• Home
  • Staff
  • Privacy Policy
  • News Tips/Press Releases
  • Advertising
Saturday, July 2, 2022
No Result
View All Result
The Times-Delphic
  • News
    • All
    • Administrative News
    • Campus Events
    • Campus Health
    • Caucus Roundup
    • In Des Moines
    • Politics
    • Student Politics
    • Student Senate
    • The Ones

    Drake University Adds Five New Electric Vans

    Indira Sheumaker, city councilmembers find common ground among conflicts

    Drake urges community to remain cautious as reporting of new COVID-19 cases slows

    Drake urges community to remain cautious as reporting of new COVID-19 cases slows

    Drake to build University Center

    Student Senate passes resolution in support of the transgender community

    • Administrative News
    • The Ones
    • Campus Events
    • Campus Health
    • Caucus Roundup
    • In Des Moines
    • Politics
    • Student Politics
    • Student Senate
    • Senate Elections
  • Sports
    • All
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Column
    • Cross-Country
    • E-Sports
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Soccer
    • Softball
    • Tennis
    • Track and Field
    • Volleyball

    Promising 2022 NFL Draft for Packers fans

    The two national parks you should visit this summer

    Des Moines lands news USL team and stadium district

    Former Drake Basketball Player Wins National Championship

    The Top Moves of NFL Free Agency

    • Basketball
    • Column
    • Cross-Country
    • E-Sports
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Soccer
    • Softball
  • Commentary
    • All
    • Horoscope
    • Letter from the Editor
    • Letter to the Editor

    Hip astrology: Relays horoscope

    Painted Street ain’t so sweet when costs are heaped

    Commentary: Top 5 Self Care Tips

    Commentary: Top 5 Self Care Tips

    Commentary: How to meet your next partner in 2022

    Commentary: “Oh… We’re Not Dating…”

    • Horoscope
    • Letter from the Editor
  • Features
    • All
    • Greek Life
    Drake welcomes first Black woman Student Body President

    Student Body President Morgan Coleman shares experiences as a leader

    Painted Street recap

    Bam Bam wins Drake University’s 43rd annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest

    New Casey’s Location on Forest Avenue

    ADA student task force advocates for disability inclusion

    • Greek Life
  • Podcasts
    Drake Weekly Sports Podcast | December 3

    Drake Weekly Sports Podcast | December 3

    Drake Public Safety and the student body

    Drake Public Safety and the student body

    Humans of Drake Podcast

    Bulldog Blitz 1: December 7, 2010

    The Sports Report 2010 7: 11/09/2010

  • Relays Edition

    Bill that would make Iowa a hands-free driving state stalls in the legislature

    New Casey’s Location on Forest Avenue

    ADA student task force advocates for disability inclusion

    Des Moines lands news USL team and stadium district

    The Great Resignation: What Is It? And Why Is It Happening?

    The Great Resignation: What Is It? And Why Is It Happening?

    Hip astrology: Relays horoscope

    State of Sustainability at Drake

    Dean Kathleen Richardson: Leaving a Legacy for the Drake SJMC

    Painted Street ain’t so sweet when costs are heaped

    • Commentary
    • Coronavirus
    • Elections
    • Features
    • In Des Moines
    • News
    • This week in photos
    • Top News
    • Top Stories
    • Uncategorized
    • Video
    • Sports
    • Security Reports
    • Relays Edition
    • Poll
    • Podcasts
    • Online Exclusives
    • Opinion
  • News
    • All
    • Administrative News
    • Campus Events
    • Campus Health
    • Caucus Roundup
    • In Des Moines
    • Politics
    • Student Politics
    • Student Senate
    • The Ones

    Drake University Adds Five New Electric Vans

    Indira Sheumaker, city councilmembers find common ground among conflicts

    Drake urges community to remain cautious as reporting of new COVID-19 cases slows

    Drake urges community to remain cautious as reporting of new COVID-19 cases slows

    Drake to build University Center

    Student Senate passes resolution in support of the transgender community

    • Administrative News
    • The Ones
    • Campus Events
    • Campus Health
    • Caucus Roundup
    • In Des Moines
    • Politics
    • Student Politics
    • Student Senate
    • Senate Elections
  • Sports
    • All
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Column
    • Cross-Country
    • E-Sports
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Soccer
    • Softball
    • Tennis
    • Track and Field
    • Volleyball

    Promising 2022 NFL Draft for Packers fans

    The two national parks you should visit this summer

    Des Moines lands news USL team and stadium district

    Former Drake Basketball Player Wins National Championship

    The Top Moves of NFL Free Agency

    • Basketball
    • Column
    • Cross-Country
    • E-Sports
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Soccer
    • Softball
  • Commentary
    • All
    • Horoscope
    • Letter from the Editor
    • Letter to the Editor

