Brookins, Spence, Sutej Join The Bowerman Watch List for Women
February 10, 2011 Share
NEW ORLEANS – South Carolina’s LaKya Brookins, Shippensburg’s Neely Spence, and Arkansas’ Tina Sutej were added to the women’s watch list for The Bowerman, the award’s watch list committee announced on Thursday. All three are the current collegiate leaders in their respective events and are now on the watch list for collegiate track & field’s biggest award.
Brookins in the current collegiate leader in the 60 meters (7.18), Spence – from NCAA Division II – is the current world leader in the 5000 meters (16:01.09), and Sutej is the collegiate leader of the pole vault (4.45m, 14-7¼)
THE BOWERMAN OFFICIAL WATCH LIST, 2011 WOMEN
(updated February 10, 2011, listed in alphabetical order)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| LaKya Brookins (N) | SR | South Carolina | Sprints | Seneca, S.C. |
| Jessica Beard | SR | Texas A&M | Sprints | Euclid, Ohio |
| Ti’erra Brown | SR | Miami (Fla.) | Hurdles | Hampton, Va. |
| Semoy Hackett | JR | LSU | Sprints | Scarborough, Trinidad & Tobago |
| Neely Spence (P) | JR | Shippensburg | Distance | Shippensburg, Pa. |
| Tina Sutej (P) | JR | Arkansas | Pole Vault | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Sheila Reid | JR | Villanova | Distance | Newmarket, Ont. |
| Jeneba Tarmoh | JR | Texas A&M | Sprints | San Jose, Calif. |
| Brianne Theisen | SR | Oregon | Combined Events | Humboldt, Sask. |
| Kim Williams | SR | Florida State | Jumps | Kingston, Jamaica |
(P) – Promoted to the watch list in this update
(N) – New to either list this update
LaKya Brookins, South Carolina
Senior, Sprints, Seneca, S.C. (Seneca HS)
IN 2011: Has won three-out-of-four finals in the 60-meter dash, including her latest conquest of winning the New Balance Collegiate Invitational event in a collegiate-leading 7.18 seconds.
PREVIOUSLY: Tied the NCAA-Championships record with a 7.13 clocking in winning South Carolina’s first national championship in the 60 meters in 2009. In 2010, Brookins was the 60-meter champion at the SEC indoor meet and at the Tyson Invitational. At the NCAA Indoor Championships, Brookins placed third.
Jessica Beard, Texas A&M
Senior, Sprints, Euclid, Ohio (Euclid HS)
IN 2011: Has recorded collegiate-leading marks in the 200 (22.95) and 400 (52.25) in the early weeks of the 2011 season. Undefeated in both the 200 and 400 so far this season having won two finals in each event.
PREVIOUSLY: Beard, who mainly specializes in the 200 and 400 meters, helped the Aggies to a second-straight NCAA team title outdoors in scoring second-place national finishes in the 400 as anchor of the squad’s 4×400. Beard accumulated four Big 12 titles in 2010 and an all-time collegiate best as a member of the Aggie 4×200 that clocked 1:29.42 at the Penn Relays. Beard’s star has shined the brightest on the international stage as she lays claim to four world-championship medals. Most notably, Beard was the third leg of Team USA’s 4×400-meter relay squad that won gold at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin. Beard has also been on two gold-medaling IAAF World Junior Championship 4×400 teams to go with a silver medal won individually in the 400 in 2008.
Ti’erra Brown, Miami (Fla.)
Junior, Hurdles, Hampton, Va. (Hampton HS)
IN 2011: Has yet to compete in the hurdles so far this season. Was third-leg member of 4×400 relay team at Virginia Tech Elite Meet that finished second at 3:39.16 to Clemson.
