Rising Stars Duncan, Jelmini Now Among The Bowerman’s Women’s Watch
April 7, 2011 Share
NEW ORLEANS – LSU sophomore sprinter Kimberlyn Duncan and Arizona State redshirt freshman thrower Anna Jelmini was added to the women’s watch list for The Bowerman, the award’s watch list committee announced on Thursday. Duncan, promoted from the receiving mention list, recorded a world-leading clocking of 22.76 over 200 meters last weekend at her home school’s invitational. Jelmini leads the collegiate ranks in the discus by over five feet in her first year in a collegiate uniform.
Miami (Fla.)’s Ti’erra Brown was also promoted to the watch list for the second time this year.
In addition, Central Missouri’s Lindsay Lettow was added to the “also receiving mention” list. Lettow, the USTFCCCA National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year in Division II, led the Jennies with 18 team points at the NCAA D-II Indoor Championships in March, scoring a championships-record score of 4,064 in the pentathlon for a national title. Lettow added a fourth-place national showing in the long jump and sixth-place performance in the 60-meter hurdles.
THE BOWERMAN OFFICIAL WATCH LIST, 2011 WOMEN
(updated April 7, 2011, listed in alphabetical order, always ten names)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Jackie Areson | SR | Tennessee | Distance | Delray Beach, Fla. |
| Jessica Beard | SR | Texas A&M | Sprints | Euclid, Ohio |
| LaKya Brookins | SR | South Carolina | Sprints | Seneca, S.C. |
| Ti’erra Brown (P2) | SR | Miami (Fla.) | Hurdles | Hampton, Va. |
| Kimberlyn Duncan (P) | SO | LSU | Sprints | Katy, Texas |
| Jordan Hasay | SO | Oregon | Sophomore | Arroyo Grande, Calif. |
| Anna Jelmini (N) | RS FR | Arizona State | Throws | Bakersfield, Calif. |
| Tina Sutej | JR | Arkansas | Pole Vault | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Brianne Theisen | SR | Oregon | Combined Events | Humboldt, Sask. |
| Kim Williams | SR | Florida State | Jumps | Kingston, Jamaica |
(P) – Promoted from “receiving mention” list this update
(P2) – Promoted to the watch list for a second time
(N) – New to either list this update
Jackie Areson, Tennessee
Senior, Distance, Delray Beach, Fla. (Atlantic Community HS)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete.
INDOOR: Areson won the NCAA indoor title at 5000 meters in 16:04.16, more than four seconds ahead of runner-up Mia Behm of Texas. Areson became the first Lady Vol to win a national crown at the distance. In addition, Areson placed fourth at the national meet at 3000 meters to score a total of 15 points for Tennessee’s tied seventh-place team finish (24 points).
At the SEC Indoor Championships, Areson brought conference titles to the Lady Vols in the 3000 meters and as anchor of the distance medley relay. Areson finished the season as the national leader in the 5000 meters with a clocking of 15:39.81 which was captured in winning the event at the Flotrack Husky Classic by nearly five full seconds. Areson’s 3000-meter run in winning the Penn State National in 9:01.91 ranked third in the NCAA this year.
Jessica Beard, Texas A&M
Senior, Sprints, Euclid, Ohio (Euclid HS)
OUTDOOR: Opened the season with a win at the LSU Invitational 400-meter dash in a collegiate-leading time of 51.55, taking victory by over a second-and-a-half. In addition, Beard anchored the Aggies to a collegiate-leading 43.16 clocking in the 4×100-meter relay in her outdoor opener.
INDOOR: Beard made the Aggie faithful stand up and cheer for her performances at the NCAA Indoor Championships. In the 400 meters, Beard would twice record the best collegiate-mark of the year with a 51.64 clocking in the preliminaries and would top it with a 50.79 world-leading time in winning the national crown. Beard would win the event by more than 1½ seconds for Texas A&M’s first women’s individual national indoor crown in school history. With the time, Beard moved to third all-time on the American indoor list and second all-time collegiately.
Beard also anchored the 4×400 team to their second national crown in three years with a 51.08 split, leading Texas A&M to a 3:29.72 clocking, the best in the NCAA this year and the eighth-best all-time.
Also during the indoor season, Beard won an unprecedented fourth-straight indoor Big 12 title at 400. Beard was named Big 12 Performer of the Year as she also scored second-place honors in the 200 meters at the conference meet and anchored the Aggies to a fifth-straight crown in the 4×400. Her season’s best 200 time of 22.95 ranked sixth in the NCAA. Beard finished the 2011 indoor season undefeated in the 400 meters.
