Nationals!

[Dandy]

Gered Burns (2002 alum) and Roland Graves (2008) will be competing at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships to be held in Eugene, Oregon on June 25-28, 2009.

Gered is scheduled to run the 800m preliminaries on Thursday June 25 @ 5:35 PST (8:35 on the east coast). Roland will compete in the Juniors 10,000 meter run scheduled for Saturday June 27 @ 6:55 PST (9:55 on the east coast).

Live coverage can be seen here: www.usatf.org/events/2009/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/streaming.asp

There will also be TV coverage for some events at the following times:
On TV:
ESPN, June 26, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET
ESPN, June 27, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. ET
NBC, June 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. ET

Gered competed at last year's Olympic Trials and will be looking to better his recent PR of 1:47.07. Roland, the 2007 Guilderland Invy champion, looks to better his qualifying mark of 32:12.25.

You may spot Gered wearing an NYAC singlet and Roland sporting the Iona colors. Whatever colors they wear, we know they will be running with the spirit of the Long Red Line!

Sisu!

[Kman1980]

GBurns continues to impress at national level.......very cool.
Dandy, thanks for the tireless research - saves us a lot of time tryong to find viewing options. I'll have to try out USATF's streaming broadcast.
Curious: Is Dubois too old for the Juniors (can't remember if that's under 20, or is it 20 AND under, or is he already 21 and my confusion is irrelevant???) ? His April Penn time is obviously well under qualifying standard........then again, a plane ticket to Oregon for a starving college student could also be a deterrent......

[jwager]

He is 21 as of a few weeks ago, but it is 19 and under for Juniors.

[jwager]

Oh and more importantly, Flotrack will have live coverage (finally!)

www.flotrack.org/articles/view/1240-usatf-and-flotrack-partner-to-provide-live-webcasts-of-2009-usa-outdoors

[jwager]

Dandy I stole your well informed and written post for the homepage! Hope that works for you...saved me some time in writing a little snippet.

[Dandy]

1:48.75 for Gered . . . on to round 2! Friday June 26 6:10 PST (9:10 ET) - Gered goes prime-time on ESPN tomorrow!

[Kman1980]

Didn't get a chance to watch live, but unfortunately GB was a little off in the semis (we'd all like to have an "off" day in 1:51 !).
Shake it off and keep at it, Gered !
Semi-Finals
1 Nicholas Symmonds Oregon TC Elite 1:47.50Q
2 Khadevis Robinson Nike 1:47.66Q
3 Ryan Brown Asics 1:47.81Q
4 Karjuan Williams unattached 1:47.94Q
5 Christian Smith Nike 1:47.91Q
6 Tyler Mulder Northern Iowa 1:47.95Q
7 Tevan Everett unattached 1:48.00q
8 Michael Rutt Connecticut 1:48.01q
9 Andrew Dawson unattached 1:48.53
10 Golden Coachman U.S. Army 1:48.74
11 Jonathan Johnson Reebok 1:49.14
12 Sean Tully unattached 1:49.28
13 Dustin Emrani Pride Products 1:49.89
14 Jeffrey Fisher Santa Monica T C 1:50.47
15 Gered Burns N Y A C 1:51.23

[Dandy]

No, it wasn't Gered's night but none of the times were particularly fast for that level of competition. It was tactical and I think they were dealing with a bit of wind on the backstretch. Tactically I didn't see any weakness from Burnsy. Starting from a stagger in lane 8, his cut-over angle looked perfect.

[Roland]

just wanted to let everyone know that i just got back from visiting pres rock and i left a guilderland track and field shirt there. just thought i'd let you all know. although i'm very disappointed in my "performance" yesterday, it's still awesome to be out here in Oregon. Hayward Field is unbelievable and the amount of track fans here is even more astounding.

take care.

-Roland

[briansdad]

Four Guilderland XC men will be running at the NCAA National XC Chamionship Next Week.
Justin Wager and Seth DuBois will be running for Cortland to defend their national title in Division III, Roland Graves will be running for Iona and BRD will be running for Texas in Division I.
Not too shabby!

[JM]

Lynley Joynt will be running for Stonehill also in DII

[jwager]

Amanda Boccio will be reppin for Ithaca at DIII's