PREVIOUSLY:Queen Harrison, 2010 women’s winner of The Bowerman, was the first female in NCAA Division I history to sweep national tiles in both the 100- and 400-meter hurdles. Brown could be the early favorite to be the second. Only Harrison, also an ACC foe, stood in Brown’s way for both titles last year as the then-sophomore was national runner-up in both events last year. Brown sent a call to action after running a then-world leading 54.74 in the NCAA’s 400 hurdle quarterfinals – the time would stand as the 13th best in the world in 2010. Over the summer, Brown, along with a NACAC title, would win each round on the way to a USATF 400-meter hurdle title where she put more than a full second ahead of the rest of the field in the final.
Semoy Hackett, LSU
Sprints, Scarborough, Trinidad & Tobago (Bishop’s HS/Lincoln (Mo.))
IN 2011: In her first season as a Division I participant, Hackett has achieved marks in the 60 and 200 that among the nation’s top four in both events. Her season best in the 200 meters of 22.98 is just off the 22.95 leader set by Texas A&M’s Beard. In the 60, Hackett has the fourth-best mark of the 2011season at 7.24.
PREVIOUSLY:In 2010, Hackett won five NCAA Division II titles, set three championship records, and added an all-time Division II best in the 200 with Lincoln University of Missouri. It was quite a year for the Caribbean native. And, with a move to Division I with the transfer to LSU, the stage lights are now a little brighter. At the NCAA DII outdoor meet, Hackett took titles in the 100, 200, and 4×100, all for the second-straight year. In the 200, she ran a championships-meet record and an all-time division best 22.75 in the final to break a 17-year-old standard. The time also stood as the third-best among all collegians in 2010, trailing only 2009 Bowerman finalist Porscha Lucas and current watchlister Jeneba Tarmoh.
Neely Spence, Shippensburg
Junior, Distance, Shippensburg, Pa. (Shippensburg HS)
IN 2011: Notched a world-leading and all-division collegiate-leading 16:01.09 in the 5000 meters at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. Dating back to the 2010 outdoor season, Spence is undefeated in every race in seven tries, including a DMR and distances ranging from the Mile to the 5000 meters. In all, Spence has won nine-straight and is undefeated in the 3000 meters, indoor and outdoor, for her collegiate career.
PREVIOUSLY:Spence most recently won the 2010 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships in the fall, becoming the school’s first national champion in the sport Spence took the six-kilometer race at the national championships in 20:41.2, over 15 seconds ahead of runner-up Sarah Porter of Western Washington. Spence led the Red Raiders to a fourth-place team finish. Spence went undefeated through the cross country season, winning a third-straight NCAA regional title and PSAC conference crown. At the Greater Louisville Classic, Spence set a new 5k course record and won the race which included many from Division I. During the 2010 track & field seasons, Spence swept NCAA D-II 5000-meter titles at both indoor and outdoor national championships.
Tina Sutej, Arkansas
Junior, Pole Vault, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Gimnazija Bezigrad)
IN 2011: Sutej is undefeated in four tries this season in the pole vault. Having twice cleared more than 14-6 (4.42m) so far in the 2011 seasons, Sutej most recently bettered her own collegiate-leading mark with a 14-7¼ (4.45m) clearance – also a Slovenian national record – in winning the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. Sutej has also attempted to break the collegiate indoor record in the event twice this year.
PREVIOUSLY:NCAA outdoor runner-up in the pole vault and Slovenian national champion in 2010. Cleared 14-9 (4.50m) for the Slovenian national crown outdoors and notched indoor personal best in 2010 with clearance of 14-7½ (4.46m) at the SEC Indoor Championships, setting a new conference and school standard. Sutej was a three-time Junior National Champion in her native Slovenia. During her prep career, she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, the 2006 World Junior Championships and the 2005 IAAF World Youth Championships and European Junior Championships.
Sheila Reid, Villanova
Junior, Distance, Newmarket, Ontario
IN 2011: Reid holds claim to the collegiate-leading mark in the 3000 meters, having run 8:56.92 in competition against collegians. Last weekend at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, Reid ran a would-be NCAA-leading mark in the mile with an impressive showing against a bevy of professionals in the event’s mile run. Reid would finish third in that event with a 4:35.30 clocking.
