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Track & Field
May. 02, 2006
The Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships now are in full view for Minnesota's men's and women's track and field teams. With two nondescript training events this weekend - the Meet of the Unsaintly at Hamline University in St. Paul and the Minnesota Throws at the Bierman Track and Field Complex - both Gophers teams can use last weekend's ...
May. 01, 2006
DES MOINES, Iowa - As the start gun fired smoke into the rainy sky at Drake Stadium, Minnesota's women's track and field runner Jamie Cheever started off the 4-by-1,600-meter relay by taking the Gophers into the lead. Runners from Missouri and Michigan passed Cheever on the final leg, but her initial effort was enough to give teammates ...
May. 01, 2006
DES MOINES, Iowa - Mitch Potter couldn't be happier, even though he couldn't breathe. Beaming like a proud father, the 25-year-old former Minnesota men's track and field runner was all smiles at the conclusion of Friday and Saturday's Drake relays. It wasn't because he had just won the 400-meter special - although that probably had a little to do with it.
Apr. 28, 2006
Ruby Radocaj was one of those kids who grew up to compete in those "other" relays.
Growing up in Williamsport, Pa., the javelin thrower for Minnesota's women's track and field team was raised with the East Coast mentality that the Penn Relays were where it's at.
Apr. 24, 2006
It was a record-breaking Saturday in the steeplechase for Emily Brown. Again. After breaking Minnesota's women's track and field school steeplechase record four times last season, Brown broke her own record once more Saturday at the Musco Twilight Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa.
Apr. 21, 2006
Karl Erickson isn't letting anything stand in the way of winning a Big Ten title. Not even a patch of ice. Erickson, a senior on Minnesota's men's track and field team, redshirted both the indoor and outdoor seasons last year in hopes of refining his technique to make a strong push at a Big Ten team title this year.
Apr. 17, 2006
Three throwers on Minnesota's women's track and field team grabbed the top two places in three events at the Lee Krough Invitational on Friday at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
That might make for some confusing math, but it also made for a pretty good Friday.
Apr. 14, 2006
Even Deion Sanders eventually had to pick just one.
The life of a dual-sport athlete is a tough one, balancing practice, training, travel and games - times two. It's a life that Minnesota women's track and field thrower Liz Podominick knows well, and a life she no longer could handle.
Apr. 12, 2006
The same foot that carried Aaron Buzard to a fourth-place finish in the 400-meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships March 11 is now well enough for him to compete again. The junior runner on Minnesota men's track and field team hasn't competed since the first outdoor meet of the season - the Bay Area Blast Off March 18 - because of tendonitis in his right foot.
Apr. 11, 2006
As a little girl growing up in the Soviet Union, Nina Cotolupenco's options were limited. Without much of a choice of toys, Cotolupenco and her friends would create games for themselves, like drawing circles on the ground with chalk and jumping from circle to circle. Cotolupenco's native country, Moldova, broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Apr. 10, 2006
For Heather Dorniden, an 800-meter run is like a walk in the park. Fresh off winning the NCAA Indoor title in the 800 meters, Dorniden turned around and broke a school record older than she is Saturday at the Georgia Invitational in Athens, Ga.
Apr. 04, 2006
It's interesting that a track and field competition is called a meet. In the case of Minnesota's men's track and field team, the team is doing anything but that this season. Every week of the outdoor season, members of the Gophers will be going their separate ways as the team splits up for individualized competitions.
Apr. 03, 2006
Hammer throws led the way for Minnesota's men's and women's track and field teams this weekend. In his first hammer throw of the season, Adam Schnaible won the Tiger Classic in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday with a toss of 194 feet, 1 inch and qualified for the NCAA regionals.
Mar. 31, 2006
It's time for Minnesota's men's track and field team to take its outdoor season outdoors. With neither the Minnesota weather nor the indoor facilities conducive to great practice for outdoor events like javelin and discus, the Gophers are taking 10 athletes south to Baton Rouge, La., this weekend for the Tiger Classic. "We're just giving people ...
Mar. 30, 2006
Aug. 22, 1982, was a good day for Minnesota men's track and field coach Phil Lundin. That was the day John Albert and Kevin Netzer were born. And later, they'd both win a pair of Big Ten high-jump titles for Lundin as members of the Gophers. Minnesota is now without the services of a pair of other solid high jumpers from last year after the graduation ...
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