West Albany’s Rachael Proteau, pictured here en route to the all-time state best in the high jump at the 2013 Oregon state high school championships.
Analyst Jesse Squire continues his preview series on the Daily Relay website for the USA Track Field Championships which begin Thursday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa with looks at the women’s jumps and the women’s throws.
Squire doesn’t mention her, but West Albany High School high jumper Rachel Proteau is
among the entries. Proteau cleared 6-1 at last month’s Oregon Class 5A state high school championships to break the all-time state best that Olympian Joni Huntley had held since 1974. Proteau will attend Kansas State in the fall.
Proteau
also is listed among the entries for the USA Junior meet, which begins
with the first day of the multi-events competitions on Wednesday at
Drake Stadium.
Former Oregon pole vaulter Becky Holliday gets a mention. Holliday was a big story at the U.S. Olympic Trials last year when she surprisingly made the U.S. team.
Local throwers on whom to keep an eye are Liz Podominick of the Mac Wilkins
Throwers Academy in the discus and javelin throwers Brianna Bain, who
prepped at Aloha High School and is now at Stanford, and Kim Hamilton of Illinois Valley High School, who transitioned to the javelin while at Kent State.
The javelin is wide
open. University of Oregon graduate Rachel Yurkovich isn’t competing
this season and Kara Patterson, a grad of Mountain View High School in
Vancouver, Wash., is rehabbing a knee injury. Yurkovich and Patterson
both are Olympians.
Becky Holliday
OK, more links:
Chris Derrick talks with Flotrack about his first year with Jerry Schumacher’s training group, and his preparation for the USA Championships.
Dorian Ulrey, the self-described phantom of the Oregon Project, talks about where he has been since the indoor season. Video by Flotrack.
Pac-12 video profile of UO hammer thrower Greg Skipper.
Tyson Gay’s target for the IAAF World Championships: three golds.
Emma Coburn withdraws from the USA Championships because of a lower back problem.
Molly Huddle gears up for the USA Championships.
Track Field News sorts through confusion about “A” and “B” qualifiers and explains how athletes will be pick for the U.S. World Championships team.
Alan Webb fails in an attempt to get the USA Championships “A” standard in the 1,500 on Saturday in Indianapolis.
Corvallis-based Geena Gall was second in the women’s 800 in 2:04.31.
Elite hammer thrower Kibwe Johnson has a nuanced view of drug cheats, as he explains on his blog.
Jamaican official says one of the country’s sprinters failed a drug test, and says he is awaiting results of tests on a backup sample.
The Jamaican newspaper, The Gleaner, reports the “B” sample confirmed the presence of a diuretic that has been used as a masking agent in Veronica Campbell-Brown’s system.
Track Focus offers this primer on diuretics and how they function as masking agents.
Red Shannon of Bleacher Report says the test Campbell-Brown reportedly failed is a two-by-four to the shins of the sport. Campbell-Brown is a three-time Olympic champ.
If found guilty, Campbell-Brown would the highest-profile athlete to be banned since Marion Jones.
In Jamaica, disappointment and disbelief about the positive tests.
Campbell-Brown is yanked from the advertising campaign for the Jamaican Championships.
Usain Bolt’s coach cautions against a rush to judgment about Campbell-Brown.
The links package from LetsRun.com.
The links package from Track Field News.
The USTFCCCA Daily roundup.
RunBlogRun’s world survey of news about track field and running.
The links from Duck Sports Now.
— Ken Goe