Oregon Ducks track and field

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Oregon Ducks track and field
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University University of Oregon
Head coach Jerry Schumacher
Conference Big Ten
Location Eugene, OR
Outdoor track Hayward Field
NicknameDucks
ColorsGreen and yellow [1]
   
NCAA Indoor National Championships
Men's: 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021
Women's: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
NCAA Outdoor National Championships
Men's: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1984, 2014, 2015
Women's: 1985, 2015, 2017

Cross Country:
Men's: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 2007, 2008
Women's: 1983, 1987, 2012, 2016
Conference Outdoor Championships
Men's: 1924, 1934, 1965, 1967, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1990, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Women's: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024

Cross Country:
Men's: 1969, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008
Women's: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2012, 2014, 2018

The Oregon Ducks track and field program is the intercollegiate track and field team for the University of Oregon located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The team competes at the NCAA Division I level and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. The team participates in indoor and outdoor track and field as well as cross country. Known as the Ducks, Oregon's first track and field team was fielded in 1895. [2] The team holds its home meets at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Jerry Schumacher is the current head coach and since the program's inception in 1895, there have only been eight permanent head coaches. [3] [4] The Ducks claim 32 NCAA National Championships among the three disciplines. [5]

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Due to its rich heritage, the home of the Ducks is popularly dubbed as Tracktown, USA. [6] Four of the head coaches in Oregon's history have been inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame. Several people involved with the program have developed innovative coaching strategies and helped restructure amateur athletics. Alumni of the program have continued to the Olympics and professional ranks while some others have founded athletic corporations like Nike and SPARQ.

Oregon's track and field history has been documented in two major motion films Without Limits and Prefontaine as well as the books Bowerman and the Men of Oregon and Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend. Former coaches and alumni have also written a number of books on running instruction for both top end athletes and hobbyists.

History

Early history

The first track team was established in 1895 with head coach Joseph Wetherbee. The coach remained for only one year and the following four coaches, William O'Trine, J.C. Higgins, C.A. Redmond, and William Ray, also remained for extremely short durations. [7] With such sporadic coaching changes, the Oregon track and field team struggled with inconsistencies, [8] although the university did win six of seven meets in 1895. [9]

Under Coach Bill Hayward

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1906 Oregon Ducks track and field team

The modern era of Oregon track and field began in 1903. The Webfoots (as they were called at the time) lost a track meet to Albany College (now Lewis & Clark College). Oregon promptly asked Albany's coach, Bill Hayward, to come to Eugene as track coach for the following season. [7] Hayward's career at Oregon was long and illustrious, lasting 44 years. His athletes included nine Olympians and produced five world records. [10] By 1919, his standing at Oregon was such that when a new stadium was constructed for the football, it was named Hayward Field for him. Two years later, a track was added and track meets were transferred there from nearby Kincaid Field. [11]

Under Coach Bill Bowerman

Bill Bowerman's involvement with Oregon dated to his student days in the 1930s. [12] He initially played football when he arrived in Eugene. Coach Bill Hayward, who Bowerman credits with teaching him how to run, convinced Bowerman to run track. Bowerman graduated from Oregon in 1934 with a degree in business. [13]

After his service in World War II, Bowerman was hired by Oregon to replace the retiring Hayward after John Warren's single year as interim head coach. [7] Though Bowerman's title was head coach, he considered himself more of a teacher than a coach. [14] He stressed schoolwork over athletics and urged his pupils to apply the values they learned participating in track and field to everyday life. [13] [14] During his time at Oregon, he brought four NCAA team championships to the university and coached 33 Olympians as well as 24 individual NCAA champions. [13] [15] He coached some of the world's best distance runners including Steve Prefontaine.

