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Lead Stories: Monday, October 13, 2008

Mt. SAC Relays: Distance Carnival Highlights

Posted April 19th, 2008 at 5:39 PM by Stephanie Lowe

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College, High School

Anthony Famiglietti 2007 USA Men's 8k Champion The 50th Annual Mt. SAC Relays are underway this weekend in Walnut, Calif. The meet includes top high school, collegiate and professional track and field athletes. The Relays began Thursday, April 17, and will conclude Sunday, April 20.

Friday’s exciting Distance Carnival and Invitational was covered live on Flotrack and the Mt. SAC website. The highlights of the evening were the men’s invitational 3000-meter steeplechase and the women’s invitational 5000-meter run.

Anthony “Fam” Famiglietti won the steeplechase with a time of 8:26.94, barely missing the meet record of 8:26.6 set by Marc Davis in 1993. He led the race from the starting line and finished ten seconds ahead of runner-up Jordan Fife’s finish time of 8:36.69.
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Sara Hall: Success in London for Ryan, Now On To Mt. Sac (Elite Athlete Blog - Entry #7)

Posted April 18th, 2008 at 4:00 PM by Sara Hall

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics, Elite Athlete Blogs, Sara Hall

Welcome to the official blog of U.S. middle-distance runner Sara Hall. Sara’s list of running accolades include being a former NCAA All- American at Stanford, the 2006 USA 5K road champion, and the 2006 champion at the Continental Fifth Avenue Mile. Check back every other Friday for her latest entry at http://sarahall.thefinalsprint.com/

It’s over. I am definitely running a little lighter these days now that London is behind us, successfully completed! There is so much buildup going into marathons, especially for Ryan since he usually doesn’t race too much leading up to it. Just one shot, make or break, all that training and dreaming coming down to one day.

This year, Ryan seemed a lot less nervous than last year and at the Trials, which helped me stay relaxed too. I take Ryan’s races very personally, because we are a team- whether playing Poker with our teammates (much to the frustration of Ian [Dobson] frustration) or cheering each other on in workouts, we are “Team Hall” and try to do it together and support each other to the point where his races seem like my races, his victories my victories, and his failures mine as well. The Bible puts it well when it says, “a man shall leave his father and mother, be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”. Since we’ve been married, I definitely feel like we are “one”, so it was great to be able to be there the whole trip to London and experience it all together!
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Shalane Flanagan to make rare road racing appearance

Posted August 17th, 2007 at 3:03 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Flanagan_Shalane USA record holder at 5000m, Shalane Flanagan, will make a rare road racing appearance at the CVS Caremark Downtown 5-K scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 16, in Providence, R.I. The race will host the USA 5-K road running championships for both men and women.

Flanagan, 26, is in the midst of the best year of her career. In January, she smashed the USA indoor record for 3000m at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games with a sizzling 8:33.25 clocking. She followed-up with an American record for 5000m at last April’s Mt. SAC Relays (14:44.80). Flanagan also dominated the 5000m at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships last June in Indianapolis, winning by about 17 seconds. She’s now preparing for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics where she will compete in the 5000m.

The CVS Caremark Downtown 5-K will only be Flanagan’s second road racing appearance. In 2006, she ran the Manchester Road Race in Manchester, Conn., and won by three seconds over Ireland’s Mary Cullen.

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Shalane Flanagan named Athlete of the Week by USATF

Posted April 17th, 2007 at 8:00 PM by Martha Jones

Section: News & Results

Shalana Flanagan USATF Shalane Flanagan has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after setting an American Record in the women’s 5,000 meters Friday at the 2007 Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

A 2004 Olympian and the 2005 USA Outdoor 5,000m champion, Flanagan won the women’s 5,000m in 14 minutes 44.80 seconds, bettering the previous U.S. record of 14:45.35 set by Regina Jacobs in Sacramento, Calif., on July 21, 2000. Earlier this year in February, Flanagan was victorious in the 3,000 meters at the AT&T USA Indoor Championships in Boston after setting the U.S. Indoor record at that distance of 8:33.25 on January 27.

Another notable performance over the weekend came from two-time Olympian Suzy Powell, who bettered the women’s U.S. discus throw record Saturday at the inaugural Maui “Big Wind” Discus Challenge in Wailuku, Hawaii, presented by Ironwood Throwers. Powell won the event on her fifth throw of the competition that sailed 67.67 meters/222 feet, which surpasses the 21-year old U.S. women’s record of 66.10m/216-10 set by Carol Cady in 1986.
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Flanagan Breaks U.S. 5000m Record at Mt. SAC Relays

Posted April 14th, 2007 at 11:15 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

Former University of North Carolina star Shalane Flanagan took down Regina Jacobs’s U.S. 5000m record yesterday at the 49th Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif. Running in favorable weather conditions, she crossed the finish line in 14:44.80, well inside Jacobs’s mark of 14:45.35 set at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento in July, 2000.

“I really have to give credit to my support system,” said Flanagan in an interview with Flocasts.com. “I had a great pacer tonight, Erin Donohue, college teammate and friend. She really just set up the pins and I knocked them down.”
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