Relive the 2014 USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships!
Presented by The Pacific Association/USATF and the Sacramento Sports Commission
HELPFUL LINKS
NEWS
Updated July 8, 2014
- Links to Videos of Championships Action
- Spectacular Slide Show of Championships Action from Sacramento Sports Commission Photographer Bryan Patrick
- Capitol Shot Put Men’s Final; Entire Event
- Capitol Shot Put Women’s Final
- News 10 Interview with Michelle Carter
- FloTrack Results and Interviews
- Bernard Lagat 5,000m Win
- Conley/Hasay 10,000m Battle
- Galen Rupp’s 10,0000m Win
- Huddle takes on Rowbury for the 5,000m Win
- Highlights of Men’s and Women’s 100m. Michael Rodgers and Tianna Bartoletta win.
- 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships Overview
- Day 2 Report from KCRA News
- Is Sac on Track for more Track & Field? by Alice Voisin, courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 5: Tarmoh finally earns 200 meter title. by Mark Winitz
- Is Sac back on track for more events? courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Kori Carter wins first national title in 400-meter hurdles courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Sacramento Bee Final News & Notes featuring PA’s Stephanie Brown Trafton’s Return to Competition
- Day 5 News & Notes courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Photo Galleries courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 4: Day Four Yields Solid Performances at 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. by Mark Winitz
- Day 4 News courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 3: Huddle and Rowbury Wage Memorable Duel for 5,000 meter crown. by Mark Winitz
- Golden West Invitational Results
- Echo Summit Dedication Press coverage
- KCRA Video: “Paying tribute to Olympic heroes in Echo Summit”
- Mountain Democrat: “Protest duo at documentary showing”
- Tahoe Daily Tribune: “Olympians return to Echo Summit”
- USATF News: “1968 Olympians Return to Echo Summit”
- Day 2: Conley and Rupp Garner 10,000 meter Titles. by Mark Winitz
- Kim Conley wins W10,000m: Press Release from John Schumacher
- Juniors Star in Decathlon on Day 2: Press Release from Fred Baer
- Michelle Carter at the Capitol Shot Put from Joe Davis, Sacramento Bee
- Day 1 – Capitol Shot Put: In Depth Article by Mark Winitz
- Pacific Association Athletes Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List
- Californians Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List (courtesy of Mark Winitz)
- Sacramento Bee’s very helpful Guide to 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Local favorite Kim Conley will compete in the 10,000m. Run the Billy Mills 10K (7 pm, 6/26) and then stay to cheer her on! Entry to the Billy Mills 10K includes a ticket for the Nationals June 26 events.
- Echo Summit Track Dedication to be held the morning of June 27. Press Release
- “Capitol Shot” will kick off Championships… at the State Capitol on June 25! Read more.
- 2-Day TF Champs Tickets Are Now Available
- TF Outdoor Champs to host Billy Mills 10K on June 26, 7 pm, before the TF Champs 10,000m event. Entry includes TF Champs ticket!
- 55th Annual Golden West Invitational will be held in conjunction with National Outdoor TF Championships on Saturday, June 28.
- Click HERE for online ticket sales.
- Tickets are available!
- Official USATF Press Release
- FloTrack.com Report
- KCRA News Report
- Sacramento Bee Report
► PA Assoc Annual Meeting – 19 Sept. details
2021 USATF Pacific Annual Meeting via zoom
Sunday, 19 September 3:00-7:00pm
The Board of Athletics will select the delegates for the USATF Annual Meeting (2-5 December); discuss the 2022 PA-USATF annual budget; in addition to the first reading of proposed association bylaws will be considered. Below is the preliminary agenda. Please send requests to add additional items to the president, Charlotte Sneed at [email protected] by Friday, September 10th.
All updates and meeting documents will be posted on the website under ‘about’ and meetings’ prior to the meeting.
