Tag: Track & field

Letsile Tebogo teased Noah Lyles after winning the 200m gold medal: ‘I’m not an arrogant or a loud person’

The gold medal winner was brutally honest about why he won’t become the face of the sport

Botswana’s Letsile Tobogo had his moment during the men’s 200-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. The athlete cruised to the gold medal with a time of 19.46, outpacing Team USA’s Kenny Bednarek (silver) and Noah Lyles (bronze), who was notably battling a case of COVID-19.

After the event, Tebogo took questions from the media. He was appropriately asked if he had any ambitions about being one of the faces of sprinting worldwide. In a very matter-of-fact fashion — I’m talking with a completely straight face — Tebogo said he probably couldn’t be one of the faces because he’s not as “loud or arrogant” as Lyles.

It’s not surprising that Tebogo would say something like this. Lyles’ general brashness probably hasn’t exactly endeared him to his fellow competitors. Lyles’ well-publicized beef with NBA superstars might just be the tip of the iceberg there.

It is worth noting that Lyles did congratulate Tebogo after the race:

Kudos to Tebogo for saying something like this after actually beating Lyles, though. That man is almost certainly on top of the world for beating one of his top rivals. He’s earned the right to pontificate as he pleases.

And the irony of it? Even if he might not have meant for it to sound like trash talk, talking about Lyles like this in public is precisely what could make Tebogo one of the faces of sports.

Florida’s track and field star sweeps Honda Sport Awards this season

For the first time in over a decade a women has swept the Honda Awards for both cross country and track & field.

Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards Chris Voelz announced on Thursday that Florida’s [autotag]Parker Valby[/autotag] is this season’s annual Honda Sport Award recipient for track and field. It is the redshirt junior’s second Honda Award of the academic year after earning her second straight for cross country.

Valby is the first to sweep the awards since 2010-11 when Sheila Reid of the Villanova Wildcats last pulled off the coup. Only three others have achieved the feat, with Arizona Wildcat Amy Skieresz doing it back-to-back in the mid-90s while Kathy Mills broke the ceiling first with the Penn State Nittany Lions in 1977-78.

Honda Award Details

According to UF’s press release, the Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 48 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.”

The winner of the sports award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2024 Honda Cup, which will be presented on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on Monday, June 24, 2024, at 7 p.m. ET, from its new home in New York City.

Valby was voted the Track & Field recipient by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists for the award included McKenzie Long (Ole Miss), Maia Ramsden (Harvard) and Jaida Ross (Oregon).

Valby’s 2024 Track & Field Season info

  • Led the Florida Gators to Runner-Up finishes at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships and NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
  • 2024 NCAA Outdoor 5000m Individual Champion
  • 2024 NCAA Outdoor 10000m Individual Champion
  • 2024 SEC Outdoor 5000m Champion
  • 2024 NCAA Indoor 3000m Individual Champion
  • 2024 NCAA Indoor 5000m Individual Champion
  • 2024 SEC Indoor 3000m Champion
  • 2024 SEC Indoor DMR Champion
  • Holds NCAA/Collegiate Record for 5000m Indoor – 14:52.79
  • Holds NCAA/Collegiate Record for 5000m Outdoor – 14:52.18
  • Holds NCAA/Collegiate Record for 10000m Outdoor – 30:50.43
  • Appeared on all seven Bowerman Watchlists
  • 2024 NCAA Div. I National Indoor Women’s Runner of the Year
  • 2024 NCAA Div. I South Region Women’s Indoor Runner of the Year
  • 2024 SEC Indoor Women’s Runner of the Year

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The Texas A&M will send multiple qualifiers to the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin

The Aggies have a good showing in Sacramento and will send a busload of Texas A&M Track athletes to Austin for the NCAA Championships.

May 27th marked the final day of competition in the NCAA Track & Field West First round hosted by Sacramento State University. Texas A&M will send over 20 athletes to compete for a national title in multiple events NCAA Division I Track & Field National Championship meet in Austin on June 7-10.

The Women’s team will have a total of 13 athletes competing in the following events:

  • High Jump – Lamara Distin – 6-0.75/1.85m
  • Javelin – Katelyn Fairchild – 184-0/56.08m, Lianna Davidson – 182-3/55.56m
  • Long Jump – Joniar Thomas – 20-9.25/6.33m
  • 4x100M – Jania Martin, Camryn Dickson, Leech Burr, Semira Killebrew – 43.35
  • 4x400M – Kennedy Wade, Tierra Robinson-Jones, Sanu Jallow, Jermaisha Arnold – 3:28.15
  • 400M – Tierra Robinson-Jones – 50.33
  • 100M Hurdles – Jaiya Covington – 12.93
  • 100M – Semira Killebrew – 11.14, Camryn Dickson – 11.17
  • 200M – Camryn Dickson – 22.88

The Men’s team will have a total of 15 athletes competing in the following events:

  • High Jump – Carter Bajoit – 7-0.5/2.14m
  • Javelin – Sam Hankins – 234-2/71.39m
  • Pole Vault – Zach Davis – 17-4.5/5.30m
  • 4x100M – DeVante Mount, Ryan Martin, Isaiah Teer, Jordan Chopane – 39.27
  • 4x400M – Ashton Schwartzman, Omajwa Etiwe, Eric Hemphill III, Auhmad Robinson – 3:03.17
  • 400M Hurdles – Bryce McCray – 49.70, James Smith II – 49.89
  • 100M Hurdles – Connor Schulman – 13.43
  • 100M – Ryan Martin – 10.17
  • 800M – Sam Whitmarsh – 1:46.36

Head Coach Pat Henry gave his thoughts on the NCAA West first round.

“It’s the kind of effort you want to have when you come to a meet. This team continues to get a little bit better all the time and we made some big jumps here. Going forward, it’ll be interesting to see the next jump they make, because they have to make another jump. But we have a big group going to the national meet. Coming into this meet, there were only a few people that I thought might advance that didn’t, but there were a few that advanced that I didn’t think would. Things balanced out and that’s what we want to happen.”

Check out the social media posts from the meet courtesy of the Official Texas A&M Twitter account.

Aggie Signee logs the longest discus throw in the nation

Five-star signee Davis Hicks sends the discus into orbit winning the district title with the longest throw in the nation this year.

We all know how much Jimbo loves to recruit and sign multi-sport athletes, and David Hicks Jr is no exception. Not only is the five-star recruit one of the top football prospects in the 2023 class, he also now holds the record for the longest distance in the nation at 202 feet, 2 inches.

Thats easily won him first place in the District 19-6A meet in the discus throw, but he also took home the gold in the shot put with a throw of 59 feet, 10 inches.

Hicks told 247 sports earlier this year he was look to breaking records and had good chance to make it to state.

“”I’m trying to break the shot put and discus records. I have a chance to go to state,” Hicks said of his goals this outdoor season.”

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