End Of Year Rankings Include Many Nittany Lions

Our Data Procurement Specialist has again done yeoman's work and scoured the latest Track and Field News Rankings to highlight the Nittany Lion Men (Women will be coming next!) shining in the latest year.  He asked me to double-check his work (He must have been giggling when he wrote that. I'm pretty sure he knows me well enough by now to realize that ain't happening.!)  Needless to say, I trust his work.  And if he's missed a few, I know there are other Nittany Lions out there to amend the list.   It was really a very good year. Besides, he always gets his T&F News way before I do!

800 M

Loxom #5 US rank; #5 US time 1:45.80

Kidder #29 US time 1:47.45i

Cas Loxsom was ranked #4 in the 800 on LetsRun.com's middle/long distance end of year rankings also.

4. Cas Loxsom • Brooks Beasts • 23 years old • 1:45.80 sb (#6 in US) • 2nd at USA Outdoors
Championship results: 2nd USA outdoors, 3rd USA indoors semis
After running 1:45.28 and finishing sixth at USAs at age 20 in 2011, Loxsom seemed poised for greatness. But he stagnated over the next two years, failing to make a U.S. final or improve on his pb. He didn’t set a pb in 2014 either, but he won some races and didn’t just make a U.S. final — he placed second (though we won’t know how high he would have been without the fall). To be a factor at USAs next year, Loxsom will have to build on his success in 2014. With a new training partner in Seattle in Symmonds, that seems possible.

1000 M

Loxom #3 US time 2:19.16

Creese #8 US time 2:20.65i

1500 M

Kidder #22 US time 3:38.82 (PSU record)

Mile

Kidder #34 US time 3:58.49i

400H

Robinson =#31 US time 50.75

Marathon/Half Marathon

McCandless  #18 US time 2:15.26/McCandless #18 US time 63.25

HJ

Hendershot #41 US height 7-2.5i

SP (PSU is SP U???)

Kovacs #3 World, #2 US Rank; #2 World/#2 US distance – 72-3.5

Whiting #4 World, #3 US Rank; #1 World/#1 US distance – 72-11.25i

Hill #36 World, #11 US distance – 67-6

JT

Shuey #10 US distance 249-5 (PSU record)

Relays

4x800 #11 US 7:18.99

SMR  #5 US 3:18.39

DMR #1 US 9:26.59i (PSU record)