LaKya Brookins, South Carolina
Senior, Sprints, Seneca, S.C. (Seneca HS)
OUTDOOR: Recorded a 100-meter time of 11.36 at South Carolina’s Weems Baskin Relays to begin the season. Brookins finished sixth overall in the 100 at the Florida Relays and ran on the squad’s 4×100 and 4×200 teams.
INDOOR: Brookins won her second NCAA indoor 60-meter crown in 2011 by equaling the collegiate record of 7.09 in the event’s final. In addition, Brookins time ended the season as the world-leading time. In the preliminaries, Brookins would run a then-collegiate-leading time of 7.13. Brookins, who also won the title in 2009, becomes the first two-time winner of the event since LSU’s Muna Lee.
Coming into the NCAA meet, Brookins has the nation’s leading time in the 60 meters with a 7.14 run captured in winning the SEC title in the event. All told, Brookins won six-out-of-seven finals at the distance this year and has clocked sub-7.20 performances on six occasions, including the last five. Brookins also won 60-meter titles at the Tyson Invitational, the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, and the Texas A&M Challenge.
Ti’erra Brown, Miami (Fla.)
Senior, Hurdles, Hampton, Va. (Hampton HS)
OUTDOOR: Won the 400-meter hurdles at the Florida Relays in 56.91, a time that ranks in the NCAA’s top three so far this season.
INDOOR: Known mostly for her 400-meter hurdle prowess, Brown overall had a light indoor season. However, that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been competitive. At the ACC Indoor Championships, Brown placed second overall in the open 400, and won her section of the finals, in a time of 53.25.
Kimberlyn Duncan, LSU
Sophomore, Sprints, Katy, Texas (Cypress Springs HS)
OUTDOOR: Duncan is off to a fast start in the 2011 outdoor season as she has set wind-legal PRs in both the 100-meter dash (11.31) and 200-meter dash (22.76). She is again the NCAA leader in the 200-meter dash at 22.76, while her time of 11.31 ranks No. 4 in the NCAA among wind-legal performances in 2011.
INDOOR: The NCAA Indoor 200-meter champion won four-straight 200-meter finals during the season, dating back to her win at the Tyson Invitational during the indoor season on Feb. 12. After setting an indoor personal record of 22.78 in winning her first career Southeastern Conference title at the SEC Indoor Championships, Duncan became the first Lady Tiger since 2004 to take home the NCAA Indoor crown in the event with her run of 22.85 at the national meet. In fact, her indoor PR of 22.78 is the world’s fastest indoor 200-meter time in three years since former Texas star Bianca Knight set the American indoor record of 22.40 at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Jordan Hasay, Oregon
Sophomore, Distance, Arroyo Grande, Calif. (Mission College Prep)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete.
INDOOR: Hasay would lead Oregon to a national team title with a meet-high 22 points at the NCAA Indoor Championships, scoring individual national crowns in the mile and 3000 meters and as anchor of the Ducks’ runner-up DMR squad. Hasay became the fifth overall and first to win the national mile-3k double since Northern Arizona’s Johanna Nilsson in 2006. Hasay won the mile at the NCAA Championships in a personal-best 4:33.01, a mark that is among the all-time top ten of American collegians. In the 3000, Hasay outlasted Villanova’s Sheila Reid with a 9:13.71 run to avenge a previous head-to-head loss to Reid in the DMR the night before.
Hasay clocked a 9:05.42 season’s best in the 3000 at the UW Invitational in January. Hasay was also the mile champ at the MPSF Championships. Hasay was selected by the nation’s coaches as the USTFCCCA National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year.
Anna Jelmini, Arizona State
RS Freshman, Throws, Bakersfield, Calif. (Shafter HS)
OUTDOOR: Opened the season with a collegiate-leading, and top-ten world mark, of 198-5 (60.49m) in the discus at the Arizona State Invitational.
INDOOR: Placed fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the shot put, improving from her 14th seed, with a personal-best throw of 56-½ (17.08m).
Tina Sutej, Arkansas
Junior, Pole Vault, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Gimnazija Bezigrad)
OUTDOOR: At the Razorback Spring Invitational, Sutej opened the outdoor campaign with a win and clearance of 14-1¼ (4.30m). Sutej also ran on the squad’s 4×100-relay team.
