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20011 IAAF World Championships

Team USA Media Kit – Track & Field

Table of Contents

Team USA in Daegu to include 8 defending champs, 19 medalists ....................................... 2

Fun Facts,Figures .................................................................................................................. 3

Webcast/TV Schedule ........................................................................................................... 4

Roster - Event ....................................................................................................................... 6

Roster - Alphabetical............................................................................................................. 8

Roster - State ...................................................................................................................... 12

Roster - Age ........................................................................................................................ 16

Team Staff .......................................................................................................................... 20

Athlete Bios ........................................................................................................................ 24

Medal Table ....................................................................................................................... 208

Best Marks by Event .......................................................................................................... 210

Medals by Event ................................................................................................................ 211

World Records................................................................................................................... 215

American Records ............................................................................................................. 219

Authorized Athlete Representatives Contact Info ............................................................. 225

USATF Communications Department in Daegu:

Katie Landry (any time), Marketing & Communications Coordinator

calling from Daegu: 010-4015-4891; from the U.S. +82-10-4015-4891; Skype: landry.kt Jill Geer (pre-meet only), Chief Public Affairs Officer calling from Daegu: 010-3596-8736; from the U.S. +82-10-3596-8736 Mike Mahon (during meet only), USATF Correspondent calling from Daegu: 010-3596-8736; from the U.S. +82-10-3596-8736

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Team USA in Daegu to include 8 defending champs, 19 medalists INDIANAPOLIS – Eight reigning world champions will lead Team USA into the 2011 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The 13th edition of the Championships will be held August 27-September 4 in Daegu, South Korea.

On the roster are a total of 19 World Championships medalists and 16 Olympic medalists. At the most recent 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Germany, Team USA won a total of 22 medals, well ahead of second place Jamaica (13). Of the 22 medals, 10 of them were gold for Team USA, which was also ahead of second-place Jamaica (7). At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan, Team USA tied its own record from 2005 by winning a total of 14 gold medals and equaled the best ever for total medals won by an American team with 26.

A total of 66 men and 63 women find their names on this year‘s team.

The list of Team USA‘s reigning World Champions includes Allyson Felix, who will attempt a difficult double at this year‘s World Championships in the 200m and 400m. Felix, the three-time World Championships gold medalist in the 200m, won the 400m at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to become the first female ever to win national titles in the 100m, 200m and 400m in a career.

The American record holder in the 400m, Sanya Richards-Ross will defend her world title in the one-lap race. In the midst of an already brilliant track and field career, Richards-Ross has won a total of five Olympic and World Championships gold medals in the 400m and the 4x400m and is coming off a season-best time of 49.66 in winning at London in the Diamond League. Also looking good of late is defending world champion Christian Cantwell in the shot put. Cantwell

returned nicely from shoulder surgery earlier in the year and currently holds the fourth-best throw in the world in 2011 and posted wins in the Diamond League this season in Stockholm and Lausanne. Team USA will be eying as many as three medals in the decathlon, with a lineup that includes defending world champion Trey Hardee, 2011 world leader Ashton Eaton, and 2008 Olympic gold

medalist and ‘05 world champ Bryan Clay.

Other team members looking to defend their world titles include world indoor and outdoor champion Brittney Reese, who is again leading the world in the women‘s long jump this year, Kerron Clement in the men‘s 400m hurdles, three-time world champion Dwight Phillips in the men's long jump and LaShawn Merritt in the 400m, who ran an impressive 44.74 July 29 in Stockholm in his first race in almost two years.

Those on Team USA who are the current world leaders in their events include American record holder David Oliver (M110m hurdles, 12.94), Jesse Williams (MHJ, 2.37m/7-9.25), Eaton (MD, 8729), Carmelita Jeter (W100m, 10.70), Shalonda Solomon (W200m, 22.15), Jenn Suhr (WPV, 4.91m/16-1.25) and Reese (WLJ, 7.19m/23-7.25). Named to Team USA‘s relay pools for the men‘s 4x100m were Walter Dix, Justin Gatlin, Michael Rodgers, Trell Kimmons, Ivory Williams and Travis Padgett and for the women‘s 4x100m were

Carmelita Jeter, Marshavet Myers, Miki Barber, LaShaunte‘a Moore, Alexandria Anderson and Bianca Knight. Those named to the pool for the men‘s 4x400m were Merritt, Tony McQuay, Greg Nixon, Jamaal Torrance, Michael Berry and Miles Smith and for the women‘s 4x400m were Richards-Ross, Felix, Francena McCorory, Debbie Dunn, Jessica Beard and Natasha Hastings. Athletes already on the Team USA roster in other events also are eligible to compete in the relays.

Head coaches for Team USA at the 2011 World Championships are Connie Price-Smith for the women and Vin Lananna for the men. Head managers are Diane Wholey for the women and Ken Brauman for the men.

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FUN FACTS, FIGURES FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

WHAT’S IN AN AGE… A virtual tie, the average age for Team USA for the men is 27.19 and the average age for the women is 27.25. And each group has one extreme as the youngest athlete on Team USA comes on the men‘s side (Trevor Barron, 18) and the oldest athlete comes from the women‘s side (Colleen De Reuck, 47).

BE LIKE MIKE… 9.4% of the men‘s team is named Michael or Mike: Michael Berry, Mike Hazle, Michael Mai, Michael Morgan, Michael Rogers, Mike Sayenko and Michael Reese Hoffa. THE GOLDEN STATE… Easily the state where the most athletes currently reside is California with 29. A not-so-close second and third is Texas (15) and Oregon (13).

A VERY SPECIAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS… Three athletes will celebrate birthdays during the championships: Jeremy Dodson (8/30), Molly Huddle (8/31) and Katherine Newberry (8/31)

NOT SURPRISINGLY… There are no athletes on this year‘s Team USA with last names beginning with the letters I, X and Z. WHEN SHE’S NOT SPRINTING… The most interesting career aspiration is Francena McCorory‘s

desire to become a mortician and own several funeral homes. HAIL TO THE CHIEF… There are eight athletes on the roster who share their last name with a former President of the United States: Michelle Carter (Jimmy Carter), Queen Harrison (Benjamin Harrison and William Henry Harrison), Bershawn Jackson (Andrew Jackson), Kibwe Johnson (Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson), Greg Nixon (Richard Nixon), Tori Polk (James Polk) and Angelo

Taylor and Christian Taylor (Zachary Taylor). AND DESERVINGLY… Bernard Lagat has the longest USATF bio – 1,884 words covering his career from 1998 to present.

IF HEIGHT MATTERED… There is an 18-inch height difference between the tallest athlete and the shortest. The tallest athlete on the roster is Jeremy Scott at 6-9; the shortest is Zoila Gomez at 5-1.

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Webcast Schedule Date Time Event Website

Aug. 26 8 p.m. ET Day 1 - Morning Session universalsports.com

Aug. 27 6 a.m. ET Opening Ceremony + Day 1 - Evening Session

universalsports.com

8 p.m. ET Day 2 - Morning Session universalsports.com

Aug. 28 3:30 a.m. ET Day 2 - Evening Session universalsports.com






Aug. 31 9 p.m. ET Day 6 - Morning Session universalsports.com

Sept. 1 5:50 a.m. ET Day 6 - Evening Session universalsports.com


Sept. 2 5 a.m. ET Day 7 - Evening Session universalsports.com


Sept. 3 5:45 a.m. ET Day 8 - Evening Session universalsports.com

8 p.m. ET Day 9 - Marathon universalsports.com

Sept. 4 5 a.m. ET Day 9 - Evening Session universalsports.com

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TV Schedule Date Time Event Network

Aug. 26 8 p.m. ET Day 1 - Morning Session Universal Sports

Aug. 27 1:30 p.m. ET NBC

3 p.m. ET Day 1 - Evening Session Universal Sports

10 p.m. ET Day 2 - Morning Session Universal Sports

Aug. 28 12:30 p.m. ET NBC

2:30 p.m. ET Day 2 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Aug. 29 5:30 p.m. ET Day 3 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Aug. 30 6 p.m. ET Day 4 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Aug. 31 6 p.m. ET Day 5 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Sept. 1 6 p.m. ET Day 6 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Sept. 2 6 p.m. ET Day 7 - Evening Session Universal Sports


Sept. 3 2:00 p.m.ET NBC

3:30 p.m. ET Day 8 - Evening Session Universal Sports

8 p.m. ET Day 9 - Marathon Universal Sports

Sept. 4 1:30 p.m. ET NBC

3 p.m. ET Day 9 - Evening Session Universal Sports

* check your local listings to verify air dates and times

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Team USA Roster – by Event Men

100m: Walter Dix, Justin Gatlin, Trell Kimmons 200m: Dix, Darvis Patton, Jeremy Dodson

400m: Tony McQuay, Greg Nixon, Jamaal Torrance, LaShawn Merritt* 800m: Nicholas Symmonds, Khadevis Robinson, Charles Jock 1500m: Matthew Centrowitz, Leonel Manzano, Andrew Wheating

3000m SC: William Nelson, Daniel Huling, Benjamin Bruce 5000m: Bernard Lagat, Galen Rupp, Andrew Bumbalough

10,000m: Rupp, Matt Tegenkamp, Scott Bauhs 20km RW: Trevor Barron Marathon: Nicholas Arciniaga, Michael Morgan, Sergio Reyes, Jeffrey Eggleston,

Mike Sayenko 110mH: David Oliver, Aries Merritt, Jason Richardson

400mH: Jeshua Anderson, Bershawn Jackson, Angelo Taylor, Kerron Clement* HJ: Jesse Williams, Dustin Jonas, Erik Kynard PV: Derek Miles, Jeremy Scott, Mark Hollis

LJ: Marquise Goodwin, William Claye, Trevell Quinley, Dwight Phillips* TJ: Christian Taylor, William Claye, Walter Davis

SP: Adam Nelson, Christian Cantwell*, Reese Hoffa, Ryan Whiting DT: Jarred Rome, Jason Young, Lance Brooks

HT: Kibwe Johnson, Michael Mai JT: Mike Hazle Dec: Ashton Eaton, Ryan Harlan, Trey Hardee*

4x100m: Dix, Gatlin, Kimmons, Ivory Williams, Travis Padgett 4x400m: Merritt, McQuay, Nixon, Torrence, Michael Berry, Miles Smith

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Team USA Roster – by Event Women

100m: Carmelita Jeter, Marshavet Myers, Miki Barber 200m: Shalonda Solomon, Jeter, Jeneba Tarmoh, Allyson Felix*

400m: Felix, Francena McCorory, Jessica Beard, Sanya Richards-Ross* 800m: Alysia Montano, Maggie Vessey, Alice Schmidt

1500m: Morgan Uceny, Jennifer Simpson, Shannon Rowbury 3000m SC: Emma Coburn, Bridget Franek, Stephanie Garcia

5000m: Molly Huddle, Amy Hastings, Lauren Fleshman 10000m: Shalane Flanagan, Kara Goucher, Jennifer Rhines 20km RW: Maria Michta

Marathon: Katherine Newberry, Alissa McKaig, Colleen DeRuck, Tera Moody, Zoila Gomez

100mH: Kellie Wells, Danielle Carruthers, Dawn Harper 400mH: Lashinda Demus, Queen Harrison, Jasmine Chaney HJ: Brigetta Barrett, Inika McPherson

PV: Kylie Hutson, Jenn Suhr, Lacy Janson LJ: Brittney Reese*, Janay DeLoach, Funmi Jimoh, Tori Polk

TJ: Amanda Smock SP: Michelle Carter, Jillian Camarena-Williams, Sarah Stevens-Walker DT: Stephanie Brown-Trafton, Aretha Thurmond, Gia Lewis-Smallwood

HT: Jessica Cosby, Amber Campbell, Jeneva McCall JT: Kara Patterson, Rachel Yurkovich

Hep: Sharon Day, Hyleas Fountain 4x100m: Jeter, Myers, Barber, LaShaunte‘a Moore, Alexandria Anderson, Bianca Knight

4x400m: Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory, Jessica Beard, Natasha Hastings, Keshia Baker

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Team USA Roster – Alphabetical Men

Name Event Residence State Birthdate Age

Anderson, Jeshua 400mH Woodland Hills CA 22-Jun-89 22

Arciniaga, Nicholas Marathon Flagstaff AZ 30-Jun-83 28

Barron, Trevor 20km RW Bethel Park PA 30-Sep-92 18

Bauhs, Scott 10000m Mammoth Lakes CA 11-May-86 25

Berry, Michael 4x400m Eugene OR 10-Dec-91 19

Brooks, Lance DT Denver CO 1-Jan-84 27

Bruce, Benjamin 3000m SC Eugene OR 10-Sep-82 28

Bumbalough, Andrew 5000m Eugene OR 5-Dec-84 26

Cantwell, Christian SP Columbia MO 30-Sep-80 30

Centrowitz, Matthew 1500m Arnold MD 18-Oct-89 21

Claye, William LJ, TJ Phoenix AZ 13-Jun-91 20

Clement, Kerron 400mH Los Angeles CA 31-Oct-85 25

Davis, Walter TJ Baton Rouge LA 2-Jul-79 32

Dix, Walter 100m, 200m Ft. Lauderdale FL 31-Jan-86 25

Dodson, Jeremy 200m Boulder CO 30-Aug-87 23

Eaton, Ashton Dec. Eugene OR 21-Jan-88 23

Eggleston, Jeffrey Marathon Flagstaff AZ 1-Oct-84 26

Gatlin, Justin 100m Orlando FL 10-Feb-82 29

Goodwin, Marquise LJ Austin TX 11-Nov-90 20

Hardee, Trey Dec. Austin TX 7-Feb-84 27

Harlan, Ryan Dec. Houston TX 25-Apr-81 30

Hazle, Mike JT Chula Vista CA 22-Mar-79 32

Hoffa, Reese SP Athens GA 8-Oct-77 33

Hollis, Mark PV Elkhart IN 1-Dec-84 26

Huling, Daniel 3000m SC Columbus OH 16-Jul-83 28

Jackson, Bershawn 400mH Champaign IL 8-May-83 28

Jock, Charles 800m San Diego CA 23-Nov-89 21

Johnson, Kibwe HT Kamloops B.C. 17-Jul-81 30

Jonas, Dustin HJ Lincoln NE 19-Apr-86 25

Trell Kimmons 100m Coldwater MS 7-Jul-85 26

Kynard, Erik HJ Manhattan KS 3-Feb-91 20

Lagat, Bernard 5000m Tucson AZ 12-Dec-74 36

Mai, Michael HT Mountain View CA 27-Sep-77 33

Manzano, Leonel 1500m Austin TX 12-Sep-84 26

McQuay, Tony 400m Gainesville FL 16-Apr-90 21

Merritt, Aries 110mH Knoxville TN 24-Jul-85 26

Merritt, LaShawn 400m Suffolk VA 27-Jun-86 25

Miles, Derek PV Tea SD 28-Sep-72 38

Morgan, Michael Marathon Rochester Hills MI 20-Feb-80 29

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Nelson, Adam SP Watkinsville GA 7-Jul-75 36

Nelson, William 3000m SC Longmont CO 11-Sep-84 26

Nixon, Greg 400m Long Beach CA 12-Sep-81 29

Oliver, David 110mH Kissimmee FL 24-Apr-82 29

Padgett, Travis 4x100m Marietta GA 13-Dec-86 24

Patton, Darvis 200m Grand Prairie TX 4-Dec-77 33

Phillips, Dwight LJ Snellville GA 1-Oct-77 33

Quinley, Trevell LJ Chula Vista CA 16-Jan-83 28

Reyes, Sergio Marathon Palmdale CA 25-Oct-81 29

Richardson, Jason 110mH Inglewood CA 4-Apr-86 25

Robinson, Khadevis 800m Santa Monica CA 19-Jul-76 35

Rome, Jarred DT Chula Vista CA 21-Dec-76 34

Rupp, Galen 5000m, 10000m Portland OR 8-May-86 25

Sayenko, Mike Marathon Bellevue WA 12-Jul-84 27

Scott, Jeremy PV Brookland AR 1-May-81 30

Smith, Miles 4x400m Cape Girardeau MO 24-Sep-84 26

Symmonds, Nicholas 800m Springfield OR 30-Dec-83 27

Taylor, Angelo 400mH Decatur GA 26-Dec-78 32

Taylor, Christian TJ Fayettevile GA 18-Jun-90 21

Tegenkamp, Matt 10000m Portland OR 19-Jan-82 29

Torrance, Jamaal 400m Raleigh NC 20-Jul-83 28

Wheating, Andrew 1500m Eugene OR 21-Nov-87 23

Whiting, Ryan SP Tempe AZ 24-Nov-86 24

Williams, Ivory 4x100m Beaumont TX 2-May-85 26

Williams, Jesse HJ Eugene OR 27-Dec-83 27

Young, Jason DT Lubbock TX 27-May-81 30

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Team USA Roster – Alphabetical Women


Anderson, Alexandria 4x100m Austin TX 28-Jan-87 21

Barber, Miki 100m Duluth GA 4-Oct-80 30

Baker, Keshia 4x400m Los Angeles CA 20-Jan-88 23

Barrett, Brigetta HJ Tucson AZ 24-Dec-90 20

Brown Trafton, Stephanie DT Oceano CA 1-Dec-79 31

Camarena-Williams, Jillian SP Tucson AZ 2-Mar-82 29

Campbell, Amber HT Myrtle Beach SC 5-Jun-81 30

Carruthers, Danielle 100mH Kennesaw GA 22-Dec-79 31

Carter, Michelle SP Ovilla TX 12-Oct-85 25

Chaney, Jasmine 400mH Mesa AZ 25-Aug-88 22

Coburn, Emma 3000m SC Crested Butte CO 19-Oct-90 20

Cosby, Jessica HT Mission Hills CA 31-May-82 29

Day, Sharon Hep. Costa Mesa CA 9-Jun-85 26

De Reuck, Colleen Marathon Boulder CO 13-Apr-64 47

DeLoach, Janay LJ Ft. Collins CO 12-Oct-85 26

Demus, LaShinda 400mH Palmdale CA 10-Mar-83 28

Felix, Allyson 200m, 400m Santa Clarita CA 18-Nov-85 25

Flanagan, Shalane 10000m Portland OR 8-Jul-81 30

Fleshman, Lauren 5000m Eugene OR 26-Sep-81 29

Fountain, Hyleas Hep. Kettering OH 14-Jan-81 30

Franek, Bridget 3000m SC University Park PA 8-Nov-87 23

Garcia, Stephanie 300m SC Charlottesville VA 3-May-88 23

Gomez, Zoila Marathon Alamosa CO 7-Jun-79 32

Goucher, Kara 10000m Portland OR 9-Jul-78 33

Harper, Dawn 100mH Los Angeles CA 13-May-84 27

Harrison, Queen 400mH Blacksburg VA 10-Sep-88 22

Hastings, Amy 5000m Mammoth Lakes CA 21-Jan-84 27

Hastings, Natasha 4x400m Locust Grove GA 23-Jul-86 25

Huddle, Molly 5000m Providence RI 31-Aug-84 26

Hutson, Kylie PV Terre Haute IN 27-Nov-87 23

Janson, Lacy PV Sarasota FL 20-Feb-83 28

Jeter, Carmelita 100m, 200m Gardena CA 24-Nov-79 31

Jimoh, Funmi LJ Stafford TX 29-May-84 27

Knight, Bianca 4x100m Austin TX 2-Jan-89 22

Lewis-Smallwood, Gia DT Champaign IL 1-Apr-79 32

McCall, Jeneva HT Carbondale IL 28-Oct-89 21

McCorory, Francena 400m Hampton VA 20-Oct-88 22

McKaig, Alissa Marathon Blowing Rock NC 21-Feb-86 25

McPherson, Inika HJ Oakland CA 29-Sep-86 24

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Michta, Maria 20km RW Nesconset NY 23-Jun-86 25

Montano, Alysia 800m Canyon Country CA 23-Apr-86 25

Moody, Tera Marathon Colorado Springs CO 18-Dec-80 30

Moore, LaShaunte'a 4x100m Arlington TX 31-Jul-83 28

Myers, Marshavet 100m Grand Prairie TX 25-Sep-84 26

Newberry, Katherine Marathon Ann Arbor MI 31-Aug-78 32

Patterson, Kara JT Lafayette IN 10-Apr-86 25

Polk, Tori LJ Marietta GA 21-Sep-83 27

Reese, Brittney LJ Gulfport MS 9-Sep-86 24

Rhines, Jennifer 10000m Mammoth Lakes CA 1-Jul-74 37

Richards-Ross, Sanya 400m Austin TX 26-Feb-85 26

Rowbury, Shannon 1500m San Francisco CA 19-Sep-84 26

Schmidt, Alice 800m San Diego CA 3-Oct-81 29

Simpson, Jennifer 1500m Colorado Springs CO 23-Aug-86 25

Smock, Amanda TJ Minneapolis MN 27-Jul-82 29

Solomon, Shalonda 200m Orlando FL 19-Dec-85 25

Stevens-Walker, Sarah SP Tempe AZ 2-Apr-86 25

Suhr, Jenn PV Churchville NY 5-Feb-82 29

Tarmoh, Jeneba 200m San Jose CA 27-Sep-89 21

Thurmond, Aretha DT Opelika AK 14-Aug-76 35

Uceny, Morgan 1500m Mammoth Lakes CA 20-Feb-85 26

Vessey, Maggie 800m Seacliff CA 23-Dec-81 29

Wells, Kellie 100mH Orlando FL 16-Jul-82 29

Yurkovich, Rachel JT Eugene OR 10-Oct-86 24

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Team USA Roster – By State Men












Bauhs, Scott 10000m Mammoth Lake CA 11-May-86 25









Clay, Bryan Dec. Glendora CA 3-Jan-80 32






McQuay, Tony 400m Gainsville FL 16-Apr-90 21











Davis, Walter TJ Baton Rough LA 2-Jul-79 32



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Team USA Roster – By State Women




Barrett, Brigetta HJ Tucson AZ 24-Dec-90 20 Camarena-Williams, Jillian SP Tucson AZ 2-Mar-82 29



Baker, Keshia 4x400m Los Angeles CA






















Simpson, Jennifer 1500m

Colorado

Springs CO 23-Aug-86 25







Polk, Tori LJ Marieta GA 21-Sep-83 27


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DiCrescenzo, Delilah 3000m SC New York NY 9-Feb-83 28















Moore, LaShaunte'a 4x100m Arlington TX 31-Jul-83 28

Myers, Marshavet 100m Mammoth Lakes TX 25-Sep-84 26


Dunn, Debbie 400m Norfolk VA 26-Mar-78 33



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Team USA Roster – By Age Men








McQuay, Tony 400m Gainsville FL 16-Apr-90 21









Bauhs, Scott 10000m Mammoth Lake CA 11-May-86 25























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Clay, Bryan Dec. Glendora CA 3-Jan-80 32


Davis, Walter TJ Baton Rough LA 2-Jul-79 32










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Team USA Roster – By Age Women


Barrett, Brigetta HJ Tucson AZ 24-Dec-90 20







Harrison, Queen 400mH Blacksburg VA 10-Sep-88 22












Simpson, Jennifer 1500m Colorado Springs CO 23-Aug-86 25












Myers, Marshavet 100m Mammoth Lakes TX 25-Sep-84 26




Polk, Tori LJ Marieta GA 21-Sep-83 27




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DiCrescenzo, Delilah 3000m SC New York NY 9-Feb-83 28

Moore, LaShaunte'a 4x100m Arlington TX 31-Jul-83 28 Camarena-Williams, Jillian SP Tucson AZ 2-Mar-82 29




















Dunn, Debbie 400m Norfolk VA 26-Mar-78 33




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Head Coach – Vin Lananna

Lananna‘s coaching career began in 1975 when he was named head cross country coach at his alma mater, C.W. Post in Greenvale, NY. He would eventually end up at head cross country and track and field coach at Stanford

University where he received three NCAA Coach of the Year honors, nine NCAA West Region Cross Country Coach of the Year awards, 10 PAC-10 Cross Country Coach of the Year honors, and two PAC-10 Track and Field Coach of the Year awards. Renowned for his ability to develop talent, Lananna‘s reputation as an exceptional coach was secured during his tenure as director of track and field at Stanford University from 1992 to 2003.

Currently Lananna has amassed six NCAA Men‘s Cross Country Coach of the Year awards and now holds the position of head track and field coach at the University of Oregon. He has been a driving force behind the University‘s bids that landed the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Trials, the 2010, 2013 and 2014 NCAA Track & Field Championships and the 2009 and 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. Hosting the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials was a giant leap forward in Lananna‘s grand plan for Eugene (commonly called ―Track Town, USA‖) when a pair of UO student-athletes qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics – Andrew Wheating in the men‘s 800m and Galen Rupp in the 10,000m. It

was a necessary step forward as Lananna continues to restore the once proud running tradition in Eugene. Lananna has also led the establishment of the Oregon Track Club Elite. The new post-collegiate club provides a new opportunity for American middle distance/distance athletes to train with the goal of being competitive on the world stage. Three members of OTC Elite - Nick Symmonds, Christian Smith

and Nicole Teter - all qualified for the 2008 Olympics.

Head Manager – Ken Brauman Ken Brauman has served as the head track coach at Seminole High School in Sanford, Fla., since 1983 and has been named Florida Track Coach of the Year 10 times. He was named the 1997 National High School Track and Field

Coach of the Year. A member of the Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame, Brauman is also an inductee of the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Brauman has served as the head manager on two U.S. World Junior Championship team staffs. He has been an assistant coach on five U.S. international team staffs including the 1997 World Indoor Championships in Paris, France, and the 2001 World Outdoor Championships in Edmonton, AB.

Assistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles) – Thomas Johnson Thomas ―Troop‖ Johnson is a former world class track and field athlete and decorated veteran in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Dillard High School and the University of Mississippi in 1992 with a bachelor‘s degree in Broadcast Journalism. An All-American middle distance runner, he set the world

record in the 500m and was ranked as high as second in the world in the 800m while competing for the U.S. Army‘s World Class Athletes program in 1988.

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Assistant Coach (Distance) – Robert Gary Robert Gary coaches at The Ohio State University and makes a living landing athletes in the top three at the Big Ten Championships in cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field. Gary trains the best each year for the USA Track & Field Championships and Olympic Trials. In June 2010, he helped train

Dan Huling, who took first place in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In addition, Huling, along with former Buckeye greats Rob Myers (1500m), Brian Olinger (steeplechase) and Jeff See (1500m), trained under Gary while preparing for the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. Myers, Huling and Olinger advanced to the finals of their event while See - just a sophomore at the time - missed the finals by one spot. Gary

was selected to be an assistant coach for Team USA's U23 team in July 2008 at

the North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) meet in Toluca, Mexico. Myers and Huling finished the year having run the second-fastest times by an American in their respective events.

Assistant Coach (Jumps) – Mario Sategna Since joining the University of Texas staff at the start of the 2003-04 season, Mario Sategna has helped coach five Longhorns (Marquise Goodwin, Trey Hardee, Donovan Kilmartin, Andra Manson and Maston Wallace) to eight NCAA Championships and 27 All-America honors. He has helped UT to eight Top 10

NCAA team finishes including consecutive third-place finishes indoors in 2007

and '08, which are the best indoor team finishes in UT history. He also helped guide the Longhorns to a third-place outdoor finish in 2006 and a fourth-place showing in '08. Sategna was also a part of UT's 2006 Big 12 Outdoor Championship and four consecutive Big 12 Indoor titles.

The 2006 USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year for men's jumps and combined events, Sategna was instrumental in the individual careers of Hardee, the collegiate record holder in the heptathlon and decathlon, Donovan Kilmartin, the only three-time NCAA heptathlon champion ever and the collegiate record holder in that event prior to Trey Hardee, and Manson, who was a two-time NCAA champion and the school record holder in the indoor high jump. Under Sategna's tutelage, Hardee won the IAAF World Championship in the decathlon in Berlin in the summer of 2009. Hardee's personal-best of 8,790 points is ninth all-time in the world and third best mark in American history.

Assistant Coach (Throws) – Lance Deal The current American record holder, Lance Deal is one of the better hammer throwers in U.S. history. Deal is in his seventh year with the University of Oregon where he established himself as one of the nation's top collegiate throws coaches. As an athlete, Deal was a four-time Olympic hammer thrower, national record holder, 21-time national champion and 1996 Olympic silver medalist. In world rankings, he stood first in the world in 1996 and was top-10 five other seasons (1992-93-94-95-98).

Head Coach – Connie Price-Smith

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Connie Price-Smith has served as the head coach for the Southern Illinois Salukis for ten years. Under her direction, the Salukis have won several

Missouri Valley Conference Championships. During the 2010-2011 season, the Salukis sent five athletes to NCAA Indoors, 17 to NCAA West Regionals, and five to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. More than 30 school records have fallen with Price-Smith at the helm. A four-time Olympian, Price-Smith is one of the most decorated women's track and field athletes in SIU history, despite the fact she did not participate in the sport until her senior year. After graduation, she continued her successful

career, qualifying for 34 international squads. In 1992, she became the first U.S. female athlete in 32 years to win both the shot put and discus at the Olympic Trials. Price-Smith missed the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games by four inches and is the first U.S. female to ever medal in the shot put at a World Championships competition. After 14 years of competition, Price-Smith returned to Southern Illinois as a coach. She served as a coach for numerous international competitions, including the 2004 World Junior Championships, 2005

World Indoor Championships, 2007 Pan American Games and 2008 Olympic Games.

Head Manager – Diane Wholey

Wholey has been a member of the Texas Tech coaching staff for ten years and was recently promoted to the position of Assistant Athletic Director. She serves as the coach for the men's and women's high jump, javelin, decathlon and heptathlon. Prior to Texas Tech, she served two years at the University of Texas where she coached field events and heptathletes and was also the Longhorns‘

recruiting coordinator. After graduating from Texas A&M, where she served as manager of the Aggies‘ track and field team, she coached at the high school level, before becoming a graduate assistant coach at the University of Tennessee. After graduating from Tennessee, she accepted a full-time position at the University of Mississippi coaching heptathletes, decathletes, hurdlers, throwers and high jumpers.

Assistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles) – Danny Williams Williams just completed his sixth season as an assistant coach for the Cal Poly track and field program. Williams serves as the program's recruiting coordinator and strength and development coach as well as his day-to-day track and field responsibilities. Most recently, Williams served as the USA Men‘s Manager at the 2005 Pan American Junior Championships and the head coach of the Guatemala

National Track and Field Team from 2002-2003. He also served as the head coach for the 2001 USA Women‘s World Indoor Championships team, assistant with the 1999 World Championships team in 1999 and the head coach for the 1997 Women‘s Junior Pan American Championships team. Prior to Cal Poly, Williams coached at South Carolina State University. In 2003, he became the USATF Women‘s Sprint Development Coordinator and continues to serve the position.

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Assistant Coach (Distance) - Terrence Mahon Mahon is in the midst of his seventh season as the coach of the Mammoth Track Club, the top-ranked long-distance running group in the U.S. Since taking over the club in 2005, Mahon has aided in the success of several Olympians and elite runners including 2011 World Championships competitors Scott Bauhs, Amy Hastings, Morgan Uceny and Mahon‘s wife, Jen Rhines. He also coaches standout marathoners

Deena Kastor, Ryan Hall and Meb Keflezighi. Prior to coaching, Mahon was an All-American runner at Villanova University and qualified for Olympic Trials five times, including three times in the marathon.

Assistant Coach (Jumps) – Delethea Quarles Quarles is in her 14th year with the South Carolina track and field program, including seven years as assistant head coach in charge of multi-events and jumps. Quarles has coached 21 All-Americans and five SEC champions. Before arriving at South Carolina, Quarles spent eight years as an assistant coach at her alma mater,

Liberty University, where she was a three-time All-American. This is Quarles fifth time being selected as a Team USA coach, having previously worked with Team USA as head coach at the 2007 Pan American Junior Championships and as an

assistant coach for the 2006 World Cup, 2005 Pan American Championships and 2002 Team USA vs. the Netherlands.

Assistant Coach (Throws) – Ramona Pagel

Pagel is entering her third season as an assistant throws coach for the Fresno State Bulldogs. Since she took over the throwing program, she has guided 13 athletes to the NCAA Regional meet. Last season, two of her athletes won conference

championships, and one thrower earned All-American honors. Before Fresno State, Pagel coached for three seasons at Southeastern Louisiana University and briefly at

Radford University. In addition to her coaching background, Pagel had a successful athletic career. A four-time Olympian, Pagel was a gold medalist at the 1987 Pan American Games and is the American record holder in the outdoor shot put with a distance of 66-2.5. At the collegiate level, she was a seven-time All-American and the 1984 NCAA Outdoors champion. In 2006, Pagel served as an assistant coach for the World Indoor

Championships team.

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ALEXANDRIA ANDERSON

Event: sprints Height: 5-8

Weight: 135 PR: 100m – 11.01 (2011); 200m – 22.60 (2009) Born: January 28, 1987 in Chicago, Ill. Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: Morgan Park H.S ‘05 College: Texas ‘09 Coach: Beverly Kearney

Agent: Greg Foster Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoor 60m Champion; 2006 USA Junior 100m champion; 2009 NCAA 100m champion; 17-time NCAA All-American; three-time Big 12 champion

Anderson won her first open USA Championships title at USA

Indoors in 2011 in the 60m. She finished in fourth place at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 100m (11.00w) to earn a spot on Team USA for the World Outdoor Championships team in the 4x100m relay pool. She won the 100m at the 2009

NCAA Outdoor Championships in 11.02, and was a 17-time All-American at Texas…three-time Big 12 Champion (Indoor 60m, 4x100 relay, Outdoor 100m)…19-time All-Big 12…named 2005 Track and Field News All-American in the 100m, 200m and long jump events in high school…helped the U.S. Junior National Team to a gold medal and world record in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 IAAF World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy... recipient of the 2006-07 UT Women's Athletics Barbara Jordan Endowed Scholarship.

2011: 5th at USA Outdoors (11.07)...2nd at Luzern (11.22)...2nd at Sao Paulo GP (11.01 PR)...1st at USA Indoors in the 60m (7.12). 2010: 6th at USA Outdoors 100m (11.44)...5th at USA Outdoors 200m (22.83) 2009: 4th in 100m at the USA Outdoors (11.00w)…NCAA 100m champion (11.20) and 3rd in 200m

(22.88)…1st at NCAA Midwest Regionals (11.05) and 2nd in 200m (22.91)…4th at Paris (11.27)…NCAA Indoor 60m runner-up (7.24) and 4th in 200m (23.11)…ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 11.05. 2008: 6th in 100m at NCAA Outdoors (11.44) and 7th in 200m (23.35)... 2nd at Penn Relays (11.90)...7th in 100m, 6th in 200m semis at Olympic Trials...bests of 11.07, 22.75. 2007: 6th in 100m semis as USA Outdoors (11.44).... 7th in the 200m at NCAA Outdoors (23.23)...bests of 11.21, 22.67.

2006: USA Junior 100m champ (11.12)...5th at World Junior Champs (11.49)...4x100m relay gold medalist at World Junior Champs...7th at NCAA Outdoors (11.59)...bests of 11.12, 23.16. 2005: 3rd at 100m, 2nd at 200m at USA Juniors...National Scholastics 100m & 200m champ...bests of 11.39, 22.96.

2004: 2nd in 100m mat National Scholastics...bests of 11.41, 23.45. 2003: Bests of 11.62, 23.48.

2002: Bests of 11.81, 24.10w.

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JESHUA ANDERSON

Event: 400m hurdles Height: 6-2 Weight: 196 PR: 47.93 (2011)

Born: June 22, 1989 Current Residence: Woodland Hills, Calif. High School: Taft High (Woodland Hills, Calif.) '07 College: Washington State '11 Coach: Mark Macdonald Agent: Kimberly Holland Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors champion; three-time NCAA Outdoor champion; 2010 NACAC U-23 champion; 2008 IAAF World

Junior champion; four-time PAC-10 champion Anderson earned his first IAAF World Championships berth with a

victory in the 400m hurdles at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. His winning time of 47.93 was a personal best and currently ranks him as the second fastest 400m hurdler in the world for 2011. Anderson, who just finished his senior season at Washington State, capped off a successful collegiate career with his third NCAA title in the long hurdles and fourth consecutive PAC-10 championship. During his time as a Cougar, Anderson competed twice for Team USA, collecting wins at the 2010 NACAC U-23 and 2008 IAAF World Junior championships. Prior to college, Anderson was the nation‘s top-ranked high school 300m hurdler with

his national record time of 35.28. 2011: USA Outdoor champion (47.93)… NCAA Outdoor champion (48.56)… PAC-10 champion and meet record (48.13)… best of 47.93 2010: Runner-up at NCAA Championships (49.31)… PAC-10 champion and meet record (48.63)…

NACAC U-23 champion (49.33)… 5th at USA Outdoors (49.14)… best of 48.63 2009: NCAA 400m hurdles champion (48.47)… PAC-10 400m hurdles champion (48.90)… 5th at USA

Outdoors (48.77)… best of 48.47 2008: NCAA 400m hurdles champion (48.69)... PAC-10 400m hurdles champion (49.55)... IAAF World Junior 400m hurdles champion (48.68)... Olympic Trials final qualifier… best of 48.48 2007: Set national high school record in 300m hurdles (35.28)

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NICHOLAS ARCINIAGA

Event: Marathon Height: 5-11 Weight: 140 PR: 2:11:30 (2011) Born: June 30, 1983 Current Residence: Flagstaff, Ariz. High School: Fountain Valley (Calif.) HS ‗01

College: Cal State Fullerton University ‗06 Coach: Greg McMillan Agent: self

Club: adidas Career Highlights: 2nd at 2011 Houston… 3rd at 2010 San Diego Rock ‗n Roll Marathon

Nick Arciniaga graduated from Cal State Fullerton University in 2006 at which point he chose a career as a runner opposed to pursuing a career as an accountant, which was his major. He has experienced increasing amounts of success since turning professional in 2006. Concentrating on longer distances and road races, Arciniaga ran his fastest marathon in Chicago where he ran a personal best

and an Olympic ‗A‘ standard time of 2:11:20 to place 3rd overall. 2011: 9th at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (28:29.71)… 2nd at the Houston Marathon (2:11:30) 2010: 4th at the Dana Point Turkey Trot 10k (29:48)… 7th in the Houston Half (1:03:22)… 3rd at the San Diego Rock ‗n Roll Marathon (2:11:48)

2009: 3rd in the Papa Johns‘s 10 Miler (49:08)…2nd at the Brooksie Way Half Marathon (1:06:53)…

8th in the New York City Marathon (2:13:46) 2008: 6th at the USA 20 km Championships (1:00:47)… 3rd at the San Antonio Rock ‗n Roll Half Marathon (1:06:06)… 10th at the Boston Marathon (2:16:13) 2007: 4th in the Orange County Half Marathon (1:08:10)… 17th at the Olympic Trials Marathon (2:17:08) 2006: 1st at the Spring Break Collegiate Classic 3,000m (8:29:17)… 1st at the Steve Scott Invitational 3,000m steeplechase (9:18:44)… 4th at the Pacific Shoreline Half Marathon (1:07:00)

2005: 1st at the Arturo Barrios 10k (30:47)

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KESHIA BAKER

Event: 400m Height: 5-7

Weight: 135 PR: 50.76 (2010) Born: January 20, 1988 Current Residence: Los Angeles, Calif. High School: Fairfield High School ‘06 (Fairfield, Calif.) College: Oregon ‗10 Coach: Yolanda Demus

Agent: Kimberly Holland Club: Saucony

Career Highlights: 2010 NCAA Indoor runner-up; 2010 NCAA Outdoor and Indoor 4x400m champ; 2010 and 2009 NCAA West Regional champ; Three-time PAC-10 champ ('10, '09, '08)

Baker highlighted her first full professional season in 2011 with a best ever seventh-place finish at USA Outdoors. The performance earned the Oregon alumnus a ticket to Daegu for the 2011 World Outdoor Championships in the 4x400m relay pool. Baker is no stranger to the relays as a member of the Ducks‘ 2010 NCAA Outdoor and Indoor 4x400m championship teams. Also during the 2010 season, Baker earned a fourth-place finish at NCAA Outdoors as well as a second-place finish at NCAA Indoors, where she ran an indoor

personal best of 51.63 and lost only to Francena McCorory who set an indoor American record in the race. Throughout her college career, Baker won two NCAA West regional meets and three PAC-10 400m titles, including the 2010 championship where she ran a personal best time of 50.76. 2011: 7th at USA Outdoors (52.21)… 2nd at Dakar (52.39)… 1st at Mt. SAC Relays (51.98)… 1st at Tommie Lister Classic (51.61)

2010: NCAA Indoor runner-up (51.63)… NCAA Outdoor 4x400m champ (3:28.54)… NCAA Indoor

4x400m champ (3:32.97)… 4th at NCAA Outdoors (52.34)… NCAA West Regional champ (51.60)… PAC-10 champ (50.76PR) 2009: 8th at USA Outdoors (52.47)… 4th at NCAA Indoors (53.39)… 5th at NCAA Outdoors (51.29)… NCAA West Regional champ (52.49)… PAC-10 champ (51.74) 2008: 2nd at NCAA West Regional (53.50)… PAC-10 champ (53.27) 2007: 9th at PAC-10 (54.90)… best of 54.43 at Eugene Oregon Invitational

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MIKELE 'MIKI' BARBER

Events: 100m Height: 5-2

Weight: 115 PRs: 100m – 11.02 (2007) Born: October 4, 1980 in Livingston, N.J. Current Residence: Duluth, Ga. High School: Montclair (NJ) ‗98 College: South Carolina ‗03 Coach: Gail Devers

Agent: Emanuel Hudson Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2007 World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist; 2007 Pan Am Games 100m gold medalist and 4x100m silver medalist; 2000 NCAA Outdoor 400m champ; 2000 NCAA Indoor 200m champ; 1999 NCAA Outdoor 400m runner-up

Barber ran a wind-aided personal best of 10.96 at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for World Outdoors individually for the first time. In 2010, she qualified for World Indoors with a second-place finish at the U.S. Championships. At the 2007 IAAF World Championships, Barber ran the third leg of the 4x100m. After receiving the baton in a virtual dead heat with Jamaica, Barber blew the race open, giving Team USA a large lead, which Torri

Edwards held on to, and the U.S. claimed gold in a world-leading 41.98...Barber broke the 28-year old Pan American Games record and set a personal best in winning the women's 100m in 11.02 seconds, she went on to anchor the 4x100m relay to a silver in 43.62...clocked a U.S. leading time of 50.63 at 400m (personal best) at the 2001 SEC championships. Later in the month, Barber lowered her personal best at 200m, with a time of 22.71 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships…Has a twin sister, Me‘Lisa, who is the 2005 USA 100m champ...the twins have been featured on Oxygen Sports and in

Sports Illustrated...SI also tabbed Barber its Track & Field Player of the Year for the 2001 season...

goes by nickname of Miki...Hobbies include ceramics ... Favorite athlete is the late Florence Griffith Joyner... Barber was part of the 2000 Olympic 4x400m relay pool, but she did not compete in Sydney. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (10.96)… 2nd at the Kansas Relays (11.17)… 2nd at the Sydney Track Classic (11.44) 2010: 2nd at USA Indoors (7.15)... 1st at Oslo (11.17)... 3rd at Rieti (11.21) 2009: 4th at USA Outdoors (11.40)

2008: 7th in 200m semi-finals at Olympic Trials (23.04), 8th in 100m quarterfinal (11.29) 2007: World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist (41.98)...6th at USA Outdoors (11.27)…Pan Am Games champion (11.02PR)…6th at Reebok Grand Prix (11.14)...ranked #10 in the world (#6 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 11.02. 2006: 6th in 100m at USA Outdoors (11.27)…4th at Ostrava (11.39)…6th in 200m at Oslo (23.42). 2005: did not compete

2004: did not compete

2003: 1st in NCAA Indoor heats (23.06)…5th in 200 at NCAA Indoors (23.12), 8th in 400 (53.03)…1st in heat at Knoxville (23.46)…1st in 400 at Gainesville (52.43)…bests of 23.06i and 51.92i. 2002: did not compete 2001: Gold medalist at 4x400m relay at World University Games (3:28.04)… World University Games 400m bronze medalist (51.92)…3rd in 400m at NCAA Indoors (52.87)… 4th in 200m at NCAA Indoors (23.41)…6th in 200m at NCAA Outdoors (23.51)…4th in 400m at NCAA Outdoors (53.00)…ran

50.63PR at SEC Championships, fastest time by an American in 2001…6th in 400m at U.S. Outdoors (52.70)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 22.71 and 50.63. 2000: 5th in 400 at Olympic Trials (51.17)...set PR of 50.98 while winning the SEC outdoor 400... won NCAA Indoor (23.06)...won NCAA Outdoors 400 (51.14)...set 200 PR of 22.98 at Chapel Hill, NC, on June 18... ranked #6 in U.S. at 400m by T&FN... bests of 50.98 and 22.98.

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1999: 8th at USA Outdoors 400 and 2nd at NCAA Outdoors...2nd at World University Games 400...

ranked #7 in 400 in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 23.05 and 51.03. 1998: 2nd at USA Juniors 400 and 8th at World Juniors...bests of 23.94 and 52.56.

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BRIGETTA BARRETT

Event: High Jump Height: 6-0

Weight: 140 PR: 1.95m/6-4.75 (2011) Born: December 24th, 1990 Current Residence: Tucson, Ariz. High School: Duncanville (Duncanville, Texas) HS ‗09 College: University of Arizona Coach: Fred Harvey

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2011 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion; PAC-10 Outdoor and MPSF Indoor

champion Barrett finished her sophomore season at the University of Arizona with five indoor wins and seven outdoor wins. As a

freshman she won the MPSF Indoor Championship with a then-career best leap of 1.89m/6-2.25. During the outdoor season she finished third at the Pac-10 Championships and earned her second All-American award at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., with a seventh place finish. After the season, Barrett competed at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and finished third. In high school, Barrett was one of the top high jumpers in the nation during her high school

career. She set a school record mark of 1.85m/6-1 during her time at Duncanville and won the Texas State Meet in 2008 and 2009. She was the indoor state champion in 2007 and second place outdoors. 2011: USA Outdoor champion (1.95m/6-4.75)… NCAA Indoor (1.90m/6-2.75) and Outdoor champion (1.86m/6-1.75)… Pac-10 Outdoor champion (1.93m/6-4)… MPSF Indoor champion (1.93m/6-03.50)… Best of 1.95m/6-4.75.

2010: 3rd at USA Outdoor (1.91m/6-3.25)… 3rd at NCAA Indoor (1.84m/6-0.50)… 7th at NCAA

Outdoors (1.76m/5-9.25)… Best of 1.91m/6-3.25. 2009: Texas State 5A Champion (1.75m/5-9)… Best of 1.82m/6-0. 2008: 2nd at USA Juniors (1.77m/5-9.75)… Best of 1.77m/5-0.75.

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TREVOR BARRON

Event: Race Walk Height: 6-3 Weight: 160 PRs: 5,000m – 20:06.0 AJR (2010); 10,000m – 41:50.29 AJR

(2010); 5 km - 21:05 AJR (2011); 10 km - 41:35 AJR (2011); 20,000m – 1:01:16 AJR (2011); 20 km – 1:23:25.10 AJR (2011) Born: September 30, 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Current Residence: Bethel Park, Pa. High School: Home Schooled College: Colorado College Coach: Tim Seaman

Club: New York Athletic Club Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors 20 km race walk

champion; Set four records at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships; Holds six American Junior race walk records; 7th at 2010 World Junior Champs; 4th at 2009 World Youth Champs;

Named 2010 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year

In a single race at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Barron bettered four of his own American junior records on the way to his first U.S. championship. He is the fastest junior race walker in U.S. history, holding national records at distances from one mile to 20 kilometers. Born September 30,

1992, in Pittsburgh, Pa., Barron began race walking at age 9, hoping to find a way to join his sister Tricia, then a skilled hurdler and jumper, at the USATF National Junior Olympics. He placed second nationally in his age group in 2002 and then won gold medals the next four years, breaking the national youth boys (age 13-14) record in 2006. Two weeks after that record-breaking race, Barron entered Children‘s Hospital of Pittsburgh for brain surgery to curb epileptic seizures that had plagued him since age 8 and had interrupted his promising career as a competitive swimmer. Children‘s

Hospital neurologist Deborah Holder was able to identify the dysfunctional portion of his brain that was causing the problems, and Barron has been seizure-free since recovering from the surgery. At age 15 Barron won the U.S. junior men‘s trial for the 2008 World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia. As the youngest entrant there, he placed 42nd among 63 competitors. However, upon returning home he discontinued race walking, citing the unfavorable attention often accorded to this discipline in the U.S. In November 2008 Barron resumed race walk training, becoming a home-schooled student so that he could train with coach and two-time Olympian Tim Seaman in San Diego, Calif. His renewed

dedication quickly bore fruit as he broke U.S. junior records at distances of 5 and 20 kilometers. In July 2009 Barron finished fourth in the 10km race walk at the World Youth Championships in Bressanone, Italy, in a U.S. record time of 42:22.79. This was the best finish ever by a U.S. junior at a world race walking event. In 2010 Barron continued his record-setting pace, breaking the U.S. high-school mark for the one-mile walk with a time of 6:03.48 at the Millrose Games and lowering his own records at 5, 10, and 20 kilometers. Barron finished ninth at the World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico and seventh at the World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada. In September

2010, he entered his first international 20km race at the Nordic Championships in Tuusula, Finland. There Barron beat Scandinavia‘s top walkers with a time of 1:23:49.39, which was the second-fastest

time in the world in 2010 at that distance, 18 minutes under the previous U.S. junior 20,000-meter track record and 10 seconds under the Olympic ―B‖ qualifying standard. Also a high performer academically, Barron is currently taking a computer science course from Stanford University‘s online high school while aiming for the 2011 World Track and Field Championships and the 2012 Olympics. He expects to enter college in 2011 or 2012.

2011: USA Outdoor champion in 20 km race walk (1:23:25.10AJR)... 1st at Pan Am Race Walk Cup Trials 20 km (1:27:32) 2010: 1st at World Race Walk Trials 10 km (43:05AJR)...USA Junior 10,000m champ (42:58.62, U.S.

HS record)...2nd at USA Indoor One Mile Champs (6:03.48 U.S. HS record)...9th at World Race Walking Cup (45:17)...7th at World Junior Champs 10,000m (41:50.29AJR)...1st at Nordic

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Championships 20 km (1:23:49.39AJR)... ranked #1 in U.S. at 20 km by T&FN...bests of 6:03.48, 41:50.29, 43:05, 41:50.29.

2009: U.S. Junior champ 10,000m (43:36.38)...4th at World Junior Champs 10 km (42:22.79)...1st at World Youth Trials 3,000m (13:00.93)...bests of 42:22.79.

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SCOTT BAUHS

Event: 10,000m Height: 6-0 Weight: 140 PR: 27:48.06

Born: May 11, 1986 Current Residence: Danville, Calif. High School: San Ramon Valley High School '04 (Danville, Calif.) College: Chico State University '08 Coach: Terrence Mahon Agent: Dan Lilot Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2007 NCAA Div. II 10,000m Champion; 3rd at the 2011 USA Outdoors

Scott Bauhs had arguably one of the most successful collegiate careers turned in by a Division II distance athlete. He is the

youngest American to run sub-4 minutes for the mile and sub 28-minutes for the 10,000m. While competing for Chico State University, Bauhs amassed eight All-American awards, and three national titles. His professional career began one week after the 2008 NCAA national cross country meet with a win at the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot. He joined the Mammoth Track Club where he has continued to improve his times and qualify for two more US international teams, under the guidance of Coach Terrence Mahon. He placed third in the USATF Cross Country Championships and fourth in the 3000m at the USATF Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2010.

2011: 1st at the Jim Bush Southern Cal USATF Championships 1,500m (3:42.87)… 3rd at the USA Outdoor Championships (28:40:51) 2010: 2nd at the UW Invitational indoor 3,000m (7:51.65)… 3rd at the KBC Night of Athletics 5,000m (13:36.77)… 13th at the USA Outdoor Championships (29:51.91)… 3rd at the Applied Materials Silicon

Valley Turkey Trot 5k… 1st at the Las Vegas Rock ‗n Roll Half Marathon (1:02:39) 2009: 1st at the Chico Twilight 1,500m (3:41.34)… 3rd at the Adidas Track Classic 5,000m

(13:38.95)… 5th at the USA 20 km Championships (59:46) 2008: 1st at the Chico State Invitational mile (3:59.81)… 1st at the NCAA Div. II Outdoor 5,000m Championship (14:00.65)… 1st at the Synaptics Elite 5k road race (13:37) 2007: 1st the California Collegiate Championship 1,500m (3:46.42)… 2nd at the NCAA Div. II 5,000m Championship (14:08.32)… 1st at the NCAA Div. II 10,000m Championship (29:31:93)… 6th in the San Jose Rock ‗n Roll Half Marathon (1:03:04)

2006: 6th at the NCAA Div. II 10,000m Championships (30:36.1)

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JESSICA BEARD


Weight: 130 PR: 50.56 (2009) Born: January 8, 1989 in Cleveland, Ohio Current Residence: College Station, Texas High School: Euclid HS ‗07 College: Texas A&M ‗11 Coach: Vince Anderson

Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2009 World Outdoor Championships 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2009 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; Two-time World Junior 4x400m gold medalist; 2008 World Junior silver medalist; three-time USA Junior champion; 2011 NCAA Outdoor

Champion (51.10); 2011 NCAA Indoor Champion (50.79)

Beard capped off her senior year of college with indoor and outdoor NCAA titles, and went on to qualify for her second senior World team. Beard claimed runner-up honors at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor

Championships in a personal best of 50.56 and followed it up with a third-place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. In high school, she won the 400-meter state title four straight years and chopped 2.54 seconds off the state record, dropping it to 51.63…won the silver medal at the 2008 IAAF World Junior Championships.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (51.06)...NCAA Outdoor Champion (51.10)...NCAA Indoor Champion (50.79)…ran on the Texas A&M NCAA Champion 4x100m indoor and 4x400m outdoor teams...Big 12

champion (52.95) 2010: 2nd at NCAA Outdoors (51.02)...Big 12 outdoor champion (52.08)...2nd at NCAA Indoors (52.08)...Big 12 indoor champion (51.15) 2009: 5th in semifinals at World Outdoors (51.20)…3rd at USA Outdoors (50.81)…NCAA Outdoor

runner-up (50.56)…1st at Midwest Regionals (51.24)…Big 12 champion (51.53)…NCAA Indoor runner-up (51.77)…ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 50.56. 2008: World Junior runner-up (52.09)…USA Junior champion (52.23)…4th at NCAA Champs (51.75)…1st at Midwest Regionals (51.47)…Big 12 champion (51.09)…3rd at NCAA Indoors (52.48) 2007: 3rd at Pan Am Juniors (51.91)…USA Junior champion (52.19)…Nike Outdoor National champion (52.43) 2006: 5th at World Juniors (52.51)…USA Junior champion (51.89)…Nike Outdoor National champion

(52.04)…Golden West champion (52.16).

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MICHAEL BERRY

Event: 200m, 400m Height: 6-1 Weight: 165 PR: 200m – 21.08 (2011); 400m – 44.91 (2011)

Born: October 12, 1991 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Rainier Beach High School (Seattle, Wash.) College: University of Oregon ‗14 Coach: Robert Johnson Career Highlights: 2011 PAC-10 Outdoor champion; Oregon

school record holder in 400m After just his freshman season at the University of Oregon, Michael

Berry finds his name on the roster for the 2011 World Outdoor Championships as a member of the 4x400m relay pool. And the honor comes much deserved. A two-time NCAA All-American,

Berry placed fifth in a very competitive 400m field at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. This past spring he won the PAC-10 Outdoor Championships in the 400m in a personal best time of 44.91. That time broke the Oregon school record of 45.07, which was set in 1960 by two-time Olympic gold medalist Otis Day. He was the USATF National Junior Champion while in high school. 2011: 5th in 400m at USA Outdoors (45.22)… 3rd in 400m at NCAA Outdoors (45.18)… PAC-10 400m

champion (44.91)… Bests of 21.08 and 44.91. 2010: USATF National Junior Olympics 400m champion (46.13)… 4th in 400m at USA Juniors (46.39)… Ran leg on U.S. winning 4x400m relay at World Juniors (3:04.76)… Recorded the second-fastest high school 400m time in the nation… Bests of 21.59 and 46.13

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LANCE BROOKS

Event: Discus PR: 63.54m/208-5 (2010)

Born: January 1, 1984 Current Residence: Denver, Colo. High School: New Berlin High School (New Berlin, Ill.) College: Millikin University ‗06 Coach: Steve DeAutremont Career Highlights: 3rd at 2011 USA Outdoors; 4th at 2009 USA

Outdoors Lance Brooks was as close as you can come to the World

Championships team in 2009, but was on the outside looking in as Team USA traveled to Berlin. However, in 2011 he didn‘t miss his chance and secured a spot on the American squad for the 2011 World Outdoor Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Brooks

placed third at USA Outdoors in 2011 after finishing fourth in 2009. Brooks attended Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., where he established the school‘s record in the discus (57.83m/189-9) and was selected as an NCAA Division III All-American. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (63.45m/208-2)… Best of 64.38m/211-2 (1st at the Altius TC

Throwdown) 2010: 10th at USA Outdoors (56.87m/186-07)… Best of 63.54/208.4 (2nd at the OTC Classic #5) 2009: 4th at USA Outdoors (59.97m/196-09)… Best of 59.97m/196-09 (1st at USA Championships) 2008: 14th in qualifying at US Olympic Trials (59.39m/194-10)… Best of 62.14m/203-10 (1st at the California Invitational Relays)

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STEPHANIE BROWN

TRAFTON

Event: Discus Throw Height: 6-4 Weight: 225 PR: 66.17m/217-1 (2008)

Born: December 1, 1979 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Current Residence: Oceano, Calif. High School: Arroyo Grande HS (Arroyo Grande, Calif.) College: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo '03 Coach: self Agent: Valentina Fedjuschmina Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games gold medalist; 2009 and 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 2004 Olympic Trials runner-up; Two-time Olympian ('04, '08); 2007 NACAC champion; Three-time Big West champion

After finishing third at the 2010 USA Championships, Brown Trafton returned to prominence in 2011 by winning her third national title. Brown Trafton, who ended the 2008 season ranked #1 in the world, won her first U.S. national title in the discus at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships with a best throw of 64.25m/210-9. Brown Trafton won the United States' first gold medal in the women's discus since Lillian Copeland in 1932 at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It was the first medal of any kind in that event since Leslie Jean Deniz won silver in the boycott-afflicted 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It was a significant personal victory for the 28-year-old Brown, who has never finished

higher than second at a U.S. national championship. Brown Trafton stood in first place after the first round of throwing in Beijing, popping off a strong throw of 64.74m/212-5, less than five feet off her

personal best. The throw held up for the rest of the competition and the gold medal was hers. At 6-4, Brown Trafton has the leverage most discus throwers can only dream about. Brown Trafton qualified for her second Olympic Team by placing third in the women‘s discus at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials. Brown Trafton set a huge personal best in winning the Salinas meet in 2008 with a then-world leading toss of 66.17m/217-1. A former Cal Poly Slo and Arroyo Grande High School standout, the then-

Stephanie Brown threw 61.90 meters/203 feet, 1 inch on her first attempt to finish second at the 2004 Olympic Trials and make her first Olympic team, that throw exceeded her previous personal best by nine feet and also bettered the Olympic ―A‖ qualifying standard of 61 meters. Following her first throw during the final at the Olympic Trials, Brown, a six-time All-American in indoor and outdoor track and field at Cal Poly, fouled on her remaining five attempts. She is currently working in the Information Technology Services department at Sycamore Environmental Consulting.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (63.35m/207-10)... 1st at adidas Grand Prix (62.94m/206-6)... 3rd at Monaco (62.07m/203-7)... best of 64.13m/210-4 at Maui. 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors (59.53m/192-0)...4th at Drake Relays (60.12m/197-3)...7th at Doha (54.14/177-7)...3rd at California Relays (61.51m/201-9)...9th at Paris (59.03m.193-8).

2009: 12th at World Champs (58.53m/192-0)...USA Outdoor champion (64.25m/210-9)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (63.97m/209-10)...1st at Pacific Champs (66.21m/217-2WL)...1st at Nike Pre

Classic (63.98m/209-11)...6th at World Athletics Final (59.66m/195-9)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 66.21m/217-2. 2008: Olympic Games gold medalist (64.74m/212-5)…3rd at Olympic Trials (62.65m/205-06)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (63.50m/208-4)…3rd at Reebok Grand Prix (62.34m/204-06)…1st at Salinas (66.17m/217-1PR)...best of 66.17m/217-1...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) byT&FN...best of 66.17m/217-1. 2007:5th at USA Outdoors (55.03m/180-6)…NACAC champion (59.27m/194-5)…3rd at Maui

(61.40m/201-5)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 61.40m/201-5. 2006: 4th at USA Outdoors (55.71m/182-9)…4th at Modesto (58.57/192-2)…1st at USATF Pacific Association Champs (56.76m/186-2)…2nd at La Jolla (59.03m/193-8)…ranked #4 in the U.S.

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byT&FN…best of 59.03m/193-8. 2005: 4th at Stanford (55.35m/181-7)…best of 55.35m/181-7.

2004: Olympic Trials runner-up (61.90m/203-1PR)...11th at Group A at Olympic Games (58.54m/192-1)...2nd at Westwood in the SP (17.86m/58-7.25)...ranked #4 in the U.S. byT&FN...bests of 17.86m/58-7.25 (SP) & 61.90m/203-1 (DT). 2003: 8th in DT at USA Outdoors (57.78m/189-7PR)…4th in SP at NCAA Outdoors (17.37m/57-0)…1st in SP at Stanford (17.30m/56-9.25)…Big West SP champion (17.07m/56-0)…7th in SP at Mt. SAC Relays (16.38m/53-9)…1st in DT at Northridge (56.03m/183-10)…4th in DT at Salinas (56.77m/186-3)…3rd in DT at La Jolla (57.77m/189-6)…bests of 17.37m/57-0 (SP) & 57.78m/189-7

(DT). 2002: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (54.11m/177-6)…10th in SP at NCAA Indoors (15.99m/52-5.5i)…1st in Big West in DT…1st in Big West, 14th in NCAA in SP…best of 16.03m/52-7.25i (SP) & 53.94m/177-0 (DT). 2001: 8th in SP at USA Outdoors (15.47m/50-9.25)…7th in SP at NCAA Outdoors (16.31m/53-06.25)…Big West SP champion…best of 16.31m/53-6.25 (SP) & 51.46m/168-10 (DT).

2000: Did not compete

1999: 214th in SP (14.96m/49-1) & 20th in DT (45.76m/150-1)…1st in Big West in DT…1st in Big West…bests of 14.96m/49-1 (SP) & 45.76m/150-1 (DT).

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BEN BRUCE

Event: 3,000m steeplechase Height: 6-1 Weight: 150

PR: 8:19.10 (2011) Born: September 10, 1982 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Mt. Carmel (San Diego, Calif.) HS ‗00 College: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ‘05; San Diego Mesa CC ‘02 Coach: Mark Conover Agent: Stubbs Management

Club: Oregon TC Elite Career Highlights: Runner-up at 2010 USA Outdoor Champs;

2007 NACAC 5,000m champion; 3rd in steeple at 2007 NACAC Championships;

2011 marks the fifth year in a row that Bruce has lowered his steeplechase PR. This year, with his win in Barcelona, Bruce ran under the 8:20 mark for the first-time ever. Bruce qualified for his first U.S. national team by finishing fourth at the 2010 USA Cross Country Championships, which punched his ticket for that year‘s World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he finished 80th. Bruce followed that up with an impressive finish at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships, where he finished as the runner-up in the 3,000m steeplechase, which is the highest

finish of his career at Nationals. Also in 2010, Bruce posted his SC personal best time of 8:22.88 from his third place finish at Gateshead on July 10, which was the second-fastest time by an American that year. Bruce enjoyed a strong season as a steeplechaser in posting his previous highest ever finish of his career at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships (5th), and the then highest end of the season national ranking of his career by Track & Field News (3rd). The highlight of his season came at the

2009 Payton Jordan Classic in Palo Alto, Calif., where he was victorious in the steeplechase in his personal best time of 8:26:08, which was the third-fastest time by an American that season. His

performance shattered his previous personal best of 8:32.57 from 2008. Bruce finished first in the 5,000m and third in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2007 NACAC Championships in San Salvador, El Salvador. 2011: 5th at USA Outdoors (8:37.22)... 1st at Heusden-Zolder (8:26.16)...5th at Barcelona (8:19.10 PR)

2010: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (8:30.87)...4th at USA Cross Country Champs (35:15), 3rd at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite (8:28.76)...80th at World Cross Country Champs (35.56)...3rd at Gateshead (8:22.88)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:22.88 2009: 5th in steeple at USA Outdoors (8:36.76)...1st at Payton Jordan Classic (8:26.08PR)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:26.08. 2008: 12th at Olympic Trials (8:52.40)...ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:32.57. 2007: 7th at USA Outdoors (8:33.12)...1st in 5,000m at NACAC (14:27.90)...3rd at NACAC

(8:56.09)...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 8:32.74 & 14:27.90. 2006: 12th at USA Outdoors (8:42.84)...best of 8:32.68. 2005: 6th at NCAA Outdoors (8:33.81)...18th in opening round at USA Outdoors (8:52.34)...Big West Conference steeple champ...ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:33.70 2004: 12th in opening round at Olympic Trials (8:57.64)...best of 8:40.44. 2003: 9th at NCAA Outdoors (8:39.28)...2nd at Big West Champs...best of 8:39.10. 2002: California JUCO champ...best of 8:58.40.

2001: 3rd at USA Junior Champs...Cal JUCO runner-up...best of 9:26.15.

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JILLIAN CAMARENA-

WILLIAMS

Events: Shot Put Height: 5-10

Weight: 250 PRs: 20.18m/66-2.5AR (2011); 19.87/65-2.25iAR (2011) Born: March 2, 1982 in Woodland, Calif. Current Residence: Tucson, Ariz. High School: Woodland HS (Woodland, Calif.) College: Stanford '04 Coach: Craig Carter

Agent: Valentina Fedjuscmina

Club: NYAC Career Highlights: Indoor and Outdoor American Record holder; Two-time USA Outdoor champion ('06, '10); two-time USA Outdoor runner-up ('07, '09); 3rd at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials; Six-time USA Indoor champion ('05-'10); 2001 Pan Am Junior SP champion; 1999 Pan Am Junior DT champion; seven-time All American in the shot put

Camarena-Williams battled with Michelle Carter for shot put supremacy at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. Camarena-Williams missed first place by just one centimeter, finishing with a mark of 19.85m/65-1.5. At the Paris Diamond League meet, she launched a personal best toss to tie the

American Record of 20.18m/66-2.5 which ranks her third in the world for 2011. Camarena-Williams bettered her own indoor American record, originally set in 2010, at the 2011 USA Indoor Championships with her winning throw of 19.87m/65-2.25. She qualified for her first Olympic Team in the women‘s shot put with her third-place finish at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. It was Camarena-William's first competition of the 2008 Outdoor season and came less than three months

after she had back surgery to repair a herniated disc. At the 2006 AT&T USA Indoor Championships, Camarena-Williams made a bit of history in the women's shot put with her winning throw of

19.26m/63-2.25. The performance made her the #3 American of all-time, behind only American record holder Ramona Pagel (19.83m/65-0.75 in 1987) and Tressa Thompson (19.44m/63-9.5 in 1999). Camarena-Williams brought home her first national title at the 2005 USA Indoor Championships when she won the women‘s shot put with her heave of 17.31m/56-9.5. Although she had a third-place finish at the 2004 Olympic Trials, she did not meet the Olympic ―A‖ qualifying standard. A multi-talented thrower, she holds the sixth best throw in the discus on Stanford‘s all-time

list. As a high schooler, Camarena-Williams gained All-America honors while at Woodland High School where she won the 2000 California state discus title and the 1999 state shot put crown. Her runner-up finish in the shot put at USA Juniors earned her a berth on Team USA which competed at the 2001 Pan Am Junior Championships in Argentina, where she won the gold medal in the shot. Camarena-Williams married Dustin Williams on September 5, 2009.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (19.85m/65-1.5)... USA Indoor champion (19.87m/65-2.25iAR)...3rd at

Paris (20.18m/66-2.5iAR)... 2nd at Pre Classic (19.76/64-10)... 2nd at Shanghai (19.35/63-6)... 3rd at Stockholm (19.87m/65-2.25). 2010: USA Outdoor champ (19.13m/62-09.25)…6th at World Indoors (19.34m/63-5.5PR)...USA Indoor champion (18.63m/61-1.5)…1st at Dakar (18.81m/61-8.50)…5th at Shanghai (18.56m/60-

10.75)…6th at Paris (18.30m/60-0.25)…6th at Monaco (18.60m/61-0.25)…5th at Stockholm (18.74m/61-5.75)…ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 19.34m/63-5.5i. 2009: 23rd in qualifying at World Outdoors (16.92m/55-6.25)...USA Outdoor runner-up (17.94m/59-2)...USA Indoor champion (18.59m/61-0)...4th at Reebok Grand Prix (17.77m/58-3.75)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of18.59m/61-0. 2008: 12th at Olympic Games (18.24m/59-10.25), 7th in qualifying (18.51m/60-8.75)…3rd at Olympic Trials (18.12m/59-5.5)...USA Indoor champion (18.11m/59-5)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by

T&FN…best of 18.51m/60-8.75.

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2007: USA Outdoor runner-up (18.50m/60-8.5)…10th in qual. at World Outdoors (16.95m/55-

7.5)...USA Indoor champion (18.46m/60-6.75)…1st at Stanford Invitational (18.92m/62-1)…1st at Triton Invitational (18.81m/61-8.5)…4th at Fortaleza (18.32m/60-1.25)…3rd at Belem (18.37m/60-3.25)…4th at Pan Am Games (18.11m/59-5)…3rd at Bad Kostritz (18.47m/60-7.25)…1st at Provo

(18.36m/60-3)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.92m/62-1. 2006: USA Outdoor champion (18.92m/62-1)…USA Indoor champion (19.26m/63-2.25iPR)…1st at Spokane (19.02m/62-5)…1st at Modesto (18.76m/61-6.75)…ranked #9 in the world (#1 U.S.) byT&FN…best of 19.26m.63-2.25i. 2005: USA Indoor champion (17.31m/56-9.5i)…4th at USA Outdoors (17.72m/58-1.75)…1st at Tucson (17.94m/58-10.25)…1st at Reno (17.72m/58-1.75i)…1st at Boise (17.10m/56-1.25)…ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.94m/58-10.25.

2004: 3rd in SP at U.S. Olympic Trials (17.73m/58-2)...2nd in SP at Cardinal Invitational (18.15m/59-6.75PR)...NCAA Outdoor Championships runner-up (18.11m/59-5)...Pac-10 SP champion (17.63m/57-10.25)...2nd at NCAA Indoors (17.27m/56-8)...3rd at Boise (17.44m/57-2.75i)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.15m/59-6.75. 2003: 7th in SP at USA Outdoors (17.23m/56-6 1/2)...3rd at NCAA Outdoors (17.49m/57-4.75)...5th

in DT at NCAA West Regional (52.52m/172-4)...1st at Claremont (17.03m/55-10.5)...NCAA Indoor

Championships runner-up (17.44m/57-2.75i)...1st at Boise (16.93m/55-6.5i)...best of 17.49m/57-4.75. 2002: 3rd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (16.80m/55-1)...9th at USA Outdoors (17.23m/56-06.50)...Pac-10 SP champion (16.72m/54-10.25)...5th at NCAA Indoors (16.46m/54-0i)...Pac-10 Indoor champion (16.94m/55-7i)...best of 16.94m/55-7i. 2001: Pan Am Juniors SP champion...3rd in SP at Pac-10 Championships (16.38m/53-9)...16th at NCAA Outdoors (15.39m/50-06)...USA Juniors SP runner-up (16.19m/53-1.5)...best of 16.38m/53-9.

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AMBER CAMPBELL

Event: Hammer Throw Height: 5-7

Weight: 200 PRs: HT - 72.59m/238-1 (2011); WT - 24.70m/81-0.5 (2010) Born: June 5, 1981 in Indianapolis, Ind. Current Residence: Myrtle Beach, S.C. High School: Pike (Indianapolis, Ind.) HS '99 College: Costal Carolina (SC) '04 Coach: Dr. David Vandergriff

Agent: John Nubani Club: Mjolnir/Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoor champion; Four-time USA Outdoors runner-up ('05, '08, '09, '11); Five-time USA Indoor champion ('07-'11); two-time USA Indoors runner-up (‘05 & ‘06); 3rd at 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials; five-time NCAA All-American; 2010 Indoor Visa champion

Campbell continued her streak of five consecutive USA Indoor Championship titles with her win in

2011. She recorded three tosses over 24 meters. In 2010, she won her first outdoor title in the hammer throw after second-place finishes in 2008 and 2009. She dominated the field in the women's 20-lb. weight throw at the 2010 USA Indoor Championships and ended up winning the women's Visa

Championship Series title. Her first throw, which sailed 24.70m/81-0.50, is the third-farthest throw ever in history and earned her a fourth consecutive U.S. Indoor title. Campbell qualified for her first Olympic team with her runner-up performance at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. She was a member of the 2005 World Outdoor Championships team. She competed for the Lady Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina University from 2000-04, becoming a five-time NCAA All-American in the hammer and weight throw. She also won 16 individual Big South Conference titles in the indoor weight throw and shot put, and outdoor shot put, hammer throw and discus. Campbell was named the Big South

Women‘s Track Athlete of the Year her last three years. She enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2004 finishing third at USA Indoors in the weight throw with a new collegiate record mark of 22.24m/72-11.75, and finished third at the 2004 NCAA Championships in the hammer throw. Campbell is in her fourth year as a volunteer assistant coach for throwers at Coastal Carolina after finishing her career as one of the most distinguished athletes of all-time.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (70.07m/229-10)... 1st at Mt. SAC Relays (72.59m/238-1)... USA Indoor champion (24.18m/79-5.25) 2010: USA Outdoor champion (71.52m/234-8)…USA Indoor champion (24.70m/81-0.5)...4th at Pre Classic (70.21m/230-4)…1st at Mt. SAC Relays (71.04m/233-1)…7th at Daegu (69.01m/226-5)…1stat California Relays (71.94m/236-0PR)…ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 71.94m/236-0.