Treasurer’s Report – treasurer /Mansoor: Revision/update
2022 Budget Proposal
2021 USATF Annual Meeting (2-5 December) – Charlotte Sneed
Nomination of delegates and alternates
Proposed Association ByLaw revision for first reading – Dave Shrock
USATF Pacific Foundation update
Covid19 Status
Competition Status Update
NCAA D1 West Region XC meet this fall in Sacramento – Daniel Domenichelli
Club Cross in SF Fall 2022 – Irene Herman
Junior Olympic Track & Field National Championships in Sacramento – John Mansoor
Fall XC Status
2021 Track and Field
Future Meetings: November 16th via Zoom
► YTF Annual Fall Coaches Meeting Announcement – Sat, Oct. 9th @ 2pm
The USATF-Pacific Association Youth Committee will host the Annual Fall Coaches Meeting on Saturday, October 9th at Pinole Valley High from 10:00am-2:00pm. Pinole Valley High School is located at 2900 Pinole Valley Rd, Pinole, CA 94564.
If you have topics you would like to add to the agenda, please forward them to Deborah Sample ([email protected]) no later than September 30th.
► TF Jordan Gray Puts Women’s Decathlon Record Over 8,000 points
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 23, 2021 Contact: Fred Baer [email protected]
100th SEASON OF CSM SPORTS BEGINS WITH ITS 3rd AMERICAN RECORD PERFORMANCE
Jordan Gray posed with supporting PAUSATF officials after her American Record decathlon performance at College of San Mateo on Aug. 22. Photo by Becca
“Greatest Woman Athlete” Smashes American Record; Runner-up Has H.S. Best:
JORDAN GRAY PUTS WOMEN’S DECATHLON RECORD OVER 8,000 POINTS
Jordan Gray obliterated her American Record in the women’s decathlon Sunday, running up history’s second highest total of 8,246 points in the Women’s Decathlon Association “National” Championships at College of San Mateo.
The Ball Ground, Ga. resident becomes only the third person to score over 8,000 points in the 10-event competition, which, effectively, determines the “world’s greatest” female athlete.
The world record is 8,358 points by Austra Skujyte of Lithuania in 2005. The only other athlete to ever top the 8K mark was Marie Collonville of France, who set the former world record of 8,150 points in 2004.
Gray added a phenomenal 325 points to the American and Western Hemisphere Records of 7,921 she set in the first Women’s Decathlon Championships in 2019, also at CSM. It is the third American track and field record set on CSM’s international Mondo track facility — as the college begins its 100th season of athletic competition. Kim Kreiner, previously, set an AR in the women’s javelin throw at CSM.
WIND AVERAGE = LEGAL SCORE UNDER CURRENT RULES: Gray’s average wind-reading for the three events affected by wind was 1.4 meters per second, well under the allowable average of 2.0 (according to newer rules). Her competition opening 100 meter time was 11.86 seconds, aided by a 4.6 meters per second wind – the fastest ever under any conditions in a decathlon. Gray’s second day 100 meter hurdles race (timed in 14.43) was intentionally run into a 2.5 mps headwind, still scoring 919 points, to lower the overall meet wind average. (Her personal best is 13.80.) Gray had a 20 foot, 1 inch long jump the first day with legal 2.0 wind assistance – as she tallied the highest ever first day tally by an American, 4,356 points.
Gray, a 2019 Kennesaw State University grad, continued to roll on day two with a discus throw of 130-8 for 652 points. She won the pole vault at 12-10 for 935 points and the javelin throw at 135-0 (689 points), equaling the second best mark by an American in a women’s decathlon. That had been achieved in 1997 by Stacy Dragila (the ex-pole vault world record holder who was a former community college heptathlon star). Gray finished with a 1,500 meter time of 5 minutes, 20.27 seconds, for 697 points to easily surpass the record. .
“The world record wasn’t something I was targeting,” said Gray. “I just wanted to come in and do my best without worrying about it – and get the American record.”