INDOOR: Sutej topped the collegiate record in the pole vault with a clearance of 14-10¾ (4.54m) in winning the SEC title in the event. Sutej broke the 2002 record of Amy Linnen Undoubtedly the most consistent in the vault during the indoor season season, Sutej cleared more than 14-6 (4.42m) five times this season and won seven-straight events. In addition, Sutej won the national crown in the event, becoming the first from Arkansas to win an indoor NCAA pole vault title as the only to clear 14-7¼ (4.45m) at the national meet.
Brianne Theisen, Oregon
Senior, Combined Events, Humboldt, Saskatchewan (Humboldt Collegiate Institute)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete.
INDOOR: Theisen twice set the collegiate record in the pentathlon in 2011 and won her second-straight NCAA crown in the event. Her score of 4,540 bettered her previous all-time collegiate-best mark of 4,507 set in January at the UW Invitational and ranked among the world’s top five in the event for the season. Theisen would earn personal bests of 6-½ (1.84m) in the high jump and 2:11.82 in the 800 meters en route to this season’s national crown. In addition, Theisen has won ten-straight combined-event competitions against collegiate competition through the 2011 indoor season.
Theisen also scored at the NCAA meet for the second-straight year as a member of Oregon’s 4×400 relay team.
At the MPSF Championships, Theisen sat out the pentathlon, but competed in four other events, including leading-off the Ducks 4×400 to victory, placing second in the high jump, and third in the 60-meter hurdles.
Theisen was also named the USTFCCCA National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year.
Kim Williams, Florida State
Senior, Jumps, Kingston, Jamaica (Vere Technical HS)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete in the long or triple jumps. Williams ran in the open 200 meters at the Florida State Relays, clocking 24.55 for fourth overall.
INDOOR: Williams became the first in NCAA D-I women’s history to win the national title in the triple jump for a third time. Williams in the 2011 version, used a 45-9¾ (13.96m) mark on her final attempt to post the best mark among all collegians for the season. However, it was not easy as Williams posted fouls on her first two attempts in the competition, but notched a 43-1¾ (13.15m) in round three to secure a spot in the event’s finals. In addition, Williams placed second in the long jump at the NCAA Championships.
Williams also netted impressive performances in both long and triple jumps at the ACC Championships. In becoming the first in ACC Championship history to win an event for a fourth time, Williams triple jumped to a collegiate-leading mark of 45-9¾ (13.96m). In addition, the previous day, Williams won the ACC long jump title with a leap of 21-6 (6.55m) – a performance that finished the season ranked No. 2 in the NCAA for the indoor season.
ALSO RECEIVING MENTION (26)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Nia Ali | SR | Southern California | Combined Events | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Marie Louise Asselin | SR | West Virginia | Distance | Sarnia, Ont. |
| Joanna Atkins | SR | Auburn | Sprints | Stone Mountain, Ga. |
| Brigetta Barrett | SO | Arizona | Jumps | Duncanville, Texas |
| Gwen Berry | SR | Southern Illinois | Throws | St. Louis, Mo. |
| Colleen Felix | JR | Georgia | Jumps | St. Andrews, Grenada |
| Sheniqua Ferguson | SR | Auburn | Sprints | Nassau, Bahamas |
| Melissa Gergel | SR | Oregon | Pole Vault | Glenwood, Ill. |
| Semoy Hackett (D) | JR | LSU | Sprints | Scarborough, Trinidad & Tobago |
| Amber Kaufman | SR | Hawai’i | Jumps | San Jose, Calif. |
| Liz Lawton | SR | Chicago | Distance | North Easton, Mass. |
| Lindsay Lettow (N) | JR | Central Missouri | Combined Events | Urbandale, Iowa |
| Chantel Malone | SR | Texas | Jumps/Sprints | Tortola, British V.I. |
| Gabby Mayo | JR | Texas A&M | Sprints/Hurdles | Raleigh, N.C. |
| Chantae McMillan | SR | Nebraska | Combined Events | Rolla, Mo. |
| Lauryn Newson | JR | Oregon | Jumps | Richmond, Calif. |
| Holly Ozanich | SR | UW Oshkosh | Throws | Green Bay, Wis. |
| Ashton Purvis | FR | Miami (Fla.) | Sprints | Oakland, Calif. |
| Sheila Reid (D) | JR | Villanova | Distance | Newmarket, Ont. |
| Brianna Rollins | SO/FR | Clemson | Hurdles | Miami, Fla. |
| Faith Sherrill | SR | Indiana | Throws | Ft. Wayne, Ind. |
| Karen Shump | SO | Oklahoma | Throws | Media, Pa. |
| Neely Spence | JR | Shippensburg | Distance | Shippensburg, Pa. |
| Jeneba Tarmoh (D) | JR | Texas A&M | Sprints | San Jose, Calif. |
| Kate Van Buskirk | SR | Duke | Mid-Distance | Brampton, Ont. |
| Lucy Van Dalen | SR | Stony Brook | Distance | Wanganui, N.Z. |
(D) – demoted from the watch list this update
(N) – new to either list this update
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, May 5. 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.
