Strib profile of Jacob Frey: From Pro Runner to City Council

New goal next time I'm in #Minneapolis: a run and a beer with City Council Member @Jacob_Frey http://t.co/EWp08InKh3 http://t.co/QtaJWegaAs

— Will Leer (@william_leer) August 7, 2015

Ruby Stauber 5th in Pan Am Juniors 800

Ruby Stauber 5th in Pan Am Juniors 800.

Result is HERE

Payton Otterdahl Wins Pan Am Juniors Discus

Irish state champ Payton Otterdahl '14 wins the Pan American Junior discus championship on his final attempt 190-2.

— Coach Harder (@RosemountCC) August 1, 2015

Result is HERE

Feature on Wayzata's Ruby Stauber

News: Ruby Stauber Feature - 2015 Pan Am Juniors - DyeStat http://t.co/KDZ6J2pwLM via @RunnerSpace_com

— Wayzata Track&Field (@WayzataTrack) July 27, 2015

IAAF Summary of Saturday's Pan Am Competition; Quotes from Heather Miller-Koch

IAAF Summary of Saturday's Pan Am Competition HERE Quotes from Heather Miller-Koch and other US athletes HERE.

CONGRATS to Heather Miller on winning SILVER in the women's heptathlon! #GoTeamUSA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6xraFxhuAy

— U.S. Olympic Team (@TeamUSA) July 26, 2015

Heather Miller-Koch Second in Pan American Games Heptathlon; Garrett Heath 4th in 5K

Heather Miller-Koch second in the Pan American Games heptathlon.  Result is HERE.

Garrett Heath finishes fourth in the Pan American Games 5K.  Result is HERE.

Heather Miller-Koch 3rd after Day 1 of the Pan American Games Heptathlon; Erin Teschuk 4th in Steeplechase

Heather Miller-Koch third after Day 1 of the Pan American Games Heptathlon. Scores are HERE.

Erin Teschuk finishes fourth in the steeplechase. Result is HERE.

US Pan Am Team Roster's Announced

USA Track & Field: USATF announces Team USA rosters for Pan American Games and Pan Am Juniors http://t.co/3CdYN8xaau

— USTFCCCA (@USTFCCCA) July 16, 2015

Heather Miller-Koch in the Heptathlon.  Garrett Heath in the 5K.  Ruby Stauber running the Junior Pan Am's 800.

US Pan American Team

Garrett Heath and Heather Miller-Koch on US team for the Pan American Games in Toronto HERE

News: Jon Grey/Pan Am XC; M&W Wanamaker Miles; SDSU Indoor Inv; St. Thomas Showcase; Iowa State Classic; Husky Classic; Hersh/Hightower; MSHSL XC Ski Champs

My birthday present came early! All set to go to Columbia next week for #TeamUSA trip number 2 this… http://t.co/fr2TnSNAH5
— Jonathan Grey (@jsgreyrunner) February 12, 2015

Holy smokes! Have you seen the field for the Women's Wanamaker Mile!? @HeatherRaeKampf takes on the best in the US! pic.twitter.com/GofbvuwQmh
— Team USA Minnesota (@TeamUSAMN) February 12, 2015

SDSU Indoor Invitational Schedule HERE.

.@HeatherRaeKampf speaks with media before the #NYRRMillroseGames @nyrr #WanamakerMile pic.twitter.com/pwQEbkaq45
— NYRR Media Relations (@nyrrnews) February 13, 2015

Nice interview with the articulate @HeatherRaeKampf of @TeamUSAMN before tomorrow's @nyrr Women's Wanamaker Mile https://t.co/oIXqkKjYoP
— Dennis Barker (@dbinsaintpaul) February 13, 2015

Preview of men's and women's Wanamaker Miles HERE.

St. Thomas Showcase preview HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Gopher women preview for Iowa State Classic HERE and HERE.

Husky Classic Preview HERE.

