TRACK , FIELD: News , Notes, Volume 8, Number 7

Lagat shines in Glasgow Reigning World Outdoor 1,500m and 5,000m champion Bernard Lagat opened his 2008 season with a dominating performance Saturday at the 2008 Norwich Union Five Nations match in Glasgow, Scotland. Lagat sat in third position in the men's 1,500 meters until there were 300 meters remaining in the race. His trademark devastating kick vaulted him into the lead and he held on for a convincing win with his time of 3 minutes 45.89 seconds. Following the race Lagat claimed that he is "absolutely where I am supposed to be right now," and that he intends to compete at both the 1,500m and 5,000m at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. "My thought is always to go out and win an Olympic gold. That is my only aim, my absolute goal for this year," he said. "I am going to take it one step at a time, but I want to qualify in both events from the Trials." In other events in Glasgow, two-time NCAA All-American and 2007 World Outdoor Championships team member David Oliver won the men's 60m hurdles in a season's best time of 7.60 seconds. Reigning World Outdoor men's pole vault champion Brad Walker made one failed attempt at 5.60 meters/18 feet 4.50 inches, before dropping out of the competition with a heel injury. Germany captured the team competition with 51 points, with Team USA finishing as the runner-up with 50 points. Great Britain , Northern Ireland finished third with 49 points and Sweden placed fourth with 42 points. For more information on the 2008 Norwich Union Five Nations match, visit: www.iaaf.org. Sell wins ING Miami Half Marathon 2008 Olympic men's marathon qualifier Brian Sell and four of his Hansons-Brooks Project teammates all broke the existing course record Sunday at the 2008 ING Miami Half-Marathon in Florida. The 2007 USA 25 km champion, