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USA Junior Champs in June, World Juniors in July
June 14, 2008
Sunday, 15 June 2008, is the last day for entering the USATF Junior Championships to be held June 20-22 in Jesse Owens Stadium at Columbus, Ohio. Women’s steeple is on June 20.

Eleven entrants have satisfied the entry standard of 11:15.14 for 3000m steeple or 7:25.14 for a 2000m steeple. Details at: www.usatf.org/events/2008/USAJuniorOutdoorTFChampionships/ ... more

SCHEDULED:
June 9, 2008
The top USA college meet, NCAA Division 1 Championships, will be conducted June 11-14 at Des Moines, Iowa, where the water jump is at the optimal location depicted by Steeple Report 448. Women’s steeple heats start at 1920 Wednesday, June 11; Final is at 1925 Friday, June 13. ... more

"Running Film Festival" to Premier During U.S. Track & Field Trials
May 27, 2008
Hollywood comes to Eugene, as the city plays host to the first film festival ever devoted to the subjects of track & field, marathon running, and cross country: the Running Film Festival (RFF), scheduled for July 3 – 5 on the University of Oregon campus. ... more

High performance meet May 31 at Indianapolis
May 25, 2008
The Indiana Invaders host a meet next Saturday night for athletes chasing those desirable Olympic qualifying marks. Women’s steeplechase has attracted 19 quality entrants to a race “no earlier than 30 minutes after sundown” on the same Indianapolis venue that has hosted national championships.

An “outside” water jump creates a lap of about 420 meters but Invaders coach Greg Harger has arranged lap times to be given each 400 meters at cone-marked locations. More at: http://www.indianainvaders.com/americanmilersclub/ ... more

2008 Olympic Games facility great for steeplers
May 25, 2008
When modern tracks changed to shorter straightaways and longer turns, the previously suggested location for final hurdle and preceding water jump needed related changes. ... more

The Runner's Cookbook: Winning Recipes from Some of the World's Best Athletes
May 15, 2008
The Runner's Cookbook: Winning Recipes from Some of the World's Best Athletes is available for purchase here. This is a fundraising cookbook, and all of the proceeds will go to the Ryan Shay Memorial Fund and the Jenny Crain "Make It Happen" Fund ... more

Athletes' Target: Olympic Qualifying Standards
April 28, 2008
http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/standards/newsid=43175.html provides details about the Olympic Qualifying Standards including the “window” for qualifying, 1 January 2007 to 23 July 2008, and what type of meets that are acceptable for qualifying. (There is also a “B” standard of 9:55 for nations with only one athlete in an event.) ... more

USA Elite Steeplers tuneup for global competition
April 14, 2008
USA professional lady steeplers come to their selection meets for World and Olympic competition without their college competitors peaking advant ... more

McMahon breaks record
April 12, 2008
Island resident and Poly Prep sophomore Julia McMahon broke the Mayor's Cup Championship record in the 2,000-meter steeplechase at Icahn Stadium, Randall's Island yesterday ... more

Steeple Chics Store Update
March 31, 2008
Have you checked out the SteepleChics store lately? I just finished reducing the prices by $3-$5 on most of the apparel as well as updating many of th ... more

Why we prefer 1500m steeple, instead of 2000m, for Youth
(and 2000m steeple instead of 3000m for Juniors)

March 25, 2008
A reader asked. Answer: Because we favor gradual steps in adaptation for stress. The 1500m steeple, with its 16 barriers, much more than 400m hurdle event, has no need for a greater load on Youth. And we believe the 23 barriers of 2000m steeple are enough for teenage Juniors. ... more

Youth meets revive shorter distances for USA steeple
March 17, 2008
In years 1988-94 the global distance for women steeplers was 2000m; a popular variant was 1500m. Both distances were used for high school and college competition. But during 1995-98, as rules changed the women’s distance to 3000m, shorter races became scarce in USA though more common in Canada, Europe, and Southern Hemisphere ... more

Steeplers to Compete in Central Park Challenge Tomorrow
March 14, 2008
A handful of steeplers will be competing in the NYRR Central Park Challenge 8K tomorrow morning, including American Record Holder Lisa Galaviz, World Championships team member Lindsey Anderson, 2006's Track & Field News #1-Ranked Carrie Messner-Vickers, as well as Julia Rudd of the Indiana Invaders and Lesley Higgins, who competed in the steeplechase for Colorado and now runs for the New York Athletic Club. ... more

