Duck Women Take 4th Straight Indoor – Triple Crown on Track

Reported by Mike Merrell on March 9, 2013
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This just in: The University of Oregon women’s track team — an underdog despite winning the last three consecutive indoor titles — captured its fourth straight NCAA Indoor Track & Field Indoor Championship, Saturday night in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Ducks ran away with the final event, the 4 X 400 meter relay, to finish with 56 points. Kansas finished second with 44, followed closely by LSU with 43. Other PAC 12 representatives finishing in the top 10 were Arizona and Arizona State, who tied for 7th with 25 points each.

Not to be excluded from a Top 10 finish, the Oregon men finished sixth.

WHAT THIS MEANS: The Oregon women have now won both the NCAA Cross Country Championship and the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship this school year and are on track to win the triple crown for NCAA women’s track & field! The final jewel is the outdoor championship, which will be held in the friendly confines of Hayward Field this June. GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!

Categories: Inside Zone Read Tags: NCAA Champions, Oregon Ducks

Mike MerrellMike is a 1970 graduate of the University of Oregon where he attended the Honors College and received all-conference honors as a swimmer. After college, Mike ran for the Oregon Track Club and narrowly missed qualifying for the US Olympic Trials in the marathon. He continues his involvement in sports with near-daily swimming or running workouts, occasional masters swim competition (where he has received two Top-10 World rankings), providing volunteer coaching to local triathletes and helping out with FishDuck.com. Mike lives on 28 acres in the forest near Sandpoint, Idaho, where he has served as a certified public accountant for most of his working career. His current night job is writing novels about Abby Westminster, the only known illegitimate daughter of Britain's finest secret agent who has to bring down arch-villains plotting dastardly deeds. And, yes, Abby is also a DUCK!View all posts by Mike Merrell →