This is grit. Watch the whole thing you won't regret it.
After a fall by Sophie Isom in the first leg of the 4x400 relay, Michigan reclaimed the race, highlighted by Savannah Sutherland splitting three seconds faster than any other runner in the second leg.
FLANAGAN FTW! Ben Flanagan
@bennyflanagan
outkicks Alabama's Kiprop on the home stretch to win the
#NCAATF
10,000m title! He goes 28:34.53 to win by .46 of a second!
!!!NCAA CHAMPION!!!
Savannah Sutherland is the 400-meter hurdle NCAA Champion. With a time of 54.45 she sets a lifetime best, school record, Canadian U23 record, world top-ten mark, and is named a First-Team All-American.
Go Blue 💛
SCHOOL RECORD ALERT!!!
Full results to come but... Tom Brady just set a school record in the 5000m running 13:36.61 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational. That's a 12-second improvement on his previous best and 4 seconds faster than the last record school.
ZIYAH HOLMAN
@ohhthatszyyy
!
She brings the Wolverines' 4x400 relay back from a 4-second deficit on the anchor leg to WIN by nearly half a second in 3:48.02!
The split: 51.79 🔥🔥🔥
#GoBlue
🇺🇸 US OLYMPIC TRIALS 🇺🇸
MASON FERLIC
@masonferlic
IS GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!
He comes up huge in the final lap to clinch his berth to Tokyo in the steeplechase with a 3rd place finish in 8:22.05!
Moved to 3rd with 200m to go & emphatically held off a late charge
#GoBlue
Everything you need to know on the anchor of this 4x400 relay:
Michigan runner is down 3 seconds.
Michigan runner is not in the camera shot.
Michigan runner is Ziyah Holman.
You know where this is going, but you have to see it for yourself.
#GoBlue
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WOW MILES BROWN!
SCHOOL RECORD!
FACILITY RECORD!
MEET RECORD!
NO. 3 IN THE NCAA!
NO. 8 IN THE WORLD!
JUST .04 OUTSIDE THE ALL-TIME NCAA TOP-25!
That's how good his 1:16.98 600-meter winner is.
#GoBlue
🇺🇸 US OLYMPIC TRIALS 🇺🇸
STEVEN BASTIEN IS GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!
He CRUSHES his PR by 462 points(!) as he scores 8485 points for 2nd overall in the decathlon!
PRs in the 100m, shot put, high jump, 110H, pole vault, javelin & 1500m -- and a clutch 3rd-attempt in the LJ
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BIG TEN CHAMPION! Erin solos a 32:42.51 10,000m to win by nearly a minute in her 1st 10k of the year! That's her 10th career individual
@bigten
title, most in program history!
#GoBlue
🏆 BIG TEN CHAMP 🏆
🚨 BIG TEN RECORD 🚨
JOSHUA ZELLER RUNS 13.19 (1.1m/s) TO WIN THE
#B1GTF
110M HURDLES!
He's now the SEVENTH-FASTEST man in COLLEGIATE HISTORY!
#GoBlue
Savannah Sutherland is the Women's B1G Track Athlete of the Week!
After setting a PR in the 400m (53.01) and running the second leg of an astonishing 4x400 relay in 51.4, the honor is well deserved.
Sutherland ranks first in the Big Ten and fifth in the NCAA for the 400m
Did you know: Michigan is the first women's XC program to win three-or-more consecutive
@bigten
titles in three different decades!
1992-94
2002-06
2016-18
#GoBlue
‼ SCHOOL RECORD ALERT ‼
Andrew Liskowitz
@AndrewLisko
goes 21.15m (69-4.75) in the shot put to break his own school record by nearly a meter!
PLUS that puts him over the standards for the 2019 World Championships & the 2020 Olympics
#MeatFactory
#ThrowBlue
#GoBlue
We're excited to announce Kevin Sullivan
@ksully330
as the next Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Michigan!
The 4x NCAA champ, 3x Olympian & 3x NCAA XC Championships top-11 coach will take over starting with this 2021-22 season
STORY:
It's a workout as classic and formidable as the program that created it. The Michigan men descended on historic Ferry Field to do a true "Michigan" workout, complete with tempo loops around the Big House.
#StillWeRun
#GoBlue
Truly the end of an era in Michigan track & field
After 46 years at Michigan as a student-athlete, assistant coach & head coach, please join us in wishing James Henry a well-earned happy retirement!
You will be missed, Coach Henry!
STORY
#ForeverGoBlue
One of the loudest cheers of the day at the Big House so far? Watching the replay of Ben Flanagan's NCAA 10,000m national title-winning kick! Congrats Ben!
#ThisIsMichigan
#GoBlue
Ben Flanagan's
#NCAATF
10,000m title BY THE NUMBERS:
2️⃣3️⃣ - Ben's pre-meet seed in the 24-man field
3️⃣9️⃣ - # of seconds Ben cut off his PR
2️⃣9️⃣ - Years since Michigan's last 10,000m NCAA title (Scherer, '89)
.4️⃣6️⃣ - Winning margin over Kiprop
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🚨 SCHOOL RECORD ALERT 🚨
AURORA RYNDA! She torches the Notre Dame track with an
@NCAATrackField
leading 🔥 2:02.89 🔥 to win the 800 by nearly THREE SECONDS.
