2006 Meet Results
North Carolina women and LSU men won the team
championships, both in very close competitions. UNC, coached by
Dennis Craddock, defeating defending champion LSU by a point and
a half, 73.5-72.
The LSU men, coached by Dennis Shaver, won the
concluding mile relay to come from behind on the last event and
defeat Texas and Arkansas by just a few points, and only after
those 2 teams had scratched their relay teams. Next, that Laura
Gerraughty, coming back from career-threatening treatment on her
injured wrist, won the women's shot put on Friday with 60-7 1/4,
setting a meet record, an Armory record, and it was the longest
put in the country this season. She was named women's
Outstanding Competitor.
The men's winner was Aries Merritt of Tennessee,
who the 60-meter hurdles in a meet-record 7.62 seconds and also
placed in the 200 for the Volunteers. His hurdles victory was in
the final at Madison Square Garden, held as part of the Millrose
Games, which for the second year in a row was conducted in
partnership with the New Balance meet.
In the high school events, DeMatha Catholic of
Maryland won the boy's 4x4 and set a meet record as well as a
new unofficial national Catholic high school record, while the
Suffern (N.Y.) girls won the 4x8 with the 3rd-fastest time in US
history. Walter Henning of St. Anthony's (L.I., N.Y.) won the
inaugural boys' weight throw in the Armory's new cage with a
throw of 80-7, setting a Cage record, just 2 feet short of the
national record.
In Open competition, Nicole Blood of Saratoga
Springs, N.Y., took the U.S. high school lead in the girls' mile
run, while in the women's 800, 40-year-old Alisa Harvey of
Virginia set a U.S. masters record. New Jersey’s Craig Forys
(Colts Neck, NJ), a junior in HS, ran 4:09.77 in the open mile,
which is believed to be the 3rd best time ever for a
HS junior.