PREVIOUSLY:Reid is coming off the fall cross country season with individual and team NCAA titles. Reid led the Wildcats to a second-straight NCAA cross country crown with her own national individual title, becoming the first since 1994 to win the individual NCAA title while leading their team to victory. On the track in 2010, Reid finished third in the 3000 at the national indoor meet and followed with a fourth-place showing in the 1500 at the NCAA outdoor meet. Indoors, Reid won Big East titles in the 1000 and mile and added a conference crown in the 800 outdoors.
Jeneba Tarmoh, Texas A&M
Junior, Sprints, San Jose, Calif. (Mt. Pleasant HS/Tennessee)
IN 2011: Tarmoh has been busy to start the 2011 season. Including relays and all rounds, Tarmoh has contested 15 races in the 60, 200, and 4×400. Tarmoh lead-off the Aggie 4×400 to a collegiate-leading 3:30.70 last weekend at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. And, like Hackett, is also in the nation’s top four in both identical season bests in the 60 (7.24) and 200 (22.98). Winning credits from 2011 include a victory in the 200 at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational and in the 60 at the Texas A&M Conference Challenge on January 15.
PREVIOUSLY:Tarmoh is another of a number of talented sprinters to watch in 2011. Tarmoh was a top-three finisher at the NCAA indoor meet at 60 meters and at the NCAA outdoor meet in the 100 and 200 in 2010. In addition, Tarmoh led off the NCAA champ Aggie 4×100 squad most of the season in 2010 and was a member of the 4×200 team that set a new collegiate record at the Penn Relays. In addition, Tarmoh swept 100 and 200 titles at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in May, was a USATF finalist in the 100 in June, and won the NACAC 100-meter title in July. Tarmoh is a three-time international medalist which includes a 100-meter gold earned at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 2008.
Brianne Theisen, Oregon
Senior, Combined Events, Humboldt, Saskatchewan (Humboldt Collegiate Institute)
IN 2011: Theisen has already claimed a collegiate-record to begin the 2011 season. On January 28 at the Washington Invitational, Theisen scored 4,507 points in the heptathlon to top the previous mark of 4,498 set by Arizona State’s Jacquelyn Johnson in 2008. With a high jump of 6-0 (1.83m) in the record-setting pentathlon, Theisen also ranks in NCAA’s top five in that event. In addition, Theisen has won nine-straight combined-event competitions against collegiate competition with the win at the UW Invitational.
PREVIOUSLY:Theisen won the NCAA heptathlon title for second-straight time in 2010, topping the field by over 400 points for a personal-best and school-record score of 6,094. In addition to also winning the NCAA pentathlon crown indoors, Theisen would lead off the Oregon 4×400-meter squad to a NCAA title last year. Theisen’s all-time best pentathlon score of 4,396, set in 2010, sits as the fourth best among collegians all-time. Theisen has twice won the Pac-10 heptathlon crown, and, in 2009, Theisen was 15th in the same event at the IAAF World Championships.
Kim Williams, Florida State
Senior, Jumps, Kingston, Jamaica (Vere Technical HS)
IN 2011: Has been in competition once so far this season. Finished second at the Razorback Invitational in the long jump with the second-best collegiate mark of the season, 21-3¼ (6.48m).
PREVIOUSLY:Williams made quite a mark during the 2010 indoor season in the triple jump. At the NCAA Championships, Williams won her second-consecutive title in the event and could become only the second (Yvette Bates, USC, 1986-88) to win a third with a national crown this March. In winning the ACC indoor crown for a third time, her best leap of 46-8¼ (14.24m) placed her just two centimeters shy of the collegiate record of 46-9 (14.25m). Overall, Williams has won eight ACC crowns and four NCAA titles, which included triple jump indoor-outdoor sweeps in 2009 and a long jump-triple jump outdoor sweep in the same year.