Broke the old U-M record by half a second.
#GoBlue
Day one, heading off into uncharted territory. More than any other season, XC 2020 will be more about the journey than the destination.
#StillWeRun
#GoBlue
Let's definitively end the speculation and set the record straight.
Tom Brady is NOT retiring.
He is scheduled to race this weekend at Indiana and moving forward for years to come.
We hope this clears up the swirling rumors.
#GoBlue
Guess who put in some work on our new track today? None other than 6x Olympic Gold medalist
@allysonfelix
! A world-class athlete on a world-class track
#GoBlue
(photo via
@allysonfelix
)
MICHIGAN RECORD for Erin Finn
@erinefinn
!
Her 8:58.69 in the 3000m is the 23rd-fastest time in collegiate history and the 3rd-fastest in
@bigten
history!
#2
in the NCAA this year
#GoBlue
Congratulations to Tom Brady on being named a CSC first-team Academic All-American.
Winning the 10k Big Ten title this season, Brady demonstrated his excellence on and off the track.
📰:
If you haven't seen it yet, here's how Ben Flanagan won the
#NCAATF
10,000m title
From standing on the starting line as the
#23
seed to "Where's my mom?", you won't want to miss this one
#GoBlue
Katelynne Hart
@KatelynneHart
finishes runner-up in the collegiate mile debut in 4:44.46.
That's the 2nd-fastest collegiate mile debut in program history, behind only Shannon Osika's 4:43.79 in 2012
#GoBlue
Over the weekend, Riley Ammenhauser set a PR, meet record, facility record, and Michigan school record in the triple jump at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational.
She's on fire 🔥
To help raise awareness of breast cancer & to honor the millions who have been affected by the disease, we are proud to add PINK to our maize & blue color scheme for Saturday's Pre-National Invitational at Wisconsin
#GoBlue
#GoPink
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Great news! Multiple-time
@NCAATrackField
All-American and
@bigten
Champion Erin Finn
@erinefinn
has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA and will compete for the Wolverines both indoors & outdoors in 2019!
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🇳🇿 OLYMPICS UPDATE 🇳🇿
NICK WILLIS
@nickwillis
IS GOING TO HIS 5TH-STRAIGHT (‼️) OLYMPICS!
The 2x Olympic medalist ageless wonder from New Zealand clinched the 45th-and-final qualifying spot to Tokyo in the 1500m!
STORY:
#GoBlue
🚨 NEW SCHOOL RECORD! 🚨
WHAT AN 800M RUN FROM MILES BROWN & COLE JOHNSON.
Miles goes 1:47.37 to break the U-M record 1:47.51 held for nearly 17 years by Olympian Nate Brannen!
Cole went 1:47.60 for No. 3 in U-M history!
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What. A. Finish.
11th with 2 laps to go.
8th with 1 lap to go.
7th with 200m to go.
3rd by .13 of a second at the line to make the
@NCAATrackField
Championships steeplechase
#GoBlue
Fastest time in the NCAA. Facility record. Meet record. PR by nearly 30 seconds.
Tom Brady
@tdbrady15
wins the Simmons-Harvey Invite 3000m in 🔥7:58.06🔥
#GoBlue
MEET RECORD, SCHOOL RECORD, CAREER-BEST!!!!
Ziyah Holman is the outdoor 400m Big Ten Champion after running 50.90!!! She is now the back-to-back indoor and outdoor champion at the distance!
#goblue
We're excited to welcome our new assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, Charnay Ryland!
#GoBlue
Read more about Charnay's numerous athletic and coaching accomplishments here:
PSA: Historic Ferry Field has been reopened for public use! Come walk/jog/run/etc at the same spot where Jesse Owens broke/tied four World Records in the span of 45 minutes in 1935
All we ask is that everyone stays off the infield as new grass grows in various spots.
#GoBlue
🚨NEW SCHOOL RECORD🚨
Cole Johnson ▶ Dubem Amene ▶ Miles Brown ▶ Nick Foster OBLITERATE the distance medley relay record at Notre Dame in 9:23.78!
That's nearly 4 seconds better than previous record.
Almost certainly will qualify for NCAAs.
#8
in the country.
#GoBlue
🏆 BIG TEN CHAMPION 🏆
Ayden Owens is the Big Ten decathlon champion with 8,238 points!
And he did it in style:
✔️ Michigan record
✔️ Big Ten Championships record
✔️
#2
score in Big Ten history
✔️
#17
in
@NCAATrackField
history
✔️
#2
in the NCAA this year
#GoBlue
What a kick for Claire Borchers! She takes FOURTH PLACE in the
#NCAATF
steeplechase to earn 1st-Team All-America honors! New career best 9:48.33!
#GoBlue