2009: 11th at World Outdoors (70.08m/229-11)...USA Outdoor runner-up (68.92m/226-1)...USA Indoor champion (24.43m/80-2)…1st at VT Invite (23.73m/77-10.25)...2nd at Mt. SAC (70.61m/231-8)...best of 70.61m/231-8. 2008: Olympic Trials runner-up (69.24m/227-02)...9th in Group B qualifying at Olympic Games

(67.86m/222-8)...USA Indoor champion (23.23m/76-2.25)...1st at Mt. SAC (70.19m/230-3)...ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 70.19m/230-3.

2007: 5th at USA Outdoors (68.07m/223-4)...USA Indoor champion (24.54m/80-6.25)...1st at Provo (70.33m/230-9)...1st at Penn Relays (68.76m/225-7)...ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 70.33m/230-9. 2006: 3rd at USA Outdoors (67.52m/221-6)…USA Indoor champs WT runner-up (22.66m/74-4.25)…3rd in Penn Relays (67.19m/220-5)…2nd at Road to Eugene (67.36m/221-0)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 67.52m/221-6. 2005: 3rd at USA Outdoors (68.95m/226-2)…9th in Group B at World Outdoors (65.48m/214-

10)…USA Indoors weight throw runner-up (23.99m/78-8.5i)…3rd at Atlanta (69.44m/227-10PR)…1st at Conway (69.16m/226-11)…1st at Conway (69.13m/226-9)…1st in Charlotte (68.33/224-2)…1st at Lapua (68.23m/223-10)…1st at Johnson City (22.52m/73-10.75i)…1st at Clemson (22.07m/72-

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5i)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 69.44m/227-10.

2004: 3rd at U.S. Olympic Trials (65.98m/216-6)…3rd at the USA Indoors (22.24m/72-11.75)…1st at Gainesville (67.21m/220-6)…best of 67.21m/220-6. 2003: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (64.58m/211-10)…6th at USA Outdoors (64.02m/210-0)…best of

64.58m/211-10. 2002: 9th at NCAA Indoors (19.47m/63-10.5)…best of 19.47m/63-10.5. 2001: 7th at NCAA Outdoors (60.80m/199-6)…7th at NCAA Indoors (19.65m/64-5.75)…best of 60.80m/199-6.

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CHRISTIAN CANTWELL Event: Shot Put Height: 6-5

Weight: 300 PRs: Shot Put - 22.54m/73-11.50 (2004) Born: September 30, 1980, Jefferson City, Mo. Current Residence: Columbia, Mo. High School: Eldon High School, (Eldon, Mo.) '99 College: Missouri '03 Coach: Brett Halter

Agent: John Nubani Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2009 World Outdoor champion; 2008 Olympic silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; Three-time World Indoor champion ('04, '08, ‗10); 2010 USA Outdoor champion; Four-time U.S. Indoor champion (‘04, ‘07, '08, ‗10); 2003 World Athletics Final champion; 2010 IAAF Diamond League champion

One of the more consistent throwers the country has seen in the past decade, Cantwell picked up right where he left off in 2010, making yet another World Championships team with his runner-up finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (21.87m/71-9). He also has two Diamond League wins to his credit in 2011 at Switzerland (21.83m/71-7.5) and Stockholm (21.70m/71-2.5). Cantwell entered the 2010 season ranked #1 in the world by Track & Field News, won his fourth USA

Indoor title with a best throw of 21.13m/69-4 at the 2010 Nationals in Albuquerque. The 2010 Indoor Visa champion, Cantwell won the men's title and a $30,000 bonus from Visa. Shortly after that, Cantwell won his third career World Indoor Championships title in Doha, Qatar. Also in 2010, Cantwell competed in 20 meets where he threw the shot more than 70 feet, and the world leading throws both indoors and outdoors, and he won the inaugural IAAF Diamond League Championship in his event. Cantwell captured the first World Outdoor Championship gold medal of his career at the 2009 World

Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany. Cantwell grabbed the early lead in the competition with

his first round throw of 21.54m/70-8. 2008 Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland wrested the lead from Cantwell with his fourth-round toss of 21.68m/71-1.50, and increased it in round 5 when he threw 21.91m/71-10.75. Cantwell needed a clutch performance late in the competition and got it in round 5 with his winning throw of 22.03m/72-3.50, which was the third best throw in the world that outdoor season. Cantwell ended the 2009 outdoor season with the three best throws in the world, his best coming on August 31 in Zagreb with his toss of 22.16m/72-8.50. Cantwell saved his best throw for last at the 2008 Olympic Games with a mark of 21.09m/69-2.5, to move from fifth to second in

the sixth and final round of throwing in winning the silver medal. Cantwell's 2008 season got off to a brilliant start after an up and down 2007 campaign with his third career USA Indoor championship and second gold medal winning performance at a World Indoor Championships. He also qualified for his first Olympic team through his runner-up performance at the 2008 Olympic Trials with his toss of 21.71m/71-2.75 on his sixth and final attempt. Cantwell cemented his victory in the men's shot put at the 2007 AT&T USA Indoor Championships with his first throw of 21.72meters /71 feet 3.5 inches.

Cantwell had led the 2007 Visa Championship Series since his winning heave of 21.88m/71-9 at the

100th Millrose Games earned him 1,233 points. For his championship performance, Cantwell won $25,000 from Visa. In 2006, Cantwell posted the top-three outdoor throws in the world, and six of the top eight throws. Cantwell commanded world attention with his gold medal-winning performance at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, and by posting the top four throws in the world that outdoor season before ending the campaign ranked #1 in the world by Track & Field News. Despite his disappointing fourth place finish at the 2004 Olympic Trials, where he fouled on all but one of his

attempts to end a 14-meet winning streak, Cantwell threw 21.95m/72-0.25 early in the year at Columbia, which is the best indoor shot put performance by an American since 1989…his outdoor PR came at the 2004 adidas Oregon Track Classic (22.54/73-11.50)...Cantwell made a huge splash by winning the 2003 World Athletics Final in Monaco against many of the world‘s best shot putters, concluding a 2003 season that saw the 23-year-old set a new personal best (21.62/70-11.25) and break the 70-foot barrier for the second consecutive season…he followed up by winning the 2004 U.S.

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& World Indoor titles…Cantwell in 2002 had two throws over 70 feet outdoors, and finished second to

Adam Nelson at USA Indoors with a best of 20.86m/68-5.25…a six-time All-American, three-time Big 12 Champion, and 13-time All-Big 12 performer…named Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2000…scored 20 points at the 2002 Big 12 Championships (shot put – 1st, hammer – 3rd, discus – 5th)…Olympic

Trials qualifier as a freshman…a hotel and restaurant management major at Missouri…owns PRs of 57.19m/187-7 in the hammer and 59.31m/194-7 in the discus. Married Terri Steer in 2005...the couple had their first child on May 27, 2008, a son named Jackson Daniel. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (21.87m/71-9)... 1st at Switzerland (21.83m/71-7.5) and Stockholm (21.70m/71-2.5) ... 2nd at Monaco (21.23m/69-8)... 3rd at the Prefontaine Classic (21.59m/70.10), Hengelo (21.15m/69-4.75), and Birmingham (20.86m/68-5.25)... 6th at Doha (20.61m/67-7.5)... 4th

at Rome (21.09m/69-2.5). 2010: World Indoor champ (21.83m/71-7.50)...USA Outdoor champ (21.65m/71-00.5)…USA Indoor champ (21.13m/69-4)…1st at Pre Classic (21.78m/71-5.5)...1st at Doha (21.82m/71-7.25)… 1st at Drake Relays (21.69m/71-2)… 1st at Jamaica Invitational (21.50m/70-6.5)…1stat Osaka Grand Prix (21.34m/70-0.25)…1st at Stockholm (22.09m/72-5.75)...ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best

of 22.41m/73-6.25WL.

2009: World Outdoor champion (22.03m/72-3.50)...USA Outdoor champion (21.82m/71-7.25)...1st at Dakar (21.53m/70-7.75)…2nd at Drake Relays (21.00m/68-10.75)…4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (20.99m/68-10.5)...1st at Zagreb (22.16m/72-8.50)...ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 22.16m/72-8.50. 2008: Olympic Games silver medalist (21.09m/69-2.50)… World Indoor champ (21.77m/71-5.25)…2nd at Olympic Trials (21.71m/71-02.75)…3rd at Reebok Grand Prix (20.83m/68-4.25)…1st at adidas Track Classic (21.39m/70-2.25)… USA Indoor champ (21.51m/70-7)…1st at Modesto Relays

(21.76m/71-4.75)…ranked #2 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 21.77m/71-5.25i 2007: 5th at AT&T USA Outdoor Championships (20.14m/66-1)…USA Indoor champion (21.72m/71-3.5)…Indoor Visa champion…1st at Millrose Games (21.88m/71-9)…2nd at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (21.36m/70-1)…1st at adidas Track Classic (21.96m/72-0.75)…Nike Prefontaine Classic champion (21.83m/71-7.5)…ranked #3 in world & U.S. by T&FN…best of 21.96m/72-0.75. 2006: 3rd at USA Outdoor (21.89m/ 71-10)…1st at Gateshead (22.45m/73-8WL)…USA Indoor runner-up (21.10m/69-2.75)…10th in qualifying at World Indoor Champs (19.90m/65-3.5)…1st at Nike

Prefontaine Classic (22.17m/72-9)… 1st at Drake Relays (22.10m/72-6.25)…ranked #2 in world & U.S. by T&FN…best of 22.45m/73-8WL. 2005: USA Outdoor champion (21.64m/71-0)…5th at World Outdoor Champs (20.87m/68-5.75)...1st at Huelva on 6/7 (21.32m/69-11.25)…1st at Seville meet on 6/4 (21.67m/71-1.25)…4th at USA Indoors (20.57m/67-6)...ranked #6 in world (#4 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 21.67m/71-1.25. 2004: World Indoor champion (21.49m/70-6.25)…USA Indoors champion (21.26m/69-9)…4th at

Olympic Trials (20.56m/67-5.5)…1st at adidas Oregon Track Classic (22.54m/73-11.5PR)… 1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.74m/71-4)…1st at Home Depot (22.35m/73-4)…1st at Columbia (21.95m/72-0.25i)…mark was best indoors by an American since 1989…1st at Manhattan (21.11m/69-3.25)…1st at Drake Relays (20.64m/67-8.75)…1st in SP at Verizon Millrose Games (21.28m/69-9.75)…ranked #1 in the world by T&FN…best of 22.54m/73-11.5PR. 2003: 1st at World Athletics Final (20.93m/68-8)… 5th at USA Outdoors (20.57m/67-6)…1st at Salamanca (21.62m/70-11.25)… 2nd at NCAA Outdoors (21.56m/70-9)… 3rd at NCAA Indoors

(20.64m/67-8.75)…best of 21.62m/70-11.25…ranked #8 in the world at SP (#4 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: 2nd at USA Indoor Championships SP (20.86m/68-5.25PR)…3rd at NCAA Indoors (20.43m/67-0.5)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors (19.39m/63-7.50)…1st at Univ. of Iowa (21.45m/70-4.5)…1st at Kansas

Relays (21.37m/70-1.50)…1st at Drake Relays (21.06m/69-1.25)…ranked #4 in U.S. at SP by T&FN…best of (21.45m/70-4.5) 2001: 5th at NCAA Outdoors SP (19.27m/63-2.75)…no mark at USA Outdoors…1st at Big 12 Indoors SP (19.37m/63-6.75)…14th at NCAA Outdoors HT…3rd at Big 12 HT (57.18m/187-7)…bests of

19.71m/64-8 & 59.30m/194-7. 2000: 7th at NCAA Indoor Championships (18.72m/61-5)…no mark in qualifying at U.S. Olympic Trials…Big 12 Outdoor SP champ (19.67m/64-6.5)…best of 19.67m/64-6.5.

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DANIELLE CARRUTHERS

Events: 100m hurdles Height: 5-5

Weight: 135 PRs: 100mH - 12.52 (2011); 60mH - 7.88 (2006) Born: December 22, 1979 in Paducah, Ky. Current Residence: Smyrna, Ga. High School: Tilghman (Paducah, Ky.) HS '99 College: Indiana '03 Coach: Rana Reider

Agent: Caroline Feith Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Two-time USA Indoor champion (‘05, ‘06); Runner-up at 2011 USA Outdoors; 2002 Big Ten Indoor 60mH Champion; 2002 Big 10 Outdoor 100mH Champion; 2002 NCAA Indoors 60mH Runner-up; 2001 NCAA Outdoor runner-up

After winning back-to-back national indoor titles, Carruthers struggled and was unable to return to the national podium for three years; however, 2011 has seen Carruthers make a stunning comeback. Carruthers was only one-hundreth of a second off of her personal best time of 7.89 from 2006 when

she took first at the Gent Flanders indoor meet. She had her best finish ever at USA Outdoors as she took the runner-up spot and earned her spot on the world team. She then went on to run a personal best of 12.52 with her 2nd place in Birmingham. Carruthers successfully defended her national indoor title in the women's 60-meter hurdles at the 2006 AT&T USA Indoor Championships, her time of 7.93 seconds putting her ahead of Damu Cherry in second (7.95). She then came within an eyelash of a medal in the women's 60m hurdles at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Track & Field Championships. Carruthers crossed the finish line with a personal best time of 7.88 seconds, just shy of bronze

medalist Susanna Kallur of Sweden, who finished in 7.87. Carruthers entered the 2005 campaign looking strong and it paid off. She claimed her first national title in the women‘s 60-meter hurdles at the 2005 USA Indoor Championships with her time of 7.95. She ran the fastest indoor 60mH by an American collegian (7.92) twice in 2002. She continued with a strong outdoor campaign, lowering her personal best time in the 100mH to 12.68 at the Big 10 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, a Big 10 record. A three-time state champion in the 100m and 100mH as a prep athlete, Carruthers set an

IU school record when she won the 2002 Big Ten Indoor 60m dash (7.26). She was named the 2002 Big Ten Women‘s Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year, a first for any IU athlete. According to Indiana coach Randy Heisler: ―She has the talent to compete with and beat anyone in the country. After last season, I think Danielle has become one of the premier hurdler sprinters in the country.‖ Carruthers sat out her freshman year at Indiana rehabbing from ACL knee surgery.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (12.59)... 2nd at London (12.67)...2nd at Birmingham (12.52 PR)... 2nd at Lausanne (12.48)...1st at adidas Grand Prix (13.04)...3rd at Rome (12.80)...1st at Manchester Great City Games (12.73)...2nd at Doha (12.64)...2nd at Millrose Games (8.03)...1st at Gent Flanders

Indoor (7.89) 2010: 8th at USA Outdoors... 2nd at Monaco (12.68)...2nd at Gateshead (12.98)...1st at Great

Manchester Games (12.99)... 5th at USA Indoors (7.97) 2009: 5th at USA Outdoors (12.77)...1st in Olso (12.88) 2008: 7th in quarterfinals of Olympic Trials (13.20)...2nd in Lausanne (13.04) 2007: 7th at USA Outdoors (12.98)...4th at Monaco (12.98)...USA Indoor runner-up (7.88)…2nd at Reebok Indoor Games (8.10)…3rd at Millrose Games (7.94) 2006: USA Indoor champions (7.93)…4th at World Indoor Championships (7.88)…5th in heat 2 at USA Outdoors (13.08)…2nd at THALES FBK−Games (12.81)…2nd at Heusden (12.74)…2nd at Ostrava

(12.83)…3rd at Bislett Games (12.85)…4th at DN Galan (12.75)…ranked #7 in the U.S. byT&FN…best of 12.74. 2005: USA Indoor champion (7.95i)…USA Outdoor Championships (dnf in women‘s final)…2nd at

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Zagreb (12.72)…1st at Karlstad (12.63w)…8th in 100m hurdles at Nike Prefontaine Classic

(13.28)…1st at Powered by Tyson Invite (7.98i)…1st at Millrose Games (8.02i)…1st at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (8.08i)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 12.72. 2004: 2nd at Eugene (12.56)…2nd in semi-finals at Blacksburg (8.30i)… ranked #5 in the U.S.

byT&FN…bests of 8.30i & 12.56. 2003: 2nd in 100m at Minneapolis (11.50)…H at Columbus (11.49w)…S at Bloomington (7.32i)…NCAA Indoor Championships runner-up (8.01i)…2nd at Bloomington (8.07i)…bests of 7.32 (60mH), 11.50 (100m). 2002: Broke American collegiate record in 60mH (7.92) at the USTCA Challenge Feb. 8 … won Big Ten 60m dash (7.26)… runner-up at NCAA Indoors 60mH (7.92)…won silver at NACAC U-25 Championships 100mH (13.00)… won Big 10 Outdoor 100mH title in Big 10 record time of 12.68… 6th

at NCAA Indoors 60m (7.36)… 12th at USA Outdoors 100mH (13.20)… bests of 7.26 (60m), 7.92 (60mH) and 12.68. 2001: 6th at USA Outdoors 100mH (13:58)… 8th at World University Games 100mH (13:53)… runner-up at NCAA Outdoors 100mH (12.79)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN… bests of 8.12 (60mH), 7.37 (60m) and 12.79 (100mH).

2000: 2nd at Big Ten Indoor Champs 200m (24.10)… 13th at NCAA Indoors 200m (24.09)… 11th at

NCAA Indoors 60mH (8.29)… bests of 7.45i (60mH), 13.10 (100mH) and 23.71 (200m). 1999: DNC – Injured (ACL).

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MICHELLE CARTER

Event: Shot Put Height: 5-9

Weight: 210 PR: 19.13m/62-9.25 (2009) Born: October 12, 1985 in San Jose, Calif Current Residence: Ovilla, TX High School: Red Oak High School '03 College: Texas '07 Coach: Michael Carter/Jon Drummond

Agent: Karen Locke Club: Nike Facebook Fan Page: Michelle Carter

Twitter: @ShotDiva Career Highlights: Three-time USA Outdoor champion ('08, '09, '11); 2006 NCAA Indoor champion; 2005 and 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 NCAA Indoor & Outdoor Runner-up; 2004 World Junior

Champion; Two-time USA Junior Champion ('03, '04); 2003 Pan American Juniors gold medalist; 2001 World Youth silver medalist; national high school outdoor record holder

Carter edged out Jillian Camarena-Williams by one centimeter at the 2011 USA Outdoor

Championships to win her third outdoor title in the event. Her winning throw of 19.86m/65-2 was the third-best throw by an American ever. Carter finished sixth in the final of the women's shot put at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships with her third round throw of 18.96m/62-2.5. Her sixth-place finish is the highest by an American since Connie Price-Smith finished fifth in 1997. Carter made her first Olympic Team as an elite athlete, winning the women's shot put with a personal-best and U.S.-leading mark of 18.85m/61-10.25 at the 2008 Olympic Trials. In becoming an Olympian, she follows in the footsteps of her father, 1984 Olympic shot put silver medalist and boys' high school record

holder Michael Carter. Carter collected her first NCAA shot put title at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Champs, winning the event with a then personal-best toss and University of Texas record of 18.56m/60-10.75. She was Texas‘ first NCAA indoor shot put champion since 1994. Carter set a huge personal best of 18.26m/59-11 to take silver at the 2005 USA Outdoors. She also won silver at 2005 NCAA Indoors and Outdoors. Carter won the first-ever gold medal in the women‘s shot put for Team USA at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, with a personal best of 17.55m/57-7. Carter is the

national prep record-holder in the shot put at 16.73m/54-10.75, while her father, Michael, set the still-standing national boys prep record of 81-3.5 in 1979. She was a four-time Texas 4A state champion in the shot put, also set state record in the discus. Carter won silver at 2001 World Youth in shot put, throwing 15.23m/49-11.75. Her father Michael was a standout football player and shot putter at SMU who played many years for the San Francisco '49ers. She has one sister, D'Andra, who is a thrower at Texas Tech, and one brother, Michael, Jr.

2011: USA Outdoor champion in the shot put (19.86m/65-2). 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (18.46m/60-06.75)…USA Indoor runner-up (18.03m/59-2i)…12th in

qualifying at World Indoors (18.20m/59-8.5i)…1st at Texas Invite (18.43m/60-5.75)…4th at Shanghai (18.79m/61-7.75)…7th at Paris (18.17m/59-7.5)…5th at Monaco (18.70m/ 61-4.25)…1st at Goteborg

(18.80m/61-8.25)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 18.80m/61-8.25. 2009: 6th at World Outdoors (18.96m/62-2.5)...USA Outdoor champion (18.03m/59-2)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (18.43m/60-5.75)...1st at Zaragoza (18.44m/60-6)...1st at Jim Bush Invite (18.35m/60-2.5)...2nd at Stockholm (19.13m/62-9.25PR)...ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 19.13m/62-9.25. 2008: 15th at Olympic Games (17.74m/58-2.5)...6th in qualifying (18.49m/60-8)...Olympic Trials champion (18.85m/61-10.25)…1st at Triton (17.99m/59-0.25)…1st at Provo (18.71m/61-

4.75)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.85m/61-10.25. 2007: 5th at USA Outdoors (17.57m/57-7.75)…5th at NCAA Outdoors (17.23m/56-6.5)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.57m/57-7.75.

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2006: 3rd at NCAA Outdoors (17.91m/58-9.25)...Big 12 Outdoor champion (17.98m/59-0)...NCAA

Indoor champion (18.56m/60-10.75)...2nd at Big 12 Indoor champs (17.30m/56-9.25)...ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 17.89m/59-0. 2005: USA Outdoor Championships runner-up (18.26m/59-11)...2nd at NCAA Outdoor Champs

(17.06m/55-11.25)...2nd at NCAA Indoor Champs (17.86m/58-7)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.26m/59-11. 2004: 2004 World Junior gold medalist (17.55m/57-7)2004 USA Junior champion (16.33m/53-7). 2003: 1st in Texas 4A state meet, setting the U.S. high school record (16.73m/54-10.75)... 1st at USA Juniors (16.05m/52-8)... 1st at Pan Am Juniors (16.23m/53-3). 2002: 1st in Texas 4A state meet (16.25m/53-3.75)... 3rd at USA Juniors (16.24m/53-3.5)... 1st at USA Junior Olympics (15.59m/51-1.75). 2001: 2nd in SP at World Youth (15.23m/49-11.75)... 1st in

Texas 4A state meet (15.14m/49-8.25). 2000: 1st in Texas 4A state meet (14.76m/48-5.25)

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MATTHEW CENTROWITZ

Event: 1,500m Height: 5-9

Weight: 133 PR: 1,500m - 3:34.46 (2011); Mile - 3:57.92i (2009) Born: October 18, 1989 Current Residence: Arnold, Md. High School: Broadneck High School (Annapolis, Md.) '07 College: Oregon '11 Coach: Via Lamanna

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors champion; 2011 NCAA Outdoors champion; three-time PAC-10 champion; 2008 USA

Junior Outdoors champion in 5,000m; 2007 Pan Am Juniors champion Centrowitz continued his rise to the elite ranks of U.S. distance

runners with his first national title at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. He officially earned a berth to the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea with an A standard and personal best time of 3:34.69 at the Paris Diamond League event. Centrowitz improved on this time at the Monaco Diamond League meet with another personal best of 3:34.46, which places him fifth on the 2011 U.S. rankings for the 1,500m. As a member of the Oregon Ducks, Centrowitz won the 2011

NCAA Outdoors title and three PAC-10 Championships, all in the 1,500m. He also holds Oregon school records in the 1,500m and distance medley relay. After redshirting his freshman outdoor season, he won the USA Juniors 5,000m to claim a spot on the 2008 IAAF World Junior team. The year before, he also competed for Team USA at the Pan American Junior Championships, where he won the 1,500m. His father, Matthew, was a two-time Olympian and an All-American distance runner at Oregon.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (3:47.63)… NCAA Outdoors champion (3:42.23)… PAC-10 champion

(3:41.73)… personal best and Oregon school record of 3:34.46 at Monaco 2010: 3rd at NCAA Championships (3:48.08)… 5th at USA Outdoors (3:51.81)… PAC-10 champion (3:41.16)… best of 3:40.14 2009: PAC-10 champion (3:46.26)… best of 3:36.92 at Stanford Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 2008: USA Junior Outdoors champion in the 5,000m (14:44.67)… best of 3:44.98 2007: Pan American Juniors 1,500m champion (3:56.63)… Nike Outdoor Nationals 2-mile champion (8:41.55)… best of 3:49.54

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JASMINE CHANEY


Born: August 25, 1988 Current Residence: High School: McClintock High School (Tempe, Ariz.) College: Arizona State ‗11 Coach: Kendrick McDaniel Career Highlights: 3rd at 2011 USA Outdoors; 4th at 2011 NCAA

Outdoors An extremely diverse sprinter and hurdler, Jasmine Chaney placed

her name onto Team USA for the 2011 World Outdoor Championships after finishing third at USA Outdoors in the 400m hurdles. Her time in the finals of 55.22 was a big personal best for

the Arizona State University alum. Competing in essentially all sprints and hurdle races from 400m on down for the Sun Devils, Chaney burst onto the national stage after finishing fourth in the 400m hurdles at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships. This will be Chaney‘s first World team. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (55.22)… 4th at NCAA Outdoors (56.03)… Best of 55.22. 2010: 5th at NCAA Outdoors (57.83)… MPSF Indoor 400m champion (53.83) and runner-up in 60m hurdles (8.33)… Best of 57.67.

2009: 5th at NCAA Championships 4x400m (3:31.62)… 6th at NCAA Championships 4x100m (43.78)… 18th at NCAA Championships 100m hurdles (13.57). 2008: 400m indoor best of 56.31. 2007: 6th at PAC-10 Championships 100m hurdles (14.01)… 7th in 400m at USA Junior Outdoors (60.82).

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WILL CLAYE

Event: Triple Jump/Long Jump Height: 5-11

Weight: 160 PR: TJ - 17.62m/57-9.75 (2011); LJ – 8.29m/26-10.5 (2011) Born: June 13, 1991 Current Residence: Phoenix, Ariz. High School: Mountain Pointe (Phoenix, Ariz.) HS ‗08 College: Oklahoma, Florida ‗12 Coach: Martin Smith

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up in triple jump and long jump; 2009 NCAA Outdoor, USA Junior, Pan Am Junior & Big 12 Conference triple jump champion; U.S. Junior triple jump

record holder; U.S. Junior Champs triple jump record holder

Just after his 20th birthday, Will Claye qualified for the 2011 World

Outdoor Championships in both the long jump and the triple jump. As a freshman at the University of Oklahoma (transferring to Florida after his sophomore season), Claye closed out one of the most impressive first year seasons ever for an American collegiate athlete at the 2009 Pan Am Junior Championships in Trinidad & Tobago with his sixth major triple jump title of the year after winning

both the Big 12 indoor and outdoor crowns, the NCAA Midwest Regional, the NCAA Championship and the U.S. Junior National Championships. Claye‘s Pan Am Junior Champs winning triple jump of 16.57m/54-4.50 came on his first attempt of the competition. His effort gave him a winning margin of more than two feet over his nearest competitor. Claye ended the 2009 season as the world‘s top junior triple jumper, and he won the NCAA Outdoor championships with a best of 17.19m/56-4.75, which is now the U.S. Junior men‘s triple jump record, the school record at the University of Oklahoma and the second best performance by an American in 2009. Claye won the U.S. Junior Championships,

giving him an astounding winning margin of more than five feet. Also in 2009, Claye posted the Big 12 Championship meet record, the NCAA Midwest Regional record and the U.S. Junior National Championships meet record. After only one season of competition Claye is a four-time NCAA All-American (Indoor & Outdoor long jump and triple jump). In addition to being named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Field athlete of the Year, Claye ended the 2009 season ranked as the #2 triple jumper in the U.S. by Track & Field News. Skipped final semester of high school to enroll early at OU ... Two-

time Arizona state champion in the triple jump ... Named to the 2008 USA Today All-USA Track & Field Team in both the long and triple jump ... Posted the nation's best jump, 15.95m/52-4.25, in 2008 high school triple jump action ... Two-time U.S. Junior Olympic triple jump champion ... Finished first in the triple jump as a member of Team USA at the 2008 Bank of Scotland Cup with a jump of 15.41m/50-6.75 ... Holds the Arizona triple jump record ... Became the first ever Arizona high school athlete to triple jump over 50 feet ... Set Arizona state meet record in 2007 ... Won the triple jump title at the 2008 Great Southwest Classic with a distance of 51-0.25 (15.55) ... Two-time triple jump winner and one-time long jump winner at the Arcadia (Ca.) jumps event.

2011: 2nd in both long jump (8.19m/26-10.5) and triple jump (17.09m/56-9) at USA Outdoors... SEC champion in both long jump (8.29m/27-2.5) and triple jump (17.24m/56-6.75)... Runner-up in triple

jump at NCAA Outdoors (17.62m/57-9.75) and 3rd in long jump (8.20m/26-11)… Bests of 8.29m/27-2.5 and 17.62m/57-9.75. 2010: 10th at NCAA Outdoors (15.71m/51-6.50)...5th at Big 12 Indoors (15.91m/52-2.50)...best of 16.30/53-5.75. 2009: NCAA Outdoor champ (17.19m/56-4.75PR,U.S. Junior record)...Pan Am Junior Champ (16.57m/54-4.50)...U.S. Junior champ (17.14m/56-3MR)...9th in LJ at NCAA Outdoors (7.89/25-10.75)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 17.19m/56-4.75 & 7.89m/25-10.75.

2008: Bests of 15.97m/52-4.75 & 7.39m/24-3

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KERRON CLEMENT

Event: 400m hurdles Height: 6-2 Weight: 184 PR: 400mH - 47.24 (2005); 400m – 44.48 (2007)

Born: Oct. 31, 1985, in Port of Spain, Trinidad Current Residence: Los Angeles, Calif. High School: LaPorte (Texas) HS '03 College: University of Florida '07 Coach: Bob Kersee Agent: Wilson Joseph Club: Nike

Facebook Fan Page: Kerron Clement Twitter: @kerronclement Website: KerronClemenetOnline.com

Career Highlights: 2007, 2009 World 400mH champion; 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Games 4x400m relay

gold medalist; 2007, 2009 World Outdoor Champs 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2-time USA 400m hurdles champion (‘05, ‘06); 3rd in 400m at 2009 USA Outdoor Champs; 2-time NCAA Outdoor champion (‘04, ‘05); World Indoor 400m record holder; 2005 NCAA Indoor 400m champion; 2004 World Junior 400mH and 4x400m champion; 2-time Visa champion (‘05, ‘06) As the 2009 World 400m hurdles champion, Clement has an automatic bid for the 2011 World Outdoor

Championships, where he will look to capture his third consecutive title in the event. Clement was in the same position at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships as the reigning 400m hurdles world champion from 2007, and chose to focus on the 400m at the USA Outdoor Championships, where he finished third in 45.14 seconds. Clement, who entered the 2009 World Championships final as the #1 ranked men‘s 400m hurdler in the world, was in command throughout and successfully defended his

2007 world title in the fastest time in the world that year of 47.91 seconds. Clement joined National Track & Field Hall of Famer Edwin Moses (1983, 1987) and Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic

(2001, 2003) as the only men ever to win the world 400m hurdles title twice, with all three accomplishing the feat in consecutive years. Clement‘s 2008 season was highlighted by winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, and posting the second-fastest time in the world that year of 47.79 seconds from his win in Kingston, Jamaica on May 3. After finishing in fourth place in the 400m hurdles at the 2005 World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki, Finland, Clement made the most of his second opportunity at a World Outdoors. In 2007, he won the gold medal in the fastest time in the

world that year of 47.61 seconds. Clement entered the 2006 season looking for an encore after his breakthrough 2005 campaign, and he found it in winning his second consecutive USA Outdoor title in 47.39 seconds, the fastest time in the world that year. After dominating the world as a junior athlete in 2004, Clement proved that he is one of the world‘s finest 400m hurdlers in 2005. His personal best time of 47.24 seconds in winning the 2005 USA Outdoor title was the fastest in the world since 1998, and it earned him the overall Visa Championship, and he capped the year off with a fourth-place finish at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki, where he ran in lane one. Clement shocked the track

world when he ran 44.57 seconds to win the 2005 NCAA indoor 400-meter title on March 12, breaking Michael Johnson‘s WR of 44.63, set on March 4, 1995. The 19-year-old sophomore then anchored Florida‘s 4x400 meter relay to a collegiate record 3:03.51, previously…Clement went on to win the NCAA 400 hurdles in a meet-record 47.56. Clement enjoyed a phenomenal freshman season at the University of Florida, where he won the NCAA Division I, Southeastern Conference and World Junior Championship titles in the 400m hurdles. Following his amazing season, Clement was ranked #5 in the U.S. by Track & Field News…The 2004 World Junior Championships 400m hurdles final in Grosseto,

Italy, was nothing less than spectacular as he set a new championships record of 48.51 seconds… set several national junior Olympic records for 400IH (49.77) ... won the 400m hurdles at the 2002 and 2003 USATF Junior Olympics and at the 2003 adidas Outdoor Championships ... Won the 110m hurdles at the 2002 adidas Outdoor Championships...Won the 110H and 400H at the 2002 USATF Youth Athletic Championships…6-time NCAA All-American.

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2011: 2nd at Kingston Jamaica Invitational (48.74)

2010: 1st at New York (47.86)...5th at USA Indoor Champs (46.29)… 1st Jamaica Invite (48.55)...ranked #2 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 47.86. 2009: World Outdoor champion (47.91WL)...World Outdoor 4x400m relay gold medalist (3rd leg, 2:57.86); 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (45.14)...1st at adidas Track Classic (48.38)…1st at Osaka (48.60)…3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (48.73)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 47.91. 2008: Olympic Games silver medalist (47.98)...2nd at Olympic Trials (48.36)…7th in 400m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (45.77)…1st in 400mH at Reebok Grand Prix (48.40)...4th in 400m at adidas Track

Classic (45.10)...1st at Jamaica (47.79)…ranked #1 in the world by T&FN…best of 47.79. 2007: World Outdoor champion (47.61WL)...USA Outdoors runner-up (47.80)…4th at Reebok Grand Prix (49.21)…2nd at adidas Track Classic (48.46)…2nd at Kingston (48.72)…2nd at Monaco (48.47)…2nd at Rome (48.26)…2nd at Lausanne (48.31)…2nd at Stockholm (44.48PR)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN…best of 47.61. 2006: USA Outdoor Champion (47.39WL) …ran lead leg in setting indoor 4x400m world record of

3:01.96 with Wallace Spearmon, Darold Williamson and Jeremy Wariner on Feb. 11 at Fayetteville,

Ark….1st at Reebok Grand Prix (44.71)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (49.18)…2nd at Paris (48.57)…8th at Athens (49.32)…8th at Lausanne (49.07)…1st at London (48.63)…ranked #4 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 47.39. 2005: USA Outdoor 400mH champion (47.24PR, world leader)…4th at World Outdoor Champs (48.18)…set NCAA meet record in winning at NCAA Outdoors 400mH (47.56)…set WR in winning NCAA Indoor 400m (44.57)...anchored Florida to 4x400m title at NCAA Indoors (3:03.51 Collegiate

Record)…ranked #3 in world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 47.24. 2004: NCAA Outdoor champ (49.05)…World Junior champ (48.51PR)…anchored Team USA to World Junior 4x400m gold and world junior record :3:01.09)...6th in 4x400m at NCAA Outdoors (3:04.71)…NCAA East Regional champ (49.01)…SEC champion (48.77)…4th at NCAA Indoors 400m (45.90)…2nd in 400m at SEC Indoor Champs (46.32)…SEC Outdoor 4x400m relay champ (3:03.09)…second at USA Juniors (50.86)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 48.51. 2003: USATF Junior Olympic Young Men‘s champ (50.13)…National Scholastic 400m champion… bests

of 13.52hs, 50.13.

2002: USATF Junior Olympic Young Men‘s champ (49.77)…3rd at Golden West Invitational (35.78hs)…National Scholastic 110mH champ…2nd at Golden West Invitational 110mH (13.63hs)…bests of 35.78hs, 49.77.

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EMMA COBURN

Event: 3,000m Steeplechase Height: 5-8 Weight: 120 PR: 9:37.16 (2011) Born: October 19th, 1990 Current Residence: Crested Butte, Colo.

High School: Crested Butte (Crested Butte, Colo.) HS ‗08 College: University of Colorado Coach: Mark Wetmore Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor Champion; 2011 NCAA Outdoor Champion

Coburn became the second Colorado Buff to win the women‘s

USA steeple title while still in college. Following in the footsteps of her former teammate Jenny Simpson, Coburn bested the field of professional runners to win her first national title in 9:44.11. Coburn ran at the front of the pack throughout the race with Bridget Franek, but edged her out by .79

seconds to take the win. At the 2010 NCAA champs, the ordered was reversed, with Franek taking the title. Coburn turned heads earlier in the year when she improved her PR by 11 seconds at the 2011 Payton Jordan Invitational to win in 9:40.51. Coburn became the 11th fastest on the U.S. all-time list and earned the Olympic ―A‖ standard.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (9:44.11)...NCAA Outdoor champion (9:41.14)...1st at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite (9:40.51 PR) 2010: 2nd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (9:51.86)...1st at Big 12 Champs (9:56.53)...1st at Mt. SAC relays (9:56.29) 2009: Set American Junior Record at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite (10:06.54)

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JESSICA COSBY


Weight: 175 PR: 72.65m/238-4 (2011) Born: May 31, 1982 Current Residence: Mission Hills, Calif. High School: Grover Cleveland (Reseda, Calif.) HS '00 College: UCLA '05 Coach: Art Venegas

Agent: self Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Four-time USA Outdoor champion ('06, '08, '09, '11); 2007 NACAC champion; 2004 NACAC runner-up; 2004 NCAA runner-up; 2002 NCAA Outdoor SP champion; 2001 USA Junior SP and HT champion

After a second-place finish at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships, Cosby regained her spot atop the ranks of American hammer throwers with a victory at the 2011 Championships. With the win, she earned a spot on her third World Outdoor team. Cosby, who was also the 2009 US champion, won her the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, topping the field with an Olympic Trials record throw of 70.72m/232-0 and

followed it up with her third in winning the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. Cosby claimed her first national title at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships when she upended the American record holder and defending champion, Erin Gilreath. Cosby threw a personal-best 70.78m/232-3…In 2003, Cosby continued to improve with her fourth-place finish at USA Indoors, and by setting a personal best in the hammer throw of 61.15m/200-7. Placed second in shot put with a mark of 15.33m/50-3.50 (prep personal best) at the 2000 USA Junior Championships…four-time Los Angeles City shot put

champion (1997-2000)… placed second in shot put at the 2000 California State Championships

(14.95m/49-0.75) and Golden West Invitational (14.86m/48-9)…placed ninth at World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile with a best of 14.93m/48-11.75…at the 2001 U. S. Junior meet, Cosby became the first athlete in history to win both the shot put (16.68m/54-8.75, personal-best, No. 7 in school history, No. 8 on the World Junior list, No. 9 on the 2001 U. S. list) and hammer throw (55.72m/182-10, personal-best, #5 in school history)…voted #3 prep shot putter in the nation in 2000 by Track & Field News, earning All-American status…Cosby serves as the volunteer throws coach for the Bruins.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (71.33m/234-0)... 1st at Oxy Invite (72.65m/238-4PR). 2010: 2nd at USA Outdoors (71.24m/233-9). 2009: USA Outdoor champion (72.04m/236-4PR)...3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (70.68m/231-10)...1st at Oxy Invite (71.15m/233-5). 2008: Olympic Trials champion (70.72m/232-0)...no mark in Olympic Games qualifying...1st at JJK

Invitational (67.79m/222-5)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 70.72m/232-0.

2007: 3rd at USA Outdoors (68.21m/223-9)…8th in qual. at World Outdoors (67.90m.222-9)...NACAC champion (65.15m/213-9)…1st at Westwood (68.34m/224-2)…3rd at Mt. SAC (68.26m/223-11)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 68.34m/224-2. 2006: USA Outdoor champion (70.78m/232-3)…1st at USATF West Region Champs (69.50m/228-0)…2nd at Tucson Elite Classic (66.87m/219-4)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 70.78m/232-3.

2005: 5th at USA Outdoors (66.81m/219-2)…3rd in HT and SP at NCAA Champs…NCAA West Regional HT champion (65.20m/213-11)…Pac-10 HT and SP champion (66.09m/216-10, 17.11m/56-1.75)…ranked #5 in the HT and #7 in the SP in the U.S. by T&FN…bests of 66.81m/219-02, 17.63m/57-10.25. 2004: 7th at Olympic Trials (64.50m/211-7)…NACAC U23 Champs runner-up (63.70m/209-0)…NCAA Outdoor HT runner-up, 11th in SP (66.88m/219-5, 16.17m/53-0.75)…NCAA West Regional HT

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champion, 3rd in SP (65.46m/214-9, 16.57m/54-4.5)…Pac-10 HT champion, 3rd in SP…ranked #8 in

the U.S. in the HT by T&FN…bests of 66.88m/219-5, 17.25m/56-7.25. 2003: 4th in shot at USA Indoors (16.51m/54-2)…2nd in shot at Salinas (17.01m/55-9.75)…2nd in shot (16.66m/54-8) in Seattle…4th in hammer at Home Depot invitational (61.15m/200-7PR)…bests

of 17.01m/55-9.75, 61.15m/200-7. 2002: 1st at NCAA Outdoors (17.38m/57-0.25)…did not compete at USA Outdoors…6th at NCAA Indoors (16.42m/53-10.5)…2nd at Seattle (16.94m/55-7PR)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.38m/57-0.25PR. 2001: 1st at USA Junior SP (16.68m/54-8.75) & HT (55.72m/182-10)…bests of 16.68m/54-8.75, 55.72m/182-10. 2000: 2nd at USA Juniors (15.33m/50-3.5)…9th at World Junior Championships…2nd at Golden West

Invitational…best of 15.33m/50-3.5.

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WALTER DAVIS

Events: Triple Jump, Long Jump Height: 6-2

Weight: 185 PRs: LJ - 8.24m/27-0.5 (2003 & 2007); TJ - 17.73m/58-2 (2006) Born: July 2, 1979, in Lafayette, La. Current Residence: Baton Rouge, La. High School: Beau Chene ‗97 (Arnaudville, La.) Colleges: Barton County Community College ‗00; LSU ‗02 Coach: Rana Reider

Agent: Kevin Brown Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor TJ champion; 2006 World Indoor TJ champion; 2003 World Indoor TJ silver medalist; 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist; three-time USA Outdoor TJ champ (‘02, ‘05, ‗06); 2003 USA Outdoor LJ champ; 2-time USA Indoor TJ

champ (‘05, ‘06); two-time NCAA Indoor TJ champion (‘01, ‘02); 2002 NCAA Outdoor LJ champ; six-time national junior college champion As the veteran in a young triple jump field at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Davis finished third to claim a spot on his fifth World Outdoors team. His best long jump leap at the 2007 USA

Outdoor Championships of 8.24 meters/27-0.50 equaled his personal best set, in 2003. Davis faced quite a challenge on his way to the gold medal at the 2006 World Indoor Championships. He believed he scored well on his first attempt in the final and was surprised to learn that it had only been recorded as a leap of 17.42m/57-2. Davis questioned the result and during the third round the score was changed to the winning distance of 17.73m/58-2, which remains his career best effort. On his first and winning jump being changed during the third round: "They put 17.30m on the first one

because they saw a mark they forgot to erase from earlier," he said. "One guy measured from the

actual mark for me and they told me they checked it on television and switched it to make it right." In addition to his indoor success in 2006, Davis won the USA Outdoor Championships with the farthest triple jump in the world that outdoor season of 17.71m/58-1. A national champion in both horizontal jumps, Davis didn‘t start out in track & field. He was an all-state basketball player who decided to try track his junior year of high school…the first U.S. Olympian from Barton County Community College in any sport…Davis made the 2000 Olympic roster in both the LJ & TJ but opted to compete only in the TJ at Sydney…native of Leonville, Louisiana…Davis posted five of the top six triple jumps by Americans

in 2002…LSU‘s men‘s team visited the White House after winning the 2002 NCAA Outdoor crown. Davis presented President Bush with an LSU warm-up. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (17.02m/55-10.25) 2010: 1st place at Razorback Invite (16.99m/55-9i)...best of 16.99m/55-9i. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (16.84m/55-3)...12th in Group B qualifying at World Outdoors

(16.62m/54-6.50)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 16.84m/55-3.

2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (17.20m/56-05.25)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.20/56-5.25. 2007: 3rd at World Outdoors (17.33m/56-10.25)...4th in LJ at US Outdoor Championships (8.24m/27-0.5)…5th in LJ at Nike Prefontaine Classic (7.76m/25-5.5)…6th in TJ at Oslo (17.00m/55-9.25)…2nd in TJ at Baie Mahault (17.01m/55-9.75) 2006: USA Outdoor TJ Champion (17.71m/58-1.25WL)…World Indoor TJ champion (17.73m/58-2PR)...USA Indoor TJ champion (16.87m/55-4.25)…1st in TJ at Nike Prefontaine Classic (17.40m/57-

1)…5th in LJ at Paris (8.10m/26-7)...11th in LJ at Rome (7.65m/25-1.25)…3rd in TJ at Lausanne (17.40m/57-1)…2nd in TJ at Stockholm (17.24m/56-6.75)…ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 17.73m/58-2 2005: World Outdoor TJ champion (17.57m/57-7.75)…USA Outdoor TJ champion (17.15m/56-3.25)…4th at 2005 USA Outdoor Championships LJ (7.98m/26-2.25)…USA Indoor TJ champ (17.31m/56-9.50)...ranked #4 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 17.57m/57-7.75.

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2004: 2nd at Olympic Trials TJ (17.63m/57-10.25PR)… 11th at Olympic Games TJ (16.78m/55-

0.75)...12th in Group B LJ qualifying at Olympic Games (7.80m/25-7.25)…4th at Olympic Trials LJ (7.91m/25-11.5)… 1st at Martinique (8.20m/26-11)…ranked #8 world (#2 U.S.) in TJ, #5 U.S in LJ by T&FN…bests of 8.25m/27-1 & 17.63m/57-10.25.

2003: 1st at USA Outdoor LJ (8.24m/27-0.5)…2nd at USA Outdoor TJ (17.55m/57-7)…7th at World Outdoors LJ (8.02m/26-3.75)…8th in qualifying group at World Outdoors TJ (16.60m/54-5.5)…USA Indoor runner-up (17.23m/56-6.5)… 2nd at World Indoors TJ (17.35m/56-11.25)…2nd at Home Depot Invitational Outdoors LJ (8.15m/26-9)…bests of 8.24m/27-0.5PR & 17.55m/57-7…ranked #4 in the world in TJ (#1 U.S.), #9 in the world in LJ (#4 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: USA Outdoor TJ champion (17.59m/57-8.5PR)…NCAA Outdoor LJ (8.08m/26-6.25) and TJ (17.34m/56-10.75) champion…NCAA indoor triple jump champ (17.23m/56-6.5PR), 2nd in long jump

(8.15m/26-9)…1st at Brussels (17.40m/57-1)…1st in Lausanne (17.39m/57-0.75)…1st in Rome (17.33m/56-10.25)…1st at Texas Relays LJ (8.12m/26-7.75)…ranked #3 in the world, #1 in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 8.12m/26-7.75 & 17.59m/57-8.5PR. 2001: 5th at World Outdoors TJ (17.20/56-5.25)…NCAA Indoor (16.89m/55-5) and Outdoor (16.56m/54-4) champion …2nd in LJ at NCAA Indoor (8.01m/26-3.5) and Outdoor (8.19m/26-10.5) …

3rd in TJ (16.92m/55-6.25) & 8th in LJ (8.04m/26-4.5) at USA Outdoors…1st at Tyson Invitational

(7.86m/25-9.5)…ranked #8 in the world #1 U.S. in TJ, and #5 U.S. in LJ by T&FN…bests of 8.13m/26-8.25 and 17.22m/56-6 (best by an American). 2000: 11th in Olympic TJ (16.61m/54-6)...3rd in long jump at Olympic Trials (8.11m/26-7.25), and 3rd in triple jump (16.84m/55-3) choosing to compete only in the TJ at the Olympic Games... Won NJCAA outdoor LJ, indoor TJ and LJ … ranked 4th in LJ and 3rd in TJ in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 8.16m/26-9.25 in qualifying at Olympic Trials and 17.07m/56-0 at Baton Rouge on May 19. 1999: NJCAA Outdoor TJ champion (16.47m/54-0.5), 2nd place in LJ (7.70m/25-3.25)... Indoor

NJCAA champion (7.88m/25-10.25) LJ and (16.08m/52-9.25) TJ. 1998: Best of 50-2 (wind-aided). 1997: 3rd at National Scholastics...bests of 23-9 and 51-9.25.

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SHARON DAY

Events: Heptathlon, High Jump Height: 5-8

Weight: 145 PRs: High Jump - 1.95m/6-4.75 (2008); heptathlon – 6,177 points 100h – 13.82; HJ – 1.95m/6-4.75; SP – 12.92m; 200m – 24.87; LJ – 6.02m; JT – 45.19m; 800m – 2:13.54; Pentathlon – 4,276 (2009) Born: June 9, 1985 in Brooklyn, NY Current Residence: Costa Mesa, Calif. High School: Costa Mesa HS (Costa Mesa, Calif.) '02

College: Cal Poly-SLO '08 Coach: Jack Hoyt Club: Asics

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; Three-time USA Outdoor runner-up ('07, '09, ‗10); 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion; 3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors; 2004 World Junior bronze medalist; 2004 USA Junior champion; 2003 Pan Am Junior gold medalist; Two-time NCAA Indoor & Outdoor runner-up

('03 & '04) After finishing second for the past two years, Day won her first national title at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships with a score of 6,058. At the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships, Day qualified for a trip to Berlin for the World Outdoor Championships in both the high jump and the heptathlon. She posted five personal bests in finishing her second place finish in the hep with 6,177 points, which is

also a personal best total score and earlier in the competition took third in the high jump with 1.95m/6-4.75.…Day is one of America‘s top prospects in the high jump. After finishing as the 2008 NCAA Outdoor runner-up, she took third at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to qualify for her first Olympic Team…In 2007, she was the runner-up at USA Outdoors with a clearance of 1.89m/6-2.25… won her first collegiate high jump crown with a school record performance at the 2005 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Sacramento…In December 2005, Day went for a run and tripped over the curb. At

first, she thought her foot was just bruised, but the next day she was barely able to walk. The fall had

fractured metatarsals in her foot and forced her to redshirt the 2006 track season…In 2004, with support from her fellow Team USA members in Grosetto, Italy, Day matched her personal best mark at the time grabbing a bronze medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships. She cleared the same height as the silver medalist, but because she had more misses, Day settled for bronze. ―The only thing I could have done better is to stay clean and that is what kept me from getting silver. The goal is to stay clean throughout the competition.‖ Day gained her first taste of international experience at the 2003 Pan Am Junior Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados. She preserved through a long

evening of competition leaped to win her first gold medal before the clock struck midnight… Also played the forward position in Soccer for Cal Poly…named 2003 Big West Conference Freshman of the Year. 2011: USA Outdoor champion (6,058). 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (6,006)…3rd at USA Indoor Combined Events (4467)…ranked #2 in the

U.S. by T&FN…best of 6,006.

2009: 10th in heptathlon (6,126), 17th in high jump qualifying at World Outdoors (1.89m/6-2.25)…USA Outdoor heptathlon runner-up (6,177PR) and 3rd in HJ (1.95m/6-4.75)…1st in heptathlon at America's Cup (6,063)...1st at Run for Dream (1.93m/6-4i)...ranked #1 in the U.S. at the heptathlon and #4 in the U.S. at the high jump...bests of 6177 and 1.95m/6-4.75. 2008: 12th in qualifying at Olympic Games (1.85m/6-0.75)...3rd at Olympic Trials (1.91m/6-03.25)...NCAA Outdoor runner-up (1.86m/6-1.25)…1st at Big West Champs (1.95m/6-4.75)...ranked

#3 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1.95m/6-4.75. 2007: 2nd at USA Outdoors (1.89m/6-2.25)…4th at NCAA Outdoors (1.83m/6-0)…6th at Pan An Games (1.81m/5-11.25)…5th at NACAC Champs (1.74m/5-8.75)...2nd at Big West in heptathlon (5,244 points)…3rd in Seattle (1.79m/5-10.5i)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 1.89m/6-2.25. 2006: did not compete (redshirt – fractured metatarsals). 2005: NCAA Outdoor champion (1.93m/6-4PR)...3rd at USA Outdoors (J1.90m/6-2.75)...2nd at

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adidas Track Classic (1.92m/6-3.5)...3rd at USA Indoors (1.82m/5-11.5i)...3rd at NCAA Indoors

(1.86m/6-1.25)...1st at Seattle (1.86m/6-1.25i)...ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1.93m/6-4. 2004: World Junior bronze medalist (1.91m/6-3.25PR)...1st at Atascadero All-Comers Championships (1.91m/6-3.25)...USA Junior champion (1.85m/6-0.75)...NCAA Outdoors runner-up (1.90m/6-

2.75)...NCAA Indoors runner-up (1.86m/6-1.25i)...3rd at Holiday Inn Invitational (1.81m/5-11.25i)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1.91m/6-3.25. 2003: Pan Am Junior gold medalist champion (1.85m/6-0.75)...USA Junior runner-up (1.78m/5-10)...1st at Costa Mesa (1.88m/6-2)...best of 1.88m/6-2.

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JANAY DELOACH

Event: Long jump Height: 5-5 Weight: 130 PR: 6.99m/22-11.25i Born: October 12, 1985 Current Residence: Ft. Collins, Colo. High School: Ben Eielson High School (Eielson AFB, Alaska)

College: Colorado State ‗08 Coach: Tim Cawley

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoors champion; 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up

After a standout season competing for Colorado State University, Janay DeLoach burst onto the

professional scene in 2011. The trip to Daegu will be DeLoach‘s first World Championships team after she placed second at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (6.97m/22-10.5). Her big breakthrough may have come at the USA Indoor Championships where she won the national title with a personal best jump of 6.99m/22-11.25. It was an outdoor season marked with international success

as well. She was able claim a Diamond League victory at Birmingham and picked up a second place finish at the DL meet in New York.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (6.97m/22-10.5)… USA Indoors champion (6.99m/22-11.25)…1st at

Birmingham (6.78m/22-3)… 2nd at New York (6.41m/21-0.5)… 5th at Lausanne (6.60m/21-8)… 7th at Monaco (6.62m/21-8.75).

2010: 5th at USA Indoors (6.57m/21-6.75).

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LASHINDA DEMUS

Event: 400m Hurdles Height: 5-7 Weight: 136 PR: 52.63 (2009)

Current Residence: Palmdale, Calif. Born: March 10, 1983 in Inglewood, Calif. High School: Woodrow Wilson (Long Beach, Calif.) HS '01 College: South Carolina '05 Coach: Yolanda Rich Agent: Jamel Mayrant Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Two-time World Outdoor silver medalist ('05, '09); 2009 World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist; Three-time USA

Outdoor champion ('05, '06, '11); 2004 Olympian; 2002 World Junior champion; 2002 USA Junior champion; 2002 NCAA Outdoor champion; 1999 Pan Am junior champion; 2003 SEC Indoors 4x400m champion; 2003 NCAA Indoor 400m champion

Demus has been a fixture among the nations' top hurdlers for nearly a decade. Demus qualified for her third World Outdoor team by winning the 400m hurdle national title with a comfortable half-second margin. Demus won her second career World Outdoor silver medal by placing second in the women's 400m hurdles in 52.96 seconds at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships, trailing only

Jamaica's Melanie Walker, who posted the second-fastest time in history in winning the race with a new Championships record time of 52.42 seconds. Demus posted the then-fourth-fastest time ever at the Herculis IAAF Super Grand Prix in Monaco on July 28 when she blistered the track in 52.63 seconds, the fastest time in the world since Russia's Yuliya Pechenkina set the world record of 52.34 in 2003. Her time ranks her third on the all-time U.S. list, trailing only Kim Batten (52.61) and Tonja Buford-Bailey (52.62) from their respective gold and silver medal winning performances at the 1995

World Outdoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden...The world‘s top-ranked 400m hurdler in 2006, the supremely talented and speedy Demus in 2008 attempted an unusual comeback from maternity, having given birth to twin boys in June 2007…At the Olympic Trials in Eugene, she had the lead for most of the race but faded to fourth in the homestretch…won her second straight national title in 2006 in a then-personal best, world-leading time of 53.07, and also won the $100,000 first prize in the Visa Championship Series with her performance... won gold at the 2005 USA Outdoor 400mH and went on to win a silver medal at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki with a personal best of

53.27…Demus exhibited the ability to run the open 400m with her win at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships...had a big lead heading into the penultimate hurdle at the 2004 Olympic Trials, but she hit the hurdle. Falling back into fourth-place, Demus recovered enough to move into 3rd and earn a spot on her first Olympic team...her time of 56.35 in winning the 2002 U.S. Junior title would've placed second at the 2002 USA Outdoor Championships behind winner Sandra Glover (ranked #3 in the world, #1 U.S.)...Demus broke her own World Junior record by clocking 54.70 to win the 2002 World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica...her effort broke her own World Junior record set

that June at the NCAA's 54.85. Demus led from wire-to-wire in Kingston, winning by almost a second and a half. As a South Carolina freshman in 2002, Demus anchored the Gamecocks 4x400m relay

squad of Tiffany Ross, Tacita Bass and Demetria Washington to the 2002 NCAA title in collegiate record time of 3:26.46…ran second leg of Gamecocks 2002 NCAA Indoor champion 4x400m relay team (3:30.36)...departed the South Carolina team during the 2003 season…a sensational high school athlete, Demus was named a 2001 Track and Field News All-American in five events (100 hurdles, 300

hurdles, 4x1, 4x4, sprint medley)...set national record in 300m hurdles (39.00) Demus was a member of her high schools 4x400m relay that set the national record her freshman and senior seasons...won state titles as a senior in the 100m hurdles and the 4x100m relay after running around a hurdle and not qualifying for the state championships in the 300m hurdles.

2011: USA Outdoors champion in the 400m hurdles (54.21)...1st at Luzern (54.18)...1st at Pre Classic (53.31)... 2nd at Shanghai (54.58).

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2010: 1st at Pre Classic in 400m hurdles(53.78)…1st at Rome (52.82WL)…1st at Shanghai (53.34) …4th at Monaco (54.54)…1st at Mt. Sac Relays in the 400m (51.40) …5th at Oslo in the 400m

(51.09PR)…ranked #1 in the world by T&FN…best of 52.82. 2009: World Outdoor silver medalist (52.96), 4x400m gold medalist (3rd leg, 3:17.83)...USA Outdoor champion (53.78WL)…1st at Baie Mahault (54.17)…1st at Rethymno (54.29)...1st at Monaco (52.63)...1st at London (53.65)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 52.63. 2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (54.76)…6th at World Athletics Final (55.44)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (55.17)…1st at Fort-de-France (53.99)…1st at Kingston (54.83)…ranked #8 in the world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 53.99.

2007: did not compete (maternity) 2006: USA Outdoor Champion (53.07)...1st at Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis (53.76)…1st at Golden Gala (53.51)…1st at Athens Super Grand Prix (53.02PR)…1st at World Athletics Final (53.42)…2nd at IAAF World Cup (54.06)…ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 53.02. 2005: World Outdoor Championships 400mH silver medalist (53.27)...USA Outdoor champion (53.35)...1st at Rio (54.60)...1st at Belem (53.56)...1st at Paris (53.85)...1st at Rome (53.68)...3rd at

Oslo 400mH (54.59)...2nd at Zurich (53.83)...1st at Brussels (53.61)...1st at World Athletics Final

(53.37)...6th in 400m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (51.92)...1st at Fortaleza (54.36)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 53.27. 2004: 3rd at Olympic Trials 400mH (53.43)...5th in semi finals at Olympic Games (54.32)...NCAA Outdoors runner-up (54.22)...NCAA Outdoors 4x400m relay runner-up (2nd leg - 3:28.09)...5th in 400m at NCAA Indoors (51.63i)...3rd at NCAA Indoors 4x400m relay (anchor - 3:30.27i)...1st in 400m at Atlanta (51.70)...1st in 400mH at Columbia, S.C. (54.87)...3rd in 100mH at SEC

Championships (13.08)...SEC Champion in 400mH (54.50)...1st in 400mH at Gainesville (54.77)...1st in 400mH at Columbia (54.87)...ranked #10 in the world (#4 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 53.40 (400mH) & 51.41 (400m). 2003: 8th at USA Outdoors (59.05)...1st in semifinal at USA Outdoors (55.65)...1st in 400m at NCAA Indoors (51.79)...2nd at SEC Indoors 400m (52.91)...2nd in 4x400m relay at NCAA Indoors (3:28.25)...1st in Los Angeles Outdoors (55.92)...best of 55.65...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN. 2002: U.S. Junior champion (56.35)...NCAA Outdoor champ (54.85)...World Junior champ

(54.70)...2nd at SEC Outdoors...anchored South Carolina women's 4x400m relay team to an NCAA

record (3:26.46) at NCAA Outdoors...ran second leg on USC's NCAA Indoor 4x400m relay championship team (3:30.36)...ranked #9 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 54.70. 2001: 5th at USA Outdoors (56.51)...8th in semis at WUGs...ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 55.76 2000: Best of 40.41 (HS). 1999: USA Junior champion (57.95)...1st at Pan American Juniors...best of 57.04, 40.44 (HS).

1998: Bests of 14.23, 53.06. 1997: Best of 54.35

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COLLEEN DE REUCK

Event: Distance Height: 5-5 Weight: 104 PRs: 10,000m - 31:16 (1996); Half Marathon - 1:08:38 (1989);

Marathon - 2:26:35 (1996) Born: April 13, 1964 in Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Current Residence: Boulder, Colo. High School: Stanger HS (Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) ‗81 College: University of Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape, South Africa) ‗85 Coach: Darren De Reuck

Agent: Bob Gordan Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2004 Olympic Trials Marathon champion;

Two-time USA 8 km XC champion (04 & 05); Two-time USA Running Circuit champion (02 & 03); 2002 World XC bronze medalist; three-time South African Olympian (92, 96, 00); 2004

(USA) Olympian 2009 was a great year for De Reuck as she won the USA 20 km Championships in 1:07:21, placed 2nd at the USA Marathon Championship in 2:32:37 and was the Masters Athlete of the Year after winning the US 20 km Championship. A veteran runner, De Reucks extensive international experience has made her a leader for Team USA. De Reuck made her first Team USA appearance at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland, where she finished third overall (27:17) and help

lead Team USA to a silver medal. At the 2003 World XC Championships she earned a team bronze and was 8th individually. A four-time Olympian from South Africa, De Reuck became a U.S. citizen on December 11, 2000, just after finishing 31st at the 2000 Olympic Games in the marathon (2:36:58) she also competed in the 1992 Olympic Marathon, where she finished 9th overall (2:39:03). In 1996, she competed in the 10,000m race at the Atlanta Olympic Games where she finished 13th (32:14.69).

The former world record holder at 10 miles (51:16 Cherry Blossom) and 20km (1:05:11 New Haven) she is married to Darren De Reuck who is also her coach. They have a daughter, Tasmin.

2011: 6th at the USA 25 km Championships (1:31:06) 2010: 9th at the USA 20 km Championships (1:10:23)… 4th at the USA km Championships (50:51) 2009: 2nd at the USA Women‘s Marathon Championships (2:32:37)… 1st at the USA 20 km Championships (1:07:21)… 3rd at the USA Half Marathon Championships (1:12:16) 2008: 6th at the Chicago Marathon (2:32:25)… 5th at the NIKE Half Marathon in New York (1:12:03)

2006: 5th at the NIKE Half Marathon (1:11:48)… 13th in the Chicago Marathon (2:33:18) 2005: USA XC 8 km champion (27:24)...13th at World XC (27:51), top U.S. finisher. 2004: Olympic Trials Marathon champion (2:28:25)39th at the Olympic Games (2:46:30)USA 8 km XC champion (26:16)USA 15 km champion (49:02)ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN... best of 2:28:25 & 26:16. 2003: 2nd at USA Cross Country Champs 8 km (29:42)8th at World XC Champs 8 km (26:49)USA Half-Marathon Champion (1:10:00)2nd at USA Marathon Championships (2:37:41)3rd at USA 15 km

championships (49.30)bests of 1:10:00 & 2:37:41. 2002: Bronze medalist at IAAF World Cross Country 8 km (27:17)…team silver medalist at World Cross Country USA 7-Mile Champs (37:44)… 2nd USA Cross Country 8km runner-up (26:46)… 2nd at USA 5 km Champs (15:36)… 4th USA 15km Champs (49:39)bests of 15:36 & 49:39. 2001: USA 8km champion - Carolina 8km (26:16)won Arturo Barrios 10km (32:35) and Tufts Health Plan 10km for Women (32:10)finished 14th (3rd American) at New York City Marathon (2:35:31). 2000: Won Crescent City Classic 10km (31:58), Examiner Bay to Breakers 12km (38:42), Steamboat

Classic 4 Mile (20:05) and Quad-City Times Bix 7 (36:42)31st at Olympic Marathon (2:36:58). 1999: 4th at Boston Marathon (2:27:54) and Chicago Marathon (2:27:30); won Steamboat Classic 4 Mile (20:10) and Azalea Trail 10km (32:36). 1998: Won Nortel Cherry Blossom 10 Mile (51:16) and New Haven 20km (1:05:11) in world record times 2nd at Chicago Marathon (2:27:04) 5th at Boston Marathon (2:29:43).

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1997: Won Quad-City Times Bix 7 (37:34) 2nd at New York City Marathon (2:29:11) 3rd at Boston Marathon (2:28:03) 8th at World Championships 10,000m (32:03.61).

1996: Won Berlin Marathon (2:26:35) 13th at Olympic 10,000m (32:14.69). 1995: Won Honolulu Marathon (2:37:29). 1994: No competitive record. 1993: Won Carlsbad 5000m (15:20). 1992: 9th at Olympic Marathon (2:39:03).

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WALTER DIX

Event: Sprints Height: 5-9 Weight: 190 PR: 100m-9.88 (2010); 200m-19.69 (2007)

Born: January 31, 1986 in Coral Springs, Fla. Current Residence: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. High School: Coral Springs High School (Fla.) '04 College: Florida State University '08 Coach: Rey Robinson Agent: Dix Management, Llc. Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games 100m & 200m bronze medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials 200m champion and 100m runner-up; 2011: USA Outdoor 100m and 200m champion; 2010 USA Outdoor

100m champion and 200m runner-up; 3rd at 2007 USA Outdoors 100m; 2007 NCAA Outdoor 100m and 200m champion; 2006 NCAA Indoor & Outdoor 200m champ; 2005 NCAA 100m champion; U.S.

men‘s 100m Junior record holder. Dix earned his first spot on a World Championships team with a double victory in the 100m and 200m at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. Dix missed most of the 2009 season due to injuries but came back with a vengeance in 2010 by winning the USA Outdoor 100m title and finishing as the runner-up at that event in the 200 meters. Dix broke the 20-second barrier four times in 2010, which was second most in the world that season. Dix also posted a personal best in the 100m in 2010 of

9.88 with his win at Notwil on August 8. At age 22, Dix was the most successful American sprinter at the 2008 Olympic Games, winning bronze in both the 100 and 200 meters. Dix was the runner-up in the 100m in 9.80w seconds at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., before winning his first national title in the 200 meters by five-thousandths of a second over runner-up and 2004 Olympic gold medalist Shawn Crawford. His performance shattered the previous Hayward Field record of 19.87 seconds by

Lorenzo Daniel from 1988. Only the second man to win the NCAA 200m outdoor title three times, he is tied for third in NCAA history with six individual outdoor national championships and accumulated 18

All-America honors. On May 26, 2007, Dix set the collegiate record in the 200m in Gainesville, Fla., with his winning time of 19.69 seconds at the NCAA East Regional, which is the seventh-fastest time in the history of the event. In 2007, the first to win the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships since 1969. In his freshman year at Florida State in 2005, Dix had an amazing season that ended with him winning the NCAA Outdoor men‘s 100m title, finishing fourth at the USA Outdoor Championships, and ending the campaign ranked #4 in the nation in that event

by Track & Field News. At the 2005 NCAA East Region Championships at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York City, Dix broke the American junior record, FSU all-time, NCAA East Region and Icahn Stadium track record with a 10.06 clip to lead all qualifiers. His performance was the third-fastest junior time in the world, with the top mark being 10.01. Dix added the honor of Mondo Regional Athlete of the Year and ACC Outdoor Rookie of the Year to his list of awards. He is the first to sweep 100m & 200m ACC titles since Brendon Mahoney (Georgia Tech) in 2000. He was the top high school sprinter in the nation for the 2004 season, running Olympic standard times in the 100m and

200m...shattered the state mark with a 10.28 in the 100 meters at the Florida Class 4A state meet, after tying it at 10.38... broke the Florida high school record with a 20.62 in the 200 meters this past season before besting the mark with a 20.54 at the state regional meet... one of six SchoolSports Magazine's top high school athletes in the nation...two-time Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel Track Athlete of the Year. 2011: USA Outdoor 100m champion (9.94) and 200m champion (19.95)... 1st in 200m at Pre Classic

(20.19)... 1st in 200m at Doha (20.06)... 1st in 200m at Luzern (20.02) 2010: USA Outdoor 100m champion (10.04) and 200m runner-up (20.14w)…1st at Pre Classic at 200m (19.72)…1st at Lausanne (19.86)…1st at Gateshead (20.26)…1st at Seminole Twilight Invite in 100m (9.98) and 200m (19.89)...1st at Notwil (9.88PR)...ranked #3 in U.S. at 100m, #1 in world at 200m by T&FN...bests of 9.88 and 19.72.

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2009: 1st at Seminole Invite (10.00)...injured. 2008Olympic Games 100m bronze medalist (9.91PR) & 200m bronze medalist (19.98)…Olympic Trials

champion in 200m (19.86)…2nd at Olympic Trials in 100m (9.80w) ...3rd in semi-finals (9.93)...1st in preliminaries (9.96)... NCAA Outdoor 200m champion (20.40) and 4th in 100m (10.22)…ranked #4 in world, #1 U.S. at 100m, #3 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN…bests of 9.91 & 19.86. 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoor Championships 100m (10.09)…1st at Gainesville (19.69PR)…4thTyson Invitational Indoor 60m (6.67)…NCAA Outdoor champion in 100m and 200m (9.93PR, 20.32)…NCAA East Regional champion in 100m and 200m (10.05, 19.69PR)…ranked #3 U.S. at 100m, #8 in world, #6 U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 9.93 & 19.69.

2006: NCAA Indoor 200m champion, 60m runner-up (20.27, 6.62)…2nd at NCAA Outdoors in 100m (10.18)…1st at NCAA Outdoors in 200m (20.30)…1st in Atlanta (20.25)…1st in Greensboro (10.12)…ranked #7 in U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 10.12, 20.25. 2005: 4th in 100m at USA Outdoor Champs (10.29)...1st in 100m at NCAA Outdoor Champs (10.21)...4th in 200m at NCAA Outdoors (20.44)...1st in New York (10.06AJR)...6th in 60m at NCAA Indoors (6.70)...2nd in 200m at NCAA Indoors (20.37)...1st at 100m at NCAA Outdoor East Regional

(10.22w)...1st at 200m at NCAA Outdoor East Regional (20.23w)... 1st in 100m at ACC Outdoor

Championships (10.22)...1st in 200m at the ACC Outdoor Championships (20.41)...ranked #4 in U.S. at 100m by T&FN...bests of 10.06AJR & 20.18. 2004: 6th in 200m qualifying at Olympic Trials (21.19)...bests of 10.28 & 20.62.

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JEREMY DODSON

Event: Sprints Height: 6-0 Weight: 160 PR: 100m – 10.27; 200m – 20.33

Born: August 30, 1987 Current Residence: Boulder, Colo. High School: George Washington High School (Denver Colo.) '05 College: Colorado ‗10/Arkansas ‗06 Coach: Drew Morano Agent: Vincent Ewing Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 3rd at 2011 and 2010 USA Outdoors; 5th at 2010 NCAA Outdoors; 2008 Olympic Trials Qualifier

Dodson cruised to a wind-aided personal best of 20.07 in the 200m at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, claiming third place and a spot on Team USA for the IAAF World Championships.