The Bowerman Advisory Board appointed four of its members to comprise The Bowerman Women’s Watch Committee and another four of its members to make up The Bowerman Men’s Watch Committee. The committee will release their next women’s update on Thursday, March 3. The three men and three women finalists will be named late June.
For more information on The Bowerman, the award, the magnificent trophy, and Bill Bowerman himself, visit TheBowerman.org. Keep up with Bowerman candidates on the USTFCCCA’s weekly results page (http://www.ustfccca.org/weekly-results) and by following the organization’s twitter feed twitter.com/TheBowerman and Facebook page facebook.com/TheBowerman.
ALSO RECEIVING MENTION (18)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Nia Ali (N) | SR | Southern California | Combined Events | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Marie Louise Asselin | SR | West Virginia | Distance | Sarnia, Ont. |
| Joanna Atkins (D) | SR | Auburn | Sprints | Stone Mountain, Ga. |
| Brigetta Barrett (N) | SO | Arizona | Jumps | Duncanville, Texas |
| Colleen Felix (N) | JR | Georgia | Jumps | St. Andrews, Grenada |
| Sheniqua Ferguson | SR | Auburn | Sprints | Nassau, Bahamas |
| Melissa Gergel | SR | Oregon | Pole Vault | Glenwood, Ill. |
| Jordan Hasay | SO | Oregon | Sophomore | Arroyo Grande, Calif. |
| Amber Kaufman (D) | SR | Hawai’i | Jumps | San Jose, Calif. |
| Liz Lawton | SR | Chicago | Distance | North Easton, Mass. |
| Chantel Malone (N) | SR | Texas | Jumps/Sprints | Tortola, British V.I. |
| Gabby Mayo (D) | JR | Texas A&M | Sprints/Hurdles | Raleigh, N.C. |
| Chaunte McMillan (N) | SR | Nebraska | Combined Events | Rolla, Mo. |
| Lauryn Newson | JR | Oregon | Jumps | Richmond, Calif. |
| Ashton Purvis | FR | Miami (Fla.) | Sprints | Oakland, Calif. |
| Faith Sherrill (N) | SR | Indiana | Throws | Ft. Wayne, Ind. |
| Karen Shump | SO | Oklahoma | Throws | Media, Pa. |
| Kate Van Buskirk (N) | SR | Duke | Mid-Distance | Brampton, Ont. |
(D) – demoted from the watch list in this update
(N) – new to either list this update
Jumpers Goodwin, Claye Added to The Bowerman Watch List for Men
February 9, 2011 Share
NEW ORLEANS – The Bowerman Men’s Watch Committee in conjunction with the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced on Wednesday their first update of the men’s watch list for collegiate track & field’s biggest award – The Bowerman. Texas sophomore Marquise Goodwin and Florida junior Will Claye moved to watch list status for the first time in 2011.
Goodwin is the current-season collegiate leader in the long jump and is the defending outdoor national champion in the event. Claye leads the NCAA in the triple jump so far this season.
The watch list includes now includes five true sophomores, three who attend Florida, and two who are football players.
Also receiving mention by the watch list committee this update is Indiana’s Andy Bayer and Ramapo’s Craig Van Leeuwen.
