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Dan Steele leaving Oregon track and field teams for Northern Iowa
Oregon director of track and field operations Dan Steele was announced today as the new head coach of track and field and cross country at Northern Iowa.
Steele, a native of Moline, Ill., began his career with the Ducks as a volunteer assistant coach in 2000-01, working with men’s hurdlers and javelin throwers. He has [...]
Women's Basketball adds recruit for next season
The Oregon women’s basketball team announced that point guard Candyce Flynn of Rend Lake (Ill.) JC has signed a Financial Aid Award Letter and will join the Ducks next season.
The 5-foot-6 Flynn, a native of Cleveland, spent one year at Morehead (Ky.) State before transferring to Rend Lake. She averaged 14.3 points and 5.1 assists [...]
McCrea will not throw at NCAA Outdoor Championships
Oregon javelin thrower Ashley McCrea has told the Emerald that she will not throw at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (June 10-13, Fayetteville, Ark.) because of ligament damage to her plant leg.
McCrea tore her anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and meniscus during the NCAA West Regionals, when she went down after attempting [...]
NCAA West Regional Live Blog: Day 1
Another meet, another school record goes down, but would you have expected it to me the women’s 100m hurdles record? Brianne Theisen ran 13.56 in the first preliminary heat to break Lexie Miller (Beck)’s 1981 record of 13.67. Theisen, who qualified for tomorrow’s final, only finished fourth in a very fast heat.
Cyrus Hostetler continues to [...]
Men’s Track and Field: Pac-10 Championships, Day 2
Our day starts with the men’s 4×100m relay, the first completed event thus far (the men’s discus is ongoing, although no Ducks are expected to score). UCLA outlasted USC in a true duel, winning in 39.77 seconds to USC’s 39.89. The Oregon men brought up the rear in eighth place, clocking in in 41.23. It’s [...]
Men’s Track and Field: Pacific-10 Conference Championships Running Thread
The only event thus far for the Oregon men in the Pac-10 Championships has been the 4×100m relay, where Vernell Warren, Ashton Eaton, Matt Butcher and Chad Barlow finished fourth in their heat in 40.65. USC won the heat in 40.07, but an Arizona State relay team holds the top time of 39.99. The men [...]
Men of Oregon set 4xMile Relay Collegiate Record
Matthew Centrowitz, Andrew Wheating, Shadrack Biwott and Galen Rupp ran the Oregon Twilight four-by-mile relay in 16:03.24 tonight, breaking the collegiate record set by four University of Michigan runners in 2005. Andrew Ellerton, Mike Woods, Nick Willis and Nate Brannen ran the relay in 16:04.54.
The Ducks also beat Oregon Track Clube Elite…the event was, technically, [...]
Manou attends practice with status up in air
Forward Ellie Manou attended an Oregon women’s basketball practice today in street clothes and spoke briefly with head coach Paul Westhead, but she would not comment on her status with the school.
The student directory lists her as enrolled for spring term.
Manou was rumored to be something of a casualty of Westhead’s transition run-and-gun offense; she [...]