Dodson, a 2010 graduate from Colorado, also placed third at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships with a time of 20.99. During his time at CU, Dodson made several appearances at NCAA Championships, highlighted by a fifth place finish at 2010 NCAA Outdoors in the 200m (20.65w) and a fourth place finish at 2009 NCAA Indoors in the 200m (21.14). Also during his collegiate career, he qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials. Before attending Colorado, Dodson transferred from the University of Arkansas.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 200m (20.07w)… best of 20.33 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 200m (20.99)… 5th at NCAA Outdoors in 200m (20.65w)… Top qualifier for 200m at NCAA West Regional (20.40w)… 3rd at Big 12 Outdoor Championships in 200m (20.63) and 100m (10.35)… best of 20.63 2009: 4th at NCAA Indoors in 200m (21.14)… Big 12 Indoor 200m champ (20.95)… best of 20.71

2008: 2nd in 200m (20.37) and 3rd in 100m (10.27) at Big 12 Outdoor Championships… Olympic Trials qualifier… best of 20.37

2007: 3rd at Big 12 Outdoor Championships in 200m (20.66)… best of 20.64 2006: Best of 21.44 at Fort Worth TCU Invitational 2005: Set Colorado state records in the 100m and 200m… Gatorade‘s Colorado Athlete of the Year… #2 high school 200m time in the nation… bests of 10.62 and 20.70

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ASHTON EATON

Event: Decathlon Height: 6-1

Weight: 185 PRs: Decathlon - 8,729 points (2011); Indoor heptathlon 6,568iWR (2011) Born: January 21, 1988 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Mountain View (Ore.) HS ‗06 College: Oregon ‗10

Coach: Harry Marra Club: Nike/Oregon TC Elite

Career Highlights: Twice set men‘s Indoor heptathlon world record; 2011 USA Outdoors champion; 2008, 2009, 2010 NCAA decathlon champion; 2009 NCAA Heptathlon champion; runner-up at 2009 USA Outdoor Championships; Three time Pac 10 champion

(2008, 009, 2010) 5th at 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Eaton smashed his personal best in the decathlon by almost 300 points on his way to his first USA Outdoor title. During the indoor season, Eaton bettered his own world record in the heptathlon with a score of 6,568 points at Tallinn, Estonia. He set his first world indoor heptathlon record on his way to winning his second-consecutive NCAA title at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at

the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Eaton beat 1996 Olympic gold medalist Dan O'Brien's world record when he scored 6,499 points over two days. O'Brien's previous record of 6,476 was set back in 1993 when Eaton was just five years old. In seven events over two days, Eaton had five personal bests: 60m (6.71), 60mH (7.86), high jump (2.11m/6-11), long jump (7.73m/25-4.5) and 1,000m (2:23.67). He also had marks of 13.12m/43-0.5 in the shot put and 5.10m/16-8.75 in the pole vault. Eaton captured his third NCAA decathlon title in 2010 on his home track in Eugene, Ore., with 8,457

points. His performance was the second-best in the world in 2010. Eaton won his second consecutive

NCAA decathlon title in 2009 with his highest ever total of 8,241w points. Later that summer he finished as the runner-up at the USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, which placed him on the Team USA roster for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, where he finished 18th. During his sophomore season at the University of Oregon in 2008, Eaton jumped on to the national stage with his decathlon victories at the NCAA Championships and Pac-10 championships. Considered one of the rising stars in the sport, Eaton just missed Oregon‘s decathlon record at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he was the top collegian with his personal best tally of 8,122 points, which ranks second all-

time at Oregon, just 45 points behind the record of 8,167 set by Pedro da Silva in 1992. In addition to his prowess in the decathlon, Eaton is a productive member of Oregon‘s sprint, relay and long jump corps. He demonstrated his versatility at the 2008 Pac-10 Championships by scoring in five events: decathlon (first, 10 points), 200 meters (sixth, 3 points), long jump (seventh, 2 points) 4x100 meter relay (seventh, 2 points) and the 4x400 meter relay (second, 8 points) to play a role in 25 of the Ducks‘ 144.5 total points in winning the team crown for the fourth time in the last six years. One of

only four Ducks to ever break 8,000 points in the decathlon, as a prep star in Mountain View, Ore., he

won 2006 Oregon 4A state titles as a senior in 400 meters (48.69) and long jump (24-0 1/4w), and was runner-up in the 200 meters (22.10) to land athlete of the meet honors. As a junior he posted a second-place state finish in the long jump with a then-personal best (23-2 1/4). Led the state long jump rankings in 2006 (24-1) and also ranked top-three in the state in the 100 meters (third, 10.84), 200 meters (second, 21.69) and 400 meters (second, 48.69). Also lettered in football as a halfback and wrestled. His grandfather, James Eaton, was a Michigan State halfback.

2011: USA champion in the decathlon (8,729)... 1st at Tallinn, Estonia (6,568 points, WR)...Won the Millrose Multi Challenge over Bryan Clay and Trey Hardee with 2,666 points in the shot put, high jump and 60m hurdles... Ranked #1 in the world in the heptathlon and decathlon. 2010: NCAA Indoor heptathlon champion (6,499 points, WR)...NCAA decathlon champion (8,457 points, PR)...PAC 10 Champion (8,154)… 1st at Texas Relays (8,310w)...ranked #2 in world, #1 in

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U.S. by T&FN...best of 8,457 points.

2009: NCAA champion (8,241w)...18th at World Outdoors (8,061)...runner-up at USA Outdoors (8,075)...1st at Pac 10 Champs (8,091)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8,091. 2008: 1st at NCAA Outdoors (8,055 points)…5th at U.S. Olympic Trials (8,122 points)…1st at Pac 10

Champs (7,604 points)…6th at NCAA Indoor Heptathlon (5,676 points)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,122 points. 2007: 3rd at USA Junior Champs (7,155 points)…2nd at Pac 10 Champs (7,123)…2nd at USA Juniors LJ (7.32m/24-0.25)…11th at Pan Am Juniors LJ…bests of 7,155 points & 7.47m/24-6.25. 2006: Best of 7.34m/24-1.

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JEFF EGGLESTON

Event: Marathon Height: 5-9

Weight: 125 PR: 2:13:12 Born: October 1, 1984 Current Residence: Flagstaff, Ariz. High School: Greece Arcadia (N.Y.) HS College: University of Virginia ‗07 Coach: Jack Daniels

Club: Team Niagara Elite Career Highlights: 2nd at the 2010 USA Men‘s Marathon

In Jeff Eggleston‘s first race as a professional, he finished 10th in the USA 20 km Championships in New Haven, Conn. Since then he has run everything from the 5,000m to the marathon. Recently he ran 1:03:58 for the half marathon which was good enough to qualify him

for the 2012 Olympic Trials. Eggleston will enter the Olympic year having come off his fastest marathon ever when he ran the Grandma‘s Marathon in Duluth, Minn. (2:13:12) 2011: 3rd at the UW Final Qualifier indoor 5,000m (14:38.37)0… 1st at the Houston Half Marathon (1:08.26)… 1st at the Pittsburgh Marathon (2:16:40)… 5th in the Grandma‘s Marathon (2:13:12)

2010: 7th in the Parkersburg Half Marathon (1:06:10)… 2nd at the USA Men‘s Marathon Championships (2:14:09) 2009: 10th in the Synaptics Elite 5k road race (14:11)… 3rd in the BAA Half Marathon (1:04:16) 2008: 3rd in the Cardinal Twilight 5,000m (14:30.83)… 14th in the Houston Half Marathon (1:05:00) 2007: 3rd in the Boston High Performance 3,000m (8:39.34) 2006: 1st at the Charlottesville 10 mile (51:50)… 11th at the Greifensee Lauf Half Marathon

(1:09:15)

2005: 12th at the ACC Indoor Championship 5,000m (14:57.9)

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ALLYSON FELIX

Events: 200m Height: 5-6 Weight: 125 PRs: 100m - 10.93 (2008); 200m - 21.81 (2007); 400m - 49.70

(2007) Born: November 18, 1985 in Los Angeles, Calif. Current Residence: Santa Clarita, Calif. High School: Los Angeles Baptist HS (Calif.) '03 Coach: Bob Kersee Agent: Wes Felix Club: Nike

Twitter: @AllysonFelix Facebook: Allyson Felix Website: AllysonFelix.com

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic 4x400m gold medalist; Two-time Olympic 200m silver medalist ('04, '08); Three-time World Outdoor

200m champion ('05, '07, '09); 2007 World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist; Two-time World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist ('07, '09); Five-time USA Outdoor 200m champion ('04, '05, '07-'09); 2010 USA Outdoor 100m champion; 2011 USA Outdoor 400m champion; World Junior record holder; 2004 USA junior champion; 2003 USA Indoor champion; 2003 Pan American Games bronze medalist; Five-time California state prep champion (three-time 100m, two-time 200m); 2001 World Youth 100m gold medalist

At the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Felix won her first national 400m title and secured a spot in the event at World Outdoors. Felix won the inaugural IAAF Diamond League titles in the women's 200m and 400m, becoming the only double champion in the league. Felix made history at the 2009 IAAF World Outdoor Championships by becoming the first woman ever to win three world 200-meter titles. She broke well from the start in the 200m final and with about 70 meters to go, Felix began

pulling away and she gradually increased her lead the remainder of the race before crossing the line first in 22.02 seconds....At the 2008 Olympic Games, Felix picked up her second silver medal, finishing

as the runner-up in the women's 200m in 21.93. It is the second fastest time she has ever run. Running the second leg of the gold medal winning 4x400m, Felix moved into the lead around the curve and handed off to 2004 Olympic relay gold medalist Monique Henderson, having clocked a blistering leg of 48.55...The world's dominant 200m runner, Felix was a heavy favorite to win her specialty event entering the Olympic Trials, even though she had yet to run a 200m in 2008. But coming off the curve in the final, it was 100m champion Muna Lee, running in lane 6 to Felix's lane 5,

who held the lead. A composed Felix pulled even with Lee, then kept pushing to win in 21.82 (+5.6mps)…In 2007, Felix became the second woman in history to win 3 gold medals at one World Championships. She won the 200m in a huge personal best of 21.81 seconds (1.7 mps wind), the fastest time run by a woman this century. The time improved Felix's previous best by .30 and was the biggest margin of victory in World Championships history (.53). She then went on to win gold in both relays, running the second leg of the 4x100m (41.98) and the 4x400m (3:18.55) with perhaps the fastest 4x400m relay leg ever by an American woman at a major championship (unofficially 48.0)...At

the end of a season of illness and injury, Felix returned to form in the women's 200 meters at the 2006 World Athletics Final, winning in a meet record 22.11. She then went on to place third in the 100m with in 11.07…2005 was a phenomenal year for Felix, who was undefeated in the 200, won the world title, set personal bests at 100 and 400 meters, and earned the Jesse Owens Award as the country‘s top female athlete. She won her second straight national title in the 2005 Visa 200 meters at the USA Outdoor Championships (22.13WL), then came from behind to win the world title in Helsinki in 22.16. On the year, Felix owned the three fastest times in the world in 2005…as an 18-year-old,

she won her first Olympic medal in the women‘s 200m in Athens and secured the world junior record that she had waited a year to officially break, clocking 22.18…the performance gave Felix, the youngest person on the U.S. team, the world junior record by .01 seconds. She beat the existing record of 22.19, set in 1980 by the Soviet Union‘s Natalya Bochina. Ironically, her time of 22.18 was not a personal best for Felix…On May 3, 2003, she ran 22.11 in Mexico City, but because meet

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organizers did not arrange in advance for drug testing at the meet, it could not be officially ratified by the IAAF…Felix won the 2004 Olympic Trials 200m (22.28) a time that was faster than every winning

time at the Olympic Games through 1976, and it bests the 1996 gold medal-winning time of France‘s Marie Jose Perec by .01 seconds…at the 2003 USA Indoor Championships, she tied the U.S. high school record in the 200 with her time of 23.22 in the semifinals, then broke the record in the finals with her win in 23.14 seconds…outdoors in 2003, her 22.51 clocking at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 19 broke Marion Jones‘ previous USA junior and high school record of 22.58, set in 1992…ran a wind-aided 11.12 100m on May 30 in Cerritos, Calif., at the California masters meet…her time of 22.52 in winning the California state title broke Marion Jones‘ high school federation record for the fastest time

ever run in a high school-only competition…Felix won her first California high school championship as a sophomore in 2001, when she won the 100…as a junior in 2002, she won the 100 and 200, both with U.S.-leading times among junior (19-and-under) athletes…her father Paul, is an ordained minister who teaches New Testament Greek at the Master‘s Seminary in Sun Valley, Calif…her mother, Marlean, is an elementary school teacher…high school teammates call her ―chicken legs‖ due to her long, spindly legs…didn‘t start running track until her freshman year of high school…USA Today reported that she

has leg-pressed 700 pounds on a machine and dead-lifted 245…Felix was a prep media sensation,

having had front-page articles in Sports Illustrated and USA Today, among other publications… her older brother, Wes was the 2002 USA junior champion at 200 meters (21.57)…after the 2003 season, Felix switched coaches, moving from Pat Connolly to Bobby Kersee. Her 2005 performances helped make Kersee the 2005 Nike Coach of the Year. 2011: USA Outdoors champion in the 400m (50.40)... 1st in 400m at Rome (49.81)... 1st in 400m at

Doha (50.33)... 1st in 200m at adidas Grand Prix (22.92)... 2nd at Monaco in 200m (22.32)... 3rd in 400m at Pre Classic (51.41). 2010: USA Outdoor 100m champion (11.27)…2nd at adidas Grand Prix in 200m (22.03) …1st at Paris (22.14)…1st at Stockholm (22.41)…1st at Nike Pre Classic in 400m (50.27)…1st at Doha (50.15)…1st at Manchester 200m straight (22.55)…1st in 200m and 400m at London (22.37, 50.79)…ranked #1 in the world at 200 & 400m and #6 in the U.S. at 100m by T&FN…best of 11.27, 22.03 and 50.15. 2009: World Outdoor champion (22.02)...USA Outdoor champion (22.02)...1st at adidas Track Classic

(22.66)...1st in 400m at Doha (50.75WL)...1st in 400m at Reebok Grand Prix (50.50WL)...1st in

Stockholm (21.88WL)...1st at World Athletics Final (22.29)...2nd in 400m at Zurich (49.83)...2nd at Rethymno (11.08)...best of 21.88. 2008: Olympic 4x400m gold medalist (48.55, 3:18.54) and Olympic 200m silver medalist (21.93), 1st in semifinal (22.33)...Olympic Trials champion in 200m (21.82), 5th in 100m (10.96)...4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (11.06)…5th at Reebok Grand Prix (11.13)…4th at adidas Track Classic (11.21)…1st 100m and 400m at Doha (10.93, 49.83)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m and

#5 in the world (#2 U.S.) at 400m and #5 in the U.S. at 100m by T&FN...bests of 10.93, 21.93 and 49.83. 2007: World Outdoor 200m champion (21.81)...World Outdoors 4x100m (41.98) and 4x400m gold medalist (2nd leg - 48.0, 3:18.55)…USA Outdoor 200m champion (22.34) and 4th place 100m (11.25)…1st in 400m, 3rd in 100m at Reebok Grand Prix (50.53, 11.01)…1st in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.18)… 1st in 300m at Tyson Invitational (36.33iAR)…1st at Sheffield (22.35)…2nd in 100m

at Rethimno (11.11)…1st in 400m at Stockholm (49.70PR)…2nd in 400m at London (50.17)…ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m, #3 in the world (#2 U.S.) at 400m and #6 in the world (#4 U.S.) at 100m by T&FN…bests of 21.81, 49.70 and 11.01. 2006: 1st in 200m, 3rd in 100m at World Athletics Final (22.11, 11.07)...5th at Stockholm

(22.71)...6th at London (11.33)...1st at Madrid (22.73)...1st at Doha (22.78)...1st at Norwich Union (22.19)...1st at Kansas Relays (11.04PR)…ranked # 1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m and #6 in the world (#4 U.S.) in 100m by T&FN…bests of 22.11, 11.04.

2005: 200m World Outdoor Champion (22.16)...1st in 200m at USA Outdoor Champs (22.13)...1st in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.14)...3rd in 100m at Rome (11.14)...3rd in 100m at Stockholm (11.29)...7th in 100m at Zurich (11.18)...1st in 100m at Yokohama (11.05PR)...1st in 200m at Doha (22.78)...1st in 200m at Monterrey (22.31)...1st in 200m at World Athletics Final (22.27)...1st at Norwich Union (51.12PR)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) in 200m and #9 in the world (#4 U.S.) in 100m by T&FN...bests of 11.05 in 100m and 22.13 in 200m. 2004: Olympic 200m silver medalist (22.18 WJ)...Olympic Trials 200m champion (22.28)...USA Junior

200m champion (22.73)...2nd in 100m at Modesto (11.19)...2nd in 100m at Mt. Sac (11.14w)...3rd in 200m at Payton Jordan US Open (22.71)...3rd at adidas Oregon Track Classic (23.12)...2nd in 400m

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in Mexico City (51.83)...1st Linz 100m in PR 11.16...7th in 60m at USA Indoors (7.33)...2nd in 400m

at adidas Boston Indoor Games (52.28)...5th in 60m at Verizon Millrose Games (7.36)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 22.18. 2003: USA Indoors 200m champion (23.14 national HS record)...Pan American Games 200m Bronze

medalist (22.93)...3rd at USA Outdoors 200m (22.59)...3rd in Paris on July 4 200m (22.66)...6th in heat 3 at World Outdoor Championships 200m (23.33)....1st in Mexico City 200m (22.11 U.S. junior record, faster than existing WJR)...1st at Mt. SAC Relays in 200m (22.51 U.S. junior record) and 100m HS (11.24w)...ran 23.22 in semis at USA Indoors to tie previous HS record...3rd in semifinal heat at World Indoors (23.29)...1st at Pasadena Games in 400m (52.26)...won the California state high school championships 100m (11.29), 200m (22.52)...ranked #8 in the world (#3 U.S.) at 200m by T&FNbests of 11.29, 22.11, 52.26.

2002: Runner-up at USA junior champs (23.31)...5th at World Juniors (23.48)...won California HS titles at 100m (11.40) and 200m (22.83, fastest by a U.S. junior in 2002)...bests of 11.40 and 22.83. 2001: Won 100m at the 2001 World Youth Athletics (11.57)...ran the 200 leg on Team USAs winning Sprint Medley Relay (2:03.82)...Won California HS title at 100m (11.61), second in 200 (23.27)...won the 200m at Youth Athletics nationals (23.82)...bests of 11.51 and 23.31.

2000: 7th at California HS champs (24.35).

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SHALANE FLANAGAN

Events: Middle Distance Height: 5-5

Weight: 113 PRs: 1,500m - 4:05.86 (2007); 3,000m - 8:33.25iAR (2007); 5,000m - 14:44.80 (2007); 10,000m - 30:22.22AR (2008); Half marathon -1:08:37 (2010); Marathon - 2:28:40 (2010) Born: July 8, 1981 in Boulder, Colo. Current Residence: Portland, Ore. High School: Marblehead (Mass.) HS '00

College: University of North Carolina '04 Coach: Jerry Schumacher Agent: Steve Edwards

Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2011 World cross country bronze medalist; 2008 Olympic Games 10,000m bronze medalist; 2011 USA Outdoor

10,000m champion; 2008 Olympic Trials 10,000m champion and 3rd in 5,000m; 2007 Visa Indoor champion; 2007 USA Indoor 3,000m champion; Two-time USA Outdoor 5,000m champion ('05, '07); Three-time USA XC 8 km champion ('08, '10, '11); Two-time USA cross country 4km champion ('04, '05); Two-time NCAA XC champion ('02, '03); 2003 NCAA Indoor 3,000m champion; 15-time NCAA All-American

Flanagan led team USA to a bronze medal at the IAAF World XC Championships and picked up an individual bronze as well to start her 2011 season. On the track, Flanagan has excelled at both the 5,000m and 10,000m. Flanagan ran the third fastest time ever by an American at the Paris Diamond League in 14:45.20. By winning the USA 10,000m title in 30:59.97, and running a season best of 30:39 at the Payton-Jordan Invite, Flanagan now holds four of the six fastest times in the 10,000m for American women. Flanagan had a busy and successful 2010 campaign highlighted by a runner-up

finish at the New York City Marathon, and winning the USA women‘s cross country title and USA Half

Marathon Championships title. In international competition, Flanagan led Team USA to the bronze medal at the 2010 World Cross Country Championships by finishing 12th in the individual competition. Flanagan entered the 2009 outdoor season as the American record holder outdoors in the 5,000 and 10,000 and indoors in the 3,000 and 5,000. She follows an outstanding 2008 season, where she overcame stomach problems that threatened her participation to win the 10,000m bronze an in American record 30:22.22. She is the second American woman ever to win an Olympic medal at 10,000m, joining Lynn Jennings, who won the bronze in 1992. At the 2008 Olympic Trials, Flanagan

turned on the speed in the final laps of the women‘s 10,000m and pulled away to win in 31:34.81, a Hayward Field record…Making her debut at 10,000 meters, Flanagan smashed the American record by 17 seconds, running 30:34.49 Sunday, May 4, 2008 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif...led the 5,000m from wire-to-wire at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships, posting the fourth-fastest time ever by an American in 14:51.75. At the 2007 Mt. SAC Relays, she set an American Record in winning the 5,000m in 14:44.80…Flanagan destroyed the indoor American record

in the 3,000m at the 2007 Reebok Boston Indoor Games. She ran 8:33.25 to bury the previous AR of

8:39.14. Flanagan was sidelined after the 2005 World Champs with an injury that initially cropped up after the 2004 Olympics. After a long journey to find the right doctor, it was finally determined that she had been born with an extra bone in her foot...shortly before the 2004 Olympic Trials, she declared she would forgo her final collegiate eligibility...named to the Atlantic Coast Conference 50th Anniversary teams for cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field. In 2002 Flanagan won the first cross country NCAA championship in school history with a record-setting 6 km time of 19:36 on

the Gibson Course in Terre Haute, Ind., at the NCAA Championship...named 2002 Honda Athlete of the Year for Cross Country...named NCAA Female Cross Country Runner of the Year...won the Southeast Regional and became the second woman in ACC history (UNC's Karen Godlock 1994-96) to win the ACC Championship three years in a row (2000-02) with a time of 20:06.3 (6 km). She won all five competitions she competed in during the 2002 indoor season Flanagan was named the ACC Athlete of the Year...named 2002 NCAA Female Cross Country Runner of the Year...a three-time All-

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State cross country runner as a prep, Flanagan was the 2000 USA Junior women's cross country

champion. She finished first in the All-State one-mile run and was the champion and record holder in the All-State two-mile run...won the one mile-run (4:46) at the Indoor National Scholastic Championships...her mother Cheryl Treworgy competed on the U.S. World Cross Country teams in

1968 (11th), 1969 (4th), 1970 (18th), 1974 (28th) 1976 (38th); she also is a former women's marathon world record holder...also participated in soccer and swimming in high school...enjoys music, biking and hiking…married husband Steve Edwards in October 2005. 2011: USA Outdoors champion in the 10,000m (30:59.97)...4th at Stockholm (14:46.80)...4th at Paris (14:45.20)...1st at Mt. SAC relays 1500m (4:11.67)...2nd at Payton-Jordan Invite (30:39.57)...1st at USA Cross Country 8km (25:47)...3rd individual at World XC Champs 8km (25:10)

and team bronze. 2010: 11th at USA Outdoor Champs (4:19.56)…USA Half Marathon champion (69:41)…USA XC champion (25:10)…12th at World XC Champs (25:20)…2nd at Pre Classic in the 5,000m (14:49.08)…9th at NY Grand Prix (4:06.44)…2nd at Payton-Jordan Invite (15:04.23)…3rd at USATF High Performance Meet (4:10.24)…2nd at NYC Marathon (2:28:40)…ranked #2 in the U.S. at 5,000m

and marathon by T&FN…best of 14:49.08 and 2:28:40.

2009: 14th at World Outdoors (31:32.19)...USA Outdoor runner-up (31:23.43)…4th in 5,000 at adidas Track Classic (15:10.86)...11th in 1,500m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:06.91)…set indoor AR in 5,000 at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (14:47.62)...ranked #2 in the U.S. at 5,000 and 10,000m...bests of 14:47.62i and 31:23.43. 2008: Olympic Games bronze medalist (30:22.22AR), 10th at 5,000m (15:50.80)…Olympic Trials champion in 10,000m and 3rd in 5,000m (31:34.81, 15:02.81)…1st in 10,000m at Payton Jordan Invitational (30:34.49AR)…ranked #3 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 10,000m and # 3 in the U.S. at

5,000m by T&FN…bests of 15:02.81 and 30:22.22. 2007: USA Outdoor 5,000m champion (14:51.75)… 8th at World Outdoors (15:03.86)…USA Indoor champion (8:56.74)…3rd in 1,500m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:05.86PR)…2nd in 3,000m at Boston Indoor Games (8:33.25iAR)…2nd in USA XC Champs (27:48)…1st in 5,000m at Mt. SAC (14:44.80AR)….4th in 3,000m at Monaco (8:35.34)…2nd in 1,500m at Heusden (4:06.24)…5th in 5,000m at Rome (15:04.27)…ranked #10 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 5,000m and #2 in the U.S. at 1,500m by T&FN…bests of 14:44.80 and 4:05.86.

2006: did not compete - injured 2005: 2005 USA Outdoor 5,000m Champion (15:10.96)...7th in second semifinal heat at World Outdoor Championships (15:20.59)...4th in 3,000m at the Reebok Grand Prix (8:54.43)...9th in 1,500m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:22.07)...USA XC 4 km champion (13:24.3)...20th at World XC (14:05, 3rd U.S. finisher), winning team bronze...ranked #1 in the U.S. for the 5,000m and 3rd in the 3,000m by T&FN...bests of 15:10.96, 8:54.43, and 4:22.07.

2004: 3rd at Olympic Trials 5,000m (15:10.52), 6th in 1,500m (4:11.05)...11th in 5,000m semifinals at the Olympic Games (15:34.63)...USA 4 km XC champion (12:26)...14th at World XC championships (13:34)...1st at Mt. SAC 5,000m (15:09.67)...3rd in 5,000m at Boston (15:05.08PR)...7th in 1,500m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:09.27)...1st at Durham 3,000m (8:55.05)...4th place in 1,500m at adidas Boston Indoor Games (4:13.55)...ranked #3 at the 3,000m, #4 at the 5,000m and #9 at the 1,500 in the U.S. by T&FN...bests of 4:09.27, 8:55.05 & 15:05.08. 2003: Runner-up at USA Outdoor 5,000m (15:20.54)...NCAA XC champion (19:30.4)...1st at 3,000m

at NCAA Indoors (9:01.05)...2nd at NCAA Outdoors 5,000m (15:30.60)... 5th at adidas Boston Indoor Games (9:00.22)...1st in Atlanta 1,500m (4:11.60)...ranked #7 at 1,500m and #4 at 5,000m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 4:11.24 & 15:20.54.

2002: NCAA XC champion (19:36)...3rd at 1,500m at NCAA Outdoors (4:15.52)...1st at ACC 1,500m (4:16.19)...6th at NCAA Indoor 3,000m (9:16.30), 3rd in the mile (4:39.11)ACC indoor champion at mile (4:42.35), DMR (11:39.98) and 3,000m (9:19.85)...2nd at DMR at NCAA Outdoors (10:59.76)...4th in mile at Tyson Indoors (4:38.43)...1st at Duke Invitational (9:13.51)...1st at

Boston (9:13.47)...bests of 4:15.37 & 9:13.51. 2001: ACC Outdoor 1,500m & 5,000m champion...10th in 1,500m at NCAA Outdoors (4:25.67)...best of 4:18.12.

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LAUREN FLESHMAN

Events: Distance Height: 5-8

Weight: 122 PRs: 1,500m - 4:05.62 (2007); 3,000m – 8:43.92 (2007); 5,000m - 14:58.48 (2008) Born: September 26, 1981 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Canyon HS (Canyon Country, Calif.) ‗99 College: Stanford ‗03

Coach: Mark Rowland Agent: Ray Flynn Club: Nike Oregon Track Club

Twitter: @laurenfleshman Website: asklaurenfleshman.com Career Highlights: Two-time USA Outdoor 5,000m Champion (‘06,

‘10); 2005 USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up; 3-time NCAA 5,000m outdoor champion; 15-time NCAA All-American

In one of the most compelling comeback stories of the year, Fleshman won the Aviva London Grand

Prix in 15:00.57 only one week after finishing third from last in Stockholm. Fleshman suffered a stress reaction in her left foot earlier in the year and was unable to run until April...Fleshman won the second U.S. 5,000m title of her career when she crossed the finish line first in 15:27.70 at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships. …She became the eighth fastest American ever in winning the Reebok women's 5,000m in a personal best 14:58.48 at the 2008 Reebok Grand Prix…Fleshman won her first national title in the women's 5,000 meters at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, pulling away from Kara Goucher in the final straight to win in 15:12.37...A 15-time All-American at Stanford,

Fleshman has made an impressive transition into the professional ranks, becoming one of the United States top middle distance runners...qualified for her second World Outdoors team in 2005 after placing second in the 5,000 at the USA Outdoors...top U.S. runner at the 2005 World XC meet, taking 11th in the 4k to lead Team USA to a bronze medal... as a senior at Stanford, Fleshman won her third consecutive NCAA 5,000 meter title and set PRs in the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 meters. She broke the collegiate 5,000m record with her 15:23.94 at Mt. SAC, then improved to 15:20.44 in placing 7th

during the summer at Heusden, giving her the IAAF B standard for the World Championships... Fleshman was selected to be Team USA's sole representative in the 5,000 meters at the 2003 World Championships when U.S. champion Marla Runyan declined her position, and the second- and third-place finishers at the U.S. championships did not have the IAAF B standard...Fleshman improved her PR 15:12.71 in placing 11th in her opening round heat at World Outdoors...human biology major at Stanford...Enjoys playing the piano and guitar, as well as songwriting and singing…is married to 2001 Pac 10 steeplechase champion Jesse Thomas

2011: 8th at USA Outdoors (15:31.26)...13th at Stockholm (15:27.30)...1st at London (15:00.57)

2010: USA Outdoor champion (15:28.70)…7th at Dubnica (4:10.49)…11th at London (15:13.08)…10th at Monaco (8:46.97)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 15:13.08.

2009: did not compete 2008: 5th at Olympic Trials (15:23.18)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (14:58.48)…ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 14:58.48. 2007: 4th in 5,000m at USA Outdoors (15:24.60)…9th in 1,500m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:10.87PR)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 15:02.28. 2006: USA Outdoor 5,000m champion (15:12.37)...5th at IAAF World Cup (15:17.65) ...7th in 3,000m at Lucerne (9:00.89)...2nd in 1,500m at Antwerp (4:11.27)...ranked #1 in the U.S. at

5,000m by T&FN…best of 15:12.37. 2005: 2nd in 5,000m at USA Outdoors (15:16.80)…10th in heat 1 semifinal of 5,000m at World Outdoors (15:32.05)…3rd in 3,000m at USA Indoors (8:59.93i)…5th in 4 km (13:30) & 6th in 8 km

http://www.twitter.com/laurenfleshman

http://www.asklaurenfleshman.com/

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(28:11) at USA XC Championships...top U.S. finisher at World XC (11th, 13:44), leading Team USA to

team bronze medal…15th in 5,000m at Rome (15:02.52)…1st in 3,000m at Turku (8:43.95)…1st in 5,000m at Stanford (15:15.63)…3rd in 1,500m at Cardinal Invit. (4:13.63)…ranked #2 at 5,000m and 3,000m in the U.S. by T&FN…bests of 15:05.52, 8:43.95, and 4:13.63.

2004: 3rd at USA XC 4km championships (12:38)…24th at World XC championships (13:56)…4th at Drake Relays (4:15.60)…4th in the 5,000m at Stanford (15:09.98)…ranked #7 at 5,000m in the U.S. by T&FN…bests of 4:15.60 & 15:09.98. 2003: NCAA 5,000m champion (15:24.06)…4th at USA (15:27.68)…Pac-10 5,000m champion (16:37.52), 2nd in 1,500 (4:14.68PR)…2nd in 3,000 (9:01.58PR), 4th in 5,000 (15:47.36) at NCAA Indoors…11th in opening round at World Outdoor Champs (15:12.71PR)…7th at Heusden (15:20.44PR)…2nd at Mt. SAC (15:23.94 Collegiate Record)…ranked #3 at 5,000m in U.S. by

T&FN…bests of 4:14.68 PR & 15:12.71PR. 2002: NCAA Outdoor 5,000m champion (15:53.91)…9th at USA Outdoors 5,000m (15:50.31)… Pac-10 5,000m champion…ran collegiate-leader 15:35.59 at Mt. SAC…NCAA Indoors 3,000m champion (9:07.45) …4th at NCAA XC…Pac-10 XC runner-up…ranked 10th in U.S. 5,000m by T&FN…bests of 4:18.11, 4:38.48i, 9:07.45i, 15:35.59.

2001: NCAA 5,000m champion…17th at USA Outdoors 5,000m…Pac-10 1,500m runner-up … 3rd in

mile at NCAA Indoors (4:43.52)…NCAA XC runner-up…Pac-10 XC champion…bests of 4:17.73, 4:39.69i, 15:49.84. 2000: 5th in 1,500m at NCAA Outdoors (4:17.76PR)…Pac-10 1,500m runner-up …USA Junior 1,500m champion (4:31.50 )…U.S. junior runner-up in 3,000 (9:55.55) …set U.S. Junior record in 5,000 at Mt. SAC (15:50.18)…ran anchor on Stanford‘s winning DMR at NCAA Indoors (11:01.56)…11th at NCAA XC…3rd at Pac-10 XC …15th in heat at Olympic Trials (16:35.90) … top U.S. finisher in juniors 6 km race at World XC (26th)…best of 4:17.76, 9:55.55, 15:50.18.

1999: 5th at NCAA XC … 3rd at Pac-10 XC…California state 800m, 1,600m and 3,200m champion (10:18.81 U.S. HS leader)…best of 10:18.81 for 3,200m. 1998: California state 1,600m, 3,200m champion … California state XC champion … 2nd at Foot Locker XC.

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HYLEAS FOUNTAIN Events: Heptathlon Height: 5-7

Weight: 143 PRs: 6,735 (2010) 100H - 12.65w; HJ - 1.90m/6-2.75; SP - 13.81m/45-3.75; 200m - 23.21; LJ - 6.89m/22-7.25; JT - 48.15m/158-0; 800m - 2:15.32; Pentathlon - 4,753i (2010) Born: Jan. 14, 1981 in Columbus, Ga. Current Residence: Kettering, Ohio

High School: Central Dauphin East HS (Harrisburg, Pa.) '00 College: Barton CC '02 & Georgia '04 Coach: Lynn Smith

Agent: Karen Locke Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; three-time

USA Outdoor champion ('05, '07, '10); 2005 USA Indoor pentathlon champion; 2003 NCAA champion; 2004 NCAA Outdoor LJ champion; 2004 NCAA Indoor LJ and pentathlon champ Fountain tied the American record in the women's pentathlon at the 2010 World Indoor Championships with her score of 4,753 points, finishing in fourth place. Fountain has personal bests in the 800m (2:21.02) and the shot put (14.06m/46-1.5). She had a season's best in the high jump

(1.87m/6-1.5), finished the 60m hurdles in 8.20 and long jumped 6.46m/21-2.5...Fountain became the only American woman other than Jackie Joyner-Kersee ever to win an Olympic medal in the heptathlon, coming away with a silver-medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with her total of 6,619 points. Initially she was the bronze medalist, but was moved up from third to second when original silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska tested positive for the substance methyltestosterone, her second doping offense. In the final event, the 800 meters, Fountain turned in

a huge personal-best clocking 2:15.45 for 886 points, which clinched her placing. Fountain's time

shattered her previous personal best of 2:27.69. Fountain dominated the heptathlon at the 2008 Olympic Trials and won in stunning fashion with a personal best 6,667 points. She was in the driver's seat of the heptathlon after day 1 of competition, with three personal bests, three records and three first-place event finishes in four events. The 27-year-old resident of Dayton, Ohio, got the Olympic Trials off with a bang in the first event of the meet, the women's heptathlon 100m hurdles. Her time of 12.65, worth 1,178 points on scoring tables, broke three records: American record, heptathlon 100m hurdles (12.69, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1988, Seoul); Olympic Trials record, heptathlon 100m

hurdles (12.71, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1988, Indianapolis); and USA National Championship record, heptathlon 100m hurdles (12.77, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1991, NYC). Fountain cleared 1.81m/5-11.25 in the high jump for 991 points (tied for 2nd), threw a personal-best 13.67m/44-10.25 in the shot put (772 points, 1st) and ran another personal best, 23.31 (1048 points, +1.3 mps) in the 200m to win that events as well…Fountain won her second heptathlon title at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships...Her mark in the shot put (12.69m/41-7.75 was a personal-best...won her first

national crown as a professional in the heptathlon at the 2005 USA Outdoor Championships with a

strong second-day performance, scoring 6,208 points total. In Day 2, the 2004 NCAA long jump champion leaped 6.25m/20-6.25 in the long jump (927), threw 46.05 in the javelin (784) and ran 2:16.88 in the 800 (867) to move from fourth after day one to first at the close of competition…Not only an NCAA heptathlon champion, Fountain is also an outstanding long jumper, triple jumper, high jumper and hurdler…credits her mother for introducing her to the sport at age 7. With Jackie Joyner-Kersee as her idol, Fountain says that in school she always wrote papers on her, or Wilma

Rudolph. Because heptathlon was not offered in Pennsylvania high schools, she had to wait until college…in 2002, she won 5 NJCAA titles and had three runner-up finishes for Barton CC. 2011: 6th a USA Outdoors (5861)...7th in 60mH (8.21) and 5th in long jump (6.40m/21-0) at USA Indoors (8.21) 2010: USA Outdoor champion (6735w)…4th at World Indoors (4,753AR)…1st at Penn State

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(4,731i)…3rd in LJ (6.70m/21-11.75), 7th in 60mH at USA Indoors (8.38)…3rd at Stockholm in LJ

(6.56m/21-6.25)…ranked #5 in the world, #1 U.S. in the heptathlon and #2 in the U.S. in the LJ by T&FN…bests of 6735 and 6.70m/21-11.75. 2009: USA Outdoors (DNF)…1st in LJ at DecaNation (6.80m/22-3.75)…1st in LJ at Luzern (6.89m/22-

7.25PR) 2008: Olympic Games silver medalist (6,619 points)…Olympic Trials champion (6,667 points), 4th in long jump (6.70m/21-11.75)…1st in Talence (6,473)…ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 6,667 points. 2007: USA Outdoor champion (6,090)…DNF at World Outdoors…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 6,090. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (6,148)…8th in pentathlon at World Indoors (4,205)…2nd at San Juan

NACAC CE Champs (5,956)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 6,148. 2005: USA Outdoor heptathlon champion (6,208)…12th at World Outdoors (6,055)…3rd at Gotzis (6,502PR)…USA Indoor pentathlon champion (4,417i)… 3rd in 60H at USA indoors (8.22), 2nd in LJ (6.29m/20-7.75i)…1st in LJ at Johnson City (6.35m/20-10i)…1st in 60mH at Chapel Hill (8.15i)…ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 6,502.

2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (6,035 PR)…NCAA Outdoor long jump champion (6.61m/21-8.25

SR)…NCAA Outdoor heptathlon runner-up (5,785)…SEC Outdoor long jump (6.59m/21-7.5) and high jump (1.77m/5-9.75) champion...3rd in the TJ (13.40m/43-11.75 PR) and 4th in 100mH (13.11 PR) at SEC Outdoors…NCAA Indoor long jump (6.58m/21-7.25) and pentathlon (4,412) champion…SEC Indoor pentathlon (4,417 CR), high jump (1.79m/5-10.50) and long jump (6.44m/21-1.50) champion…1st in heptathlon at Ole Miss Invitational (6,033 SR)…ranked #4 at HEP and #6 at Long Jump in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 6,035. 2003: NCAA Outdoor champion (5,999)…SEC Outdoor champion (5,626)…2nd at Sea Ray Relays

(5,282)…SEC Indoor champion (4,164)...2nd in LJ at Knoxville (6.51m/21-4.25)…1st in HJ at Gainesville (1.81m/5-11.25i)…best of 5,999, 1.81m/5-11.25i (HJ) & 6.51m/21-4.25 (LJ). 2002: NJCAA Outdoor (5,673w) champion…9th in the heptathlon at the USA Outdoor Combine Events Championships (5,136)…best of 5,673. 2001: NJCAA Outdoor heptathlon champion. 2000: USA Junior high jump champion (1.83m/6-0)...best of 1.83m/6-0.

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BRIDGET FRANEK

Event: 3,000m Steeplechase Height: 5-6

Weight: 123 PR: 9:32.35 (2010) Born: November 8, 1987 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Crestwood HS (Mantua, Ohio) ‘06 College: Penn State ‘10 Coach: Mark Rowland

Agent: John Nubani Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2010 NCAA champion; 2011 USA Champs

Runner-up; 3rd at 2009 USA Outdoor Champs

Since Franek's first appearance on the World Championships team

in 2009, she has improved her steeple PR by four seconds. In 2011, she also recorded her highest-ever finish at USA Outdoors as she finished second to Emma Coburn in 9:44.90. Franek won the 2010 NCAA Championships by an impressive 13-second margin, finishing in 9:38.86. Franek finished in 3rd place at the 2009 USA Championships in 3,000m

steeplechase with 9:36.74 to earn a spot on Team USA for the World Championships…2009 Big Ten steeplechase champion…owns three records at Penn State (steeplechase, 4x1500m - 17:57.28 and DMR (Indoor) - 11:14.78)…finished in 16th place in steeple at 2008 U.S. Olympic Trial…won four state titles at the 2006 Ohio State Championships

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors in the 3,000m steeplechase (9:44.90)...6th at NY Grand Prix (9:38.92)

2010: 5th at USA Outdoors (10:07.49)…NCAA champion (9:38.86)…5th at Nike Pre Classic (9:32.35PR)…5th at Barcelona (9:43.06)…9th at Stockholm (9:42.17)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 9:32.35. 2009: 3rd at USA Outdoors (9:36.74)…12th in heat 3 at World Outdoors (9:50.02)…4th at NCAA

Champs (9:48.57)…Big Ten champion (9:58.56)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 9:36.74. 2008: 16th at Olympic Trials (10:11.56)…3rd at NCAA Champs (9:58.74)…Big East champion (9:58.56)…best of 9:58.56. 2007: Big Ten Freshman of the Year…Penn Relays Steeplechase Champion…12th at NCAA (10:11.68) 2006: 5th at the Mid-Atlantic Regional, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships in cross country (20:44)…State championships in the 4x800, 800m, 1600m and 3200m

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STEPHANIE GARCIA

Event: 3,000m steeplechase Height: 5-6 Weight: 122 PR: 9:41.12 (2011)

Born: May 3, 1988 Current Residence: Charlottesville, Va. High School: Broad Run HS ‘06 (South Riding, Va.) College: Virginia ‗11 Coach: Mary Jayne Reeves Career Highlights: 2011 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; 2010

NACAC U-23 runner-up; 2011 ACC Outdoor champion; 2009 and 2008 ECAC champion; 2007 USA Junior champion.

Garcia capped off a break-out season in the 3,000m steeple chase by qualifying for the 2011 World Championship team with her fourth place finish at USA Outdoors. After redshirting the

2010 outdoor track season, Garcia secured her spot among elite steeplechasers with a runner-up performance at the 2011 NCAA and ACC championships. At the Gent Flanders Cup in Belgium, she set a personal best of 9:41.12 which hit the IAAF international ―A‖ standard for the event and the fifth fastest time in the U.S. this year. In 2010, Garcia finished runner-up at the NACAC U-23 meet and 10th at the USA Outdoor Champs. Garcia qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships during all four seasons at the University of Virginia, and placed ninth at the 2009 meet. In her

freshman season as a Cavalier, she won the USA Junior Championship in the steeple with a time of 10:26.41. 2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (9:51.57)... NCAA Outdoor runner-up (9:47.29)... ACC Outdoor champion (9:55.10)... ACC Indoor runner-up in 3,000m (9:19.44)… 2nd at Gent Flanders Cup (9:41.12PR)

2010: NACAC U-23 runner-up (10:20.50)… 10th at USA Outdoors (10:21.71) 2009: 9th at NCAA Outdoors (10:14.35)… 4th at NCAA East Regional (10:17.23)… ECAC-IC4A champ

(10:08.48)… 4th at ACC Outdoors (10:28.38)… 4th at ACC Outdoors in 5,000m (16:39.32) 2008: 5th at NCAA East Regional (10:25.70)… ECAC champ (10:19.74)… 7th at ACC Indoors in 3,000m (9:38.34)… 8th at ACC Indoors in 5,000m (16:59.82)… 2007: USA Junior champion (10:26.41)… 3rd at ECAC Champs (10:33.54)… 4th at ACC Outdoors (10:26.78)… 8th at NCAA East Regional (10:15.83)

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JUSTIN GATLIN

Event: Sprints Height: 6-1 Weight: 180 PR: 100m - 9.85 (2004); 200m - 20.00 (2005) Born: February 10, 1982 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Current Residence: Orlando, Fla. High School: Woodham HS (Fla.) 00' College: University of Tennessee Coach: Brooks Johnson Agent: self Club: unattached

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 World Outdoor 100m and 200m champion; 2005 USA Outdoor 100m and 200m Champion; 2004 Olympic 100m gold medalist; 2004 Olympic 200m bronze medalist & 4x100m relay silver medalist; 2003 World Indoor 60m champion; 2003 USA Indoor 60m champion; 2002 NCAA Indoor 60m and 200m champion; 2002 NCAA Outdoor 100 & 200m champ; 2001 NCAA Outdoor 100 and 200 meter champion; 2004 & 2005 Jesse Owens Award winner

In Daegu, Justin Gatlin will compete for Team USA for the first time since 2005, having been out of competition due to a doping suspension from 2006-2010. He dipped under 10 seconds for the first time since his return at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, where he ran 9.98 to win his semifinal

and 9.95 to place second by .01 to Walter Dix. Gatlin had an amazing season in 2005, highlighted by winning the 100m and 200m gold medals at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki, Finland. His victories made him only the second man in history to win both 100m and 200m at the same World Outdoor Championships during the 10 occasions the event has been held and his winning margin of

.17 seconds in the 100 was the biggest in World Championships history. He also won both sprints at the 2005 USA Outdoor Championships in becoming the first man to win U.S. 100 and 200-meter titles in the same year since Kirk Baptiste in 1985. Gatlin was just 22 years old when he won the 2004

Olympic gold in the 100m.. His winning time of 9.85 in Athens at the time was second only in Olympic history to Canadian Donovan Bailey‘s world-record winning time of 9.84 at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. As a collegiate star at the University of Tennessee, Gatlin won six NCAA titles by the end of his sophomore season. He also won the 2003 U.S. and World Indoor titles at 60m. Gatlin ended the 2003 season by winning one of the biggest cash prizes in track and field history at the Moscow Challenge. He won the 100 meters by crossing the finish line in 10.05 seconds to win a jackpot totaling $500,000. In 2002 he announced he would join the professional circuitC. He opened his pro

career in 2003 by placing second in the 60 meters at the Verizon Millrose Games, beating world record holder Maurice Greene in the process. He ignited Tennessee‘s 2001 NCAA team title run by winning the 100m and 200m dashes, becoming the first freshman to get double victory in those events at the NCAA Outdoors since 1976. His then career best of 10.08 in the 100m at the 2001 NCAAs equaled the U.S. Junior record in the event. He also was part of the school record 4x100m relay team that finished

second in 38.38 Gatlin was named the SEC Track Freshman of the Year both Indoors and Outdoors.

Coming out of high school, Gatlin received full scholarship offers in track and field as well as graphic design. Gatlin says he nearly went to art school, before changing his mind and pursuing his track career.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoor Champs (9.95); 1st in Madrid (10.10)

2010: Best of 10.09 in Roverto, Italy 2009: did not compete 2008: did not compete 2007: did not compete 2006: no results; doping violation 2005: World Outdoor 100m (9.88) and 200m (20.04) champion...1st in 100m (10.08) and 200m

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(20.04) at USA Outdoor Champs...1st in 200m at USA Outdoor Champs(20.04)...1st in 100m at Nike

Prefontaine Classic (9.84w)...1st at London (9.89)...1st at Brussels (9.99)...1st at Monterrey (20.00)ranked #1 in world at 100m & 200mbests of 9.88 & 20.00. 2004: Olympic Games 100m gold medalist (9.85)...Olympic Games 200m bronze medalist

(20.03)...4x100m relay silver medalist (38.08)...2nd at Olympic Trials in 100m (9.92)...2nd at Olympic Trials 200m (20.01)...1st in 200m at Sea Ray Relays (20.21)...2nd at Payton Jordan US Open in 100m (9.91w)...ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) at 100m, #2 in world (#1U.S) by T&FN...bests of 9.85 & 20.01. 2003: World Indoor 60m champion (6.46)...USA Indoor 60m champion (6.45)...2nd at Verizon Millrose Games (6.54)...ran 2nd leg on USA Reds...1st place 4x100m relay team at Penn Relays (38.62)...anchored USA Reds ...1st place 4x200m relay (1:19.16)...1st in race#2 at Golden Gala

(10.09)...1st at Zurich (9.97PR)...2nd in 100m (10.09) and 1st in the 200m (20.04) at Brussels...1st at Moscow Challenge (10.05)...best of 9.97...ranked #4 at 100m in the world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: 1st in 60m (6.59) & 200m (20.63) at NCAA Indoors...won SEC 60m (6.54) and 200m (20.42), with teammate Leonard Scott in 2nd...1st at SEC Champs (10.11)...1st at NCAA Outdoors 200m (20.18)...2nd at NCAA Outdoors (10.22)...1st at SEC 200m (19.86)...ran 3rd fastest 200m in the

world in '02 (19.98) in first round of NCAA Outdoor Champs...best of 10.11 & 19.86.

2001: Won NCAA Outdoor 100m (10.08) and 200 meters (20.11w)...ran second leg on Tennessee's 2nd-place 4x100m relay team (38.80)...placed fourth in 60m (6.71) and 200m (20.65) at NCAA Indoor Champs...1st in 200 (20.32), 2nd in 100m (10.26), 4th in 110mH (13.88) and ran 2nd leg on winning 4x100m relay (39.57) at SEC Outdoor...2nd in 60m (6.63) and 200m (20.58) at SEC Indoor...ranked #9 at 100m, #6 in 200m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 10.08 & 20.29. 2000: 3rd in 100m at FootLocker National Outdoor Champs (10.36)...won 100m, 110m hurdles and 300m hurdles and was third in LJ at Florida state meet, leading Woodham HS to the team title...best

of 10.36.

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ZOILA GOMEZ


Weight: 102 PR: 2:32:51 (2010) Born: June 7, 1979 Current Residence: Alamosa, Colo. High School: Costa Mesa High School (Costa Mesa, Calif.) College: Adams State University ‗04 Coach: Damon Martin

Career Highlights: Six-time NCAA Div. II Champion; Placed 4th at the Olympic Trials in 2:33:53

Ziola Gomez came to the United States from Mexico in 1996 and a few years later enrolled at Adams State University. Her career at Adams State culminated in the winning of six national Division II championships. After graduation, Gomez remained in Colorado and

has run professionally since 2005. She has competed on the USA Running Circuit, placing as high as 4th at the Olympic Trials Marathon in 2008. 2011: 7th at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (33:20.67)… 4th at the Irvine Spring Break Invitational 1,500m (4:29.74)

2010: 7th overall in the Rotterdam Marathon (2:33:54)… 5th in the All-America City 10k road race (35:14) 2009: 4th at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (33:50.92)… 1st at the UNM Cerry and Silver Invitational indoor mile (5:06.48) 2008: 7th at the USA 20 km Championships (1:09:52)… 4th at the Olympic Trials (2:33:53)… 9th in the Houston Half Marathon (1:13:11)

2007: 7th in the USA Half Marathon Championships (1:13:49)… 8th in the Nike Half Marathon

(1:13:49)… 7th at the USA Marathon Championships (2:41:36) 2006: 3rd at the Twin Cities Marathon (2:35:36)… 3rd in the USA 20 km Championships (1:09:04)… 3rd in the Hospital Hill Run Half Marathon (1:15:30) 2005: 4th in the Mt. SAC Relays Invitational 10,000m (33:32:20)… 5th at the Arby‘s Rocky Mountain Half Marathon (1:19:57) 2004: 4th in mile at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Champions (4:46.84)… 1st at the 5,000m at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Champions (16:21.40)… 1st at the 5,000m at the NCAA Div. II Outdoor Championships

(16:32.97)… 1st at the 10,000m at the NCAA Div. II Outdoor Championships (34:16.34)… 2nd in the Boulder Half Marathon (1:20:13) 2002: 1st in the mile at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships (4:43.94)… 1st in the 5,000m at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships (16:32.38) 2001: 1st in the Jack Christiansen Invitational 1,500m (4:42.23)… 5th at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships in the 5,000m (16:51.19)… 1st in the 10,000m at the NCAA Div. II Outdoor

Championships (34:58.20)

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MARQUISE GOODWIN

Event: Long Jump Height: 5-10 Weight: 175 PR: 8.33m/27-4 (2011)

Born: November 11, 1990 Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: Rowlett High School (Rowlett, Tex.) College: University of Texas ‗13 Coach: Mario Sategna Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2010 NCAA Outdoor champion; 2008 World Junior champion; two-time USA

Junior champion (‘08, ‘09); two-time Big 12 Outdoor champion (‘10, ‘11); 2011 Big 12 Indoor champion

A definite jack-of-all-trades, Marquise Goodwin not only does it all, but he does it all very well. After just his sophomore season for the University of Texas, Goodwin qualified for the 2011 IAAF World

Championships by winning the long jump at USA Outdoors (8.33m/27-4). He has also been a standout wide receiver for two seasons for the Longhorns‘ football squad; catching 61 passes for 601 yards and two touchdowns. Goodwin‘s personal best at 2011 USA Outdoors placed him among the elite long jumpers in the world and at the world meet he hopes to build on an already impressive resume. On the track for the Longhorns, Goodwin racked up a total of three Big 12 championships (indoors in 2011 and outdoors in 2010 and 2011). He also won the NCAA Outdoor title in 2010 (8.15m/26-9). Competing for Rowlett

High School (Rowlett, Tex.), Goodwin twice was selected the Texas Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year while winning a total of seven Texas 5A state championships (long jump (3), triple jump (2), 4x100m (2)). Competing as a high school senior in the senior division at 2009 USA Outdoors, Goodwin set the national high school record in placing fifth (8.18m/26-10). A standout at the high school level, Goodwin was the 2008 World Junior champion (7.74m/25-4.75) as well as winning the USA Junior

championship (7.62m/25-0). Passing on his remaining jumps in prelims and the final, he took just one jump to win the USA Junior Outdoor title in 2009 (7.9m/26-1.50).

2011: USA Outdoor champion (8.33m/27-4)… Big 12 Indoor (8.10m/26-7) and Outdoor champion (8.17m/26-09.75)… 3rd at NCAA Indoors (8.00m/26-3)… 4th at NCAA Outdoors (8.16m/26-9.25)… 3rd at Big 12 Indoors (7.85m/25-9.25)… 10th at NCAA Indoors (7.61m/24-11.75)… Best of 8.33m/27-4.

2010: NCAA Outdoor champion (8.15m/26-9)… Big 12 Outdoor champion (7.94m/26-0.75)… Best of 8.15m/26-9. 2009: USA Junior champion (7.9m/26-1.50)… 5th in senior division at USA Outdoors (8.18m/26-10)… Best of 8.18m/26-10. 2008: World Junior champion (7.74m/25-4.75)… USA Junior champion (7.62m/25-0)… Best of 7.74m/25-4.75.

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KARA GOUCHER

Events: Middle distance Height: 5-7

Weight: 120 PRs: 1,500m - 4:05.14 (2006); 3,000m - 8:41.42 (2006); 5,000m – 14:55.02 (2007); 10,000m – 30:55.16 (2008); Half marathon – 1:06:57 (2007); marathon – 2:24:26 (2011) Born: July 9, 1978 in Queens, NY Current Residence: Portland, Ore. High School: Duluth East HS (Minn) '96

College: Colorado '01 Coach: Alberto Salazar Agent: Peter Stubbs

Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor 10,000m runner-up; 2008 Olympic Trials 5,000m champion and 10,000m runner-up; 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist; 2007 USA Outdoor 10,000m runner-

up; 2006 USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up; 2000 NCAA Outdoor Champion in 3,000 and 5,000m; 2000 NCAA XC Champion

After taking time off in 2010 to give birth to her son, Goucher is clearly back to form in 2011. Taking

advantage of fast conditions at the Boston Marathon, Goucher finished 5th in a personal best time 2:24:26. At the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships Goucher ran her second-fastest 10,000m time ever to qualify for the world team in 31:16.65. Goucher was the top U.S. finisher at the women's World Marathon Cup competition at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships. She finished 10th in a season's best time of 2:27:48. Goucher's finish is the highest by an American woman in the World Championships marathon since Linda Somers finished seventh in 1995...For the first time in 24 years, Americans appeared on both podiums at the 2009 Boston Marathon as Kara Goucher was third in the

women's race (2:32:25) and Ryan Hall third among the men…Goucher turned in a history-making American performance by finishing third in the 2008 NYC Marathon. Crossing the line in 2:25:53, it was the fastest marathon debut ever by an American woman; it was the fastest time ever by an American at the ING New York City Marathon; and it marked the first time in 14 years that an American woman placed in the top three in New York…won the 5,000 and was second in the 10,000 at the 2008 Olympic Trials and placed 9th and 10th at the Olympics, respectively…Goucher made her half

marathon debut a memorable one in setting a new American best time with her winning performance at the 2007 Great North Run Half Marathon in England. Her time of 1:06:57 bettered the previous U.S. record of 67:34 by Deena Kastor set last year in Berlin, but due to the downhill nature of the course, it will not qualify as the American record...Goucher made history at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships by winning the first American medal ever in the women's 10,000 meters. Her racing savvy and closing speed earned her America's first World Outdoor medal in the 10 km, besting a pair of fifth-place finishes by Hall of Famer Lynn Jennings. Goucher took the bronze in a season-best

time of 32:02.05. On July 26, 2006, in just her second 10,000-meter race, Kara Goucher became the second-fastest American ever at the distance, placing third in Helsinki in 31:17.12. Among Americans, only Deena Kastor has run faster. It was part of an amazing season that saw Goucher set personal

bests at four distances… After years of mutual injury and frustration, the Gouchers moved from Boulder to Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 2004, where both Kara and her husband, Adam, have flourished …Goucher established herself as one of the top collegiate cross country runners while at Colorado. She was undefeated for the entire 1999 cross country season until the NCAA

Championships, where she finished ninth... she returned in 2000 to win her second Big 12 cross country championship, the NCAA title and then won both the 3,000 and 5,000m at the NCAA Championships... was the only collegiate runner in the 5,000m finals at the 2000 Olympic Trials, where she finished 8th... Formerly Kara Grgas-Wheeler, she started running in the seventh grade because she wanted to win an award at her junior high school... to get the award, she needed academics, arts and athletics... she chose cross country because they didn‘t make cuts...was a

psychology major at Colorado... In 2001, she married fellow Colorado alum, distance runner Adam Goucher..gave birth to son Colt in September 2010.

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2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors in 10,000m (31:16.65)... 5th at Boston Marathon (2:24:26 PR)

2010: maternity 2009: 10th at World Outdoors (2:27:48)...3rd at Boston Marathon (2:32:25)…1st at Millrose Games mile (4:33.19)…1st in 3,000m at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (8:46.65)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by

T&FN...best of 2:27:48. 2008: 9th in 5,000m (15:49.39) and 10th in 10,000m (30:55.16) at Olympic Games...Olympic Trials champion in 5,000m and 2nd in 10,000m (15:01.02, 31:37.72)…3rd in 5,000m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (14:58.10)…4th at adidas Track Classic (9:00.53)…3rd at NYC marathon (2:25:53)…ranked #1 in the U.S. at 5,000m and #2 in the U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 14:58.10 and 30:55.16. 2007: USA Outdoor 10,000m runner-up (32:33.80)…3rd in 10,000m at World Outdoors (32:02.05)…8th in 1,500m at Pre Classic (4:10.29)…3rd in 3,000m at Rieti (8:34.99)…3rd in 5,000m

at Berlin (14:55.02)…ranked #3 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 10,000m, #2 in the U.S. at 3,000m and #4 in the U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN...bests of 32:02.05, 8:34.99 and 14:55.02. 2006: USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up (15:14.13)…11th in 1,500m at Rieti (4:05.14PR)…1st in 1,500m at Eugene (4:14.23)…3rd in 3,000m at World Cup (8:41.42PR)…2nd in 3,000m at adidas Track Classic (8:55.05)…5th in 5,000m at Naimette-Xhovemont (15:08.13PR)…3rd in 10,000m at

Helsinki (31:17.12PR)…ranked #1 in the U.S. at 10,000m and #2 in the U.S. at 3,000m and 5,000m

by T&FN…bests of 4:05.14, 8:41.42, 15:08.13 and 31:17.12. 2005: bests of 4:12.31 and 15:17.55. 2004: bests of 4:16.48, 9:14.77 and 16:30.35. 2003: bests of 4:11.17 and 15:42.97. 2002: did not compete 2001: 7th in 5,000m at USA Outdoors…7th in 5,000m at NCAA Outdoors…bests of 4:27.54 and 15:41.77.

2000: Won Big 12 XC Champs (19:38)... Won 3000m (9:02.15) and 5000m (15:54.30) at NCAA Outdoor Champs... 8th at Olympic Trials 5000m (15:34.47)... won NCAA XC... ranked #8 in U.S. in 5000m by T&FN... bests of 4:12.15, 8:54.82 and 15:28.78. 1999: Won Big 12 XC Champs (16:48)... 9th at NCAA XC Champs (16:58.40)... runner-up at NCAA Outdoor 3000m (9:29.89)... 4th at Big 12 Outdoor 5000 (16:57.31)... 3rd at Big 12 Outdoor 3000 (9:41.38)...7th at Mt. SAC Relays (4:28.37)... bests of 9:16.53 and 16:57.31. 1998: Won Big 12 3000m (9:32.55)... 7th at NCAA 3000m (9:23.45)... best of 9:23.45.

1997: 3rd at Big 12 XC Champs (17:40)... 9th at Big 12 3000m... bests of 4:59.42 (mile) and 9:55.89. 1996: 11th at Big 12 XC Champs... best of 18.25 (XC).

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TREY HARDEE


Weight: 210 PR: 8,790 points (2009); Day 1 (4454) - 10.28, 7.75m, 14.75m, 2.04m, 47.76; Day 2 (4080) - 13.71, 52.68m, 5.30m, 63.69m, 4:42.61 Born: Feb. 7, 1984 in Birmingham, Ala. Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: Vestavia Hills (HS) '02

College: Mississippi State '04; University of Texas '06 Coach: Mario Sategna Agent: Paul Doyle

Club: Nike Facebook Fan Page: Trey Hardee Twitter: @treyhardee

Career Highlights: 2009 World champion; 2009 USA champion; 2010 World Indoor heptathlon silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year; 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion; 2004 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; NCAA decathlon record holder At Gotzis, defending World champion Hardee scored 8,689, which sits as the second-ranked decathlon score for the outdoor season. Hardee won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2010 World Indoor

Championships in Doha, but did not compete in a decathlon. Hardee won the decathlon at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin with a personal best and world leading score of 8,790 points, which bettered his previous PR of 8,534 by a whopping 256 points. Hardee posted a winning margin of 150 points over silver medalist Leonel Suarez of Cuba. With his performance in Berlin, Hardee is now the #3 all-time American in the decathlon behind only Dan O'Brien and Bryan Clay, and his performance is ranked #9 on the all-time list and was the highest score at a World Outdoor

Championships since 2001. Hardee joins O'Brien (1991, 1993, 1995), Tom Pappas (2003) and Clay

(2005) as the only Americans ever to win the world decathlon title. Hardee won his first ever national decathlon crown with his win at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in totaling 8,261 points. Hardee came up with the performance of his life at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials finishing second with a total of 8,534 points, which surpassed his previous personal best of 8,371 points set at the 2008 Texas Relays. Hardee ended the 2008 season ranked top ten in the world for the first time in his career (#5) by Track & Field News. At the 2006 Texas Relays, Hardee set an NCAA record in the decathlon with 8,465 points, which was the second-best decathlon tally by an American that

season. On the first day of the decathlon, Hardee scored 4,399 points. By day two, he clocked a personal-best time of 13.83 in the hurdles, topping his previous top mark by one quarter of a second. He added his second victory in the next event, the discus, with a mark of 158-3. He topped his personal best in the pole vault by four inches with a clearance of 17-0.75. Competing in his first javelin event of the season, Hardee added another personal best and his eighth victory of the meet, winning the javelin with a toss of 196-10. At the New Mexico Multi-Events Meet in Albuquerque, he

won with 6,208 points in the indoor heptathlon, surpassing the NCAA record of 6,136 points set at the

2004 NCAA Championships by then-UT freshman Donovan Kilmartin. In his junior year at the University of Texas, he posted a UT record score of 7,881 points, with the aid of four personal bests, to win the decathlon at the NCAA Championships. While at Mississippi State, Hardee set a school record of 8,041 points while finishing second in the decathlon at the NCAA Championship. Hardee placed first at the 2004 SEC Championships with 7,480 points.

2011: 1st at Gotzis (8689) 2010: World Indoors heptathlon silver medalist (6,184 points)...best of 6,184. 2009: World champion (8,790WL, PR)...USA Champion (8,261)...2nd at Gotzis (8,516)...ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 8,790 points. 2008: Olympic Trials runner-up (8,534PR)…was in 4th place prior to dropping out of Olympic Games following no mark in pole vault…1st at Texas Relays (8,371)…ranked #5 in world, #2 U.S. by

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T&FN…best of 8,534.

2007: Did not compete. 2006: 9th at NCAA Outdoors (7,263)…1st at Texas Relays (8,465 CR)…did not compete at AT&T USA Outdoor Champs…7th in long jump at NCAA Indoor champs (7.75m/25-5.25)…1st in heptathlon at

New Mexico Multi (6,208 CR)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,465. 2005: 1st at the NCAA Championships (7,881 pts)… 1st at Texas Relays (7,839 pts)…5th in the 4x100m at the Penn Relays (40.23)…2nd in the heptathlon at the Houston Indoor (5,633 pts)…2nd at the Big 12 Championships in the heptathlon (5,723 pts)…3rd at the NCAA Championships in the heptathlon (5,859 pts). 2004: 2nd at the NCAA Championship (8,041pts)… 1st at the SEC Championship (7,480 pts)…1st at NACAC U23 (7,218).

2003: 5th at the NCAA Outdoor Championship (7,468)… 3rd at the SEC Championship (7,544)… 7th at the SEC Indoor Championships in pole vault (16-8 3/4).

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JON RYAN HARLAN


Weight: 197 PR: 8,054 (2004) Event PRs: 100m - 10.89; 110H - 13.93; 400m - 48.72; 1,500m - 4:48.18; HJ - 2.15m/7-0.5; PV - 5.05m/16-6.75; LJ - 7.10m/23-3.5; SP - 16.61m/54-6; DT - 44.63m/146-5; JT - 62.18m/204-0; SP – 16.61m/54-6 Born: April 25, 1981

Current Residence: Houston, Texas High School: Midway (Hewitt, Texas) HS '99 College: Rice '04

Coach: Patrick Pyle Agent: Self Club: Unattached

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2006 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2007 NACAC Champion; Two-time USA Indoor champion (‘05, ‘06); 2004 NCAA champion; 2000 National Junior champion Ryan Harlan joins Ashton Eaton, Trey Hardee and Bryan Clay to form a potent team of multi-event

athletes heading into the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. One of the best decathletes in the world, Harlan placed second at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. It was his first time competing in the U.S. national meet since he finished 12th at the 2008 Olympic Trials. This will be the veteran's first World team. Harlan posted his first victory in international competition with his winning score of 7,901 points at the 2007 NACAC Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Harlan firmly established himself as a major player in 2006 with his win at the USA Indoor

Combined Events Championships and runner-up finish at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships.

Harlan set a decathlon personal best in 2004 at the NCAA Championships with his win (8,171 points) before placing 14th at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento with 7,330 points. In Sacramento he was released from the hospital just two hours before the first event began after being treated for a severe staph infection. Before entering Rice University as a freshman in the fall of 1999, Harlan had never competed in three of the ten events in the decathlon: pole vault, shot put, or javelin. In the spring of 2000, Harlan was the National Junior decathlon champion (6,835 points).

2011: USA Outdoors runner-up (8,011). 2008: 12th at Olympic Trials (7,587). 2007: 4th at USA Outdoors (7,883)…1st at NACAC (7,901)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 7,901. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (7,872)…USA Indoor champion (5,949)…6th at Talence (8,022)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,022. 2005: USA Indoor champion (6,102)…DNF at USA Outdoor Championships…2nd at San Juan

(7,997)…1st at Filderstadt (7,919)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 7,997.

2004: 14th at Olympic Trials (7,330)…NCAA champion (8,171w)…1st at LSU Gold Alumni (8,054 PR)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,054. 2003: 11th at USA Outdoor champs (7,560)…redshirt college season…best of 7,560. 2002: ranked #9 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 7,948. 2001: best of 7,319. 2000: Junior National champion…best of 6,385w.

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DAWN HARPER Events: 100m hurdles Height: 5-6 Weight: 134 PR: 12.48 (2009)

Born: May 13, 1984 Current Residence: Los Angeles, Calif. High School: East St. Louis Senior (Ill.) HS '02 College: UCLA '06 Coach: Bobby Kersee Agent: Emanuel Hudson Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic gold medalist; 2009 USA Outdoor champion; 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 2006 NACAC U23 champion; 2004 NCAA 4x100m runner-up; 2003 USA Junior champion; 2003 Pan Am Junior champion; 2009 Outdoor Visa champion

After running only race in 2010, Harper is back in action with wins in Rome, Daegu and a third place finish

at USA Outdoors. Harper won her first national outdoor title and the women's Visa Championship Series crown on the final day of the 2009 USA Outdoor Champs with her win in the Nike Women's 100m hurdles in a windy 12.36 seconds. Harper's performance gave her 1,220 points and the women's USA Track & Field Outdoor Visa Championship Series title. Just weeks later, she set a new personal best in the women's 100m hurdles semis (12.48) at the World Outdoor Championships, but was not as fortunate in the final. Shortly after the gun went off Harper hit the second hurdle and that threw her rhythm off for the remainder of the race and she finished seventh in 12.81 seconds…Harper was considered by many to have a possible shot at a medal in the 100m hurdles final, but no one expected gold. In the women's 100m hurdle final, with Lolo Jones hitting the ninth hurdle, Harper moved up to claim the win in a personal best 12.54...Harper punched her ticket to Beijing at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials with her third-place finish in the women‘s 100m hurdles (12.62)…Since graduating from UCLA in 2006, Harper has been training under Bob Kersee in Los

Angeles…In 2004, Harper earned All-American honors twice at the NCAA outdoor championships -- placing eighth at the 100-meter hurdles and was on the Bruins' 400-meter relay team, which took second. Also in 2004, Harper placed 18th at the Olympic Trials…From East St. Louis, it was on to UCLA where in 2003 she won the 100-meter hurdles in both the Pan American and U.S. Junior Championships…a 2002 graduate of East St. Louis High where she won six state titles -- three each in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles…married to former UCLA sprinter Craig Everhart.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 100m hurdles (12.65)... 1st at Rome (12.70)...1st at Colorful Daegu (12.73)...3rd at Monaco (12.79) 2010:7th at Doha (12.77w) 2009: 7th at World Outdoors (12.81), 1st in semifinal (12.48PR)...USA Outdoor champion (12.36w)…1st at adidas Track Classic (12.78)...1st at Jamaica Invit (12.78)…1st at Rome (12.55)…1st at Paris (12.68)...2nd at World Athletic Final (12.61)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 12.48. 2008: Olympic champion (12.54), second in semifinal (12.66)...3rd at Olympic Trials (12.62w), 3rd in semifinal (12.58PR)…6th at adidas Track Classic (13.01)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (12.59w)...1st at Shanghai (12.56)...ranked #3 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 12.54. 2007: 8th at USA Outdoors (13.07)…2nd at Belem (12.83w)…4th at Road to Eugene (12.97)…1st at Chambery (12.73)…4th at Stockholm (12.85)…1st at Leverkusen (12.70)…1st at Wattenscheid (12.67)…3rd

at Shanghai (13.03)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 12.67. 2006: 7th at USA Outdoors (13.02)…4th at NCAA Outdoors (12.92)…NACAC U23 champion (13.06)…2nd at NCAA West Regionals (12.80)…ranked #9 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 12.80. 2005: 8th at USA Outdoors (13.23)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors (12.91)…2nd at NCAA West Regionals (12.99)…2nd at Pac 10 Champs (12.91)…ranked #8 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 12.91. 2004: 6th in quarterfinals at Olympic Trials (13.30)…8th at NCAA Outdoors (13.41), 2nd on 4x100m (43.49)…best of 13.16. 2003: USA Junior champion (13.28w)…Pan Am Junior champion (13.42)

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QUEEN HARRISON

Events: 400m hurdles Height: 5-7

Weight: 130 PR: 100mH -12.61 (2010); 400mH - 54.55 (2010) Born: September 10, 1988 in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y. Current Residence: Blacksburg, Va. High School: Hermitage (Richmond, Va.) HS '06 College: Virginia Tech '10 Coach: Charles Foster

Agent: Paul Doyle Club: Saucony

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2010 NCAA

Outdoor 100mH and 400mH champion; 2010 NCAA Indoor champion; 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2007 Pan Am Junior 400mH champion and 100mH silver medalist; 2007 USA Junior champion In her first complete year as a professional runner, Harrison took 2nd place at the USA Championships to qualify for the World Championships. In 2010, Harrison became the first woman in NCAA history to

win the National Championship in both the 100m and 400m hurdles. She won the first National Championship for the VA Tech women when she took the 60m hurdles at the 2010 NCAA Indoor meet. Injury caused Harrison to miss the 2009 National Championships, shortening a promising season in which she was named the ACC Women‘s Performer of the Year after winning the 100m and 400m hurdles at the ACC Championships. Harrison made Virginia Tech track and field history at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, taking second in the 400-meter hurdles to earn a spot on the Olympic Team, becoming the first individual from the track and field program to represent any country at any

Olympic games. Before the final, Harrison and Coach Lawrence Johnson printed custom T-shirts, to be worn after the race. The front of the shirts featured a "VT" logo as big as they could make it. The back displayed their track team's motto: "invictus," Latin for "unconquerable…Harrison set a meet record in winning the women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2007 Pan Am Junior Championships, crossing the line in 56.25…took third at the 2007 NCAA Championships in a school-record 55.81…was a two-time Virginia AAA state champion, winning the outdoor long jump in 2004, and the indoor long jump in

2005 ... Her 300m hurdle time of 42.15 ranked 12th in the nation in 2006, while her triple jump mark of 40'8.75" ranked her sixth ... Two-time indoor track athlete of the year by Richmond-Times Dispatch ... Nike Indoor Nationals triple jump runner-up during her junior season, earning All-America honors … Her father, William Harrison, received a 10-year sentence in 1998 for possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute. He was released from the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey just before the Beijing Games began. Harrison disagrees with the growing notion that her story is "rags to riches" because she grew up without a father. She said William is, and always has

been, a presence in her life…one of her father‘s 23 children. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors in 400m hurdles (54.78)...5th at London (55.51)...2nd at Rabat

(55.31)...5th at USA Indoors 60m hurdles (8.05) 2010: NCAA Outdoor Champion in 100mH (12.67) and 400mH (54.55)… NCAA Indoor Champion in 60mH (7.95)…7th at Zurich (56.68)…1st at ACC Champs (12.44 and 54.66)…1st at Penn Relays (12.61)…4th at Stockholm (12.78)…4th at London (12.69)…4th at Brussels (12.69)…ranked #7 in the

world, #3 U.S. over 100mH and #3 in the U.S. over 400mH by T&FN…bests of 12.61 and 54.55. 2009: 1st at Texas Relays in 400mH (57.38)… ACC Champion in 100mH (13.14) and 400mH (56.03)… Named ACC Women‘s Performer of the Year… 1st at Penn State National Invite in 60mH (8.02MR) and 400m (53.67)…bests of 13.14 and 56.03. 2008: 7th in semifinal at Olympic Games (55.88)…Olympic Trials runner-up (54.60)…NCAA East Regional 400mH and 100mH champion (54.69, 12.70)…ACC champion (55.16)…3rd in 60mH at NCAA

Indoors (8.03)…ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 54.60. 2007: USA Junior champion (56.86), 100m hurdles runner-up (13.12)…Pan Am Junior champion

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(56.25) and 100mH runner-up (13.20)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors (55.81), 5th in 100mH (12.98)…1st at

NCAA East Regionals (56.09)…2nd at ACC Champs (56.80)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 55.81.

