NCAA Division I Outdoor Championship 2010

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Sophomore Ryann Krais stands in 20th-place after day one of the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, OR.

As the rain pours down at Hayward Field, the Nittany Lion track and field squads have come up just short of qualifying performances in their first three attempts on the opening day of the NCAA Outdoor Championships at the University of Oregon.

The Athletic Awards Banquet last week may have celebrated the year's achievements of the DePaul student-athletes, but three Blue Demons have one more appearance to make before we can completely close the chapter that is the 2009-10 season. Alanna Kovacs, Brad Millar and Tim Nedow have been hard at work all year long for this one final stop: the 2010 NCAA Track and Field Championships.

UC Irvine's Charles Jock broke the school record in the 800 meters Wednesday but he did not advance to Friday's final at the NCAA Championships.

Lamar University's Joonas Harjamaki advanced to the finals of the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday.

Ole Miss senior distance runner Barnabas Kirui qualified for the finals of the 3,000 meter steeplechase after posting a time of 8:43.66 Wednesday on the first day of the NCAA Championships from Hayward Field.

Murdaugh and Leslie fail to qualify in 400m and 3000m steeplechase prelims

The first day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships came to a close and the Houston women's 4x100 relay team qualified for the finals in the event by recording a new Houston record. The competition was slowed by low temperatures and sporadic rain throughout the afternoon. The competition will continue tomorrow at 5 p.m. and last through Saturday.

Freshman Tynita Butts added to her list of honors in 2010 Wednesday, picking up All-America status in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field.

Megan Duwell clocked a personal-best time of 33:40.94, the second-fastest time in school history.

Texas A&M men in lead by one point after first day of NCAA Championships with 14 points. The Aggies advanced well in the sprints sending both 4x1 relays and seven sprinters to the finals of 100 and 400.

EUGENE, ORE. -- Drake junior Ari Curtis (Fort Collins, Colo.) set her fifth school record of the season in the 400 hurdles, but fell short by 18-hundreths of a second in qualifying for the finals at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Wednesday night.

Molly Beckwith and De'Sean Turner each advanced through semifinal action on the first day of competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Beckwith won her heat of the 800m with the second-fastest qualifying time and Turner took second in his heat for advancement in the 3,000m steeplechase.

The Michigan State track & field team opened action today (June 9) at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. Completing action in the first day of competition was senior Kyron Foster (triple jump), sophomore Becca Buchholtz (high jump) and freshmen Keenan Michael (400m hurdles) and Beth Rohl (discus). The Spartan women currently are 13th with four team points.

EUGENE, Ore. - With only a handful of finals being contested during Wednesday's action at the 2010 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, LSU junior Zedric Thomas made the most of his opportunity by earning All-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the triple jump with a wind-legal outdoor personal record of 52 feet, 10 ¾ inches.

Georgia sophomore Aaron Evans sped to his second-fastest finish ever to qualify for the finals and highlight the opening day of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Wednesday.

Michael Putman posted a season-best on his sixth and final discus throw Wednesday to earn All-American honors and get the Florida State men's track & field team on the scoreboard in the NCAA Championship at historic Hayward Field.

Senior Andre Black and junior D'Ana McCarty did not waste anytime showing their athleticism and determination on day one at the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday in Eugene, Ore.

Emily Pendleton finished 10th, while Erin Pendleton placed 12th in the discus as the only two Wolverines at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Carl Buchanon placed 12th in the 400-meter hurdle preliminaries on day one of the NCAA Outdoor Championships, ending his season. Frank Shotwell (decathlon) and Lex Williams (10k) will compete tomorrow (Thursday, June 10).

EUGENE, Oregon (SMU) - SMU sophomore Simone du Toit finished sixth in the discus at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field on Wednesday. Du Toit threw the discus 53.20m (174'-06").

EUGENE, Ore. – North Dakota State senior Heather Zander sits in 11th place with 3,245 points in the heptathlon after the first day of action at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Nicole Blood posted the first points of the NCAA Track & Field Championships for the Oregon women with her third-place finish in the 10,000 meters, and Andrew Wheating, Keshia Baker and Anne Kesselring all survived semifinal heats to advance Wednesday at Historic Hayward Field.

Senior earns best NCAA outdoor finish to cap career

EUGENE, Ore. - Senior Liz Patterson was celebrating his 22nd birthday, her last collegiate meet as a Wildcat and would have loved to finish it all up with one last National Championship. Unfortunately for the Rowlett, Texas native, a rainy day at Hayward Field at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships did not have such a storybook ending in the cards.

Notre Dame freshman Jessica Rydberg logged the fourth-fastest time in school history in the 10,000m run at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships to secure a top-10 finish in the event Wednesday at Hayward Field.

Georgia Tech senior Alphonso Jordan finished eighth overall in the triple jump to earn All-American honors in the event on the first day of the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Wednesday.

Junior Valerie Wert placed 14th Wednesday evening in the discus throw during the first day of the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by the University of Oregon.