Bowerman retired from coaching in 1972. While at Oregon, he also coached the USA Track and Field team and helped bring the U.S. Olympic Trials to Hayward Field for the first time. [13] In 2009, The Bowerman Award was created in coach Bowerman's name and administered by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The award is given annually as the highest honor for the best collegiate track and field athlete of the year, one each for men and for women. [16]

Steve Prefontaine

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Pre's Rock; the memorial marker at the location of Prefontaine's death

Steve Prefontaine arrived on campus in 1969 and immediately, head coach Bowerman and assistant coach Bill Dellinger had their hands full to rein in the rebellious new athlete. [17] The bold running style of Prefontaine, front-running, was a strategy that altered the pace of the sport. [18] At one point, Prefontaine held every American distance record above the 2,000 meters and was thought of by many to be one of the greatest American runners in history. [19] [20] Prefontaine had never lost a race longer than a mile during his collegiate career and won a total of seven NCAA championships in track and field and cross country. [17] He raced in the 5000m at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, placing fourth in the race. [17] He died in an automobile accident in Eugene in 1975, at the peak of his career. [20]

His accomplishments were not confined to the track. He was deeply resentful toward the treatment given toward amateur athletes. [21] He had frequently butted heads with the Amateur Athletic Union, calling the AAU a corrupt organization. [22] [23] His opinions played a major role in the passing of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, legislation providing legal protection to amateur athletes. [18]

Prefontaine, coupled with Frank Shorter's success running the marathon, is often credited with playing a role in the running boom in America in the 1970s. [24] His legacy lives on in two movies documenting his life, Without Limits and Prefontaine , as well as the Prefontaine Classic, an annual track meet held at Hayward Field in his honor. [25]

Nike

The 1957 freshman track and field team; Phil Knight is seated at the very left in the front row. 1957 Oregon Ducks freshmen track.jpg
The 1957 freshman track and field team; Phil Knight is seated at the very left in the front row.

Another one of Bowerman's pupils, Phil Knight, partnered with Bowerman and revolutionized the sport with the formation of the shoe company giant, Nike. Knight graduated from the University of Oregon in 1959 [26] and went on to Stanford University for graduate school. There, he developed the idea to import Japanese running shoes to the American market. [27] After earning his MBA from Stanford, he returned to the University of Oregon where he and Bowerman struck a handshake deal in 1964, each with a $500 investment into a company called Blue Ribbon Sports to import Japanese running shoes. [12] In the late 1960s, Bowerman's pursuit of lighter shoes for his athletes led him to develop a sole by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron, inventing the modern running shoe. [12] After Knight decided to rename the company Nike and develop its own shoes, Bowerman's invention became the prototype for the company. [15] The shoe made its debut in the 1972 Olympic Trials at Hayward Field with Steve Prefontaine as one of the early endorsers. [12] [28] Although Bowerman retired from coaching in 1972, he remained on Nike's board until 1999. In that time, Nike exploded into a multibillion-dollar company. [12]

Under Coaches Bill Dellinger and Tom Heinonen

Like his predecessor, Bill Dellinger's involvement with the University of Oregon began before his coaching career. He lettered in track at the university, graduating in 1956 [26] and won a Bronze medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. [29] After his athletic career, he joined Bowerman's staff in 1967 as an assistant coach where he helped coach Steve Prefontaine. He took over as head coach in 1973 after Bowerman's retirement. [30] With Dellinger at the helm, Oregon's Cross Country team brought home four NCAA national championships and the track and field team brought home one NCAA national championship. [30] He retired in 1998. [31] The Bill Dellinger Invitational is an annual cross country race held by the University of Oregon in honor of the coach. [32]

Hired as a physical education graduate student in 1975, Tom Heinonen, was promoted to the head coach for the women's cross country and track and field team in 1977. Prior to Heinonen, no other full-time head coach at Oregon had exclusively coached the women's disciplines. He was a strong advocate for women's sports and was a force in making the Oregon Twilight Meet a co-ed event. [33] Women's cross country and track and field blossomed under Heinonen's leadership. He led the women's team to win its first three NCAA team championships and coached 14 NCAA individual champions. He produced 134 All-Americans and his athletes made 17 appearances in the Olympics. [34] He retired in 2003, after which the University of Oregon Athletic Department decided to combine the men's and women's programs under one head coach. [35]

Under Coach Vin Lananna

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Vin Lananna at the 2015 USATF Convention

