Cardinal Track Team Heads to Regionals

Stanford one step from nationals




Aisling Cuffe will compete in the 5,000.



Regional Notes | Meet Information | Webcast | Live Results

May 22, 2013

AUSTIN, Texas - The Stanford track and field teams will travel to the NCAA West Preliminary Round, on Thursday through Saturday in Austin, Texas. The top 12 placers in each of the nation’s two regionals -- the other is in Greensboro, N.C. -- advance to the NCAA Championships June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore. Stanford sends 35 athletes to Austin. They qualified by ranking among the top 48 in the western half of the country. Stanford has two No. 1 seeds: Kori Carter in both women’s hurdle races and Brianna Bain in the women’s javelin. In addition, Michael Atchoo is the No. 2 seed in the men’s 1,500 and Justine Fedronic is No. 3 in the women’s 800. No championships are decided at the regionals. The only goal is a top-12 finish.

Meet Schedule
Thursday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events 2:30 p.m. PT
Friday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events, 3 p.m. PT
Saturday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events, 4 p.m. PT

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Carter’s Emergence
Stanford junior Kori Carter has established herself as the nation’s breakout star of the 2013 collegiate track and field season. She charged onto the national scene on April 6 by running a world-leading 400-meter hurdles time of 54.71 by beating 2012 Olympic fifth-place finisher Georganne Moline of Arizona on Moline’s home track in Tucson, Ariz. It was a personal record by 2.39 seconds.

After that mark was eclipsed, Carter regained the world lead on May 12 with a stunning 54.21 – the second-fastest in-season time in collegiate history – to win the Pac-12 title over Moline while breaking meet, stadium, and school records at USC. On the same day, she repeated as the Pac-12 100-meter hurdles champ with a time of 12.76, another school record.

Going into the regionals, Carter’s 54.21 stands at No. 1 among Americans and collegians and No. 3 in the world. The Czech Republic’s Zuzana Hejnova now holds the world lead at 53.79, followed by Romania’s Angela Morosanu at 53.85. In the 100 hurdles, Carter now is No. 8 in the world, No. 7 among Americans, and No. 3 among collegians.

Carter, who has achieved World Championship ‘A’ standards in both events, is undefeated outdoors in the hurdles this season, at both distances. She also owns a season-best 4x400 relay split of 51.9, which is comparable to the 400 school record of 52.35.

Top All-Time Women’s Collegiate In-Season 400-Meter Hurdles Times
1, Sheena Tosta (UCLA), 53.54, 2004; 2, Kori Carter (Stanford), 54.21, 2013; 3, Lashinda Demus (South Carolina), 54.22, 2004.

Featured Athletes
Women
Brianna Bain: The sophomore and 2012 first-team All-American already is a two-time Pac-12 champion in the javelin, having won her second consecutive title May 11 with a throw of 176-8 at the conference championships at USC. Bain, the NCAA runner-up as a freshman, is the No. 1 collegian and No. 2 American this year with a school-record 183-10 to win the Big Meet on April 20. Bain is undefeated this season.

Karynn Dunn: The two-time first-team All-American in the long jump is beginning to round into form after a slow start to the season. The senior jumped a season-best 20-3 3/4 to place fouth at Pac-12’s. Dunn is the 2010 U.S. junior national champion and placed fifth in the NCAA outdoors and fourth indoors in 2012.

Justine Fedronic: The senior was the Pac-12 runner-up in the 800 and heads into the NCAA Regionals with the No. 8 collegiate time in the 800, an event in which she holds the school record of 2:03.54. Fedronic has two All-America honors, but is seeking her first first-team honor.

Amy Weissenbach: The freshman from Los Angeles set the National High School Federation record (against high school-only competition) in the 800 of 2:02.04 in 2011 and now holds the Stanford indoor record in the event, of 2:05.56. On April 28, she won the 800 at the Payton Jordan Invitational in 2:04.24 to break the school freshman record set by eventual three-time Olympian Regina Jacobs in 1982 (2:04.38). Weissenbach achieved a U.S. Championships `A’ standard in the race and jumped to No. 2 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list. The two-time 2013 indoor second-team All-American was sixth in the 1,500 at Pac-12’s.

Men
Michael Atchoo: The three-time first-team indoor All-American broke the Stanford indoor mile record with a 3:57.14 to win the MPSF championship in Seattle. The time was the fastest by a Stanford runner in 27 years, indoors or outdoors, behind only Olympian Jeff Atkinson’s outdoor 3:55.16 in 1986. Atchoo is the No. 7 American and No. 3 collegian this year after his 3:39.57 in the 1,500 meters at the Payton Jordan Invitational on his home track on April 28. He was eighth at the Pac-12 meet. He is seeking his first outdoor All-America honor.

Steven Solomon: The freshman from Sydney, Australia, reached the 2012 Olympic final in the 400 when he posted a personal record 44.97 in the semifinals. Solomon placed eighth in London and has secured a berth in the World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in August. He has competed twice this season, winning the 400 in 46.91 at the Big Meet against California in his collegiate debut on April 20 and anchoring the winning 4x400 relay. At the Pac-12 Championships, he was third in a Stanford freshman record 46.12.

Tyler Stutzman: Earned first-team All-America honors by placing fourth in the mile at the 2013 NCAA indoor championships, and ran three sub-four-minute miles during the indoor season. The senior ran a season-best 3:40.43 at the Payton Jordan Invitational and is No. 8 among collegians and the No. 17 American this year. He is a two-time first-team indoor All-American and seeking his first outdoor honor.

Geoffrey Tabor: Tabor has been a consistently outstanding performer. He ranks No. 8 in the discus and No. 6 in the shot put all-time outdoors at Stanford, and No. 3 in the shot put indoors. However, the senior is seeking his first first-team All-America honor, with his best chance coming in the discus.

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