http://www.yardbarker.com/content/sport/46 Recent Yardbarker articles: College Track and Field en-us Booyah! Check out the photos Splog! found! More of the lovely Jennifer Mueller from USC Track! One of them even looks like Leinart! Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:24:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/288769 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/288769 Casey Masterson finished the final race of her freshman year on Sunday. The freshman-phenom finished sixth in the 1,500-meters at the 2008 USA Track and Field Junior National meet. That finish also designated Masterson as the sixth best 1500-meter runner in the nation...... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:56:05 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/281581 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/281581 Following her record setting performance in the women's steeplechase at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Colorado University's Jenny Barringer has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week. Barringer won her second consecutive NCAA steeplechase title and set a new collegiate record in the process. Barringer's time, 9 minutes 29.20 seconds, is the second fastest time run by an American and the fastest ever on US soil. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:52:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280859 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280859 First off, I think that the key to what makes Stokke so intriguing is the fact that she is extremely talented at her sport. In my own experience, most sports fans including me, prefer Maria Sharapova to Anna Kournikova. Yes, both are attractive, but Sharapova is actually really good at what she does. Not like Kournikova, who couldn`t win a tournament if you handed it to her on a silver platter. That's why Sharapova matters. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:01:42 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/278334 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/278334 If there's a will there's a way, and so it goes with the Track and Field club at UCSC. Striving to compete against Division I, II and III schools, yet lacking in any of the facilities to coordinate practices, the Track and Field Club fits its work to the lower east fields awkward angles and its inconsistently sloping or inclined track. Long jumpers can sometimes be seen gliding into volleyball courts while sprinters handoff batons at make shift checkpoints. Yave Guzman is the Track and Field Club President, and like so many sports enthusiasts, finds more obstacles than accommodations on a UCSC campus erected in 1965. He believes UCSC could benefit from a more robust athletics program. "I haven't heard of the school building any track field or any sort of stadium that would benefit not only track and field, but also benefit the soccer team and rugby team as well," Guzman said. "Such a stadium could provide a needed boost in school spirit to the athletes on campus that find our athletic facilities lacking." Ryan Andrews, the Director of OPERS at UCSC, noted the financial difficulties surrounding the construction of new facilities on the second youngest UC campus. Interestingly the decision to construct new facilities has always fallen on the vote of the student body. "When Cal and UCLA were founded, PE programs were state funded, many years ago when the state stopped funding these programs those schools already had the infrastructure in place," Andrews said. "Whereas Santa Cruz had barely been constructed, and not with the vision of a prominent athletic program on its agenda." In 1998, the wellness center was placed on a ballot before students as the third and least costly alternative to an athletic facility. The east Field Gym was initially the universities first dining hall. In 2004, students again turned down a proposition to construct an indoors facility-complete with climbing walls, and place bleachers, restrooms and amenities around the lower east field. Andrews is optimistic that in the near future a multi-use space will be constructed, in addition to replacing the sod of the east field with artificial turf. What drives Guzman and Geoff Foley, the club's Head Coach, to push their program further is simply a love of sports. This past year alone Foley coached three local wrestling teams in addition to Slug Track and Field. He retired in 2001, and has never, for a moment-not coached. "I'm rededicating my efforts to this club and sticking to it," Foley said. As a member of the Track and Field club in 2007 Paul Tran remembers working around the lack of official track and field amenities. "Santa Cruz obviously has a really unique team, last year it was nice having enough people to field a competitive team," Tran said. "It's just makes it more difficult not having the resources to practice with readily available on campus." The team frequents Soquel High and other local schools to utilize tracks unavailable to them at the University. Guzman finds enthusiasm for the program wide-ranging. "We have gotten responses from incoming freshmen who want to do track next year," Guzman said. "And in our meets we meet community college transfer students who want to continue their track season here at UCSC." "We love the Division III sport philosophy, we don't want special treatment, we don't want DI athletics," Andrews said. "Just facilities to accommodate the teams we have." "There's talk of incorporating some kind of track into the plan for the refurbishing of the lower athletic field," Foley said. "Maybe just painting 400m track lanes on the synthetic field but, particularly in the present fiscal environment the school finds itself in, we're not holding our breath." Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:53:12 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/275082 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/275082 there is alot of talent at purdue this year in track but give me some thought on shane crawford..Took fourth in the 100-meter dash at the 2007 Pan American Junior Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Posted a trio of excellent times, including a 10.34-effort in the semifinals. Also ran on the gold-medal winning 4x100-meter relay. Placed third in the 100 at the USA Track and Field Junior Championships, clocking a time of 10.38 in the finals and 10.33 in the semifinals. Placed second in the 60-meter dash at the 2007 Nike indoor nationals with a time of 6.72. Notched a career-best time set purdue big ten record with a time of 6.70 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:15:08 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/266093 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/266093 If you are going to bring it, the Penn Relays is the place to do it. Michigan's distance medley relay team did just that. Serita Williams, Danielle Tauro, Geena Gall and anchor leg Nicole Edwards clocked the second fastest collegiate DMR time to win in 10 minutes, 49.58 seconds. Edwards, a senior, overtook Tennessee's Sarah Bowman on the final 100 meters to score the DMR win at the 114th Penn Relays. Tennesse, the DMR defending champion took second in 10:50.51 and Stanford rounded out the top three in 11:05.48. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:48:28 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/256839 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/256839 nWa all the way baby, thats what im talking about, fayetteville-what a fascinating plc to b.We're having fun out here and its all about the excitement anyways. Im really trying to focus on running. Today i was feeling pretty fast, no back pain at all. Just a little tired from trip thou. But im alright. Today and the day after im gonna see some serious damage on the field, and on the 2nd of May i ll get busy aswell, so beware Hogs. im out now, holla later. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:26:06 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/241142 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/241142 Definition: Where a writer of a site spends an inordinate amount of time researching an article that gets a decent amount of traffic, then links to pictures of an attractive female athlete which receives about a hundred times more attention. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:01:20 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/239395 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/239395 Here's the latest photos of pole vaulting phenom Allison Stokke, as she soars to new heights with the Cal track & field team Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:13 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/238320 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/238320 On March 14, Ryan Whiting, a 6'3" sophomore from Arizona State, set the all-time collegiate record for the shot put, heaving the 16-pound weight an amazing 21.73 meters (71'3.5") ! He broke a record that stood for over 30 years, surpassing Stanford's Terry Albritton, who threw it 21.50 m (70'6.5") in 1977. And, yes, he won the men's shot put national title with that toss. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:07:29 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/207052 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/207052