Arkansas men’s track and field coach Chris Bucknam said last week that he wanted to have a field events coach hired soon. As expected, he turned to one of his former assistants at Northern Iowa to fill the vacancy on his coaching staff.   Bucknam announced Wednesday that Travis Geopfert has been hired as Arkansas’ new jumps, throws [...]

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Former Arkansas assistant men’s track coach Dick Booth has found a new job. Booth, who was fired by Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam last week after 27 years with the Razorbacks, will be joining the staff at Florida. Gators coach Mike Holloway announced the hiring a little while ago. A release, which you can read here, says [...]

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I know everyone is watching Arkansas and Cal State Fullerton playing in the College World Series, but just one quick update at track before we write our stories and call it a weekend. Texas A&M pulled off the stunner, of sorts, sweeping its way to both the men’s and women’s national titles. They become just the [...]

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The final day of the NCAA Outdoor meet is flying by right now. I’m gonna do my best to catch you up to speed so far: • First, Arkansas’ Shelise Williams ran a personal best of 52.01 in the 400 final to finish seventh and secure two points for the Razorbacks. Williams was the only women’s [...]

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Day three of the NCAA Outdoor Championships is in the books. Before we go home and catch some sleep, here’s a quick look back at a fun day and a look ahead at Saturday. FRIDAY RECAP: Athlete of the Day: LSU sprinter Trindon Holliday won his first national championship in the 100-meter dash, running the event in [...]

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  How about this for cross promotion?   Arkansas will show 11 minutes from the documentary John McDonnell – The Greatest Coach Ever!  at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on the JumboTron inside John McDonnell Field. The 11-minute clip will be shown before competition begins on the final day of the NCAA Outdoor Championships.   Although he retired last summer, McDonnell has been a [...]

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  Arkansas junior Katie Stripling’s bid to win a national championship came to an end late Friday night when she took fifth in the women’s pole vault.   She cleared 14 feet, 1 1/4 inches, but she missed on all three of her attempts at 14-5 1/4.    Stripling’s fifth-place finish scored four points for the Razorbacks, and they got [...]

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Arkansas sprinter Shelise Williams‘ goal entering the NCAA Outdoor Championships was to qualify for the 400 finals. The sophomore accomplished it here a few minutes ago. Williams finished fourth in her heat to earn a spot in the final, which will take place tomorrow afternoon. “It hurt to get there, but then again, it feels good,” Williams siad. [...]

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  Well, Arkansas distance runner Scott MacPherson pulled off a bit of a surprise on Friday night.   The senior hung with the leaders in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, was third with one lap remaining and finished a surprising fifth in the finals with a time of 8 minutes, 38.87 seconds.    MacPherson’s impressive showing scored four points for the Rarzorbacks [...]

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We’ve had two record-setting performances at NCAA Outdoors in the running events tonight. The first came from the Texas A&M 4×100-meter relay team. The Aggies won the national title and set the collegiate record with a time of 42.36 seconds. It broke a record that had been held by LSU (42.50) since 1989. A little later, Jennifer [...]

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