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AMY HASTINGS

Event: distance Height: 5-4

Weight: 100 PRs: 5,000m - 15:14.31 (2011); 10,000m - 32:18.72 (2008); Half-Marathon - 1:11:19 (2010); Marathon 2:27:03 (2011) Born: January 21, 1984 in Long Beach, Calif. Current Residence: Mammoth Lakes, Calif. High School: Leavenworth (Kansas) HS '01 College: Arizona State

Coach: Terrence Mahon Agent: Club: Brooks

Career Highlights: Runner-up 2011 USA Outdoors; 2nd 2011 Los Angeles Marathon; Member of 2010 IAAF bronze medal World XC team; NCAA 2005 Indoor National Champion 5,000m; USA

Junior Champion 5,000m

2011 has been a breakthrough year for Hastings. At USA Outdoors, Hastings dropped a stunning 34 seconds off of her best 5,000m time. Since USA's, Hastings has proved consistently with three more

5,000m efforts under 15:20...In her debut marathon in Los Angeles, Hastings finished second to become the eighth-best American marathoner of all-time. 10xNCAA All-American in Cross Country and Track while at Arizona State...Coach Terrence Mahon has dubbed her "Little Deena" due to the similarities of her racing style with Deena Kastor

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (15:14.31)...3rd at Lignano (15:29.84)...2nd at Los Angeles Marathon (2:27:03)...8th at USA Half Marathon Champs (1:14:07)

2010: 3rd at Payton Jordan Invite (32:28.77)...5th at USA Outdoors (32:49.07)...25th at IAAF XC (26:20)...3rd at Houston Half Marathon (1:11:19) 2009: 6th in 10,000m (32:56.20) at USA Outdoors and 10th in 5,000m (15:52.37) ...1st at Flanders 3,000m (9:11.10)...33rd at IAAF World Half Marathon Champs (1:13.20)

2008: 14th at Olympic Trials 916:07.03)...6th at USA Indoors (9:16.08)...62nd at IAAF World XC (28:18) 2006: NCAA Indoor Champion 5,000m (15:51.63) 2003: 20th at IAAF World XC (22:34)

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NATASHA HASTINGS

Event: 400m Height: 5-8 Weight: 135 PR: 400m – 49.84 (2007)

Born: July 23, 1986, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Current Residence: Locust Grove, Ga. High School: A. Philip Randolph Campus (New York City, N.Y.) HS ‗04 College: University of South Carolina ‗08 Coach: Curtis Frye Agent: Joanne Hastings

Club: Nike Twitter: @natashahastings Website: www.natashahastings.net

Career Highlights: 2010 World Indoor 4x400m gold medalist; 2008 Olympic 4x400m gold medalist; 2007 World Outdoor 4x400m gold

medalist; 2007 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2007 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion; 2007 SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year; 2006 NACAC U23 silver medalist; 2004 World Junior champion; 2004 World Junior 4x400m gold medalist; 2003 World Youth champion

Hastings has been a fixture of Team USA's 4x400m relay, appearing in the last three major

championships and bringing home the gold each time. Hastings (52.57) had third-leg duty in the women‘s 4x400m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships where Team USA won their first-ever gold in the women's 4x400m relay at a World Indoor Championships in American record fashion, finishing in 3:27.34. At the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, Hastings made her first Olympic Team with her fifth place finish in the women‘s 400m (51.13), which qualified her for the 4x400 relay pool. As a

junior at the University of South Carolina in 2007, Hastings established herself one of the country‘s best 400m runners. Following a dominant collegiate season in which she won national titles indoors and outdoors, Hastings finished as the USA Outdoor runner-up. Her personal-best time of 49.84 was the fastest ever run by a collegian. She chose to forgo her final year of NCAA eligibility.

2011: 5th at USA Outdoors (51.14)...5th at Prefontaine Classic (51.85) 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors (50.53)…4th at USA Indoors (51.93)…World Indoor 4x400m champion (3:27.34iAR)…6th at Nike Pre Classic (50.64)…6th at Lausanne (50.83)…4th at Gateshead (51.15)…5th at Berlin (51.61)…ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 50.53. 2009: 4th at USA Outdoor Champs (50.89)…1st at adidas Track Classic (51.46)…5th at Reebok Grand Prix (51.64)…8th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (52.33).

2008: Olympic gold medalist (1st round, 3rd leg – 3:22.45)…5th at Olympic Trials in 400m (51.13)… 6th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (51.34)…6th at Reebok Grand Prix (51.98)…4th at adidas Track Classic (51.09)…3rd at Doha (50.80)...ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 50.80. 2007: USA Outdoor runner-up (49.84PR)...7th in semi's at World Outdoors (51.45)...3rd at Paris

(50.45)...3rd at Rome (50.34)...NCAA Outdoor champion (50.15)...NCAA Indoor champion (50.80CR)...NCAA East regional champion (50.23)...SEC champion (50.84)...1st at Weems Baskin Invite (50.55)...ranked #9 in the world (#5 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 49.84.

2006: NACAC U23 runner-up (52.11)...5th in semis at USA Outdoors (51.99)...6th at NCAA Outdoors (51.60)...2nd at NCAA East Regionals (51.56)...2nd at SEC Outdoors (52.00)...ranked #9 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 51.45. 2005: USA Junior Outdoor champion (51.34)...6th at NCAA Outdoors (51.87)...7th at NCAA East Regionals (52.86)...SEC Outdoor champion (51.94)...SEC Indoor runner-up (52.27)...best of 51.34. 2004: World Junior champion (52.04) and 1st in 4x400m (3:27.60)...2nd at USA Junior Champs (52.92)...best of 52.04.

2003: World Youth champion (53.41)...3rd at USA Junior Champs (52.09)...best of 52.09.

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MIKE HAZLE

Event: Javelin Height: 6-0

Weight: 205 PR: 82.21m/269-8 (2008) Born: March 22, 1979 in Conroe, Texas Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif. High School: Temple (Texas) HS '97 College: Texas State University '02 Coach: Ty Sevin

Agent: Peter Stubbs Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Champion; Four-time USA runner-up (‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘10); 2007 Pan Am Games silver medalist; 5th at 2005 USA Outdoor Champs

After finishing second for four years in a row, Hazle claimed his first USA Outdoor title in the javelin. Hazle finished as the runner-up in the javelin at the 2010 Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa. Hazle enjoyed one of his finest seasons in 2008 highlighted by his runner-up performance at the 2008 Olympic Trials and posting a personal best of 82.21m/269-8 from his 3rd place finish May 9 in Doha. He ended the 2008 campaign ranked #1 in the U.S. by Track &

Field News for the first time in his career. Hazle enjoyed a strong season in 2007 with a runner-up placing at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. Additionally in 2007, Hazle posted a then personal best performance with a toss of 81.99m/269-0 on September 13. As a student-athlete at Texas State University, Hazle showed his potential with an enormous personal best his senior year of 235-7, which improved his all-time best by an amazing 25 feet from his previous best mark from his junior year. Hazle owns a B.S. degree in exercise Sports Science and Business and a Master‘s degree in Sports

Management from Texas State University.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (78.22m/256-7)... best of 81.09m/266-0 at Tucson. 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (78.91m/258-11)...1st in San Diego (80.05m/262-7, U.S. Leader)...best of 80.05m/262-7. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (82.06m/269-3)...10th in Group A qualifying at World Outdoors (78.17m/256-5)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 82.06m/269-3. 2008: 2nd at Olympic Trials (75.76m/248-07)…12th in qualifying Group B at Olympic Games

(72.75m/238-8)…7th at Bislett Games Oslo (80.31m/263-6)…5th at DKB-ISTAF Berlin (81.14/266-2)…3rd at Doha (82.21m/269-8PR)…ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 82.21m/269-8. 2007: USA Outdoor Championships runner-up (75.06m/246-3)…Pan Am Games silver medal (75.33m/247-1)…1st at Huelva (81.99m/269-0)…ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 81.99m/269-0. 2006: 6th at USA Outdoor Champs (73.01m/239-6)…1st at Chania (77.09m/252-11)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 77.09m/252-11.

2005: 5th at USA Outdoors (71.34m/234-1)…ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 79.14m/259-8.

2004: 13th in Flight #2 qualifying at Olympic Trials (63.75m/209-2)…best of 70.77m/232-2. 2003: 10th in Flight #2 qualifying at USA Outdoors (67.37m/221-0)…best of 73.67m/241-8. 2002: 13th at USA Outdoors (70.66m/231-10)…14th at NCAA Outdoors (67.56m/221-8)…best of 71.82m/235-7. 2001: Best of 58.93m/193-4.

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REESE HOFFA

Event: Shot Put Height: 5-11 Weight: 315 PR: 22.43m/73-7.25 (2007)

Born: Oct. 8, 1977, in Evans, Ga. Current Residence: Athens, Ga. High School: Lakeside Evans (Augusta, Ga.) HS '97 College: Georgia '01 Coach: Don Babbitt Agent: Paul Doyle Club: NYAC/Nike

Career Highlights: Two-time USA Outdoor champion (‘07, ‘08); 2007 World Outdoor champion;2006 World Indoor champion; 2008 World Indoor silver medalist; 2006 USA Indoor champion;2004 World

Indoors silver medalist; 2003 Pan Am Games gold medalist; Three-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘06, ‘09, '10); Two-time USA Indoor runner-up (‘04, ‘05, ‗07)

Hoffa placed third at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (21.86 m/71-8.75) to qualify for his fifth world championship team. He also placed second at USA Outdoors in 2010 (21.33m/69-11.75) and was ranked No. 2 in the world by Track & Field News. He demonstrated his consistency in recent years with his third-place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships and by finishing as the runner-up in that event in 2010. Hoffa has now finished in the top five at the USA Outdoor Championships for eight consecutive years. Hoffa continued his winning ways at big events in 2008 with his triumph at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He won on his final throw of the competition of

22.10m/72-6.25, which was the second-best throw in the world in 2008. . After winning the 2007 USA Indoor and Outdoor men‘s shot put titles, Hoffa set his sights on the world stage, winning the World Outdoor gold medal with a throw of 22.04m/72-3.75. In fact, all but the last of Hoffa's legal throws - he threw 21.58m/70-9.75 in the sixth round - exceeded the best that the rest of the field had to offer. Hoffa threw past the 70-foot barrier at 10 separate events in 2007. For his efforts, Hoffa was ranked

#1 in the world in the men‘s shot put by Track & Field News for the second consecutive year. He enjoyed the finest indoor season of his career in 2006 highlighted by his victories at the USA Indoor

Championships in Boston and the World Indoor Championships. At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow he unleashed a massive world-leading and personal best heave of 22.11 meters/72 feet, 6.50 inches, which placed him #8 on the all-time indoor list and makes him the fourth-best indoor performer all-time. That performance propelled him to the #1 ranking in the world by Track & Field News for the first time in his career. 2003 and 2004 saw him emerge as a world-class athlete. His 2004 season was highlighted by a silver medal and personal best at the 2004 World Indoors

(21.07m/69-1.5)….He set a Pan American Games shot put record on August 5, 2003 in winning the gold medal with a throw of 20.95 meters/68 feet, 8.75 inches to break the previous mark of 20.52m/67-4 by C.J. Hunter in 1995. Hoffa‘s previous personal best came earlier in 2003 with his runner-up finish at the 2003 Home Depot Invitational, where he threw 20.90m/68-7. He set a PR of 21.67m/71-1.25 at the 2004 Home Depot Invitational. A huge professional wrestling fan, Hoffa competed while wearing a mask at that event, dubbing himself the ―Unknown Shot Putter.‖ Earned All-American honors for the fourth straight year in 2001, placing third in the shot put at the NCAA

Outdoor Championships with a throw of 19.93/65-4.75...runner-up at NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 60-7.75...two-time prep All-American and state shot put champ at Lakeside...named area Athlete-of-the-Year twice...ranked second nationally in the indoor shot...also competed in football, baseball and wrestling...says his dream is to compete in a bear suit, being brought onto the track in a cage…married Renata Hoffa on November 26, 2005. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (21.86m/71-8.75)...1st at Pre Classic (21.65/71-0.50)...1st at Monaco

(21.25m/69-8.75)... 2nd at Doha (21.27/69-9.50)...3rd at Rome (21.13/69-4)...2nd at Drake Relays (20.93m/68-8)... 4th at Stockholm (20.91/68-7.25)...best of 21.86m/71-8.75. 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (21.33m/69-11.75)…4th at USA Indoors (20.42m/67.0)…2nd at Millrose Games (20.59m/67-6.75)…1st in Brussels (22.16m/72-8.50)...2nd at Bydgoszcz (20.97m/ 68-9.75)…1st at Kentucky Invite (21.20m/69-6.75)… 1st at Bulldog Limited (21.14m/69-4.25)…3rd at Doha

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(21.00m/68-10.75)…4th at Oslo (20.69m/67-10.75)… 2nd at Drake Relays (20.56m/67-5.5)…4th at Stockholm (20.68m/67-10.25)...ranked #2 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 22.16m/72-8.50.

2009:3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (21.10m/69-2.75)...4th at World Outdoors (21.28m/69-9.75)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.89m/71-10)...1st at Doha (21.64m/71-0)...1st at Hengelo (21.59m/70-10)...ranked #3 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN...best of 21.89m/71-10. 2008: Olympic Trials champion (22.10m/72-06.25)…7th at Olympic Games (20.53m/67-8.75)…2ndat Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.73m/71-3.50)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (21.29m/69-10.25)…World Indoor Champs silver medalist (21.20m/66-3.25)…2nd at USA Indoor Champs (21.40m/70-2.50)…1st at Doha (21.48m/70-5.75)…ranked #3 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN...best of 22.10m/72-6.25

2007: World champion (22.04m/72-3.75)...USA Outdoor champion (21.47m/70-5.25)…USA Indoor runner-up (21.21m/69-7)… 1st at London (22.43m/73-7.25PR)…2nd at Millrose Games (21.75m/71-4.25)…3rd at adidas Track Classic (21.36m/70-1)…1st at Alabama Relays (21.84m/71-8)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.65m/71-0.5)…2nd at Madrid (20.81m/68-3.25)…1st at Ostrava (21.77m/71-5.25)…1st at Doha (21.37m/70-1.5)… ranked #1 in world by T&FN…best of 22.43m/73-7.25. 2006: World Indoor Champion (22.11m/72-6.5PR, WL)…USA Outdoor runner-up (21.96m/72-

0.75)…USA Indoor champion (21.61m/70-10.75)…4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (20.98m/68-

10)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN…best of 22.11m/72-6.5i. 2005: USA Indoors runner-up (21.74m/71-4)...5th at USA Outdoors (20.90m/68-7)…1st at Millrose Games (21.61m/70-11.25)…1st at Doha (21.29m/69-10.25)…ranked #4 in world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 21.29m/69-10.25. 2004: Silver medalist at World Indoors (21.07m/69-1.5PR)…2nd at Olympic Trials (21.14m/69-4.25)…22nd in qualifying at Olympic Games (19.40m/63-7.75)…runner-up at USA Indoors

(20.97m/68-9.75)…3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (20.38m/66-10.5)…1st at Atlanta (20.71m/67-11.5)… 2nd at Verizon Millrose Games (19.98m/65-6.75)…2nd at Drake Relays SP (19.61m/64-4)…2nd at Home Depot SP (21.67m/71-1.25PR)…1st at Santiago SP (20.99m/68-10.5)…1st in Atlanta SP (20.71m/67-11.5)…ranked #6 world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 21.67m/71-1.25. 2003: 3rd at USA Outdoors (20.64m/67-8.75)…1st at Pan American Games (20.95m/68-8.75PR)…5th at USA Indoors (19.40m/63-7.75)…2nd at Home Depot Invitational (20.90m/68-7)…2nd at Stanford (20.65/67-9)... ranked #9 in world (#5 U.S.) by T&FN… best of 68-8.75.

2002: 6th at USA Indoors (18.82m/61-9)…6th at USA Outdoors (20.47m/67-2)…ranked #7 in U.S. by

T&FN…best of 20.47m/67-2. 2001: 6th at USA Outdoors (19.95/65-5.5)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors (19.93/65-4.75)…SEC Outdoor champ…9th at World University Games…ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 20.22/66-4.25. 2000: 6th at U.S. Olympic Trials in SP (18.95/62-2.25)...2nd at NCAA Indoors (18.48/60-7.75)... 4th in SP at NCAA Outdoors (19.79/64-11.25PR)...ranked 5th in U.S...bests of (19.79/64-11.25) and 49.04/160-11DT.

1999: 2nd at Southeastern Conference Champs...11th at NCAA Outdoors...8th at USA Outdoors...best of 62-7.25. 1998: 3rd at SEC Outdoors...11th at NCAA Outdoors...best of 62-7.25. 1997: 5th at National Scholastics...best of 64-3HS.

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MARK HOLLIS

Event: Pole Vault Height: 6-3 Weight: 185 PR: 5.75m/18-10.25 (2008 & 2010)

Born: December 1, 1984 Current Residence: Elkhart, Ind. High School: Freeport (Ill.) HS ‗03 College: Olivet Nazarene ‗07 Coach: Danny Wilkerson Agent: Jeff Hartwig Club: Nike

Twitter: Hollispv Blog: pursuitof616.blogspot.com

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoor champ; 2010 USA Outdoor champ; 2010 Millrose Games champ; Two-time NAIA champ

One of the premier pole vaulters in the country the past few seasons, Mark Hollis qualified for his first World Championships team at the 2011 USA Indoor Championships. The pole vaulting career of Mark Hollis came of age in 2010 evidenced by his high-

profile wins against quality competition at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa,

and in January at the 103rd Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Also in 2010, Hollis equaled his personal best clearance of 5.75m/18-10.25 that he originally set in 2008. A two-time NAIA champion while at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, Hollis‘ career really began to pick up momentum in April of 2008 when he set personal bests at three consecutive meets: 5.51m/18-1 at Wheaton College, 5.71m/18-8.75 at the Drake Relays and 5.74m/18-10.25 in Champaign at the Illini Twilight Track and Field meet. As a high school senior, Hollis was small for a pole vaulter (5-8, 150 pounds) and his career best was a rather pedestrian (4.42m/14-6). By his

junior year at Olivet Nazarene he had grown to be 6-1, 185 pounds and had strengthened himself

tremendously in the weight room. In addition to being a regular volunteer for the Salvation Army in Elkhart, Ind., Hollis also coaches pole vaulting at Elkhart Memorial High School and is a volunteer coach at the University of Notre Dame, where he trains. He married wife Amanda in July, 2009. Hollis earned a Sports Management degree from Olivet Nazarene University. 2011: USA Indoor champ (5.60m/18-4.50)… 4th at USA Outdoors (5.54m/18-2)… 5th at Doha

(5.40m/17-8.5). 2010: USA Outdoor champ (5.60m/18-4.50)...7th at USA Indoors (5.50m/18-0.50)...1st at Millrose Games (5.60m/18-4.50)...2nd at Rotich-Egern (5.75m/18-10.25)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.75m/18-10.25. 2009: 5th at USA Outdoors (5.70m/18-8.25)...ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.69m/18-8.25. 2008: 9th in qualifying group at Olympic Trials (5.40m/17-8.50)...best of 5.75m/18-10.25.

2007: 1st at NAIA Champs...best of 5.34m/17-6.25i 2006: 1st at NAIA Champs...best of 5.25m/17-2.75

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MOLLY HUDDLE


Weight: 110 PR: 14:44.76AR (2010) Born: August 31, 1984 Current Residence: Providence, Rhode Island High School: Notre Dame HS College: Notre Dame Coach: Ray Treacy

Agent: Ray Flynn Club: Saucony

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor Champion; 2010 USA Outdoor Championships runner-up; two-time USA 10 km champion (‘09, ‘10); 2010 USA 5 km champion; 2009 USA 7 Mile champion; 2004 USA Junior Outdoor Champion

After winning multiple U.S. titles on the roads, Huddle won her first national championship on the track in 2011. Huddle won with a comfortable 4-second margin over second place in a season best of 15:10.01. In 2010, Huddle broke the American record in the women's 5,000 meters at the Belgacom Memorial van Damme, the final meeting of the Samsung Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium. Huddle took .04 seconds off the previous American record when she finished tenth in Brussels 14:44.76. Her time is also an Area and NACAC record. Huddle finished 2nd in the 5,000m at the 2010

USA Outdoor championships, making a name for herself as one of the top U.S. female distance runners. In 2009, Huddle earned the titles of USA 10km champion and USA 7 Mile champion. Huddle had a strong showing at the 2008 Olympic Trials, finishing 9th in the 10,000m and 10th in the 5,000m. She claimed her second Big East Outdoor title in 2007 and finished third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Huddle was named the 2006 Big East Outstanding Track Performer for her first place finish at the meet; she finished second at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In 2005, injury

prevented Huddle from outdoor competition, but she finished as the Big East Indoor runner-up.

Huddle began her track career with early success at Notre Dame, finishing 3rd at the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships and claiming the USA Junior title in the 3,000m. 2011: USA Outdoor champion in the 5,000m (15:10.01)...1st at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite 10,000m (31:28.66)...1st at Mt. SAC relays 5,000m (15:10.63)... 2nd at USA XC 8 km (26:31)...17th at World XC 8 km (26:26). 2010: 2nd at USA Outdoor Champs (15:30.89)…USA XC runner-up (26:01)…19th at World XC

(25:59)…USA Women‘s 10 km champion (32:00)…USA 5 km champion (15:48)…10th in Brussels (14:44.76AR)…1st in Saint-Denis (14:51.84)…3rd at Continental Cup (16:08.60)...2nd at Mt. SAC relays (15:05.71)…1st in Brasschaat (4:09.22)…3rd in Ninove (4:09.64)…1st at Payton Jordan Invite 10,000m (31:48.59)…ranked #1 at 5,000m and #3 at 10,000m in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 14:44.76. 2009: 5th at USA Ten Mile Championships (54:01)…5th at USA Outdoor Championships

(32:43.11)…USA 10km Champion (32:07)…1st at USA 7 Mile Championships (37:39)…1st at New

Balance 5,000m (15:53.91) and 3,000m (9:26.79) 2008: 9th in 10,000m (33:17.73) and 10th in 5,000m (15:42.19) at Olympic Trials…5th at Payton Jordan Invitational (31:27.12) 2007: 1st at Big East Outdoor Championships (15:59.89)…2nd at Big East Indoors (16:25.90)…3rd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (15:37.65) 2006: 1st at Big East Outdoor Championships (16:31.34)…NCAA Outdoor runner-up (16:05.93)… 9th

at USA Outdoor Championships (15:44.66) 2005: Big East Indoor Championships runner-up (16:12.17)…did not compete outdoor season due to injury 2004: 7th at Olympic Trials (15:37.92)…3rd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (16:25.44)…1st at Big East Outdoor Championships (16:21.20)…1st at Big East Indoors (15:57.22)…USA Junior 3,000m champion (9:19.52)

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DAN HULING

Event: 3,000m Steeplechase Height: 6-1 Weight: 155 PR: 8:13.29 (2010)

Born: July 16, 1983 Current Residence: Columbus, Ohio High School: Riverdale (Port Byron, Ill.) HS ‗02 College: Miami of Ohio ‗06 Coach: Robert Gary Agent: Ray Flynn Club: Reebok

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoor champion; Runner-up at 2009 USA Outdoor Champs; 3rd at 2006 USA Outdoors; 5th at

2008 Olympic Trials Huling finished runner-up in the 3,000m steeplechase at 2011 USA

Outdoor Championships to earn his second ever World Outdoor Championships berth. Huling enjoyed the finest season of his young career in 2010 highlighted by winning the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships and posting his personal best time with his fourth-place finish in Lausanne in 8:13.29, the fastest time by an American that season. Huling punched his ticket to the 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin after finishing second in the steeplechase at the USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. Huling finished third in Brussels on September 4, 2009 in a personal best time of

8:14.69, which was the fastest time by an American that season and bettered his previous career best clocking by slightly more than six seconds. The 2006 Miami (Ohio) graduate punched his ticket to Berlin with his finishing time of 8:32.86. Also at 2009 nationals, Huling posted the fastest time of the first round at 8:34.13. Huling finished as the runner-up in Eugene in his second ever appearance at the USA Outdoor Championships following a difficult period the previous two years where he was

beset with injuries. While at Miami, Huling earned All-America honors in both cross country and track and field as a senior (2005-06). He won Mid-American Conference championships in the 5,000m as a

junior and in the 5,000m and 10,000m as a senior. He also won the MAC Cross Country title in 2005. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (8:29.27)... best of 8:25.95 at Prefontaine 2010: USA Outdoor champion (8:27.87)…5th in mile at Indiana Relays (4:00.13)… 1st at Mt. SAC relays in 5000m run (13:24.72)…10th at Paris in 3,000mSC (8:19.33)…4th in Lausanne (8:13.29PR, U.S. Leader)...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:13.29. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (8:32.86)...12th in opening round at World Champs

(8:46.79)...4th in Brussels (8:14.69, U.S. Leader)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:14.69. 2008: 5th at 2008 Olympic Trials (8:35.30)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8:20.84. 2007: Injured, did not compete 2006: 3rd at USA Outdoors (8:27.41)...6th at NCAA Outdoors 5,000m (14:20.38)...MAC steeple & 5,000m champ...bests of 8:27.41, 13:46.53, 30:37.25. 2005: MAC Outdoor 5,000m champ...13th in steeple prelims at NCAA Outdoors...MAC cross country champ...bests of 8:43.59, 14:33.02.

2004: 2nd in steeple at MAC Champs...bests of 8:58.88, 14:22.84. 2003: Best of 14:11.52.

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KYLIE HUTSON

Event: Pole Vault Height: 5-5 Weight: 125 PR: 4.70i/15-5 (2011); 4.65m/15-3 (2011) Born: November 27, 1987 Current Residence: High School: Terre Haute North Vigo (Terre Haute, Ind.) HS ‗06

College: Indiana State University 10‘ Coach: Greg Hull Agent: Jeff Hartwig

Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2011 USA champion; Two-time NCAA Indoor

Champion (‗09, ‗10); Two-time NCAA Outdoor Champion (‗09, ‗10) In Hutson‘s first full season as a pro, she wasted no time making a name for herself. She won her first U.S. title in 4.65m/15-3 to defeat American Record-holder Jenn Suhr. Hutson collected major wins at Drake, Mt. SAC and Kansas. As a collegiate athlete, Hutson claimed top honors at her final four NCAA championships winning both indoors and outdoors during her junior and senior seasons. During her senior year she also won the Billy Hayes Invitational

(4.51m/14-9.5) in the third-best jump in NCAA history. Hutson has a multi-sport background as a high school star in track and field, volleyball and diving. 2011: 1st at USA Champs (4.65m/15-3)...1st at Drake Relays (4.53)...1st at Mt. SAC Relays (4.42)...1st at Kansas Relays (4.50)...5th at USA Indoors (4.45m/14-7.25)..1st at Drake Mall Vault

(4.70i/15-5 PR) 2010: 8th at USA Champs (4.30m/14-1.25)...NCAA Outdoor Champ (4.45m/14-7.25 PR)... 1st at

Billy Hayes Invite (4.51m/14-9.5 PR)...NCAA Indoor Champ (4.50m/14-9) 2009: NCAA Outdoor Champ (4.40m/14-5.25 PR)....won MVC Champs (13-11.25)..NCAA Indoor Champ (4.35m/14-4.75) 2008: Tied for 13th at Olympic Trials (13-9.75)...1st at Mideast Region (13-11.75 PR)...1st at MVC Champs(14-1.25)

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BERSHAWN JACKSON


Born: May 8, 1983, in Miami, Fla. Current Residence: Champaign, Ill. High School: Miami Central (Miami, Fla.) '02 College: St. Augustine College '06 Coach: Gary Winckler Agent: Paige Pieroni Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor champion; 2008 Olympic Games bronze medalist; 2009 World Outdoor Champs bronze medalist; 2010 IAAF Diamond League winner; 2010 Visa Outdoor

champion; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; Three-time USA Outdoor champion (‘03,‘09, ‘10); 2005 & 2010 USA Indoor 400m champion; 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2010 World Indoor Champs 4x400m

relay gold medalist; 2002 U.S. junior champion; 2002 World Junior bronze medalist; 2002 World Junior 4x400 champion Jackson qualified for his fifth consecutive World Outdoor team with a runner-up finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, clocking a season-best time of 47.93. In 2010, Jackson enjoyed one of his finest seasons, posting the fastest 400m hurdles time in the world of 47.32 to win his fourth career USA Outdoor title, and third consecutive national crown. Jackson finished the season with the top two

times in the world and three of the top five times. He also won the inaugural IAAF Diamond League Series title in his event, and the Visa Outdoor Series crown. Coming off the final turn of the men‘s 400m final at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Jackson was in second place until he was clipped from behind by Ireland‘s David Gillick. Jackson finished in sixth place, but later was awarded fifth place when Gillick was disqualified. Jackson later teamed with Jamaal Torrance, Greg

Nixon and Tavaris Tate in winning 4x400m relay gold at the championships in 3:03.40, as the American quartet posted a three-second margin of victory over second place Belgium. Jackson

successfully defended his national title at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships, where his winning time of 48.03 boosted him to the top of the seasonal world list. Jackson followed that success with a bronze medal winning performance at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Germany. Following his heartbreaking 4th-place finish at the 2004 Olympic Trials, Jackson made sure he‘d qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games by finishing first in the men‘s 400m hurdles at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. He went on to Beijing where he won the bronze medal, completing an American sweep

of the event with teammates Angelo Taylor and Kerron Clement. Jackson‘s 2007 season was highlighted by wins at the Kansas Relays, Osaka GP, and at the Athens GP. In ending the 2007 season ranked #5 in the world, Jackson has been ranked in world‘s the top ten in the men‘s 400m hurdles by Track & Field News each year since 2003. The dominant force in the men‘s 400m hurdles throughout the 2005 season, Jackson was motivated by his failure to make the 2004 Olympic team. His determination paid off. Jackson used his tremendous finishing speed in capturing the gold medal at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki in a personal best time of 47.30 seconds. Jackson's

victory was the first for an American in this event at a World Outdoor Championships since Derrick Adkins mined gold at Gothenburg in 1995 (47.98). With fellow American James Carter finishing second, it marked the first time Americans had finished 1-2 in the men‘s 400m hurdles since Rome in 1987 when National Track & Field Hall of Famer Edwin Moses won the gold and Danny Harris brought home the silver medal. Jackson and Carter‘s career best performances in Helsinki are even more impressive considering that the race was held during a torrential downpour in Helsinki. Their times were the second and third fastest in the world during the 2005 season. Jackson‘s 2005 season got off

to a tremendous start with his performance at the USA Indoor Championships, where he won the 400m national title in 46.05 seconds. Jackson‘s only loss during the 2005 outdoor season came when he was the runner-up at the USA Outdoor Championships. His 12 worldwide wins in 2005 made him an easy choice for the coveted 400m hurdles world #1 ranking that year from Track & Field News. The newest phenom over the intermediate hurdles, Jackson has improved his personal best by more than

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2 seconds since 2002. For the second season in a row, Jackson posted the second fastest time by an American with his monster (then) personal best of 47.86, which bettered his previous PR of 48.23 in

winning at Madrid in 2003. The 2002 U.S. junior champion and World Junior bronze medalist, Jackson planned to be part of the University of South Carolina track powerhouse, but he instead competed on the circuit.…In 2004 joined the St. Augustine‘s College roster…daughter Shawnte was born May 2, 2005, daughter Shari was born August 3, 2009. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (47.93)... 2nd at adidas Grand Prix (48.55)... 3rd at Doha (48.44)... 2nd at Birmingham (48.22)... 2nd at Monaco (48.22)

2010: USA Outdoor 400m hurdles champion (47.32,World Leader)…USA Indoor 400m champ (45.41)...1st at Lausanne (47.62)… 5th at World Indoors 400m (46.84)...1st at 4x400m relay at World Indoors (3:03.40)… 1st at IFF Games (48.36)… 2nd in Oslo (48.25)… 2nd at NY GP (47.94)…1st in Doha (48.66)…1st in 600 yd at Millrose Games (1:11.26i)...1st at Reebok Boston Indoor Games in 400m (46.86)…1st at Monaco (47.78)…1st at Stockholm (47.65)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of 47.32.

2009: World Outdoor bronze medalist (48.23)...1st at USA Outdoors (48.03)...1st at Nike Prefontaine

Classic (48.38)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (48.52)...2nd at Monaco (47.98)...ranked #2 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best best of 47.98. 2008: Olympic Games bronze medalist (48.06)…Olympic Trials champion (48.17)...1st at Bislett Games Oslo (48.15)...1st at DKB-ISTAF Berlin (48.73)…1st at adidas Track Classic (48.94)…1st at Kansas Relays (48.32)...2nd in semifinal #1 at Olympic Games (48.02)…ranked #3 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 48.02.

2007: 5th in 400m at USA Outdoor Championships (45.55)…45.06 in 400m semifinal at USA Outdoors… 3rd in semi's at World Outdoors (48.95)...1st in 600m at Millrose Games (1:11.48)…8th in 400m at Prefontaine Classic (46.38)…1st at Osaka GP (48.13)…1st at Athens (48.15)…ranked #5 in world, #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 48.13. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (47.48)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (48.22)…1st at Rome (47.86)…1st at Athens (48.00)…1st at Lausanne (47.77)…ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 47.48.

2005: World Outdoor champion (47.30PR)…2nd at USA Outdoor Champs (47.80)…USA Indoor 400m

champ (46.05)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (47.91)…1st in 400mH at adidas Track Classic (47.62)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN…best of 47.30PR. 2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (48.11)…1st at Texas Relays 400mH (48.74)…1st in Monaco (47.86PR)…2nd at Zurich (48.08)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (48.79)…ranked #3 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 47.86PR. 2003: USA Outdoor champion (49.01)…disqualified in opening round at World Outdoors…1st at Madrid

(48.23) and Atlanta (48.51)…best of 48.23…ranked #10 in the world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: Bronze at World Juniors 400H (50.00)…1st at World Juniors 4x400m…1st at USA Juniors (50.33) …3rd at Golden West Invitational 110H…4th at National Scholastic 100H…1st at Golden West Invitational 400H…1st at National Scholastic 400H…bests of 13.90 (hs), 35.39 (hs) and 50.00. 2001: 1st at Junior Olympics (50.86) … 1st at Golden West Invitational 400H…4th at Golden West Invitational 110H…bests of 14.04 (hs), 13.97w (hs), 50.86 and 35.79 (hs).

2000: Bests of 52.17 400H and 36.45 (hs).

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LACY JANSON

Events: Pole vault Height: 5-6 Weight: 127 PR: 4.66m/15-3i (2010)

Born: February 20, 1983 in Norfolk, Va. Current Residence: Sarasota, Fla. High School: Cardinal Mooney (Fla.) HS '01 College: Florida State '06 Coach: Dennis Nobus Agent: Chris Layne Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Indoor Champion; 3rd at USA Outdoors ('07, '11); 2006 NCAA Outdoor champion; 2003 NCAA

Indoor champion; 2002 USA Junior champion Janson has established herself as one of the top-three vaulters in

the U.S. She earned her spot on the world team by finishing third at the U.S. championships where she cleared 4.50m/14-9 to secure the bronze and passed on any additional attempts...She had an outstanding year in 2010 that produced three marks over her previous PR set in 2008 and ended with a #1 U.S. ranking from T&FN... Janson upped her personal best by almost a foot from 2005 to 2006 … won the 2006 NCAA Outdoor women‘s pole vault with her clearance of 4.25m/13-11.25. UCLA's Chelsea Johnson, the NCAA Collegiate record holder, also cleared 4.25m/13-11.25 but Janson had

only one missed attempt at the previous bar where Johnson had two. Janson is the second woman in FSU school history to win a national title twice in the same event. In 2003, Janson took the top spot in the pole vault during at NCAA Indoors. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (4.50m/14-9)... 1st at adidas Grand Prix (4.27/14-0)...4th at USA

Indoors (4.55m/14-11)...season best of 4.60/15-1 at indoor Drake Mall Vault. 2010: USA Indoor champion (4.65m/15-3)...4th at USA Outdoor (4.40m/14-05.25)...4th at Pre

Classic (4.48m/14-8.25)...1st at Tyson Invite (4.66m/15-3.5PR)...5th at Doha (4.55m/14-11)...3rd at Daegu (4.5m/14-9)...3rd at Monaco (4.60m/15-1)...10th at Stockholm (4.41m/14-5.5)...ranked #5 in the world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of 4.66m/15-3.5i. 2009: 8th at USA Outdoors (4.35m/14-3.25)...3rd in Madrid (4.46m/14-7.5)...5th at Reebok GP (4.27m/14-0)...ranked #7 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 4.46m/14-7.5. 2008: 10th Olympic Trials (4.40m/14-05.25)…2nd at Reebok GP (4.55m/14-11)…5th at adidas Track

Classic (4.32m/14-2)…4th at USA Indoors (4.45m/14-7.25)…2nd at Tyson Invitational (4.64m/15-2.75i)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4.64m/15-2.75. 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoors (4.35m/14-3.25)…2nd at USA Indoors (4.60m/15-1)…1st at Fortaleza (4.50m/14-9)…1st at Albuquerque (4.60m/15-1i)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4.60m/15-1. 2006: NCAA Outdoor champion (4.25m/13-11.25)...ACC champion (4.58m/15-0.25)…2nd at NCAA Indoors (4.50/14-9)…ranked #7 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4.58m/15-0.25.

2005: 14th at NCAA Indoors (4.00m/13-1.5)…1st at Tallahassee (4.11m/13-5.75)…1st at Gainesville (4.30m/14-1.25i)…best of 4.30m/14-1.25. 2004: 5th at NCAA East Regionals (4.11m/13-5.75)…NH at NCAA Outdoors…ACC champion (4.15m/13-7.25)…1st at Texas Relays (4.25m/13-11.25)…best of 4.25m/13-11.25. 2003: NCAA Indoor champion (4.45m/14-7.25)…8th at NCAA Outdoors (4.10m/-13-5.25)…NCAA East Regional champion (4.02m/13-2.25)…1st at Florida Relays (4.37m/14-4)…best of 4.45m/14-7.25. 2002: USA Junior champion (4.05m/13-3.5)…8th at USA Outdoors (4.20m/13-9.25)…NH at World

Juniors…9th at NCAA Outdoors (3.90m/12-9.5)…1st at ACC Champs (4.27m/14-0)…6th at NCAA Indoors (4.15m/13-7.25)…ranked #10 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4.27m/14-0.

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CARMELITA JETER Events: 100m, 200m Height: 5-4

Weight: 116 PRs: 100m – 10.64 (2009); 200m - 22.20 (2011) Born: Nov. 24, 1979 Current Residence: Gardena, Calif. Colleges: Cal State Dominguez Coach: John Smith Agent: Chris Layne

Club: Nike Career Highlights: Two-time World Outdoor bronze medalist ('07, '09); 2010 World Indoor bronze medalist; 2010 USA Indoor

champion; 2011 and 2009 USA Outdoor champion; 3rd in 100m at 2007 USA Outdoors; 2007 USA Indoor runner-up; 2-time NCAA Div. II 100m runner-up, 3rd in 200m (‘00, ‘03)

Jeter is in the midst of her third straight season as the top

American sprinter with her second USA Outdoors 100m title and a runner-up finish in the 200m. At the Prefontaine Classic, she ran a season-best time of 10.70, the top-ranked time in the event this season. Jeter won her third career bronze medal at the 2010 World

Indoor Championships in the women's 60m. Jeter, who was out in lane seven, finished third in 7.05...Jeter posted the fastest women's 100m time in 12 years with her victory at the IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 13. Jeter stormed out of the blocks and was never challenged before crossing the finish line first in 10.67 seconds, the third-fastest time in history. Just seven days later, Jeter became the second-fastest woman in history over 100m, winning her race in an astounding 10.64. Only Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster. At the 2009 World Championships, Jeter posted a lifetime best of 10.83 in winning the second semifinal before finishing

third in the final in 10.90 seconds to bring home her second bronze medal...At the 2007 IAAF World Championships, Jeter got her best start of the meet in the women's 100 meter final and employed her typical strong finish to take a surprising third for the bronze medal in a personal-best 11.02...A relative unknown, Jeter came onto the scene in 2007 setting a personal record in the 100m (11.05) at the adidas Track Classic and then went on to qualify for her first World Outdoor Championships roster for Team USA with her third-place finish at the 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. She says her

improvement came by overcoming hamstring injuries that dogged her from 2003-2005. Deep tissue massage helped resolve it. Formerly coached by Warren Edmondson, she made a coaching change in spring 2007...says she looks at her World Champs medal every morning and evening to help give her motivation...Jeter is the most decorated track & field athlete in the history of Cal State Dominguez Hills, where she graduated with a degree in physical education in 2004. A 6-time NCAA Division-II All-America sprinter, she was a 3-time 100 meter runner-up at the NCAA Division-II National Championships. With 100m/200m PR‘s of 11.43 and 23.46, in 2004 she was the first-ever U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier from Cal State Dominguez Hills, where she placed 12th in the 100 meters.

2011: USA Outdoor champion in the 100m (10.74)... 2nd at USA Outdoors in the 200m... 1st at Stockholm (11.15)... 1st at London (10.93)... 1st at Pre Classic (10.70)... 1st at Monaco in 200m

(22.20)... 2nd at Doha (10.95)... 3rd at Birmingham in the 200m (22.62) 2010: 3rd at World Indoors (7.05)...USA Indoor champion (7.02)...3rd at Pre Classic (10.83)... 1st at Lausanne (10.99)...1st at Gateshead (10.95)...1st at Kingston (10.94)...1st at Daegu (11.00)...1st at Shanghai (11.09)...1st at Monaco (10.82)...1st at Oslo at the 200m (22.54)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN…best of 10.82. 2009: 3rd at World Champs (10.90)...USA Outdoor champion (10.78w)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (10.85w)...1st at adidas Track Classic (11.09)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (10.85w)...1st at Mt.

SAC (10.96PR)...1st at Brussels (10.88)...1st at World Athletic Final (10.67PR)...1st at Shanghai (10.64PR)...1st at Daegu (10.83)...best of 10.64. 2008: 6th at Olympic Trials in 200m (22.35)...9th in Olympic Trials semi-finals in 100m (11.05)...5th

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in 100m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (11.07)…2nd in 200m (22.65) and 6th in 100m (11.16) at Reebok

Grand prix…2nd in 200m (22.47) and 5th in 100m (11.26) at adidas Track Classic...ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 11.05. 2007: 3rd at World Outdoors (11.02PR)...3rd in 100m at USA Outdoors (11.17)…USA Indoor 60m

runner-up (7.17)…4th in 100m at adidas Track Classic (11.05PR)…1st in 100m at Mt. SAC Relays (11.16)…1st in 100m and 200m at Oxy Invitational (11.22, 22.82PR)…2nd in 100m at Monaco (11.11)…2nd in 100m at Heusden (11.05w)…1st in 60m at Azusa Pacific Qualifier (7.16)...ranked #3 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...bests of 11.02 and 22.82. 2006: USATF National Club championships 100m runner-up (11.49), 200m champion (23.67PR)…8th in 100m at adidas Track Classic (11.59)…2nd in 100m at Oxy Invitational (11.48)…3rd in 100m at Steve Scott Invitational (11.65)…3rd in 100m at Mt. SAC Relays (11.60)…Claremont Classic 100m

runner-up (11.65), 200m champion (23.81) 2005: Did not compete (Injured) 2004: Claremont Classic 100m runner-up (11.80), 200m runner-up (24.33)…Southern California Association Age-Group champs 100m champion (11.74), 200m champion (24.02) 2003: NCAA Div. II 100m runner-up (11.79), 3rd in 200m (23.67PR)

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FUNMI JIMOH

Event: Long Jump Height: 5-8

Weight: 130 PR: 6.96m/22-10 (2009) Born: May 29, 1984 in Seattle, Wash. Current Residence: Stafford, Texas High School: Dulles (Texas) HS '02 College: Rice '07 Coach: Jim Bevan

Agent: Robert Wagner Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 3rd at USA Outdoors and 2010 Indoors

Jimoh's third-place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships

qualified her for the second World Championships of her career. Jimoh made her first Olympic Team after finishing third at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Got her 2008 season started off right with a personal best 6.91m/22-8 in winning the Bayou Classic…full name is Oluwafunmilayo (Yoruba for "the lord brought me joy") Kemi Jimoh… philosophy and English major while at Rice.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in the long jump (6.88m/22-7)... 1st at Doha (6.88m/22-7)... 1st at adidas Grand Prix (6.48m/21-3.25)... 2nd at Rome (6.87m/22-6.5).

2010: 12th at USA Outdoors (6.39m/20-11.75w)...10th at Oslo (6.20m/ 20-4.25)…1st at Dakar (6.87m/22-6.50w)…1st at Ponce (6.77m/22-2.50)…1st at Daegu (6.68m/21-11)...7th at Paris (6.56m/21-6.25).

2009: 21st in qualifying at World Outdoors (6.34m/20-9.75)…3rd at USA Outdoors (6.77m/22-2.5)…1st at Nike Pre Classic (6.69m/21-11.5)...2nd at Doha (6.96m/22-10PR)…1st at Reims (6.73m/22-1)…ranked #9 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 6.96m/22-10. 2008: 12th at Olympic Games (6.29m/20-7.75)...3rd at Olympic Trials (6.72m/22-0.75)…3rd at USA

Indoors (6.33m/20-9.25)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (6.85m/22-5.75)…6th at Doha (6.48m/21-3.25w)…1st at Bayou Classic (6.91m/22-8PR)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 6.91m/22-8. 2007: 9th at USA Outdoors (6.38m/20-11.25)…5th at NCAA Outdoors (6.43m/21-1.25)…Midwest Regional champion (6.35m/20-10w)…1st at Hamilton (6.46m/21-2.5)…ranked #8 in the U.S. byT&FN…best of 6.46m/21-2.5. 2006: 12th at USA Outdoors (6.24m/20-5.75)…2nd at Alumni Gold (6.36m/20-10.5)…1st at Houston (6.52m/21-4.75w)…best of 6.44m/21-1.5.

2005: redshirted Outdoor season

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CHARLES JOCK

Event: 800m Height: 6-3 Weight: 168 PR: 1:44.67 (2011)

Born: November 23, 1989 Current Residence: San Diego, Calif. High School: Mission Bay High School (San Diego, Calif.) College: UC-Irvine ‗12 Coach: Jeff Perkins Career Highlights: 3rd at 2011 USA Outdoors; Runner-up at 2011 NCAA Outdoors; 2010 NACAC U-23 champion; Three-time

All-Big West Jock capped off a highly impressive junior season at UC-Irvine with

a third place finish at USA Outdoors to earn himself a place on Team USA for the IAAF World Championships. Jock‘s time of 1:44.67 bettered the personal best he set at NCAA Outdoors,

which earned him second place, by less than a tenth of a second. His appearance on the World Championship team will not be his first international competition, as he competed at and won the NACAC U-23 Championships in 2010. During his collegiate career, Jock earned All-Big West honors three times. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (1:44.67)… 2nd at NCAA Outdoors (1:44.75)… 2nd at Big West Championships (1:45.40)… personal best of 1:44.67

2010: 1st at NACAC U-23 Championships (1:45.65)… 1st at Big West Championships (1:46.93)... Qualified for finals at USA Outdoors 2009: 2nd at Big West Championships (1:49.87) 2008: 2nd at Nike Outdoor Nationals (1:50.66)

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KIBWE JOHNSON


Weight: 238 PRS: HT - 80.31m/266-9 (2011); DT - 65.11m/213-7 (2005) Born: July 17, 1981 Current Residence: Kamloops, B.C., Canada High School: North Gwinnett HS (Suwanee, Ga) '98 Colleges: Georgia '01, Ashland '08 Coach: Anatoly Bondarchuck

Agent: Valentina Fedjuschina Club: New York Athletic Club

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2008 USA Indoor champion; 2007 USA HT runner-up; 2006 USA Indoor WT runner-up; 2007 Pan Am Games runner-up

Johnson highlighted his best season to date with his first U.S.

outdoor title in the hammer throw and his second spot on a World Outdoor team. His winning toss of 80.31m/266-9 was the best mark by an American hammer thrower since 2000. In 2010, Johnson finished second at USA Outdoors, and in 2008, qualified for the finals at

Olympic Trials. Johnson earned his first ever national title with a win at USA Indoor Championships. Johnson is heralded by some as the future of American throwing in the hammer thanks to a runner-up finish in 2007 at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, a runner-up finish in the weight throw at the 2006 AT&T USA Indoor Championships and a fourth-place finish at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. In 2005, he won the 35-pound weight throw at the Oiler Open to earn USA Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors, with his winning toss of 24.53m/80-6 ranking as the third longest in U.S. history and the 11th best throw ever. Only two other Americans have surpassed the 80-foot mark

in the weight throw.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (80.31m/266-9)… best of 77.42m/254-0 at Rio de Janeiro 2010: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (76.31m/250-4)

2008: Olympic Trials finalist (FOUL)...USA Indoor champion (25.12m/82-5) 2007: USA Outdoor runner-up (75.12m/246-5)...no mark at World Outdoor Champs...Pan Am Games runner-up (73.23m/240-3)...1st in DT at Mt. SAC Relays (60.57m/198-9)...1st at Lake Erie Association Championships (75.95m/249-2)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 75.95m/249-2. 2006: USA Indoor WT runner-up (23.72m/77-10)...4th at AT&T USA Outdoors (75.32m/247-1)...1st at Findlay (24.54m/80-6.25i)...2nd at Columbus (75.32m/247-1)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 75.32m/247-1.

2005: 3rd in WT at USA Indoor Championships (22.27m/73-0.75)...Did not mark at USA Outdoor Championships...1st at Tempe (72.70m/238-6)...1st at Claremont (73.42m/240-10)...2nd at Mt SAC Relays (72.24m/237-0)...1st at Hillsdale (78.25m/256-8PR)...1st at NY Reebok GP (74.01m/242-9)...1st in DT at Berea (65.11m/213-7PR)...1st in WT at Marietta (23.99m/78-8.5i)...1st at Findlay

(23.62m/77-6i)...1st at Findlay (23.43m/76-10.5i)...1st at Kent (23.11m/75-10i)... 1st at Oiler Open (25.54m/80-6)...ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 78.25m/256-8.

2004: 8th in DT and 19th in HT at Olympic Trials (58.57m/192-2, 65.39m/214-6)...1st in DT at Akron (61.00m/200-1)...5th in HT at Columbus (67.99m/223-0)...best of 67.99m/223-0 in HT and 61.00m/200-1 in DT. 2003: 16th in HT at USA Outdoor Championships (62.35m/204-07)...7th in DT at Salinas (59.34m/194-8)...1st in HT at Northridge (69.11m/226-9)...best of 69.11/226-9 in HT and 59.38m/194-8 in DT. 2002: best of 64.26m/210-10 in HT and 56.38m/185-0 in DT.

2001: Did not compete. 2000: best of 185-1 in DT.

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DUSTY JONAS

Event: High Jump Height: 6-0 Weight: 157 PR: 2.36 meters/7-8.75 (2008)

Born: April 19, 1986 Current Residence: Lincoln, Neb. High School: La Vernia (Texas) HS ‗04 College: Nebraska ‗08 Coach: Gary Pepin Agent: self Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 World Indoor Champs bronze medalist; 2010 runner-up at USA Indoor Champs; 2008 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; 2008 NCAA Indoor champion; 2005 USA Junior champion;

2005 Pan Am Junior champ; 2008 NCAA Indoor champion; 2008 Big 12 champion; 3rd at 2009 USA indoors

Jonas matched his season-best leap at USA Outdoor Championships to claim second place and a spot on Team USA at the World Championships. Jonas continued to prove that he is one of the world‘s best high jumpers in 2010 by finishing as the runner-up at the USA Indoor Championships, winning the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, and posting the third-best clearance in the world during the outdoor season of 2.33m/7-7.75, which was the best mark by an American. Jonas had a dream outdoor season in 2008 in posting the third highest outdoor clearance in the world and winning the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Jonas, who held the Olympic ―A‖ qualifying standard, tied

for sixth-place at the Olympic Trials, but was entered into a jump-off against Scott Sellers to secure a roster spot for the Olympic Games, which he eventually won. At the 2008 Big 12 Outdoor Championships Jonas posted a monster personal best with his clearance of 2.36m/7-8.75, a new University of Nebraska school record, Big 12 Championship meet record and Big 12 Conference record. A seven-time All-American while at Nebraska, Jonas came to Nebraska as one of the best young high

jump prospects in the United States... won the 2003 AAU National Junior Olympic Games, with a spectacular meet-record high jump of 7-3... the mark tied for fourth on the Texas prep all-time

charts... finished runner-up in the Texas Class 3A state meet high jump in 2003 (6-10) and 2002 (6-11)... 2004 Texas Relays high school high jump champion (6-11)... runner-up in 2003 with a 7-0 jump... 2004 AAU National Junior Olympic Games high jump champion, and was second in the triple jump with a career-best mark of 49-0. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (2.31m/7-07)...1st in Drake Relays special division (2.31m/7-07)... 5th

at Doha (2.29m/7-06)... 4th at Prefontaine Classic (2.29m/7-06). 2010: Tie for 6th at USA Outdoors (2.20m/7-02.5)… World Indoor Champs bronze medalist (2.31m/7-7)… runner-up at USA Indoors (2.31m/7-7)… 1st at Nebraska Open in HJ (2.33m/7-7.75, U.S. Leader) and LJ (7.76m/25-5.5) … 2nd at Trinec (2.32m/7-7.5)… 3rd at Doha (2.31m/7-7)… 5that Monaco (2.25m/7-4.25)...ranked #9 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.33m/7-7.75. 2009: 3rd at USA Indoors (2.26m/7-5) (2.26m/7-5)...7th at USA Outdoors (2.20m/7-2.5)...ranked #7 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.26i/7-5.

2008: 16th in qualifying at Olympic Games (2.20m/7-2.50)…6th at Olympic Trials (2.24m/7-4.25)…NCAA Indoor champion (2.31m/7-7)…NCAA Outdoor runner-up (2.26m/7-5)…1st at Boulder, Colo. (2.36m/7-8.75 U.S. Leader)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.36m/7-8.75. 2007: Tied for 3rd at NCAA Indoors (2.25m/7-4.50)…tied for 6th at NCAA Outdoors (2.20m/7-2.50)…3rd at Big 12 Indoors (2.18m/7-1.75)…no-height at USA Outdoors…best of 2.27m/7-5.25. 2006: 3rd at NCAA Outdoors (2.23m/7-3.75)…5th at NCAA Indoors (2.23m/7-3.75)…3rd at Big 12 Outdoors (2.20m/7-2.50)…4th at Big 12 Indoors (2.24m/7-4.25)…5th at NACAC (2.14m/7-

0.25)…ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 2.28m/7-5.75. 2005: USA Junior champion (2.24m/7-4.25)…2nd at NCAA Outdoors (2.23m/7-3.75)…2nd at NCAA Indoors (2.23m/7-3.75)…4th at Big West Outdoors (2.19m/7-2.25)…5th at Big West Indoors (2.15m/7-0.50)ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 2.24m/7-4.25.

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2004: Best of 2.13m/7-0. 2003: 4th at Golden West Invite…best of 2.16m/7-1

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TRELL KIMMONS

Event: 100m Height: 5-8 Weight: 175 PR: 9.95 (2010)

Born: July 7, 1985 Current Residence: Coldwater, Miss. High School: Coldwater HS College: Hinds Community College Coach: Reggie Dillon Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 4th at 2011 USA Outdoor Championships in 10.04

Trell Kimmons has established himself as a elite professional sprinter over the last few years. In 2010 he posted his fastest

100m ever (wind aided) with a time of 9.92 seconds at the 2010 adidas Grand Prix. The following year Kimmons was selected for his first IAAF World Championship as a member of the 4x100m team. As a three-year standout at Hinds Community College, he verbally committed to run a fourth year at Mississippi State University. However, soon after he decided to go professional rather than attend school. 2011: 4th at USA Outdoor Championships (10.04)… 1st at the Memorial Paolo Delogu (9.97)…

member of the winning 4x100m team at the Texas Relays (38.41) 2010: 4th at the adidas Grand Prix (9.92w)… 2nd at the USA Outdoor Championships (10:27)… 1st st the UKA Super 8 meet (10:22) 2009: 1st at the UCF Fast Times 100m (10.32)… 1st at the UCF Fast Times 200m (20.63)… 2nd at the Memorial Paolo Delogu meet (10.18)

2008: 3rd at the Le Miss Invitational (10.44)… 2nd at Atletiek Vlaanderen (10.34) 2007: 1st at the Razorback Invitational 60m (6.60i)… 2nd at the Warhawk Classic (10.33)… 8th at the

Prefontaine Classic (10.60) 2006: 1st at the Georgia Invitational (10.43) 1st at the Meeting Sport Solidarieta (10.23) 2005: 1st at the Mississippi Invitational (10.27)… 1st at the Martin Epps Invitational (10.42)… 2nd at the JUCO Outdoor Championships (10.18) 2004: 2nd at the Raleigh US High School Championships (10.46)… 3rd at the College Station US Championships (10.34)

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BIANCA KNIGHT

Event: Sprints Height: 5-3

Weight: 134 PR: 100m- 11.07 (2008); 200m – 22.25 (2008) Born: January 2, 1989 in Ridgeland, Miss. Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: Ridgeland High School '07 College: University of Texas '11 Coach: Darryl Woodson


Career Highlights: 2008 NCAA Indoor 200m champion; 2005 World Youth 100m gold medalist and 200m silver medalist; 2005-2006 Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year

Knight had her best year to date as a professional in 2011. Knight picked up Diamond League wins in

Birmingham, London and Rome. Knight claimed her first and only NCAA title in the women's 200m in a world-leading, collegiate-record 22.40 seconds at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships. It was the fastest time ever run by a junior athlete and places her as the eighth best performer on the All-time list. Shortly after the Indoor Championships, Knight announced her decision to turn professional. By

the time Knight graduated from Ridgeland HS in 2007, she had won 15 individual state titles at 100m, 200m and 400m among her 23 overall including relays. She also owns state high school records at 100m and 200m, and was the first Mississippian to be named Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (22.35)...1st at Birmingham (22.59)...1st at London (22.69)...1st at Rome (22.64)... 2nd at adidas Grand Prix (22.96)

2010: 5th at USA Outdoors in the 100m (11.44)…3rd at Kingston in 200m (22.77)…3rd at adidas Grand Prix (22.59)…1st at Daegu in 200m (22.92)…3rd at Lausanne in 200m (23.10)…1st at Gateshead in 200m (22.71)…3rdat Stockholm (22.59)…ranked #6 in the world, #3 U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 11.40 and 22.59.

2009:5th at USA Outdoors(22.54)...3rd at Lausanne(23.10)...1st at Gateshead in 200m (22.71). 2008: 5th in 200m at Olympic Trials (22.25w), 5th in 100m semifinals (11.09)…NCAA Indoor champion (22.40PR)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (22.43)…1st at Oslo (22.56)…3rd in 100m at Jamaican Invite (11.11)…ranked #8 in the world (#5 U.S.) at 200m and #8 in the U.S. at 100m by T&FN…bests of 11.07 and 22.40. 2007: Pan Am Junior champion (23.17)…USA Junior champion (23.35)… State 100m (11.28), 200m (23.26) and 400m (56.65) champion…bests of 11.36 and 23.17.

2006: 2nd in 200m (22.94) and 4th in 100m (11.26) at USA Juniors… Nike Outdoor Nationals 200m champ (3.06) and 2nd in 100m (11.63)…1st at Golden West in 100m (11.50) and 200m (23.30)…bests of 11.26 and 22.94 2005: World Youth 100m (11.38) champion and 2nd in 200m (23.33)…6th in 100m (11.92) and 7th

in 200m (23.65) at USA Juniors…4th at Nike Outdoor Nationals (23.41)…bests of 11.38 and 23.33

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ERIK KYNARD

Event: High jump Height: 6-4.5 Weight: 188 PR: 2.33m/7-7.75i (2011)

Born: February 3, 1991 Current Residence: Manhattan, Kan. High School: Robert S. Rogers (Ohio) HS ‗09 College: Kansas State University Coach: Cliff Rovelto Career Highlights: 3rd at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships;

2011 NCAA Outdoors champion As a high school senior, Kynard won both the 2009 Nike Outdoor

and Indoor Championships in the high jump with clearances of 2.22m/7-3.25 and 2.21m/7-3. After a tremendously successful high school career at Rogers High School in Toledo, Ohio, Kynard went

onto Kansas State University to compete under the tutelage of head coach Cliff Rovelto. During his freshman year at Kansas State, Kynard posted a season best of 2.23m/7-3.75 to finish second at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. He improved dramatically as a sophomore – winning the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kynard then went on to compete against the countries‘ best at the USA Outdoor Championships where he placed third and punched his ticket to the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

2011: 3rd at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships (2.28/7-5.75)… 1st at the 2011 NCAA outdoor championships (2.29m/7-6)… 1st at the 2011 Big 12 Conference Outdoor Championships (2.27m/7-5.25)… 1st at the 2011 Drake Relays (2.31m/7-7)… 1st at the Texas Relays (2.28m/7-5.75) 3rd at the NCAA Indoor Championships (2.20m/7-2.5) 2010: 6th at NCAA Outdoor Championship (2.17m/7-1.5)… 1st at the Jim Click Shootout (2.25m/7-

4.5)… 3rd at USA Junior Outdoor Championship… 2nd at the Big 12 Indoor Championships (2.23m/7-3.75)

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BERNARD LAGAT

Events: Middle Distance Height: 5-8

Weight: 134 PRs: 1,500m - 3:26.34 (2001); Mile - 3:47.28 (2001); 3,000m - 7:29.00AR (2010); 5,000m - 12:53.60AR (2011) Born: Dec. 12, 1974, in Kapsabet, Kenya Current Residence: Tucson, Ariz. College: Washington State '99

Coach: James Li Agent: James Templeton Club: Nike

Twitter: @Lagat1500 Career Highlights: American Record holder in indoor 1,500m, mile, 3,000m, and outdoor 1,500m, 3,000m & 5,000m, former

American Record holder in indoor 5,000m; 2009 World Outdoor 1,500m bronze medalist, 5,000m silver medalist; 2007 World Outdoor 1,500m and 5,000m champion; 2004 Olympic 1,500m silver medalist; 2000 Olympic bronze medal; 2008 Olympic Trials 5,000m and 1,500m champion; 2004, 2010 World Indoor Champs 3,000m gold medalist; 2001 World Outdoor Champs 1,500m silver medalist; 2002 World Cup 1,500m champion; 2010 and 2011 USA Indoor 3,000m champ; 2007, 2010 and 2011 USA Outdoor 5,000m champion; 2006 USA Outdoor

1,500m and 5,000m champion; 8-time Wanamaker Mile winner at Millrose Games. 2011 USA Indoor 3,000m champion, Bernard Lagat captured his third U.S. 5,000m title at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships and secured a spot on Team USA at World Outdoors. In a competitive 5,000m field at Monaco, Lagat bettered his own American record with his time of 12:53.60. The highlights of Lagat‘s 2010 season included winning the USA Outdoor 5,000m title and capturing the

gold medal in the 3,000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. He became the

first ever to win the 3,000m and 5,000m at the IAAF Continental Cup and set the pending USA Indoor 3,000m, Outdoor 3,000m and 5,000m records. A two-time Olympic medalist and 2007 double world champion, Lagat now stands alone in the Millrose Games record book after winning the famed Wanamaker Mile for the eighth time at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday, January 29, 2010, surpassing Irish legend Eamonn Coghlan‘s previous best total of seven wins. Lagat extended his lead over the final lap before crossing the line in 3:56.34. With his historic eighth win, Lagat collected all of the night's hardware, including Team USA Athlete of the Meet, presented by Visa, which comes

with a $2,500 bonus. Lagat donated this, and all bonus monies earned during the 2010 indoor season, to the Haiti Relief Fund. Lagat followed that performance a week later with a win in the 5,000m at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games, where he set the American men‘s 5,000m record with this win in 13:11.50. At the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Lagat won his second gold medal in the 3,000m, crossing the finish line first in 7:37.97. After winning gold medals at the 2007 World Outdoor Championships, Lagat picked up two more medals when he finished third in the 1,500m and second at

5,000 meters at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Germany. Lagat‘s 2008 season was

highlighted by winning the men‘s 1,500m and 5,000m national titles at the U.S. Olympic Trials for the second time in his career, having first accomplished the feat in 2006. A lingering Achilles injury left him at less than 100% at the Olympics. In the final 100 meters of the men's 1,500m final at the 2007 World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan, Lagat sprinted cleanly to the front and went on to cross the finish line first in 3 minutes 34.77 seconds. It was Team USA's first ever gold medal in that event at a World Outdoor Championships, and the first Olympic or World Championships 1,500m gold

medal since 1908, when Hall of Famer Mel Sheppard won the Olympic title. In the Osaka 5,000m final, Lagat became the first man ever to win the 1,500m/5,000m middle-distance double at World Outdoors, and the first American to win a World Championship medal of any kind at 5,000m with his winning time of 13:45.87. On February 17 in Birmingham, Lagat broke the American record in the indoor 3,000m, with his time of 7:32.43. He also ran the fastest time in the world indoors 2007 in the mile with his 3:54.26 win at the 100thMillrose Games. Lagat had already piled up a series of wins in

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2007, including the AT&T Outdoor Championships (5,000m), Millrose Indoor Games (mile) and

Birmingham indoor (3,000m). He continued his domination of U.S. middle distance running in 2006 with his wins in the 1,500m and 5,000 meters at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis, becoming the first man ever to pull off the historic double. Also in 2006, Lagat posted

the five-fastest 1,500m times by an American, and the fastest 5,000m time by a U.S. competitor with his win at London in 12:59.22. His 3,000m winning time of 7:34.41 in Rethymno on July 21 was the fastest by an American in 2006. A two-time Olympic 1,500m medalist for his native Kenya, Lagat competed for Kenya on August 24, 2004. "I thought long and hard before changing my nationality but, at the age of 30, I have to look to my future, after my running career has come to an end," Lagat said at the time. "I hope to continue running at the very highest level until at least the 2008 Olympics. A U.S. resident since 1996, Lagat is a graduate of Washington State University. IAAF rules state that an

athlete changing national affiliation must wait three years since last competing for his native country before competing for a new country. Lagat became eligible to compete for the United States on August 25, 2007, one day after the beginning of the 2007 World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. Shortly after becoming a U.S. citizen, Lagat turned his attention towards rewriting the U.S. record books. He set two records from his 3:49.89 indoor mile at the Powered by Tyson Invitational in

Fayetteville, Arkansas on February 11, 2005 including an official 3:33.34 record for the 1500m set en

route to the mile victory. Those performances bettered the previous indoor records by Steve Scott (3:51.8, 1981) for the the mile and by Jeff Atkinson, (3:38.12, 1989) for the 1500 meters. His winning time of 3:29.30 at Rieti, Italy on August 28, 2005 in the outdoor 1500m was ratified as a new American record improving the 1985 record of 3:29.77 by Sydney Maree. . In growing up on his family's farm in Kapsabet, Kenya, Lagat sprinted a mile and a half to school each morning, and the same distance back. As much as he enjoyed running for fun, Lagat was even more passionate about his education. It wasn't until he began studying at Jomo Kenyatta University College of Agriculture and

Technology that he got serious about running competitively. Lagat left Kenya for the United States when he received a scholarship from Washington State University in Pullman. He earned BA‘s from Washington State in Management Information Systems, and Decision Science (Econometrics). He reached All-American status twice in cross country and nine times in track and field while wearing a Cougar uniform. As a collegian, Lagat won the mile and 3000m races at the 1999 NCAA Indoor Championships, earning the title of NCAA Indoor Male Athlete of the Year. That same year, Lagat won the 5000m race at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He accumulated four Pacific-10 Conference

championships and was named Men's Track & Field Co-Athlete of the Year in 1999. He was Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Male Athlete of the Year on three occasions. Lagat became a father on January 12, 2006 when his wife, Gladys Tom, gave birth to son Miika Kimutai Lagat, Daughter Gianna was born November 2, 2008. 2011: USA Outdoor champion in the 5,000m (13:23.06) and 2nd in 1,500m (3:47.96)... 2nd in

5,000m at Monaco (12:53.60AR)... 1st in 2-mile at Prefontaine Classic (8:13.82)...2nd in 5,000m at Adidas Grand Prix (13:05.46)...3rd in 1,500m in Paris (3:33.11)... USA Indoor champion in the 3,000m (7:57.17). 1st in the two mile at Pre Classic (8:13.62)... 2nd in 5,000m at adidas Grand Prix (13:05.46). 2010: USA Outdoor champion in the 5,000m (13:54.08)…World Indoor Champs 3,000m gold medalist (7.37.97)...USA Indoor 3,000m champ (8:12.60)...1st at Millrose Games (3:56.34)...1st at Boston Reebok Indoor Games 5,000m (13:11.50AR)… 3rd at Oslo (12:54:12AR)…7th at Monaco in 1,500m

(3:32.51)...1st at Continental Cup 3,000m (7:54.75) and 5,000m (7:54.75)...ranked #6 in world, #1 U.S. at 5,000m, #4 in U.S. at 1,500m by T&FN...bests of 7:29.00AR & 12:54.12AR. 2009: World Outdoor 5,000m silver medalist (13:17.33), World 1,500m bronze medalist

(3:36.20)...3rd in 800m opening round at USA Outdoors (1:48.59)...1st in 3,000m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (7:35.92)…2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (13:03.06)…1st at Millrose Games (3:51.34)...1st at London (3:52.71, U.S. Leader)...1st at Tanger (3:32.56, U.S. Leader)...2nd at Paris (7:33.15, U.S. Leader)...ranked #7 in world, #1 U.S. at 1,500m, #2 in world, #1 U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN...bests of

3:32.56, 3:52.71, 13:03.06. 2008: 6th in 1,500m semifinals at Olympic Games (3:37.79)…Olympic Trials 5,000m and 1,500m champion (13:27.47,3:40.37)…1st in two mile at Nike Prefontaine Classic (8:12.45)...1st in 1500m at adidas Track Classic (3:35.14)…1st at Rieti (3:32.75)…ranked #1 in U.S. at 1500m & 5000m by T&FN...bests of 3:32.75 & 13:16.29. 2007: World Outdoor 1,500m (3:34.77) and 5,000m champion (13:45.87)...USA Outdoor Champion

5,000m (13:30.73) and 3rd in 1,500m (3:35.55)…1st at Millrose Games (3:54.26WL)…1stin 3,000m at Birmingham (7:32.43iAR)…Runner-up at Reebok Grand Prix in mile (3:53.88)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine

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Classic in Bowerman Mile (3:50.56)...3rd in 1,500m at Sheffield (3:36.24)…1st in 1,500m at London (3:35.71)…3rd in 1,000m at Stockholm (2:16.25)…ranked #2 in world, #1 U.S. at 1,500m, ranked #3

in world, #1 U.S. at 3,000m, ranked #4 in world, #1 U.S. at 5,000m…bests of 3:34.77, 7:32.43i, 13:30.73. 2006: USA Outdoor 1,500m (3:39.29) and 5,000m Champion (13:14.32)… 2nd at adidas Classic (3:32.94)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (3:51.53)…1st at Rieti (3:29.68U.S. Leader)…1st at Rethymno (7:34.41U.S. Leader)…1st at London (12:59.22U.S. Leader)…3rd at Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis (3:31.48)…3rd at Athletissima (3:32.19)…ranked #3 at 1,500m, #9 at 5,000m in the world and #1 in 1,500m, 3,000m, 5,000m in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 3:29.68, 7:34.41, 12:59.22.

2005: 1st at Rieti 1,500m (3:29.30, U.S. record, world leader)set U.S. Indoor records at Powered by Tyson Invitational (mile, 3:49.89 & 1,500m, 3:33.34)2nd at Oslo (3:48.38U.S. leader, #2 in world)#1 at World Athletics Final 3,000m (7:38.00U.S. leader)...1st at Wanamaker Mile in a Millroseand MSG record (3:52.87)...1st at Berlin 5,000m (12:59.29U.S. leader)...ranked #2 in world, #1 U.S. at 1,500m/mile, #5 in world (#1 U.S. at 3,000m)...bests of 3:29.30AR, 3:48.38 U.S. leader, 7:38.00 U.S. leader, 12:59.29 U.S. leader.

2004: Olympic 1,500m silver medalist (3:34.30)…World Indoor Champs 3,000m gold medalist

(7:56.34)…1st at Brussels (3:36.24)…1st at Zurich ( 3:27.40WL)…ranked #1 in world at 1,500m/mile by T&FN…best of 3:27.40. 2003: World Indoor silver medalist (3:42.62)…1st at Millrose Games (4:00.36)…2nd at Zurich (3:30.55)…1st at Stockholm (3:32.99)…1st at Modesto (3:40.66)…ranked #4 in world by T&FN…best of 3:30.55. 2002: 1st at World Cup (3:31.20)…2nd at Grand Prix Final (3:30.54)…1st at Stockholm (3:31.38)…1stat

African Championships (3:38.11)…2nd at Monaco (3:27.91)…ranked #2 in world by T&FN…best of 3:27.91. 2001: Silver medalist at World Outdoor Champs (3:31.10)…ran third-fastest 1,500m in history at Rieti (3:26.34)…ranked #2 in world by T&FN…best of 3:26.34. 2000: Olympic Games bronze medalist (3:32.44)…1st at Mt. SAC (3:54.97)…2nd at Grand Prix Final (3:36.88)…best of 3:28.51…ranked #3 in world by T&FN…best of 1999: NCAA Outdoor5,000m champ (14:01.09)…NCAA Indoor mile champ (3:55.65)…NCAA Indoor

3,000m champ (7:54.92)…3rd at Zurich (3:30.56)…ranked #4 in world by T&FN…best of 3:30.56.