About The Bowerman
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009, is presented annually by the USTFCCCA to the top male and female collegiate track & field athletes in the nation. Oregon’s Ashton Eaton and Virginia Tech’s Queen Harrison are the reigning winners of The Bowerman, which is named for legendary Oregon track & field and cross country coach Bill Bowerman.
Bowerman served the sport of track and field in numerous ways. His leadership in the USTFCCCA’s predecessor organization, the National Collegiate Track Coaches Association, and his contributions to NCAA track and field and the running community as a whole are among his many lasting legacies.
April Update Springs Batty, Osaghae to Bowerman Watch
April 6, 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 fourth update of the men’s watch list for collegiate track & field’s biggest award – The Bowerman. This update places BYU’s Miles Batty and Texas Tech’s Omo Osaghae on the watch list’s group of ten. Batty was named the USTFCCCA’s National Track Athlete of the Year during the indoor season and Osaghae ran a would-be world-leading hurdle time of 13.29 (w: 2.2) last weekend.
In addition, added to the “also receiving mention” list for the first time this year is Cal Lutheran’s Eric Flores from Division III, Texas A&M’s Tabarie Henry, Virginia Tech’s Marcel Lomnicky, and Florida State’s Maurice Mitchell.
THE BOWERMAN OFFICIAL WATCH LIST 2011 MEN
(updated April 6, 2011, listed in alphabetical order)
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL | EVENTS | HOMETOWN |
| Jeshua Anderson | SR | Washington State | Hurdles | Woodland Hills, Calif. |
| Miles Batty (N) | JR | BYU | Distance | Sandy, Utah |
| Sam Chelanga | RS SR | Liberty | Distance | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Will Claye | JR | Florida | Jumps | Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Jeff Demps | SO/JR | Florida | Sprints | Winter Garden, Fla. |
| Walter Henning | SR | LSU | Throws | Kings Park, N.Y. |
| Kirani James | SO | Alabama | Sprints | Gouyave, Grenada |
| Leonard Korir | JR | Iona | Distance | Iten, Kenya |
| Omo Osaghae (N) | SR | Texas Tech | Hurdles | Lubbock, Texas |
| 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)
OUTDOOR: Anderson clocked a collegiate-leading time of 49.33 in the 400-meter hurdles to win the Jim Click Shootout last weekend. In addition, his wind-aided win of 13.86 in the 110-meter hurdles in the same meet ranks 12th on the national performer’s list so far this early outdoor season.
INDOOR: His indoor season best in the 400-meter dash of 46.93 placed him in the collegiate top 35. The outdoor season is where Anderson is expected to shine when he can compete in his specialty event – the 400-meter hurdles.
Miles Batty, BYU
Junior, Distance, Sandy, Utah (Jordan HS)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete.
INDOOR: Batty, the USTFCCCA’s National Men’s Track Athlete of the Year, spurred BYU’s run to the podium for a third-place team finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships with national titles in the mile and as anchor of the squad’s DMR team. Batty was one of two to finish the national mile final in sub-four fashion as he topped Tulsa’s Chris O’Hare for the national crown with a 3:59.49 clocking. Batty, the day previous, led the Cougars to their first national crown in the DMR since 1978, holding off fast closing Indiana and Minnesota, with a 3:56.14, 1600-meter anchor split. The relay’s time of 9:29.28 is the seventh-best in collegiate history.
Batty was the Mountain West Conference mile champion (4:15.23) and again was anchor of the BYU crew to a DMR conference title. Batty notched the fastest mile time of the collegiate season with a 3:55.79 run to win the Flotrack Husky Classic on Washington’s oversized track.
Sam Chelanga, Liberty
RS Senior, Distance, Nairobi, Kenya (Bartolimo HS/Fairleigh Dickinson)
OUTDOOR: Opened the season with a win in the 10,000 meters at the Raleigh Relays in a collegiate-leading time of 28:15.64. Currently leads all of Division I in the event by nearly 17 seconds.
