USATF Day 2: Smock Wins TJ, Shaina Burns Second, Rose Jackson Fourth in USATF Junior Champs Heptathlon; Bates 6th Peyton 11th Munson 12th in 10K

Amanda Smock saved her best for last as she hop, stepped, and jumped 13.77m/45'2.25" on her final jump to win her third USATF Outdoor triple jump title.  She led the competition from her first jump and sealed the win with her last.  Stormy Nesbitt finished fourteenth at 12.77m/41'10.75".  Full results are HERE.

Lakeville South grad Shaina Burns finished second and NDSU's Rose  Jackson placed fourth at the USATF Junior Championships in Sacramento on Thursday.  Burns scored 5363 points, 55 short of winner Ashlee Moore.  Jackson earned 5025 points.  Full results are HERE.

NCAA champ Emma Bates finished sixth in 31:52.49, and Team USA Minnesota's Megan Peyton eleventh in 10K in 33:11.63.  Results HERE. Devon Monson twelveth in men's 10K in 29:53.46.  Results HERE.

Gopher's Nicolle Murphy finished fourteenth in the javelin with a throw of 47.58m/155'9". Results are HERE.

Two area athletes advanced in the heats of the women's 800:  Laura Roesler and Christy Cazzola. Results are HERE.

In the men's 800 Gopher grad Harun Abda got caught in the slow heat and finished fourth, one place from automatically advancing to the final.  Results are HERE.

Will Leer and Garrett Heath qualified for the final of the men's 1500.  Rob Finnerty and John Simons did not.  Leer was third in his heat in 3:42.37.  Heath was also third in 3:44.98.  Finnerty finished tenth in his heat in 3:46.76, and Simons ran 3:51.33 for thirteenth in his heat.  Results are HERE.
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Hamline story on Devin Monson who is running the 10K tonight is HERE. Augsburg story on Meghan Peyton who also does the 10K is HERE.

The triple jump final is tonight: from NDSU press release:
Amanda Smock
Event: Women's triple jump
Date: Thursday, June 26
Time: 7:35 p.m. (CT) / 5:35 p.m. (PT)
 
Smock, formerly Amanda Thieschafer, has won three straight American indoor triple jump titles, as well as claiming outdoor national championships in 2011 and 2012. She was the only woman to represent the United States in the triple jump at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
 
Smock was a 13-time All-American from 2001-04 at NDSU. She won NCAA Division II indoor titles in the triple jump in 2002 and 2004 and won the outdoor title in 2003.
 
Reigning USA javelin champion Riley Dolezal and pole vaulter Shawn Francis – both former Bison athletes – are scheduled to compete on the men's side on Sunday, June 29, in Sacramento.