More on the Hersh/Hightower IAAF Council seat controversy: Bob Hersh's response to the USATF Board memo is  HERE.

#mshsl boys Nordic ski state champions... Team/ Forest Lake Individual/ Leo Hipp, Forest Lake Full results here: http://t.co/FymKqbmT4S
— John Millea (@MSHSLjohn) February 13, 2015

#mshsl girls Nordic ski state champions... Team/ Wayzata Individual/ Sarah Bezdicek, Osseo Full Results here: http://t.co/CSA649jBg7
— John Millea (@MSHSLjohn) February 13, 2015

Girls' Nordic Ski wins third consecutive State Championship. http://t.co/sWP3VZs47r pic.twitter.com/NiApRXXEoo
— Wayzata Trojans (@WayzataTrojans) February 13, 2015

News: Olson/Megan Hasz; Ferlic; Ice; 2015 Pan American Games; Multi-Sport HS Athletes; Houston/Bersagel

Connor Olson and Megan Hasz selected as Gatorade Minnesota XC runners of the year for 2014 HERE .

Michigan Daily article on Mason Ferlic is HERE.

Ice.  A revised version of when and how to use it to help manage an injury HERE.

2015 Pan American Games, which will be held in Toronto, qualifying standards and selection procedures are HERE.

Even football goes for multi-sport HS athletes

We did some graph interpretation in Chemistry. My #1 soph shot putter is considering being a year-round football guy. pic.twitter.com/MHMfeOLgAH
— PN TRACK (@pntrack) January 16, 2015

Team USA MN is happy to be in Houston! @nutMEGrunner, @Jonpeterson89, and @EricFinan race on Sunday @ 6:55am CT pic.twitter.com/2Akpx42rHb
— Team USA Minnesota (@TeamUSAMN) January 16, 2015

FloTrack interview with Annie Bersagal prior to the Houston Half-Marathon HERE.

Gopher redshirt freshman middle distance runner Derek Wiebke named men's MVG(Most Vlauable Gopher) for January HERE. Also joined other Gophers for the team's Youth Track Clinic HERE.

Elite Field Announced for Sunday's Medtronic TCM

Four USA Championships are at stake in  Sunday’s 32^nd annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon, which plays host to the USA Men’s & Women’s Marathon Championships and the USA Masters Marathon Championships.

Competitors in the USA Men’s & Women’s Championships will be racing for $145,000 in prize money, including $25,000 for the winners, plus an additional $25,000 course record bonus should the men’s champion break Phil Coppess’s men’s mark of 2:10:05 set in 1985 or the women’s winner betters the record shared by Zinaida Semenova (2001) and Irina Permitina (2004) at 2:26:51. Coppess will be in town this weekend as a documentary is being filmed on him with his TCM race being one of the high points of his career.

Three naturalized Americans of Kenyan descent  will face 2010 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon and 2010 USA Champion Sergio Reyes (Palmdale, Calif.) in their quest for the men's USA Championship title. Shadrack Biwott (Folsom, Calif.), the third-place finisher at the USA Half Marathon Championships in June, Joseph Chirlee (Colorado Springs, Colo.), a veteran with a 2:12:10 marathon best, and Josphat Boit (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), the USA 25K runner-up in May, will seek their first USA title.  Other contenders include Timothy Ritchie (Brighton, Mass.), fourth at the USA Half Marathon Championships, 2011 US Pan American team member Patrick Rizzo with a 2:13:42 PR( Boulder , Co.), and Nicholas Arciniaga (Flagstaff, Ariz.), a veteran with a 2:11:30 marathon to his credit.(RRW story on Archiniaga is HERE.

