Fawn Dorr's dream is starting to come true.  As a high school cross country and track runner in the Western New York town of Akron, Fawn had a goal of becoming a top NCAA Division I athlete.  After a year at SUNY Cortland, where she was the DIII National Champion at 400m hurdles, she found herself at Penn State.

EUGENE, Ore. – GaleRupp won the men’s 10,000 meters at the USATF national championships Thursday night, before adoring hometown fans here at the University of Oregon. It came just two weeks after he won both the 5k and 10k for the Oregon Ducks in their vain attempt to win the NCAA team championship in Arkansas.

Follow the USATF Championships, both Junior and Senior meets, right here with ArmoryTrack.com webmaster Tim Fulton. This blog with focus on observations and impressions of the track meet, as well as travel, eating, running in Eugene, and some site seeing.

(photo by Victor Sailer, PhotoRun.net)  Includes event days and times of PA athletes... (photo by Timothy Fulton, ArmoryTrack.com)

PORTLAND, Ore. – Jake Freeman, long a bridesmaid, goes for his first-ever national championship in the men’s hammer at the USATF meet this weekend in Eugene, Ore.

Middle Park's Samantha Berggren is entered in the 400 and 800 at this weekend's USATF Junior Nationals competition in Eugene, Oregon. Photo by Alan Versaw