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Track & Field
Apr. 05, 2005
This is Jason Swenson's last chance.
The Minnesota men's track and field senior has one more season to capture the Big Ten outdoor title in javelin that narrowly eluded him last year, when he came in second.
And despite more obstacles in his way this season, he's started on the right foot.
Apr. 04, 2005
They passed the quiz.
But the more imposing midterm exam looms in the future.
Minnesota's women's track and field team competed at the Ole Miss Invitational on Saturday in Oxford, Miss., coming away from the 10-team event with five individual titles. No team scores were tabulated.
Apr. 01, 2005
On Feb. 27, Minnesota's women's track and field team finished the Big Ten Indoor Championships in third place, tied for the best finish in school history.
Less than a month later, competition started again for the Gophers, and Saturday in Oxford, Miss., the team will compete at the Ole Miss Invitational, its second event of the outdoor season.
Mar. 29, 2005
On Minnesota's women's track and field team's trip to Purdue for the Big Ten Indoor Championships in late February, there was no meal money distributed.
Mar. 22, 2005
Minnesota's men's track and field team can't exactly say it's riding its indoor season success into the outdoor season.
That's because there wasn't much success to go around.
Mar. 22, 2005
Gary Wilson realizes now he had it all wrong.
In 2002 and 2003, the Minnesota women's track and field coach tried bringing the Gophers back to the top of the Big Ten with a band of supremely talented but, ultimately, self-involved athletes.
Mar. 11, 2005
Halfway through their senior seasons, two Minnesota men's track and field stars are on pace to end their careers with exemplary finishes.
Feb. 28, 2005
Coming off of a ninth-place finish at last year's Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships, Minnesota women's track and field coach Gary Wilson said he thought his young team would do well if they could finish fifth at this year's indoor championships.
Feb. 25, 2005
Last season at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships, Minnesota's women's track and field team finished ninth out of 10 teams.
By the time the outdoor meet rolled around three months later, the Gophers were able to move up one spot to eighth.
Feb. 23, 2005
Travis Brandstatter makes it clear that anything other than a Big Ten individual title this weekend will disappoint him.
A senior multievent athlete on Minnesota's men's track and field team, Brandstatter is going into the Big Ten Indoor Championships in West Lafayette, Ind., on Saturday with nothing but winning on his mind.
Feb. 17, 2005
One of the broken records for Minnesota's women's track and field team during the weekend was somewhat expected. The other was more of a surprise.
Jan. 24, 2005
Minnesota men's track and field sophomore Aaron Buzard said he entered the 600-meter dash of Saturday's Gold Country Classic with "no expectations."
Jan. 18, 2005
Every coach wants to have a balance of depth on his or her roster.
Jun. 16, 2004
At last summer's NCAA Championships, Adam Steele and Mitch Potter raced each other into the national spotlight with first- and third-place finishes in the 400 meters.
Jun. 07, 2004
When Mikael Jakobsson steps on the track before the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, he won't be feeling much at all.
At least that's the plan.
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