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R-L: Bowman leads Heidi Magill, Alysia Johnson (mostly obscured), Maggie Infield and Trisa Nickoley, and Rebekah Noble (far left) moves up on the outside. |
Rebekah Noble (who also goes by Becca) used an amazing kick in the last 200 meters and just blew everyone away. The recent high school graduate who will attend Oregon in the fall finished in 2:03.73 to Heidi Magill's 2:04.99. |
It was pretty dark by the time the women's 800m semis got started. The first round had been cancelled because the field was small. Hazel Clark and Kameisha Bennett led on the first lap. |
Clark (2:02.47) won the first semi-final and Bennett finished second (2:03.16). |
Sasha Spencer (left, 3rd, 2:04.72) and Mishael Bertrand (right, fifth, 2:05.05) advanced, as did LSU's Tanya Osborne (behind Spencer, 4th, 2:04.97). |
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Francis Santin (right) and Alice Schmidt led the field on the first lap of the second 800m semi-final. |
Alice Schmidt won in 2:03.96, Maggie Vessey finished second (2:04.02), and Jearl Miles Clark was third (2:04.42). Frances Santin (right, 4th, 2:05.08) was the last qualifier for Sunday's final. |
Nicole Blood went to the front at the start of the junior 5,000m. She had run many cross country 5Ks before, but this was her first one on the track. |
Whitney Anderson, a recent high school graduate from Colorado, gradually worked her way up to second place, and was gaining on Blood at the end of the race. |
Blood, a high school junior from New York, managed to hold off Anderson for the win, 16:30.90 to 16:33.32. |
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Blake Russell was one of the primary pacesetters in the women's 10,000m. By the time this race rolled around the stadium was so dark that it was virtually impossible to get... |
...good photos with our equipment, which was too bad, because it was a fabulous race. Above: Lindsey Scherf, who would be eligible to run in the junior meet (which only had a girls' 5,000 but a boys' 10,000) went with the lead pack early on. |
Deena Kastor did not assume her usual position in the front of the pack. Instead, she just tried to hang on to the lead group as long as possible. Due to an injury, most of the preparation she had done for this race was in the form of crosstraining. |
As Blake Russell (and Katie McGregor, on Russell's shoulder) continued to set a quick pace, runners began to drop off the back of the pack one by one. |
Late in the race, it was down to Katie McGregor, Jen Rhines, and Blake Russell. |
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Deena Kastor ran right behind the lead trio, but eventually a little gap became a bigger gap, and she wasn't quite able to stay with them. |
It was surprising to see Elva Dryer, who had won the Bolder Boulder 10K in late May and was clearly in good shape, dropping off the lead pack, but this was one of the most competitive U.S. women's 10,000s in years. Dryer finished fifth in 32:00.91. |
Katie McGregor pulled away from Blake Russell (who is right behind McGregor above) on the final lap to win her first USA track title in an impressive 31:33.82. |
Russell crossed the line second in 31:35.25. Both hit the World Champs "A" standard and will represent the U.S. in Helsinki. |
Jen Rhines finished third in 31:37.20 and also qualified for the World Championships. Deena Kastor finished fourth in 31:45.08 and will have to skip the World Championships. |