INDOOR: At the NCAA Indoor Championships, Chelanga placed runner-up in the 5000 meters to Iona’s Leonard Korir with a 13:27.34 clocking. Chelanga, finished 15th overall at the NCAA meet in the 3000. In his first 5k of the indoor season, Chelanga recorded a then world-leading time of 13:41.35 on his home 200-meter, flat track on January 29. 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. In addition, Chelanga tallied a 7:50.92 clocking at 3000 meters in placing fifth overall at the Flotrack Husky Classic. Chelanga added to his tally of Big South Championships with a mile crown (4:16.88) this season.
Will Claye, Florida
Junior, Jumps, Phoenix, Ariz. (Mountain Pointe HS/Oklahoma)
OUTDOOR: Opened the season with a seventh-place showing in the long jump at the Florida Relays.
INDOOR: At the NCAA indoor meet, Claye left his best for the last attempt in the triple jump. After five rounds, Claye had the lead at 55-8¼ (16.967m), but teammate and defending champ Christian Taylor staked his claim for the crown on his final attempt with a jump of 55-9 (16.99m). Claye responded with the event’s final salvo with a mark of 56-10 (17.32m) to win the national crown, set a new personal best, land as the all-time fourth-best collegiate performer in the event, and reset the NCAA meet record by a centimeter.
Adding to the national triple jump crown, Claye finished second in the long jump at the NCAA meet with a personal best of 26-4½ (8.04).
Claye landed a mark of 56-4 (17.17m) achieved in finishing runner up to teammate Christian Taylor at the SEC Championships. Claye added a third-place showing in the long jump at the SEC meet, placing behind only Arkansas’ Tarik Batchelor and LSU’s Zedric Thomas – both members of the national top five of the event this year.
Jeff Demps, Florida
Sophomore (indoor)/Junior (outdoor), Sprints, Winter Garden, Fla. (South Lake HS)
OUTDOOR: Demps opened the outdoor campaign by capturing the 100-meter title at the Florida Relays in a slightly wind-aided time of 10.07 (w: 2.2). The time leads the NCAA-qualifying list and is an all-conditions world-leading time. Demps also helped the Gators to a third-place overall showing in the 4×100 at the Florida Relays (38.91).
INDOOR: Demps claimed his second-straight NCAA indoor 60-meter title with a personal-best run in the finals of 6.53 seconds. Demps is the first back-to-back NCAA indoor short-sprint champ since DaBryan Blanton of Oklahoma in 2004 and 2005.
After opening the season with a 6.57 in winning the Virginia Tech Elite, Demps has four times more clocked sub-6.60 in the 60 meters, including when he won the SEC title in the event for the second-straight year with a 6.55.
Walter Henning, LSU
Senior, Throws, Kings Park, N.Y. (St. Anthony’s HS)
OUTDOOR: By no surprise, Henning opened the season with a win in the hammer throw at the LSU Invitational. While he’s seen better days in the mark-department, his throw of 216-9 (66.08m) delivered him a seventh-straight victory in the event and 18th overall against collegians covering all weight events.
INDOOR: Henning did not miss in the weight throw the past two years. The LSU strongman has won 11-straight against collegiate competition with the 35-lb. weight – five of which has come from 2011 season, which included his third-straight SEC crown and second-straight NCAA crown. Henning had little trouble defending his title with a meet-best of 72-8½ (22.16m), nearly three feet better than the competition. At the LSU Twilight on Feb. 18, Henning notched his season’s best throw of 76-6¼ (23.32m). Henning’s personal best in the event is 78-1 (23.80m).
Kirani James, Alabama
Sophomore, Sprints, Gouyave, Grenada
OUTDOOR: Yet to run an open event. Ran second leg on team’s 4×400 squad that finished second at the Alabama Relays (3:15.35).
INDOOR: Prior to the NCAA Indoor Championships, on every occasion in which he has stepped on the track for the 400 meters during the 2011 indoor season, Kirani James set a new world leader. Starting on Feb. 12 when he ran 45.47 (oversized) to win Notre Dame Meyo Invitational, then on Feb. 26 for the preliminary round of the SEC Championships when he ran 45.37. And, for the trifecta, James, who is only 18, clocked 44.80 in the SEC final to not only set another world record, but it also set a new world junior all-time best. The time places him in the top five of the all-time world indoor list and only Kerron Clement’s (Florida)world record of 44.57 set in 2005 stands as a better all-time collegiate mark.