1998: Best of 3:34.48.

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GIA LEWIS-SMALLWOOD

Event: Discus Height: 6-0 Weight: 210 PR: 62.75m/205-10 (2010) Born: April 1, 1979 Current Residence: Champaign, Ill.

High School: Centennial (Champaign, Ill.) HS ‗97 College: University of Illinois ‗01 Coach: Michael Turk Agent: Valentina Fedjuschina Career Highlights: Runner-up at 2010 USA Champs; 3rd at

2011 USA Champs

Persistence paid off for Lewis-Smallwood who made her first international team after competing in the discus on the national level for eleven years. One throw over 60m was all Lewis-Smallwood needed to snag the third podium spot. On her third attempt of the day, she sent the disc sailing (60.53m/198-7) to capture the medal and punch her ticket for Daegu. 2010 was a breakthrough year for Lewis-Smallwood. She not only improved her PR by more than two meters, but

also won her first silver medal at the U.S. championships. Lewis first appeared on the national scene in 2000 at the Olympic Trials, but did not advance to finals. Since then, Lewis has competed in a total of three Olympic Trials and eight U.S. Championships. Lewis works part-time at the YWCA and with the Parkland Community College Volleyball team. 2011: 3rd at USA Champs (60.53m/198-7)...2nd at Maui Altius Throwdown (62.26m/204-3)...4th at

Shanghai (60.64m/198-11) 2010: 2nd at USA Champs (62.18m/204-00)..1st Tucson Elite (62.75m/205-10 PR)

2009: 6th at USA Champs (58.74m/192-08) 2008: Competed at Olympic Trials (no mark) 2006: 13th at USA Champs (49.95m/163-10) 2005: 20th at USA Champs (48.68m/166-10) 2004: 10th at Olympic Trials (56.28m/184-08)

2003: 9th at USA Champs (54.95m/180-03) 2001:11th at USA Champs (50.50m/165-08)...5th at NCAA Outdoor Championships...1st Big Ten Champs (180.00)

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MICHAEL MAI


Weight: 255 PR: Hammer - 76.28m/250-3 (2008); Weight - 23.72m/77-10 (2011) Born: September 27, 1977 Current Residence: Mountain View, Calif. High School: Gehlen Catholic (Le Mars, Iowa) HS ‗96 College: U.S. Military Academy ‗00

Coach: Dave Swan Agent: Self Club: U.S. Army

Career Highlights: Second at 2011 USA Outdoor Champs; Third at 2011 USA Indoor Champs; Third at 2009 USA Outdoor Champs; 5th at 2008 Olympic Trials

With his second-place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Mai qualified for his second World Outdoor Championships. After finishing fifth at the 2008 Olympic Trials, Mike Mai qualified for his first U.S. World Outdoor Championships team with his third-place finish off of his final throw at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene. Mai, a Major in the U.S. Army, recently finished up a two-year assignment as the Finance Commander of Fort Lewis, Wash. In April 2011, Mai joined the Army World Class Athlete Program and moved to Mountain View, Calif. to train with his coach, Dave

Swan, chairman of the men‘s hammer throw for USA Track & Field. The second-youngest of six siblings, Mai went off to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he spent two years on the football team. Injuries caused Mai to stick with track and field, which was his first love. During his cadet career, Mai earned five letters in track (three outdoors and two indoors) along with helping Army capture three Patriot League outdoor titles and two indoor crowns competing in the 35-pound weight throw, the discus and the hammer. Mai had only thrown the discus prior to entering West

Point, but proved to be a quick study in the hammer...married high jumper Deirdre Mullen on July 30,

2011. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (74.69m/245-0)... 3rd at USA Indoors (23.72m/77-10). 2010: 11th at USA Outdoors (69.46m/227-11)...4th at Mt. SAC Relays (72.29m/237-2)...1stat Portland (73.11m/239-10)...ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 73.11m/239-10. 2009: 3rd at USA Outdoors (73.80m/242-1)...11th in Group A qualifying at World Outdoors (72.58m/238-1)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 73.80m/242-1.

2008: 5th at Olympic Trials (71.75m/235-5)...ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 76.27m/250-3. 2007: 7th at USA Outdoors (70.21m/230-4)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 74.62m/244-10. 2006: 6th at USA Outdoors (71.01m/233-0)...best of 70.99m/232-11. 2005: Did not compete. 2004: 8th at Olympic Trials (68.86m/225-11)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 67.69m/244-1. 2003: 8th at USA Outdoors (68.09m/223-5)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 69.08m/226-8.

2002: 21st at USA Outdoors...best of 65.98m/216-6.

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LEONEL MANZANO

Event: 1,500m Height: 5-5 Weight: 125 PR: 800m – 1:44.56 (2010); 1,500m - 3:32.37 (2010); Mile -

3:50.64 (2010) Born: Sept. 12, 1984, in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: Marble Falls H.S. '04 College: University of Texas '08 Coach: John Cook Agent: Ricky Simms

Club: Nike Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2007, 2009, 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2008 NCAA Outdoor 1,500m

champion; 2007 USA & NCAA Outdoors 1,500m runner-up; 3rd at 2006 USA Outdoors; 2006 NCAA Indoor mile champion; 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion

With a third place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Manzano secured his spot in Daegu, on the World Championships team. Staying true to form, Manzano finished as the runner-up in the 1,500m at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, after finishing in that identical spot at the previous three USA Outdoor Champs. One of the highlights for Manzano during the 2010 season was his fourth-place finish in the 800m in Berlin in a personal best time of 1:44.56, making him the second-fastest American in that event outdoors that year. Also in 2010, Manzano set a personal best in the 1,500m when he finished second in Brussels in 3:32.37, and a career best and

U.S. leader in the mile with his clocking of 3:50.64 when he placed third at London. Manzano qualified for his second appearance at a World Outdoor Championships with his runner-up finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. Later that summer he finished 12th at the World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Germany. Manzano‘s 2009 season was highlighted by setting personal bests in the 1,500m (3:34.14) and mile (3:53.01). In finishing second in the 1,500 meters at the 2008 Olympic Trials,

Manzano became the first University of Texas Longhorn 1500m runner to make the U.S. Olympic squad and the second UT miler to earn an Olympic bid. A five-time NCAA Champion (two-time indoor

mile champion/two-time outdoor 1500m champion/distance medley relay), four-time NCAA Midwest Regional 1500m winner, nine-time All-American and 10-time Big 12 Champion (four-time indoor mile champion/three-time outdoor 1500m champion/three DMR), Manzano capped his UT career in 2008 with a spectacular senior season.The 2008 USTFCCCA (U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association) Athlete of the Year claimed three national titles as a senior, winning the indoor mile, taking the outdoor 1500m and leading the distance medley relay to victory indoors. He also won

those same three events at the Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor Championships. He helped the Horns set a World, American and school record in the distance medley relay (9:25.97) indoors and also broke a 42-year old school-record in the mile with his victorious 3:56.98 clocking at the Texas Relays. He was named the Most Outstanding Performer at both the Texas and Penn Relays. Recognized nationally as a top young middle distance talent, Manzano during his junior year at the University of Texas, grabbed the attention of the track and field world by out-kicking two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat for second place in the 1,500m at the 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. His personal best time of

3:35.29… He won the 2005 NCAA Outdoor Championship and is the 2006 NCAA Indoor mile champion…Prepped at Marble Falls High School (Marble Falls, Tex.) where he was a nine-time Texas 4A champion at 800m (twice), 1,600m (twice), 3,200m (twice) and cross country (three times) … claimed the mile, two-mile, and cross country state championships as a sophomore for the Mustangs … also finished 4th in cross country as a freshman, second in the mile as a junior, and 7th in the mile as a senior at state.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (3:48.16)... 1st in mile at London Grand Prix (3:51.24)... best of 3:33.66 at Paris

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2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (3:50.91)…3rd at Gateshead (3.33.51PR)…1st at Boston Indoor Games (3:56.82)… 1st at Occidental HP Invite (3:36.74)…2nd in Brussels (3:32.20.)...13th at Monaco

(3:42.93)…4th in Berlin (1:44.56PR)...5th in Stockholm 800m (1:45.41)...3rd in London (3:50.64 PR, U.S. Leader)...ranked #6 in world, #1 U.S. at 1,500m, #3 in U.S. at 800m by T&FN...bests of 1:44.56, 3:33.51, 3:50.64. 2009:12th at World Outdoors (3:40.05)...2nd at USA Outdoors (3:41.82)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (3:34.14PR)...best of 3:34.14)...2nd at London (3:53.01)...best of 3:34.14. 2008: 12th in semifinals at Olympic Games (3:50.33)…2nd at Olympic Trials (3:40.90)…NCAA Outdoor 1500m champion (3:41.25)…6th in opening round at Olympic Games (3:36.67)…1st in mile

at Texas Relays (3:56.98PR)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 3:56.98 & 3:36.67. 2007: 2nd at USA Outdoors (3:35.29PR)… 13th in heats at World Outdoors (3:45.97)... 2nd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (3:37.48)…NCAA Midwest Region champion (3:40.21)….Big 12 champion (3:41.60)…NCAA Indoor mile champion (3:59.90)…Big 12 Indoor mile champion (3:58.78PR)…bests of 3:35.29 & 3:58.78i. 2006: 3rd at USA Outdoors (3:39.49)...4th at NCAA Outdoors (3:44.59)…NCAA Midwest Regional

Champion (3:42.86)…6th at Big 12 Championships 800m (1:51.78)…7th in Mile at NCAA Indoor

Championships…Big 12 Indoor Mile Champion (3:59.86). 2005: Finished undefeated at 1,500m…NCAA Outdoor champion (3:37.13)…NCAA Midwest Regional champion (3:44.93)…Big 12 Outdoor champion (3:45.45)…Big 12 Indoor mile champion (3:59.86).

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JENEVA MCCALL

Event: Throws Height: 5-10 Weight: 225 PR: HT - 69.55m/228-2 (2011); DT – 58.44m/191-9 (2010); WT –

22.54m/73-11.5 (2011) Born: October 28, 1989 Current Residence: Carbondale, Ill. High School: Thornridge High School '08 (Dolton, Ill.) College: Southern Illinois '12 Coach: John Smith

Career Highlights: 2011 NCAA runner-up in hammer and weight; 2010 NCAA champion in discus; 2010 NCAA runner-up in hammer and shot put; 2010 NACAC U-23 runner-up in discus and hammer; 10-time MVC champion

McCall has emerged over the past few years as one of most well-rounded throwers in the country.

After finishing fourth in the hammer at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, McCall recorded a personal best of 69.55m/228-2 at a Lindenwood Summer Throws Series meet. Her winning mark met the international B standard in the event and earned her a spot on her first World Outdoor team. Earlier in the year, McCall finished second in the hammer throw at NCAA Outdoors, and second in the weight throw at NCAA Indoors. McCall‘s 2010 season was highlighted by a victory at NCAA Outdoors in the discus. She also competed for Team USA at the 2010 NACAC U-23 Championships in Miramar, Fla.

where she took second place in both the discus and hammer throws. As a freshman, McCall finished fourth at USA Outdoors in the discus throw.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors in hammer (67.48m/221-5)… NCAA Outdoor runner-up in hammer

(67.74m/222-3)... NCAA Indoor runner-up in weight throw (22.46m/73-8.25)... MVC Outdoor champion in hammer and discus... MVC Indoor champion in shot put and weight.

2010: NACAC U-23 runner-up in discus (56.16m/184-3) and hammer (64.17m/210-6)… NCAA Outdoor champion in discus (54.98m/180-4)... NCAA Outdoor runner-up in hammer (60.80m/199-6)... NCAA Outdoor runner-up in shot put (16.54m/54-3.25)… 3rd at NCAA Indoors in shot put (17.25m/56-7.25)… 3rd at NCAA Indoors in weight (20.70m/67-11)… MVC Outdoor champion in hammer, discus and shot put… MVC Indoor champion in shot put and weight.

2009: 4th at USA Outdoors in discus (53.35m/175-0)… MVC Outdoor shot put champion…2nd at MVC Outdoors in discus… 3rd at MVC Outdoors in hammer throw.

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FRANCENA McCORORY

Events: 400m Height: 5-7

Weight: 132 PR: 50.29 (2011) Born: October 20, 1988 Current Residence: Hampton, Va. High School: Bethel HS ‗06 College: Hampton University ‗10 Coach: Maurice Pierce

Agent: John Regis Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2010 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion; American indoor record holder; 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships

In her first season competing post-collegiately, McCorory raced to a runner-up finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. In 2010, she also finished second at outdoor nationals after winning the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor 400m titles. McCorory set an indoor American record in the women's 400m at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. McCorory won her second-consecutive NCAA Indoor 400m title, running an indoor American record time of 50.54 seconds. Her time eclipsed Diane Dixon's nineteen-year-old record of

50.64, set back in 1991. It also surpassed Natasha Hastings collegiate record of 50.80 from 2007…has eight siblings…majoring in psychology… plans to become a mortician and own several funeral homes. 2011: USA Outdoor runner-up (50.49)... 2nd at Monaco (50.29PR)... 3rd at the Golden Gala (50.70). 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (50.52PR)…NCAA Outdoor champion (50.69)…NCAA Indoor champion (50.54iAR)…3rd at Stockholm (50.66)…1st at Florida Relays (22.92PR)…ranked #8 in the world, #3

U.S. by T&FN…bests of 22.92 and 50.52.

2009: 3rd at NCAA Outdoor Champs (50.58)…NCAA Indoor champion (51.55i)…1st at NCAA East Regionals (52.00)…1st at MEAC Champs (51.75)…best of 50.58. 2008: 6th in heat 1 at Olympic Trials (57.73)… 1st at MEAC Champs (51.54)…best of 51.5

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ALISSA MCKAIG

Event: Marathon Height: 5-5 Weight: 116 PR: 2:37:39 (2010)

Born: February 21, 1986 Current Residence: Blowing Rock, N.C. High School: Concordia Lutheran (Ind.) HS College: Michigan State University; Baylor University Coach: Pete Rae Agent: N/A Club: ZAP Fitness Reebok

Career Highlights: 20th overall in the New York City Marathon; 2008 NAIA Indoor Champion in the 5,000m; 2008 NAIA Outdoor

Champion in the 10,000m Alissa McKaig has enjoyed success on both the track and roads.

As a collegiate runner she won the 2008 NAIA Indoor Championship 5,000m and then followed that performance up with an encore national championship at the 2008 NAIA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000. After graduation she has began competing in marathons but has remained successful at the shorter distances. In 2010, she ran a personal best time of 2:37:39 in the New York City Marathon to earn herself a 20th place finish overall.

2011: 3rd at the Husky Classic in the indoor 5,000m (15:47.25)… 2nd at the First Reed River Run 10K (33:34)… 28th in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships (26:46) 2010: 1st at the Raleigh Relays 5,000m (16:25.85)… 3rd at the Portland Track Festival 5,000m (15:55.36)… 20th overall in the New York City Marathon (2:37:39)… 3rd at the USA 10 Mile Championships (55:18)

2009: 3rd at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (33:49:29) 2008: 1st in the 5,000m NAIA Indoor Championship (16:45.07)… 1st in the NAIA Outdoor

Championship 10,000m (34:22.95) 1st at the GVSU Holiday Open 5,000m (16:29.06) 2007: 1st at the Spartan Invitational 5,000m (16:31.38)… 2nd at the Drake Relays 5,000m (16:20.70) 2006: 27th in the Stanford Invitational 10,000m (34:28.22) 2005: 34th in the Tufts Health Plan 10K (36:08)

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INIKA MCPHERSON

Event: High jump Height: 5-5

Weight: 115 PR: 1.88m/6-2 (2005) Born: September 29, 1986 Current Residence: Oakland, Calif. High School: Memorial High School (Port Arthur, Texas) ‗05 College: University of California, Berkeley ‗09

Career Highlights: 3rd at 2011 USA Outdoors

McPherson qualified for her first World Championships team after a third-place finish at the 2011 USA

Outdoor Championships. During her senior year at University of California, Berkeley, she claimed her

best finish at an NCAA meet with a fourth-place finish at the indoor championships and topped the PAC-10 Outdoor Championship as well. In 2007, McPherson finished fourth at USA Outdoors, barely missing the World Outdoor team. McPherson was a 1.88m/6-2 jumper before enrolling at Cal. In 2005, she was the NSIC Indoor champion and in 2004, she finished second at USA Junior Outdoors and competed for Team USA at World Juniors.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (1.86m/6-1.25) 2009: 4th at NCAA Indoors (1.83m/6-0)… PAC-10 Outdoor champion (1.81m/5-11.25) 2007: NCAA West Regional runner-up (1.84m/6-0.5)… 4th at USA Outdoors (1.83m/6-0) 2005: NSIC Indoor high school champion (1.81m/5-11.25) 2004: USA Junior Outdoors runner-up (1.82m/5-11.5)

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TONY MCQUAY

Event: 400m Height: 5-11 Weight: 153 PR: 44.68

Born: April 16, 1990 Current Residence: Gainsville, Fla. High School: Suncoast (Fla.) HS College: University of Florida Coach: Mellannee Welty Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor Champion; 2010 NCAA indoor Champion

As a freshman at the University of Florida, McQuay burst onto the NCAA scene winning the indoor national championships with a

time of 46.91. His sophomore year campaign was equally as successful as he won the USA Outdoor Championships posting a personal record time of 44.86. As a high school senior at Suncoast High School in Fla., McQuay broke

the school‘s 200m record with a time of 21.53 (previous record-holder was Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears) and 400m record with a time of 46.84 (previous record-holder was DaJoun Morgan of the Kansas City Chiefs.) 2011: 1st at the USA Outdoor Championships (44.68)… 2nd at the SEC Outdoor Championships (45.87)… 3rd at the NCAA Championships (45.14)… 1st at the SEC Indoor Championships (45.21) 1st at the Tyson Invitational (45.95)

2010: 6th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (46.50)… 4th at the SEC Outdoor Championships (45.46)… 1st at the NCAA Indoor Championships (45.74)… 1st at the Tryson Invitational (46.91)

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ARIES MERRITT

Event: 110m hurdles Height: 6-1

Weight: 158 PR: 13.09 (2007) Born: July 24, 1985 Current Residence: Knoxville, Tenn. High School: Wheeler (Marietta, Ga.) HS '03 College: Tennessee '07 Coach: Vince Anderson

Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: Reebok Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2004 World

Junior 110m hurdles champion; 2006 NCAA champion; Seven-time NCAA All-American; Three-time SEC champion Merritt matched his season's best time of 13.12 to claim second at

the 2011 USA Outdoor Champs and a World team berth. With his third-place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships, Merritt punched his ticket for a trip to a World Outdoor Championships for the first time in his career. Merritt‘s most memorable performance in 2007 came in his win in Stockholm in the new personal best time of 13.09 seconds. In 2006, Merritt, a seven-time All-America and 2006 NCAA champion at the University of Tennessee, decided to

forgo his final season of collegiate eligibility to pursue a career in professional track and field. Merritt left Tennessee with 14 total school, meet or facility records, including every high hurdles school record, in his possession. He finished the 2006 college season undefeated in every 55 hurdles, 60 hurdles and 110m hurdles race he finished, including prelims and finals, for a record of 18 wins in 18 complete races. Merritt in 2006 broke the 24-year-old Univ. of Tennessee school record of Willie Gault and the SEC meet record (13.29) of two-time Olympic silver medalist Terrence Trammell. Merritt won

the 110m hurdles at the 2006 NCAA championships in 13.21 seconds, breaking Greg Foster‘s NCAA

meet record of 13.22 in 1978 and lowering his own school record (13.22) -- only National Track & Field Hall of Famer Renaldo Nehemiah from the University of Maryland has ever run faster at the collegiate level (13.00, May 6, 1979). While at Tennessee he won Ed Murphey Award (for most outstanding performance) and Most Valuable Track Athlete Award in 2005. As a prep star in Georgia, Merritt was one of only eight hurdlers nationally named to USA Today's All-USA High School Team ... Went undefeated in the 110 hurdles in Georgia his senior year ... Won the 2003 Georgia state 5A title in the 110m hurdles and took runner-up honors in the 300m hurdles ... Received Best Performance

trophies at the 2003 5A Georgia state championships for running a 13.76 in the 110m hurdles and 36.71 in the 300m hurdles at the state meet ... Finished third in the 110m hurdles, fourth in the 400m hurdles and ran on the winning 4x100m and 4x400m relays in the 2003 Junior 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (13.12)... 1st at Oslo (13.12)... 3rd at Prefontaine (13.18) 2009: 3rd at USA Outdoors (13.15)...2nd in Ostrava (13.15)...2nd at Reebok GP (13.28)...ranked #4

in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 13.15.

2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (13.27)...5th in 110mH at adidas Track Cassic (13.54)...2nd in 110mH at Reebok Grand Prix (13.24) 2007: 6th at USA Outdoor (13.24)…1st at Stockholm (13.09PR)…8th at USA Indoors (7.72)…1st at Millrose Games (7.61)…5th in Reebok Grand Prix (13.2)…5th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (13.42)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 13.09. 2006: 1st at NCAA Outdoors (13.21)…6th at USA Outdoors (13.43)…5th at Lausanne (13.12PR)…1st

at Stockholm (13.17)…ranked #6 in world (#5 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 13.12. 2005: World Junior champion (13.56)…5th at NCAA Outdoors (13.56)…7th at USA Outdoors (13.39)…1st at SEC Champs (13.38)…5th at NCAA Indoors 60mH (7.77)…1st at NCAA Mideast Regional (13.64)…best of 13.38. 2004: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (13.47)…runner-up at USA Junior Champs (13.84)…16th in prelims at NCAA Indoors (7.85)…5th at Mideast Regional 400mH (53.06)…best of 13.47.

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LaSHAWN MERRITT

Event: 200m, 400m Height: 6-2 Weight: 182 PR: 200m - 19.98 (2007); 400m - 43.75 (2007)

Born: June 27, 1986, in Portsmouth, Va. Current Residence: Suffolk, Va. High School: Woodrow Wilson (Portsmouth, Va.) '04 College: East Carolina '08 Coach: Dwayne Miller Agent: Kimberly Holland Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic 400m & 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2008 World Championships 400m & 4x400m relay gold

medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2007 World Outdoor 400m silver medalist and 4x400m gold medalist; 2009 USA Outdoor champion; two-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘06, ‘07); 2006 USA Indoor runner-up; 2005 World

Outdoor 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2004 World Junior gold medalist at 400m, 4x100m & 4x400m relays; 2004 USA Junior 200m & 400m champ; USATF‘s 2004 Verizon Youth Athlete of the Year

On July 28, 2011, LaShawn Merritt returned to the track for the Stockholm Diamond League meet for the first time after serving a 21-month doping suspension. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist and 2009

World Champion picked up where he left off, running under 45 seconds in 44.74 to place second. The reigning world champion now has his sights set on Daegu. In the 2009 World Outdoor Championships men‘s 400m final, Merritt passed Jeremy Wariner with about 70 meters to go and arrived at the finish line first in the world leading time of 44.06 seconds. Also at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Merritt teamed up with Wariner, Angelo Taylor and Kerron Clement in winning the gold medal in the men‘s 4x400m relay. At the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Merritt was in control

of the 400m final from start to finish as he captured his second-consecutive national men's one-lap title in 44.50 seconds. Merritt's performance matched his then 2009 world-leading time originally set on May 1 at Baie Mahault, France. Merritt dominated the 2008 Olympic Games final in sprinting down the final straight unchallenged and winning in the personal best time of 43.75, which was the fastest time in the world in 2008. Merritt‘s winning margin of 0.99 seconds was the largest in an Olympic 400m final since 1896. Also in Beijing, Merritt combined with Angelo Taylor, Jeremy Wariner and David Neville to win Olympic gold in the 4x400m relay in the Olympic record time of 2:55.39. Merrit‘s

rivalry with 2004 Olympic gold medalist Jeremy Wariner has become one of the most compelling in the sport. The two men split 3-3, in 2008, with Merritt winning the Olympics, Olympic Trials and in Berlin. Merritt became the ninth man ever to break the 44-second barrier in the men‘s 400 meters in winning the silver medal at the 2007 World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan, with his time of 43.96 seconds. Also in Osaka, Merritt won a gold medal in the men‘s 4x400m relay. Merritt finished just one-hundredth of a second out of first place at the USA Outdoor Championships in a then season-best time of 44.06. He ended the 2007 ranked #2 in the world by T&FN, which is his highest placing ever. His

2006 season featured 400m wins at the Nike Prefontaine Classic, the Monaco Grand Prix and the IAAF World Cup. His third-place finish at the World Athletics Final in 44.14 seconds gave him a new

personal outdoor best that helped propel him to the #3 ranking in the world by Track & Field News. After a brilliant outdoor season in 2004 as a high school senior, Merritt shocked the world in becoming, at the time, the second-fastest indoor 400-meter runner in history on February 11, 2005 at the Powered by Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The 18-year-old clocked the third-fastest

time ever indoors finishing in 44.93 seconds to win the race, but Kerron Clement‘s 44.57 WR a month later at NCAA Indoors moved Merritt to 3rd fastest athlete and 4th fastest time. It is the fastest time ever run by a junior (19-and-under) athlete indoors. Also in 2005, Merritt won a gold medal in the 4x400m relay by running the third leg for Team USA in the opening round of competition at World Outdoors. As an 18-year-old, Merritt left East Carolina‘s track program to turn professional prior to the end of his freshman indoor season. Merritt as a high-schooler won three gold medals at the 2004 World Junior Championships, including the 400 meters, and anchoring Team USA to world junior

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records in the 4x100 and 4x400m relays. As a prep star in Virginia, Merritt was the 2004 state 100m, 200m and 400m champion and the 2003 state 400m champion.

2011: 2nd at Stockholm (44.74)… Best of 44.74. 2010: Did not compete 2009: World Champs gold medalist (44.06WL)...World Champs 4x400m relay gold medalist (2:57.86WL)...1st at USA Outdoors (44.50)...1st at Baie Mahault (44.50)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix

(44.75)…1st in 300m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (31.30)...ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 44.06. 2008: Olympic Games gold medalist (43.75, WL & PR)…Olympic Trials champion (44.00)…Olympic 4x400m gold medalist (2:55.39)…1st at World Athletics Final (44.50)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (44.65)…1st at Berlin (44.03)…1st at Baie Mahault (44.34)…1st in 200m at Doha (20.08)…1st in Greensboro (19.80w)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN…bests of 43.75 & 20.08. 2007: World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist (2:55.56)...World Outdoor 400m silver medalist

(43.96PR)...USA Outdoor runner-up (44.06)…Tyson Invitational Indoor champion (45.51)…2nd at

Reebok Grand Prix (45.09)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (45.17)…1st at Kingston (44.95)…1st at Paris (44.62)…1st at Rome (44.44)…1st at Monaco (44.38)…1st in 200m at Thessaloniki (20.02)…2nd at London (44.23)…ranked #2 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN…bests of 43.96 and 19.98. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (44.50)…1st at World Cup (44.54)…3rd at World Athletics Final (44.14PR)…runner-up at USA Indoor Champs (46.17)…1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (44.88)…4th at Rome (44.77)...5th at Lausanne (20.10)…2nd at Stockholm (20.25)…ranked #3 in world (#2 U.S.) by

T&FN…best of 44.14. 2005: 4th at USA Outdoor Champs (44.73)...2nd in 400m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (45.57)...1st at Powered by Tyson Invitational (44.93i), the 3rd fastest indoor time in history…1st at Kingston, Jamaica (44.66PR)…ranked #10 in the world (#5 U.S. by T&FN)…best of 44.93i. 2004: 2004 World Junior 400m ( 45.25), 4x100m (38.66WJR) & (3:01.09WJR) gold medalist…USA Junior champion (200m-20.72), (400m-46.80)…ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 45.25. 2003: Virginia State HS 100m (10.47), 200m (21.13) & 400m (47.69) champion…best of 47.69.

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MARIA MICHTA Event: Race walk Height: 5-5 Weight: 113 PRs: 20 km RW - 1:36:31; 10,000m RW - 50:46.00

Born: June 23, 1986 Current Residence: Nesconset, N.Y. High School: Sachem HS North (Long Island, N.Y.) '04 College: C.W. Post '08 Coach: Tim Seaman Club: Walk USA

Career Highlights: 2011 and 2010 USA Outdoors champion; 2011 and 2010 USA Indoors champion; 2010 USA 30 km RW runner-up; 2009 and 2005 US RW Cup Trials champion; 2005 Pan

Am RW runner-up; 2003 USA Junior Outdoor runner-up

For the second year in a row, Michta captured USA Indoor and

Outdoor titles in the race walk events. With her victory at this year's championships, she secured a spot on her first-ever IAAF World Outdoor Championships team. In 2009, Michta fell just short of making the team after finishing third at USA Outdoors, but represented Team USA at the Pan Am Race Walking Cup where she took 13th. Michta also competed at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and 2007 Pan Am Race Walking Cup. Prior to joining the ranks of elite race walkers, Michta had a

successful junior career that was highlighted by a third place finish at the 2005 Pan Am Junior Outdoor Championships and a second place finish at the Pan Am Race Walking Cup that same year. She was a member of the World Junior Outdoor Championships and World Junior Race Walking Cup teams in 2004, and took 10th place at the 2003 World Youth Championships.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (1:34:51.47)... USA Indoors champion (13:40.52)

2010: USA Outdoors champion (1:39:4.12)... USA Indoors champion (13:51.33)... 2nd at USA 30 km RW Champs (2:39:35)... 4th at US RW Champs (1:43:46)... 3rd at Penn Relays (22:55.55) 2009: 13th at Pan Am RW Cup... 3rd at USA Outdoors (1:41:16.24)... 1st at US RW Cup Trials (1:46:03) 2008: 66th at IAAF World RW Cup (1:45:02)... 7th at US Race Walking Trials (1:45:08)... 8th at

Olympic Trials (1:47:45) 2007: 20th at Pan Am RW Cup (1:53:55)... 4th at USA Outdoors (1:41:28)... 5th at US Pan Am RW Cup Trials (1:48:55)... 7th at NACAC Opens (59:01) 2006: 5th at USA Outdoors (1:47:54)... 7th at US World Cup Trials (1:43:42)... 2nd at Penn Relays (23:44) 2005: 3rd at Pan Am Juniors (49:44)... 2nd at Pan Am RW Cup (48:03)... US Pan Am RW Cup Trials

champion (48:15) 2004: 22nd at IAAF World Junior Championships (51:42.95)...29th at IAAF World Junior RW Cup (53:04)... 3rd at USA Junior Outdoors (54:13) 2003: 10th at IAAF World Youth Champs (24:52.06)... 2nd at USA Junior Outdoors (55:42)

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DEREK MILES

Event: Pole vault Height: 6-3

Weight: 190 PR: 5.85m/19-2.50 (2004i & 2008) Born: September 28, 1972 in Sacramento, Calif. Current Residence: Tea, S.D. High School: Bella Vista (Fair Oaks, Calif.) HS College: University of South Dakota '96 Coach: Earl Bell/Lucky Huber

Agent: Karen Locke Club: Bell Athletics/Nike Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2008 World

Athletics Final champ; 4th at 2008 Olympic Games; 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2003 USA Indoor champion; Runner-up at 2010 USA Indoors and Outdoors; runner-up at 2003 USA Outdoors; 3rd at 2002 USA Indoors; 2004 Olympian

At the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Miles captured his first national title since winning the 2008 Olympic Trials. One of the most consistent performers in recent years in the pole vault, Miles had another strong year in 2010 in finishing as the runner-up at both the USA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Miles qualified for his second Olympic Team and captured his first ever national outdoor title with his win at the 2008

Olympic Trials. With a clearance of 5.70m/18-8.25 at the Olympic Games, Miles equaled the third-place height, but ended up in fourth place because he had one miss at that height, while bronze medalist Denys Yurchenko of the Ukraine cleared it on his first attempt. Then on September 7, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in a promotional competition for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin, Germany in 2009, Miles soared over a personal best equaling height of 5.85m/19-2.50. A week later Miles was crowned the World Athletics Final winner with a

5.80m/19.0.25 clearance in Stuttgart. ―This year I've sorted something out technically that is making

a considerable difference,‖ Miles told the IAAF website. ―If I can continue to develop that and make it a permanent fixture in my Pole Vault that even at my age I can jump higher. You learn something new on the technical side and it is helping me jump higher.‖ Miles won his first U.S. title at the 2003 Indoor Championships, and was the top U.S. finisher at the World Outdoor Championships later that summer. He built on that momentum to make his first Olympic Team in 2004. The NCAA Division II runner-up as a senior at the University of South Dakota, Miles was a four-time All-American as a collegian. While at USD, Miles also competed in the hurdles, long jump and as a decathlete favorite hobby is

paragliding, an activity he learned from fellow pole vaulter and training partner Tye Harvey…undergraduate degree in history and a masters degree in athletic administration…married Tori Devericks in May 2004. 2011: USA Outdoors champion (5.66m/18-6.75)... best of 5.72m/18-9.25 at Jockgrim 2010: USA Outdoors runner-up (5.60m/18-04.50)...Runner-up at USA Indoors (5.70m/18-

8.25)... 1st at California Relays (5.80m/19-0.25)…1st at Jockgrim (5.81m/19-0.75)...2nd at Paris

(5.70m/18-8.25)...ranked #4 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.81m/19-0.75. 2009:Tied for 2nd at USA Outdoors (5.75m/18-10.25)...no mark at World Outdoor final...ranked #5 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.75m/18-10.25. 2008: Olympic Trials champion (5.80m/19-00.25)…4th at Olympic Games (5.70m/18-8.25)…runner-up at Pre Classic (19-0.50)…1st in Berlin (5.85m/19-2.50=PR)…1st at World Athletics Final (5.80m/19-0.25)…ranked #3 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of 5.85m/19-2.50

2007: Tied for 4th at USA Outdoors (5.60m/18-4.50)…1st at Chula Vista (5.75m/18-10.25)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 5.75m/18-10.25. 2006: 10th at USA Outdoors (5.40m/17-8.50)...3rd in Jonesboro, Ark. (5.50m/18-0.50); 4th at Millrose (5.60m/18-4.50)...ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.50m/18-0.50. 2005: Did not compete at USA Indoor or Outdoor Champs...3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (5.80m/19-00.25)...2nd at Payton Jordan U.S. Open (5.65m/18-06.50)... 2nd at Rieti (5.81m/19-

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0.75)...ranked #5 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 5.85m/19-2.25.

2004: 3rd at Olympic Trials (5.80m/19-0.25)…7th at Olympic Games (5.75m/18-10.25)… 8th at USA Indoors (5.60m/18-4.50)… 1st at Jonesboro (5.81m/19-0.75)… 1st at Reno (5.80m/19-0.25)… 5th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (5.70m/18-8.25)… best of 5.81m/19-0.75.

2003: USA Indoor champion… (5.75m/18-10.50)… 5th at World Indoors (5.70m/18-8.25)… 2nd at USA Outdoors (5.70m/18-8.25)… tied for 6th at the World Outdoor Champs (5.70m/18-8.50)… 1st at Verizon Millrose Games (5.70m/18-18-8.25)… 1st at Jonesboro (5.81/19-0.75, U.S. Leader)… 1st at Gaz de France (5.76m/18-10.75)… best of 5.81m/19-0.75… ranked #5 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: 3rd at USA Indoors (5.62/18-5.25)… 5th at USA Outdoors (5.74m/18-10)… 1st at Vermillion (5.82m/19-1i)… 1st at adidas Midwest Classic (5.70m/18-8.5)… 3rd at Millrose Games (5.70m/18-

8.5)… 3rd at Nike Prefontaine (5.74m/18-10)… 1st at Belem (5.70m/18-8.5)… ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN… best of 5.82m/19-1i. 2001: 10th at USA Outdoors (5.40m/17-8.50)… 5th at USA Indoors (5.65m/18-6.05)… 2nd at Millrose Games (5.60m/18-4.50)… ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN… best of 5.82m/19-1. 2000: Tied for 3rd at Olympic Trials (5.63m/18-5.50) but lost spot on Olympic team to training

partner Chad Harting when the two had a jump-off at 18-5.5ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN…best of

5.65m/18-6.50. 1999: Best of 5.35m/17-6.5. 1998: Best of 5.35m/17-6.5. 1997: 10th at USA Outdoors… 7th at World University Games… best of 5.50m/18-0.5.

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ALYSIA MONTANO


Weight: 118 PR: 1:57.34 (2010) Born: April 23, 1986 Current Residence: Canyon Country, Calif. High School: Canyon HS (Canyon Country, Calif.) ‗04 College: University of California ‗08 Coach: Tony Sandoval

Agent: Ray Flynn Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 World Indoor bronze medalist; Three-time USA Outdoor champion (‘07, ‘10, ‗11); 2007 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion; 2006 NACAC U23 champion

Montano made her first outdoor world team by winning her third

U.S. title. Montano ran her third fastest time ever to win in 1:58.33, with half a second margin over second placer Maggie Vessey...The 2010 season saw the re-emergence of Johnson as she ran sub-2:00 in seven of nine outdoor races, topped off by a personal

best 1:57.34 on July 18 in Lignano, Italy. Johnson claimed the bronze medal at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, running an indoor personal best of 1:59.60. Johnson, the 2007 NCAA indoor and outdoor champion, took control of the women‘s 800m heading into the final lap at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships, with three-time USA champion Hazel Clark on her shoulder. Clark moved past Johnson with 30 meters to go, but Johnson surged back to win as both women collapsed across the finish line, Johnson stopping the clock in 1:59.47…was named the 2007 Pac-10 Women's Track Athlete of the Year… Johnson won the 2007 NCAA Outdoor crown in a school-record 1:59.29 in

Sacramento. That time was also the second fastest in NCAA meet history, second fastest in Pac-10 history and third fastest overall in collegiate history. The 800 title was her second national championship of the year, as she won the NCAA indoor 800 in an indoor school-record 2:03.47 in March…Formerly Alysia Johnson, married her childhood friend Louis Montano on March 19, 2011...known for running with a flower in her hair.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (1:58.33)...4th at Prefontaine Classic (1:59.40)...4th at Paris (2:00.78)...6th at Stockholm (2:00.69) 2010: 3rd at World Indoors (1:59.60)…USA Outdoor champion (1:59.87)…USA Indoor runner-up (2:01.45)…5th at Nike Pre Classic (1:58.84)…1st at Lignano (1:57.85)…1st at Monaco (1:57.34PR)…1st at Tyson Invite (2:02.60)….ranked #3 in the world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of

1:57.34. 2009: 7th at USA Outdoors (2:01.58)…2nd at Nike Pre Classic (2:05.32)…6th at adidas Track Classic (2:03.35)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 2:01.09. 2008: 25th at Olympic Trials quarter-finals (206.43)…1st at Pac 10 Champs (2:00.57)

2007: USA Outdoor champion (1:59.47)… 6th at Pan Am Games (2:02.57)… 4th in heats at World Outdoors (2:02.11)...NCAA Outdoor champion (1:59.29PR)… NCAA Indoor champion (2:03.47)…NCAA

West Regional champion (2:02.12)…Pac 10 champion (2:01.74)…ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:59.29. 2006: 4th at USA Outdoors (2:01.80)…NACAC U23 champion (2:03.87)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors (2:03.04)…2nd at Pac 10 Champs (2:06.85)…3rd at NCAA Indoors (2:06.42)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…bests of 54.08 (400m), 2:01.80. 2005: 3rd at USA Junior Outdoors (2:07.20)…6th at NCAA Outdoors…3rd at Pac 10 Champs…bests of 54.08 (400m), 2:05.49.

2004: Best of 2:08.97.

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TERA MOODY

Event: Marathon Height: 5-8 Weight: 125 PR: 2:30:53

Born: December 18, 1980 Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo. High School: Saint Charles East (Ill.) HS College: Colorado University Club: Boulder Running Company/adidas Career Highlights: 1st in the2010 Chicago Rock ‗n Roll Half

Marathon; 10th in the 2010 Chicago Marathon; 3rd at 2009 USA 25 km Championships

Tera Moody‘s distance running career began as a high school student at St. Charles East High School in Illinois where she amassed two state championships in the mile. After high school,

Moody went on to compete at Colorado University. While there, she won the Big 12 Conference Outdoor Championships in the 10,000m as a freshman and was a member of the 2000 NCAA Champion Colorado Buffaloes cross country team. After graduation, she took a short break from serious distance running and worked as a personal trainer and real estate agent. In 2005 she ran surprisingly well in her first marathon - finishing the 2005 Chicago Marathon in 2:50:04. With a renued outlook on training, Moody improved her marathon time by about 20 minutes and qualified for the 2008 US Olympic Trials. She ran a personal best time of 2:30.53 in 2010 when

she placed 10th overall in the Chicago Marathon. Most recently, Moody took home 5th place at the USA Half Marathon Championships with a time of 1:12:30 2011: 5th at the USA Half Marathon Championships (1:12:30) 2010: 5th at the USA 20 km Championships (1:09:38)… 6th at the USA Half Marathon Championships

(1:12:52)… 1st in the Chicago Rock ‗n Roll Half Marathon (1:13:37)… 10th in the Chicago Marathon (2:30:53)

2009: 3rd at the USA 25 km Championships (1:25:41)… 1st at the San Francisco Half Marathon (1:13:37)… 9th at the Chicago Marathon (2:32:59) 2008: 5th at the US Olympic Trials (2:33:54)… 8th at the Tufts 10k (33:50)… 7th in the Houston Half Marathon (1:13:05) 2007: 6th at the USA 20 km Championships (1:11:02)… 1st at the Oregon Twilight 5,000 (16:42.13)… 2nd at the Oregon Invitational 10,000m (33:53.21)… 9th at the Chicago Marathon

(2:46:40) 2006: 1st at the Austin Invitational Half Marathon (1:16:51) 2005: 20th at the Chicago Marathon (2:50:08) 2003: 4th at Pepsi Team Invitational 3,000m (9:49.20) 2002: 3rd at the Big 12 Conference Championships (35:33:58) 2001: 6th at the Air Force Invitational indoor mile (5:06.99)

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LaSHAUNTE’A MOORE

Events: Sprints Height: 5-5

Weight: 136 PRs: 100m – 10.97 (2010); 200m - 22.46 (2007) Born: July 31, 1983, in Akron, Ohio Current Residence: Arlington, Texas High School: Firestone HS (Akron, Ohio) College: Barton CC ‘03, Arkansas ‗05 Coach: Vince Anderseon

Agent: Paul Doyle Club: unattached Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoor 100m runner-up; 2004

Olympian; 2004 NCAA Outdoor 200m champion; 1999 World Youth gold medalist

Moore has been a consistent performer in recent years. Moore's time from this year's Outdoor

Championships 200m is even faster than she ran seven years ago when she qualified for the Olympics. Moore returned to her 2004 form in 2007, taking seventh in the 200m final at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships, tying her personal-best in the 100m and setting a new PR in the 200m. She now is coached by Olympic gold medalist Jon Drummond…With her third-place finish at the

2004 U.S. Olympic Trials and her win in the 200m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Moore identified herself as a future force to be reckoned with in U.S. women‘s sprinting. A star sprinter from Barton County Community College prior to her arrival at the University of Arkansas, Moore, along with Barton and Arkansas teammate Veronica Campbell formed the best 1-2 punch in the country. As Barton‘s top runner, Moore won the Junior College national championship in the indoor 200m dash in 2003 and was the runner-up in the 100m and 200m outdoors…she is on Barton County‘s top five performances list in every sprint category and is the only person to be on any list more than once as

she posted the fourth and fifth fastest 60m dash times…Moore is the second woman to break 23 seconds for 200m in Arkansas history…she is an Arkansas indoor 4x100m and 4x400m relay record holder…a seven-time Ohio high school state champion beginning in her freshman year in the 200m, 4x100m and 4x200m relays, Moore was also a state champion in the 100m and 400m…a four-time all-state, all-district and all-conference performer, Moore was the 200m gold medalist at the 1999 IAAF World Youth Championships in Poland (23.38).

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors in 100m (11.04)...6th at USA Outdoors in 200m (22.58)...2nd in Daegu (11.27)...1st in 200m at Doha (22.83). 2010: USA Outdoor 100m runner-up (11.34)…1st at Horned Frog Invite (11.02)…1st at Maringa (10.97PR)…1st at Rome (11.04)…3rd at Nike Pre Classic (10.99)…ranked #7 in the world, #3 U.S. by

T&FN…best of 10.97. 2009: 8th in 200m at USA Outdoors (22.77)…5th at adidas Track Classic (23.40)…2nd at Rethymno (22.66)…best of 22.57. 2008: 8th at Olympic Trials in 100m (11.22), 11th in semi-finals in 200m (23.02)…4th in 100m B

(11.29) and 6th in 200m (23.15) at Reebok Grand Prix…4th at Paris (22.70)…best of 11.02 and 22.70.

2007: 4th in 200m at USA Outdoors(22.58)...7th at World Outdoors (22.97)...2nd in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.46PR)...3rd in 100m at Mt. SAC Relays (11.26PR)...1st in 100m at Zagreb (11.19w)...4th in 200m at Sheffield (22.88)...2nd in 200m at Heusden (23.00)...5th in 200m at London (23.36)...ranked #8 in the world (#4 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 22.46. 2006: 5th in 200m at USA Outdoors (22.64w)...1st in 200m at Reebok Grand Prix (22.89)...3rd in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.64w)...ranked #10 in U.S. at 200m by T&FN...bests of 11.40, 22.89. 2005: 1st in 100m at Salamanca (11.39)...bests of 11.39, 22.93.

2004: NCAA Outdoor 200m champion (22.37w) and ran 22.63 in semi-finals…4th in 200m at Olympic Trials (22.64)…6th in semi finals at Olympic Games (22.93)…4th in 100m at NCAA Outdoor Championships (11.31)…3rd in 200m (23.50) and 6th in 100m (11.63) at SEC Championships and ran

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11.26PR in the 100m semi finals…3rd in both 100m (11.37w) and 200m (22.65w) at NCAA Mideast

Regional Championships…ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 11.26, 22.63. 2003: Runner-up at JUCO Outdoors Champs in 200m…3rd at JUCO Outdoors 100m…bests of 11.33, 23.09.

2002: 3rd in 200m at USA Juniors (23.78)…3rd at JUCO Outdoor Champs in 100m…runner-up at JUCO Outdoors 200m…bests of 11.47, 23.13. 2001: Runner-up in 100m at USA Juniors (11.73)…runner-up in 200m at USA Juniors (23.40)…bests of 11.64, 23.40. 1999: World Youth 200m champion (23.38) and 4th in 100m (11.66)

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MIKE MORGAN


Weight: 120 PR: 2:14:55 (2010) Born: Feb. 20, 1980 Current Residence: Rochester Hills, Mich. High School: Lincoln (Neb.) Pius X HS ‗98 College: Nebraska Wesleyan University ‗03 Coach: Keith Hanson, Kevin Hanson

Agent: Keith Hanson, Kevin Hanson Club: Hansons-Brooks Running Project

Career Highlights: 3-time NCAA Div. III All-American When Mike Morgan decided to run his first ever competitive marathon he finished in the impressive time of 2:15:11, which

was good enough for 15th place (fifth American) at the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon on October 22, 2006. Morgan would later improve his time and finish in the Chicago Marathon when he ran 2:14:55 in 2010 to place 11th overall. He was previously a member of Team Nebraska-Brooks and attended Nebraska Wesleyan. He was fourth in the 10,000 at the 2003 NCAA Division III Championships. Morgan was a 2005 RRCA Roads Scholar. He manages the Hansons Running Shop in

Royal Oak, Michigan. His favorite quote, according to the Hansons website, is "there are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools that you can't get into, but the roads are always open." 2011: 6th at the Shamrock Half Marathon (1:06:31) 2010: 4th at the Rock ‗n Roll Arizona Half Marathon (1:06:09)… 1st at the Shamrock Half Marathon

(1:04:56)… 11th in the Chicago Marathon (2:14:55)

2009: 2nd in the Houston Rodeo Run 10k (30:25)… 4th in the International Marathon (2:15:27) 2008: 3rd in the ING Half Marathon (1:05:16)… 3rd in the Austin Half Marathon (1:05:10)… 3rd at the Shamrock Sportsfest Half Marathon (1:04:06)… 4th at the Twin Cities Marathon (2:17:58) 2007: 12th at Olympic Trials – Men‘s Marathon (2:16:28)…14th at USA Half-Marathon Champs (1:04:05)…best of 2:16:28. 2006: 15th at Chicago Marathon (2:15:11)…fifth at USA 25 km Championships (1:17:15)…bests of 2:15:11, 1:17:15.

2005: 49th at World Half Marathon Champs (1:06:40)…8th at USA 20 km Champs (1:01.41); 6th at USA 25…8th at USA Half-Marathon Champs (1:04:48)…Lincoln/All Sport Half Marathon Champ. 2004: 19th at USA 10 km Champs (29:48)…11th at USA Half-Marathon Champs. (1:1:08:26)…Lincoln/All Sport Half Marathon Champ.

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MARSHEVET (HOOKER)

MYERS

Event: Sprints Height: 5-9 Weight: 148 PR: 100m – 10.86 (2011), 200m - 22.34 (2008)

Born: September 25, 1984 Current Residence: Grand Prairie, Texas High School: Southwest HS (San Antonio, Texas) '03 College: Texas '07 Coach: Jon Drummond Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: adidas

Facebook Fan Page: Marshevet Myers Twitter: @marshevetmyers Website: http://www.vetmyers.com/ Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up; 3rd at 2010 USA Outdoors; 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials in 200m; 2006 NCAA Indoor 60m and LJ champion; Two-time Big 12 Women's Indoor Track

Athlete of the Year (‘05 & ‘06); 2005 NCAA 100m and 4x100m champion Myers took second place in a windy 100m final at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for her second World Outdoor team. At the 2011 Prefontaine Classic, Myers ran a personal best time of 10.86 which ranks her as the third fastest in the event this year. Myers became the fifth-fastest woman in history, under any conditions, when she ran a wind-aided 10.76 (+3.4) to win the first heat of the 100m quarterfinals at the 2008 Olympic Trials. In June 2006, Myers elected to forgo her final

season of collegiate eligibility to pursue a professional track and field career. She will remain a student at Texas and continue her training under coach Beverley Kearney. Myers, an eight-time All-American,

left UT as one of the most decorated student-athletes in the program's history…Myers made her mark as one of the top athletes in collegiate track and field during the 2005 outdoor season, when she helped Texas to its fourth NCAA outdoor title. Myers became UT's third NCAA 100-meter champion and its first since 1991, when she claimed the event in 11.14 seconds. She also anchored the 4x100-meter relay team to victory in 42.87, the third-fastest time in school history.

2011: runner-up USA Outdoors (10.83)... 1st at adidas Grand Prix (11.36)... 2nd at Prefontaine (10.86)... 2nd at Stockholm (11.21)... 2nd at Birmingham in 200m (22.59)... 2nd at Birmingham in 200m (22.59) 2010: 1st at London Grand Prix (11.01)... 2nd at Lignano (11.22)... 3rd at Zurich (10.97)... 2nd at Boston Indoor Games in 60m (7.29)

2009: 3rd in 200m, 5th in 100m at USA Outdoors (22.36w, 11.02w)...1st in heats at World Outdoors (22.51), DNF in semifinal…6th at Reebok Grand Prix (11.05w) and 7th in 200m (22.94)...5th at adidas Track Classic (11.32)…6th at Nike Pre Classic (11.30)…bests of 11.14 and 22.51. 2008: 5th at Olympic Games (22.34)...3rd at Olympic Trials in 200m (22.20w), 4th in 100m (10.93)...1st in quarterfinals (10.76w)…2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (10.94)..3rd in 200m at adidas

Track Classic (22.49)…2nd at Kingston (11.01)…ranked #6 in the world (#2 U.S.) at 100m and #5 in the world (#3 U.S.) at 200m by T&FN…bests of 10.93 and 22.34.

2007: 6th in semifinal at USA Outdoors (11.34)…3rd at USA Indoors (7.22)…5th at Reebok Grand Prix (11.12)…5th at adidas Track Classic (11.06)…2nd at Kingston (11.08)…1st in 60m at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (7.24)…2nd at 100th Millrose Games (7.32)…1st at Tyson Invitational (7.26)…ranked #7 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 11.08. 2006: 8th in LJ at USA Outdoors (6.35m/20-10)NCAA Indoor LJ and 60m champion (6.71m/22-0.25, 7.20)…NCAA Midwest LJ champion (6.60m/21-8), ran in 100m and 200m heats (11.14, 22.70) - did not compete in finals due to injury…Big 12 100m and 200m champion (11.09, 22.75)…1st in LJ at

Austin (6.52m/21-4.75)…1st at Texas Relays (11.13)...1st in 60m at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (7.24)…ranked #7 in the U.S. in the LJ by T&FN…bests of 11.09, 22.70, 6.71m/22-0.25, 7.20. 2005: NCAA 100m champion, LJ runner-up (11.16, 6.60m/21-8)…NCAA Midwest 100m, LJ champion

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(11.13, 6.45m/21-2)…Big 12 100m, 200m, and LJ champion (11.12, 22.80, 6.89m/22-7.25)…ranked #6 in the U.S. in the LJ, #7 in the 100m by T&FN…bests of 11.12, 22.80, and 6.89m/22-7.25.

2004: 6th in 100m semis at OT…3rd in 100m at NCAA Outdoors…bests of 11.14, 6.48m/21-3.25.

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ADAM NELSON

Event: Shot Put Height: 6-0 Weight: 255 PR: 22.51m/73-10.25 (2002)

Born: July 7, 1975, in Atlanta, Ga. Current Residence: Watkinsville, Ga. High School: Lovett HS (Atlanta, Ga.) '93 College: Dartmouth '97 Coach: Carrie Lane Agent: Paul Doyle Club: Saucony

Career Highlights: Two-time Olympic silver medalist (‘00, ‘04); Two-time Olympic Trials champion (‘00, ‘04); 2005 World Outdoor champion; Three-time World Outdoor silver medalist

(‘01, ‘02, '07); 2001 World Indoor silver medalist; Five-time USA Outdoor champion (‗00, ‘02, ‘04, ‗06, '11); Two-time USA Indoor champion (‘01, ‘02); 2005 USA Outdoor Champs runner-up; 2001

Goodwill Games gold medalist; 1997 NCAA champ; 1994 World Junior gold medalist; 2008 Indoor Visa Championship Series champion In 2011, Nelson threw a season's best 22.09m/72-5.75 to win his first USA Outdoor title since 2006. Nelson earned a Team USA roster spot for the 2009 World Athletics Championships with his fourth-place finish at the USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. Nelson, who placed fifth later

that summer at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany, has now competed on five U.S. World Outdoor Championship teams. A two-time Olympic Games silver medalist, Nelson earned a trip to the Beijing Olympic Games with his third-place finish at the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. Nelson, who sustained a rib injury four days prior to the Olympic competition in Beijing, fouled on all three attempts in the final. The highlight of Nelson‘s 2008 season was his win at the Nike Prefontaine Classic

with the best throw in the world that season of 22.12 meters/72 feet 7 inches. Nelson enjoyed another banner season in 2007 highlighted by a silver medal at the World Outdoor Championships and ending

the season ranked #2 in the world. All of this was achieved despite juggling his own training schedule in addition to his first year as an MBA student in the fall of 2006 at Virginia, helping coach at UVA and reporting part-time for three Charlottesville TV stations. Nelson hungered for years to win a major outdoor shot put title, having previously won silver medals at two Olympic Games and two World Outdoor Championships. In 2005, it finally happened. On his very first throw in the final at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki in a cold, summer rain, Nelson threw 21.73m/71-3.50. That throw

held up as the best in the competition and Nelson finally had his hard-earned major outdoor championships gold medal. Nelson joins five other American shot putters that have competed in three Olympic Games (Ralph Rose, George Woods, John Godina and Parry O‘Brien, who is the only four-timer). For the outdoor World Championships, only Godina has competed in six, Nelson five. Earlier in 2005, Nelson, who did not have a sponsor at the time, offered his services on eBay to prospective sponsors and signed a one-month, $12,000 deal with MedivoxRX Technologies to advertise Rex--the Talking Bottle, an aid for the blind and for senior citizens who have difficulty reading labels. Nelson

won his second career Olympic silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Sixth in the throwing order at the 2004 Olympics, Nelson opened with a throw of 21.16m/69-5.25. It was to be his only legal throw of the event, and would hold up as the first-place throw until the end of the competition. As Nelson waited for his own final toss, 2002 European champion Yuriy Bilonog of the Ukraine matched Nelson with a throw of 21.16m/69-5.25, which put him in the lead because his second-best throw was better than Nelson‘s (who had no legal second mark). Nelson stepped into the ring for his final attempt and unleashed what looked to be a possible winning throw, only to have it

declared foul… His throw of 72-7 on his final attempt at the U.S. Olympic Trials made him the ninth-best performer in history and helped give him a #1 year-end ranking. It was the longest throw in the world in 10 years. Nelson improved his PR to 22.51m/73-10.25 on May 18, 2002 at the adidas Oregon Track Classic in Portland…he suffered a torn pectoral muscle in September of 1999 while bench-pressing. He then changed training methods to include more work on strengthening his mid-section

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and doing plyometrics, something he credits for his marked improvement. After training in Northern California, Nelson moved to New York City for a time in late 2000 and early 2001, but then returned

briefly to California before relocating later in 2001 to Athens, Ga. Nelson‘s life in NYC included acting lessons in addition to his shot put training…Nelson comes from an athletic family. His father played center for the Mississippi State football team, his brother played rugby, and his sister starred in soccer for Dartmouth. Originally a football player, Nelson was asked to come out for track in 8th grade by his coach, who handled both track and football: ‗I was the worst 8th-grade shot putter in our group, but I stuck with it, and it paid off.‘ Nelson played football all through high school and college. He started out as a linebacker at Dartmouth, and finished up as a defensive tackle: ‗As my butt got bigger they

moved me up closer to the line‘…earned his degree in government…has become well known for his pre-shot routine of marching in front of the competition circle and yelling for the crowd to cheer him on before stripping off his t-shirt and storming into the circle for his attempt. He recently told Track & Field News: ―I‘ve always walked into the landing area and then gone into the ring. It‘s all part of visualization. Everybody has their own little routine to get mentally focused for each throw. Sure, it draws the attention of the crowd; the fans can see who we are out there. But the main reason I do it

is more personal than that. It‘s part of my preparation phase.‖…married on March 13, 2004, to Lacy,

the couple had their first child Caroline Grace, on September 13, 2008. 2011: USA Outdoor champion in the shot put (22.09m/72-5.75)... 3rd at USA Indoor Champs (20.15m/66-1.5). 2010: USA Outdoor Champs third-place finisher (20.84m/68-04.5)…5th at World Indoors (21.11m/69-3.25)...3rd at Bydgoszcz (20.91m/68-7.25)… 2nd in Zurich (21.29m/69-10.25)...7th at

Oslo (19.91m/65-4)...ranked #7 in world, #3 U.S. by T&FN...best of 21.29m/69-10.25. 2009:4th at USA Outdoors (21.01m/68-11.25)...5th at World Outdoors (21.11m/69-3.25)...1st at Millrose Games (20.79m/68-2.5)…2nd at Tyson Invitational (21.01m/68-11.25)...ranked #3 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 21.11m/69-3.25. 2008: 1st in Group B qualifying at Olympics (20.56m/67-5.50) - no mark in final...3rd at Olympic Trials (20.89m/68-03.00)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (22.12m/72-7WL)…2nd at adidas Track Classic (21.13m/69-4)…2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (20.91m/68-7.25)…1st at Tyson Invite with #3

indoor throw all-time (22.40m/73-6) 1st at Millrose Games (22.07m/72-5)...Indoor Visa

Champion...3rd at USA Indoors (21.25m/69-8.75)...ranked #5 in world, #4 U.S. by T&FN…best of 22.12m/72-7. 2007: World Outdoor runner-up (21.61m/70-10.75)...3rd at USA Outdoor Championships (20.54m/67-4.75)...2nd at adidas Track Classic (21.47m/70-5.25)...6th at Madrid (20.28m/66-6.5)...ranked #2 in the world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 21.61m/70-10.75. 2006: USA Outdoor champion (22.04m/72-3.75)...4th at USA Indoor (20.30m/66-7.25)...1st at

Dakar (21.28m/69-9.75)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.44m/70-4.25)...ranked #6 in world, #3 U.S. by T&FN...best of 72-3.75. 2005: 1st at World Outdoor Champs (21.73m/71-3.5)...2nd at USA Outdoor Champs (21.52m70-7.25)...1st at World Athletics Final (21.92m/71-11)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (21.58m/70-9.75)...4th at adidas Track Classic (20.55m/67-5.25)...3rd at USA Indoors (21:59m/70-10)...1st Reebok Boston Indoor Games (21.66m/71-0.75)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of

21.92m/71-11. 2004: 1st at Olympic Trials shot put (21.64m/71-0)…Olympic silver medalist (21.16m/69-5.25)… 3rd at Verizon Millrose Games (19.81m/65-0)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.50m/70-6.5)…2nd at Adidas Oregon (21.68m/71-1.5)…2nd at Payton Jordan US Open (20.91m/68-7.25)…4th at Home

Depot (20.72m/67-11.75)…ranked #2 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 21.68m/71-1.5. 2003: World Outdoor silver medalist (21.26m/69-9)…3rd at USA Indoors (20.63m)… 4th at USA Outdoors (20.61m/67-7.50)…1st at Kuortane (21.29m/69-10.25)…2nd at Salamanca (21.10m/69-

2.75)…best of 21.29m/69-10.25…ranked #3 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN. 2002: USA Outdoor champ (22.22m/72-10.75MR)…USA Indoor champ (21.57m/70-9.25 World Leader)…1st at World Cup (20.80m/68-3)… 1st at adidas Oregon Track Classic (22.51m/73-10.25PR)…1st at Knoxville, TN (22.15m/72-8)…1st in Salamanca (21.61m/70-10.75)…1st at Mt. SAC (21.41m/70-3)… ranked #1 in the world & U.S. by T&FN…best of 22.51m/73-10.25PRWL. 2001: World Outdoors silver medalist (21.24m/69-8.25)…2nd at USA Outdoors (20.55m/67-5.25)…World Indoor silver medalist (20.72m/67-11.75)…USA Indoor champ (21.40m/70-

2.5)…Goodwill Games gold medalist (20.91m/68-7.25)…1st at adidas Golden Spike Invitational (20.96m/68-9.25)…1st in Calgary (21.39m/70-2.25)…1st in Rudlingen (21.53m/70-7.75)…1st in

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Thessaloniki (20.95m/68-8.75)…2nd at Peregrine Systems U.S. Open (20.81m/68-3.25)…ranked #2 in

world & U.S. by T&FN…best of 21.53m/70-7.75. 2000: Olympic silver medalist (69-7)...won Olympic Trials on final throw with PR 22.12m/72-7...won Pontiac Grand Prix Invitational (21.40m/70-2.5) and GMC Envoy Open (21.70m/71-2.25)...won Bislett

(21.43/70-3.75), Brussels (21.58/70-9.75) and Berlin (20.89m/68-6.5)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of (22.12m/72-7). 1999: Did not compete at USA Outdoors... best of 67-8.75. 1998: Won Heps Indoor (63-4)...2nd in NCAA Indoor (65-2)...3rd in USA Outdoors (66-9.25)...3rd in Goodwill Games (66-10.75)...3rd in Rudlingen (67-7.5)...ranked #9 in world (#4 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 67-6.5. 1997: Won NCAAs (64-4.5 PR)...won Heps Indoor (57-4.75)...won IC4A Indoor (58-6)...2nd at IC4As

(60-4); 4th in DT (171-1)... 8th in USA Outdoors (62-8)...ranked #9 U.S. by T&FN... best of 64-4.5. 1996: Won Heps (59-11); 2nd in Heps DT (169-7)...won IC4As (59-5.5); 4th in DT (173-0)...9th at NCAAs (60-2)...16th in qualifying at Olympic Trials (58-10.25)... best of 62-9.5. 1995: 2nd in Heps Indoor (54-8.25)...won Heps (56-11.25)...won New Englands (59-1.25)...won IC4As (59-3); 3rd in DT (164-11)...13th at NCAA (57-8.5)... best of 59-11.25.

1994: Won Heps Indoor (57-2)...won Heps (55-10.5)...won IC4A (58-1)...won USA Juniors (55-

9.75)...gold at World Juniors (60-2 PR)... best of 60-2. 1993: Won Georgia HS state titles in SP and DT for second straight year...won National Scholastic (63-2.25 hs)...2nd in USA Juniors (53-11)...gold at Pan-Am Juniors (54-4)... best of 54-4, plus 63-2.25 (HS).

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BILLY NELSON

Event: 3,000m steeplechase Height: 5-5

Weight: 120 PR: 8:17.27 Born: September 11, 1984 Current Residence: Longmont, Colo. High School: Taft Union (Calif.) HS ‗02 College: Colorado University ‗07 Coach: Mark Wetmore

Agent: Chris Layne Club: Nike Career Highlights: Won the 3,000m steeplechase at the USA

Outdoor Championship with a time of 8:28.46; placed 2nd at the Olympic Trials with a time of 8:21.47 As a professional runner, Nelson saw his greatest success recently

at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships when he bettered the entire field and won the 3,000m steeplechase in 8:28.46. Since graduating from Colorado University in 2007, Nelson has been a very consistent distance runner – running in the mid-8:30‘s for most championship steeplechase events. In 2008 he competed in his first Olympic Games by running a five second personal best at the Olympic Trials. Nelson was a standout at Colorado University. While there he posted personal best

times of 3:52.93 for 1,500m, 8:33.33 for the steeplechase and 13:46.80i for 5,000m. He was a two-time Big 12 Champion and finished 2nd at the 2008 NCAA Championships. Nelson was a standout at Taft Union HS in California, where he graduated with school records in the 3,200-meter (8:54), the mile (4:15) and the 3,000-meter (9:35). His prep career culminated in his winning the Division IV California State Championship as a senior. That same season, he finished third at the Footlocker Regional meet before a ninth-place finish at Nationals.

2011: 3,000m steeplechase champion at USA Outdoors (8:28.46)… 1st at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational (8:22.44) 2010: 5th at the USA Outdoors (8:35.17) 2009: 8th at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational (8:37.53)… 7th at the Prefontaine Classic (8:35.90) 2008: 1st at the Big 12 Conference Championships (8:53.84)… 2nd at the NCAA Championships (8:28.85)… 2nd at the Olympic Trials (8:21.47)… 10th at the Olympics in Beijing (8:36.66)

2007: 1st at the Big 12 Conference Championship (8:47.89)… 2nd at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships (8:51.46)… 4th at the NCAA Championships (8:33.33) 2005: 3rd at the Big 12 Conference Championships (8:53.01)… 2nd at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships (8:47.27)

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KATHERINE NEWBERRY

Event: Marathon Height: 5-6 Weight: 115 PR: 2:35:23 (2010)

Born: August 31, 1978 Current Residence: Ann Arbor, Mich. High School: Lake Braddock Secondary School (Burke, Va.) College: William & Mary ‗00 Coach: Alex Gibby Agent: Bob Gordan Club: NYAC

Career Highlights: 3rd at the 2007 Boston Half Marathon

Kathy Newberry has qualified for three straight Olympic qualifiers, 2004, 2008 and most recently 2012 in a variety of distances ranging from 5,000m to the marathon. She has been running

professionally since graduating college in 2000 and has competed on both the national and international stage. As a runner at William & Mary from 1996-2000, Newberry claimed two CAA Conference titles in the 3,000m and 5,000m and earned multiple All-East designations. She still holds the outdoor 4x1,500m relay record with a time of 18:08.88. 2011: 13th at the USA Championships (33:05:31) 2010: 3rd at the Ukrop‘s Monument Avenue 10K (33:31)

2009: 1st at the Hampton Invitational indoor mile (5:06.70)… 1st at the George Mason Last Chance indoor 5,000m (16:08.49) 2008: 6th overall in the Houston Half Marathon (1:12.59)… 7th at the Boston Half Marathon (1:13.44) 2007: 3rd at the Boston Half Marathon (1:16.44)

2006: 8th in the Beach to Beacon 10K (34:36.00) 2005: 1st at the Maryland Invitational indoor mile (4:51.98)… 1st at the Maryland Invitational indoor

3,000m (9:45.01) 2004: 2nd in the Stanford Cardinal Qualifier 5,000m (15:42.32)… 13th at the USA Championships 5,000m (16:14.89) 2003: 4th at a Boston High Performance meet 3,000m (9:25.06) 2002: 1st at the 5,000m at the Mt. SAC Relays (16:30.52) 2001: 2nd at the Texas A&M Invitational 1,500m (4:29.91)

2000: 5th at the Virginia Tech Invitational indoor mile (4:58.66)… 2nd at the Chapel Hill meet in the 3,000m (9:42.73) 1999: 1st at the Colonial Relays 5,000m (16:49.2)

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GREG NIXON

Event: 400 meters Height: 6-0

Weight: 165 PR: 44.61 (2010) Born: September 12, 1981 Current Residence: Long Beach, Calif. High School: L.W. Higgins (Marrero, La.) HS ‗01 College: Howard Payne ‗06 Coach: Quincy Watts

Agent: Kimberly Holland Club: Asics

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoor 400m champion; 2008 & 2010 World Indoor Champs 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2007 Pan Am Games 4x400m relay silver medalist; 2007 USA Indoor 400m champion

After a third-place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Nixon earned his first spot in the open 400m at World Outdoor Championships. At the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, Nixon won his first-ever outdoor title with a personal

best time of 44.61 seconds, which was the ninth-fastest time in the world that year and made him the second-fastest American behind only Jeremy Wariner. For Nixon, it was his first time breaking the 45-second barrier as he chopped nearly a half-second off of his previous career best time set in the semifinals at the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. Not a bad accomplishment for a former football player competing in the one-lapper for only the fourth season of his career. Nixon‘s collegiate career began at Grambling State University, where he was a wide receiver on the football team. When Grambling‘s head football coach Doug Williams left the program, Nixon moved on to Howard Payne

(NCAA D-III) to play football. During a football game the school‘s track coaches saw Nixon run down a ball-carrier during a play and that‘s when he was asked to go out for the school‘s track team. Nixon joined the track squad two months into the season and did well, qualifying for the NCAA D-III Championships that year, where he won the 200 meters and finished third in the 100 meters. During that period of time Howard Payne closed down its track program, except for Nixon, who went on to win NCAA D-III 100m and 200m national titles in his second season. He eventually tried the 400m

after acknowledging that his starts out of the blocks for the shorter dashes left little to be desired. Nixon is coached by Terry Wilson of Long Beach Wilson High School in Southern California and Quincy Watts, the 1992 Olympic 400m and 4x400m relay gold medalist.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (44.98)... 2nd at Shanghai (45.5).

2010: USA Outdoor champ (44.61PR)...3rd at USA Indoors (45.77)...1st at Drake Relays (45.08)...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 44.61. 2009: 6th in opening round at USA Outdoors (47.64)...best of 45.67 2008: 7th at Olympic Trials (45.64)...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 45.20.

2007: USA Indoor champ (46.75)...6th in semis at USA Outdoors (45.70)...best of 45.31.

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DAVID OLIVER Event: 110m Hurdles Height: 6-2 Weight: 205 PR: 110m hurdles - 12.89 AR (2010); 60m hurdles - 7.47 (2011)

Born: April 24, 1982 Current Residence: Kissimmee, Fla. High School: Denver (Colo.) East HS '00 College: Howard '04 Coach: Brooks Johnson Agent: Daniel Wessfeldt Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games bronze medalist; 2010 World Indoor Champs bronze medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials

champion; 2010 USA Outdoor champ; USA 110m record holder; 2008 USA Indoor champ; 2-time NCAA All American; 3rd at 2007 USA Outdoor Champs; 2010 IAAF Diamond League champion

Oliver leads the world in the 110m hurdles during the 2011 season as the only man to dip below 13 seconds in the event. Oliver won the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships with a time of 13.04 earning himself a shot at a title at the World Outdoor Championships. Oliver‘s astounding breakthrough 2010 campaign got off to a strong start with his runner-up finish at the USA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque prior to capturing the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in a personal best time of 7.44 seconds. Oliver won the 2010 USA Outdoor title with his blistering time of

12.93 seconds and followed that up by equaling the then American record of 12.90 at the Nike Prefontaine Classic before setting the American record of 12.89 seconds with his win in Paris on July 16. At the end of 2010, Oliver was unbeaten in 15 finals races and had posted the top five times in the world and eight of the nine fastest times globally. Oliver‘s 2009 season was headlined by his win in Doha in 13.09 seconds, which was the fastest of the year by an American, and the third-fastest time

in the world that year. A strained left calf muscle kept him from competing at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. Once an up-and-comer, Oliver is now a gold-medal threat in any competition. Oliver

capped off a hugely successful 2008 campaign by winning the bronze medal in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Oliver completed a sweep of the U.S. indoor and outdoor titles in the men's hurdles that year with his victory at the Olympic Trials in Eugene. Though slow out of the blocks in the final, Oliver rallied past two-time Olympic silver medalist and defending Olympic Trials champion Terrence Trammell to win in 12.95w. Oliver also ran an outstanding semifinal race at the trials, crossing the line .01 under the American record, in 12.89, but aided by an illegal 3.2 mps wind.