In 2005, Vin Lananna was hired to become the track and field head coach, replacing Martin Smith who resigned after the previous season. Lananna was already a decorated head coach from Stanford with five NCAA national championships under his belt. [36] At Oregon, he led seven teams to win NCAA national championships, including the first indoor national championships in school history. He also attracted the Olympic Trials, the NCAA Track and Field Championships, and the USA Track and Field Championships to Eugene for multiple years. [5]

Just prior to the 2012 season, Robert Johnson was promoted to the head coaching position as Lananna moved to an administrative position with the program. [4]

Under Coach Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson was Vin Lanana's first hire, originally to lead throws, hurdles, and sprints, then in 2009, was named the associate head coach for women's track. The University of Oregon was historically known for its rich tradition in distance running but had never been known for sprinting. Robert Johnson drastically transformed this during his tenure. [37]

By 2011, the year before Johnson took over as head coach, every women's sprint school record for distances still actively run, for both outdoor and indoor track and field, had been broken. [37] The women's indoor program won its first NCAA title in 2010 [38] and by 2017, had won seven of the previous eight indoor national championships. In the 2017 indoor national championship, the sprinters excelled as the women's program set a record for points scored at 84, exceeding the previous record set by Texas by 13 points. The sprinters were so dominant that despite Deajah Stevens's lane violation in the 200m prelims erasing a collegiate record time run in the final, the points accrued from Oregon women's sprinters alone would have been only two points shy of runner up Georgia's entire points total. [39]

Several months later, the Oregon's women's program entered the NCAA Outdoor National Championship meet as favorites to win the title. [40] Despite losing a key runner to injury, a disqualification in the 4 × 100 m, and adversity during the meet, the Oregon women's team was able to edge out the Georgia Bulldogs's strong field events team in the final 4 × 400 m event. Since the women's team won the cross country championship and the indoor championship in the same academic year, the outdoor title gave the women's team a triple crown, the first time any NCAA women's track and field team has accomplished this feat. [41]

In 2021, allegations surfaced of body shaming within the program, resulting in unhealthy disorders among several athletes. Johnson defended the use of certain technologies such as DEXA scans, that monitor bone density and body fat, saying they take human bias out of the equation. [42] In 2022, a few weeks before the World Athletics Championships, held at Hayward Field, it was announced that the University of Oregon would not renew Johnson's contract, but there were no specific reasons given for doing so. [43] Not long after, the university announced the hire of the Bowerman Track Club coach, Jerry Schumacher, as the next head coach. [44]

Impact on running

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Steve Prefontaine, signing an autograph.

The people involved in the Oregon track and field program have led changes that benefited professional athletes and coaches, as well as running enthusiasts. Bill Bowerman experimented with many coaching techniques during his time as a head coach at the University of Oregon and instilled many of his principles from his days as a Major in the US Army. For example, Bowerman pioneered in using film as a method of teaching technique to his athletes. [13] With Bowerman's meticulous attention to details, he made other discoveries with regards to coaching track. [12] The training schedules he developed for his athletes ran counter to many other coaches' principles at the time. He believed that each individual athlete was different and tailored different workout routines to different athletes. He also scaled his workouts up and down, giving some of his athletes rest on certain days for recovery time. [13] This attention to detail also led him to become obsessed with experimentation of reducing the weight of his athletes' apparel and increasing the traction of their shoes which eventually led to the creation of the apparel company Nike. [12] Moreover, Bowerman considered himself more of a teacher than a coach and stressed schoolwork as well as mentoring his athletes with regards to life. [14] Tom Heinonen, the former head coach of the Oregon women's track and field program was a strong advocate of female athletics at a time when female athletics were largely an afterthought. [33] Steve Prefontaine was vehemently outspoken against the Amateur Athletic Union. [18] Kenny Moore, a former University of Oregon student who ran track under Bowerman, was one of the speakers at the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, a series of hearings regarding amateur sports. [45] [46] These efforts along with those from other amateur athletes eventually culminated in the passage of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. [18] [47]

