team with a 4th place individual finish. Buffalo Chips’ teams also placed 4th in the youth girls’ division, and 5th in youth boys.
Additional PA/USATF club teams that performed admirably included: Pacific United (2nd in the intermediate girls’ and young women’s divisions), and Pleasanton Heat (3rd in bantam boys, 4th in midget boys, and 4th in midget girls).
Additional top-10 PA/USATF girls performers included Joelle Slater (3rd in young women, Pacific United, Sacramento, Calif.), Corissa Storms (5th in youth girls, Pacific United, Cottonwood, Calif.), Maria Malone (5th in intermediate girls, Buffalo Chips, Folsom, Calif.), Lauren Petersen (7th in intermediate girls, Pacific United, Sacramento), Hillary Kigar (7th in young women, Buffalo Chips, Citrus Heights, Calif.), Kyla Aiuto (8th in midget girls, Pleasanton Heat, Danville, Calif.), Eleanor Velez (9th in bantam girls, Buffalo Chips, El Dorado Hills, Calif.), and Kate Lambdin (9th in young women, Buffalo Chips, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.).
Top-10 PA/USATF boys performers included Samuel Blake (5th in bantam boys, Los Gatos Athletic Association, Campbell, Calif.), Bradford Avilla, Jr. (6th in midget boys, Roseville Express, Wilton, Calif.), Clark Skinner (7th in bantam boys, Buffalo Chips, Cameron Park, Calif.), Brynn Sargent (8th in midget boys, Roseville Express, Folsom. Calif.), Brandon Nied (9th in intermediate boys, unattached, Reno, Nev.), and Matthew Petrillo (10th in young men, Los Gatos Athletic Association, Los Gatos, Calif.).
The Pacific Association is the largest member association of USA Track & Field (USATF). We serve northern California and northwestern Nevada. USATF is the National Governing Body for track and field, long distance running, and race walking in the United States. For more information about the Pacific Association, visit our Web site at www.pausatf.org.
For more information about the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships, and the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships, including complete results, please visit www.usatf.org.
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