Gray, who was born in Lawenceville, Ga., plans to continue lobbying officials in USA Track & Field and World Athletics to allow women to contest the decathlon, along with the men, in major competitions.
Cash prizes were awarded to the top post-collegiate competitors by the Women’s Decathlon Association and by 3-time local Olympian Pat Daniels Connollly, an Olympic multievent pioneer in the pentathlon (in 1964). She is a former Capuchino High (San Bruno) and CSM student who now resides in Half Moon Bay.
HIGHEST EVER HS TOTAL: Corinn Brewer, an incoming senior at Greensburg (Pa.) Central Catholic, achieved the best ever high school decathlon score, 5,698 points, finishing second in the overall competition. She does not, however, officially break the high school and under age 20 record of 5,676 points — due to her excess wind average (over 2.0) for the competition. Brewer, also a cross country runner at her high school, won the concluding 1,500 meters in a swift 4:59.57 (829 points) – only the sixth ever (second American) to better 5 minutes in a women’s decathlon. That prevented race runner-up Gray from having the leading mark in all ten events.
INTERNATIONAL FIELD: Uxia Pereira of Spain finished fourth in the meet with 5,539 points.
–Only men currently contest the decathlon at the Olympic Games, although the women’s event is an official World Athletics and USATF competition. This competition provided an opportunity to determine the “greatest woman athlete” just two weeks after the Olympics.
National and local level officials from the Pacific Association of USA Track & Field officiated the competition, using laser measurements and national timing services of Sean Laughlin of RecordTiming.
For complete results, see: https://www.rtspt.com/events/usatf/wdec21/
WOMEN’S DECATHLON ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, Presented by Parity, Aug. 21-22, at College of San Mateo. Final scores:
1.Jordon Gray, Ball Ground, Ga., 8,246 points (betters own American record of 7.928, set at CSM, 2019).
2. Corinn Brewer, Greensburg (Pa.) Central Catholic H.S., 5,698w (highest ever high school score)
3. Hanna McPhee, San Francisco, 5,613.
4. Uxia Pereira, Spain, 5,539
5. Anna Lee McGregor, San Francisco, 4,598.
6. Natalia Quesada Marshall, San Francisco,
All-Time World Women’s Decathlon Performances Over 8,000 Points:
8,358 WR Austra Skujyte, Lithuania, 2005.
8,246 AR Jordan Gray, USA, 2021.
8,150 WR Marie Collonville, France, 2004.
Note: Gray also has the No. 4 all-time performance of 7,921 points, set in her 2019 American Record competition at CSM.
WR = World Record when achieved
AR = American and Area (Continental) Records
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► TF Women’s Decathlon Champs final results with AR!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 23, 2021 Contact: Fred Baer frdbaer@aol.com m/t: 650.483.3733
“Greatest Woman Athlete” Smashes American Record; Runner-up Has H.S. Best:
JORDAN GRAY PUTS WOMEN’S DECATHLON RECORD OVER 8,000 POINTS
Jordan Gray obliterated her American Record in the women’s decathlon Sunday, running up history’s second highest total of 8,246 points in the Women’s Decathlon Association “National” Championships at College of San Mateo.
The Ball Ground, Ga. resident becomes only the third person to score over 8,000 points in the 10-event competition, which, effectively, determines the “world’s greatest” female athlete.
The world record is 8,358 points by Austra Skujyte of Lithuania in 2005. The only other athlete to ever top the 8K mark was Marie Collonville of France, who set the former world record of 8,150 points in 2004.
Gray added a phenomenal 325 points to the American and Western Hemisphere Records of 7,921 she set in the first Women’s Decathlon Championships in 2019, also at CSM. It is the third American track and field record set on CSM’s international Mondo track facility — as the college begins its 100th season of athletic competition. Kim Kreiner, previously, set an AR in the women’s javelin throw at CSM.