THE BOWERMAN OFFICIAL WATCH LIST 2011 MEN
(updated February 9, 2011, listed in alphabetical order)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Jeshua Anderson | SR | Washington State | Hurdles | Woodland Hills, Calif. |
| Robby Andrews | SO | Virginia | Distance | Englishtown, N.J. |
| Sam Chelanga | RS SR | Liberty | Distance | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Will Claye (P) | JR | Florida | Jumps | Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Jeff Demps | SO/JR | Florida | Sprints | Winter Garden, Fla. |
| Mason Finley | SO | Kansas | Throws | Salida, Colo. |
| Marquise Goodwin (N) | SO | Texas | Jumps/Sprints | Garland, Texas |
| Walter Henning | SR | LSU | Throws | Kings Park, N.Y. |
| Kirani James | SO | Alabama | Sprints | Gouyave, Grenada |
| Christian Taylor | JR | Florida | Jumps | Fayetteville, Ga. |
(P) – Promoted from “receiving mention” list this update
(N) – New to either list this update
Jeshua Anderson, Washington State
Senior, Hurdles, Woodland Hills, Calif. (Taft HS)
IN 2011: Through the early weeks is undefeated in five races in the 60-meter hurdles and 400-meter dash combined. His season best in the 400-meter dash of 47.12 places him in the collegiate top 25. The outdoor season is where Anderson is expected to shine when he can compete in his specialty event – the 400-meter hurdles.
PREVIOUSLY: Anderson, the NCAA 400-meter hurdle champion in 2008 and 2009, was the national runner-up in the same event in 2010. Only once last year was Anderson bested in the 400 hurdles and that was in the national final to South Carolina’s Johnny Dutch. In running a 48.63 for his third-straight Pac-10 title, Anderson recorded the second-best time by a collegian in 2010 and matched UCLA’s Kevin Young as the only to win three straight league crowns in the event.
Robby Andrews, Virginia
Sophomore, Distance, Englishtown, N.J. (Manalapan HS)
IN 2011: Has yet to compete. This upcoming weekend, Andrews will be running unattached and will rabbit Bernard Lagat’s attempt to break the American two-mile record in New York.
PREVIOUSLY: In his 2010 freshman campaign as an 800-meter specialist, Andrews was responsible for some of the more thrilling moments of the collegiate track & field season. Shortly after being named ACC Freshman of the Year after notching indoor conference crowns in the 800 and as anchor of the DMR, Andrews would gain quick national attention at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Andrews used a deadly kick to surge from seventh at the 600-meter split to first, nipping 2010 Bowerman finalist Andrew Wheating for the national indoor crown by a hundredth of a second. Andrews would go on to catch Wheating again in anchoring UVa to a 4×800-meter victory at the Penn Relays, but Wheating would take the tape to Andrews’ second at the NCAA outdoor meet. Over the summer, Andrews won bronze at the IAAF World Junior Championships, becoming one of the first two Americans to medal in middle-distance at the world junior games.
Sam Chelanga, Liberty
RS Senior, Distance, Nairobi, Kenya (Bartolimo HS/Fairleigh Dickinson)
IN 2011: In his first 5k of the indoor season, Chelanga recorded a then world-leading and current collegiate-leading time of 13:41.35 on his home 200-meter, flat track on January 29. Last weekend, Chelanga notched a would-be collegiate leader of 7:48.24 in the 3000 meters at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix where he finished fourth in a professional-loaded field. Because no collegians were involved in that competition, Chelanga still needs an NCAA qualifying mark in the 3k and will look to achieve that this weekend at Washington’s Flotrack Husky Classic.
PREVIOUSLY: Chelanga’s greatest successes in 2010 came at the 10,000-meter distance where he won his first NCAA track & field national title and established a new collegiate record. His NCAA title came by an 18-second margin, the largest margin of victory in the NCAA men’s final since 2002. In addition, Chelanga’s collegiate record time of 27:08.39, set May 1 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, shattered his own collegiate standard by 20 seconds and finished No. 4 in the world for 2010. Chelanga also finished as the NCAA national runner-up in the 5000 meters, both indoors and outdoors. The pair of NCAA 5k finals were the only two individual races Chelanga lost to a collegiate opponent all year, and the setbacks came by a total of just 1.14 seconds. In the fall of 2010, Chelanga won his second-straight NCAA cross country crown.