Team USA Minnesota’s Meghan Peyton, the recent winner of the USA 20K Championship, will face a balanced field of challengers  for the USA Women’s Championship. They include  Atalelech Asfaw (Albuquerque, N.M.), an Ethiopian-born American with a personal best of 2:33:56; Wendy Thomas (Windsor, Colo.), the 12^th-place finisher at the 2012 Olympic Marathon Trials; Esther Erb (Richmond, Va.), the 7^th-place finisher at last year’s Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon; and Minnesotan Michelle Lilienthal (Minneapolis), who finished fourth at the 2006 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon.

In the USA Master Championships, which the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is hosting for the 23^rd straight year and where winners will earn $7,500, defending men’s champion Uli Steidl (Seattle, Wash.) is expected to battle 2012 runner-up Malcolm Campbell (Marietta, Ga.) for the title.  The men’s field also includes two-time Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon champ Mbarak Hussein (Albuquerque, N.M) and three-time USA Masters Marathon champ Tracy Lokken (Marquette, Mich.) and American masters 10,000-meter record holder Kevin Castille (Nicholasville, Ky.).

Among the masters women, Olympian Elva Dryer, a 2:31 marathoner who has not raced in a major competition since 2009, appears to be the main contender along with for 2012 USA Masters runner-up Sheri Piers.  Full startlists for the championship fields are HERE.

Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Weekend kicks off on Friday with the Health & Fitness Expo at RiverCentre in St. Paul. Activities continue on Saturday with the TC 10K, presented by TomTom, the TC 5K Run/Walk, presented by Fredrikson & Byron, and the Medtronic TC Family, all held on the State Capitol grounds in St. Paul. The weekend culminates with the 15th running of the Medtronic TC 10 Mile and the 32nd annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday.

Wally Ellenson Wins Pan Am Juniors High Jump

Wally Ellenson at US Championships
Photo by Gene Niemi

Gopher high jumper Wally Ellenson won the gold medal in the high jump at the Pan American Juniors on Sunday with a leap of 2.16m/7'  1". Complete meet results HERE seem to have everything but the full high jump results.  Photo of Ellenson and Justin Fondron(University of Alabama), who took the bronze with a leap of 2.13m/6' 11.75", on Instagram HERE. Media report of the win HERE. July interview with Ellenson talking mostly about his other sport, basketball, is HERE.

Maggie Ewen Wins Silver in Pan Am Juniors Discus

Maggie Ewen finished second in the Pan Am Junior Championship discus on Saturday in Columbia.  She led the competition with her final throw, but took the silver with a toss of 50.49m/165' 7" as Brazil's Izabela da Silva had a huge last throw of 54.15m/177' 7.75".

 "I felt pretty good on my first two throws," Ewen said.  "When I got to my last one I decided I needed a big one. My legs were slow today, I was really tired. The key was just to get my mind right. I feel like I could have done more." Results with the full series of each thrower are HERE.

Maggie Ewen at the MSHSL Championships
Photo by Gene Niemi

More News Bits

Kara Goucher talks about Boston, branding, and doing an ultra  HERE.

Preview of the Junior Pan Ams is HERE.

Stillwater Gazette story on the Twi-Lite 5K is HERE.

Duluth News Tribune articles on Scott Jurek's return to racing at last weekend's Leadville 100 is HERE, HERE, and  HERE. iRunFar.com pre-Leadville interview is HERE.

Finnerty Sixth at Harry Jerome

Not everything happens in Europe on the outdoor track circuit.  Tonight in Vancouver, BC the Harry Jerome International Track Classic Burnsville and University of Wisconsin's Rob Finnerty finished sixth in the 1500 in 3:38.82, about half a second off his PR.  Canada's Nate Brannen won the race in 3:37.17.  Results for the 1500 are HERE.  Harry Jerome was a Canadian Olympic sprinter who won an Olympic bronze medal in the 100 in 1964.  He was a gold medalist in the Commonwealth and Pan American Games and went to college in the US at the University of Oregon.  In 1984 the meet that was held every summer in BC was renamed in his honor as the Harry Jerome International Track Classic. It's a fixture on the North American track circuit every summer.  Recap of the meet with photos is HERE.