It was the fourth-fastest time ever run under any conditions. Oliver ended the 2007 campaign with his first-ever world ranking from Track & Field News (#9). Oliver enjoyed a strong season in 2006, highlighted with his win in 13.25 seconds at the Berlin ISTAF Golden League meet in September when he defeated many of the world‘s biggest names in the 110m hurdles including 1996 Olympic gold medalist and multi world champion Allen Johnson, 2006 NCAA Outdoor champion Aries Merritt, Cuban record holder Dayron Robles, 2006 European champion Stanislav Olijars and 2006 Commonwealth Games champion Maurice Wignall. The first two-time NCAA All-American in any sport from Howard

University, Oliver, who owns both the Howard school and MEAC indoor and Outdoor hurdles records, was the school‘s first track and field athlete to earn that distinction since Calvin Branch in 1982. Also a football player at Howard, Oliver graduated with a BBA in marketing in the fall of 2004. 2011: USA Outdoor champion (13.04)... 1st at Pre Classic (12.94)... 2nd at Shanghai (13.18)... 2nd at Paris (13.09)... 2nd at Stockholm (13.28)... ranked #1 in the world outdoors. 2010: USA Outdoor champion (12.93)…USA Indoor runner-up (7.54)...World Indoor Champs bronze

medalist (7.44PR)… 1st at Paris (12.89AR, WL)…1st at Pre Classic (12.90)…1st in Shanghai (12.99)… 1st in Daegu (13.11)… 1st at Ponce (13.12)… 1st at IFF Games (13.24)…1st at Monaco (13.01)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of 12.89AR, WL. 2009: 1st at Doha (13.09U.S. Leader)...strained calf muscle kept him from competing at USA Outdoors...ranked #5 in world & U.S. by T&FN...best of 13.09.

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2008: Olympic Games bronze medalist (13.18)…Olympic Trials champion (12.95, +2.5 mps)…1st at DKB-ISTAF Berlin (13.19)…USA Indoor champ (7.47)…1st at Doha (12.95, U.S. Leader)…4th in

opening round at World Indoor Champs (7.65)…ranked #2 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of 12.95. 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoor Championships (13.18)…4th in semis at World Outdoors (13.42)...2nd at USA Indoors (7.51)…1st at Tyson Invitational (7.60)…3rd at Reebok Indoor Games (7.61)…2nd at Doha (13.14PR)…3rd at adidas Track Classic (13.29)…6th at Reebok Grand Prix (13.28)…6th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (13.42)…2nd at Madrid (13.45)…4th at Monaco (13.30)…2nd at Athens (13.14)…5th at Paris (13.27)...ranked #9 in world, #6 U.S. by T&FN...best of 13.14. 2006: 5th in semis at USA Outdoors (13.49)…1st at Dubnica (13.20)…1st at Berlin (13.25)…5th at

World Athletics Final (13.24)…ranked #7 in world (#5 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 13.20. 2005: Best of 13.29. 2004: 6th in opening round at NCAA Outdoors (13.90)…MEAC Outdoor champ (13.81)…best of 13.55. 2003: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (13.60)…MEAC Outdoor champ (13.97)…MEAC Indoor 55mH champ (7.34)…best of 13.60. 2002: MEAC Outdoor champ (13.88)…best of 13.92.

2001: MEAC Outdoor champ (14.04)…best of 14.04.

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TRAVIS PADGETT

Event: Sprints Height: 5-8 Weight: 180 PR: 100m - 9.89 (2008); 200m - 20.32 (2008)

Born: December 13, 1986 Current Residence: Marietta, Ga. High School: Crest (Shelby, N.C.) HS ‗05 College: Clemson ‗09 Coach: Loren Seagrave Club: adidas Career Highlights: 4th at 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials; 4th at 2009

USA Outdoor Champs; 2008 4x100m relay Olympian; College 100m record holder; 2007 NCAA Indoor 60m champ; 2008 NCAA Outdoor 100m runner-up

Padgett had the second-fastest time in the semi-finals at the 2011

USA Outdoor Champs, but did not race in the finals. He will represent Team USA at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea as a member of the 4x100m relay pool. As he did in 2008 at the Olympic Trials, Padgett finished fourth at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships, earning a spot in the 4x100m relay pool at the World Outdoor Championships in Berlin. Padgett surprised many in coming just one-hundredth of a second short in his bid to make the U.S. Olympic team in the 100 meters at the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. By virtue of his fourth-place finish in the event,

Padgett was named to the U.S. Olympic Team as a member of the Team USA 4x100m relay pool. Padgett broke the collegiate record in the quarterfinals at the Olympic Trials with a personal best of 9.89. In the second semifinal at the Trials he overcame a tough start and played catch-up down the stretch to finish second in 10.11 seconds. Padgett got an outstanding jump out of the blocks in the final, but was out-leaned at the finish line by Darvis Patton who took third and the final Olympic Team 100m roster spot in 9.84. Padgett ran a 9.85, though the performance was aided by a +4.1 meters

per second wind reading. Padgett experienced a whirlwind year in 2008 in which he was named the ACC‘s outstanding track performer, finished second in the 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Champs, and ended the season as a six-time All-American. Named the 2007 ACC Outdoor Freshman of the Year, Padgett was a sociology major at Clemson. He turned pro following the 2008 Olympic Games with one year of collegiate eligibility remaining.

2011: Did not start in final of USA Outdoors... 2nd at Clermont Classic (9.99)... 3rd at Luzern (10.28). 2010: 5th at USA Indoors (6.60)...False start in final of USA Outdoors...5th in Daegu (10.30)… 3rd in Doha (9.92w)… 4th in 60m at Boston Indoor Games (6.55)...runner-up at Liege (10.10)...best of 10.10.

2009: 4th at USA Outdoors (10.02)...1st at Doha (10.00)...4th at Tyson Invitational (6.63)…3rd at Reebok BIG (6.62)...ranked #4 in U.S., #9 in world by T&FN...best of 10.00. 2008: Ran in opening round 4x100m relay (2nd leg) at Olympic Games that did not finish…4th at Olympic Trials (9.85w)…1st in quarterfinal at Olympic Trials (9.89PR, collegiate record)…runner-up at

NCAA Outdoors (10.16)…6th in semis at NCAA Outdoors 200m (20.77)…7th in 4x100m relay at NCAA Outdoors…3rd at NCAA Indoor 60m (6.60)…ACC 100m champ (10.22)…3rd at ACC Outdoors 200m (21.04)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 9.89.

2007: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (10.24)…NCAA Indoor 60m champ (6.56)…ACC 100m champion (10.35)…6th in semis at USA Outdoors (10.29)…4th at ACC champs 60m (6.68)…ran lead leg on Clemson‘s 7th place 4x100m relay at NCAA Outdoors (40.07)…best of 10.09. 2006: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (10.24)…5th in opening round at USA Outdoors (10.43)…6th in prelims of 4x100m relay at NCAA Outdoors (39.67)…ACC Indoor 60m runner-up (6.74)…best of 10.00. 2005: Best of 10.62 2004: Best of 10.46

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KARA PATTERSON

Event: Javelin Height: 6-0

Weight: 180 PR: 66.67m/218-09 (2010) AR Born: April 10, 1986 Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif. High School: Skyview (Vancouver, Wash.) HS College: Purdue ‗09 Coach: Ty Sevin

Agent: self Club: Asics Twitter: @Karasayshi

Career Highlights: Four-time USA Outdoor champion ('08, '09, '10, '11); 2009 NCAA runner-up; Two-time NCAA All-American

Patterson continued her dominance of women's javelin in the United States by winning her fourth

consecutive national title in 2011. At the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships, she improved Kim Kreiner's American record with her winning toss of 66.67m/218-9. Patterson burst onto the national scene in 2008 when she won Olympic Trials with a mark of 58.44m/191-9 and earned a spot on her

first Olympic team. At the 2008 Big Ten Championships, Patterson secured her second conference title and shattered the Big Ten record and the Boilermakers' all-time record with her heave of 61.56m/202-0, It was the top throw by an American in 2008, the second longest in NCAA history, and placed her second on the U.S. all-time list behind American record-holder Kim Kreiner. Patterson redshirted the 2007 season. In 2006, Patterson won her second straight NCAA Mideast Regional javelin championship with a throw of 51.16 meters, advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships where she finished 26th. She capped off her 2005 season by winning the silver medal at the Pan Am Junior

Championships with a launch of 50.26m/164-11. Patterson won the 2005 NCAA Mideast Regionals and Big Ten Championships meets. In high school, Patterson was a four-year varsity letter winner in swimming, basketball and track and field, as well as a three-time javelin state champion.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (59.34m/194-8)... best of 62.76m/205-11 at Rome 2010: USA Outdoor champion (66.67m/218-09AR)…1st at Pre Classic (65.90m/216-2)…2nd at Gateshead (63.11m/207-0)…1st at Drake Relays (61.80m/202-9)...1st at Tuscan Elite Classic (61.75m/202-7)…2nd at Monaco (64.21m/210-8)…ranked #6 in the world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of 66.67m/218-9. 2009: 29th in qualifying at World Outdoors . (52.71m/172-11)...USA Outdoor champion (63.95m/209-10)...NCAA Outdoor runner-up (57.96m/190-2)...Mideast Regional champion

(58.56m/192-1). 2008: 22nd in qualifying at Olympic Games (54.39m/178-5)...Olympic Trials champion (58.44m/191-9)…5th at NCAA Outdoors (53.93m/176-11)…1st at Big 10 Champs (61.56m/202-0)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 61.56m/202-0.

2007: Redshirt 2006: 26th at NCAA Outdoors…NCAA Mideast Regional champion (51.16m/167-10)…2nd at Big 10

Champs 2005: 2nd at Pan Am Juniors (50.26m/164-11)…2nd at USA Junior Champs (50.08m/164-4)…13th at NCAA Outdoors (46.88m/153-10)…best of 50.26m/164-11. 2004: 19th in qualifying at Olympic Trials (42.60m/139-9)…4th at USA Juniors (43.45m/142-7)

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DARVIS PATTON

Events: Sprints Height: 6-0 Weight: 180 PRs: 100m - 9.89 (2008); 200m - 20.03 (2003)

Born: Dec. 4, 1977, in Dallas, Texas Current Residence: Grand Prairie, Texas High School: Lake Highlands (Dallas) '96 HS Colleges: Garden City CC '98, Texas Christian '01 Coach: Monte Stratton Agent: Claude Bryan Club: Nike

Facebook Fan Page: DarvisDocPatton Twitter: @doc_patton Blog: Stuck Between the Lines

Career Highlights: 2004 Olympic Games 4x100m silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Games 100m finalist; Two-time World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist ('03, '07); 2007 Pan American Games 100m

silver medalist and 4x100m bronze medalist; 2003 World Outdoor 200m silver medalist; 2003 & 2002 USA Outdoor 200m champion; 2002 USA Indoor, Outdoor runner-up; 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up Patton ran his fastest 200m time ever, dipping below the 20-second mark, in a windy final at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. His second-place finish in the race earned him a spot on his fourth World Outdoor Championships team. Patton also qualified for World Outdoor Championships two years ago with his runner-up finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in 9.92w. The highlight of his 2009

season came on September 20 when he set a new personal best of 9.89 seconds in Shanghai. In addition to qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Team with his third-place finish in the 100m final at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., Patton posted a personal best in the quarterfinal with his blistering time of 9.89 seconds. Patton enjoyed a rebirth in 2007 highlighted by his eighth-place 100m finish at the USA Outdoor Championships, runner-up placing at the Pan Am Games and gold medal winning

performance in the 4x100m relay at the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. Patton endured a frustrating 2005 season, which saw him hampered throughout the campaign with injuries to

his groin and hip. Patton closed out his 2003 campaign with a U.S. Outdoor title and a gold (4x100m) and silver (200m) medal at World Outdoors, firmly establishing himself as one of the worlds top sprinters. One of the most versatile performers in TCU track & field history, Darvis Doc Patton garnered seven All-America certificates during his senior year alone, and notched ten All-America honors in just two seasons at TCU. Patton was a late-bloomer coming out of Dallas Lake Highlands High School, where he did not make the schools relay team. He spent two years at Garden City

Community College, where he was an eight-time JUCO All-American, including the 1998 NJCAA long jump champion. In 2000, he became the first TCU athlete to win an indoor conference long jump title and the first Horned Frog to win a conference long jump crown of any kind since 1970 when he won the WAC indoor title…Though he finished as the runner-up at U.S. Indoors, he won the outdoor championship and earned the #1 U.S. ranking in 2002. His website is: www.docpatton.com. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors in the 200m (19.98w)... 2nd at Lignano (10.07)... 3rd at Paris (20.59)

2010: 2nd at Kansas Relays (10.19)...best of 10.19. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (9.92w)...3rd at Shanghai (9.89)...8th at World Outdoors (10.34)...1st at Kingston (10.02)...2nd in Barcelona (20.32)...ranked #5 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN...best of 9.89. 2008: 8th at Olympic Games (10.03)…3rd at Olympic Trials in 100m (9.84w)...DNF in 4x400m relay at Olympic Games…1st in quarterfinal (9.89PR)...2nd at adidas Track Classic (10.06)...3rd at Reebok Grand Prix (10.07)…ranked #9 in world, #3 U.S. by T&FN…best of 9.89.

2007: World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist (37.78)...Pan Am runner-up (10.17)...Pan Am 4x100m bronze medalist (38.88)...8th at USA Outdoors (10.26)…1st at Arlington (10.13)…6th at adidas Track Classic (10.11w) and 10.11PR in heats…5th in 200m at Reebok Grand Prix (20.49)…10.36 at Stockholm…2nd at Luzern (10.26)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 10.11. 2006: 3rd at Road to Eugene (10.19)…2nd in 200 at Thessaloniki (20.50).

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2005: 7th at Jamaica (10.27)…did not compete at USA Outdoors…best of 10.27. 2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (20.32)…Olympic 4x100m relay silver medalist; 1st round winner at

Kingston in 100m (10.12)…1st in Arlington in 100m (9.89w)…2nd at Fort Worth in 200m (20.07w)…ranked #10 in world (#5 U.S.) at 200m, #7 U.S. at 100m by T&FN…bests of 10.12 & 20.17. 2003: World Outdoor 200m silver medalist (20.31)…World Outdoor 4x100m relay gold medalist (3rd leg 38.06)…USA Outdoor Champion (20.15.)…1st in semifinal at World Outdoors (20.03PR)…2nd at Lausanne (20.14)…1st at adidas Boston Indoor Games 200m (20.73)... best of 20.03…ranked #2 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN.

2002: 2nd at USA Indoors (20.95); 1st at USA Outdoors (20.31)…2nd in Brussels (20.12PR)…2nd in Rome (20.14)…won the 200m at the Norwich Union Challenge in Glasgow and was named the Outstanding performer of the meet (20.16)…1st in London (20.25)…1st in Rethymnon (20.26)…1st at Yokohama (20.29)…4th in LJ at Padua (8.04m/26-4.5)…ranked #4 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m, #9 at LJ in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 20.12PR & 8.04m/26-4.5. 2001: 4th at USA Outdoors (20.72)…3rd at NCAA Outdoors 200m (20.59)…4th at NCAA Outdoor long

jump (7.97m/26-1.75)…ran second leg on TCU‘s NCAA winning 4x100m relay (38.58)… ranked #7 in

U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 20.31 & 8.12m/26-7.75. 2000: 5tj in semis at Olympic Trials (20.56)…Western Athletic Conference champion at 200m & long jump…4th in 200m at NCAA Outdoors (20.59)…8th in LJ at NCAA Outdoors (7.59m/24-11)…ran 2nd leg on TCU‘s NCAA 4x100m relay (dnf)…bests of 20.29 & 8.04m/26-4.5. 1999: Did not compete. 1998: Junior College long jump champion…4th in 200m at JUCO Outdoors…bests of 20.49w &

8.06m/26-5.5w

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DWIGHT PHILLIPS

Event: Long Jump Height: 5-11 Weight: 180 PRs: LJ - 8.74m/28-8.25 (2009); TJ - 16.41m/53-10.25 (1999)

Born: Oct. 1, 1977, in Decatur, Ga. Current Residence: Snellville, Ga. High School: Tucker (Ga.) '96 Colleges: Kentucky '98; Arizona State '00 Coach: Loren Seagrave Agent: Caroline Feith Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2004 Olympic gold medalist; 3-time World Outdoor champion (‘03, ‘05, ‗09); 2007 World Outdoor bronze

medalist; 2003 World Indoor champion; Five-time USA Outdoor champion (‘03, ‘04, ‘07. ‗09, '10); 3-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘00, ‘05, ‘06); 2001 U.S. Indoor champion

Phillips enjoyed another strong season in 2010 in posting his fifth career USA Outdoor title and the farthest jump by an American during the outdoor season of 8.46m/27-9.25, which was the second-best jump in the world that year. Phillips leaped back on the world stage in posting the longest jump

in the world since National Track & Field Hall of Famer Mike Powell set the world record in 1991 at the 2009 Nike Prefonatine Classic. He easily won the event when he sailed to 8.74 meters/28 feet 8.25 inches, which ties him with Larry Myricks and Erick Walder for the eighth-best outdoor mark in history, and the trio are also tied as the #5 performers all time. Phillips won the men's world long jump title for the third time at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics at the 1936 Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. Phillips won the event with his second attempt leap of 8.54 meters/28 feet .75 inch.

Phillips joined National Track & Field Hall of Famer Jesse Owens as winners of the men's long jump competitions at the two major international championship competitions ever held at the Berlin Olympic

Stadium. Phillips received his gold medal from Jesse Owens' granddaughter Marlene Dortch. German 1936 Olympic long jump silver medalist Luz Long's granddaughter Julia-Vanessa Long awarded the silver medal to runner-up Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa (8.47m/27-9.50). Phillips' three world titles (2003, 2005, 2009) tie Ivan Pedroso (1997, 1999, 2001) of Cuba for the most LJ wins ever at this event. Phillips won his third USA Outdoor men‘s long jump title in June, 2007 before

capturing the bonze medal at the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan, and ending the season ranked #1 in the U.S. for the fifth consecutive year. Phillips ended the suspense early on at the 2005 World Outdoor Championships in the men‘s long jump final when he landed in the sand at 8.60m/28-2.75 on his first attempt to successfully defend his world title won in Paris in 2003. His performance not only equalled his career best, it also was the best jump in the world in 2005. Phillips, who ended the 2005 campaign in ownership of the top four jumps in the world that season, ended the year ranked #1 in the world by Track & Field News for the third consecutive year, joining an exclusive

club that includes only Ivan Pedroso, Carl Lewis, Arnie Robinson, Ralph Boston and George Brown. He had an emphatic victory at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Phillips won the competition with a leap of 8.59m/28-2.25, just shy of his personal best of 8.60m/28-2.75 set at Linz earlier in the 2004

season. It was the first U.S. Olympic men‘s long jump gold medal since Carl Lewis won at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. With Phillips‘ triumph in Athens, U.S. men‘s long jumpers have now won that event 22 times out of the 26 occasions the event has been contested in modern Olympic

competition... In 2003 Phillips exploded on the world scene by winning the World Indoor and Outdoor Championships, establishing himself as the world‘s leading long jumper. Phillips started out as a triple jumper at the University of Kentucky, but after transferring to Arizona State in 2000, he has specialized more in the long jump. A native of Tucker, Ga., Phillips placed second in the long jump at both the 1999 and 2000 NCAA Indoor Championships. After fouling on his first qualifying attempt at the Olympics in Sydney, he jumped 25-11 advancing to the final on his third and last attempt of 26-8.25. He placed 8th overall at the Games…regarded as a medal possibility at the 2001 World Outdoor

Championships, Phillips was unable to take his final three attempts in the final at Worlds due to a pulled right hamstring. He bounced back with a stellar 2002 that earned him a #3 world ranking

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behind fellow Americans Savante‘ Stringfellow and Miguel Pate...As a high schooler, Phillips was a 1996 All-American and all-state selection. Set school records in triple jump (15.31m/50-3), 200m

(20.90w) and 400m (47.50)...member of 4x400m relay team that set a national age-group record (3:06)... But who knew that at age 14 both his legs were broken in a motorcycle accident and it took two years for him to recover well enough to walk properly. ―My brother‘s friend hit me while I was in the street playing football with my friends,‖ Phillips said. ―I didn‘t know where he was coming from and I moved in the wrong direction,‖ to try to get out of the way. His legs were left twisted, requiring eight months of rehabilitation and using a walker after the casts were removed. Communications major while at ASU...married Valerie in October ‗04...son Dwight Jr., born Dec. 29, 2005.

2011: 4th at Shanghai (8.07m26-5.75) 2010: USA Outdoor champion (8.37m/27-05.5)…2nd at Pre Classic (8.41m/27-7.25)…1st at BaieMahault (8.32m/27-3.75)… 2nd in Shanghai (8.18m/ 26-10)… 1st in Rabat (8.26m/27-1.25)…1st at Monaco (8.46m/27-9.25U.S. Leader)...ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of 8.46m/27-9.25.

2009:USA Outdoor champion (8.57m/28-1.50w)... 1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (8.74m/28-8.25PR,

World Leader) ... 2nd at Hengelo (8.54m/28-0.25)…ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 8.74m/28.8.25. 2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (8.20m/26-11.00)…2nd at Ponce (8.25m/27-0.75)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8.25m/27-0.75. 2007: 3rd at World Outdoors (8.30m/27-2.75)...USA Outdoor champion (8.36m/27-5.25w)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (8.35m/27-4.75)...1st at Rethimno (8.31m/27-3.25)...1st at Zaragoza

(8.37m/27-5.5w)...ranked #3 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 8.31m/27-5.25w. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (8.08m/26-6.25)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (8.20m/26-11)...Paris (8.16m)...4th at Rome (8.32m/27-3.75)...2nd at Athens (8.30m)...ranked #5 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 8.32m/27-3.75. 2005: World Outdoor champion (8.60m/28-2.75PR)...2nd at USA Outdoors (8.28m /27-2)...1st at Linz (8.57m/28-1.5)...1st at World Athletics Final (8.46m/27-9.25)...1st in 60m at Madrid (6.47)...ran 6.53 in heats in Madrid...ranked #1 in world by T&FN...best of 8.60m/28-2.75PR.

2004: Olympic gold medalist (8.59m/28-2.25)…1st at Olympic Trials (8.28m/27-02.00)…won Linz

with big PR of 8.60m/28-2.75 on his first and only jump of the competition…1st May 22 in Mexico City (8.44m/27-8.25)...1st at Modesto (8.43m/27-8)...1st at Madrid (8.36m/27-5.25)…1st in Birmingham (8.35m/27-4.75)…ranked #1 in the world by T&FN...best of 8.60m/28-2.75. 2003: World Indoor Championships gold medalist (8.29m/27-2.5)…World Outdoor gold medalist (8.32m/27-3.75)…USA Outdoor champion (8.24m/27-0.5)...USA Indoor runner-up (8.21m/26-11.25)…1st at World Athletics Final (8.28m/27-2)…1st at Trikala (8.44m/27-8.25PR)…best of

4.44m/27-8.25PR. 2002: Runner-up at USA Indoors (7.99m/26-2.75)…3rd at USA Outdoors (8.25m/27-3/4w)…set new PR with a win at Linz (8.38m/27-6)… 2nd at Osaka (8.31m/27-3.75w)…1st at Helsinki (8.27m/27-1.75)…ranked #3 in the world (#3 U.S) by T&FN…best of 8.38m/27-6PR. 2001: USA Indoor champ (8.12m/26-7.75)…3rd at USA Outdoors (8.23m/27-0w)…8th at World Outdoors (7.92m/26-0)…3rd at Tyson Invitational…ranked #4 in U.S in LJ by T&FN…best of 8.13m/26-

8.25 in Lausanne. 2000: 8th at Olympics (8.06m/26-5.5)...2nd at Olympic Trials in LJ (8.14m/26-8.5)...2nd at NCAA Outdoors...jumped 8.30m/27-2.75w at adidas Oregon Classic...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8.21m/26-11.25PR at Olympic Trials.

1999: 7th in Pan American Games long jump...4th at NCAA Outdoor in both long jump and triple jump...6th at USA Outdoor long jump...ranked #7 in U.S. in long jump by T&FN...bests of 26-10 and 53-10.25.

1998: Best of 51-3.75i. 1997: Best of 50-5.75.

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TORI POLK

Event: Long Jump Height: 5-8 Weight: 137 PR: 6.75m/22-1.7 (2011)

Born: September 21, 1983 Current Residence: Marieta, Ga. High School: Midway (Texas) HS College: Texas Tech University ‗07 Coach: Rana Reider Career Highlights: 2011 Georgia Association Champion

Polk has improved consistently since graduating from Texas Tech University in 2007. Her two longest jumps of her career thus far

have come in 2011 when she jumped 6.69m/21-11.5 and 6.75m/22-1.75 at the Georgia Association Championships and the Clermont Star Athletics Invite, respectively.

2011: 1st at the USATF Open-Masters Championship (6.69m/21-11.5)… 2nd at the Clarmont Star Athletics Invite (6.75m/22-1.75)… 4th at USA Outdoors (6.68m/21-11). 2010: 1st at the John Jacobs Invitational (6.25m/20-6.25)… 1st at the Sooner Open (6.45m/21-2)… 2nd at the Rice Meet (6.56m/21-6.25) 2009: 4th at the UTEP Invitational (6.62m/21-8.75)… 1st at the J.D. Martin Invitational (6.27m/20-7i)

2008: 1st at the Louisiana Classic (5.99m/19-8)… 1st at the John McDonnell Invitational (6.54m/21-5.5)… 6th at the US Indoor Championships (6.17m/20-3i) 2007: 6th at the UTEP Invitational (5.84m/19-2) 2006: 1st at the New Mexico Invitational (6.47m/21-2.75)… 4th at the Tyson College Invitational (6.39m/20-11.75)

2005: 1st at the Mt. SAC Relays University (6.24m/20-5.75)… 1st at the TCU Invitational (6.33m/20-9.25)

2004: 1st at the Springtime Invitational (6.06m/19-10.75)… 2nd at the Red Raider Classic (5.80m/19-0.5i) 2003: 2nd at the Red Raider Classic (5.82m/19-1.25)

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TREVELL QUINLEY Event: Long Jump Height: 6-6

Weight: 200 PR: 8.36m/27-5.25 (2008) Born: January 16, 1983, in San Jose, Calif. Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif. High School: Merrill F. West HS (Tracy, Calif.) ‗01 College: Arizona State ‗05 Coach: Self

Agent: Mark Hayes Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2008 USA Indoor champ; 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2-time NCAA All-American; 2002 World Junior Championships bronze medalist

Quinley had a much improved 2010 season that saw him finish as

the runner-up at the USA Outdoor Championships with a best jump of 8.20m/26-11, a mark which made him the second-best U.S. long jumper during the outdoor season. Quinley continued his rise through the ranks of America‘s

top long jumpers in 2008 with his win at the USA Indoor Championships and his triumph at the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., with his personal best leap of 8.36m/27-5.25, which was the sixth-best men‘s outdoor long jump in the world that season. After finishing fourth at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis, Quinley returned to Indy in 2007 and finished one place higher to earn a spot on the Team USA roster for the 2007 World Track & Field Championships. Quinley picked that time for his career best leap of 8.24m/27-0.50. The Pac-10 Conference outdoor runner-up in 2002 and 2004, Quinley captured the conference crown in his senior season in 2005. His

highest placing at the NCAA Outdoor Championships was when he placed fourth in 2005. A 2001 graduate of Merrill F. West High School (Tracy, Calif.), Quinley earned three letters in track, two in basketball...long jump state champion as a senior (24-6)...state finalist in the 300m hurdles...section champion in the long jump and runner-up in the 110m and 300m hurdles...league champion in the long jump and both hurdle races...placed second in the long jump at the Arcadia Invitational with personal-best 24-7.5...Tri-Valley Herald Athlete of the Year...set school records in the long jump (24-7.5) and 300m hurdles (38.1)…a Business major while at Arizona State.

2011: Won the Clermont Star Athletics Invite (8.21m/26-11.25)...7th at the USA Outdoor Championships (8.01m/26-3.5) 2010: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (8.20m/26-11)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8.20m/26-

11. 2009: 17th in qualifying at USA Outdoors (7.61m/24-11.75)...ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 8.02m/26-3.75. 2008: 19th in qualifying at Olympic Games (7.87m/25-10)…Olympic Trials champion (8.36m/27-

05.25PR)…USA Indoor champ (7.82m/25-8)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8.36m/27-5.25 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoors (8.24m/27-0.5w)… 7th in qual. at World Outdoors (7.99m/26-2.75), NM

in final...set PR of 8.22m/26-11.75 during qualifying at USA Outdoors…2nd at Athens (8.13m/26-8.25)…2nd at Zaragoza (8.26m/27-1.25)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8.22m/26-11.75. 2006: 4th at USA Outdoors (7.89m/25-10.75)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8.15m/26-9. 2005: 9th at USA Outdoors (7.67m/25-2)…4th at NCAA Outdoors (7.69m/25-02.75)...PAC-10 Outdoor champion (7.77m/25-06.00)…ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8.17m/26-9.75. 2004: 20th at NCAA Outdoors (7.35m/24-1.50)…2nd at Pac-10 Outdoors (7.72m/25-4). 2003: 6th at Pac-10 Outdoors (7.26m/23-10)…best of 7.28m/23-10.75.

2002: 3rd at World Junior Champs (7.71m/25-3.50)…6th at USA Juniors (7.12m/23-4.50)…best of 7.87m/25-10.

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BRITTNEY REESE

Event: Long Jump Height: 5-8 Weight: 140 PR: 7.19m/23-7.25 (2011)

Born: Sept. 9, 1986 Current Residence: Gulfport, Miss. High School: Gulfport HS '04 College: Gulf Coast CC '06, Mississippi '08 Coach: Joe Walker Agent: Mark Pryor Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 World Indoor champion; 2009 World Outdoor champion; Four-time USA Outdoor champion (‘08, ‘09, '10, '11); two-time USA Indoor champion ('09, '10); 2007 and

2011 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2007 NCAA champion; 2007 SEC Women‘s Field Athlete of the Year

On her last jump at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Reese set a personal best of 7.19m/23-7.25 to win her fourth outdoor title. Her winning leap ranks number one in the world this season. Reese added another gold medal to her collection when she won the women's long jump at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. Opening up with a competition-leading leap of 6.70m/21-11.75, that mark held up throughout the competition and was enough to capture the title. Reese was the top women's long jumper throughout the 2009 outdoor season, and proved it by winning the gold medal on her third attempt at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships when she

soared to 7.10m/23-3.50). Reese also owned the second (7.06m/23-2) and third (6.99m/22-11.25) best jumps for the 2009 outdoor season. Reese won her second consecutive USA Outdoor title in the women‘s long jump with her windy leap of 7.09m/23-3.5 at the 2009 USA Outdoor Champs. On her final jump at the 2008 Olympic Trials, Reese let fly with a mark of 6.95m/22-9.75 (+1.4 mps), a personal record, 2008 U.S. leader and #2 mark in the world, to win. Reese had a breakout season in

the long jump in 2007, making the final at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships. Her runner-up finish at the USA Outdoor Championships came shortly after a sophomore season for Mississippi

that included an NCAA Outdoor championship, NCAA Mideast Regional championship and an SEC Indoor and Outdoor championship. Named SEC Women‘s Field Athlete of the Year in 200 2011: USA Outdoor champion (7.19m/23-7.25)... 2nd at USA Indoor Champs (6.86m/22-6.25)... 1st at Rome (6.94/22-9.25)... 3rd at adidas Grand Prix (6.35m/20-10)... 2nd at Birmingham (6.67m/21-10.75)... 1st at Monaco (6.82m/22-4.25).

2010: USA Outdoor champion (7.08m/23-02.75w)…World Indoor champion (6.70m/21-22.75)…USA Indoor champion (6.89m/22-7.25)…1st at Lausanne (6.94m/22-9.25)…1st at Paris (6.79m/22-3.5)…1st at Spitzen (6.95m/22-9.75w)…ranked #1 in the world by T&FN…best of 6.94m/22-9.25. 2009: World champion (7.10m/23-3.5WL)...USA Outdoor champion (7.09m/23-3.25w)…USA Indoor champion (6.71m/22-0.25)…6th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (6.60m/21-8)…1st at Belem (7.06m/23-2)...1st at World Athletic Final (7.08m/23-2.75)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 7.10m/23-3.5.

2008: 5th at Olympic Games (6.76m/22-2.25)...2008 Olympic Trials champion (6.95m/22-9.75PR)...NCAA Outdoor long jump champion (6.93m/22-9)…1st at Baton Rouge (6.93m/22-9PR)…1st at Auburn (6.84m/22-5.25)...1st at Alumni Gold (6.93m/22-9)…ranked #4 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 6.95m/22-9.75. 2007: USA Outdoors runner-up (6.71m/22-0.25w)… 8th at World Outdoors (6.60m/21-8)...NCAA Outdoor champion (6.50m/21-4)…NCAA Mideast Regional champion (6.42m/21-0.75)…SEC Outdoor champion (6.69m/21-11.75PR)…3rd at NCAA Indoors (6.41m/21-0.5)…SEC Indoor champion

(6.64m/21-9.5 ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 6.70m/21-11.75. 2006: Did not compete. 2005: Did not compete.

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SERGIO REYES


Weight: 140 PR: 2:14:02 (2010) Born: October 25, 1981 Current Residence: Palmdale, Calif. College: Cedarville University ‗03; Cuesta College ‗00 Coach: Joe Rubio Club: Asics Aggie Running Club

Career Highlights: won the 2010 USA Men‘s Marathon Sergio Reyes began running professionally in 2003, but has

experienced the greatest success most recently running under the tutelage of his coach, Joe Rubio. In 2010, Reyes ran personal best marks in the 5,000m (13:52.39), 10,000m (28:29.70), 10 miles (48:32) and marathon (2:14:02). As a transfer student at

Cedarville University in Ohio, Reyes was a two-time NAIA and NCCAA All-American in cross country and the 2002 NAIA champion. He also excelled on the track, earning NAIA All-American honors six times, a 2002 NAIA 10,000m championship and NCCAA Outstanding Performer of the Meet in the same year. 2011: 2nd at the Wine County Half Marathon (1:04:54)… 4th at the Cypress 10k road race (29:34)

2010: 1st at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (28:29:70)… 1st at the Sausalito-San Francisco 12k (35:51)… 6th in the America‘s Finest City Half Marathon (1:06:07)… 1st at the USA Men‘s Marathon (2:14:02) 2009: 2nd at the Cypress 10k road race (30:14)… 2nd at the Carlsbad Half Marathon (1:04:17)… 1st at the Healdsburg Half Marathon (1:06:47)… 17th at the Boston Marathon (2:19:22) 2008: 10th at the Mt. SAC Relays 5,000m (13:58.70)… 6th at the Run to Food the Hungry 10k road

race (30:20)… 4th in the Surf City Half Marathon (1:04:38)

2007: 3rd at the Cypress 10k road race (30:30)… 3rd at the City Bank Half Marathon (1:07:41)… 8th at the Los Angeles Marathon (2:29:29) 2006: 3rd at the Run to Feed the Hungry 10k road race (29:36)… 1st at the Long Beach Half Marathon (1:07:13)… 18th at the Los Angeles Marathon (2:23:06) 2005: 1st at the Jim Bush/SoCal USATF Championship 5,000m (14:17.23)… 1st at the Irvine Half Marathon (1:07:03) 2004: 4th at the Kajaks International Track Classic 3,000m (8:13.11)… 5th in the Abbitsford Regional

Championships 5,000m (14:17.29)… 3rd at the Mt. SAC Relays 10,000m (29:34.22) 2003: 3rd at the Doug Raymond Invitational 5,000m (14:59.68) 2002: 1st at the All-Ohio Championship 3,000m (8:24.23)… 2nd at the FSU Relays Championships 10,000m (30:37.67)… 1st at the NAIA Championship 10,000m (30:13.42)

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JEN RHINES

Events: Distance Height: 5-3 Weight: 105 PRs: 1,500m - 4:09.52 (2007); 3,000m - 8:35.03 (2007);

5,000m – 14:54.29 (2008); 10,000m - 31:17.31 (2007); half marathon – 1:11:14; marathon – 2:29:32 (2006) Born: July 1, 1974, in Syracuse, N.Y. Current Residence: Mammoth Lakes, Calif. High School: Liverpool HS (NY) '92 College: Villanova '96 Coach: Terence Mahon

Agent: Ray Flynn Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2009 USA Outdoors 5,000m runner-up; 2008 Olympic Trials 5,000m runner-up; 2007 USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up; 3rd at 2005 USA Outdoor Championships 10,000m; 2008 and 2004 Olympian; 3rd in the marathon at the 2004 Olympic Trials; 2002 USA 10,000m champion; 2002

World Cross Country 8 km Championships Team silver medalist; 2000 Olympic Trials and 2001 USA Championships 10km runner-up; 3-time NCAA 5km Outdoor champion (94-96); 1995 NCAA Indoor 5km champ; 1994 NCAA XC champion

Rhines continues to be one of the most versatile distance runners on the U.S. with national titles both

on the track and the roads and Olympic appearances at three different distances (5,000m, 10,000m and marathon). Rhines qualified for her fourth track world championships by placing third at the USA Championships in the 10,000m in 31:30.37, her fifth-fastest time at that distance ever, and the fastest since 2008...She qualified for her third Olympic Team by finishing as the runner-up in the 5,000m (15:02.02) at the 2008 Olympic Trials…In 2007, she set personal bests in the 1,500m, 3,000m and 10,000m and went on to take seventh in the 5,000m at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor

Championships. She recorded personal bests at 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon in 2006, including fourth in the 2006 Rome marathon in 2:29:32. In the summer track season, Rhines recorded 14:55.18 for 5000m in Brussels and 31:24.16 for 10,000m in Helsinki…In only the third marathon of her career, Rhines finished third at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Women's Marathon Trials with a personal record by 11 minutes, 19 seconds over her previous best of 2:41:16…a college star while at Villanova, Rhines came into her own on the elite track scene when she placed 2nd in the 10km at the 2000 Olympic Trials, using an impressive kick to make the Olympic Team…she repeated that runner-up

finish at the 2001 GMC Envoy USA Outdoor Championships, then won her first USA title in the 10 km in 2002 set personal bests across the board in 2000the daughter of two recreational runners, Rhines started her own career in the eighth grade as a sprinter: 'I just kept moving up every year.'...won two state 1500m titles as a prep...won a triple crown in 1994-95, with NCAA titles in cross country, indoor, and outdoor track...earned her degree in civil engineering at Villanova...married distance runner (and current coach) Terrance Mahon on November 20, 1998

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 10,000m (31:30.37)...1st at USA 15 km (49:31) ...1st at USA Half

Marathon (1:11:14 PR) 2010: 4th at USA Outdoors in 5,000m (15:35.71)...8th at Stockholm (15:50.55)...5th at Hamilton Invite in 3,000m (9:09.46)...2nd at USA 15 km (50:27)...2nd at USA 10 km (32:16 PR)… ranked #7

in U.S. by T&FN...best of 15:35.71. 2009:9th at World Champs (15:11.63)...USA Outdoor runner-up (15:26.92)…5th at adidas Track Classic (15:36.09)…5th at Reebok Grand Prix (15:32.39)…8th in 2,000m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (5:51.59)...best of 15:11.63. 2008: 14th in 5,000m at Olympic Games (16:34.63), 6th in heats (15:15.12)...2nd at Olympic Trials in 5,000m (15:02.02); 5th at Bislett Games Oslo (14:54.29)…5th at DKB-ISTAF Berlin (15:09.40)…3rd at adidas Track Classic (8:56.26)…1st at Palo Alto (31:30.31)…8th in heats at World Indoors

(9:03.66)…USA Indoor runner-up (8:59.98)...ranked #2 in the U.S. byT&FN...best of 14:54.29. 2007: USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up (15:08.53)…7th at World Outdoors (15:03.09)...1st in

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10,000m at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational (31:17.31PR)…8th in 1,500m at adidas Track Classic (4:09.52PR)...4th in 5,000m at Rome (14:58.51)…2nd in 3,000m at Monaco (8:35.03PR)…4th in

5,000m at Stockholm (15:12.64)...ranked #9 in the world (#3 U.S.) in 10,000m and #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 31:17.31 and 15:03.09. 2006: 5th in 5,000m at USA Outdoors (15:29.51)…10th in 3,000m at Lucerne (9:09.30)…8th in 5,000m at Brussels (14:55.18)…12th in 5,000m at Rome (15:05.24)…10th in 5,000m at Zurich (15:10.65)…4th in 10,000m at Helsinki (31:24.16)…4th in Rome marathon (2:29:32)…7th in Tokyo marathon (2:35:37)…ranked #3 in 5,000m, # in 10,000m and the marathon in the U.S. by T&FN…bests of 9:09.30, 14:55.18, 31:24.16 and 2:29:32.

2005: 3rd in 10,000m at USA Outdoor Champs (31:37.20)...16th at World Outdoor Championships (31:26.66)...5th in 3,000m at the Reebok Grand Prix (8:56.07)...1st at USA 15 km champs (49:21)...8th in 5,000m at Stockholm (15:12.89)...2nd at Boston marathon (1:12.56)...18th in ING NYC marathon (2:37:07)...ranked #3 at 10,000m, #4 at 5,000m, #5 at 3,000m and #8 in the marathon in the U.S. by T&FN...bests of 31:26.66 at 10,000m, 15:12.89 at 5,000m, 8:56.07 at 3,000m and 2:37:07.

2004: 3rd at USA Marathon Olympic Trials (2:29:57)...34th at the Olympic Games (2:43:52)...5th in

5,000m at Olympic Trials (15:19.15)...ranked #6 at 5,000m in U.S. byT&FN...best of 2:29:57. 2003: 5th at USA Cross Country Champs 8km (30:29)...3rd at USA Half-Marathon Championships (1:11:59)...3rd in 3,000m at Brunswick (9:06.77). 2002: USA 10,000m champ (31:57.38)...4th at Winter XC Champs 8km (27:04)...won team silver medal at World Cross Country Champs (12th-27:43)...3rd in Palo Alto (31:41.16)...7th at Stockholm 5,000m (15:13.44)...ranked #2 at 10,000m, #6 at 5,000m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 15:13.44 &

31:41.16. 2001: 2nd at USA Outdoor 10,000m (32:20.03)...2nd at USA XC Champs 8km (26:43.80)...27th at World XC Champs 8km (30:03)...6th in 3,000m at Prefontaine Classic (9:01.30)...ranked #2 at 10,000m, #6 at 5,000m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 8:46.09, 15:13.26, 32:20.03. 2000: 2nd at Olympic trials in a PR 31:58.34... 16th in her first round heat at Olympic Games (34:08.28)...ranked #3 in U.S. in 10,000 by T&FN...bests 4:17.30, 8:50.72, 15:19.88 and 31:58.34 1999: 4th in 10,000m at USA Outdoors (32:29.67)...bests of 4:18.76, 9:01.16, 15:25.52 and

32:29.67...ranked #7 in U.S. in 10,000m by T&FN.

1998: Won USA 15km Champs (51:00)...2nd in 5,000m (15:38.82) at adidas/Oregon Classic...2nd in 10,000m (34:10.31) at USA Champs...won 5,000m (15:26.88 PR) at McGill International...5th in 10,000m (33:44.19) at Goodwill Games...ranked #3 in U.S. at 10,000m, #8 in U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN... bests of 15:26.88 and 33:44.19. 1997: 5th in 10,000m (33:17.26) at USA Outdoors...8th in USA 10km Road Champs (34:04)... ranked #7 in U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN...bests of 9:15.21, 15:57.46 and 33:17.26.

1996: Won 3,000m (9:13.48) and 5,000m (16:19.05) at Big East Indoor...3rd in 5,000m (16:00.39) at NCAA Indoor...won Big East 5,000m (16:25.31), 2nd in 3,000m (9:24.76)...won NCAA 5,000m (16:05.85)...12th in 10,000m (33:58.71) at Olympic Trials...14th in USA XC Champs...bests of 9:13.48, 16:00.39 and 33:15.88. 1995: Won NCAA 5,000m (15:56.18)...10th in 5,000m (15:57.78) at USA Outdoors... won 5,000m at NCAA Indoor (15:41.12 PR, MR); anchored distance medley win (4:42.7 for 11:11.98)...won 5,000m

(16:07.40), 2nd in 3,000m (9:31.78) in Big East Indoor...won mile at ECAC Indoor (4:45.62)... won Big East 5,000m (16:21.62), 2nd in 3,000m (9:23.34)...won ECAC 3,000m (9:06.66)... 3rd in NCAA XC... bests of 9:06.66 and 15:41.12. 1994: Won 5,000m (16:21.60) at NCAA...2nd in 5,000m (16:04.02) at USA Outdoors...won NCAA

XC... won 3,000m (9:25.29) and 5,000m (16:02.67) at Big East Indoor...3rd in 5,000m (16:54.39, lap long) at NCAA Indoor...won 5,000m (16:22.28), 2nd in 3,000m (9:23.32) at Big East...won ECAC 3,000m (9:10.01)... ranked #6 in U.S. at 5,000m...bests of 9:10.01 and 16:02.67.

1993: 2nd in UNC Twilight 3,000m (9:41.81 PR)...7th in Big East 5,000m...2nd in NCAA XC...best of 9:41.81.

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JASON RICHARDSON


Born: April 4, 1986 Current Residence: Inglewood, Calif. High School: Cedar Hill (Texas) HS ‗05 College: University of South Carolina ‗09 Coach: John Smith Agent: Emanuel Hudson Club: Nike

Career Highlights: placed 3rd at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships; 2008 NCAA Champion

Richardson takes the fourth fastest time in the world into the 2011 World Outdoor Championships thanks to a third-place finished at the U.S. Outdoor Championships in a personal best time of 13.15.

The 2008 NCAA Outdoors champion, Richardson competed in the United States Olympic Trials, although a hamstring injury in the qualifiers hindered his performance. He turned professional in 2009 and focused solely on the 110m hurdles. He ran on the 2010 IAAF Diamond League circuit before his first World Championships team in 2001. By the time Richardson graduated from Cedar Hill High School, he had run the third fastest ever time in the 400m hurdles for a high school athlete. Upon graduation he competed in the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics, he won gold medals in both the 110m and 400m hurdles, earning the Youth Athlete of the

Year award from USA Track and Field in the process. At The University of South Carolina he took 3rd at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in his first year at the college. As a senior, Richardson was runner-up at the Millrose Games, Tyson Invitational and the SEC Indoor Championships. He also placed second the NCAA Indoor Championship, where he ran a personal best of 7.53 seconds. In the outdoor season, he won the SEC Championship title in the 110m hurdles and

ran 13.21 seconds to claim the NCAA Regional title.

2011: 3rd at the USA Outdoor Championships (13.15)… 1st at the Occidental Invitational (13.42)… 5th in Paris (13.31) 2010: 3rd at the Drake Relays (13.50)… 4th at the Georgia Tech Invitational… 8th at the USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines… 7th at the Prefontaine Classic (13.50) 2009: 1st at the SEC Championships (13.29)… 2nd at the NCAA Championships (13:49)… 5th at the USA Championships (13.31)

2008: 1st at the SEC Championships (13.21)… 1st at the NCAA Championships (13.40)… qualified for the Olympic Trials 2006: 1st at the Penn Relays (13.73)… 2nd at the SEC Championships (13.51)… 3rd at the NCAA Championships (13.51) 2005: 2nd at the Penn Relays (13.76)… 3rd at the NCAA Championships (13.50)

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SANYA RICHARDS-ROSS


Weight: 136 PR: 400m - 48.70AR (2006); 100m - 10.97 (2007); 200m - 22.17 (2006) Born: February 26, 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica Current Residence: Austin, Texas High School: St. Thomas Aquinas (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) HS '02 College: University of Texas '06

Coach: Clyde Hart Agent: Sharon Richards Club: Nike

Website: www.sanyarichards.net Career Highlights: 2009 World Outdoor champion; two-time Olympic 4x400m gold medalist (‘04, ‘08); 2008 Olympic bronze

medalist; three-time World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist (‘03, ‘07, ‘09); Five-time USA Outdoor champion ('03, ‘05, ‘06, ‘08, ‗09); Two-time IAAF World Athlete of the Year and Jesse Owens Award winner (‘06, ‘09); 2005 World Outdoor silver medalist; 2005 Visa champion; 2005 Visa Humanitarian Athlete of the Year; 2003 NCAA 400m champion; 2003 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year; 2002 World Junior 400m silver medalist; 2002 U.S. Junior 200m & 400m champion

After an injury hampered her season in 2010, Richards-Ross returned to form from a 2009 campaign that saw her win her first individual world gold. Richards-Ross' first major win of the year came at the Aviva London Grand Prix where she dipped under 50 seconds for the first time this year. In 2009, Richards won her first individual gold medal in world or Olympic competition when she crossed the finish line first at the 2009 World Championships in a world leading time of 49.00 seconds.

She then anchored the women‘s 4x400m to victory in 3:17.83, which is the fastest time globally since

1993. She ran the four fastest times in the world in 2009, including WL 48.83. She also won a share of the $1,000,000 Golden League jackpot, going undefeated in the six Golden League meetings. In the 2008 Olympic Games, Richards was third in 49.93. Richards' performance had historic significance: It was Team USA's fourth Olympic medal ever in the event and the first since Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Chandra Cheeseborough went 1-2 in 1984. Richards returned to the top of the U.S. heap in the women's 400 at the 2008 Olympic Trials, sprinting away to win by nearly one full second, running 49.89…In the spring of 2007, Richards struggled with illness, which forced her to pull out of several

early meets. In just her third meet of the season, Richards ran a world-leading time of 50.02 in the semifinals at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships, but suffered her first loss in the 400m since the 2005 World Championships, finishing fourth in the final. Richards bounced back to a runner-up finish in the 200m to qualify for the World Championships...At age 21, Richards had one of the greatest seasons ever by an American 400m runner in 2006. She ran under 50 seconds nine times during the season, including breaking the American record on September 16 with her time of 48.70 at the IAAF

World Cup in Athens. The win put her #7 on the all-time world list. Richards made history in 2005 in

becoming the second-fastest American in history and the youngest woman ever to run under 49 seconds in the women's 400 meters. She ran 48.92 seconds to win by 0.38 of a second over Williams-Darling of the Bahamas at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich. In 2004, Richards ran 50.82 seconds to win gold in the 400 meters to set a collegiate, championship, facility and school records at the 2004 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships then she also anchored the Texas 4x400m relay to its second consecutive national crown…outdoors in 2004, she broke her own American junior record three times

in the 400, including the Olympic Trials first round (50.22) and final, where she was second in 49.85 seconds…her 50.49 in the NCAA semifinals was her first outdoor AJR of the year…in 2003 she won the U.S. and NCAA titles, and anchored Team USA to 4x400m gold at the World Outdoor Championships…she is the U.S. junior record-holder in the 400m…tabbed USATF‘s Verizon Youth Athlete of the Year and Track & Field News Women‘s Prep Athlete of the Year and Womens Indoor Prep Athlete of the Year in 2002…Richards is a two-time Florida High School Female Athlete of the

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Year…named the 2002 Gatorade National High School Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year…she holds

national high school indoor record in the 400m (52.10)…posted the nation‘s top prep 100m (11.39) and 400m (50.69) times and the #2 mark in the 200m (23.01) in 2002…broke the U.S. high school and junior records in the 400m with a 50.69 clocking at the 2002 USATF Junior National

Championships. Her 50.69 was the seventh-fastest 400m time in the world in 2002, and she also won the 200m in 23.31 at that meet…she grabbed the 400m silver medal at 2002 World Junior Championships held in her native Jamaica…Richards set the indoor 200m and 400m prep standards at the National Indoor Scholastic Championships in February, 2002, and dominated the Florida 3A prep competition during her career, winning 10 individual gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 400m and long jump and one in the 4x100m relay…she helped St. Thomas Aquinas win four straight state team crowns and she owns the Florida state 400m record (52.51)… married NY Giants cornerback Aaron

Ross on February 26, 2010. 2011: 1st at London (49.66)... 2nd at Lausanne (50.61)... 3rd at Ostrava (50.99) 2010: 4th in semifinal at USA Outdoors (51.82)…did not compete rest of season. 2009: World champion (49.00WL)...USA Outdoor champion (50.05)…2nd in 200m at adidas Track Classic (23.03)....1st at Nike Prefonatine Classic (49.86WL)...1st at Berlin (49.57WL)…1st at Oslo (49.23WL, 22.29)…1st at Rome (49.46)...1st at Paris (49.34)...1st at Zurich (48.94WL)...1st at Brussels (48.83WL)...1st at World Athletic Final in 400 and 2nd in 200 (49.95)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 400m and #5 in the world (#3 U.S.) at 200m byT&FN…best of 48.83.

2008: Olympic 4x400m gold medalist (48.93, 3:18.54), 400m bronze medalist (49.93), 1st in semifinal (49.90)...Olympic Trials champion (49.89)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (50.10)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (50.04)…6th at adidas Track Classic (11.26)…1st at Michael Johnson Invite (50.47)…1st at UTA Invitational (22.56)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 400m and #6 in the world (#4 U.S.) at 200m by T&FN...bests of 49.74 and 22.49. 2007: World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist (3:18.55)...5th in 200m at World Outdoors (22.70)...2nd in 200m (22.43) and 4th in 400m (50.68) at USA Outdoors...1st in 400m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (50.74)...1st at Oslo (50.26)...1st at Paris (49.52)...1st at Rome (49.77)...2nd in 200m at Sheffield (22.44)...1st at London (49.79)...2nd in 100m, 400m at Stockholm (11.05PR, 49.72)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 400m, #4 in the world (#3 U.S.) at 200m and #8 in the U.S. at 100m by T&FN...bests of 49.27, 22.31 and 11.05. 2006: World Cup 200m and 400m champion (22.23, 48.70AR)...USA Outdoor Champion (49.27)...USA

Indoor champion (51.28) ... 4th in semifinal 2 at World Indoors (52.46), while battling illness... 1st in 400m, 2nd in 200m at World Athletics Final (49.25, 22.17PR)...1st in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.42)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (50.89)...1st at Kingston (49.89)...1st in the 200m at the Norwich Union GP (22.25)...1st at the Oslo (49.82)...1st at Paris (49.73)...1st at Rome (49.31)...2nd in 200m at Stockholm (22.35)...1st at London (49.05)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 400m and #2 in the world (#2 U.S.) at 200m by T&FN...bests of 22.17 and 48.70AR. 2005: World Outdoor silver medalist (49.74)...USA Outdoor champion (49.28)...race was 1st time 3 American women ran under 50 in the same race...1st in Zurich (48.92PR)...1st at Lausanne (49.95) and Rome (49.82)...2nd in 400m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (49.98)...1st in 400m at adidas Track Classic (50.00)... ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 48.92. 2004: 4x400m Olympic gold medalist (3rd leg - 3:19.01)...Olympic Trials 400m runner-up (49.89)...6th at

Olympic Games (50.19)...NCAA Indoor 400m (50.82 collegiate record) and 4x400m (3:28.69) champion...NCAA Indoor 200m runner-up (22.49i)...3rd in 400m at NCAA outdoors (50.68)...4th at Zurich (50.91)...1st at 100m (11.32) & 200m (22.73) at Big 12 Championships...1st in 400m at the NCAA Midwest championship (50.66)...1st in 60m (7.21i) & 1st in 200m (22.86i) at Lincoln...1st in 400m at Tyson Foods Invitational (51.45i)...ranked #6 in the world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 49.89. 2003: USA Outdoor 400m champion 400m (51.01)...NCAA Outdoor champion (50.58PR)...2nd at NCAA Indoors 200m (22.90)...2nd at NCAA Indoors 400m (51.87)...1st at NCAA Indoors 4x400m relay (3:27.66)...won Big 12 Indoors 60m (7.32)...won Big 12 Indoors 200m (23.04)...1st in Sacramento (50.58, U.S. Junior record, U.S. leader)...4th in heat 2 of World Outdoor Championships semifinal (51.32)...World Outdoor 4x400m relay gold medalist (anchor leg 3:22.63 - World Leader)...ranked #8 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...bests of 22.86 (200m) & 50.58 (400m). 2002: USA Junior 400m champion in U.S. Junior and High School record time (50.69)...won 400m silver

medal at World Junior Championships (51.49)...won bronze medal at World Juniors 200m (23.09)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine 400m (51.16)...1st at Raleigh 200m (23.03)...1st at 100m at Raleigh (11.39PR)...ranked #5 at 200m, & 400m in the U.S. by T&FN...bests of 11.39PR, 23.03PR & 50.69AJR. 2001: best of 23.09.

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KHADEVIS ROBINSON


Weight: 160 PR: 1:43.68 (2006) Born: July 19, 1976, in Dallas, Texas Current Residence: Santa Monica, Calif. High School: Trimble Tech HS (Fort Worth, Texas) '94 College: Texas Christian '98 Coach: Dr. Frank Little

Agent: Karen Locke Club: Nike Facebook Fan Page: Khadevis Robinson

Twitter: www.twitter.com/khadevis Career Highlights: Four-time USA Outdoor Champion (‗99, ‗05, ‘06, ‗07); Four-time USA Indoor champion (‘99, ‘06, '08, ‗09); 1998 NCAA Outdoor champion; Five-time USA Outdoor runner-up

(‘02, '03, ‘04. ‘09, ‗11) Robinson cruised to a runner-up finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for his seventh World Outdoors team. In 2009, Robinson also placed second at USA Outdoors to earn a berth at the World Championships. Robinson was part of one of the most dramatic moments of the 2008 Olympic Trials, when he and Christian Smith desperately dove at the finish of the 800m final, vying for

the third Olympic Team spot. Smith finished in third place with Robinson in fourth. In 2006, for the first time in his career, Robinson was ranked in the top ten in the world by Track & Field News (#7) following the 2006 season. Robinson was so dominant in the U.S. in 2006 that he posted 11 of the top 12 outdoor times by an American that season. After finishing as the runner-up at the USA Outdoor Championships the previous three years, Robinson snared his second career USA Outdoor crown with his victory at the 2005 Championships in Carson, Calif. His previous U.S. Outdoor title was in 1999.

His time of 1:544.62 in Zurich was the fastest outdoor 800m time by an American in 2005. Robinson

had another strong year in 2004, finishing second at the Olympic Trials before placing third in his opening round heat at the Olympic Games in Athens. Robinson earned his degree from TCU in social work and plans to volunteer time in social work when he can…he intends to be a social worker after his running career is finished: ‗I love working with people‘…nickname is ‗KD‘…was a football standout in high school…broke his wrist in football his junior year…felt he needed to have another sport to list on his college application, so he tried track…loves to play chess…made 2001 World Outdoor Championships team by having ―A‖ standard, when higher finishers at U.S. Nationals did not have ―A‖

standard…serves as assistant coach at UNLV mentoring middle and long distance runners...son Zion was born October 20, 2007. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (1:44.49)... 1st at Rome (1:45.09)... 2nd at Pre classic (1:45.40)... best of 1:44.03 at Monaco 2010: 1st in Kingston (1:47.57)...4th at adidas Grand Prix (1:45.77)...Did not start at USA

Outdoors...Did not start in final at USA Indoors...best of 1:45.77.

2009: Runner up at USA Outdoors (1:45.97)...5th in semifinal at World Outdoors (1:45.91)...USA Indoor 800m champ (1:48.61)...1st at Santa Monica (1:44.47)...1st at Kingston (1:45.67)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:44.47. 2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (1:45.53)...USA Indoor champ (1:46.95)...3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (1:44.55)...2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (1:45.55)…ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:44.55. 2007: USA Outdoor Champion (1:44.37)... 4th in semis at World Outdoors (1:45.45)...Reebok Grand

Prix champion (1:46.38)...3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (1:44.99)...1st at Occidental Invitational (1:45.40)...2nd at Madrid (1:45.03)...5th at Monaco (1:44.27)...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:44:27. 2006: USA Outdoor Champion (1:44.13)...USA Indoor champion (1:46.98)...1st at adidas Track Classic (1:45.23)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (1:45.66)...1st at Rieti (1:43.68PR)...2nd at Rome (1:43.86)...7th at Athens (1:44.21)...3rd at DN Galan (1:44.86)...ranked #7 in world (#1 U.S.) by

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T&FN...best of 1:43.68.

2005: USA Outdoor Champion (1:45.27)...8th in semifinal at World Outdoor Champs (1:49.13)...3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (1:45.19)...Ran 1:45.35 at Modesto, (5/7)...4th in Zurich (1:44.62 U.S. Leader)...ran 1:45.24 at meet in Azusa (4/9)...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:44.62.

2004: 2nd at Olympic Trials 800m (1:44.91)…3rd in opening round at Olympic Games (1:46.14)…1st at Drake Relays (1:49.11)…ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:44.89. 2003: USA Indoor 800m runner-up (1:50.69)…5th in opening round of World Indoors (1:49.44)…runner-up at USA Outdoors (1:46.21)…8th in semifinal at World Outdoors (1:50.60)…1st at Lucerne (1:45.03)…2nd at Verizon Millrose Games (1:51.08)…5th at adidas Oregon Track Classic (1:47.69)…best of 1:45.03…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN. 2002: 2nd at USA Outdoors (1:47.58)…1st at Lapinlahti (1:44.41)…1st at Cuxhaven (1:44.83)… 1st

at Harry Jerome Classic (1:45.97)…1st at Ludvika (1:45.97)… 2nd in NYC on Feb. 9 (1:48.48)…ranked #2 in the U.S…best of 1:44.41. 2001: 3rd at USA Indoors (1:47.31)… 1st at adidas Oregon Track Classic (1:46.04)…5th at U.S. Outdoors (1:48.41)…5th in opening round at World Outdoors (1:49.42)…ranked 3rd in U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:45.15 PR in 3rd place finish at Prefontaine Classic.

2000: 4th at Olympic Trials (1:46.36)...won Prefontaine Classic (1:45.90) and adidas Oregon Track

Classic on consecutive days (1:45.40)...2nd at USA Indoors (1:48.83)...ranked 3rd U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:45.40. 1999: Won USA Indoors and Outdoors (1:45.92)... 5th in heats at World Champs (1:48.31)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:45.23. 1998: Won NCAA Outdoor (1:46.04 PR); anchored 2nd-place 4x400 (44.8 for 3:03.00)...5th in USA Outdoors (1:46.10) ...won WAC Indoor 800 (1:48.89)...won WAC (1:46.06 PR)...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN... best of 1:45.72.

1997: Won WAC (1:49.52)...7th in NCAA Outdoor (1:49.27)...ran second leg on winning 4 x 440 (3:12.16y) at WAC Indoor... best of 1:47.46. 1996: Won SWC (1:50.79)...2nd in SWC Indoor (1:50.94)... 5th in heats (1:49.78) at NCAA. Outdoor...best of 1:47.85. 1995: 4th in heats at SWC... best of 1:48.61. 1994: Relay leg of 47.0...placed 4th in Texas HS state meet...won every race until state...best of 1:53.

1993: Relay leg under 48-seconds...best of 1:56.

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JARRED ROME

Events: Discus Height: 6-4

Weight: 300 PRs: DT – 68.76m/225-7 (2011); SP – 20.40m/66-11.25 (2006) Born: Decemeber 21, 1976, in Seattle, Wash. Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif. High School: Marysville-Pilchuck (Marysville, Wash.) HS '95 College: Boise State '00 Coach: Bud Rasmussen

Agent: Valentina Fedjuschina Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2004 Olympic Trials champion; 2005 & 2009 USA Outdoor runner-up; 1997 NCAA runner-up; 3rd at USA Outdoors in 2006, 2007 & 2010

Rome highlighted the 2011 season with his second U.S. title in the discus which qualified him for his fourth consecutive World Outdoor Championships. Rome qualified two years ago for the World Outdoor Championships with his runner-up finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. He made the World Champs final for the second time in his career in Berlin, finishing in 11th place. The highlight of Rome‘s 2008 season was his personal best throw of 68.44m/224-6 from his runner-up finish in Salinas, Calif., on May 22, which was the second-best throw by an American that year. In 2007, Rome posted six of

the top discus throws by an American including the top throw of the year of 68.37 meters/224 feet 3 inches. Rome enjoyed a successful season in 2006, and for the second consecutive year, he was ranked #9 in the world and #2 in the U.S in the discus. He set a new personal best in the shot put with his win at Boise, Idaho with a toss of 20.40m/66-11.25. Rome won his first-ever national title with his victory at the 2004 Olympic Trials, which punched his ticket for the Olympic Games in Athens. Rome qualified 14th in Athens and narrowly missed competing in the Olympic final with his best throw

of 61.55m/201-11…his throw 65.92m/216-3 was the third-best performance by an American in

2002…Rome received his Business Management degree from Boise State in 2000. After taking more than a year off from school and working as a substitute teacher, he is now working on his master‘s degree, and an additional degree in business education, so one day he can teach business courses… Enjoys camping, hiking, mountain biking and fishing opportunities found there…Appeared in a pre-Olympic photo spread in Vanity Fair magazine in 2008. 2011: USA Outdoors champ (63.99m/209-11)

2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors (61.03m/200-3)...7th in Shanghai (62.04m/203-6)… 2nd at Chula Vista (66.71m/218-10)...9th at Monaco (61.91m/203-1)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 66.71m/218-10. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (63.48m/208-3)...11th at World Outdoors (62.47m/204-11)...1stat Chula Vista (65.56m/215-1)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 65.56m/215-1. 2008: 11th at Olympic Trials in discus (58.95m/193-05)…1st at adidas Track Classic (65.09m/213-

06)…2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (66.17/217-1)…2nd at Salinas (68.44m/224-6)…ranked #4 in U.S. by

T&FN…best of 68.44m/224-6. 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (63.56m/208-6)... 8th in Group B qualifying at World Outdoors (61.87m/203-0)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (66.84m/219-3)...1st at Salinas Discus Series (67.76m/222-4)...1st at Maui (68.37m/224-3PR)...1st at Modesto Relays (67.05m/220-0)...5th at Rethimno (63.92m/209-8)...4th at Zaragoza (64.85m/212-9)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 68.37m/224-3.

2006: 3rd at USA Outdoors (60.93m/199-11)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic SP (65.72m/215-7)...2nd at Salinas (67.25m/220-7)...6th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (19.52m/64-0.5)...7th at Athens (63.41m/208-0)...1st at Boise in SP (20.40m/66-11.25)...ranked #9 in world (#2 U.S.) in discus, #10 in U.S. in shot put by T&FN...bests of 67.25m/220-7, 20.40m/66-11.25. 2005: 2nd at USA Outdoors (62.50m/205-1)...7th at World Champs (64.22m/210-8)...5th in SP at Payton Jordan U.S. Open (18.30m/60-0.5)...1st at Salinas (67.39m/221-1)...2nd at Chula Vista

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(66.03m/216-7).

2004: 1st at Olympic Trials in the discus (65.77m/215-9)…14th in qualifying at Olympic Games (61.55m/201-11)…1st at Chula Vista (67.51m/221-6PR) on July 3…ranked #2 U.S. by T&FN…best of 67.51m/221-6PR.

2003: 6th in Flight #2 at USA Outdoors (56.84m/186-6)...1st at Boise (62.24m/204-2)…best of 62.24m/204-2. 2002: 8th in DT at USA Outdoors (60.14m/197-4)…1st at Salinas (65.92m/216-3PR)…1st at Boise (64.86m/212-9)…1st at Boise (64.45m/211-5)…1st at Fresno (64.36m/211-2)… 1st at Boise in SP (20.17m/66-2.25PR)…ranked #3 DT, #8 in SP in U.S…bests of 65.92m/216-3PR & 20.17m/66-2.25. 2001: 5th at USA Outdoors (62.06m/203-7)…8th at World University Games (59.59m/195-6)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 19.29m/63-3.5 (SP) & 65.53m/214-11 (DT).

2000: 8th in SP at Olympic Trials (18.65m/61-2.25)…13th in discus qualifying at Olympic Trials (58.18m/190-10)…at NCAA Outdoors 5th in SP & 7th in DT…Big West Conference DT champ, runner-up in SP…ranked #10 in U.S. in SP by T&FN…bests of 19.50m/63-11.75 & 64m/210-0. 1999: College redshirt…bests of 18.81m/61-8.5i & 56.86m/186-6. 1998: Big West DT champ…11th at NCAAs…2nd in SP at Big West Outdoors…bests of 17.99m/59-

0.25 & 59.78m/196-1.

1997: 2nd at NCAA DT…Big West DT champ…2nd in SP at Big West Outdoors…bests of 18.03m/59-2 & 59.46m/195-1. 1996: 2nd in DT, 5th in SP at Big Sky...bests of 16.72m/54-10.25i & 53.14m/174-4.

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SHANNON ROWBURY


Weight: 115 PR: 800m - 2:00.47 (2010); 1,500m – 4:00.33 (2008); 3,000m - 8:31.38 (2010); 5,000m - 15:00.51 (2010) Born: September 19, 1984 in San Francisco, Calif. Current Residence: San Francisco, Calif. High School: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep ‗02 College: Duke ‗07

Coach: John Cook Agent: Peter Stubbs Club: Nike

Facebook Profile: Shannon Rowbury Facebook Fan Page: Shannon Rowbury: Eye on Olympics 2012 Twitter: @ShannonRowbury

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Indoors runner-up; 2009 World Outdoor bronze medalist; 2009 USA Outdoor champion; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2008 USA Indoor champion; 2007 NCAA Indoor mile champion and 3,000m runner-up Rowbury secured her spot on the world team in a photo finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. After Christin Wurth-Thomas ran to a blistering lead, she began to fade over the last

lap, and Rowbury was able to pass her at the line to secure the third-place spot, edging Wurth-Thomas by one hundredth of a second to finish in 4:06.20...Two-time USA champion and 2008 Olympic Games seventh place finisher Shannon Rowbury posted the best finish by an American in a world outdoor championships women's 1,500-meter final in 10 years at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. And then it got better. Rowbury was up near the front the entire way in the final and trailed Great Britain's Lisa Dobriskey by a few yards down the final stretch. Although

Rowbury couldn't catch her, she finished fourth in 4:04.18. However, during the last lap, race winner

Natalia Rodriguez of Spain tripped Ethiopia's Gelete Burka from behind. Following the race Rodriguez was disqualified and Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN) was declared the winner (4:03.74). Lisa Dobriskey of Great Britain (4:03.75) was awarded the silver medal, and Rowbury became the bronze medalist. In 2008, Rowbury turned in the top performance ever by an American woman in the Olympic 1,500m final. She ran a smart race from the gun, positioning herself in the top six and out of trouble as the pace came through at 65.90 for 400m and 2:13.70 for 800m. She finished seventh in 4:03.58, the highest placing for an American in the event...Rowbury entered the Olympic Trials as the prohibitive

favorite in the women's 1,500 meters, and she delivered in convincing fashion. Strong and swirling winds kept the field packed tightly through the first two laps. Just past 1,000m, Rowbury took off and put on an impressive display of confident running and crossed the finish line in 4:05.48 - a very fast time in unfavorable winds…On May 18, 2008 at the adidas Track Classic, Rowbury won the 1,500 meters in four minutes, 1.06 seconds. It was the fifth-best time in U.S. history and under the Olympic "A" qualifying standard. That effort followed her first competitive 1,500 meters of the outdoor season

on May 4 when Rowbury ran a then-personal best 4:07:59 at the Cardinal Invitational in California,

almost five seconds faster than her previous top time… Rowbury has been on a gradual rise to global prominence as a middle-distance runner. She won the 800 meters at the 2001 National Scholastic Outdoor Championships while attending Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep School in San Francisco, Calif. At Duke University, she finished second in the mile at the 2005 NCAA indoor championships and won the Atlantic Coast Conference Southeast Region cross-country title that fall. She set her previous personal best in the 1,500 meters in July 2006 following redshirt indoor and outdoor seasons at Duke. In 2007,

she won the NCAA Indoor mile title and finished as the runner-up in the 3,000m. A stress fracture in her hip knocked her out of the 2007 outdoor season…enjoys soccer and Irish dancing. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (4:06.20)...3rd in London (4:05.73)...9th in Monaco (4:06.55) 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (4:14.41)…USA Indoor runner-up (4:19.48)…10th at Nike Pre Classic in 800m (2:00.47PR)…5th at adidas Grand Prix in 1,500m (4:04.00)…6th at Paris

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(4:01.30)…7th at Stockholm (4:02.95)…3rd at Monaco in 3,000m (8:31.38 PR)...1st at Payton-Jordan

Invite in 5,000m (15:00.51PR)…ranked # 7 in the world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…bests of 2:00.47 and 4:01.30. 2009: World Outdoor Champs bronze medalist (4:04.18)...USA Outdoor champion (4:05.07)…USATF

Road Mile champion (4:33.4)...6th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (4:03.92)...4th at Zurich (4:00.81)...5th at World Athletics Final (4:14.18)...ranked #3 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 4:00.81. 2008: 7th at Olympic Games (4:03.58), 4th in heats (4:03.89)...Olympic Trials champion (4:05.48)...2nd at Paris (4:00.33)...5th at World Athletic Final (4:08.16)...4th in 800m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:01.03)…1st at adidas Track Classic (4:01.61)…USA Indoor 3,000m champion (8:55.19)…1st at Payton Jordan Invite (4:07.59)…1st in 800m at Duke Invite (2:02.76)...ranked #6 in

the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 4:00.33. 2007: NCAA Indoor mile champion (4:44217) and 3,000m runner-up (9:02.73)…did not compete outdoors due to injury (hip stress fracture) 2006: 6th at USA Outdoors (4:12.86)…NACAC U23 champion (4:20.57)…1st at Bloomington (4:12.31)…9th in 3,000m at adidas Track Classic (9:03.61)…redshirted indoor and outdoor collegiate

seasons…55th at NCAA XC…NCAA Southeast region XC champion…ACC XC champion…ranked #9 in

the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4:12.31. 2005: 8th at NCAA Outdoors…ACC Outdoor 1500m champion (4:14.81)…ECAC Indoor 800m runner-up (2:06.58)… NCAA Southeast Region Indoor Athlete of the Year…set school records in the 800m (2:06.58), Mile (4:38.66), 3000m (9:16.86) and DMR (11:14.30) indoors and in the 1500m (4:14.81) and DMR (11:10.18) outdoors.