Bowerman and his athletes' philosophy and stories were documented by Kenny Moore. Moore wrote the book Bowerman and the Men of Oregon [48] and practiced journalism, most notably for Sports Illustrated . [47] [49] He also was the screenwriter with Robert Towne for Without Limits , a movie that told the story of Prefontaine and Bowerman. [50] In addition, he was also an actor in Personal Best , a movie with track and field as one of the central themes. [51] Bowerman himself wrote several books on the sport of running including High Performance Training for Track and Field [52] which details coaching instruction for high level competition. [53] He also wrote a book with a cardiologist called Jogging, [54] which detailed the medical benefits of jogging, to which many credited its exploding popularity. [13] Bowerman's successor, Bill Dellinger, also authored a number of books regarding running, including Competitive Runner's Training Book, [55] The Running Experience [56] and Winning Running. [57]

Galen Rupp, coached by Alberto Salazar, celebrating his 2012 Olympic silver medal in the 10k. Galen Rupp Celebrates 2012 Olympics (cropped).jpg
Galen Rupp, coached by Alberto Salazar, celebrating his 2012 Olympic silver medal in the 10k.

The program's coaching extended beyond just within the program itself. Bowerman had his athletes mentor the community and continued to be active in the sport after his retirement. [5] He was also a coach for the US Olympic team in 1972 and an assistant coach in 1968 US Olympic Team. Bill Dellinger coached the distance runners in the 1984 Olympic Games. [30] After Dellinger retired from the University of Oregon, he continued to coach running on a consulting basis despite suffering through a stroke. [58] Tom Heinonen remained a running coach after his retirement at the volunteer level for the University of Oregon Running Club. [35] [59] Matt Centrowitz, another University of Oregon alumnus and father of Matthew, took the American University track and field program to prominence since the rebirth of the program in 1999. [60] Alumnus Alberto Salazar became a noted marathon coach after his running days under the employ of Nike. Salazar used controversial coaching tactics like tweaking runners' natural running form, but had coached many athletes to the apex of their careers. He launched an experimental training program called the Nike Oregon Project financed by Nike with the purpose of integrating African runners' training conditions into American training mixed with modern technology. He also discovered similarities in running posture between sprinters and top level distance runners, two disciplines previously thought to be exceedingly different. Instilling some of these methods into American runners, he was able to coach Kara Goucher to a third-place finish in the Boston Marathon in 2009, an event that East Africans typically dominate. [61] [62] Mo Farah and alumnus Galen Rupp were training partners under Salazar and finished first and second respectively in the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 10k. Rupp was the first American to medal in the 10k since Billy Mills in 1964 and the first medalist not born in Africa since 1988. [63] Also running for Salazar and the Oregon Project, alumnus Matthew Centrowitz Jr. won a gold medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first American to win gold in the 1,500m since Mel Sheppard in 1908, ending a 108-year drought. [64] Similar to his collegiate coaches, Salazar wrote a pair of books about distance running. [65] Alberto Salazar was handed a lifetime ban from the sport in July 2021 over allegations of sexual and physical abuse, which Salazar denies. There was no criminal trial over these allegations, nor was he criminally charged. [66]

Venues

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Kincaid Field

The early teams ran at Kincaid Field, constructed in 1902 as an athletic field. [67] In 1919, Hayward Field was constructed for football events and two years later, a track was installed around the field as the track and field team moved in. [11] Kincaid field was torn down in 1922. [67]

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Hayward Field

Autzen Stadium was opened in 1967 and the football team moved out of Hayward Field. [68] At that point, Hayward Field became exclusively a track and field stadium. The venue had undergone significant upgrades since then including the Bowerman Building in 1992, the Powell Plaza in 2005, an indoor facilities upgrade in 2006, and new equipment in 2007. [11]

Hayward Field has been host to numerous national track and field events such as the U.S. Olympic Trials, NCAA Championships, and the USA Track and Field Championships. No other venue has hosted more NCAA Championships and no other venue had held three consecutive U.S. Olympic Trials. [11] Many have attested to the magical aura of Hayward field, citing many personal bests run at the venue. Credit often goes to the regular attendance of knowledgeable track and field fans for the phenomenon. [3]

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Renovated Hayward Field

In 2015, Eugene was selected to host the 2021 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field. This was the first time that the prestigious track and field event was held in the United States, since the inception of the biannual event in 1983. [69]

