It begins tomorrow (Wednesday), June 9. Men will compete on Wednesday and Friday, with the women on Thursday and Saturday. The exceptions, of course, are the Decathlon (Wednesday/Thursday) and Heptathlon (Friday/Saturday), which must take place on consecutive days.

LIVE RESULTS

Just to repeat what I set up on the preview page for TODAY's Rice activity.


Men's Javelin Throw

Here are the qualifiers from the 2 regions, with their current national rankings

1. (E) Sindri Gudmundsson, Miss. State 79.83 (261' 11") - 1st at region
2. (E) D.J. Jonsson, Miss. State 78.51 (257' 7") - 2nd at region
3. (W) Arthur Petersen, UT Arlington 77.75 (255' 1") - 9th at region
4. (W) Cameron Bates, BYU 77.17 (253' 2") - 2nd at region
5. (E) Franck Disanza, SE Louisiana 75.80 (248' 8") - 9th at region
6. (E) Tyriq Horsford, Miss. State 75.51 (247' 9") - 3rd at region

7. (W) Benji Phillips, N. Dakota State 75.27 (246' 11") - 5th at region
8. (E) August Cook, Army 75.20 (246' 9") - 6th at region
9. (E) Tzuriel Pedigo, LSU 75.11 (246' 5") - 4th at region
10. (E) Donavon Banks, McNeese State 75.05 (246' 3") - 8th at region
11. (E) Nils Fischer, Auburn 74.30 (243' 9") - 5th at region
13. (E) Mark Porter, Penn State 73.94 (242' 7") - 11th at region

14. (E) Cade Antonucci, Auburn 73.46 (241' 0") - 7th at region
15. (W) Logan Wolfley, Kansas State 73.08 (239' 9") - 1st at region
16. (W) Cord Neal, Stephen F. Austin 72.78 (238' 9") - 4th at region
19. (W) Scott Fuchs, Iowa State 72.12 (236' 7") - 3rd at region
20. (E) Brian Sagendorf, Mount St. Mary's 71.67 (235' 1") - 10th at region
21. (W) Carlon Naisant, Arizona State 71.54 (234' 8") - 7th at region

23. (W) James McNaney, Rice 71.41 (234' 3") - 6th at region
32. (W) Sam Hankins, Texas A&M 70.13 (230' 1") - 10th at region
34. (W) Dalton Rasmussen, Oregon 69.42 (227' 9") - 8th at region
39. (E) Hunter Longino, McNeese State 68.75 (225' 6") - 12th at region
49. (W) Chase Tarr, UC Santa Barbara 67.25 (220' 8") - 11th at region
50. (W) Izac Canchola, Stephen F. Austin 67.13 (220' 3") - 12th at region


Top 9 after 1st 3 throws will advance to finals for 3 additional throws

This event will begin at 8:15 p.m., CDT, with coverage on ESPN3, and later on ESPN2.

Event 20 Men Javelin Throw
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Single venue. 2 seeded flts. 1-6, 7-12 regional placing
30 minute flight specific warm-up. 10 min max before finals
Advance best 9 after tie breaking to finals. Reverse order
Name Year School Seed Mark
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Flight 1 Finals

1 Arthur Petersen FR UT-Arlington 66.20m
2 Hunter Longino FR McNeese State 68.75m
3 Carlan Naisant SO AZ State 66.78m
4 Franck DiSanza FR SE Louisiana 71.74m
5 Dalton Rasmussen SO Oregon 66.33m
6 Sam Hankins FR Texas A&M 65.41m
7 Brian Sagendorf SR Mount St. Mary's 71.67m
8 Donavon Banks SR McNeese State 71.76m
9 Izac Canchola FR Steph F Austin 65.10m
10 Cade Antonucci SR Auburn 71.78m
11 Chase Tarr SO UC Santa Barbara 65.11m
12 Mark Porter JR Penn State 70.22m


Flight 2 Finals

1 Tzuriel Pedigo FR LSU 75.11m
2 James McNaney JR Rice 66.90m
3 Scott Fuchs SR IA State 70.16m
4 Logan Wolfley SR KS State 72.40m
5 Sindri Gudmundsson SR Miss State 79.83m
6 Nils Fischer SR Auburn 73.59m
7 Cameron Bates SO BYU 71.13m
8 DJ Jonsson FR Miss State 78.51m
9 Cord Neal JR Steph F Austin 69.99m
10 Benji Phillips SO ND State 69.64m
11 August Cook SR Army West Point 72.06m
12 Tyriq Horsford SO Miss State 75.51m


The top throwers at regionals will be in the 2nd flight.

2nd flight has begun. James McNaney with 63.56 meters (208' 6") on his first throw, and a foul on his 2nd - good for 17th right now.

McNaney improves to 63.96 (209' 10") on his 3rd throw to finish 20th. He was seeded 19th, so a solid season for him.

Wow! Mississippi State has 3 of the top 5 (75.61-76.73 meters). (Two are from Iceland, the third is from Trinidad & Tobago.)

(06-09-2021 10:50 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  Wow! Mississippi State has 3 of the top 5 (75.61-76.73 meters). (Two are from Iceland, the third is from Trinidad & Tobago.)