At the NCAA meet, James tripped and fell shortly after completing the first lap of the qualifying round and did not finish the race.
Leonard Korir, Iona
Junior, Distance, Iten, Kenya (Tambach Teachers College)
OUTDOOR: Has yet to compete.
INDOOR: Korir won the NCAA indoor 5000-meter title in a meet-record time of 13:26.01, breaking the previous mark set by Alistair Cragg of Arkansas in 2003 (13:28.93). The junior clocked 57.69 in the final 400 meters to take the crown, record the best collegiate time of the season in 2011, and notch the sixth-fastest time (facility legal) in collegiate history. In addition, Korir took sixth at the NCAA meet in the 3000 meters.
Korir was named the MAAC’s Most Outstanding Performer on Feb. 18 after finishing first in the mile and anchoring the distance medley relay quartet to a championship at the conference meet.
Omo Osaghae, Texas Tech
Senior, Hurdles, Lubbock, Texas (Monterey HS)
OUTDOOR: Osaghae has started off his senior season with his best marks of his career. In his first race at the TCU Invitational he ran a then NCAA-best 13.49 and broke the Texas Tech school record. Two weeks later the senior put on a show for the home crowd at the Texas Tech Open. Osaghae ran a wind-aided, 13.29 (converted to 13.33 for altitude) to win his third-straight race of the season. He now leads the NCAA qualifiers with his converted mark and has yet to lose a race this season.
INDOOR: With no indoor eligibility remaining, Osaghae competed unattached through the indoor season. Osaghae managed a breakthrough in the 60-meter hurdles as he won the USATF Indoor title in the event at altitude in 7.52.
Christian Taylor, Florida
Junior, Jumps, Fayetteville, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS)
OUTDOOR: Taylor added to his resume as quarter-miler in opening the season with a win at the Florida Relays in the 400 meters. His time of 45.46 ranks third in the NCAA this season and in the top five in the world.
INDOOR: Taylor sent quite a message in winning the SEC Championship triple jump on his final attempt. With a mark of 56-11½ (17.36m) that not only won the event for the third-straight time and set a new SEC record, he became the third all-time best collegian indoors in the event. Only Charlie Simpkins (Baptist, 17.50m, 57-5, 1986) and Mike Conley (Arkansas, 17.40m, 57-1, 1985) have jumped farther in indoor collegiate history than Taylor. The Gator also finished eighth at the SEC meet in the long jump and has a season’s best in the event of 25-0 (7.62m), good for the national top 25.
Taylor placed second at the NCAA meet to teammate Claye with a last-round best of 55-9 (16.99m).
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, May 4. 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 |
| Robby Andrews | SO | Virginia | Distance | Englishtown, N.J. |
| Andy Bayer | RS SO | Indiana | Distance | Leo, Ind. |
| Charles Clark | SR (out) | Florida State | Sprints | Virginia Beach, Va. |
| Derek Drouin (D) | JR | Indiana | Jumps | Corunna, Ontario |
| German Fernandez | JR/SO | Oklahoma State | Distance | Riverbank, Calif. |
| Mason Finley | SO | Kansas | Throws | Salida, Colo. |
| Eric Flores (N) | SR | Cal Lutheran | Throws | Custer, S.D. |
| Marquise Goodwin | SO | Texas | Jumps/Sprints | Garland, Texas |
| Leford Green | JR | Johnson C. Smith | Sprints | St. Catherine, Jamaica |
| Tabarie Henry (N) | SR | Texas A&M | Sprints | U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Erik Kynard | SO | Kansas State | Jumps | Toledo, Ohio |
| Torrin Lawrence | JR | Georgia | Sprints | Jacksonville, Fla. |
| Marcel Lomnicky (N) | JR | Virginia Tech | Throws | Nitra, Slovakia |
| Maurice Mitchell (N) | JR | Florida State | Sprints | Kansas City, Mo. |
| Demetrius Pinder | SR | Texas A&M | Sprints | Freeport, Bahamas |
| Mookie Salaam | JR | Oklahoma | Sprints | Edmond, Okla. |
| Dorian Ulrey | SR | Arkansas | Distance | Port Byron, Ill. |
| Craig Van Leeuwen | JR | Ramapo | Pole Vault | Little River Falls, N.J. |
(D) – demoted from the watch list this update
(N) – new to either list this update