Following the announcement of hosting the World Championships, plans began to renovate Hayward Field to meet the specifications of the IAAF. In a highly controversial decision, Hayward Field was completely redesigned, including knocking down the iconic east grandstand. [70] In spring of 2020, the Hayward Field renovations were complete and several meets took place, including the NCAA Track and Field Championships. [71] Although the new stadium was constructed for the 2021 World Championships, the event was postponed to 2022 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [72]

The new Hayward Field, funded by Phil and Penny Knight along with over 50 other donors, expanded the seating capacity from 10,500 to 12,650, although temporary seating was expandable to almost 25,000. A glass and wood canopy circles the stadium and the seats were designed to be as close to the track as possible. A tower on the northeast corner evokes an Olympic torch, clad with the images of five Oregon track legends Bill Bowerman, Steve Prefontaine, Raevyn Rogers, Ashton Eaton, and Otis Davis. [73]

Rivalries

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1966 dual meet between Oregon and Oregon State

The traditional rival of the Oregon Ducks is the Oregon State Beavers, called the Civil War. This fierce rivalry extended to the track and field programs, where for a period, they met twice a year. [74] However, due to budgetary concerns, Oregon State University dropped the track and field program in 1988 and the rivalry ended. [75] Their women's program was reinstated in 2004, [76] but since they do not have a men's program, the rivalry has not yet been renewed.

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1966 dual meet between Oregon and UCLA

The UCLA Bruins became an Oregon rival in track and field as the two powerhouse programs battled each other in a series of dual meets. [77] [78] Oregon's program was ranked in the top 3 nationally in dual meets by Track & Field News thirteen times between 1970 and 1996 and was ranked No. 1 three times. [79] The UCLA squad achieved a No. 1 ranking from the same publication eleven times within the same time frame. [80] In 1966, the two programs met head to head for the first time. [81] The Bruins displayed their dominance at the dual meet and won nine straight against the Ducks. [82] Oregon head coach Bill Bowerman in 1971 called the Bruins team the best dual meet team in the country. [83] It wasn't until 1978 that Oregon earned its first victory in the series, which ended UCLA's 34 dual meet winning streak. [81] Oregon won the next three meets and the series ended in 1985 with a UCLA win. [82] The dual meet event was fading out of favor in collegiate track and field [84] and the Oregon-UCLA dual meet was discontinued with UCLA holding the advantage over the Ducks 10–4. [77] In 1994, the Pepsi Team Invitational which included Oregon, UCLA and Washington was scored as a dual meet, which UCLA won. [82] In 2008, the dual meet series between the two schools restarted and Oregon won the first three meets. [77] [80] [81] Although the location of the meet had alternated between Eugene and Los Angeles between 1966 and 1976, subsequent meets have been held at Hayward Field in Oregon [80] until 2011 where the two teams battled to a tie at UCLA. [85] The dual meet was discontinued in 2012 due to scheduling difficulties in an Olympic year [86] and had not been renewed since.

Head coaches

Prior to Bill Hayward in 1904, four coaches led the Oregon track and field teams for just one year including Joseph W. Wetherbee (1895), J.C. Higgins (1897), C.A. Redmond (1902), and William Ray (1903). John Warren was the interim head coach in 1948 before Bill Bowerman took over for Bill Hayward. In a similar fashion to the men's team, three head coaches led the women's team on a part-time basis including Lois Youngen (1972), Ron Brinkert (1973–1974), and Rob Ritson (1975–1976) before Tom Heinonen arrived to provide consistency at the helm. The following coaches are a chronology of Oregon track and field head coaches that served for terms greater than two years: [7]

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Head coach Bill Hayward
CoachTermNCAA Team Championships
William O' Trine1896, 1898–19010
Bill Hayward [a] [c] 1904–19470
Bill Bowerman [a] [c] 1949–19724
Bill Dellinger [a] [c] 1973–19985
Tom Heinonen [b] [c] 1977–20033
Martin Smith1998–20050
Vin Lananna [a] [c] 2006–20126
Robert Johnson2012–202214
Jerry Schumacher 2022–present0

Notes:

Notable athletes

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Alberto Salazar

The track and field program over the years has created dozens of NCAA individual champions and hundreds of All Americans. [5] Alumni have gone on to medal in the Olympics, win big city marathons, and win national championships at the professional level.