WIND AVERAGE = LEGAL SCORE UNDER CURRENT RULES: Gray’s average wind-reading for the three events affected by wind was 1.4 meters per second, well under the allowable average of 2.0 (according to newer rules). Her competition opening 100 meter time was 11.86 seconds, aided by a 4.6 meters per second wind – the fastest ever under any conditions in a decathlon. Gray’s second day 100 meter hurdles race (timed in 14.43) was intentionally run into a 2.5 mps headwind, still scoring 919 points, to lower the overall meet wind average. (Her personal best is 13.80.) Gray had a 20 foot, 1 inch long jump the first day with legal 2.0 wind assistance – as she tallied the highest ever first day tally by an American, 4,356 points.
Gray, a 2019 Kennesaw State University grad, continued to roll on day two with a discus throw of 130-8 for 652 points. She won the pole vault at 12-10 for 935 points and the javelin throw at 135-0 (689 points), equaling the second best mark by an American in a women’s decathlon. That had been achieved in 1997 by Stacy Dragila (the ex-pole vault world record holder who was a former community college heptathlon star). Gray finished with a 1,500 meter time of 5 minutes, 20.27 seconds, for 697 points to easily surpass the record. .
“The world record wasn’t something I was targeting,” said Gray. “I just wanted to come in and do my best without worrying about it – and get the American record.”
Gray, who was born in Lawenceville, Ga., plans to continue lobbying officials in USA Track & Field and World Athletics to allow women to contest the decathlon, along with the men, in major competitions.
Cash prizes were awarded to the top post-collegiate competitors by the Women’s Decathlon Association and by 3-time local Olympian Pat Daniels Connollly, an Olympic multievent pioneer in the pentathlon (in 1964). She is a former Capuchino High (San Bruno) and CSM student who now resides in Half Moon Bay.
HIGHEST EVER HS TOTAL: Corinn Brewer, an incoming senior at Greensburg (Pa.) Central Catholic, achieved the best ever high school decathlon score, 5,698 points, finishing second in the overall competition. She does not, however, officially break the high school and under age 20 record of 5,676 points — due to her excess wind average (over 2.0) for the competition. Brewer, also a cross country runner at her high school, won the concluding 1,500 meters in a swift 4:59.57 (829 points) – only the sixth ever (second American) to better 5 minutes in a women’s decathlon. That prevented race runner-up Gray from having the leading mark in all ten events.
INTERNATIONAL FIELD: Uxia Pereira of Spain finished fourth in the meet with 5,539 points.
–Only men currently contest the decathlon at the Olympic Games, although the women’s event is an official World Athletics and USATF competition. This competition provided an opportunity to determine the “greatest woman athlete” just two weeks after the Olympics.
National and local level officials from the Pacific Association of USA Track & Field officiated the competition, using laser measurements and national timing services of Sean Laughlin of RecordTiming.
For complete results, see: https://www.rtspt.com/events/usatf/wdec21/
Women’s Dec website: www.womensdecathlonassociation.com
WOMEN’S DECATHLON ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, Presented by Parity, Aug. 21-22, at College of San Mateo. Final scores:
1.Jordon Gray, Ball Ground, Ga., 8,246 points (betters own American record of 7.928, set at CSM, 2029).
- Corinn Brewer, Greensburg (Pa.) Central Catholic H.S., 5,698w (highest ever high school score)
- Hanna McPhee, San Francisco, 5,613.
- Uxia Pereira, Spain, 5,539
- Anna Lee McGregor, San Francisco, 4,598.
- Natalia Quesada Marshall, San Francisco,
All-Time World Women’s Decathlon Performances Over 8,000 Points:
8,358 WR Austra Skujyte, Lithuania, 2005.
8,246 AR Jordan Gray, USA, 2021.
8,150 WR Marie Collonville, France, 2004.
Note: Gray also has the No. 4 all-time performance of 7,921 points, set in her 2019 American Record competition at CSM.
WR = World Record when achieved
AR = American and Area (Continental) Records
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