Scott Filip was 2nd in the decathlon at the Texas Relays.

1 Lindon Victor Texas A&M [SR] 8472
2 Scott Filip Rice [JR] 7915
3 Wolf Mahler Texas [SR] 7897
4 TJ Lawson Kent State [FR] 7497
5 Kevin Nielsen BYU [JR] 7439
6 Chris Stone Auburn [FR] 7300
7 Nathaniel Mechler Houston [FR] 7255
8 Florian Obst TAMU-Commerce [FR] 7235
9 Eric Fox Louisville [JR] 7233
10 Joe Miceli Binghamton [SR] 7096

Nice performance - that's a new PR for Filip. The guy who beat him from A&M set a new NCAA record in winning, and was the NCAA champion last year (and 16th at the Olympics). Austin Riddle also did well today, breaking his own school record in the hammer.

That is an amazing achievement, and certainly deserves more recognition! Olympics in Filip's future too?

(04-01-2017 09:10 PM)Barney Wrote:  That is an amazing achievement, and certainly deserves more recognition! Olympics in Filip's future too?

It's early in the season, but Scott Filip is #3 in the world in the Decathlon. Of course, the Olympics are a goal. Rice has other decathletes, including the very talented Charlie Card-Childers.

Some very nice marks and times by the women today over at UH, although they were all wind-aided so they won't count for record purposes. But Baylor transfer Hannah Jackson ran 11.44 in the 100 and 23.00 in the 200 - her 200 time would have been a school record were it not for the wind. Freshman Michelle Fokam had a solid long jump of 20-7 1/4, and senior Daisy Ding triple-jumped 42-9 3/4.

The good news is even if they were all wind-aided, they count for NCAA qualifying purposes and all of those times/marks should easily qualify them for the NCAA West preliminaries next month in Austin (I think??).