Will Claye, Florida
Junior, Jumps, Phoenix, Ariz. (Mountain Pointe HS/Oklahoma)
IN 2011: Claye is so far 2-for-2 on the year in jumping competitions with a single win in both the long and triple jumps so far this season. The triple jump win on his final attempt at the Texas A&M Challenge on January 29 was with a collegiate-leading mark of 55-3¾ (16.86m). Look for Claye and teammate Christian Taylor at the Tyson Invitational this weekend.
PREVIOUSLY: Prior to 2011, Claye competed at Oklahoma where he won the 2009 NCAA outdoor triple jump crown and broke the Sooners’ school record with a personal-best mark of 56-4¾ (17.19m). Also in the summer of 2009, Claye won the USATF Junior national title and the Pan Am Junior games crown in the triple jump.
Jeff Demps, Florida
Sophomore (indoor)/Junior (outdoor), Sprints, Winter Garden, Fla. (South Lake HS)
IN 2011: Demps open the season last weekend at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet. Demps was near his personal best in the 60 with a 6.57 run in the event’s final to win. The 6.57 was the second-best time of his career. Demps is slated to run at the Tyson Invitational in Arkansas this upcoming weekend.
PREVIOUSLY: Demps claimed the indoor 60-meter and outdoor 100-meter crowns in 2010, becoming only the 12th person in NCAA men’s DI history to accomplish the short-sprint sweep. Demps won the 100-meter final in a wind-aided 9.96 in June and set a new Florida record with a 6.56 clocking in the 60-meter national preliminaries in March. Demps added a national crown in anchoring the Gators’ 4×100-meter relay squad and notched SEC crowns with the 100 and 4×100.
Mason Finley, Kansas
Sophomore, Throws, Salida, Colo. (Buena Vista HS)
IN 2011: Finley has two wins in the books so far in 2011 in his signature event – the shot put. His opener, a 67-11½ (20.71m) heave to win at the Missouri-Kansas dual leads the rest of Division I by almost three feet. Last weekend, Finley won at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational with a mark of 66-11¼ (20.40m).
PREVIOUSLY: Finley staked claim as the next collegiate throwing phenom in 2010 with runner-up showings in the shot put and discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, finishing second to only Bowerman finalist Ryan Whiting in both events. Finley also topped highly competitive fields in winning the shot put-discus double at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships. \
Marquise Goodwin, Texas
Sophomore, Jumps/Sprints, Garland, Texas (Rowlett HS)
IN 2011: Goodwin with one long jump competition is on top of the collegiate world early-on in 2011. With a jump of 26-8½ (8.14m) on his second attempt at the Razorback Invitational back on January 29, Goodwin secured an NCAA-automatic qualifying mark and the top mark in the collegiate world by five inches. Most of Goodwin’s work so far this season has been on the sprint-straight where he has taken on the 60 meters. In the 60, Goodwin has recorded a win in the Arkansas-Texas dual and has a season-best of 6.75. This upcoming weekend, Goodwin will compete at New Mexico.
PREVIOUSLY: In 2010, Goodwin had a fantastic championship run during the outdoor season. The freshman won the Big 12 long jump title with a leap of 26-¾ (7.94m) and followed with a national title in the same event, leaping to 26-9 (8.15m) on his first attempt to win the NCAA crown by 10 inches. Also is a wide receiver for the Longhorn football team. In two years of work, Goodwin has a receiving touchdown, a punt-return touchdown, and has amassed 1,046 all-purpose yards.
Walter Henning, LSU
Senior, Throws, Kings Park, N.Y. (St. Anthony’s HS)
IN 2011: Henning continues not to miss in the weight throw. The LSU strongman has won eight-straight against collegiate competitions with the 35-lb. weight – two of which has come in starting the 2011 season. In the dual with Texas A&M, Henning jumped to the front of the collegiate leaderboard with a heave of 72-3¾ (22.04m). Last weekend, Henning added to the season best with a 72-7 (22.12m) mark in placing as the first collegian at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. Henning’s personal best in the event is 78-1 (23.80m).