Some of the most famed players from the program emerged from distance running. Steve Prefontaine held numerous American distance running records and never lost a collegiate distance running match. [17] Alberto Salazar won three consecutive New York Marathons and added a Boston Marathon victory to the list. [61]

Alumni have also had illustrious coaching careers. Bill Bowerman and Bill Dellinger both became Oregon coaches. Alberto Salazar and Terrence Mahon became distance running coaches after their running days. [61] Others have found success related to track and field but not directly in the sport. Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight both co-founded Nike. Tinker Hatfield ran track at Oregon while studying architecture and later became a famous shoe designer for Nike. [88] Rudy Chapa, a distance runner, founded SPARQ, an athletic equipment company. [89]

There have been several members of the track and field team that lettered in other sports, particularly football. Mel Renfro is primarily known for being inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame [90] but he also achieved a world record in the 440 yard relay in 1962 while running in the track and field program for Oregon. [5] Jordan Kent, a former professional football player, was a rare three sport letterman in track, basketball, and football. The 2010 Doak Walker Award winner, LaMichael James, ran track during the football offseason. One of the first multi-sport athletes with the Oregon Ducks was the former head coach Bill Bowerman, who played football and ran track under Bill Hayward in both sports. [5]

Olympians

Since Oregon's first Olympian, Dan Kelly, who finished second place in the broad jump of the 1908 Summer Olympics, at least one athlete from the University of Oregon has participated in each of the Summer Olympics since. This includes the 1980 Summer Olympics which the United States boycotted, when Chris Braithwaite competed for Trinidad, his native country. [91]

Out of the scores of Olympians who attended the University of Oregon, the following have received medals: [5]

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Ralph Hill (right) at the 1932 Olympics
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English Gardner at the Rio Olympics, after her 4x100 victory
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Phyllis Francis at the Rio Olympics, running the 4x400
NameCountryOlympiadEventResultMedal
Dan Kelly Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1908 London Broad jump23–3.25Silver
Martin Hawkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1912 Stockholm High hurdles15.3Bronze
Ralph Hill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1932 Los Angeles 5,000 meters14:30.0Silver
Mack Robinson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1936 Berlin 200 meters21.1Silver
Otis Davis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1960 Rome 400 meters45.07 (WR)Gold
Otis Davis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1960 Rome 4x400 meter relay3:02.37 (WR)Gold
Bill Dellinger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1964 Tokyo 5,000 meters13:49.8Bronze
Harry Jerome Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1964 Tokyo 100 meters10.26Bronze
Mac Wilkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1976 Montreal Discus221-5 (OR-q)Gold
Joaquim Cruz Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1984 Los Angeles 800 meters1:43.00 (OR)Gold
Mac Wilkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1984 Los Angeles Discus217-6Silver
Joaquim Cruz Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1988 Seoul 800 meters1:43.90Silver
Lisa Martin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1988 Seoul Marathon2:25.53Silver
Keshia Baker Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2012 London 4x400 meter relay3:16.99 (semis)Gold
Ashton Eaton Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2012 London Decathlon8,869Gold
Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2012 London 10,000 meters27:30.90Silver
Matthew Centrowitz Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2016 Rio de Janeiro 1,500 meters3:50.00Gold
Ashton Eaton Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2016 Rio de Janeiro Decathlon8,893 (OR-t)Gold
Phyllis Francis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4x400 meter relay3:19.06Gold
English Gardner Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4x100 meter relay41.01Gold
Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2016 Rio de Janeiro Marathon2:10.05Bronze
Brianne Theisen-Eaton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2016 Rio de Janeiro Heptathlon6,653Bronze
English Gardner Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2020 Tokyo 4x100 meter relay41.90 (semis)Silver
Jenna Prandini Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2020 Tokyo 4x100 meter relay41.45Silver
Raevyn Rogers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2020 Tokyo 800 meters1:56.81Bronze
Cole Hocker Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2024 Paris 1,500 meters3:27.65 (OR)Gold
Jessica Hull Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2024 Paris 1,500 meters3:52.56Silver

