Ohio State Well-Represented at 2007 USA Track and Field Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/14/2007 12:00:00 AM | General
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State will be represented by a current Big Ten champion and four former All-Americans at the 2007 United States Track and Field Championships held Wednesday – Sunday at Carroll Stadium in Indianapolis. Jeff See, a sophomore, will run alongside former Buckeye Rob Myers in the 1,500-meter event Friday, while past Ohio State distance runner Brian Olinger also will compete Friday in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Saturday, former All-Americans Joel Brown, 110-meter hurdles, and Dan Taylor, shot put, get their respective events underway.
Action from the final three days of the 2007 USATF Championships will be televised by either ESPN2 or NBC. ESPN2 will air events from 8-9 p.m. EDT Friday and will come back for another hour of programming from 7-8 p.m. Saturday. NBC will show three hours total, broadcasting from 2-3 p.m. Saturday and 1-3 p.m. Sunday.
See qualified for the USATF 1,500m by setting the Ohio State outdoor mile record (3:58.70) at the Music City Distance Classic in Nashville, Tenn., June 2. He redshirted the 2007 outdoor season, but claimed his first Big Ten title in the indoor mile in March. Myers is a Rushville, Ohio, native and completed his Buckeye career with All-America honors in 2004. Later that year, he narrowly missed a spot on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, finishing third in U.S. 1,500m trials, a shade off the Olympic qualifier. Now a competitor for Reebok, Myers enters the 1,500m prelims at 6:25 p.m. Friday with a seed time of 3:36.49. The 1,500m finals are set for 2:40 p.m. Sunday. Olinger (2002-06) will take the track for the steeple prelims at 4:15 p.m. Friday with a chance to reach the finals at 1:05 p.m. Sunday. Olinger, who also runs for Reebok, comes into the USATF meet with a seed time of 8:31.56.
Taylor will throw in the shot put finals at 12:40 p.m. Saturday. The 2004 NCAA Indoor Shot Put and Weight Throw Champion now competes for Nike. The 9-time collegiate All-American from 2000-04 enters the USATF meet with a seed mark of 69 feet, 5 inches. Brown also competes for Nike and will hit the starting blocks for the 110-meter hurdles with a seed time of 13.32. The 110m hurdles first round is scheduled for 4:50 p.m. Saturday and the semifinals and finals are slated for Sunday at 12:50 p.m. and 2:50 p.m., respectively. Brown was a three-time All-American at Ohio State from 2000-04.
Brown, Myers and Olinger all served as volunteer assistant coaches for Ohio State in 2007.
All-session (5-day) tickets and single-day tickets for the 2007 USATF Championships are available for purchase. Please visit www.usatf.org for all event and ticket information.
