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Jesse Squire (tracksuperfan)


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The Track & Field Superblog

Obsessive Coverage from an Obsessive Fan: All things pertaining to the highest levels of track & field, road racing, and cross country

Track and Field World Power Rankings — Women
Adidas Grand Prix edition Who are the world’s best athletes in each event? It’s not necessarily the same ranking as on the world lists for each event (although there is quite a bit of crossover). We don’t have win-loss standings, and the Diamon...[Read on]
Track & Field Dual Meet Hall of Fame: Sheila Hudson
The second-to-last athlete honored in the spring 2013 class of the Dual Meet Hall of Fame is Cal long/triple jumper Sheila Hudson. Hudson was a four-time NCAA Champion, three times in the triple jump and once in the long jump. In dual meet competition s...[Read on]
Dual Meet Hall of Fame: Jackie Joyner (Kersee)
As a nod to the USC-UCLA rivalry, every spring will see one athlete from each of the two universities honored in the Dual Meet Hall of Fame. The last athlete was a Trojan and this one will be a Bruin. She’s only the greatest athlete of all time,...[Read on]
Track & Field Major Conference Championship Team Projections
The two major conference championships going on this weekend are the SEC and Pac-12. So who is going to win? One way is to look at the USTFCCCA rankings. In a situation like this, though, those are not exactly helpful–those rankings are a numeric...[Read on]
Dual Meets: An example of Efficiency
I do a lot with collegiate dual meets. I do rankings, schedules, records, all kinds of stuff. It’s not necessarily that I think they’re the best form of college track competition–meets like Penn and Drake and conference and national ch...[Read on]
2013 Outdoor NCAA Track & Field: Women’s All-Dual Meet Team
The final women’s collegiate dual-meet rankings will be released tomorrow. Ahead of that announcement, I chose my first ever All-Dual Meet Team. These are all athletes who competed in dual meets, and specifically in the events for which they were ...[Read on]
Track & Field: The Weekend’s Best Matchups
If you’re looking for my weekly preview, it’s at my new project, the Daily Relay. Check it out, there’s a lot going on this weekend. ...[Read on]
New Website: The Daily Relay
You might wonder what happened to my weekly college awards writeup. The answer is that they’re somewhere else: a new website project called The Daily Relay. It’s a cooperative effort between several bloggers. Besides me, there’s Kevin...[Read on]
The Boston Marathon: Senseless
Carrie crossed the finish line at 4:08:48. The first explosion happened with 4:09:44 on the clock. By then, she was already through the finish area and had met with George, her high school coach from some 25 years ago. She was far enough away to be saf...[Read on]
NCAA Track and Field : Hope and Rain
Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain. –unknown Senior Allison Weimer anchors to victory on Senior DayPhoto courtesy BGSU Athletics Yesterday I was the PA announcer for the Bowling Green versus Toledo women’s track meet. ...[Read on]