    Hip astrology: Relays horoscope

    Painted Street ain’t so sweet when costs are heaped

    Commentary: Top 5 Self Care Tips

    Commentary: Top 5 Self Care Tips

    Commentary: How to meet your next partner in 2022

    Commentary: “Oh… We’re Not Dating…”

    • Horoscope
    • Letter from the Editor
  • Features
    • All
    • Greek Life
    Drake welcomes first Black woman Student Body President

    Student Body President Morgan Coleman shares experiences as a leader

    Painted Street recap

    Bam Bam wins Drake University’s 43rd annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest

    New Casey’s Location on Forest Avenue

    ADA student task force advocates for disability inclusion

    • Greek Life
  • Podcasts
    Drake Weekly Sports Podcast | December 3

    Drake Weekly Sports Podcast | December 3

    Drake Public Safety and the student body

    Drake Public Safety and the student body

    Humans of Drake Podcast

    Bulldog Blitz 1: December 7, 2010

    The Sports Report 2010 7: 11/09/2010

  • Relays Edition

    Bill that would make Iowa a hands-free driving state stalls in the legislature

    New Casey’s Location on Forest Avenue

    ADA student task force advocates for disability inclusion

    Des Moines lands news USL team and stadium district

    The Great Resignation: What Is It? And Why Is It Happening?

    The Great Resignation: What Is It? And Why Is It Happening?

    Hip astrology: Relays horoscope

    State of Sustainability at Drake

    Dean Kathleen Richardson: Leaving a Legacy for the Drake SJMC

    Painted Street ain’t so sweet when costs are heaped

    • Commentary
    • Coronavirus
    • Elections
    • Features
    • In Des Moines
    • News
    • This week in photos
    • Top News
    • Top Stories
    • Uncategorized
    • Video
    • Sports
    • Security Reports
    • Relays Edition
    • Poll
    • Podcasts
    • Online Exclusives
    • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
The Times-Delphic
No Result
View All Result
Home Online Exclusives

Flurry of announcements made about 2016 Drake Relays

byADAM ROGAN
April 23, 2016
in Online Exclusives, Relays Edition, Sports
0 0
0

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE BY ADAM ROGAN

Drake Relays Director Brian Brown addressed the media today in the Paul Morrison Room in the Bell Center, making four major announcements.

Drake Relays Director Brian Brown announced updates about the Relays in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. PHOTO BY ADAM ROGAN | SPORTS EDITOR
Drake Relays Director Brian Brown announced updates about the Relays in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. PHOTO BY ADAM ROGAN | SPORTS EDITOR

Hy-Vee partnership lengthened

Hy-Vee has been the flagship sponsor of The Drake Relays since 2012 and, after seeing the event’s continued success over the past three years, has agreed to extend its support through 2021, a five-year extension of the current arrangement.

“We’re proud to lock arms with Hy-Vee and head down this road for another five years,” Brown said. “They come aboard as a partner, not as a sponsor.”

Brown stressed that Drake University and Hy-Vee are both community-based organizations and strive to have The Drake Relays reflect that as an event that brings in students, alumni and the Des Moines community.

 

Women’s high jump added

Until today, an event that had been missing from The Drake Relays schedule was the women’s high jump. Three athletes have already been confirmed for the new event.

18-year-old Vashti Cunningham will be jumping in her first major event since the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 12, where she won gold with a height of 1.96-meters, the youngest woman to win the event in history. She officially turned pro less than two weeks later by signing a deal with Nike.

Brown, a former high jumper himself, had attended the Championships in Portland, Oregon, saw Cunningham jump and was impressed by her talent, especially at such a young age. Cunningham’s father, retired NFL all-pro Randall Cunningham, sought Brown out hoping of getting his daughter to jump at The Drake Relays.

Brown said that if Vashti Cunningham were willing to compete, he’d make it happen.

“It’s not an exhibit,” Brown said of The Drake Relays. “It’s a competition.”

A veteran field featuring two American Olympians will challenge the teenager.

Chaunté Lowe has been to the Olympics three times and is the current American record holder in the high jump, both in indoor (2.02 meters) and outdoor (2.05 meters). Lowe is also the record holder at The Drake Relays, which she set in 2012 with a jump of 1.98 meters, the same year she won the World Indoor Championships.

Amy Acuff will be “a blast from the past,” as Brown called her. The 40-year-old Acuff has competed in every Olympics since 1996 and is pursuing her sixth invite to the Olympics. A quality performance in Des Moines this week could make or break her chances of heading to Rio.

The competition will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30.

First-ever world-class coed shuttle hurdle relay

In a new event to both the Drake Relays and the world stage, Brown announced a coed shuttle hurdle relay race, featuring some of the world’s top hurdlers.