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GALEN RUPP


Weight: 138 PRs: 800m - 1:49.87i (2009) 1,500m - 3:39.14 (2009); Mile - 3:57.72 (2010); 3,000m - 7:42.40i (2010); 5,000m - 13:07:35 (2010); 10,000m – 27:10.74 (2010) Born: May 8, 1986, Portland, Ore. Current Residence: Portland, Ore. High School: Central Catholic (Portland) HS '04

College: Oregon '09 Agent: Michael Johnson Coach: Alberto Salazar

Club: Nike Career Highlights: Two-time USA 10,000m champion (‘09,‘10);2009 NCAA Outdoor 5,000m and 10,000m champion; 2009 NCAA Indoor 3,000m, 5,000m and DMW champion; 2008 Olympic

Trials 10,000m runner-up; U.S. Indoor 5,000m record holder; U.S. collegiate 3,000m record holder; 5th at 2010 World Indoor Champs; 2007 USA Outdoor 10,000m runner-up; 2005 USA Junior XC champion; U.S. Junior 3,000m, 5,000m & 10,000m record holder; 2007 NCAA 10,000m runner-up; 2008 NCAA Cross Country Champion

Rupp posted a third-place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships and secured a berth on the World Outdoor Championships team. At the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix, Rupp bettered his own indoor 5,000m American record with his second-place time of 13:11.44. In 2010, Rupp earned his second career USA 10,000m title with his time of 28:59.21 at the USA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. Also that year he finished as the runner-up in the 3,000m at the USA Indoor Championships and finished fifth in that event at the World Indoor Championships in Doha with an indoor personal best

time of 7:42.40. In 2009, Rupp made his final race in an Oregon singlet count in a big way as he won

the USA Outdoor 10,000m title in front of an adoring crowd at his home track - fabled Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Rupp finished eighth in the 10,000m at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in 27:37.99, which was his season‘s best performance and the third-best by an American that year. Also in 2009, Rupp set the American and collegiate indoor 5,000m record at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., with his time of 13:18.12, and at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games he set the American collegiate 3,000m record of 7:44.69. He also joined fellow Oregon teammates Matt Centrowitz, Andrew Wheating and Shadrack Kiptoo-Biwott in setting the outdoor collegiate 4x1-mile

relay record of 16:03.24. Also in 2009 Rupp set the American indoor 5,000m record of 13:18.12 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. Rupp red-shirted during the 2008 track season to prepare for the Olympic Trials in Eugene, where he finished second in the 10,000m, which punched his ticket for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where he placed 13th as the fastest non-African in the race. Rupp‘s time in Beijing of 27:36.99 was the second-fastest by an American in 2008. He competed for the Ducks in cross country that year, ending the season as the NCAA individual champion, in leading

Oregon to the men‘s team title. In 2009, Rupp led the Oregon men to the their first indoor national

team title and became the first person in NCAA history to win the 5,000 meters, 3,000m and the distance medley relay in the same championship. Rupp started with a win in the 5,000m in 13 minutes 41.45 seconds. Less than 90 minutes later, he anchored the DMR to victory, splitting 3:57.07 over the final 1,600m to cross the line in 9:29.59. The following day Rupp cruised to a title in the 3,000m, winning in 7:48.94, more than 5 seconds ahead of the field. Rupp ended the 2007 season as a seven-time NCAA All-American (outdoors - 2; indoors - 4; cross country 1), and also in 2007 he finished

11th in the 10,000 meters at the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. He set a new personal best in the 10,000m of 27:33.48, which was the second-fastest time by an American that season and helped him to the #2 ranking in that event nationally from Track & Field News. In 2006, Rupp captured his first Pac-10 individual crown when he crossed the line in 23:03. Rupp went on to pace the Ducks to victory at the 10,000-meter NCAA West Regional race with a fourth-place finish (30:15) and finished sixth (31.03) in the NCAA Cross Country Championships. One of the nation‘s top

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young distance runners, Rupp faced his initial indoor season and second outdoor campaign for the

University of Oregon in 2006, finishing sixth in the 3,000 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships and second at the Pac-10 Championships at 10,000 meters. In 2005, Rupp finished as the NCAA 10,000 runner-up and top American finisher as a freshman outdoors. In two months prior, he re-

energized the Hayward Field home crowd's distance yearnings with three stirring runs, including a 10 km U.S. junior record in the 2005 Oregon Twilight meet. Rupp was high point scorer for the Ducks in both the 2005 Pac-10 and NCAA Championships, and helped UO‘s men‘s squad to a Pac-10 team win and ninth-place NCAA finish. In his first collegiate cross country season in 2005, Rupp ran twice for the Ducks in the opening month of the campaign before a foot injury cut his season short. As a prep, he trained under former Oregon distance great Alberto Salazar and was a national high school athlete of the year as a senior in 2004, national junior record holder in the 5,000 meters (13:37.91), national

cross country runner-up in 2003 and a five-time Oregon state champion (track-3, cross country-2). Rupp won the 2005 USA Cross Country Championship race for Junior Men with a 25:14 clocking over the Fort Vancouver course. After a long 2005 summer season racing in North America and Europe, Rupp delayed his fall training build-up several weeks. Rupp is one of the nation‘s most impressive high school runners in history. In 2004, he broke Gerry Lindgren‘s 40-year old U.S. high

school record for 5,000 meters by running 13:37.91 for the distance. That performance also bettered

the U.S. Junior record of 13:38.59 set by Franklin Sanchez in 2001. Rupp also holds the U.S. high school record for 3000m at 8:03.67. In the classroom, he is a two-time ESPN Magazine First Team Academic All-American and a four-time Pac-10 All-Academic First Team choice. 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 5,000m (13:25.52)... 2nd at Birmingham in 5,000m (13:06.86)USA Indoor 3,000m runner-up (7:59.91)...2nd at Indoor Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix 5,000m (13:11.44AR)

2010: USA Outdoor 10,000m champion (28:59.29)...USA Indoor 3,000m runner-up (8:13.49)...5th at World Indoors (7:42.40PR)… 4th at Boston Indoor Games (13:14.21)… 12th at Zurich (13:07.35)...4th at Jordan Cardinal Invite (27:10.74)...4th at Jordan (27:10.24)...ranked #3 at 5,000m, #2 at 10,000m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 7:42.40i, 13:07.35, 27:10.24. 2009: 1st at USA Outdoors 10,000 (27:52.53)...8th at World Outdoors (27:37.99)...NCAA Outdoor 5,000m (14:04.12) and 10,000m (28:21.45) champion…1st at NCAA Indoor 3,000m (7:48.94), 5,000m (13:41.45) and anchor on DMR (9:29.59). Set AR in 5,000m indoors at Tyson Invitational

(13:18.12AR)....ranked #6 at 5,000m, #2 at 10,000m in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 27:37.99, 3:57.86PR, 3:39.14PR. 2008: 13th at Olympic Games (27:36.99)…2nd at Olympic Trials in 10,000m (27:43.11) and 5,000m finalist (DNS)…NCAA Cross Country champion (29.03)…1st in 3,000m at adidas Track Classic (7:51.17)…ranked #2 in U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 7:51.17 & 27:36.99. 2007: USA Outdoors 10,000m runner-up (28:23.21)…NCAA 10,000m runner-up (28:56.19)… 11th at

World Outdoors (28:41.71)...PAC-10 5,000m champion (14:02.00) and 10,000m champion (29:07.84)…1st in 5,000m at Oregon Invitational (13:30.49PR)…1st in 10,000m at Cardinal Invitational (27:33.48PR)…ranked #2 in U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 27:33.48, 13:30.49. 2006: Pac-10 XC Champ (23:03)…6th at NCAA XC Champs (31:03)…4th at NCAA West Regional XC (30:15)…2nd at Pac-10 Champs 10,000m (30:42.10)…3rd at Pac-10 Champs 5,000m (14:00.94)…20th at NCAA Champs prelims (14:14.02)…7th at Lignano (7:56.3)…bests of 7:56.3, 14:14.02, 30:42.10.

2005: Runner-up at USA Junior Champs 1,500m (3:47.47)…USA Junior Cross Country champ (25:13)…4th at Junior Pan Ams (3:50.96)…10th at Cuxhaven, Germany (3:44.39PR)…4th in 3,000m at Lignano, Italy (7:44.39AJR)…4th at Pac-10 Champs (13:57.43)…1st at Oregon Twilight 10,000m

(28:15.52AJR)…ranked #4 U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 3:44.39, 7:44.39, 28:15.52. 2004: Oregon state cross country champ (14:55)…5:18.5 2,000m National HS record…10,000m 29:09.56…state record in 1,500m (3:45.3) and mile (4:01.8)…bests of 8:03.57 National HS record, 13:37.91AJR.

2003: Oregon state cross country champ (14.56)…bests of 3:53.58, 8:14.00. 2002: 6th at Oregon state cross country champs (15.46)…bests of 3:58.6, 8:32.46.

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MIKE SAYENKO


Weight: 134 PR: 2:14:27 (2010) Born: July 12, 1984 Current Residence: Bellevue, Wash. High School: Sammamish (Wash.) HS College: University of Washington Coach: Brad Hudson

Agent: Merhawl Keflezighi Club: Club Northwest Career Highlights: 10th in the 2010 Chicago Marathon

During Mike Sayenko‘s senior year at the University of Washington, he made his marathon debut at the 2006 California International Marathon where he ran 2:19:45 qualifying him as

the youngest runner at the 2008 Olympic Trials (where he finished 29th). Sayenko ran his fastest marathon to date at the 2010 Chicago Marathon where he ran 2:14:27, finishing 10th overall and was the second American to cross the line. When Sayenko is not training for marathons, he is working as a graphic designer and volunteering as a coach for the ―Marathon Club‖ at a local elementary school.

2011: 9th at Houston Half Marathon (1:04:20) 2010: 8th at the Portland Track Festival 5,000m (13:53.69)… 7th at the USA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000m (29:26.89)… 10th in the Chicago Marathon (2:14:27) 2009: 2nd at the Gent Flanders Cup 3,000m (8:07.46)… 2nd at the UW Last Chance indoor 5,000m (13:49.78)… 2nd at the Stanford Invitational 10,000m (28:25.85)… 14th in the New York City

Marathon (2:16:38)

2008: 2nd in the Austin Marathon (2:20:42)… 5th at the Twin Cities Marathon (2:19:18) 2007: 19th at the Pac-10 Conference Championship 10,000m (29:50.84)… 4th in the MPSF Indoor Championship (14:32.96) 2006: 11th in the MPSF Indoor Championship (14:18.07)… 8th in the California International Marathon (2:19:45) 2005: 15th in the UW Invitational indoor 3,000m (8:14.60) 2004: 7th in the Husky Indoor Preview 3,000m (8:27.63)

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ALICE SCHMIDT

Events: 800m Height: 5-11 Weight: 140 PRs: 800m - 1:58.61 (2011); 1500m - 4:08.09 (2011)

Born: Oct. 3, 1981 in Omaha, Nebraska Current Residence: San Diego, Calif. High School: Elkhorn HS College: North Carolina '04 Coach: Joaquim Cruz Agent: Peter Stubbs Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2006 USA Indoor champion; Two-time NCAA Outdoor champion (‘02, ‘03); 2006 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 USA Indoor runner-up; Three-time

ACC Indoor champion (‘01, ‘02, ‘03); Two-time ACC Outdoor champion (‘01, ‘02); 2001 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor runner-up

Schmidt's career as an 800m specialist has stood the test of time. She has run under the 2-minute mark 12 times over the past seven years, and she keeps improving. Schmidt's 2011 season saw new PR's in both the 800m and 1500m.... Schmidt qualified for her first Olympic Team after her runner-up finish in the women‘s 800m at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials… Following a third-place finish at the 2005 and 2007 USA Outdoor Championships Schmidt qualified for the IAAF World Championships Teams…In 2003 outdoors Schmidt won the NCAA title for the second year in a row (2:01.16), breaking both the UNC and the ACC record...Also won the Boston Indoor Games and Tar Heel Classic

in the 800m...Ran leg of the 4x400 relay team (Gainey, Flomo, Schmidt, Nelms) that broke a 11-year-old Carolina record with a time of 3:35.01…As a prep she was a six-time Academic All-Conference cross country team…Two-time All-State cross country...Four-time state champion 800-meter runner...State record-holder in the 800-meter in a time of 2:08.84...Won the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter at the state championships...She majored in journalism and political science at North Carolina.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (1:59.21)... 1st in Luzern (1:59.74)...2nd at Lignano (1:58.61PR)...1st at

Padova (4:08.09PR) 2010: 1st at USATF HP meet (2:01.68) 2009: 1st at Reebok BIG (2:03.05) 2008: 6th in opening round at Olympic Games (2:02.33)...2nd at Olympic Trials (2:00.46)... 2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:00.01)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:59.67. 2007: 3rd at USA Outdoors (1:59.63)…5th in heats at World Outdoors (2:02.49)...3rd at Nike

Prefontaine Classic (1:58.75PR)…6th in 1,500m at adidas Track Classic (4:08.89)…3rd at Road to Eugene (2:00.36)…1st at Sheffield (1:59.99)...ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:58.75. 2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (2:00.00)…USA Indoor champion (2:01.93)…8th at Athens (1:59.43)…2nd at Helsinki GP (1:59.47)…5th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:00.81)…2nd at Tyson (2:03.50i)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:59.43. 2005: 3rd at USA Outdoors (2:02.09)…6th in heat 2 at World Outdoors (2:01.43)…1st at Lignano (1:59.29PR)…4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:00.64)…3rd at Payton Jordan US Open

(2:02.71)…10th in 1,500m at Home Depot (4:12.12)…7th at Tyson Invitational (2:06.04)…2nd at Millrose Games (2:06.40)…2nd at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (2:04.52)…best of 1:59.29. 2004: 3rd at NCAA Outdoor Champs (2:03.79)...2nd at ACC Outdoor Champs (2:07.70)...5th at NCAA Indoor Champs (2:05.30)...2nd at ACC Indoor Champs (2:08.53)...4th at Boston Indoor Games (2:06.61). 2003: 1st at NCAA Outdoor Champs (2:01.16PR)...1st at NCAA East Regional (2:04.26)...2nd in 1500m at ACC Outdoor Champs (4:18.08)...3rd in 800m at ACC Outdoor Champs (2:07.18)...1st at

ACC Indoor Champs (2:05.54). 2002: 1st at NCAA Outdoor Champs (2:04.73)...1st at ACC Outdoor Champs (2:04.74)...3rd at NCAA Indoor Champs (2:06.43)...1st at ACC Indoor Champs (2:07.34)...1st at Tyson Invitational (2:07.4). 2001: 2nd at NCAA Outdoor Champs (2:08.47)...1st at ACC Outdoor Champs (2:06.50)...2nd in 800m at NCAA Indoor Champs (2:08.47)...1st at ACC Indoor Champs (2:06.63).

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JEREMY SCOTT

Event: Pole Vault Height: 6-9

Weight: 200 PR: 5.82m/19-1.25 (2009) Born: May 1, 1981 Current Residence: Brookland, Arkansas High School: Norfolk (Neb.) HS ‗99 College: Allegheny County ‘03; Arkansas ‗04 Coach: Earl Bell

Agent: Jeff Hartwig Club: Nike Website: www.jscott615.com

Career Highlights: 2009 USA Indoor champion; Runner-up at 2009 & 2003 USA Indoor Champs; Runner-up at 2011 and 2010 USA Outdoor Champs; 2002 NCAA D-III national indoor & outdoor

champion Scott qualified for his second World Outdoor team, with a runner-up finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championship. Scott continued his positive momentum from his outstanding 2009 season by finishing fourth at the 2010 USA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, and by posting the highest outdoor clearance by an American that year of 5.82m/19-1 from his May 18

win in Jonesboro, Ark. Believed to be the tallest world class pole vaulter in history, Scott, who stands 6 feet 9 inches tall, made the World Outdoor Championships team for Berlin with his second place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. His breakthrough 2009 season got off to a great start with his win at the USA Indoor Championships in Boston, and he broke the 19-foot barrier for the first time in his career with his winning clearance June 14 in Jonesboro, Ark., when he cleared 5.82m/19-1.25. A letter-winner in three sports in high school (football, basketball and track)

Scott enrolled at Allegheny College to play football. After a broken foot as a sophomore caused Scott

to focus more on pole vaulting, he decided to enroll at one of National Track & Field Hall of Famer Earl Bell‘s pole vault camps in the summer of 2001, and the improvement in Scott was immediate. In only the third meet of the 2002 season Scott cleared 17 feet for the first time, which was a then personal best by five inches. The following week he cleared 5.36m/17 feet 7 inches and by the end of that indoor season he cleared 18 feet for the first time and had won his first NCAA D-III national championship. Scott enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Arkansas for his final year of collegiate eligibility where he studied exercise science. Scott‘s nickname is El Grande...received BS in

Neuroscience from Allegheny College in 2003. 2011: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (5.60m/18-4.5) 2010: 4th at USA Outdoors (5.35m/17-06.50)…4th at USA Indoors (5.60m/184.5)…1st at Boston Indoor Games (5.60m/18-4.5)… 1st in Jonesboro (5.82m/19-1) 8th in Shanghai (5.40m/17-8.5)…1stat Gator Invite (5.70m/18-8.25)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.82m/19-1. 2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (5.75m/18-10.25)...9th in qualifying group at World Outdoors (5.55m/18-2.50)...USA Indoor champ (5.60m/18-4.50)...1st in Jonesboro (5.82m/19-1.25PR)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.82m/19-1.25.

2008: Tied for 6th at Olympic Trials (5.50m/18-0.50)...ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.71m/18-8.75i 2007: 6th at USA Outdoors (5.60m/18-4.50)...no height at Pan Am Games...ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.70m/18-8.25i. 2006: No height at USA Outdoors...best of 5.62m/18-5.25. 2005: 4th at USA Indoors (5.35m/17-6.50)...no height at USA Outdoors...best of 5.60m/18-4.50i. 2004: Tied for 4th at NCAA Outdoors (5.50m/18-0.50)...no height at Olympic Trials...SEC Outdoor champ...best of 5.55m.18-2.75. 2003: Runner-up at USA Indoors (5.70m/18-8.25)...tied for 9th in qualifying Group B at World Indoor Champs (5.55m/18-2.50)...ranked #10 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 5.70m/18-8.25i. 2002: NCAA D-III champ...tied for 9th at USA Outdoors (5.44m/17-10.25)...best of 5.55m/18-2.50.

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JENNIFER (BARRINGER)

SIMPSON

Event: mid-distance Height: 5-5 Weight: 110 PR: 800m - 2:01.20 (2011); 1,500m - 3:59.90CR (2009);

steeplechase - 9:12.50AR (2009) Born: Aug. 23, 1986, in Webster City, Iowa Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo. High School: Oviedo (FL) HS '05 College: Colorado '09 Coach: Julie Benson Agent: Ray Flynn

Club: New Balance Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoor Champion mile and 3,000m; Two-time USA Outdoor steeplechase champion ('07, '09); 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up; 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 3rd at 2010 USA Outdoors in the 5,000m; Three-time NCAA champion ('06, '08, '09)

Simpson rebounded from a disappointing 2010 season that ended in injury with her first U.S. title as a professional athlete. Simpson won both the mile and the 3,000m at the 2011 USA Indoor Championships. She was second at USA Outdoors to earn a bid for Worlds. At the 2009 World Outdoor Championships, Barringer came storming from behind over the last 200 meters of the women's 3,000m steeplechase final to finish fifth in a new American record time of 9:12.50, shattering her previous American record of 9:22.26 from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Her fifth-place finish is the highest ever by an American at a World Championships...Also in 2009, Barringer broke collegiate

records indoors in the mile (4:25.91), 3000 (8:42.03) and 5000 (15:01.70), and outdoors in the 1500 (3:59.90), 3000 steeplechase (9:12.50) and 5000 (15:05.25)…Barringer lowered her own American

record in the women's 3,000m steeplechase at the 2008 Olympic Games, the first time the event has been contested on the Olympic stage. Running a stride ahead of teammate Anna Willard for most of the race, Barringer finished in 9:22.26 to break her own AR of 9:22.70, set July 20 in Heusden, Belgium., which was a personal best by almost seven seconds at the KBC Nacht meet in Heusden-Zolder, Germany. With her third-place finish at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Barringer qualified

for her first Olympic Team. Barringer won her second NCAA title at the 2008 NCAA Championships when she won the women's 3,000m steeplechase in a collegiate record 9 minutes 29.20 seconds. It is the fastest time ever run on American soil and the second fastest time ever run by an American woman…Barringer burst onto the national scene in winning the women‘s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis. Her winning time of 9:34.64 was the second fastest time ever recorded by an American woman at that time. It was a CU

record, NCAA record and meet record as well. Barringer had a strong showing in her freshman year of collegiate cross country, finishing in the top-10 in four out of five of her races, the only drop being at the NCAA Championship where she finished 43rd. At the Big 12 Championship she placed second and at the NCAA Mountain Region Championship she finished eighth. Barringer was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year to go along with all-conference and all-region honors as a freshman. She is a

two-time All-Big 12 and All-Region selection and earned her first All-American cross country finish as a sophomore. A four-time all-Seminole Athletic Conference, all-region and all-state runner, Barringer is

a five-time 4A Florida State champion on the track and three-time champion in cross country, and the 2005 state finalist for the Wendy‘s Heisman Award and finalist for the Sports Illustrated Got Milk Award. On the track she is a five-time state champion in the mile and 2-mile distances, holds the state mark in the mile (4:48) and the all-time state record in the 5k (16:55). Her additional prep records include the 800 (2:15), mile (4:48), 2-mile (10:18), 3-mile (18:36) as a freshman and 5k (16:55)…a political science major at Colorado, her hobbies include playing piano and she serves as an interpreter as she is fluent in sign language. Her volunteer work includes participating in local adopt-a-road

programs, Habitat for Humanity projects as well as volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House...Married on October 18, 2010.

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2011: USA Indoor mile Champion (4:34.96) and 3000m (9:02.20)…2nd at USA Outdoors (4:05.66)...4th in Madrid (4:07.72)...5th in Monaco (4:03.54)...1st at Drake Relays 1500m

(4:09.56)...2nd at Mt. SAC Relays 5,000m (15:11.49)...6th at USATF HP meet (2:01.20PR) 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors in the 5,000m (15:33.33)…4th at adidas Grand Prix (4:03.63)…ended season early due to a stress reaction at the head of her right femur…ranked #4 in the U.S. at 1,500m, #8 U.S. at 5,000m byT&FN...bests of 4:03.63, 15:33.33. 2009: 5th at World Champs (9:12.50AR)...USA Outdoor champion (9:29.38)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (3:59.90CR)...NCAA steeplechase champion (9:25.54)...1st in 5,000m at Stockholm (15:05.25)...NCAA Indoor 3,000m champion (8:42.03CR)...1st in mile at Big 12 Indoor Champs

(4:25.91CR)...1st at 5,000m at Husky Classic (15:01.70CR)...ranked #6 in the world (#1 U.S.) in the steeplechase, #4 in the U.S. at 1500m and #3 in the U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN…best of 9:12.50. 2008: 9th at Olympic Games (9:22.26AR)…3rd at Olympic Trials (9:33.11)…1st at Hesden (9:22.73)…NCAA Outdoor champion (9:29.20)…ranked #10 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 9:22.26. 2007: USA Outdoor champion (9:34.64PR)… 7th in heats at World Outdoors (9:51.04)...7th at NCAA

Outdoors (9:59.81)…ran 9:44.31 at Drake Relays…4th in 5,000m at Stanford (15:48.24) ...ranked #2

in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 9:34.64. 2006: NCAA Outdoor champion (9:53.04)…Big 12 runner-up…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 9:53.04. 2005: 3rd at USA XC Champs junior race…47th at World XC Juniors. 2004: Fla. HS XC champ…Foot Locker Regional XC champ…10th at Foot Locker Nationals…35th at World XC Juniors.

2003: Fla. HS XC champ…Foot Locker Regional XC champ…3rd at Foot Locker Nationals. 2001: Fla. HS XC champ.

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MILES SMITH

Event: 4x400m Height: 6-3 Weight: 185 PR: 45.16 (2005)

Born: September 24, 1984 Current Residence: Arlington, Texas High School: Riverview Garden (St. Louis, Mo.) HS '03 College: Southeast Missouri State '07 Coach: Lloyd Edwards Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor 4X400m relay gold medalist;

Five-time NCAA All-American; 11-time OVC champion

2011 has been one of Smith's most successful post-collegiate years. With a sixth place finish at USA Outdoors, he qualified for the 4x400m relay pool at the 2011 World Championships, and at Luzern,

Switzerland, he missed a personal best by three-hundredths of a second. After redshirting the 2007 season, Smith finished sixth at the 2008 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets, and qualified for Olympic Trials. In 2006, he finished seventh at NCAA Indoors and followed up that performance with a sixth place finish at NCAA Outdoors. Smith was named to the Team USA roster for the 2005 IAAF World Championships after placing sixth in the 400-meters at the USA Track & Field Championships in Carson, Calif. Smith ran the lead leg for Team USA in the men's 4x400m relay qualifying and was awarded a gold medal following Team USA's victory in the final. Smith set a new personal best in

2005 with his win in Bloomington on May 28 in 45.16. He won All-American honors by placing fifth at the 2005 NCAA finals in the 400m in a time of 45.16 which set a new school record. He won the 400m at the OVC championships, 2nd in the 200m at the OVC outdoor and anchored the winning 4x400m relay team...he was also a national qualifier in the 400m and on the relay team. Indoors in 2005, Smith was named the OVC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after winning the OVC indoor 400m in a time of 48.47, took 2nd in the 200m with a time of 22.04 and anchored the winning 4x400m relay

team. In 2004, Smith was the OVC Champion in the 400m and placed second in the 200m. He also ran on the 4x100m relay that placed 2nd and 4x400m relay that placed 1st at Outdoor OVC, and ran on the 4x100m relay that placed 3rd at the Drake Relays. Indoors in 2004 he placed 2nd in the 400m, 6th in the 200m and ran on the 2nd place 4x400m relay at OVC Indoor Championships. In high school, Smith ran a leg on the Riverview Gardens state championship 4x200m relay team and ran on the third place 4x400m relay team.

2011: 6th at USA Outdoors (45.34)... 2nd at Stockholm (45.68)... 1st at Luzern (45.19) 2010: 5th at Daegu (45.84) 2009: 8th at USA Outdoors (46.09) 2008: 6th at NCAA Outdoors (45.67)... Olympic Trials qualifier... 6th at NCAA Indoors (46.46)

2007: Redshirted 2006: 6th at NCAA Outdoors (45.92)... 3rd at Mideast Regional (45.57)... 7th at NCAA Indoors (46.44) 2005: World Outdoor 4X400m relay gold medalist - ran lead leg in qualifying round (3:00.48)...6th at

USA Outdoors (45.25)... 5th at NCAA Outdoors (45.16)... 1st at NCAA Mideast Regional (45.16PR)... 1st at Bloomington (45.16PR)...OVC indoor and outdoor 400m champion...ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 45.16.

2004: OVC Outdoor 400m champion... OVC Outdoor 200m runner-up... OVC Indoor 400m runner-up... OVC Indoor 6th place at 200m.

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AMANDA SMOCK

Event: Triple jump Height: 5-7 Weight: 131 PR: 14.18m/46-6.25 (2011) Born: July 27, 1982 in Long Prairie, Minn. Current Residence: Minneapolis, Minn. High School: Melrose High School (Melrose, Minn.)

College: North Dakota State ‗04 Club: Team Nodak Coach: Michael Eskind

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors champion; 2011 USA Indoors runner-up

Amanda Smock had consistently been in the mix to qualify for Team USA for both Olympic and World Championship competition for the past seven track and field seasons. And finally in 2011 she got over that hump by winning the triple jump at the USA Outdoor Championships with a mark of 14.07m/46-2. That Friday at Hayward Field was definitely Smock‘s day as she recorded six of the top eight jumps

in the competition. However, she still stood increments short of the B standard for the World Championships and began pursuing the mark that would get her on Team USA for the 2011 World Championships. It came days before Team USA was announced at the World Championships Pre-Meet held at the Olympic Training Center when she recorded a new personal best of 14.17m/46-6.25. She has placed in the top six at USA Indoor and Outdoor competition , including the 2008 Olympic Trials, a total of 10 times. She finished second at USA Indoors in 2011 and third at USA Indoors in 2008. She is also a three-time NCAA Division II national champion.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (14.07m/46-2)... 2nd at USA Indoors (13.63m/44-8.75)… 1st at World Championship Pre-Meet (14.18m/46-6.25)… Best of 14.18m/46-6.25. 2010: 4th at USA Outdoors (13.60m/44-7.50)... 5th at USA Indoors (13.36m/43-10).

2009: 6th at USA Outdoors (13.64m/44-9). 2008: 5th at Olympic Trials (13.84m/45-5)... 3rd at USA Indoors (13.51m/44-4). 2007: 5th at USA Indoors (12.87m/42-2.75)... 15th at USA Outdoors (13.09m/42-11.5). 2006: 6th at USA Indoors (12.79m/41-11.5)... 15th at USA Outdoors (12.31m/40-4.75). 2005: 6th at USA Indoors (12.76m/41-10.5).

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SHALONDA SOLOMON

Event: Sprints Height: 5-6.5 Weight: 125 PR: 100m – 10.90 (2010); 200m – 22.15 (2011)

Born: December 19, 1985 in Los Angeles, Calif. Current Residence: Orlando, Fla. High School: Long Beach Poly (Calif.) ‗04 College: South Carolina '08 Coach: Lance Brauman Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: Reebok

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor champion; 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2006 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor 200m Champion; 2005 NCAA Indoor 4x400m Champion; 2006 NACAC 200m and 4x100m

gold medalist; 2006 NACAC 100m runner-up; 2006 and 2010 USA Outdoor 200m runner-up; 10-Time All-American; 2004 World Junior 200m and 4x100m champion; 2003 Pan Am Junior 100m, 200m and

4x100m champion; 2003 Junior 100m and 200m champion Solomon is in the midst of the most successful season of her career. At the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Solomon ran a personal best of 22.15 in the 200m to win her first national title and qualify for her first World Championships. In 2010, she was the runner-up at USA Outdoors in the 200m and was ranked third in the world in the event. While competing at the University of South Carolina, Solomon was a two-time NCAA champion in the 200m and represented Team USA at the

2006 NACAC U-23 Championships, where she won gold in the 200m and 4x100m. In 2006, Solomon also finished second at USA Outdoors in the 200m, her first time on top of the podium at the national championships. At the 2004 IAAF World Junior Track & Field Championships, Solomon ran 22.82 seconds in the women‘s 200m to better the championship record and win her first World Junior 200m crown. She then went on to anchor Team USA‘s 4x100m relay to a gold medal finish in 43.49…At the

2003 USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Solomon was named co-Verizon Women‘s Outstanding Athlete of the Meet for completing the sprint double in winning the 100m and the

200m…Solomon broke the Pan American Junior Championships record in the women‘s 200m ran 23.21 in the preliminary round. She later improved her record to 22.93 in the final round to win gold in the 200m. Solomon also brought home the gold with her 11.35 second win in the 100m and anchored the 4x100m team to victory in 44.00. Solomon was named the 2003-2004 Gatorade National High School Player of the Year.

2011: USA Outdoor champion in 200m (22.15)... 3rd in 60m at USA Indoor Champs (7.15)... 3rd in 200m at adidas Grand Prix (23.03)... 3rd a Monaco (22.63)... 3rd at London Grand Prix (22.85). 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up in 200m (22.47)…4th at USA Indoors (7.20iPR)…2nd at Continental Cup (11.09)…2nd at GT Invite in 100m (11.16)…2nd at Clermont (10.90PR)…6th at Monaco (11.14)…1st at GT Invite in 200m (22.67)…4th at Kingston in 200m (22.84)…2nd at Paris (22.55)…2nd at Stockholm (22.51)…1st at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (23.53i)…ranked #3 in the world, #2 U.S.at 200m and #8 in the world, #4 U.S. at 100m by T&FN…bests of 10.90 and 22.47.

2009: 6th at USA Outdoors (11.03), DNF in 200m…2nd in 200m (22.43) 1st in B race at Reebok Grand Prix (11.04PR)…3rd at adidas Track Classic (23.10)…1st at Bush Invite (22.41)…ranked #5 at 200m in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 22.41. 2008: 7th in 200m (22.36w), 14th in 100m semi-finals at Olympic Trials (11.18)...bests of 11.16 and 22.48. 2007: 3rd at SECs (22.88), 1st in heats (22.74)…1st at Greensboro (11.33)…best of 11.33 and 22.74. 2006: USA Outdoor 200m runner-up, 8th in 100m (22.47, 11.41)…NACAC 200m and 4x100m

champions, 100m runner-up (22.90, 11.39)…NCAA Outdoor 200m champion, 5th in 100m (22.62, 11.43)…NCAA East Regional 100m and 200m champion (11.07w, 22.30w)…200m SEC Champion, 3rd in 100m (22.36, 11.09)…ranked #8 in the world (#5 U.S.) at 200m by T&FN…bests of 11.09 and 22.36. 2005: 7th in 200m at USA Outdoors (22.95)…NCAA Outdoor 200m and 4x100m runner-up

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(22.86)…NCAA Indoor 4x400m champion, 5th in 200m (3:30.01, 23.15)…3rd in 100m and 200m at NCAA East Regionals (11.44, 22.91)…SEC Outdoor 200m champion, 100m runner-up (22.74,

11.29)…1st in 200m at Tennessee (22.72)…ranked #9 in the U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 11.29, 22.72. 2004: World Junior 200m and 4x100m champion (22.82, 43.49)…USA Junior 200m runner-up, 3rd in 100m (23.03, 11.36)…bests of 11.41and 22.82. 2003: Pan Am Junior 100m, 200m and 4x100m champion (11.35, 22.93, 44.00)…USA Junior 100m and 200m champion (11.40, 23.37)…bests of 11.35 and 22.93.

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SARAH STEVENS-

WALKER

Event: Throws Height: 5-10 Weight: 220 PR: 18.40m/60-4.5 (2007)

Born: April 2, 1986, in Hot Springs, S.D. Current Residence: Chandler, Ariz. High School: Fort Collins (Fort Collins, Colo.) HS ‘04. College: Arizona State University '08 Coach: David Dumble Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoors shot put runner-up; 2008

NCAA Outdoor discus champion; 2007 NCAA Indoor shot put champion; 2009 NCAA runner-up in shot put, discus and indoor shot put; 2008 NCAA Indoor shot put runner-up; 2008 NACAC U-23 champion in shot put and hammer; 2005 Pan Am Games Junior shot put champion; Seven-time PAC-10 champion

With her third-place finish at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Stevens-Walker secured her

second World Outdoor Championships berth. During the indoor season, she had her best-ever finish at a national championship with a runner-up performance. In her first post-collegiate season, Stevens-Walker took third-place at both the 2010 USA Outdoor and Indoor meets. While competing at Arizona State, Stevens-Walker excelled at all of the throwing events. In 2009, she finished second at NCAA

Outdoors in the shot put and discus, and also took second at the NCAA Indoor meet in the shot put. Stevens-Walker highlighted her 2008 season with a NCAA discus title as well a NACAC U-23 victories in both the shot put and hammer. Stevens-Walker made her first World Championships team in 2007 after she finished third in the shot put at USA Outdoors. Indoors, she won a NCAA shot put title. Her freshman year, she was the Pan Am Junior shot put champion.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (18.12m/59-5.5)… 2nd at USA Indoors (17.96m/58-11.25)… 1st at Mt. SAC Relays (17.96m/58-11.25). 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors (18.23m/59-9.75)… 3rd at USA Indoors (17.99m/59-0.75)… 1st at Mt. SAC Relays (17.51m/57-5.5). 2009: 5th at USA Outdoors in shot put(17.69m/58-0.5)… 2nd at NCAA Outdoors in shot put

(17.58m/57-8.25) and discus (53.98m/177-1)… 2nd at NCAA Indoors in shot put (17.74m/58-2.5)… 3rd at NCAA Outdoors in hammer (66.32m/217-7)… PAC-10 Outdoor champion in shot put (17.32m/56-10) and discus (57.21m/187-8)... PAC-10 runner-up in hammer (63.92m/209-8). 2008: NCAA Outdoor discus champion (56.14m/184-2)… 2nd at NCAA Indoors (17.64m/57-10.5)… 3rd at NCAA Outdoors in hammer (66.37m/217-8)… Olympic Trials finals qualifier… NACAC U-23 champion in shot put (16.04m/52-7.5) and hammer (62.79m/206-0)… PAC-10 Outdoor champion in

shot put (17.11m/56-1.75) and hammer (66.11m/216-10)… PAC-10 runner-up in discus (55.68m/182-8) and shot put (17.11m/56-1.75).

2007: 12th in qualifying at World Outdoors for shot put (16.87m/55-4.25)… 3rd at USA Outdoors in shot put (18.02m/59-1.5)… NCAA Indoor champion in shot put (18.16m/59-7)… 3rd at NCAA Outdoors in shot put (17.40m/57-1)… PAC-10 Outdoor champion in shot put (17.61m/57-9.5) and discus (57.73m/189-4)… 3rd at PAC-10 Outdoors in hammer (64.97m/213-1). 2006: 3rd at NCAA Indoors in shot put (17.91m/58-9.25)… PAC-10 Outdoor champion in shot put

(17.42m/57-2)… 3rd at PAC-10 Outdoors in hammer (65.69m/215-6). 2005: Placed top four in all three throwing events at USA Junior Outdoors…Pan-Am Junior shot put champion (16.90m/55-5.5).

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JENN (STUCZYNSKI) SUHR

Event: Pole Vault Height: 6-0

Weight: 141 PR: 4.92m/16-01.75AR (2008) Born: Feb. 5, 1982 in Fredonia, N.Y. Current Residence: Churchville, N.Y. High School: Fredonia (NY) HS College: Roberts Wesleyan '05 Coach: Rick Suhr


Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist; 2008 World Indoor silver medalist; Five-time USA Outdoor champion (‘06-‗10); Five-time USA Indoor champion (‘05, ‘07-‗09, '11); 2005 NAIA Indoor champion; American record holder indoors and outdoors

Suhr started the 2011 season by breaking her own American Record at the USA Indoor Championships, but during the outdoor season, she struggled with fatigue and cramps and did not surpass her indoor mark, falling short of a US Outdoor title for the first time since 2005. After finding out she has Celiac disease, she has altered her diet and is back to her 2008 form, and had the second best jump of her life, a clearance of 4.91m/16-1.25 at a a meet in Rochester. Stuczynski lived up to

being the #2 women's pole vaulter of all time in taking the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The American record-holder cleared 4.55m/14-11 on her first try, then passed 4.65 before clearing 4.70/15-5 on her first go as well. She cleared 4.75m/15-7 on her second attempt, then 4.80m/15-9 on her first to solidify the silver medal. In just a few short years, Stuczynski has become the reigning American queen of the pole vault, and she now threatens to become the best in the world. At the 2008 Olympic Trials, Stuczynski entered the competition at 4.60m/15-1.25 and only two

other vaulters were still jumping. After two misses at her opening height, she went on to clear the bar

by nearly a foot. She was the only vaulter to clear 4.65m/15-3.75, and she immediately had the bar raised to 4.76m/15-7.5 in an attempt to break Stacy Dragila's 2004 Olympic Trials record of 4.75m/15-7. She easily soared over it on her first attempt, then raised the bar to 4.92m/16-1.75, 1 cm better than her own American record of 4.91m/16-1.5. After a close miss on her first attempt and a less-close miss on her second, she easily made it on her third try…She set two American records early in 2007, including becoming the first American to clear 16 feet with her jump of 4.88m/16-0 of at the Reebok Grand Prix… Stuczynski started the 2006 indoor season with a bang, setting personal

bests at nearly every meet and becoming the #2 American all time, behind only Stacy Dragila, with her clearance of 4.68m/15-4.25, she then captured her first USA Outdoor title with her winning clearance of 4.55m/14-11 at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships...was a standout basketball player for Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y., before taking up the pole vault in 2004…averaged 24.3 points and 6.7 rebounds a game for Roberts Wesleyan in 2003-04, taking her team to the NCAA national championship game… graduated as school‘s all-time leading scorer in

basketball with 1,819 points… school record-holder in the 100mH at 14.66, also holds Roberts bests

for the javelin, high jump, 400H and as a member of the 4x100m and 4x400m relays… won 2005 NAIA indoor national title in the pole vault with a 4.00m/13-1.5 clearance, also placed in the 55mH and HJ… followed up with a surprise win at the 2005 USA Indoor championships in Boston, soaring over 4.35m/14-3.25… won state pentathlon title as a senior at Fredonia High School… transferred from Roberts to Buffalo briefly, before returning to Roberts to complete her degree… has started work on a graduate degree in child psychology...married coach Rich Suhr on January 3, 2010.

2011: Season best of 4.91/16-1.25 in Rochester... USA Outdoors runner-up (4.60m/15-1)... USA Indoors champion (4.86m/15-11.25 AR)...Millrose Games (4.64m/15-2.75)...2nd New Balance Grand Prix (4.61m/15-1.5). 2010: USA Outdoor champion (4.89m/16-00.5WL)...2nd at NY Grand Prix (4.50m/14-9)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 4.89m/16-0.5.

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2009: USA Outdoor champion (4.65m/15-3)…did not compete at World Outdoors (injury)…1st at

adidas Track Classic (4.76m/15-7.25)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (4.81m/15-9.25)...USA Indoor champion (4.83m/15-10AR)…1st at Reebok BIG (4.82m/15-9.75AR)…1st at Millrose Games (4.71m/15-5.5)…1st at Tyson Invitational (4.63m/15-5.25)...ranked #8 in the world (#1 U.S.) by

T&FN...best of 4.81m/15-9.25. 2008: Olympic Games silver medalist (4.80m/15-9)…Olympic Trials champion (4.92m/16-01.75AR)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (4.80m/15-9)…1st at adidas Track Classic (4.90m/16-0.75AR)…World Indoor Champs silver medalist (4.75m/15-7)Indoor PR…USA Indoor champ (4.70m/15-05)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 4.92m/16-1.75. 2007: USA Outdoor champion (4.45m/14-7.25)…10th at World Outdoors (4.50m/14-9)...USA Indoor champion (4.60m/15-1i)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix (4.88m/16-0AR)…1st at adidas Track Classic

(4.84m/15-10.5)…1st at Brockport (4.73m/15-6.25WL)…1st at Tyson Invitational (4.72m/15-5.75i)…1st at Pole Vault Summit (4.70m/15-5i)…2nd at Millrose Games (4.53m/14-10.25)…3rd at London (4.70m/15-5)…1st at Jockgrim (4.55m/14-11)...ranked #8 in the world (#1 U.S.) byT&FN...best of 4.88m/16-0. 2006: USA Outdoor champion (4.55m/14-11.00)… 3rd at USA Indoors (4.50m/14-9)…3rd at World

Athletics Final (4.60m/15-1)…1st at Eastern Michigan Open (4.68/15-4.25i)…1st at Reebok Grand Prix

(4.54m/14-10.75)…3rd at DN Galan (4.52m/14-10)…3rd at London Grand Prix (4.65m/15-3)…ranked #6 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 4.68m/15-4.25. 2005: USA Indoor champion (4.35m/14-3.25)…1st at Rochester Holiday Indoor Classic (4.58/15-0.25)… 1st at RWB Open (4.45m/14-7.25)… 1st at York Christmas Open (4.41m/14-5.5)… 1st at NAIA Indoors (4.00m/13-1.5)

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NICK SYMMONDS


Weight: 165 PRs: 800m - 1:43.76 (2010); mile - 3:56.72i (2007); 1,500m - 3:40.91 (2006) Born: Dec. 30, 1983, in Blytheville, Ark. Current Residence: Springfield, Ore. High School: Bishop Kelly (Boise, Idaho) HS ‗02 College: Willamette University ‗06

Coach: Mark Rowland Agent: Chris Layne Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials 800m champion; Three-time USA Outdoor champion (‘09, ‘10, ‘11); Two-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘06, ‘07); Two-time USA Indoor champion (‘07, ‘10); 7-time NCAA Div. III Outdoor champion (800m, 1,500m)

For the fourth year in a row, Symmonds topped U.S. 800m runners with a win at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. At the Monaco Diamond League event, he recorded a 1:43.83, the fastest time by a U.S. runner this season. Symmonds proved his national dominance in the 800 meters again in 2010 by winning the USA Indoor and Outdoor titles, picking up a win at the adidas Grand Prix in New York and posting the fastest time by an American that year with a personal best of 1:43.76. At

the 2009 World Outdoor Championships Symmonds became the first American to make the men's 800m final since Rich Kenah won the bronze medal and Mark Everett finished eighth in 1997. He finished sixth in 1:45.71. Also in 2009, Symmonds again proved his national dominance in the men‘s 800 meters by winning his second consecutive USA Outdoor title with his time of 1:45.86, narrowly edging out four-time USA Outdoor champion Khadevis Robinson. At the 2008 Olympic Trials men‘s 800m final, Symmonds used his kick coming off the final curve to propel himself to the win in a time

of 1:44.10 in qualifying for his first Olympic Team in front of his hometown fans in Eugene, Ore. His

time at the Olympic Trials was the fastest time by an American in 2008. Symmonds won his first U.S. indoor title in 2007 and followed that up with a runner-up finish at the USA Outdoor Championships. He first proved his mettle on the elite level when he finished as the runner-up in the 800 meters at the 2006 USA Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis. He was a seven-time NCAA Division III outdoor track champion and Division III national record holder while at Williamette University in Oregon. He won both the 800m and 1,500m each year of his college career except his sophomore season, when injury limited him to only the 800m. Symmonds was named the 2005 Division III Track and Field Male

Athlete of the Year. Symmonds was the surprise winner of the 2005 Northwest Conference cross country championship, helping lead the Bearcats to another conference and regional championship, their fifth in a row. A 2006 graduate of Willamette University, he studied biochemistry, and Symmonds attended Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho. He now competes for the Oregon Track Club. 2011: USA Outdoor champion (1:44.17)... 3rd at Monaco (1:43.83)... best of 1:43.83

2010: USA Outdoor champion (1:45.98)…USA Indoor champion (1:48.10)…3rd at Pre Classic

(2:16.35)…6th at Monaco (1:44.06)…3rd at Rieti (1:43.76,U.S. Leader)..4th at Stockholm (1:45.32)…1st at NY GP (1:45.05) …6th at Paris (1:44.93) …2nd at Ponce GP in 1,000m (3:40.33)...ranked #6 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:43.76. 2009: USA Outdoor champion (1:45.86)...6th at World Outdoors (1:45.71)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (1:45.86)…1st at Tyson Invitational (1:47.72)…1st at 1,000m at Reebok BIG (2:20.52)...3rd at Monaco (1:43.83PR, U.S. Leader)...ranked #10 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:43.83.

2008: Olympic Trials 800m champion (1:44.10PR, U.S. Leader)…5th in Olympics semifinal (1:46.96)…4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (1:45.01)…6th at World Indoor Champs (1:46.48)…runner-up at USA Indoors (1:46.96)…ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:44.10. 2007: USA Outdoors runner-up (1:45.17)… 6th in semis at World Outdoors (1:46.41)...USA Indoors champion (1:48.73)…1st at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (1:48.15)…1st in mile at Seattle (3:56.72iPR)…2nd in mile at Tyson Invitational (4:01.21)…Nike Prefontaine Classic champion

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(1:44.54PR)…3rd at Madrid (1:45.06)…5th at Heusden-Zolder (1:45.49)…ranked #2 in U.S. by

T&FN…best of 1:44.54. 2006: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (1:45.83)…NCAA Division III Outdoor 800m champ (1:49.59)…4th at Stanford (3:40.91PR)…ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 1:45.83, 3:40.91.

2005: NCAA Div. III Outdoor 800m champ (1:49.87)…NCAA Div. III 1,500m champ (3:54.20)…bests of 1:48.82, 3:54.20. 2004: NCAA Div. III Outdoor 800m champ…bests of 1:50.87, 3:46.66. 2003: NCAA Div. III Outdoor 800m champ (1:49.51)…NCAA Div. III 1,500m champ (3:46.66)…bests of 1:49.51, 3:46.66.

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JENEBA TARMOH

Event: Sprints Height: 5-5 Weight: 130 PR: 100m -11.19 (2010); 200m - 22.28 (2011) Born: September 27, 1989 Current Residence: San Jose, Calif. High School: Mt. Pleasant (San Jose, Calif.) HS ‗07

College: Tennessee 08‘; Texas A&M 12‘ Coach: Vince Anderson Agent: Kim Holland

Club: Nike Career Highlights: Two-time NCAA runner-up (‘10,‘11); 2010

NACAC U-23 champion; 2008 World Junior champion 100m and 4x100m relay; 2006 World Junior champion 4x100m relay Tarmoh turned heads at the 2011 USA Championships where she took third in the 200m to punch her ticket to her first senior World Championships. Tarmoh was not far behind second-placer Carmelita Jeter, with only five-hundredths of a second separating the pair. After her success at the U.S. Championships, Tarmoh decided to forgo her senior year of eligibility at Texas A&M and sign a

professional contract. Tarmoh helped Texas A&M win the team title with her runner-up finish in the 200m and her contributions to both relay squads. Tarmoh won gold at the 2010 NACAC U-23 Championships in the 100m after first tasting success at the 2008 World Junior Championships. Tarmoh made her first international team at 16-years-old.

2011: 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs in 200m (22.28)...NCAA runner-up in 200m (22.34)...Ran lead leg of winning NCAA 4x400m relay...Ran on runner-up NCAA 4x100m relay...1st at West Region Champs

in 100m (11.36) and 200m (22.62) 2010: NACAC U-23 champion (11.00w)... NCAA Outdoor runner-up in 200m (22.92) and 3rd in 100m (11.13w)..Ran on winning NCAA SMR relay...Ran on winning NCAA 4x400m relay...Big 12 champ in 100m (11.19PR) and 200m (22.65) 2009: no results 2008: World Junior champ in 100m (11.37)...Ran first leg of winning World Junior Champs 4x100m

relay...USA Junior champ (11.21)...3rd at NCAA Indoor 60m (7.42)...named SEC freshman runner of the year 2006: Ran on winning 4x100m relay team at World Junior Champs..7th at World Junior Champs in 200m (23.96)

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ANGELO TAYLOR

Event: 400m hurdles, 400m Height: 6-2 Weight: 185 PRs: 400mH - 47.25 (2008); 400m - 44.05 (2007)

Born: December 29, 1978, in Albany, Ga. Current Residence: Decatur, Ga. High School: Southwest DeKalb (Decatur) HS '96 College: Georgia Tech '99 Coach: Loren Seagrave Agent: Kimberly Holland Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2000 & 2008 Olympic 400m hurdles & 4x400m relay gold medalist; 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials in 400m hurdles; 2007 World Outdoor 400m bronze medalist and 4x400m

gold medalist; 2000 IAAF Grand Prix Overall and GP Final champion; 2000 Jesse Owens Award winner; 2001, 1999 & 2009 World Champs gold medalist in 4x400m relay; 3-time U.S. champ

(99-01); two-time US Outdoor 400m champion (‘02, ‘07); 1999 U.S. Indoor 400m champion; 1998 NCAA 400H champ After winning 2009 relay gold at the World Championships, Taylor is back for his fifth world championships team. Even with his elite career spanning more than a decade, Taylor is still turning in top performances, with his time of 47.94 ranking as his ninth best-ever performance. Taylor's season best in 2011 is even faster than he ran during 2002-2007. Taylor won his second Olympic gold in the

400m hurdles at the 2008 Games in Beijing, leading from start to finish in a personal-best and 2008 world leading time of 47.25. The 2000 gold medalist in Sydney, where he ran out of lane 1, Taylor duplicated a feat achieved only by Edwin Moses in this event, winning gold medals eight years apart. Also in Beijing, Taylor joined with LaShawn Merritt, Jeremy Wariner and David Neville in winning the gold medal in the 4x400m relay in the Olympic record time of 2:55.39.Taylor‘s career has been a

remarkable study in versatility and longevity. After a period of time at the turn of the century as the world‘s best 400m hurdler, Taylor, in 2007, became the world‘s #3 ranked competitor in the 400

meters, after winning the 2007 U.S. Outdoor title in that event in a personal best time of 44.05 seconds, and winning the World Outdoor Championships bronze medal later that summer. Taylor also ended the 2007 campaign ranked #6 in the world in the 400m hurdles following wins at Mt. SAC, Monaco, Hengelo and Dakar. One of America‘s stars in the 400m hurdles in 2000, Taylor won Olympic gold just four years after graduating from high school, at age 21. He has won a total of five US Outdoor championships between the 400m and the 400m hurdles. After winning the 2001 U.S. 400mH

title, Taylor split his time between the 400m and 400m hurdles before making his second Olympic Team with a runner-up finish at the 2004 Olympic Trials. When he first went out for track, Taylor tried all the events: ―…When I tried the hurdles, I automatically knew that was the event for me.‖ Both his parents had run, and his father played football at Albany State (Ga.). Taylor is the fastest-ever 19-year-old in the 400H. If he had been born two days later, his 47.90 at the 1998 USA Championships would have been a world junior record. He was named collegiate Athlete of the Year in 1998. Taylor captured the 2000 IAAF Overall Grand Prix title, and collected a check for $250,000 for his efforts. His

previous highest check was a $15,000 appearance fee…Taylor is the father of twin boys...website: wwwangelotaylorusa.com 2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors in 400mH (47.94)... 1st in Monaco 400mH (47.97)...1st in 400m at PreClassic (45.16)... 3rd 400mH at Rome (48.66)...4th at Stockholm in 400 (44.82). 2010: 1st at Daegu in 400m (45.21)…Did not compete at USA Outdoor Champs...2nd in Rome (44.74)…1st at Baie Mahault in 400m (45.04) and 400m hurdles (48.16)…3rd at Zurich (44.72)...4thin

Doha in 400m hurdles (49.66)…2nd at Lausanne (47.96)…2nd at Monaco (47.79)…3rd at Stockholm (49.57)…2nd at Shanghai in 200m (20.34)…4th at Gateshead (20.50)...ranked #4 in world, #2 U.S. at 400m, #5 in world, #3 U.S. in 400m hurdles by T&FN...bests of 44.72, 47.79. 2009: 3rd at USA Outdoors (48.30)...4th in opening round at World Outdoors (49.64)...World Outdoor 4x400m relay gold medalist-1st leg (2:57.86WL)...2nd at adidas Track Classic (48.70)…4that Nike

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Prefontaine Classic (48.79)...2nd in London (45.15)...ranked #4 in 400m & 400m hurdles in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 49.64, 45.15.

2008: Olympic Games gold medalist (47.25PR, World Leader)…4x400m relay Olympic gold medalist (2:55.39, Olympic record)…3rd at Olympic Trials in 400m hurdles (48.42)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (45.14)…2nd at Lausanne (44.38)…4th in 400m (44.03) and 6th in 400mH (50.06) at DKB-ISTAF Berlin…1st at Baie Mahault (44.34)…1st in 200m at Doha (20.08)…1st at Greensboro (19.80w)…ranked #2 in world & #2 U.S. at 400m hurdles, #4 in world & #3 U.S. by T&FN… bests of 47.25 & 44.38. 2007: World Outdoor 400m bronze medalist (44.32) and 4x400m gold medalist (2:55.56)...USA

Outdoor champion 400m (44.05PR)…1st in 400m at Atlanta (44.35)...1st in 400mH at Dakar (48.68)…1st in 400m at Sheffield (45.25)…2nd in 400m at Madrid (45.05)..1st in 400mH at Monaco (48.45)…ranked #3 in world and U.S. at 400m, #6 in world, #4 U.S. at 400m hurdles by T&FN…bests of 44.05 & 48.45. 2006: 5th in 400m semifinals at USA Outdoors...bests of 45.24, 49.44. 2005: Did not compete.

2004: 2nd at Olympic Trials in the 400m hurdles (48.03)…4th in semifinal at Olympic Games (48.72).

2003: 4th in opening round of USA Outdoors 400mH (50.72)…1st in Turin (48.94)…1st in Milan (48.95)…6th in London (49.10)…best of 48.94. 2002: USA Outdoor 400m champion (45.00)…1st at Nike Prefontaine (44.85)…7th (48.87) in 400mH at Rome…7th at Lausanne (49.20)…ranked #10 in the world at 400m (#4 U.S.), ranked #7 U.S. at 400mH by T&FN…bests of 44.85 & 48.87. 2001: Won USA Outdoors (48.53)…ran anchor leg of USA's gold-winning World Outdoor 4x400m relay

(2:57.54)…4th in semis at World Outdoors, clipping the 10th hurdle and being thrown off balance (49.23). He also was suffering from sinus and stomach problems won Norwich Union Challenge (49.01)…had top four times by an American in 2001…ranked #3 in world, #1 in U.S. in 400mH by T&FN…ranked #10 in world & #3 U.S. at 400m…bests of 47.95 in winning in Lausanne and 44.68 in winning 400m at Princeton Invitational. 2000: Won Olympic gold out of Lane 1 with PR of 47.50 (fastest time in the world in 2000)...ran 2nd leg in opening round of 4x400m relay for gold medal...won Olympic Trials 400 hurdles in a then PR of

47.62... PR'd in flat 400 at 44.89...captured overall IAAF Grand Prix title...ranked #1in the world by

T&FN...bests of 47.50 and 44.89. 1999: Won USA Outdoors 400LH (48.49)... ran third leg of gold medal winning 4x400 (2:56.47) at World Championships; 3rd in 400mH heats...won 400 at USA Indoors (45.50)...ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...bests of 45.50i and 48.15. 1998: 2nd at USA Outdoors (47.90 PR)... won NCAA Outdoors (48.14 PR) ...2nd at Goodwill Games (47.92)... won 400 (46.01 PR) at ACC Indoor...3rd in NCAA Indoor 400 (46.12)...won ACC 400H

(49.18); anchored winning 4 x 400 (43.6 for 3:01.89...also PR 45.14 at 400m...ranked #3 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN... best of 47.90 and 45.14PR (400). 1997: 2nd in NCAA Outdoors (48.72 PR)... 3rd NCAA Indoor 400 (46.18)...5th in semi at USA Outdoors (49.11)...2nd in ACC Indoor 400 (47.74)... won ACC (49.35 PR); anchor winning 4 x 400 (45.7 for 3:06.23)...ranked #9 U.S. at 400H by T&FN...bests of 48.72, 20.67PR (200). 1996: Won National Scholastic (51.13) and USA Juniors (50.92)...bronze at World Juniors (50.18

PR)...won Georgia state HS titles in the 400, 300H, both relays, and TJ...bests of 50.18, 46.7 (400). 1995: Won Georgia state HS titles in 300H, TJ, and 4x400... best of 52.76.

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CHRISTIAN TAYLOR

Event: Long and triple jump Height: 6-2 Weight: 175 PR: LJ – 8.19m/26-10.5 (2011); TJ – 17.68m/58-0.25 (2011)

Born: June 18, 1990 Current Residence: Fayetteville, Ga. High School: Sandy Creek (Tyrone, Ga.) College: University of Florida ‗12 Coach: Rana Reider Club: Li-Ning Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoors triple jump champion;

Two-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘09,‘10); Third at 2008 Olympic Trials; 2005 Pan Am Junior champion; 2005 USA Junior champion; 2010 NCAA Outdoor triple jump champion; Two-time

NCAA Indoor triple jump champion (‘09, ‘10) In three years competing for the University of Florida, Christian

Taylor is already a 10-time NCAA All-American. The highlight of his already brilliant career was winning the triple jump at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (17.49m/57-4.75), hitting the A standard for the 2011 IAAF World Track & Field Championships in Daegu, South Korea. He also placed fourth in the long jump at 2011 USA Outdoors (8.07m/26-5.75). Both jumps were personal bests for the Florida Gator. Within the 10 All-American honors includes three NCAA Championships (2010 outdoor triple jump; 2009 and 2010 indoor triple jump). Taylor has also won a total of eight SEC championships in

the long jump, triple jump and 4x400m relay. His high school career was just as impressive. Competing for Sandy Creek High School, Taylor is the Georgia state record holder in the long jump (25-6), triple jump (52-0) and 400m (47.19). He was also selected the 2008 Gatorade Athlete of the Year for the state of Georgia...Taylor chose to forgo his last year of collegiate eligibility and sign with Li-Ning, a Chinese athletic company.

2011: USA Outdoors triple jump champion (17.49m/57-4.75) and 4th in long jump (8.07m/26-5.75)…

NCAA triple jump runner-up (16.99m/55-9)… SEC Indoor triple jump champion (17.36m/56-11.50)… best of 17.68m/58-0.25 at London Grand Prix. 2010: USA Outdoor triple jump runner-up (16.76m/55-0) and 12th in long jump (7.63m/25-0.50)… 1st in triple jump at NCAA Outdoors (17.09m/56-1w) and NCAA Indoors (16.83m/55-2.75)…SEC Indoor (16.83m/55-2.75) and Outdoor triple jump champion (16.68m/54-8.75)… SEC Outdoors long jump runner-up (8.19m/26-10.50)… NACAC U-23 champion in the long jump and triple jump… Ranked

No. 1 in the country in the triple jump by Track and Field News… Bests of 7.79m/25-6.75 and 17.18m/56-4.50. 2009: SEC indoor champion in the long jump (7.71m/25-3.50) and triple jump (16.11m/52-10.25)… NCAA indoor triple jump champion (16.98m/55-8.50)… 3rd in triple jump at NCAA Outdoors (16.91m/55-5.750)… Bests of 7.72m/25-4 and 16.98m/55-8.50. 2008: 3rd at USA Junior Outdoors in long jump (7.60m/24-11.25) and 2nd in triple jump (16.05m/52-08)… 7th at IAAF World Junior Championships in long jump (7.41m/24-3.75) and 8th in

triple jump (15.61m/51-2.75)… Bests of 7.60m/24-11.25 and 16.05m/52-08

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MATT TEGENKAMP


Weight: 145 PRs: 1,500m - 3:34.25 (2007); Mile - 3:56.38 (2006); 3,000m - 7:34.98 (2006); 2 Mile - 8:07.07AR (2007); 5,000m - 12:58.56 (2009); 10,000m - 27:28.22 (2011) Born: January 19, 1982, in Lee‘s Summit, Mo. Current Residence: Portland, Ore. High School: Lee‘s Summit (Mo) HS ‗00

College: Wisconsin ‗05 Coach: Jerry Schumacher Agent: Tom Ratcliffe

Club: Nike Career Highlights: American two-mile record holder; 2009 USA Outdoor 5,000m champ; Two-time USA Indoor 3,000m champ (‘07,

‘08); 4th at 2007 World Outdoor Champs 5,000m; 3-time USA Outdoors 5,000m runner-up (‘06, ‘07, ‗08); 2011 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 USATF Club XC champion; 5th in Junior race at 2001 World XC Championships; 2001 USA Junior XC champion In his first year competing in the 10,000m at the elite level, Tegenkamp finished second at the 2011

USA Outdoor Championships and earned his third ever World Outdoor Championships bid. Tegenkamp qualified for his second World Outdoor Championships team with his first-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene. Tegenkamp broke the 13-minute barrier in the 5,000 meters for the first time in his career in 2009 with his 12:58.56 clocking in Brussels on September 4. Tegenkamp joined Bob Kennedy, Bernard Lagat and Dathan Ritzenhein as the only Americans ever to accomplish that feat. Tegenkamp‘s surprising fourth-place 5,000m finish at the

2007 World Outdoor Championships propelled him to a year-end world ranking (#10) by Track & Field

News for the first time in his career. With fellow American Bernard Lagat ending the season ranked #4 globally, it marked the first time since 1985 that two Americans ended a season ranked in the top ten in the world at 5,000 meters since 1985. Tegenkamp‘s 3,000m win at the 2007 USA Indoor Championships preceded a runner-up finish at the Outdoor Championships in the 5,000m. He also raised some eyebrows with his American record in the two-mile at the Prefontaine Classic of 8:07.07. Tegenkamp moved to #4 on the all-time U.S. 5,000m list with a 13:04.90 personal best at the 2006 DN Galan meet in Stockholm, Sweden on July 25, 2006. Also in 2006, Tegenkamp set personal bests

at two other distances: 3:35.96 for 1500m and 3:56.38 for the mile. Tegenkamp first gained widespread attention in 2001, where at the World Cross Country Championships junior race, which was won by the great Kenenisa Bekele, he finished fifth. Tegenkamp is a 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he struggled with a series of injuries throughout his collegiate career. After Tegenkamp missed the 2003 cross country season with yet another injury, Wisconsin coach Jerry Schumacher changed his training regimen, emphasizing shorter, more frequent runs. Tegenkamp

responded quickly in 2004, setting an indoor 5,000m best of 13:44.06 and an outdoor best of

13:30.90. 2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors in 10,000m (28:39.97) 2010: 8th at USA Outdoors in 1,500m (3:52.54)...8th at adidas Grand Prix (3:36.12)...13th at Nike Prefontaine (13:25.09)...ranked #10 in U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN...bests of 3:36.12, 13:25.09. 2009:USA Outdoor 5,000m champion (13:20.57)...8th at World Champs (13:20.23)...7th at Brussels

(12:58.56PR)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 12:58.56. 2008: 2nd at Olympic Trials in 5,000m (13:29.68)…13th at Olympic Games (13:33.13)…USA Indoor 3,000m champ (8:02:52)…13th in Brussels (13:25.71)…ranked #2 in U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN...bests of 3:40.04, 7:40.75, 13:25.71. 2007: 4th at World Outdoors (13:46.78)...USA Outdoor 5,000m runner-up (13:31.31)…USA Indoor 3,000m champ (7:46.08)…3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic 2 mile (8:07.07AR)…8th in 1,500m at

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Athens (3:34.25PR)…6th in 3,000m at Monaco (7:37.31)…6th in 1,500m at Heusden (3:36.48)…4th in

3,000m at Stockholm (7:35.68)…bests of 13:07.41, 7:37.31 & 3:34.25. 2006: Runner-up at 5,000m at USA Outdoors (13:15.00)…8th at Stockholm (13:04.90PR)…6th at Eugene 2-mile (8:16:50)…1st at Madison (3:56.38PR)…7th at Berlin 1,500m (3:35.96PR)…5th at

Monaco (7:34.98PR)…ranked #3 at 1,500m/mile, #3 at 3,000m, #2 at 5,000m in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 13:04.90, 7:34.98. 2005: 6th at USA Outdoors 5,000m (13:25.36)…1st at 10 km at USATF Club XC Champs (29:47)…5th in 5,000m at NCAA Outdoors (13:41.07)…Big 10 1,500m champ (3:39.40)…ranked #10 U.S. at 5,000m by T&FN…bests of 13:25.36, 7:43.33. 2004: 3rd in 5,000m at NCAA Outdoors (14:11.45)…2nd at Big 10 Champs…best of 13:30.90. 2003: Injured, did not compete.

2002: Runner-up at Big 10 Champs 5,000m…bests of 7:57.08i, 13:44.77.

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ARETHA HILL

THURMOND

Event: Discus Throw Height: 5-10

Weight: 235 PR: 65.86m/216-1 (2004) Born: August 14, 1976, in Seattle, Wash. Current Residence: Opelika, Ala. High School: Renton (Wash.) '94 College: Washington '98 Coach: Jerry Clayton

Agent: Paul Doyle

Club: Nike Website: www.arethathrows.com Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials champion; Three-time USA champion ('03, '04, '06); 1999 and 2003 Pan Am Games gold medalist; 2011 and 2009 USA Outdoors runner-up

Thurmond has been among the top, and most consistent, American throwers for the last 10 years. In

2011, Thurmond matched her performance of two years ago and placed second at USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for her fifth World Outdoor team. Thurmond returned to the top of the podium after having a child in spring of 2007, winning her fourth career national title and second

Olympic Trials crown with a toss of 65.20m/213-11 to make her third Olympic Team. She easily won her third national title at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships with a throw of 62.50m/205-1 which qualified her for the IAAF World Cup where she was elected team captain and placed a second with 61.83m/202-10 on her second throw of the competition Thurmond made her second Olympic Team in 2004 by winning her second national title at the Olympic Trials. She posted the top 10 marks

during the 2004 season in the U.S. by a woman. In addition to winning her first U.S. discus title in 2003, Thurmond proved her dominance over other U.S. women‘s discus throwers by posting nine of

the top 11 throws by Americans that season. Not bad for someone who embarked on her track career on a lost bet. She had wanted to play softball in high school, but her physical education teacher wanted her to go out for track…they made a bet that if he could beat her in one-on-one basketball, she would give up softball…he won, and she kept her part of the bargain. She went on to win three state discus title. Coach Ken Shannon says that Thurmond can be the first American to throw 70 meters (229-8). She says that after a breakthrough 1996 campaign put her on the Olympic team, she

pressed too hard in 1997. She was a member of the Project 30 Task Force and is a member of USATF's newly reconstituted Board of Directors.

2011: USA Outdoor runner-up (62.87m/206-3)... 2nd at Lausanne (63.85m/209-5)... 2nd at Birmingham (62.65m/205-6)... 3rd at adidas Grand Prix (59.38m/194-10)... 3rd at Shanghai

(60.98m/198-1) 2010: 4th at USA Outdoors (59.97m/195-05)...3rd at Oslo (61.80m/202-9)...4th at Doha

(62.26m/204-3)...2nd at California Relays (62.47m/204-11)...7th at Paris (60.83m/199-7). 2009: 10th at World Outdoors (59.89m/196-6), 12th in qualifying (61.08m/200-5)…USA Outdoor runner-up (62.51m/205-1)...4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (60.04m/196-11)...2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (61.71m/202-5)…7th at World Athletic Final (59.64m/195-8)…ranked #2 in the U.S.

byT&FN…best of 62.51m/205-1. 2008: 10th at Olympic Games (59.80m/196-2), 2nd in qualifying (61.90m/203-1)...Olympic Trials champion (65.20m/213-11)...2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (63.06m/206-11)...ranked #10 in the world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 65.20m/213-11. 2007: 6th at USA Outdoors (54.96m/180-4)…best of 54.96m/180-4…only competed in one meet due to return from pregnancy. 2006: USA Outdoor champion (62.50m/205-01)…2nd at IAAF World Cup (61.83m/202-10)…1st at

Modesto Relays (64.41m/211-4)…3rd at Ostrava (62.90m/206-4)…ranked #6 in the world (#1 U.S.)

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by T&FN…best of 64.41m/211-4.

2005: 3rd at USA Outdoors (61.77m/202-08)…11th in Group B qualifying at World Outdoors (47.15m/154-8) … 2nd at Halle (63.22m/207-5)…5th at Doha (62.00/203-5)…1st at Zagreb (61.08m/200-4)…1st at Lapua (64.56m/211-9)…1st at Dubnica (63.58m/208-7)…4th at Berlin

(61.17m/200-8)…3rd at World Athletics Final (60.68m/199-1)…1st at Athens, Ga. (61.95-203-3)…ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 64.56m/211-9. 2004: Olympic Trials champion (63.55m/208-6)…10th in Group B qualifying at Olympic Games (58.82m/193-0)…1st at Mt. SAC (63.37m/207-11)…1st at Marietta (65.86m/216-1PR)…1st at Huntington Beach (65.76m/215-9)…1st at La Jolla (64.73m/212-4)…1st at San Diego (65.38m/214-6)…1st at adidas Oregon (64.73m/212-4)…1st at Payton Jordan US Open (63.79m/209-3)…1st at Grand Prix Brazil (63.43m/208-1)…1st at Szombathely (63.23m/207-5)…1st at Thessaloniki

(63.19/207-3)…4th at the IAAF World Athletics Final (63.43m/208-1)…ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 65.86m/216-1. 2003: USA champion (63.98m/209-11)…Pan Am Games gold medalist (63.30m/207-8)…1st at Carson (64.71m/212-4, U.S. Leader)…10th in qualifying group at World Outdoor (50.79m/166-7)…1st at Gresham (63.44m/208-2)…1st at Mt. SAC (63.13m/207-1)…1st at Belem (62.55m/205-2)…2nd at

Monaco (65.10m/213-7 U.S. Leader)…ranked #8 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN ...best of 65.10m/213-

7. 2002: 3rd at USA Outdoors DT (62.41m/204-9)…won DT at Nike Prefontaine Classic (63.48m/208-3)… 2nd at Oracle U.S. Open (63.21m/207-4) and adidas Oregon Track Classic (63.40m/208-0)…ranked #10 in world (#3 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 65.21m/213-11. 2001: 4th at U.S. Outdoors (59.96m/196-09)…3rd at Modesto Relays (61.64m/202-03)…1st at Sea Ray Relays (61.28m/201-0) …ranked 4th in U.S. by T&FN… best of 61.64m/ 202-3. 2000: 4th in DT finals at Olympic Trials (60.70m/199-02)...6th at Pontiac Grand Prix (58.75m/192-

9)...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 62.90m/206-4. 1999: Won gold at the 1999 Pan Am Games (59.06m/193-9)…3rd at USA Outdoors (193-10)... 23rd in qualifying at World Champs (188-8)...best of 203-11. 1998: Threw American Collegiate Record of 215-3 in San Diego in March, only one American had ever thrown farther... 2nd in NCAA DT (192-5)...3rd in USA Outdoors DT (198-5)... won Pac-10 DT (208-11)...ranked #2 U.S. in DT by T&FN...bests of 52-2.5 and 215-3. 1997: 4th in DT (190-7) at NCAA...5th in DT (196-5) at USA Outdoors...6th in DT (184-1) at World

University Games...3rd in DT at Pac-10 (189-10); 4th in SP (48-9)...also 162-7 PR in the hammer... ranked #7 U.S. in DT by T&FN...bests of 50-2 and 196-7. 1996: 3rd in DT (190-5) at Olympic Trials...34th in DT qualifying (183-10) at Olympic Games...3rd in DT (189-10) at NCAA; 16th in SP (44-7.5)... won DT (195-9) at Pac-10; 3rd in SP (50-3.5)... ranked #3 in U.S. in DT by T&FN...bests of 51-0.75 and 198-6. 1995: 4th in Pac-10 DT (166-7)...7th in DT (173-3 PR) at NCAA...5th in DT (158-11) at USA

Juniors...bests of 46-1.25 and 173-3. 1994: Won Washington HS DT and SP…3rd at Golden West (157-1)…best of 165-9 1993: Won Washington HS DT…best of 155-9. 1992: Won Washington HS DT…best of 142-4. 1991: 2nd in Washington HS state DT.