PREVIOUSLY: Very few dominated their events in 2010 like Walter Henning. The Tiger was 12-for-12 in weight throw and hammer throw competitions during the collegiate seasons and captured NCAA crowns in both events. During the indoor season, Henning was the best among all collegians in recording a weight throw of 78-1 (23.80m), a toss that topped the SEC Championship record and delivered victory by over 11 feet. With an NCAA hammer crown, captured on his final throw, Henning became the first to sweep the national weight-hammer crowns since 2006.
Kirani James, Alabama
Sophomore, Sprints, Gouyave, Grenada
IN 2011: James notched the world’s fastest time so far in the 400 meters last weekend with a 45.47 effort in winning the Meyo Invitational on Notre Dame’s oversized track. James also has the collegiate leading time in the 200 meters from his 20.58 run at New Mexico on January 22.
PREVIOUSLY: At just 17 years old, James won the NCAA 400-meter crown in 2010 with a clocking of 45.05. And, during the entire outdoor season, “all he did was win”. It started with a 400-meter title in the CARIFTA Games in April, followed by an SEC crown with a personal-best 45.01. Following the NCAAs, in July, he would win the IAAF World Junior title in the same event. James won every race in every round in which he participated in 2010 with the lone exception being the NCAA Indoor Championship final where he finished runner-up to Georgia’s Torrin Lawrence.
Christian Taylor, Florida
Junior, Jumps, Fayetteville, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS)
IN 2011: Taylor enters the upcoming weekend as the collegiate leader with six-straight wins in the triple jump. Last weekend in his first triple jump competition of the season, Taylor won the Virginia Tech Elite Meet with a leap of 54-6 (16.61m). Teammate Will Claye is the only other collegian to have jumped farther this season. Taylor will is schedule to compete at the Tyson Invitational this weekend.
PREVIOUSLY: Taylor won the NCAA indoor-outdoor double in the triple jump in 2010, becoming the first to accomplish the feat since LSU’s Walter Davis in 2001 and 2002. The indoor crown was his second-straight and, a third possible this March, would equal Arkansas’ three-timers Michael Conley (1983-85), Erick Walder (1992-94), and Robert Howard (1996-98). Taylor swept SEC triple jump crowns with the indoor version again being a second-straight. Taylor was also the NCAA runner-up indoors with the long jump and was the USATF outdoor runner-up in the triple jump. In addition, Taylor is also a member of the Gators’ 4×400 relay team and finished third with the group at the NCAA outdoor meet.
The Bowerman Advisory Board appointed four of its members to comprise The Bowerman Men’s Watch Committee and another four of its members to make up The Bowerman Women’s Watch Committee. The committee will release their next men’s update on Wednesday, March 2. The three men and three women finalists will be named late June.
For more information on The Bowerman, the award, the magnificent trophy, and Bill Bowerman himself, visit TheBowerman.org. Keep up with Bowerman candidates on the USTFCCCA’s weekly results page (http://www.ustfccca.org/weekly-results) and by following the organization’s twitter feed twitter.com/TheBowerman and Facebook page facebook.com/TheBowerman.
ALSO RECEIVING MENTION (8)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Andy Bayer (N) | RS SO | Indiana | Distance | Leo, Ind. |
| Charles Clark (D) | SR (out) | Florida State | Sprints | Virginia Beach, Va. |
| Derek Drouin | JR | Indiana | Jumps | Corunna, Ontario |
| German Fernandez (D) | JR/SO | Oklahoma State | Distance | Riverbank, Calif. |
| Leford Green | JR | Johnson C. Smith | Sprints | St. Catherine, Jamaica |
| Torrin Lawrence | JR | Georgia | Sprints | Jacksonville, Fla. |
| Dorian Ulrey | SR | Arkansas | Distance | Port Byron, Ill. |
| Craig Van Leeuwen (N) | JR | Ramapo | Pole Vault | Little River Falls, N.J. |
(D) – demoted from the watch list this update
(NJ – new to either list this update