There will be four different teams, composed of two men and two women members each, competing in two heats.

The women on team one are Jasmin Stowers, a Relays record holder and defending champion in the 100-meter hurdles, and Jackie Coward. They will team up with Aries Merritt, the current world record holder and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 110-meter hurdles, and Hansle Parchment, who finished two spots behind Merritt in 2012.

Team two features two-time Olympian Dawn Harper-Nelson, 2008 Olympian Queen Harrison, Andrew Riley and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the 110-meter hurdles David Oliver.

Team three is made up of 2016 American indoor 60-meter hurdles champ Nia Ali, Kristi Castlin, Ronnie Ash and Spencer Adams. They will be running against 2013 World champ in the 100-meter hurdles Brianna Rollins. Rollins is teamed up with Kendra Harrison, Aleec Harrison and Omar McLeod.

According to Brown, this will be the first event of its kind with this level of talent.

“And why not here, in America’s Athletic Classic?” Brown posed.

Lolo drops out of Relays

Hometown favorite Lolo Jones, a Des Moines native and two-time Olympian, will no longer be hurdling in the 2016 Drake Relays. This is the second time that Jones has withdrawn from The Drake Relays from injury.

She recently sustained a minor injury to her hamstring and doesn’t want to run without being 100 percent, according to Brown.

“It’s difficult for her to come when she’s not at her best,” Brown said.

The women’s 100-meter hurdles will still feature a world-class field with Jones, Stowers and Rollins, even if Jones’ lane will be empty for the second straight year.

Tags: Aleec HarrisonAmy AcuffAndrew RileyAries MerrittBrianna RollinsChampionshipsChaunte LowecoedContractDavid OliverDawn Harper-NelsonDes MoinesDrake RelaysDrake Universityfirst-everHansle ParchmentHurdlesHy-VeeIndoorIndorrJackie CowardJasmin StowersKendra HarrisonKristi CastlinLolo JonesnewNFLNia AliOlympianOlympicsOmar McLeodQueen HarrisonRandall CunninghamRonnie AshSpencer AdamsVashti CunninghamWorld

ADAM ROGAN

Next Post

Photos: Street Painting 2016

Twitter Feeds

The Times-Delphic
The Times-Delphic @timesdelphic

The Times-Delphic is still hiring for the positions of Student Senate Beat Writer, Business and Finance Manager and Distributor for the 2022-23 school year! Apply online or reach out to grace.altenhofen @drake.edu for more information. https://t.co/U9VY5TtOZt
View on Twitter
timesdelphic photo
0
1
The Times-Delphic
The Times-Delphic @timesdelphic

BREAKING: Drake President Marty Martin announced in a campuswide email that Drake's number of active cases is projected to decline to 80 by the end of the day, down 241 since early Friday afternoon.
View on Twitter
2
10

Recommended

Students participate in IBM’s Battle of the Brains

12 years ago

Professor focuses on service-learning

10 years ago

Popular News

  • Twitch Streamer Raises Money for LGBT Community

    Twitch Streamer Raises Money for LGBT Community

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Gladwell’s “Outliers” reveals the many factors of success

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Drake ranks among Ivy Leagues on Economist list

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • The history of Indian boarding schools in Iowa

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Music as a political platform

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Drake Weekly Sports Podcast | December 3

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Humans of Drake Podcast

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • The Sports Report 2010 7: 11/09/2010

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Familiar face helps bring massive skatepark to Des Moines

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • The rise and fall of Motown Records

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Connect with us

  • About
  • Home
  • Podcasts
  • Privacy Policy
  • Virtual Edition
  • Advertising

Copyright 2015 Fuel Themes. All RIGHTS RESERVED.

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Administrative News
    • The Ones
    • Campus Events
    • Campus Health
    • Caucus Roundup
    • In Des Moines
    • Politics
    • Student Politics
    • Student Senate
    • Senate Elections
  • Sports
    • Basketball
    • Column
    • Cross-Country
    • E-Sports
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Soccer
    • Softball
  • Commentary
    • Horoscope
    • Letter from the Editor
  • Features
    • Greek Life
  • Podcasts
  • Relays Edition
    • Commentary
    • Coronavirus
    • Elections
    • Features
    • In Des Moines
    • News
    • This week in photos
    • Top News
    • Top Stories
    • Uncategorized
    • Video
    • Sports
    • Security Reports
    • Relays Edition
    • Poll
    • Podcasts
    • Online Exclusives
    • Opinion

Copyright 2015 Fuel Themes. All RIGHTS RESERVED.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

Bodybuilder is fighting for his life after taking dirty steroids femara uk trump's "operation warp speed" for mass vaxxing. "big bucks for big pharma" - global research