World Athletics Championships athletes

In the inaugural World Athletics Championships in 1983, Joaquim Cruz won a bronze medal in the 800 meters. Aside from a relay medal by Camara Jones in 1995, there have been no Ducks that medaled until 2011, after which a plurality of Ducks medaled in each subsequent meet. In 2022, the World Athletics Championship, delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was hosted at Hayward Field, the first time the meet was held on American soil. The Oregon track and field team members and alumni sent 15 athletes to the meet, but only two athletes, Jenna Prandini and Kemba Nelson, received medals, both in the Women's 4x100m event, [92] although Devon Allen, one of the favorites to medal was disqualified in the 110-meter hurdles in a highly controversial incident where he started 0.099 seconds after the gun, just shy of the allowable 0.1 seconds of the reaction time. [93]

The following are World Athletics Championships participants from the Oregon track and field team that have earned medals:

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Matthew Centrowitz, 2011 in Daegu
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Ashton Eaton, 2011 in Daegu
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Kemba Nelson, 2022 in Eugene, running the first leg of the 4x100 final
NameCountryYearEventResultMedal
Joaquim Cruz Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1983 Helsinki 800 meters1:44.27Bronze
Camara Jones Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 1995 Gothenburg 4x400 meter relay3:22.29Gold
Keshia Baker Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2011 Daegu 4x400 meter relay(semis)Gold
Michael Berry Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2011 Daegu 4x400 meter relay(semis)Gold
Matthew Centrowitz Jr. Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2011 Daegu 1,500m3:36.08Bronze
Ashton Eaton Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2011 Daegu Decathlon8505Silver
Matthew Centrowitz Jr. Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2013 Moscow 1,500 meters3:36.78Silver
Ashton Eaton Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2013 Moscow Decathlon8809Gold
English Gardner Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2013 Moscow 4x100 meter relay42.75Silver
Brianne Theisen-Eaton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2013 Moscow Heptathlon6530Silver
Ashton Eaton Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2015 Beijing Decathlon9045 (WR)Gold
Phyllis Francis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2015 Beijing 4x400 meter relay(semis)Silver
English Gardner Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2015 Beijing 4x100 meter relay41.68Silver
Jenna Prandini Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2015 Beijing 4x100 meter relay41.68Silver
Brianne Theisen-Eaton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2015 Beijing Heptathlon6554Silver
Phyllis Francis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2017 London 400 meters49.92Gold
Phyllis Francis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2017 London 4x400 meter relay3:19.02Gold
Ariana Washington Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2017 London 4x100 meter relay(semis)Gold
Phyllis Francis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2019 Doha 4x400 meter relay3:18.92Gold
Cravon Gillespie Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2019 Doha 4x100 meter relay(semis)Gold
Raevyn Rogers Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2019 Doha 800 meters1:58.18Silver
Kemba Nelson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2022 Eugene 4x100 meter relay41.18Silver
Jenna Prandini Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 2022 Eugene 4x100 meter relay41.14Gold

World record and world best holders

The following athletes from Oregon have achieved world records: [5]

