New Events for 2012
New Championship Events
- Swedish Relay (100-200-300-400) - this is the same event as contested a the IAAF World Youth Championships.
- Octathlon (boys only - 8th through 11th graders) - a World Youth Development event.
New Emerging Elite Events
- Emerging Elite 400m Hurdles
- Emerging Elite Hammer
New Freshman Events
- Freshman Two Mile
- Freshman Long Jump
Olympic Development Events
The weekend of the New Balance Nationals Outdoor is the final weekend to qualify for the Olympic Trials. As such, the meet has incorporated several events so that elite athletes may have the opportunity to do so. They will all take place on Saturday, June 16, 2012, and are as follows:
- 400m Hurdles, Men and Women
- 800m, Men
- 1500m, Women
- High Jump, Women
- Triple Jump, Men and Women
- Pole Vault, Men
Spectacular Performances from 2011
Though we had a rainstorm delay in 2011, and were somewhat hindered by construction of the stadium’s new press box, the meet was once again stellar. Here are some of the outstanding performances:
(USL — US leader; HSR — National HS Record; A-T — all-time)
Boys
| 200 | Sean Mc Lean | Word of God, Raleigh, NC | 20.62 | USL |
| 800 | Austin Mudd | Center Grove, Greenwood, IN | 1:48.09 | USL |
| 2000m St | Eddie Owens | Packer Collegiate, Brooklyn, NY | 5:49.40 | USL, #5 A-T |
| 4x800 | Poly | Long Beach, CA | 7:28.75 | HSR |
| 800 | Med Smiths Station | Smiths Station, AL | 1:29.53 | USL, #4 A-T |
| SMR | Lawrence Central | Indianapolis, IN | 3:24.56 | USL |
| DMR | St. Benedict's | Newark, NJ | 9:51.97 | USL |
| 4x110h | CBA | Lincroft, NJ | 59.29 | USL |
| LJ | Joshua Mc Clam | Holly Springs, NC | 25-0.5 | USL |
Girls
| 400 | Kendell Baisen | Detroit Country Day, Bloomfield Hills, MI | 52.87 | USL |
| 2000m St | Mary Kate Anselmini | Ward Melville, Setauket, NY | 6:34.69 | USL |
| 2 Mile | Aisling Cuffe | Cornwall | 9:54.22 | HSR |
| 5000 | Wesley Frazier | Ravenscroft, Raleigh, NC | 16:24.83 | USL |
| 400h | Leah Nugent | Abington, PA | 57.72 | USL |
| 4x800 | Bronxville | Bronxville, NY | 8:49.85 | USL, #4 A-T |
| 800 | Med Withrow | Cincinnati, OH | 1:42.69 | USL |
| DMR | Harvard-Westlake | North Hollywood, CA | 11:23.23 | HSR |
| SP | Tori Bliss | Portage, IN | 50-9.5 | USL |
| Hept | Kendall Williams | Kell, Marietta, GA | 5169 | soph class rec |
Emerging Elite vs Championship
The Championship races are for those who have made the qualifying standards for those events. The Emerging Elite is for those who have not quite made those standards. The Emerging Elite Division is open to any high school athlete who has made the Emerging Elite standards, whether they be Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors.
The idea is that, eventually, an Emerging Elite athlete will join the elite ranks, but has not yet attained that status. We have had this division in place for several years now in the outdoor version of this meet. A prime example is that of Kyle Merber. He won the Emerging Elite mile as a junior in 2007 in 4:15.95 (The championship mile was won in 4:03.33). The next year he was New York State 1600m Champion. And, this year, his Sophomore year at Columbia U, he ran 3:58.62 for a mile! Similarly, Megan Goethals was the Emerging Elite mile champion in 2008 in 4:59.26. In 2009, she became the Foot Locker National Champion in cross-country.









