Jeff Hollobaugh

1 month ago | trackandfieldnews.com | Jeff Hollobaugh

SUCCESS CAME EARLY for Anna Cockrell — she won the World Junior 400H in ’16 — but any careful study of her career shows that the high points haven’t come easily. The 4-time USC team captain captured 3 NCAA titles individually and won All-America honors 11 times. Her honors extended to the classroom; in ’20 she was named the COSIDA Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for Track & Field. That’s what the public saw. Behind the scenes, she struggled with depression.

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jeff Hollobaugh

Amanda Moll’s 3-Record Afternoon ALBUQUERQUE, February 15 — Vaulter Amanda Moll topped out at 16-0 (4.88) to improve the Collegiate Records, indoor and absolute, by a whopping 7 inches at the Kirby Elite meet in Albuquerque. The Washington soph’s clearance erased the 15-7 (4.75) previous CR by Stephen F. Austin’s Demi Payne in 2015. The jump made Moll the fourth U.S. woman and first collegian to clear 16ft or higher.

1 month ago | trackandfieldnews.com | Jeff Hollobaugh

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, February 28–March 02 — Amanda Moll continued her barnstorming season at the Big 10 Championships, raising the roof at the Fall Creek Pavilion with yet another Collegiate Record in the vault with her clearance at 16-1¼ (4.91). Twin sis Hana also displayed historic form, her 15-9¼ making her No. 2 in collegiate history. The two left the competition behind when Illinois’ Tori Thomas, who had cleared 14-7½ (4.46) with them, couldn’t make the next bar at 14-11½ (4.56).

1 month ago | trackandfieldnews.com | Jeff Hollobaugh

OWEN POWELL TOOK “one more shot” at the Terrier DMR Challenge, and it paid off with a 3:56.66 HSR in the mile, taking down Hobbs Kessler’s 3:57.66 from ’21. Gerry Lindgren had been the original target for Powell, not Kessler. The distance running legend had run 4:01.5 for the mile in Jamaica (outdoors) in ’64 and the mark had stood as a Washington prep record for more than 60 years. That was the target Powell, a senior at Mercer Island High, had started gunning for after he ran 4:02.04 last season.

1 month ago | trackandfieldnews.com | Jeff Hollobaugh

SOMETIMES THE FUTURE comes knocking at the door. Other times it’s in such a hurry that it smashes down the door altogether. Such appears to be the case of young Cooper Lutkenhaus of Judson, Texas, who is wasting no time trying to establish himself as the fastest prep 800 runner ever. Last year, the Northwest High frosh stunned many when he won the Brooks PR title in 1:47.58, destroying the national frosh record (which had been Brandon Miller’s 1:49.87 at the start of the year).