Both Aaron Dixon and Blake Irwin (Bettendorf, Iowa) finished seventh in their respective heats of the men’s 800m run at day one of the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR. on Wednesday (June 9).
Four Tigers head to NCAA track and field finals
June 7, 2010 By
Four members of the Mizzou track and field squad headed to the Final Round of the NCAA Championships, which will start beginning Wednesday at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR. and running through Saturday.
Representing the Tigers are Nick Adcock (Kansas City, Mo.), Lars Rise (Trondheim, Norway), Aaron Dixon (Lee’s Summit, Mo.) and Blake Irwin (Bettendorf, Iowa). Both Adcock and Rise will participate in the men’s decathlon while Dixon and Irwin will run in the 800m run.
For a breakdown of each of the two events, click here.
Mizzou track and field picks up two individual titles
May 17, 2010 By
Missouri Tiger sophomore Blake Irwin won his first career Big 12 title during the final day of the 2010 Big 12 Outdoor Championships on Sunday at Walton Stadium in Columbia. Irwin joined Nick Adcock as Big 12 champions, who won the Decathlon on Saturday.
Several D-II school in Missouri nationally ranked in track
February 3, 2010 By
The first week of national rankings came out for the 2010 indoor track season and several Missouri schools found their way on the list for Division II schools according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCA)
Women Athletes from U. of Central Missouri to be Honored
September 26, 2006 By
Some long overdue recognition is coming soon to women athletes who blazed the trail for others at one of the state’s universities. The University of Central Missouri, the new name for Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, plans special recognition during Homecoming in October for those women who competed before the university awarded women letters. Associate Athletic Director, Kathy Anderson, says it will be a chance for the women to return to campus and swap stories about feats that she’s sure have grown over the years just as they do when men get together and talk about the glory days. Some of those stories, though, will be about more that the games. The university didn’t even officially recognize some women’s sports. Schedules often weren’t published. Statistics rarely were kept. Women wanting to play some sports in the 1960s and 1970s had to arrange their own transportation to get to games. Anderson says those women paved the way for her standout basketball, softball and track career. Anderson graduated in 1980, eight years after Title IX, which mandated women’s sports be put on an equal footing with men’s sports.
