Picou and Hawkins Travel to Arkansas Last Chance Meet
3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
March 1, 2007
Just two members of the Air Force are in action this week, as juniors Travis Picou and Kevin Hawkins travel to
Weekly Notes 07 - at Arkansas Last Chance Meet
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ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO: Junior Kevin Hawkins will run in the 800-meter dash, which is currently scheduled to start at 3:45 p.m., while classmate Travis Picou will run in the 200-meter dash at 7:05 p.m.
PROVISIONALLY-SPEAKING: Junior Travis Picou has already provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships, clocking a time of 21.09 at the MWC Championships (which is currently the 17th-ranked time in the nation). In addition, senior Brian Walsh set a provisional qualifying mark in the heptathlon at the conference meet with his Academy record-setting 5539-point performance. That total has Walsh ranked 13th in the country to date.
THIS LOOKS FAMILIAR: The
CAN WE GET A REWRITE?: Five pages of the 2007 Air Force track and field media guide are already out-of-date. During the indoor season, five Academy records, nine Class records and 27 all-time list incursions have been recorded.
COMING UP: The field of competitors for the 2007 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships will be announced on Monday, March 5. The national meet will be held March 9-10 at the
ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET: Two conference champions returned to the Academy this past weekend. With his third 200-meter dash title in as many years, junior Travis Picou became the first Falcon to win three straight indoor titles. Classmate Kevin Hawkins became Air Force's first 800-meter run champion in four years.
ALL-CONFERENCE ACCOLADES: Five individuals and one relay team earned all-conference honors at the MWC Championships on Feb. 22-24. Junior Travis Picou picked up a pair of all-conference honors in the 60- and 200-meter dashes, while classmate Kevin Hawkins claimed his in the 800-meter run. Seniors Brian Walsh (heptathlon) and Olivia Korte (shot put) joined sophomore Kellen Curry (60-meter hurdles) on the all-conference list. In addition, the DMR team of Jason Beck, Kyle Meakins, Richard Elmore and Ian McFarland received relay honors.
RECORDS WERE MEANT TO BE BROKEN: At the conference championships, junior Travis Picou finished second in the 60-meter dash with an Academy record-setting time. Crossing the finish line in 6.74, Picou broke Deric Dobbs' 23-year-old program mark (6.76).
UPPING THE ANTE: Senior Brian Walsh broke his own Academy record in the heptathlon at the MWC Championships. Walsh tallied 5539 points to finish second, breaking his previous program mark of 5412. In the process of that accomplishment, Walsh won the 1000-meter run (2:42.97) and the pole vault. In fact, Walsh cleared a personal-best 15'9" in the pole vault, topping the entire field by nearly a foot-and-a-half.
MOVING ON UP: Both the men's and women's teams improved their finishes at the MWC Indoor Championships. The men edged out
WHAT HISTORY?: Until this season, the women's shot put record had stood for 23 years. Now, it has been rewritten three times in just five weeks. Freshman Sara Neubauer first set the new standard at the Big 12-MWC Challenge and then rewrote it two weeks later at the Air Force Invitational. And finally, at the conference meet, senior Olivia Korte etched her name in the record book with a throw of 47'6½" in the final indoor meet of her collegiate career.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Freshman Ally Romanko reached the top of the Academy's all-time list in the 800-meter run at the MWC Championships, as she crossed the finish line in 2:11.82. That new program standard bettered Kristin Trichler's previous time of 2:11.98 that was set in 2005.
SO CLOSE: Sophomore Kirk Devine improved his standing in the Academy's all-time record book as he recorded a distance of 59'4" in the weight throw to take fourth. The new Sophomore Class record is now just inches shy of the Academy standard.
GOING THE DISTANCE: Air Force earned a multitude of points in the 5000-meter run as three Falcons accounted for scoring finishes. Sophomore Joe Curran finished sixth, while classmate Sean Houseworth placed seventh and junior Josh van Wyngaarden took eighth. Houseworth also tallied points in the 3000-meter run (eighth-place finish), along with junior Ian McFarland (fourth). The milers of sophomore Matt Williams and senior Richard Elmore also posted multiple points for the Falcons.
MORE ON TRAVIS: Junior Travis Picou set a new MWC Championship Meet record in the 200-meter dash. Crossing the finish line of the preliminary heat in 21.09, Picou broke his own personal-best time, as well as the championship meet record, of 21.11 that he set at last year's MWC meet.
BEATING THE CLOCK: Junior Erik Mirandette arrived in Albuquerque less than 24 hours prior to the pole vault competition and promptly matched his career-best height. Speaking at the National Character and Leadership Symposium on Thursday and Friday, Mirandette didn't leave Colorado Springs until Friday afternoon. The very next afternoon, he cleared 15'7¾" to finish eighth at the conference meet.
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