"Donald Scott will begin the triple jump today at 7:45 p.m. ET!

Live Results: http://bit.ly/298JQPR "

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Lot of coverage at the EMU Athletics Twitter site:

https://twitter.com/EMUAthletics

If I'm reading the results correctly he is in 4th place and heading to the finals Saturday.

Edit: still in progress, now 6th place, top 12 advance.

http://trialsresults.usatf.org/

(07-07-2016 07:23 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  If I'm reading the results correctly he is in 4th place and heading to the finals Saturday.

How many make the team? Three?

(07-07-2016 07:24 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(07-07-2016 07:23 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  If I'm reading the results correctly he is in 4th place and heading to the finals Saturday.

How many make the team? Three?

Might only be top 2.

(07-07-2016 07:23 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  If I'm reading the results correctly he is in 4th place and heading to the finals Saturday.

Edit: still in progress, now 6th place, top 12 advance.

Yes, I was just posting this:

I think he is now in 6th based on incomplete number of jumps (Scott has had only two jumps).

Wow now he is in 2nd by 1/100 with the best score of 16.96 and has qualified. Not sure if that's mean just for the finals or made the team.

With Alejandro already making the team EMU T&F has been represented in the last 15 Olympics. Incredible.

(07-07-2016 07:43 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  Wow now he is in 2nd by 1/100 with the best score of 16.96 and has qualified. Not sure if that's mean just for the finals or made the team.

I think he has advanced to the finals with 11 others.

EMU Athletics ‏@EMUAthletics 5m5 minutes ago
Donald Scott Qualifies to Triple Jump Finals at Olympic Trials #EMUTrack
http://bit.ly/29yzuus

I think Scott became an automatic qualifier with 16.85M.

I'm curious how close he is to an EMU record... He has jumped over 55 feet.

(07-07-2016 08:53 PM)emu steve Wrote:  I think Scott became an automatic qualifier with 16.85M.

I'm curious how close he is to an EMU record... He has jumped over 55 feet.

I'm confused by the AQ number, him and 3 others were at or surpassed 16.85. What does that mean? I would think since the top 12 move on to the finals that it would mean something different.

Edit: I get it now, if that were his 1st jump and he met or surpassed 16.85 he could not jump again and still make it to the finals.

(07-07-2016 09:18 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  

(07-07-2016 08:53 PM)emu steve Wrote:  I think Scott became an automatic qualifier with 16.85M.

I'm curious how close he is to an EMU record... He has jumped over 55 feet.

I'm confused by the AQ number, him and 3 others were at or surpassed 16.85. What does that mean? I would think since the top 12 move on to the finals that it would mean something different.

Edit: I get it now, if that were his 1st jump and he met or surpassed 16.85 he could not jump again and still make it to the finals.

Yes. What the jumpers do is take their jumps until they hit 16.85M.

At that point there is no reason to continue jumping.

Jumpers who do not make 16.85M are selected based on their best jump compared to the others who did not make the AQ.

I believe a year ago, Scott set an EMU record, etc. with a jump of around 55 ft +.

I'll try to check if it is an EMU record. What the MAC record is? etc.

Here is more info:

Donald Scott proposes to his GF, and tries to become one of THREE to make the U.S. team going to Rio.

Finals are Saturday evening...

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/donald-s...pic-trials

Tonight is the night for Donald:

http://www.emueagles.com/news/2016/7/7/m...rials.aspx

Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.

(07-09-2016 08:38 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.

Guess he was a T&F star playing football...

(07-09-2016 09:41 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(07-09-2016 08:38 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.

Guess he was a T&F star playing football...

Renaldo Nehemiah comes to mind...would have preferred Cliff Branch (world class sprinter, U of Colorado and Raiders legend). Just goes to show playing receiver is more than just speed and athleticism, but he tried his best and is a great representative of EMU.

(07-09-2016 09:48 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(07-09-2016 09:41 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(07-09-2016 08:38 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.

Guess he was a T&F star playing football...

Renaldo Nehemiah comes to mind...would have preferred Cliff Branch (world class sprinter, U of Colorado and Raiders legend). Just goes to show playing receiver is more than just speed and athleticism, but he tried his best and is a great representative of EMU.

Wow, that you should mention "Skeets". I went to a funeral last December for someone I worked with and Skeets was there. The deceased was a collegiate star at Maryland with Skeets.

It was impressive to see the stars from the great Maryland T&F teams of the mid-70s attend the funeral of their teammate.

The deceased was all-ACC in the long and triple jump and actually followed the career of Donald Scott and indicated to me last summer he thought Scott had a chance at the Olympics.

(the deceased's daughter was a member of the EMU women's T&F team as a graduate student).

I follow T&F some, but the 70s were the glory days of U.S.A. vs. U.S.S.R. and some of the all-time greats including Bob Hayes, and when the Americans ruled the marathon (e.g., Frank Shorter, Bill Rogers, etc.) and, of course, EMU contributed some great track men as well.

I helped him (the deceased) get his daughter to EMU and indicated that EMU has an illustrious history in T&F with the Bob Parks era and moving forward...

His daughter left EMU with a MAC championship ring. :) Sue Park's team won the indoors that year and missed by ONE point of winning the outdoors as well...

(07-09-2016 08:38 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.

I just keep thinking to myself, how different things would be if he held onto that pass in the end zone in the second half of that game with Michigan State?

You're absolutely right though, he's a great guy and a tremendous athlete.