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JAMAAL TORRANCE

Event: 400m Height: 5-8 Weight: 130 PR: 44.80 (2010) Born: July 20, 1983, in Orlando, Fla. Current Residence: Raleigh, N.C. High School: Evans (Fla.) HS ‗02

College: St. Augustine‘s College ‗07 Coach: George Williams

Career Highlights: 2009 USA Indoors champion; 2010 USA Indoors runner-up; 3rd at 2010 USA Outdoors; 4th at 2011 USA Outdoors; two-time NCAA Division II 400m champion (‘06, ‘07); 2007 NCAA Division II 200m

champion

For the past three seasons Jamaal Torrance has been one of the premier 400m sprinters in a country typically dominant at that distance. An indoor national champion and runner-up, he couldn‘t quite get over the hump and onto the Olympic or World team, until he caught his break in 2011. Torrance

placed fourth at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, but was given a spot in Daegu when former Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner pulled from competition due to an injury. Torrance was the USA Indoors champion in 2009 and finished second Outdoors. He ran a personal best time of 44.80 to place third at 2010 USA Outdoors. He qualified for the 2007 Pan Am and World Outdoor Championship teams with his fifth place finish at the 2007 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Indianapolis, where he finished in 45.79. He finished seventh in the 400 meters at the 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio

de Janeiro with his time of 48.06. He ran the second leg on Team USA‘s silver medal winning 4x400m

relay team at Pan Ams as the American quartet finished in 3:02.44. At the 2007 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships Torrance was the champion in two races, the 400m (46.58) and the 200m (21.19). His time of 21.19 in the 200m set a national meet record as Torrance blasted the field.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (45.11)… 9th at Rome (46.22). 2010: USA Indoors runner-up (45.76)… 3rd at USA Outdoors (44.80). 2009: USA Indoors champion (46.37). 2008: 10th in Olympic Trials semi-finals (45.76). 2007: 6th at 2007 USA Outdoors (45.79)…7th at Pan Am Games (48.06)…2nd in 4x400m relay at Pan

Am Games (3:02.44)…set personal best at semifinals at USA Outdoors (45.19)…NCAA Div. II Indoor 200m, 400m champion (21.19, 46.58). 2006: 4th at NCAA Div. II Outdoors (47.19)…anchored NCAA Div. II 4x400m champion (3:08.78)…NCAA Div. II Indoor champion (46.89). 2005: 7th at NCAA Div. II Outdoors (47.41)…anchored NCAA Div. II 4x400m runner-up (3:07.79).

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MORGAN UCENY

Events: 800m, 1,500m Height: 5-3 Weight: 115 PR: 800m - 1:58.37 (2011); 1500m - 4:01.51 (2011) Born: February 20, 1985 in Amite, La. Current Residence: Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

High School: Plymouth (Ind.) HS ‗03 College: Cornell ‗07 Coach: Terrence Mahon Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: adidas

Career Highlights: 2011 USA Outdoor 1,500m champion;

2010 USA Indoor 1,500m champion

In only two years, Uceny has transformed from a best showing of 4th place at USA Outdoors, to being a national champion and

a contender on the international level. Uceny currently leads the Diamond League standings after major wins in Lusanne and Birmingham. Won her first outdoor title at the 2011 USA Championships where she ran in second through the the majority of the race, and caught Christin Wurth-Thomas on the final turn of the 1500m. Uceny won in 4:03.91 to earn her spot on her first world championship team...was victorious in the Nike Women's 1,500 meters in winning her first ever USA title at the 2010 USA Indoor Championships. Uceny crossed the finish line first in 4:19.46, just barely edging out 2009 World Outdoor Championships 1,500m bronze medalist Shannon Rowbury, who finished as the runner-up in 4:19.48.

2011: USA Outdoor champion (4:03.91)... 1st at Lausanne (4:05.52)... 1st at Birmingham

(4:05.64)...1st at Lignano (1:58.37 PR)...3rd at Monaco (4:01.51 PR)...2nd in 800m at New Balance

Grand Prix (2:01.65)... 2nd in 1,500m at adidas Grand Prix (4:08.42)... 3rd in 1,500m at Pre Classic (4:06.32)...2nd at Birmingham Indoor GP (1:59.97) 2010: 5th at USA Outdoors (2:00.86)…USA Indoor champion (4:19.46)…6th at adidas Grand Prix (4:04.01)…5th at Lausanne (4:02.40PR)…3rd at Lignano (1:59.29)…1st at Spitzen (1:58.67PR)…4th at London (1:59.32)…ranked #9 in the world, # 3 U.S. at 800m and #3 in the U.S. at 1,500m by T&FN…bests of 1:58.67 and 4:04.40. 2009: 6th at USA Outdoors (2:01.32)…9th at Reebok Grand Prix (2:06.03)…3rd at Heusden

(2:00.95)…10th at Monaco (2:00.06)…2nd at Luzern (4:09.95)…8th at London (4:10.15)…bests of 2:00.06 and 4:09.95. 2008: 4th in 1,500m and 6th in 800m at Olympic Trials (4:10.85, 2:02.16)…3rd at USA Indoors (2:04.12)…4th at Reebok Grand Prix (2:02.43)…3rd at London (2:00.01)…1st at Luzern (4:06.93)…1st at Heusden (4:07.22)…bests of 2:00.01 and 4:06.93. 2007: 4th at USA Outdoors (2:01.75)…6th at NCAA Champs (2:02.33)…5th at Lignano (2:03.31)…best of 2:01.75.

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MAGGIE VESSEY


Weight: 127 PR: 800m - 1:57.84 (2009) Born: Dec. 23, 1981 Current Residence: Seacliff, Calif High School: Soquel HS (Soquel, Calif.) College: Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo Coach: Rose Monday

Agent: Ray Flynn Club: New Balance

Career Highlights: 2010 & 2011 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2009 Nike Prefontaine Classic winner; 2005 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; NCAA All-American

Vessey ran her second-fastest race of all-time at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships where she finished 2nd in 1:58.86 to earn a spot on her second trip to the world championships. Vessey had the performance of her life in winning the women's 800m convincingly in a then-world leading time of 1:57.84 seconds at the Herculis Super Grand Prix meet in Monaco. Her performance was a personal best by more than two seconds, and it placed her on the Team USA roster for the 2009 World Outdoor

Championships in Berlin by easily bettering the 'A' qualifying standard of 2:00.00. Vessey's time is the fastest by an American since Jearl Miles-Clark topped the U.S. list in 2004 with her clocking of 1:57.27. Vessey‘s performance ties her for seventh place with Joetta Clark on the all-time U.S. list...Vessey provided a preview of what was to come with her stunning victory June 7 at the Nike Prefontaine Classic, which she entered as a last minute ―lane filler.‖ Vessey won the race in a then personal best 2:00.18, and defeated reigning Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo in the process.

2011: USA Outdoors runner-up in 800m (1:58.86)...4th at Lignano (1:59.17)...2nd at USATF HP meet (1:59.56)...3rd at New Balance Grand Prix (2:01:87). 2010: USA Outdoors runner-up (2:00.43)…9th at Pre Classic (1:59.90)…3rd at Rabat (2:01.55)…11th at Monaco (2:01.85)…2nd at Lignano (1:59.00)…10th at London (2:01.83)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:59.00. 2009: 7th in semifinal at World Champs (2:03.55)…4th at the USA Outdoors (2:01.19)…1st at Monaco (1:57.84PR)...1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:00.18)…4th at Reebok Grand Prix Classic

(2:01.49)...2nd at World Athletics Final (2:00.31)...best of 1:57.84. 2008: 5th at the 2008 US Olympic Trials (2:02.01)...ranked #7 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2:02.01 2007: Best of 2:11.57. 2006: Injured, did not compete. 2005: Runner-up at NCAA Outdoors (2:03.10)...7th at USA Outdoors (2:06.23)....Big West Outdoor runner-up...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2:03.10.

2004: Redshirt.

2003: Big West Outdoor champ...7th in prelims at NCAA Outdoors (2:08.89)...8th in prelims at USA Outdoors (2:08.12)...best of 2:05.78.

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KELLIE WELLS

Events: 100m hurdles Height: 5-3 Weight: 126 PR: 100mH - 12.50 (2011); 60mH—7.79 (2011)

Born: July 16, 1982 Current Residence: Orlando, Fla. High School: James River HS ‗02 College: Hampton Uniersity '06 Coach: Dennis Mitchell Agent: Robert Wagner Club: Nike

Twitter: KellieWellz Website: http://www.kellie-wells.com/ Career Highlights: 2011 USA Indoor and Outdoor champion;

Runner-up at 2010 USA Outdoor champs; 3rd at 2008 USA Indoor Champs

After suffering a heartbreaking injury at the 2008 Olympic Trials, Wells proved she is back as a force to be reckoned with on the U.S. hurdle scene. Wells won her first outdoor national title in a personal best time of 12.50. During the indoor season, Wells dominated the top marks lists. Wells‘ winning time of 7.79 at the 2011 USA Indoor Championships was the #1 time in the world for the year, and at the time gave her the nine fastest times in the world. Wells won her heat and quarterfinal, and during the semi-final, she ran a personal best time of 12.58; however, in the process she tore her hamstring and was unable to run in the finals and did not compete during

the remainder of the year. In 2007, Wells showed great promise in her first season as a pro. Wells lowered her PR under the 13-second mark and picked up major international wins in Lignano and Bydogszcz. Wells competed for Hampton University where she was a two-time All-American.

2011: USA Outdoors champion (12.50)... 2nd at Monaco (12.58)...1st at Lignano (12.81)...2nd at adidas Grand Prix (13.06)... 2nd at Rome (12.73)...1st at Doha (12.58) ...USA Indoor champion (7.79)

2010: 2nd at USA Outdoor Champs (12.84)…1st at Kansas Relays (12.90)...2nd at Liege (12.84)...6th at USA Indoor Champs (7.98)…ranked #9 in the U.S. outdoors by T&FN 2009: 2nd at Florida Relays (13.01) 2008: 3rd at USA Indoor Champs (8.02)… ranked # 6 in the U.S. indoors… 2nd in semi-finals of Olympic Trials (12.58 PR)...qualified for Olympic trial finals but did not compete due to injury… ranked #5 in the U.S. outdoors by T&FN

2007: 1st at Lignano (13.16)...1st at Bydogszcz (12.93)...5th at USA Indoor Champs (8.12)… 3rd at Boston Indoor Games (8.11) 2006: 6th at New York Grand Prix (13.25)...6th at NCAA Indoor Champs (8.08)… 5th at Millrose Games (8.23)

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ANDREW WHEATING


Weight: 175 PR: 1:44.56 (2010), 3:30.90 (2010) 3:51.74 (2010) Born: November 21, 1987 Current Residence: Eugene, Oregon High School: Kimball Union Academy (Meriden, N.H.) ‗06 College: Oregon ‗10 Coach: Vin Lananna

Facebook Fan Page: Andrew Wheating Career Highlights: Runner-up at 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials – Track & Field; 2010 NCAA Outdoor 800m & 1,500m champ; 2009

NCAA Outdoor 800m champ; runner-up at 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships; 2005 USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country champ

In his first full season as a post-collegiate runner, Wheating took

fourth at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for his first ever World Championships team. Wheating had a landmark season in 2010 highlighted by his time of 3:30.90 in the 1,500m on July 22, 2010 in Monaco to become the second-fastest American born athlete in the history of that

event; only Alan Webb has run faster. Wheating dramatically lowered his previous PR of 3:37.52, which came shortly after he posted a blistering personal best mile of 3:51.74 (Second fastest time by an American in 2010) at the Nike Prefontaine Classic on July 3. Wheating‘s 1,500m performance in Monaco was the fastest by an American in 2010, the sixth-fastest ever by an American and the fifth-fastest in the world that year. Also in 2010, Wheating lowered his 800m personal best time to 1:44.56 with his second-place finish in London. Wheating, then a University of Oregon sophomore from Norwich, Vt.,electrified his home crowd at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., with his runner-up

finish in the men‘s 800m final at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials – Track & Field. Wheating‘s strong finishing kick sent him across the finish line in a personal-best time of 1:45.03 to finish just behind winner Nick Symmonds of Oregon Track Club Elite. Oregon Track Club Elite‘s Christian Smith was the third-place finisher to make it an all Oregon-based trio headed to Beijing, which sent the Hayward Field crowd into a frenzy. The only other races Wheating had lost in 2008, prior to the Trials final, were in the Trials semifinals, when he was second to 2004 Olympian Khadevis Robinson, and in the

NCAA Championship 800m finals where he was second by .01. He was named the West Region men‘s track athlete of the year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Still a newcomer to track & field, Wheating ran track only one season and cross country two seasons in high school for legendary coach Jeff Johnson and focused on soccer in years prior. He posted a personal best in 1,500m by nine seconds as a freshman in 2007 and ranked seventh nationally in his class (3:45.17). He competed in the 800m for first time in 2007 and ended the outdoor regular season ranked ninth nationally among freshman (1:50.17). In his debut collegiate cross country season in '07

he earned All-Pac-10 Second Team laurels for his top-14 league finish. In his first season of track and field in 2006 he ranked fourth nationally in 1,500m with his personal best of 3:54.48 from the USA Junior Championships.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (3:48.19)... best of 3:34.39 at Paris 2010: NCAA Outdoor 1,500m champ (3:47.94)...NCAA Outdoor 800m champ (1:45.69)...5th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (3:51.74PR) ...4th in Monaco (3:30.90PR, U.S. Leader)...2nd in London (1:44.56PR)... ranked #10 in world, #2 U.S. at 800m; ranked #9 in world, #2 U.S. at 1,500m by T&FN...bests of 1:44.56, 3:51.74, 3:30.90. 2009: NCAA Outdoor 800m champ (1:46.21)...Pac 10 Outdoor 800m champ (1:49.83)... 3rd at Pac 10 Champs 1,500m (3:51.27)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN at 800m...bests of 1:46.21, 3:40.92.

2008: Runner-up at Olympic Trials (1:45.03PR)…4th in opening round at Olympic Games (1:47.05)…runner-up at NCAA Outdoors (1:45.32)…runner-up in semis at Olympic Trials (1:46.23)…ranked #3 U.S. by T&FN…best of 1:45.03.

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2007: 7th at 800m at Pac-10 Outdoors (1:50.96)…14th at Pac-10 Cross Country Champs (23:26.5 -

8,000m)…bests of 1:50.17, 3:45.17, 4:04.77. 2006: 8th at USA Junior Champs (3:54.28)…bests of 3:54.28 & 15:11 (5,000m). 2005: 1st at USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Champs (Young Men – 14:54.01)

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RYAN WHITING

Event: Shot Put, Discus Height: 6-3

Weight: 295 PR: SP – 21.97m/72-1 Born: November 24, 1986 Current Residence: Port Matilda, Pa. High School: Central Dauphin High School '06 (Harrisburg, Pa.) College: Arizona State ‗10 Coach: TJ Crater

Agent: Mark Wetmore Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Two-time USA Indoor runner-up (‘10, ‘11); 2009 NCAA Outdoor shot put champion; Two-time NCAA Indoor shot put champion (‘08, ‘09); 2009 NCAA Outdoor discus champion; 2008 NCAA Outdoor shot put runner-up; Eight-time

NCAA All-American; 4th at 2011 USA Outdoors The latest rising star in an event dominated for years in America by the big three – Reese Hoffa, Christian Cantwell and Adam Nelson – is Ryan Whiting. Whiting placed fourth at the USA Outdoor Championships to qualify for the World Championships team. And a testament to how dominant the Americans have been in the shot put, Whiting finished fourth in the

U.S. but heads into the World meet ranked fifth in the world. An eight-time All-American at Arizona State, with one indoor throw in the shot put in 2008 of 21.73m/71-03.50, Whiting established a new ASU, NCAA Championships and collegiate record. He is already a USA Indoor champion and USA Indoor runner-up and a three-time NCAA champion for indoors and outdoors. He recorded a personal best in 2011 to finish second in the Diamond League meet in Lausanne of 21.76m/71-4.75, which is the throw that ranks him fifth in the country in 2011.

2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (21.34m/70-0.25)… USA Indoor champion (21.35m/70-0.5)… 3rd at Doha (21.23m/69-08)… 5th at Rome (20.88m/68-09)… 6th at Prefontaine Classic (21.11m/69-3.25)… 2nd at Lausanne (21.76m/71-4.75)… 4th at Birmingham (20.55m/67-5.25)… 2010: USA Indoors runner-up (21.03m/69-0)… 5th at USA Outdoors (20.61m/67-07.50) 2009: NCAA Outdoor champion in shot put (20.11m/65-11.75) and runner-up in discus (59.80m/196-02)… NCAA Indoor champion (20.16m/66-1.75)… set Arizona State school records in shot put (20.99m/68-10.50) and discus (62.08m/203-08)… MPSF Indoor shot put champion (20.01m/65-

07.75)… Bests of 20.99m/68-10.50… Best of 20.99m/68-10.50. 2008: 2nd in shot put at NCAA Outdoors (20.24m/66-05); NCAA Indoor champion (21.73m/71-3.50). 2007: 4th in shot put at NCAA Outdoors (19.38m/63-07)… 3rd in shot put at NCAA Indoors (20.00m/65-07.75)

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IVORY WILLIAMS

Event: 100m Height: 5-8 Weight: 169 PR: 9.93 (2009)

Born: May 2, 1985 in Jefferson County, Texas Current Residence: Kansas City, Kans. High School: Beaumont Central College: University of Houston Coach: Al Hobson Agent: Gregory Foster Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 2010 USA Outdoors third-place finisher; 2004 World Juniors gold medalist

Competing in his breakout year, Williams finished third at the 2010 USA Outdoors in the 100m finals. This was Williams first

time finishing within the top five at the national meet. To add to his third-place finish, he also ran the sixth fastest time of the season, posting a 9.95 at the Kansas Relays in early May. He consistently proves himself a competitive sprinter as he has posted sub-10 marks since the 2008 Olympic Trial quarter-finals. His performance made him the fifth fastest American in the 100m that year, and ninth in the world rankings. However, he failed to progress beyond the semi-finals after being beat by Xavier Carter by just a thousandth of a second. He ran a, at the time, personal best of 6.52 seconds in the 60 meters at the 2009 USA Indoor Championships,

reaching the final as the fastest qualifier. However, he was disqualified in the final of the event for a false start. At the USA vs. The World relay competition at the Penn Relays, Williams took second place in 38.36. After reaching the final of the 2009 US Championships and finishing seventh to miss out on the World Championships, he recorded a new personal best the following month of 9.93 seconds in Greece.

2011: 1st at Kansas Relays (10.05)… 8th at the Prefontaine Classic with a time of (10.02)… 1st at

UNF Invitational (10.13) 2010: 3rd at USA Outdoors (10.29)…4th in Kingston (10.28)…5th at NY GP (9.98)…1st at Millrose Games in 60m (6.59)…1st at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (6.51). 2009: 7th at USA Outdoors (10.16)…1st at Athens (9.95)…6th at Lausanne (10.35)…1st at Luzern (10.03)…4th in London GP (10.21)…2nd at Glasgow in 60m (6.61). 2008: 6th in USA Indoors in 60m (6.62)…2nd at Pre Classic (10.10)…3rd at Berlin (10.13)…3rd at Rio

de Janerio (10.35)…1st at Baie Mahault (10.09)…best of 9.94

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JESSE WILLIAMS

Event: High Jump Height: 6-0

Weight: 155 PR: 2.37m/7-9.25 Born: Dec. 27, 1983, in Modesto, Calif. Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Broughton (Raleigh, N.C.) HS '02 College: North Carolina State ‘03, Southern California '06 Coach: Cliff Rovelto

Agent: Jos Hermans Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Two-time USA Outdoor Champion ('10, '11);2010 USA Indoor champion; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2005 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2008 & 2009 USA Indoor runner-up; 3rd at 2006 USA Indoor Champs; 2006 NCAA Indoor &

Outdoor champion; 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion; 2005 Pac 10 champion Williams has established himself as the American to beat in the high jump after winning the past two USA Outdoor Championships. At the 2011 USA Outdoors, Williams jumped a personal best of 2.37m/7-9.25, the top-ranked mark in the world for the year. He was at his best when it mattered most in 2010 in winning the men‘s high jump crown at the USA

Indoor Championships in Albuquerque before bouncing back to capture that year‘s Outdoor crown in June in Des Moines, Iowa. Williams‘ 2009 indoor season got off to a strong start when he clearaed of 2.36 meters/7 feet 8.75 inches in Bansca Bystrica. It was the best clearance by an American, and the third-highest clearance in the world during the 2009 indoor season. Williams‘ clearance of 2.34m/7-8 was the fourth-best clearance in the world during the 2009 outdoor season. Williams felt right at home at the 2008 Olympic Trials competing in his adopted hometown of Eugene, Ore., and responded well in

winning his first national title and a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team with his clearance of 2.30m/7-

6.50. For the third consecutive year in 2008, Williams finished a season ranked in the top ten in the world by Track & Field News. His 2007 personal best clearance of 2.33m/7-7.75 first-place finish in Los Angeles at the Trojan Invitational propelled him to a #8 world ranking for the year, and his first #1 ranking in the U.S. In 2006 Williams dominated the collegiate scene in winning the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, and establishing a new personal best of 2.32m/7-7.25 in winning the NCAA Outdoor crown. Williams turned in a clutch performance at the 2005 DN Galan meet in Stockholm on July 26 when he set a then personal best and equaled the "A" qualifying standard

(2.30m/7-6.50) for the men's high jump for the 2005 World Outdoor Championships. Williams, who finished as the runner-up in Stockholm, cleared the bar on his second attempt at that height. Seconds after landing in the pit, the stadium public-address announcer exclaimed "Welcome to Helsinki!" Named the Pac 10 Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Year in 2005 as a junior at the University of Southern California. Williams won the NCAA Outdoor title, the Pac 10 Outdoor crown and was the runner-up at the 2005 USA Outdoor Championships. Williams began his career at North Carolina

State, where as a freshman he was third at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships and placed seventh

at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. That year he also was the runner-up at the Atlantic Coast Conference indoor and outdoor championships. Williams prepped at Broughton HS in Raleigh, N.C., where he won the high jump at the North Carolina 4-A state meet three years in a row. He is the state indoor and outdoor prep record holder in the high jump at 2.21m/7-3. He won the adidas Championship in 2002 and was fourth at the 2002 World Junior Championships, as well as the Penn Relays champion. He also long jumped, hurdled and wrestled in high school and was fifth at the North

Carolina state wrestling championships as a senior. 2011: USA Outdoors champion (2.37m/7-9.25)... USA Indoor champion (2.28m/7-5.75)... 1st at Doha (2.33m/7-7.75)... 3rd at Pre Classic (2.32m/7-7.25)...2nd at Stockholm (2.30m/7-6.5). 2010: USA Outdoor champ (22.6m/7-05)…USA Indoor champ (2.34m/7-8)… 2nd in Shanghai (2.24m/7-7.25)…2nd at Monaco (2.28m/7-5.75)...2nd at adidas Grand Prix (2.30m/7-6.50)...ranked #2

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in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.30m/7-6.50.

2009: Runner-up at USA Indoors (2.29m/7-6)…4th at USA Outdoors (2.28m/7-5.75)...1st at Eugene (2.34m/7-8, U.S. outdoor leader)...2nd at Banská Bystrica (2.36m/7-8.75PR, U.S. indoor leader)...ranked #4 in world, #1 U.S. by TFN...best of 2.36m/7-8.75.

2008: 8th in qualifying group at Olympic Games (2.25m/7-4.50)…Olympic Trials champion (2.30m/7-06.50)…3rd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2.25m/7-4.50)...6th at World Indoor Champs (2.27m/7-5.25)…runner-up at USA Indoors (2.28m/7-05.75)…ranked 6 in world, #1 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 2.30m/7-6.50. 2007: 4th at USA Outdoor Championships (2.24m/7-4.25)… 15th in qual. at World Outdoors (2.23m/7-3.75)...2nd at USA Indoor Champs (2.29m/7-6)…2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2.30m/7-6.5)…1st in Los Angeles (2.33m/7-7.75PR, AL)…1st at Athens (2.32m/7-7.25)…2nd at Drake Relays

(2.30m/7-6.5)…1st at Belem (2.30m/7-6.5)…3rd at London (2.26m/7-5)…3rd at Stockholm (2.27m/7-5.25)…ranked #8 in world, #1 U.S. by T&FN…best of 2.33m/7-7.75. 2006: 3rd at USA Indoor Champs (2.22m/7-3.25)…1st at NCAA Indoors (2.29m/7-6)...1st at NCAA Outdoors (2.32m/7-7.25PR)…5th at Stockholm (2.24m/7-4.25)…3rd at London (2.28m/7-5.75)…ranked #9 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 2.32m/7-7.25

2005: USA Outdoor runner-up (2.27m/7-5.25)…NCAA Outdoor champ (2.29m/7-6)…Pac 10 Outdoor

champ (2.28m/7-5.75)…2nd at Stockholm (2.30m/7-6.5PR)...ranked #2 U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.30m/7-6.5. 2004: 7th at NCAA Indoors (2.17m/7-1.5)…15th at NCAA Outdoors (2.14m/7-0.25)…1st at UCLA dual meet (2.21m/7-3)…best of 2.21m/7-3. 2003: Runner-up at NCAA Indoors (2.17m/7-1.5)…7th at NCAA Outdoors (2.18m/7-1.75)…no-height at USA Outdoors…best of 2.24m/7-4.25. 2002: Runner-up at USA Junior Champs (2.71m/7-1.5)…tied for 4th at World Junior Champs

(2.21m/7-3)…1st at National Scholastic Champs…best of 2.21m/7-3.

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JASON YOUNG

Event: Discus Throw Height: 6-1

Weight: 230 PR: 69.90m/229-4 (2010) Born: May 27, 1981 Current Residence: Lubbock, Texas High School: Samuell (Dallas, Tex.) HS ‗99 College: Texas Tech ‗04 Coach: Cliff Felkins

Agent: Self Club: Nike Career Highlights: Two-time USA Outdoor runner-up (‘10,‘11);

2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships runner-up; Two-time NCAA All-American at Texas Tech

Young, who was the top-ranked American discus thrower in 2010,

took second at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, but had fallen short of hitting the international A standard in the event. His toss of 65.30m/214-3 at the Chula Vista World Championship Pre-Meet met the IAAF A standard and secured him a spot on Team USA for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Young had a

banner year in 2010, which was highlighted by his runner-up finish at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, and his personal best toss of 69.90m/229-4, which was the best throw by an American that season. He also posted the second-best throw by an American in 2010 of It was far and away his best performance ever at the national championships, with his previous best-ever finish coming from the 2003 event when he placed seventh. A standout collegiately at Texas Tech University, Young finished as the runner-up in the discus as a senior at the 2004 NCAA Championships and finished fourth at that event the previous year. Young, who has been ranked in the top ten

nationally by Track & Field News on five occasions, finished ninth at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials. Young was a two-time All-American and named 10-time all-conference during his tenure as a Red Raider student-athlete. During his senior campaign, Young placed fourth in the weight throw at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, third in the hammer and second in the discus at the 2004 Big 12 Outdoor Championships. During the 2004 season, Young was ranked as a top 10 discus thrower in NCAA and open competition…Young holds Texas Tech school records in the indoor season weight throw with a

63-1 and in the outdoor season discus and hammer throws with marks of 206-5. In high school, Young finished second in discus at state meet and Golden West Invitational. Young is an assistant strength coach at Texas Tech University.

2011: 2nd at USA Outdoors (63.81m/209-4)... 2nd at Chula Vista (65.30m/214-3)

2010: USA Outdoors runner-up(61.15m/200-7)...1st at Lubbock (69.90m/229-4, PR, U.S. Leader)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 69.90m/229-4. 2009: 10th at USA Outdoors...best of 61.76m/202-7. 2008: 9th at Olympic Trials (60.31m/197-10)...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 65.85m/216-0.

2007: Did not compete 2006: Ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN...Best of 67.88m/222-8.

2005: Did not compete 2004: 9th at Olympic Trials (57.69m/189-3)...2nd at NCAA Outdoors (60.24m/197-8)...ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 62.92m/206-5. 2003: 7th at USA Outdoors (59.73m/195-11)...4th at NCAA Outdoors (59.25m/194-5)...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 61.59m/202-0. 2002: 10th at USA Outdoors...14th at NCAA Outdoors...best of 61.00m/200-1. 2001: 15th at USA outdoors...college redshirt...best of 59.98m/196-9.

2000: 3rd at USA Juniors...20th at NCAA Outdoors...best of 58.80m/192-11. 1999: 5th at USA Juniors...3rd at Golden West Invitational...best of 52.06m/170-9.

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RACHEL YURKOVICH

Event: Javelin Height: 5-11 Weight: 135 PR: 60.40m/198-2 (2011)

Born: October 10, 1986 Current Residence: Eugene, Ore. High School: Newburg (Ore.) HS ‗05 College: Oregon ‗09 Coach: Don Babbitt Agent: Paul Doyle Club: Nike

Career Highlights: Three-time USA Outdoor runner-up ('09, '10, '11); Two-time NCAA champion (‘08, ‘09); Third at 2008 Olympic

Trials; 2005 Pan Am Junior champion; 2005 USA Junior champion

At the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships, Yurkovich finished

second for the third year in a row and earned the second World Championship berth of her career. In 2009, Yurkovich became the first American woman to qualify for the javelin final at a World Championships since Karin Smith finished 10th in 1983. She went on to finish 12th with a best throw of 51.15m/167-9 inches. Yurkovich won her second consecutive women‘s javelin title at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships with a commanding series of throws that culminated in a school and

Pac-10 record heave of 59.62m/195-7. Yurkovich won her first NCAA javelin title at the Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, as a junior in 2008. The three-time Pac-10 Champion and three-time NCAA West Region champion holds the school and league marks in the event at 191-1. Yurkovich was the first three-time Pac-10 champion in the same event in school history.

2011: USA Outdoor runner-up (54.91m/180-1)... 3rd at adidas Grand Prix (58.43m/191-8.5)... best

of 60.40m/198-2 at Burnaby Harry Jerome Track Classic. 2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (56.31m/184-09)…1st at Rabat (60.11m/197-2PR)…7th at Monaco (55.95m/183-6)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 60.11m/197-2. 2009: 12th at World Outdoors (51.15m/167-9), 11th in qualifying (59.57m/195-5)…USA Outdoor runner-up (59.31m/194-7)…NCAA Outdoor champion (59.62m/195-7)…NCAA West Regional champion

(57.50m/188-8)...PAC 10 champion (58.26m/191-2)…ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 59.62m/195-7. 2008: 3rd at Olympic Trials (56.41m/185-1)…NCAA champion (56.57m/185-7.5)…NCAA West Region champion (55.14m/180-11)…1st at Pac-10 (56.08m/184-0)…1st at Oregon Relays (58.25m/191-1)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 58.25m/191-1. 2007: 6th at USA Outdoors (51.94m/170-5)…5th at NCAA Champs (51.83m/170-0)…1st at ASU

Invite (57.88m/189-11)…ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 57.88m/189-11. 2006: 7th at NCAA Champs (50.34m/165-2)…1st at NCAA West Region (50.46m/165-7)…1st at Oregon (54.81m/179-10)…best of 54.81m/179-10. 2005: Pan Am Junior champion (52.58m/172-6)…USA Junior champion (50.62m/166-1)…5th at USA

Outdoors (51.89m/170-3)…best of 53.77m/176-5.

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Medal Table YEAR G S B TOTAL 1983 8 9 7 24 1987 10 4 6 20 1991 10 8 8 26

1993 13 7 5 25 1995 12 2 5 19 1997 6 3 8 17 1999 10 3 4 17 2001 5 5 3 13 2003 8 7 1 16

2005 14 8 3 25 2007 14 4 8 26 2009 10 6 6 22

TOTAL 120 66 64 250 MEN YEAR G S B TOTAL

1983 6 8 4 18 1987 7 3 4 14 1991 9 4 7 20 1993 8 3 3 14 1995 7 1 4 12 1997 4 1 6 11 1999 6 0 3 9

2001 3 3 2 8 2003 6 4 0 10 2005 9 4 2 15 2007 10 3 6 19 2009 6 4 4 14

TOTAL 81 38 45 164

WOMEN YEAR G S B TOTAL 1983 2 1 3 6 1987 3 1 2 6 1991 1 4 1 6 1993 5 4 2 11

1995 5 1 1 7 1997 2 2 2 6 1999 4 3 1 8 2001 2 2 1 5 2003 2 3 1 6 2005 5 4 1 10 2007 4 1 2 7

2009 4 2 2 8 TOTAL 39 28 19 86



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Best Places in Events Where No Medals Were Won: MEN 3000SC: 4th by Brian Diemer in 1987

10,000: 6th by Dathan Ritzenhein in 2009 20K RW: 18th by Allen James in 1993 and Kevin Eastler in 2003 Hammer: 5th by Lance Deal in 1995 WOMEN 800: 4th by Jearl Miles-Clark in 1999 5000: 7th by Libbie Hickman in 1997 and Jen Rhines

Race Walk: 15th by Lynn Weik in 1987 and Michelle Rohl in 1995 (10K distance) SP: 5th by Connie Price-Smith in 1997

DT: 6th by Selala Sua in 1999 & 2001 HT: 7th by Anna Mohan in 2003 and Jessica Cosby in 2009 JT: 10th by Karin Smith in 1983

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Best Marks by Team USA at IAAF World Championships 1983-2009

MEN 100 9.71 Tyson Gay Berlin 16Aug09 200 19.76 Tyson Gay Osaka 30Aug07 400 43.18 Michael Johnson Seville 26Aug99 800 1:44.25 Rich Kenah Athens 08Aug97

1500 3:34.77 Bernard Lagat Osaka 29Aug07 3000SC 8:09.76 Mark Croghan Stuttgart 21Aug93 5000 13:17.33 Bernard Lagat Berlin 23Aug09 10,000 27:22.28 Dathan Ritzenhein Berlin 17Aug09

Marathon 2:13:27 Brian Sell Helsinki 13Aug05 20k Walk 1:22:25 Kevin Eastler Saint-Denis 23Aug03 50k Walk 3:50:46 Curt Clausen Edmonton 11Aug01

110H 12.93 Allen Johnson Athens 07Aug97 400H 47.18 Kevin Young Stuttgart 19Aug93 4x100 37.40 Stuttgart 21Aug93 4x400 2:54.29 Stuttgart 22Aug93 HJ 2.38/7-9.75 Charles Austin Tokyo 01Sep91 PV 5.91/19-4.75 Dean Starkey Athens 10Aug97 LJ 8.95/29-4.5 Mike Powell Tokyo 30Aug91

TJ 17.86/58-7.25 Mike Conley Stuttgart 16Aug93 SP 22.04/72-3.75 Reese Hoffa Osaka 25Aug07 DT 69.08/226-8 Anthony Washington Seville 24Aug99 HT 78.66/258-1 Lance Deal Goteborg 06Aug95 JT 87.00/285-5 Breaux Greer Edmonton 12Aug01

Dec 8817 Dan O‘Brien Stuttgart 20Aug93

WOMEN 100 10.70 Marion Jones Seville 22Aug99 200 21.77 Inger Miller Seville 27Aug99 400 49.74 Sanya Richards Helsinki 10Aug05

800 1:57.40 Jearl Miles-Clark Seville 24Aug99 1500 4:00.35 Regina Jacobs Seville 29Aug99 3000SC 9:12.50 Jenny Barringer Berlin 17Aug09 5000 15:03.09 Jen Rhines Osaka 01Sep07 10,000 31:13.78 Amy Yoder Begley Berlin 15Aug09 Marathon 2:27:48 Kara Goucher Berlin 23Aug09 20k Walk 1:36:32 Joanne Dow Paris 24Aug03

100H 12.37 Gail Devers Seville 28Aug99

400H 52.61 Kim Batten Goteborg 11Aug95 4x100 41.47 Athens 09Aug97 4x400 3:16.71 Stuttgart 22Aug93 HJ 2.00/6-6.75 Chaunte Howard Helsinki 08Aug05 PV 4.75/15-7 Stacy Dragila Edmonton 06Aug01

LJ 7.36/24-1.75 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Rome 04Sep87 TJ 14.25/46-9 Cynthea Rhodes Athens 02Aug97 SP 19.00/62-4 Connie Price-Smith Athens 07Aug97 DT 63.74/209-1 Seilala Sua Edmonton 11Aug01 HT 72.17/236-9 Jessica Cosby Berlin 22Aug09 JT 59.57/195-5 Rachel Yurkovich Berlin 16Aug09 Hept 7128 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Rome 01Sep87



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Team USA at the IAAF World Championships

Breakdown by Event

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze

100m Carl Lewis - 1983 Carl Lewis - 1987 Carl Lewis - 1991 Maurice Greene - 1997 Maurice Greene - 1999

Maurice Greene - 2001 Justin Gatlin - 2005

Tyson Gay - 2007

Calvin Smith - 1983 Leroy Burrell - 1991 Andre Cason - 1993 Bernard Williams - 2001 Tyson Gay - 2007

Emmit King - 1983 Dennis Mitchell - 1991 Dennis Mitchell - 1993 Tim Montgomery - 1997

200m Calvin Smith - 1983 Calvin Smith - 1987

Michael Johnson - 1991 Michael Johnson - 1995 Maurice Greene - 1999 John Capel - 2003 Justin Gatlin - 2005 Tyson Gay - 2007

Elliott Quow - 1983 Darvis Patton - 2003

Wallace Spearmon - 2005

Carl Lewis - 1993 Jeff Williams - 1995

Shawn Crawford - 2001 John Capel - 2005 Wallace Spearmon - 2007 Wallace Spearmon - 2009

400m Antonio Pettigrew - 1991 Michael Johnson - 1993 Michael Johnson - 1995 Michael Johnson - 1997 Michael Johnson - 1999 Jerome Young - 2003

Jeremy Wariner - 2005 Jeremy Wariner - 2007 LaShawn Merritt - 2009

Michael Franks - 1983 Butch Reynolds - 1993 Butch Reynolds - 1995 Tyree Washington - 2003 Andrew Rock - 2005 LaShawn Merritt - 2007

Jeremy Wariner - 2009

Sunder Nix - 1983 Butch Reynolds - 1987 Danny Everett - 1991 Tyree Washington - 1997 Angelo Taylor - 2007

800m Mark Everett - 1991 Rich Kenah - 1997

1,500m Bernard Lagat - 2007 Steve Scott - 1983 Jim Spivey - 1987 Bernard Lagat - 2009

5,000m Bernard Lagat - 2007 Bernard Lagat - 2009

10,000m

Marathon Mark Plaatjes - 1993 Steve Spence - 1991

20K Walk

50K Walk Curt Clausen - 1999

110m Hurdles Greg Foster - 1983

Greg Foster - 1987 Greg Foster - 1991 Allen Johnson - 1995 Allen Johnson - 1997 Allen Johnson - 2001 Allen Johnson - 2003

Jack Pierce - 1991

Terrence Trammell - 2003 Terrence Trammell - 2007

Willie Gault - 1983

Jack Pierce - 1993 Roger Kingdom - 1995 Duane Ross - 1999 Allen Johnson - 2005 David Payne - 2009

400m Hurdles Edwin Moses - 1983 Edwin Moses - 1987 Kevin Young - 1993 Derrick Adkins - 1995

Danny Harris - 1987 Joey Woody - 2003 James Carter - 2005

Bryan Bronson - 1997 Bershawn Jackson - 2009

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Bershawn Jackson - 2005 Kerron Clement - 2007 Kerron Clement - 2009

3,000m Steeplechase

4x100m Relay 1983

1987 1991 1993 1999 2003 2007

4x400m Relay 1987

1993 1995 1997 1999 2001

2005 2009

1991

High Jump Charles Austin - 1991 Tyke Peacock - 1983 Hollis Conway - 1991

Pole Vault Brad Walker - 2007 Brad Walker - 2005 Dean Starkey - 1997 Nick Hysong - 2001

Long Jump Carl Lewis - 1983 Carl Lewis - 1987 Mike Powell - 1991

Mike Powell - 1993

Dwight Phillips - 2003 Dwight Phillips - 2005 Dwight Phillips - 2009

Jason Grimes - 1983 Carl Lewis - 1991 Erick Walder - 1997

Savante Stringfellow - 2001

Mike Conley - 1983 Larry Myricks - 1987 Larry Myricks - 1991

Mike Powell - 1995

Dwight Phillips - 2007

Triple Jump Kenny Harrison - 1991

Mike Conley - 1993 Walter Davis - 2005

Willie Banks - 1983

Mike Conley - 1987

Mike Conley - 1991

Walter Davis - 2007

Shot Put John Godina - 1995 John Godina - 1997 C.J. Hunter - 1999

John Godina - 2001 Adam Nelson - 2005 Reese Hoffa - 2007 Christian Cantwell - 2009

Randy Barnes - 1993 Adam Nelson - 2001 Adam Nelson - 2003

Adam Nelson - 2007

John Brenner - 1987 Randy Barnes - 1995 C.J. Hunter - 1997

Discus Throw Anthony Washington - 1999 John Powell - 1987

Hammer Throw

Javelin Throw Tom Petranoff - 1983 Breaux Greer - 2007

Decathlon Dan O'Brien - 1991 Dan O'Brien - 1993 Dan O'Brien - 1995 Tom Pappas - 2003 Bryan Clay - 2005

Trey Hardee - 2009

Chris Huffins - 1999



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Team USA at the IAAF World Championships

Breakdown by Event

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze

100m Gail Devers - 1993

Gwen Torrence - 1995

Marion Jones - 1997

Marion Jones - 1999

Torri Edwards - 2003

Lauryn Williams - 2005


Inger Miller - 1999

Marion Jones - 2001

Lauryn Williams - 2007

Diane Williams - 1983


Carmelita Jeter - 2007

Carmelita Jeter - 2009

200m Inger Miller - 1999

Marion Jones - 2001

Allyson Felix - 2005



Florence Griffith - 1987



Torri Edwards - 2003

Rachelle Boone-Smith - 2005

Kelli White - 2001

400m Jearl Miles – 1993 Natasha Kaiser-Brown - 1993

Sanya Richards - 2005

Jearl Miles - 1995

Jearl Miles-Clark - 1997

800m

1,500m Mary Decker - 1983 Regina Jacobs - 1997

Regina Jacobs - 1999

Shannon Rowbury - 2009

3,000m Mary Decker - 1983

5,000m

10,000m Kara Goucher - 2007

Marathon Marianne Dickerson - 1983

20K Walk

100m Hurdles Gail Devers - 1993

Gail Devers - 1995

Gail Devers - 1999

Anjanette Kirkland - 2001

Michelle Perry - 2005

Michelle Perry - 2007

Gail Devers-Roberts - 1991

Gail Devers - 2001

Lynda Tolbert - 1993

Miesha McKelvy-Jones - 2003

400m Hurdles Kim Batten – 1995 Sandra Farmer-Patrick - 1993

Tonja Buford - 1995

Sandra Glover - 2003

Lashinda Demus - 2005

Lashinda Demus - 2009

Janeene Vickers - 1991

Kim Batten - 1997

Sandra Glover - 2005

4x100m Relay 1987

1995

1997

2005

2007

1993

2003

4x400m Relay 1993

1995

2003

1991

1997

1999

1987

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2007

2009

High Jump Chaunte Howard - 2005 Louise Ritter - 1983

Pole Vault Stacy Dragila - 1999

Stacy Dragila - 2001

Chelsea Johnson - 2009

Long Jump Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1987

Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1991

Tianna Madison - 2005

Brittney Reese - 2009

Carol Lewis - 1983

Marion Jones - 1999

Triple Jump

Shot Put

Discus Throw

Hammer Throw

Javelin Throw

Heptathlon Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1987

Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1993

Jane Frederick - 1987

Shelia Burrell - 2001



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Men's World Records (8/8/11) Event Perf. Wind Athlete Nat. Place Date 100m 9.58 0.9 Usain Bolt JAM Berlin 16Aug09 200m 19.19 -0.3 Usain Bolt JAM Berlin 20Aug09 400m 43.18 Michael Johnson USA Seville 26Aug99 800m 1:41.09 David Rudisha KEN Berlin 22Aug10 1000m 2:11.96 Noah Ngeny KEN Rieti 05Sep99 1500m 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Rome 14Jul98 Mile 3:43.13 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Rome 07Jul99 2000m 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Berlin 07Sep99 3000m 7:20.67 Daniel Komen KEN Rieti 01Sep96 3000m SC 7:53.63 Saif Saaeed Shaheen QAT Brussels 03Sep04 5000m 12:37.35 Kenenisa Bekele ETH Hengelo 31May04 10,000m 26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele ETH Brussels 26Aug05 110m Hurdles 12.87 0.9 Dayron Robles CUB Ostrava 12Jun08 400m Hurdles 46.78 Kevin Young USA Barcelona 06Aug92 High Jump 2.45/8-0.5 Javier Sotomayor CUB Salamanca 27Jul93 Pole Vault 6.14/20-1.75 Sergey Bubka UKR Sestriere 31Jul94 Long Jump 8.95/29-4.5 0.3 Mike Powell USA Tokyo 30Aug91 TJ 18.29/60-0.25 1.3 Jonathan Edwards GBR Goteborg 07Aug95 Shot Put23.12/75-10.25 Randy Barnes USA Los Angeles 20May90 Discus 74.08/243-0 Jürgen Schult GDR Neubrandenburg 06Jun86 Hammer 86.74/284-7 Yuriy Sedykh URS Stuttgart 30Aug86 Javelin 98.48/323-1 Ján Zelezny CZE Jena 25May96 Decathlon 9026 Roman Sebrle CZE Gotzis 27May01 20,000m Walk 1:17:16 Vladamir Kanaykin RUS Saransk 29Sep07 50,000m Walk 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS Cheboksary 11May08 2 hours Walk 29,572m Maurizio Damilano ITA Cuneo 03Oct92 4 x 100m Relay 37.10 Jamaica Beijing 22Aug08 (Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt)

4 x 200m Relay 1:18.68 USA Walnut 17Apr94 (Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis)

4 x 400m Relay 2:54.29 USA Stuttgart 22Aug93 (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson)

4 x 800m Relay 7:02.43 Kenya Brussels 25Aug06 (William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich, Joseph Mutua, Wilfred Bungei)

4 x 1500m Relay 14:36.23 Kenya Brussels 04Sep09 (Geoffrey Rono, Augustine Choge, William Tanui, Gideon Gathimba) Best Performance Marathon 2:03:59 Haile Gebrselassie ETH Berlin 28Sep08

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Women's World Records (8/8/11) Event Perf. Wind Athlete Nat. Place Date 100m 10.49 0.0 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA Indianapolis 16Jul88 200m 21.34 1.3 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA Seoul 29Sep88 400m 47.60 Marita Koch GDR Canberra 06Oct85 800m 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH Munich 26Jul83 1000m 2:28.98 Svetlana Masterkova RUS Brussels 23Aug96 1500m 3:50.46 Qu Yunxia CHN Beijing 11Sep93 Mile 4:12.56 Svetlana Masterkova RUS Zurich 14Aug96 2000m 5:25.36 Sonia O'Sullivan IRL Edinburgh 08Jul94 3000m 8:06.11 Wang Junxia CHN Beijing 13Sep93 3000SC 8:58.81 Gulnara Galkina RUS Beijing 17Aug08 5000m 14:11.15 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH Oslo 06Jun08 10,000m 29:31.78 Wang Junxia CHN Beijing 08Sep93 100m Hurdles 12.21 0.7 Yordanka Donkova BUL Stara Zagora 20Aug88 400m Hurdles 52.34 Yuliya Pechonkina RUS Tula, RUS 08Aug03 High Jump 2.09/6-10.25 Stefka Kostadinova BUL Rome 30Aug87 Pole Vault 5.06/16-7.25 Yelena Isinbayeva RUS Zurich 28Aug09 Long Jump 7.52/24-8.25 1.4 Galina Chistyakova URS Leningrad 11Jun88 Triple Jump15.50/50-10.25 0.9 Inessa Kravets UKR Goteborg 10Aug95 Shot Put 22.63/74-3 Natalya Lisovskaya URS Moscow 07Jun87 Discus 76.80/252-0 Gabriele Reinsch GDR Neubrandenburg 09Jul88 Hammer 79.42/260-7 Betty Heidler GER Halle 21May11 Javelin 80.00/262-5 Petra Felke GDR Potsdam 09Sep88 Javelin (new)72.28/237-2 Barbora Spotakova CZE Stuttgart 13Sep08 Heptathlon 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA Seoul 23/24Sep88 5000m Walk 20:02.60 Gillian O'Sullivan IRL Dublin 13Jul02 10,000m Walk 41:56.23 Nadezhda Ryashkina URS Seattle 24Jul90 20,000m Walk 1:26:52.3 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS Brisbane 06Sep01 4 x 100m Relay 41.37 East Germany Canberra 06Oct85 (Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr)

4 x 200m Relay 1:27.46 USA Philadelphia 29Apr00 (LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones) 4 x 400m Relay 3:15.17 Soviet Union Seoul 01Oct88 (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Irina Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) 4 x 800m Relay 7:50.17 Soviet Union Moscow 05Aug84 (Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya)

Best performance Marathon 2:15:25 Paula Radcliffe GBR London 13Apr03



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World Junior Records (8/8/11) Under the rules of the International Amateur Athletic Federation and USA Track & Field, a junior is defined as an athlete who is 19 years old or younger at the end of the calendar year. Thus, in 2011, a junior must have been born in 1992 or later.

MEN

100 10.01 Darrel Brown (TRI) Paris 24Aug03 200 19.93 Usain Bolt (JAM) Hamilton, BER 11Apr04 400 43.87 Steve Lewis (USA) Seoul 28Sep88 800 1:42.69 Abubaker Kaki (SUD) Oslo 06Jun08 1,500 3:30.24 Cornelius Chirchir (KEN) Monaco 19Jul02 Mile 3:49.29 William Tanui (KEN) Oslo 03Jul09 3,000 7:28.78 Augustine Choge (KEN) Doha 13May05 2k Steeple 5:25.01 Arsenias Tsiminos (GRE) Athens 20Oct80 3k Steeple 7:58.66 Stephen Cherono (KEN) Brussels 24Aug01 5,000 12:52.61 Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) Oslo 27Jun03 10,000 26:41.75 Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) Brussels 26Aug05 110 H 13.12 Xiang Liu (CHN) Lausanne 02Jul02 400H 48.02 Danny Harris (USA) Los Angeles 17Jun84 4 x 100 38.66 United States Grosseto 18Jul04 (Trell Kimmons, Demi Omole, Ivory Williams, Lashawn Merritt) 4 x 400 3:01.09 United States Grosseto 18Jul04 (Brandon Johnson, Lashawn Merritt, Jason Craig, Kerron Clement) 10km Walk 38:46.4 Viktor Burayev (RUS) Moscow 20May00 HJ 2.37/7-9.25 Dragutin Topic (YUG) Plovdiv 12Aug90 Steve Smith (GBR) Seoul 20Sep92 PV 5.80/19-0.5 Maxim Tarasov (URS) Bryansk 14Jul89 5.80/19-0.5 Raphael Holzdeppe (GER) Biberach 28Jun08 LJ 8.34/27-4.5 Randy Williams (USA) Munich 08Sep72 TJ 17.50/57-5 Volker Mai (GDR) Erfurt 23Jun85 SP (7.26kg) 20.39/66-10.75 Janus Robberts (RSA) Germiston, RSA 07Mar98 (6kg) 22.73/74-7 David Storl (GER) Osterode 14Jul09 DT (2kg) 63.64/208-9 Werner Hartmann (FRG) Strasbourg 25Jun78 (1.75kg) 70.13/230-1 Mykyta Nesterenko (UKR) Halle 24May08 HT (7.26kg) 78.14/256-4 Roland Steuk (GDR) Leipzig 30Jun78 (6kg) 82.97/272-2 Javier Cienfuegos (ESP) Madrid 17Jun09 JT 84.69/277-10 Zigismunds Sirmais (LAT) Bauska 22Jun11 DEC 8397 Torsten Voss (GDR) Erfurt 6-7Jul82

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WOMEN

100 10.88 Marlies Oelsner-Gohr (GDR) Dresden 01Jul77 200 22.18 Allyson Felix (USA) Athens 28Aug04 400 49.42 Grit Breuer (GER) Tokyo 27Aug91 800 1:54.01 Pamela Jelimo (KEN) Zurich 29Aug08 1,500 3:51.34 Yinglai Lang (CHN) Shanghai 18Oct97 Mile 4:17.57 Zola Pieterse (GBR) Zurich 21Aug85 3,000 8:28.83 Zola Pieterse (GBR) Rome 07Sep85 3000SC 9:20.37 Birtukan Adamu (ETH) Rome 26May11 5,000 14:30.88 Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) Bergen 11Jun04 10,000 30:26.50 Linet Masai (KEN) Beijing 15Aug08 100 H 12.84 Aliuska Lopez (CUB) Zagreb 16Jul87 400 H 54.40 Xing Wang (CHN) Nanjing 21Oct05 5km Walk 20:31.4 Irina Stankina (RUS) Adler 10Feb96 10km Walk 43:11.34 Vera Sokolova (RUS) Kaunas 21Jul05 4 x 100 43.29 United States Eugene 08Aug06 (Bianca Knight, Jeneba Tarmoh, Elizabeth Olear, Gabby Mayo) 4 x 400 3:27.60 United States Grosseto 18Jul04 (Alexandria Anderson, Ashlee Kidd, Stephanie Smith, Natasha Hastings) HJ 2.01/6-7 Olga Turchak (URS) Moscow 07Jul86 2.01/6-7 Heike Balck (GDR) K-M-Stadt 18Jun89 PV 4.48/14-8.25 Silke Spiegelburg (GER) Munster 25Aug05 LJ 7.14/23-5.25 Heike Drechsler (GDR) Bratislava 04Jun83 TJ 14.62/47-11.75 Tereza Marinova (BUL) Sydney 25Aug96 SP 20.54/67-4.75 Astrid Kumbernuss (GDR) Orimattila 01Jul89 DT 74.40/244-1 Ilke Wyludda (GDR) Berlin 13Sep88 HT 73.24/240-3 Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) Changsha 24Jun05 JT 63.01/206-8 Vira Rebryk (UKR) Bydgoszcz 10Jul08 HEP 6542 Carolina Kluft (SWE) Munich 10Aug02



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100 9.69 Tyson Gay (adidas) Shanghai 20Sep09 200 19.32 Michael Johnson (USA) Atlanta 01Aug96 400 43.18 Michael Johnson (USA) Seville 26Aug99 800 1:42.60 Johnny Gray (SMTC) Koblenz 28Aug85 1,000 2:13.9 Rick Wohlhuter (UCTC) Oslo 30Jul74 1,500 3:29.30 Bernard Lagat (Nike) Rieti 28Aug05 Mile 3:46.91 Alan Webb (Nike) Brasschaat 21Jul07 2,000 4:52.44 Jim Spivey (Ath. West) Lausanne 15Sep87 3,000 7:29.00 Bernard Lagat (Nike) Rieti 29Aug108 3000 SC 8:08.82 Daniel Lincoln (Nike) Rome 14Jul06 2 Miles 8:07.07 Matt Tegenkamp (Nike) Eugene 10Jun07 5,000 12:53.60 Bernard Lagat (Nike) Monaco 22Jul11 10,000 26:59.60 Chris Solinsky (Nike) Stanford 01May10 Marathon 2:05:38 Khalid Khannouchi (New Balance) London 14Apr02 110 Hurdles 12.89 David Oliver (Nike) Paris 16Jul10 400 Hurdles 46.78 Kevin Young (Foot Locker) Barcelona 06Aug92 20K WALK (Tr) 1:23:40 Tim Seaman (NYAC) San Diego 19Aug00 (Road) 1:22:02 Tim Seaman (NYAC) Copenhagen 22May04 50K WALK (Tr) 3:59:41.2 Herm Nelson (Club Northwest) Seattle 09Jun96 (Road) 3:48:04 Curt Clausen (Shore AC) Deauville, FRA 02May99 4 x 100 37.40 Olympic Team Barcelona 08Aug92 (Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis) 37.40 USA World Champ. Team Stuttgart 21Aug93 (Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell) 4 x 200 1:18.68 Santa Monica TC (USA) Walnut 17Apr94 (Michael Marsh 20.0, Leroy Burrell 19.6, Floyd Heard 19.7, Carl Lewis 19.4) 4 x 400 2:54.29 USA Team Stuttgart 22Aug93 (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson) 4 x 800 7:02.82 USA Team Brussels 25Aug06 (Jebreh Harris, Khadevis Robinson, Sam Burley, David Krummenacker) 4 x 1500 14:46.3 National Team Bourges 24Jun79

(Dan Aldredge 3:44.9, Andy Clifford 3:42.7, Todd Harbour 3:42.7, Tom Duits 3:35.8)

Sprint Medley 3:10.76 Santa Monica TC Tempe 06Apr85 (Carl Lewis, Ferran Tyler, Benny Hollis, Johnny Gray) Distance Medley 9:15.63 USA Blue Philadelphia 29Apr06 (Chris Lukezic, James Carter, Khadevis Robinson, Bernard Lagat) 4x110H 53.36 USA Team Stockholm 07Aug07 (Ron Bramlett, Anwar Moore, David Payne, Aries Merritt) HJ 2.40/7-10.5 Charles Austin (Unat) Zurich 07Aug91 PV 6.04/19-9.75 Brad Walker (Nike) Eugene 08Jun08 LJ 8.95/29-4.5 Mike Powell (Footlocker) Tokyo 30Aug91 TJ 18.09/59-4.25 Kenny Harrison (USA) Atlanta 27Jul96 SP 23.12/75-10.25 Randy Barnes (Mazda TC) Los Angeles 20May90 DT 72.34/237-4 Ben Plucknett (SC Strid) Stockholm 07Jul81 HT 82.52/270-9 Lance Deal (NYAC) Milan 07Sep96 JT 91.29/299-6 Breaux Greer (adidas) Indianapolis 21Jun07 DEC 8891 Dan O'Brien (Reebok RC) Talence 4-5Sep92 (10.43, 8.08, 16.69, 2.07, 48.51, 13.98, 48.56, 5.00, 62.58, 4:42.10)

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Women's American Records (8/8/11) 100 10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner (WCAC) Indianapolis 16Jul88 200 21.34 Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) Seoul 29Sep88 400 48.70 Sanya Richards (Nike) Athens 17Sep06 800 1:56.40 Jearl Miles-Clark (Reebok) Zurich 11Aug99 1,000 2:31.80 Regina Jacobs (Mizuno) Brunswick, ME 04Jul99 1,500 3:57.12 Mary Slaney (Ath. West) Stockholm 26Jul83 Mile 4:16.71 Mary Slaney (Ath. West) Zurich 21Aug85 2,000 5:32.7 Mary Slaney (Ath. West) Eugene 03Aug84 3,000 8:25.83 Mary Slaney (Ath. West) Rome 07Sep85 3000SC 9:12.50 Jenny Barringer (Colorado) Berlin 17Aug09 5,000 14:44.76 Molly Huddle (Saucony) Brussels 27Aug10 10,000 30:22.22 Shalane Flanagan (Nike) Beijing 15Aug08 Marathon 2:21:16 Deena Drossin (Asics) London 13Apr03 100 Hurdles 12.33 Gail Devers (Nike) Sacramento 23Jul00 400 Hurdles 52.61 Kim Batten (Reebok) Gothenburg 11Aug95 4 x 100 41.47 World Champs. Team Athens 09Aug97 (Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 4 x 200 1:27.46 USA Blue Philadelphia 29Apr00 (LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones) 4 x 400 3:15.51 Olympic Team Seoul 01Oct88 (Denean Howard, Diane Dixon, Valerie Brisco, Florence Griffith Joyner) 4 x 800 8:17.91 Tennessee Philadelphia 25Apr09 (Kimarra McDonald, Chanelle Price, Sarah Bowman, Phoebe Wright) 4x1500 17:08.34 Tennessee Philadelphia 24Apr09 (Chanelle Price, Phoebe Wright, Rolanda Bell, Sarah Bowman) Sprint Medley (800)1:36.79 Wilt's AC Knoxville 20Jun82 (Brenda Morehead, Jeanette Bolden, Alice Brown, Arlise Emerson) Sprint Medley (1600)3:37.16 USA Blue Philadelphia 29Apr06 (Rachelle Smith, Lauryn Williams, Monica Hargrove, Hazel Clark) Distance Medley 10:48.38 Villanova Philadelphia 28Apr88 (Kathy Franey, Michelle Bennett, Celeste Halliday, Vicki Huber) 10K WALK (Tr) 44:41.87 Michelle Rohl (Parkside AC) St. Petersburg 26Jul94 (road) 44:17 Michelle Rohl (Parkside AC) Gothenburg 07Aug95 20K WALK (Tr) 1:33:28.15 Teresa Vaill (Walk USA) Carson 25Jun05 (road) 1:31:51 Michelle Rohl (Moving Comfort) Kenosha 13May00 HJ 2.05/6-8.75 Chaunte Lowe (Nike) Des Moines 26Jun10 PV 4.92/16-1.75 Jenn Stuczynski (adidas) Eugene 06Jul08 LJ 7.49/24-7 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Honda) New York City 22May94 TJ 14.45/47-5 Tiombe Hurd (Nike) Sacramento 11Jul04 SP 20.18/66-2.5 Ramona Pagel (Mazda) San Diego 25Jun88 Jill Camarena-Williams (NYAC) Saint-Denis 08Jul11 DT 67.67/222-0 Suzy Powell-Roos (Asics) Maui 14Apr07 HT 73.87/242-4 Erin Gilreath (NYAC) Carson 25Jun05 JT 66.67/218-8 Kara Patterson (Asics) Des Moines 25Jun10 HEP 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (WCAC) Seoul 23-24Sep88 (12.69, 6-1.25, 51-10, 22.56, 23-10.25, 149-10, 2:08.51)



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American Junior Records (8/8/11) The following lists are the best performances by American Junior athletes as recognized by USA Track & Field. The definition of a Junior is identical to that given previously in the World Junior Record section.

MEN

100 10.01 Jeff Demps (Florida HS) Eugene 28Jun08 200 20.13 Roy Martin (Texas HS) Indianapolis 16Jun85 400 43.87 Steve Lewis (UCLA) Seoul 28Sep88 800 1:44.9y Jim Ryun (Kansas) Terre Haute 10Jun66 1,500 3:36.1 Jim Ryun (Kansas) Berkeley 17Jul66 Mile 3:51.3 Jim Ryun (Kansas) Berkeley 17Jul66 3,000 7:49.16 Galen Rupp (Oregon) Lignano 17Jul05 3,000SC 8:33.8 John Gregorek (Georgetown) Philadelphia 20May79 5,000 13:25.46 German Fernandez (Oklahoma State) Eugene 26Jun09 10,000 28:15.52 Galen Rupp (Oregon) Eugene 07May05 110 H (42”) 13.23 Renaldo Nehemiah (Maryland) Zurich 16Aug78 110H (39”) 13.08 Wayne Davis (North Carolina HS) Port of Spain 31Jul09 400H 48.02 Danny Harris (Iowa St) Los Angeles 17Jun84 4 x 100 38.66 National Team Grosseto 18Jul04 (Trell Kimmons, Demi Omole, Ivory Williams, Lashawn Merritt) 4 x 400 3:01.09 National Team Grosseto 18Jul04 (Brandon Johnson, Lashawn Merritt, Jason Craig, Kerron Clement) 10kWALK(tr) 41:23.14 Tyler Sorenson (California HS) Lille 09Jul11 20k Walk 1:23:26 Trevor Barron (New York AC) Eugene 26Jun11 HJ 2.31/7-7 Andra Manson (USA/Texas HS) Kingston 18Jul02 PV 5.71/18-8.75 Lawrence Johnson (Tenn) Knoxville 12Jun93 LJ 8.34/27-4.5 Randy Williams (Sn Cal) Munich 08Sep72 TJ 17.19/56-4.75 Will Claye (Oklahoma) Fayetteville 13Jun09 SP (7.26kg) 20.38/66-10.5 Terry Albritton (Unat) Walnut 27Apr74 SP (6kg) 20.65/67-9 Sean Shields (Arizona) Nassau 11Jul02 DT (2kg) 63.22/207-5 Brian Milne (Penn St) Univ. Park 28Mar92 DT (1.75kg) 65.34/214-4 Mason Finley (Colorado HS) Port of Spain 31Jul09 HT (7.26kg) 70.78/232-3 Conor McCullough (Princeton) Princeton 15May10 HT (6kg) 80.79/265-0 Conor McCullough (Princeton) Moncton 25Jul10 JT 77.84/255-4 Sam Crouser (Oregon HS) Portland 12Jun10 DEC 7703 Kevin Lazas (Arkansas) Athens, GA 13May11 DEC (Jr.) 8016 Kevin Lazas (Arkansas) Eugene 24Jun11

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American Junior Records (8/8/11) The following lists are the best performances by American Junior athletes as recognized by USA Track & Field. The definition of a Junior is identical to that given previously in the World Junior Record section.

WOMEN

100 11.04 Angela Williams (Southern Cal) Boise 05Jun99 200 22.11 Allyson Felix (California HS) Mexico City 03May03 400 49.89 Sanya Richards (Nike) Sacramento 17Jul04 800 2:00.07 Kim Gallagher (PA HS) Indianapolis 24Jul82 1,500 4:09.10 Suzy Favor (Wisconsin) Baton Rouge 06Jun87 Mile 4:35.24 Polly Plumer (Cal HS) Los Angeles 16May82 3,000 8:57.27 Ceci Hopp (Stanford) Durham 27Jul82 3000SC 10:00.88 Shelby Greany (Providence) Eugene 12Jun10 5,000 15:36.95 Molly Huddle (Notre Dame) Walnut 17Apr03 10,000 32:51.20 Lindsey Scherf (Harvard) New York City 07May05 100 H 12.91 Kristi Castlin (Virginia Tech) Gainesville 26May07 400 H 54.70 Lashinda Demus (USA/SCar) Kingston 19Jul02 4 x 100 43.29 National Team Eugene 08Aug06 (Bianca Knight, Jeneba Tarmoh, Elizabeth Olear, Gabby Mayo) 4 x 400 3:27.60 National Team Grosseto 18Jul04 (Alexandria Anderson, Ashlee Kidd, Stephanie Smith, Natasha Hastings) 10k Walk 49:43.85 Maria Michta (C.W. Post-LIU) Windsor 30Jul05 HJ 1.94/6-4.25 Tanya Hughes (Arizona) Eurogene 31May91 PV 4.38/14-4.5 Natalie Willer (Nebraska) Seward 08May09 LJ 6.80/22-4.25 Carol Lewis (Houston) Knoxville 20Jun82 6.80/22-4.25 Carol Lewis (Houston) K-M-Stadt 09Jul82 TJ 14.01/45-11.75 Erica McLain (Stanford) Carson 26Jun05 SP 17.60/57-9 Eileen Vanisi (Texas) Eugene 01Jun91 DT 58.06/190-6 Suzy Powell (UCLA) Modesto 13May95 HT 65.32/214-4 Shelby Ashe (Georgia HS) Marietta 15Jun10 JT 53.85/176-8 Avione Allgood (Nevada HS) Eugene 25Jun11 HEP 5678 Ellannee Richardson (Wash. St.) Boise 05Jun99



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U.S. All-Comers Records (8/8/11) Best Marks Made in the United States

MEN

100 9.72 Usain Bolt (JAM) New York City 31May08 200 19.32 Michael Johnson (USA) Atlanta 01Aug96 400 43.44 Michael Johnson (USA) Atlanta 19Jun96 800 1:42.58 Vebjorn Rodal (NOR) Atlanta 31Jul96 1500 3:32.34 Rashid Ramzi (BRN) Carson 21May06 Mile 3:48.28 Daniel K. Komen (KEN) Eugene 10Jun07 3000 7:35.44 Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) Eugene 04Jun05 3000SC 8:01.85 Paul Koech (KEN) New York City 31May08 5000 12:58.93 Tariku Bekele (ETH) Eugene 03Jul10 10,000 26:25.97 Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Eugene 08Jun08 110H 12.90 David Oliver (USA) Eugene 03Jul10 400H 47.03 Bryan Bronson (USA) New Orleans 21Jun98 4x100 37.69 Canada Atlanta 03Aug96 4x400 2:55.99 United States Atlanta 03Aug96 HJ 2.39/7-10 Hollis Conway (USA) Norman 30Jul89 Charles Austin (USA) Atlanta 28Jul96 PV 6.04/19-9.75 Brad Walker (USA) Eugene 08Jun08 LJ 8.79/28-10.25 Carl Lewis (USA) Indianapolis 19Jun83 TJ 18.09/59-4.25 Kenny Harrison (USA) Atlanta 27Jul96 SP 23.12/75-10.25 Randy Barnes (USA) Los Angeles 20May90 DT 71.32/234-0 Ben Plucknett (USA) Eugene 04Jun83 HT 84.12/276-0 Igor Astapkovich (URS) Seattle 26Jul90 JT 91.29/299-6 Breaux Greer (USA) Indianapolis 21Jun 07 DEC 8847 Daley Thompson (GBR) Los Angeles 08-09Aug84

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WOMEN

100 10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) Indianapolis 16Jul88 200 21.77 Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) Indianapolis 22Jul88 400 48.25 Marie-Jose Perec (FRA) Atlanta 29Jul96 800 1:56.56 Maria Mutola (MOZ) Eugene 05Jun93 1500 3:58.92 Mary Slaney (USA) Indianapolis 23Jul88 Mile 4:17.14i Doina Melinte (ROM) E. Rutherford 16Feb80 3000 8:27.12 Lyudmila Bragina (URS) College Park 07Aug76 5000 14:24.53 Meseret Defar (ETH) New York City 03Jun06 10,000 30:19.39 Werknesh Kidane (ETH) Stanford 29May05 Marathon 2:17:18 Paula Radcliffe (GBR) Chicago 13Oct02 100H 12.33 Gail Devers (USA) Sacramento 23Jul00 400H 52.82 Deon Hemmings (JAM) Atlanta 31Jul96 3000SC 9:26.20 Jenny Barringer (USA) Norman 30May09 4x100 41.61 United States Colorado Springs 03Jul83 4x400 3:18.29 United States Los Angeles 11Aug84 HJ 2.05/6-8.75i Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Indianpolis 08Mar87 2.05/6-8.75 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Atlanta 03Aug96 2.05/6-8.75 Chaunte Lowe (USA) Des Moines 26Jun10 PV 4.92/16-1.75 Jenn Stuczynski (USA) Eugene 06Jul08 LJ 7.49/24-7 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) New York City 22May94 TJ 15.33/50-3.5 Inessa Kravets (UKR) Atlanta 31Jul96 SP 21.81/71-6.75 Ilona Briesenick (GDR) Los Angeles 26Jun83 DT 71.22/233-8 Ria Stalman (HOL) Walnut 15Jul84 HT 75.98/249-3 Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) Eugene 03Jul10 JT 66.67/218-8 Kara Patterson (USA) Des Moines 25Jun10 HEP 7215 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Indianapolis 15-16Jul88



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San Francisco CA 94116 Fax 415 564 1666

[email protected]

Locke Karen Business Phone 510 658 4097

Elite Athletes Network

PO Box 11285

Oakland CA 94611 Fax 510 658 4097

[email protected]

Manjarrez Tony Business Phone 206 660 1394

A&A Athletics Consulting

P.O. Box 1299

Fall City WA 98024

230

[email protected]

Mayrant Jamel Business Phone 803 743 8927

True Sport Management

10625 Valley Spring Lane

Toluca Lake CA 91602 Fax 818 509 5714

[email protected]

McAuley Jeff Business Phone 412 613 0015

Prima Sports Management and Marketing

143 Oakbrook Circle

Pittsburgh PA 15220 Fax 412 922 9699

[email protected]

McGivney Lawrence Business Phone 212 509 3456

MK Sports & Entertainment Group

80 Broad Street, 23rd Floor

New York NY 10004 Fax 212 509 4420

[email protected]

McJimpsey Jr. Isaac Business Phone 864 529 5743

IMAC Sports Management

116 Sheldon Drive

Moore SC 29369

[email protected]

Minor Deon Business Phone 281 778 5340

Ultimate Performance Sport Management

6051 Alma Drive

McKinney TX 75070 Fax 281 778 5341

[email protected]

Nehemiah Renaldo Business Phone 703 928 7390

Octagon

1751 Pinnacle Dr. Ste 1500

Mclean VA 22102 Fax 703 905 4318

[email protected]

Nubani John Business Phone 412 257 1900

Sports Management & Marketing, Inc.

1481 Dominon Court

Pittsburgh PA 15241 Fax 412 257 5939

[email protected]

Okwiya Isaya Business Phone 443 786 8281

Riadha Sports Management

3215 Elsa Avenue



231

Waldorf MD 20603 [email protected]

Pieroni Paige Business Phone 617 536 7030


437 Boylston Street, Floor 4

Boston MA 02116 Fax 617 536 9363

[email protected]

Pryor Mark

World Express Athletic Management, LLC

Baltimore MD Fax 443 782 2400

[email protected]

Ratcliffe Thomas Business Phone 978 371 1285

Kimbia Athletics

100 Main Street, #110

Concord MA 01742 Fax 978 371 1388

[email protected]

Reilly Brendan Business Phone 303 554 0597

Boulder Wave, Inc.

1320 Pearl Street, Suite 315

Boulder CO 80302 Fax 303 554 0597

[email protected]

Richards Sharon Business Phone 954 296 5145

Ashar Enterprise Inc.

P.O Box 988

Round Rock TX 78680 Fax 512 238 8157

[email protected]

Riley Wenston Business Phone 865 935 9379

Charisma Sports Inc.

7901 Queen Borough Lane

Knoxville TN 37931 Fax 865 951 1371

[email protected]

Simms Ricky Business Phone 44 208 9431072

PACE Sports Management

6 The Causeway

Teddington Middle TW11 0HE Fax 44 208 9776582

[email protected]

Stanback Shonnese Business Phone 919 228 6360

Stanback Law Firm, PLLC

1000 Centre Green Way, Suite 200

Cary NC 27513 Fax 919 228 6362

232

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Stubbs Andy Business Phone 415 566 9424


1620 Ulloa Street


[email protected]

Stubbs Peter Business Phone 415 566 9424


1620 Ulloa Street


[email protected]

Wagner Robert Business Phone 703 853 9313

Octagon

1757 Pinnacle Drive

McLean VA 22102

[email protected]

Wessfeldt Daniel Business Phone 352 27 04 251

JRS Sports Management

18-20 rue Edward Steichen

Luxembourg 2540

[email protected]

Wetmore Mark Business Phone 617 536 7030


437 Boylston Street, Suite 404

Boston MA 02116 Fax 617 536 9363

[email protected]

Williams Steven Business Phone 407 922 8785

Williams International Elite, LLC

P.O. Box 421457

Kissimmee FL 34742 Fax 407 350 4584

[email protected]

Yewer Bradley Business Phone 423 753 0851

Flynn Sports Management

625 A Hales Chapel Rd.

Gray TN 37615 Fax 423 753 0871

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