The CHill Zone of T&F

Another solid weekend of track and field saw Aussie Steven Hooker take another shot at 20 feet and Sergei Bubka at the Boston Indoor Games. Hooker took over the #2 spot on the All Time list with his 6.06m (19′ 10.5″) clearance to win the event in Boston. He then took three solid tries at 6.16m, a centimeter above Bubka’s record set back in 1993. Hooker was a full foot above his competition as Derek Miles was second with a 5.72m (18′ 9.25″) mark. Boston was clearly the venue for vaulting as Jenn Stuczynski set an American Record of 4.82m (15′ 9.75″) improving Stacy Dragila’s previous record by a centimeter.…

During the recent Armory Meet in New York, USATF’s new CEO, Doug Logan gave an interview on various topics concerning Track and Field. During this interview Logan touched on issues such as “Drugs in the Sport”, the performance of the US Team at last year’s Beijing Olympic Games, and “The marketing of the sport here in the United States”. While I have an interest in all of the areas he discussed, I found his words on the marketing of the sport most interesting, as he mentioned a topic that I myself have looked at – the idea of creating an actual League for the sport of Track and Field. Now…

The 2009 Indoor season has started off in fine fashion. The highlight of this past weekend being the 19’8.5″ pole vault of Aussie Steven Hooker at the Millrose Games. Hooker’s metric 6.01 vault made him the #4 all time performer indoors and left him only .01cm from #2’s Jeff Hartwig and Rodion Gautaulin. More importantly he had some very strong attempts at 6.15m which would have broken the venerable Sergei Bubka’s Indoor World Record. Hooker looks ready to challenge that rarified air on a consistent basis this year, if this past weekend was any indication. Another athlete that appeared quite sharp at Millrose was hurdler Terrance Trammell. After sizzling to…