Ashton Eaton in Istanbul where he broke his own Heptathlon world record. Ashton Eaton Istanbul 2012.jpg
Ashton Eaton in Istanbul where he broke his own Heptathlon world record.
Otis Davis running the 4x400m in the Olympics in Rome. Otis Davis 1960b.jpg
Otis Davis running the 4x400m in the Olympics in Rome.
NameYearEventRecord
Dan Kelly 1906100 yards9.6
Dan Kelly 1906220 yards21.1
Ed Moeller 1929Discus160–7.7
George Varoff 1936Pole vault14–6.5
Les Steers 1941High jump6–11
Bill Dellinger 19592-mile (indoor)8:49.9
Bill Dellinger 19593-mile (indoor)13:37.0
Roscoe Cook 1959100 yards9.3
Roscoe Cook 195960 yards (indoor)6.0
Harry Jerome 1960100m10.0
Otis Davis 1960400m44.9
Otis Davis 19604x400 meter relay3:02.37
Roscoe Cook 196160 yards (indoor)6.0
Harry Jerome 1961100 yards9.3
Harry Jerome 1962100 yards9.2
Jerry Tarr, Mike Gaechter, Mel Renfro, Harry Jerome 19624x440 yard relay40.0
Archie San Romani Jr, Vic Reeve, Keith Forman, Dyrol Burleson 19624 x mile relay16:08.9
Neal Steinhauer 1967Shot put (indoor)67–10
Roscoe Divine, Wade Bell, Arne Kvalheim, Dave Wilborn 19684 x mile relay16:05.0
Mac Wilkins 1976Discus232–6
Brian Crouser 1986Javelin262–0
Ashton Eaton 2010Heptathlon (indoor)6,499
Ashton Eaton 2011Heptathlon (indoor)6,568 [94]
Ashton Eaton 2012Heptathlon (indoor)6,645 [95]
Ashton Eaton 2012Decathlon9,039
Ashton Eaton 2015Decathlon9,045
Matthew Centrowitz Jr., Mike Berry 2015Indoor Distance Medley Relay9:19.93 [a] [96]
Raevyn Rogers 20184×800 meter relay (indoor)8:05.89 [97]
Edward Cheserek 20195000m (road)13:29† [b] [98]
Cole Hocker, Luis Peralta, Charlie Hunter, Cooper Teare 2021Indoor Distance Medley Relay9:19.42 [a] [99]
Raevyn Rogers 2022Indoor Distance Medley Relay10:39.91 [100]
Jessica Hull 20242000m5:19.70 [101]

† Indicates tie
[a] World best, but not an official world record since the IAAF did not keep a record of this event at the time the event occurred
[b] Although an official world record, faster times were recorded outside of the period the IAAF logged world records in this event

Bowerman Award winners

Galen Rupp Berlin 2009.JPG
Galen Rupp
Ashton Eaton LJ Sopot 2014.jpg
Ashton Eaton
Dr. Sander 2019 (46162066194).jpg
Laura Rosler
Jenna Prandini US.jpg
Jenna Prandini
Raevyn Rogers 2018 USATF Indoor Champs.jpg
Raevyn Rogers

The Bowerman Award is the highest collegiate track and field honor annually bestowed on the best collegiate track and field athlete for each of the men's and women's. The award is named after the University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman and designed by Oregon track athlete Tinker Hatfield, who ran under coach Bowerman. [102] The first year of the award was 2009, when Oregon distance runner Galen Rupp won the inaugural award on the men's side. [103]

Male
NameYear
Galen Rupp 2009
Ashton Eaton 2010
Female
NameYear
Laura Roesler 2014
Jenna Prandini 2015
Raevyn Rogers 2017

Other athletes

Edward Cheserek Edward Cheserek running the indoor mile at the 2018 BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational.jpg
Edward Cheserek
Tinker Hatfield Tinker Hatfield.jpg
Tinker Hatfield
NameDegree(s)Year(s)NotabilityReference
Bill Bowerman B.S.
M.Ed.		1934
1953		Co-founder of Nike, former track and field head coach for the Oregon Ducks, namesake of collegiate track & field award The Bowerman [104] [105]
Edward Cheserek B.A.2017Won 17 NCAA titles, most of any male Division I athlete [106]
Matt Centrowitz 1986Four-time USA Champion in the 5000m, head coach of the restarted track program at American University [107]
Rudy Chapa B.A.1981Founder and CEO of SPARQ [108]
Bill Dellinger B.S.
M.Ed.		1956
1962		Former track and field head coach for the Oregon Ducks [5]
Tinker Hatfield B.Arch.1976Shoe designer for Nike, designer of The Bowerman trophy [109] [110]
Phil Knight B.B.A1959Co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Nike, Inc. [111]
Kenny Moore B.A.
M.F.A.		1966
1972		Long-distance runner, journalist and author [112]
Alexi Pappas MA2012Filmmaker, actress, and writer [113]
Steve Prefontaine B.S.1974Record-setting long-distance runner [5]
Alberto Salazar B.A.1981Marathon runner and coach [61]

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