June 22, 2005
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LOS ANGELES--Sixteen current and former University of Missouri track and field athletes will participate in the 2005 USA Track & Field Championships, presented by VISA, starting Thursday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The meet combines the best Americans in both the collegiate and professional realms in two incredible track meets. In addition to the open U.S. Championships, the best Americans under 20-years-old compete in the USATF Junior National Championships.
The USATF National Championships serve as the USA team trials for the IAAF World Championships to be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 5-14. The top three in each event, generally, we fill America's contingent at the games. The USATF Junior National Championships are the USA team trials for the Pan-America Championships to be held in Sherbrooke, Canada, July 28-31.
ESPN will provide live coverage of the meet Saturday from 3-5 p.m., central. ESPN2 will pick up live coverage on Sunday, running from 4-6 p.m., central.
The meet begins Thursday at 10:30 a.m., central with junior throwing events.
Tigers Entered Into USATF National Championships
Post-Collegians [Personal bests, Season bests]
Derrick Peterson ('00), men's 800-meter run, [1:45.08, 1:46.86]
Timothy Dunne ('03), men's 800-meter run, [1:47.16]
Christian Cantwell ('03), men's shot put, [22.54m 73-11¼, 21.67m 71-1¼]
Janae Strickland ('04), women's shot put, [16.92m 55-6¼, 16.83i 55-2¾]
Fiona Asigbee ('03), women's heptathlon, [5,868 points]
Current Collegians
Neville Miller (Jr. [redshirted in outdoor '04 season]), men's 800-meter run, [1:47.48]
Marcus Mayes (So.), men's 800-meter run, [1:47.78]
Conrad Woolsey (Sr.), men's shot put, [19.41m 63-8¼]
Ashley Patten (Jr.), women's 800-meter run, [2:04.04]
Tigers Entered Into USATF Junior National Championships (under age of 20)
Trisa Nickoley (Fr.), women's 800-meter run, [2:06.54, 2:07.45]
Kasey Kimball (Fr.), women's 1500-meter run, [4:33.76]
Maddie Schueler (Fr.), women's 5000-meter run, [17:04.04]
Elizabeth Robe (Fr.), women's shot put, [14.52m 47-7¾]
Denise Gilmore (Fr.), women's hammer throw, [52.63m 172-8]
Jason Miller (Fr.), men's high jump [2.06m 6-9]
Nate Englin (Fr.), men's shot put (6 kg), [17.56m 57-7½ -- 16 lbs.)
** MORE ON ALL OF THESE ATHLETES BELOW **
Four in the Men's 800
Including post-collegians, Missouri will have four of the 24 competitors in the field of the men's 800-meter run, no surprise that they all train together.
Derrick Peterson ('00), 2004 Olympian will lead the charge, entering with a season-best time of 1:46.86, the 10th-best performer this year on the U.S. list. Timothy Dunne ('03), a 2003 NCAA All-American, ran a personal-best 1:47.16 at early-June's Music City Distance Festival.
Neville Miller (St. Louis, Mo.) will also be a part of the field. Miller who started at Missouri as a 1:53 half-miler walk-on has worked to a 1:47.48 personal-best that he accomplished with Dunne at the Music City meet. Miller redshirted this outdoor season and will be a senior for the Tigers during the '06 season.
Sophomore Marcus Mayes (Sand Springs, Okla.) will be the youngest in the field, just turning 20-years of age in March. Mayes ran a 1:47.78 as part of a super-fast Big 12 Championship race that included the top seven running under 1:48. Mayes finished second at the 2004 USATF Junior National Championships and advanced with Team USA to the IAAF World Junior Championships last summer in Italy.
Patten, Big 12 Champ, In Field
Keeping with Missouri's half-mile tradition, Ashley Patten (Clarkston, Mich.) enters the women's field in the 800-meters. Patten won the Big 12 Championship in the event earlier this season with a PR-run of 2:04.04. Patten was the Junior National Champ in 2003 and went on to the Pan America games that year.
Asigbee Coming Off North American Heptathlon Championship
Heptathlete Fiona Asigbee (Walford, Iowa) enters the USATF Championships having just won the heptathlon at the NACAC Championships in San Juan in late May. Asigbee earned a personal-best score of 5,868 points at the meet that included sweltering temperatures and an unfriendly schedule. The IAAF ranks Asigbee 18th in the World in their latest rankings.
Asigbee has improved her overall score by 300 points since winning the 2003 Big 12 Championships, helped by jumping over six feet in the high jump normally. Asigbee placed second at the USATF Indoor Combined Event Championships in the pentathlon.
Cantwell, Back In The Saddle
Oh, and the Missouri travel party also includes shot putter Christian Cantwell. Cantwell who won the IAAF World Indoor Championship in 2004, had the longest four throws in the World during the '04 season, and won 13-straight competitions is coming off a promising week in Spain. Cantwell, who placed fourth at the '04 Olympic Trials, threw for 71-1¼ (21.67m) at an IAAF Grand Prix meet in Seville, Spain, on June 4th, the second-best mark in the World in '05.
Cantwell will be joined by outgoing senior Conrad Woolsey (Excelsior Springs, Mo.), who just earned his fourth straight All-America honor at the NCAA Championships in Sacramento. Woolsey won the Big 12 Indoor Championship and placed third at this year's Big 12 Outdoor with a PR of 63-8¼ (19.41m).
Englin Third in the World Under 20
Next in the line of Missouri's shot putters is freshman Nate Englin. Already a two-time Big 12 scorer, Englin enters the U.S. Junior Championships having the third-best throw this season in the World for people under 20 with the 16-pound shot. At this meet, Englin will be throwing the 6kg (13.3 lb) shot.