Beijing open meet = practice Olympics
March 10, 2008
Beijing will test its Olympic facilities and procedures with the “China Athletics Open,” a four-day meet with all of the Games stadium events scheduled May 22-25. ... more

Steeplechics.com Gets a New Look!
February 22, 2008
Steeplechics.com is ready for 2008. Are you? Let us know what you think of the new site! ... more


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Andersen Sets her Sights on Beijing
June 27, 2008
Lindsey Anderson still has a hard time believing it. Only a year and a half ago, the Morgan native was just another runner getting ready for her final college season at Weber State University. But now, she's among the top contenders to finish in the top three in the women's steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field and reach the 2008 Beijing Games in China... more

Strong Taking Her Best Shot
June 27, 2008
“I’m very excited,” Strong (the former Kelly MacDonald) said earlier this week by phone from the Seattle area. “This is going to be such an amazing experience, especially with it in Eugene. It should be incredible.”... more

Mitchell Added to Australian Team
June 27, 2008
Victoria Mitchell joins Donna MacFarlane on Australia's Olympic Team.... more

New Event, Same Olympic Dream for Galaviz
June 27, 2008
Since the tender age of 8, Lisa Galaviz has had Olympic dreams. The steeplechase, however, wasn't part of her second-grade vocabulary. Back then, she was into tumbling. Twenty years later, she likes her chances of being an Olympian in Beijing this summer.... more

Cromer Looks to Make Olympic Team
June 27, 2008
Dawn Cromer has two reasons to go all-out in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field trials that begin Friday and run through July 6. The 1998 Woodbridge High School graduate is attempting to secure an Olympic berth in the event. She is also competing knowing this is the final opportunity she is giving herself to compete in the Olympics... more

Donna MacFarlane
June 27, 2008
There are not too many modern athletes who retire for five years then are brave enough to declare they want more. And even fewer who have two children in their time off then return to be better than they were... more

June Gearing Up for the Trials
June 27, 2008
“I'm seeded 13th for the Trials,” the St. Joseph graduate said in a phone interview. She chuckled. “I ran 13 seconds faster in my last steeplechase race than I'd run the one before. I'm thinking that I can run at least another 13 seconds faster in the preliminaries and then ANOTHER 13 seconds faster in the finals.”... more

Brown Scratches from the Steeple, Declares in the 5K
June 26, 2008
Team USA Minnesota has announced that Emily Brown will run in the 5000m at the Olympic Trials and has scratched from the steeplechase. Brown ran an impressive PR of 15:19.57 to win the Cardinal Invitational in May but has the Olympic "A" qualifier in the steeple.... more

Record performance gives Barringer shot at 2008 Olympic Games
June 26, 2008
When Jenny Barringer first left Oviedo for Boulder, Colo., in 2005, she simply worried about how she'd fit in during her first year of college. Little did she know that three years later she'd be on the verge of representing the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.... more

Maine native Willard a steeplechase favorite
June 26, 2008
"I'm going to win," she said. "I'm going in with those expectations. Mentally I feel I should be No. 1. So I have something to prove."... more

Barringer Focusing on One Thing at a Time
June 26, 2008
"When I think about the next couple races coming up, I think about Monday. I have got to make it through the prelim," Barringer said. "I have got to be able to race really well and have a clean race. I can barely get myself to think about the final."... more

Olympic hopeful Bush in position to succeed
June 24, 2008
The first time she stepped onto a cross country course in the Sleeping Bear Dunes region, she took one wrong turn and promptly fell down. That was Nicole Bush's introduction to high school cross country.... more

MacFarlane Overcoming Adversity and Chasing Gold
June 21, 2008
By any measure it has been a tumultuous year for Donna MacFarlane. It might appear that a campaign to reach the final of the first-ever running of the women's 3000-metre steeplechase at the Olympics was enough to deal with for any athlete.... more

Her love for running hasn't hit the bell lap
June 21, 2008
Kelly Fullerton didn’t quite get there — to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. Still, the Roseburg High graduate felt she gave it her best shot.... more

Inzikuru Turns Focus to 2009 World Champs
June 20, 2008
Inzikuru won the inaugural 3,000m steeplechase race at the 2005 Helsinki World Championships and won gold at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. But she has since last March struggled with illness and took time to give birth last December.... more


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