Out of the 24 in the field:

Iceland - 2
Trinidad and Tobago - 1
Germany - 1
Switzerland - 1
Denmark - 1
Texas - 3 (and we don't even have high school javelin)

If tonight is an accurate measure, be prepared to be frustrated at ESPN's coverage of tomorrow's women's 10K finals. Even though it was a record breaking race - 10 runners broke a record that had stood for over 40 years, the lousy announcers did not even pay attention until the final 3 laps. Here's the breakdown (listing the winner's time as the "end"):

0 - 1:35.07 show race
1:35.07 - 2:57.82 interview Decathlon leader
2:57.82 - 4:49.05 show race
4:49.05 - 5:29.06 show one jump in the long jump
5:29.06 - 6:12.36 show race
6:12.36 - 9:25.87 commercials + show "quad box"
9:25.87 - 15:41.79 show race in background, while paying no attention, but talk about John McDonnell for 5 out of the 6 minutes of "coverage"
15:41.79 - 18:11.90 commercials
18:11.90 - 21:44.98 show race
21:44.98 - 24:15.38 commercials
24:15.38 - 27:41.87 show race

If you don't count the 5 minutes they spent NOT talking about the race that was going on, they followed the 10K for 15:25.69 and did NOT follow it for 12:16.18.

With all of the breaks, it was impossible to get any sense of the rhythm of the race, plus it wasn't until about 600 meters to go when they realized how historically fast this race was.

The quality at ESPN has really reduced significantly since they had their big layoffs l think it was last year or year before last.

(06-09-2021 11:25 PM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  If tonight is an accurate measure, be prepared to be frustrated at ESPN's coverage of tomorrow's women's 10K finals. Even though it was a record breaking race - 10 runners broke a record that had stood for over 40 years, the lousy announcers did not even pay attention until the final 3 laps. Here's the breakdown (listing the winner's time as the "end"):

0 - 1:35.07 show race
1:35.07 - 2:57.82 interview Decathlon leader
2:57.82 - 4:49.05 show race
4:49.05 - 5:29.06 show one jump in the long jump
5:29.06 - 6:12.36 show race
6:12.36 - 9:25.87 commercials + show "quad box"
9:25.87 - 15:41.79 show race in background, while paying no attention, but talk about John McDonnell for 5 out of the 6 minutes of "coverage"
15:41.79 - 18:11.90 commercials
18:11.90 - 21:44.98 show race
21:44.98 - 24:15.38 commercials
24:15.38 - 27:41.87 show race

If you don't count the 5 minutes they spent NOT talking about the race that was going on, they followed the 10K for 15:25.69 and did NOT follow it for 12:16.18.

With all of the breaks, it was impossible to get any sense of the rhythm of the race, plus it wasn't until about 600 meters to go when they realized how historically fast this race was.

I guess it depends in the sophistication and interest of the audience they are talking to. Most people are not going to want a lap by lap discussion of a long race. For example, I am not going to watch every lap of the Indy 500 - if I wanted to watch people driving fast in a circle, I would take my lawn chair and a sixpack out to the Loop. BUT...I might watch the last lap, and if the announcers had any interesting tidbits, that would be mild interest to me.

At the very least, ESPN should either (1) show the entire race on ESPN3 or, (2) have the race continue via split-screen during commercials. It's just not that difficult.

(06-10-2021 09:36 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  At the very least, ESPN should either (1) show the entire race on ESPN3 or, (2) have the race continue via split-screen during commercials. It's just not that difficult.

Even PGA Golf has figured that out.

(06-10-2021 09:38 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 09:36 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  At the very least, ESPN should either (1) show the entire race on ESPN3 or, (2) have the race continue via split-screen during commercials. It's just not that difficult.

Even PGA Golf has figured that out.

Yeah, I don't watch them either, unless it is a sudden death playoff.

Women's Hammer Throw is underway - first flight. Tara is in the second flight.

I've watched a little of the ESPN3 coverage. It's very bizarre how they keep going back and forth between meters and yards on their scorecards for the field events.

BTW what is the large silver spaceship looking building next to the hammer field? Is that their basketball gym? I went once to the NCAA's in Eugene decades ago, but I don't recall that building at all.

A fight for 2nd - the thrower from Cal just set a new collegiate record. But a good throw for Simpson-Sullivan - that should get her into the finals?

67.37 (221' 0") for Tara - in 4th right now. 2nd round underway for 2nd flight.

(06-10-2021 03:34 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I've watched a little of the ESPN3 coverage. It's very bizarre how they keep going back and forth between meters and yards on their scorecards for the field events.

BTW what is the large silver spaceship looking building next to the hammer field? Is that their basketball gym? I went once to the NCAA's in Eugene decades ago, but I don't recall that building at all.

It's Hayward Field.

67.99 (223' 0") on her second throw - into 3rd. But, there a long way to go.

(06-10-2021 04:23 PM)InterestedX Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 03:34 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I've watched a little of the ESPN3 coverage. It's very bizarre how they keep going back and forth between meters and yards on their scorecards for the field events.

BTW what is the large silver spaceship looking building next to the hammer field? Is that their basketball gym? I went once to the NCAA's in Eugene decades ago, but I don't recall that building at all.

It's Hayward Field.

That was my guess, too, though I thought hammer was supposed to be able to be done entirely within Hayward Field. I'm not watching, so can't really say. I guess there are timing conflicts, when getting so many events done, that they went back outside for prelims?

https://hayward.uoregon.edu/about

They did a lot to update the Field and add to it (like the tower and museum).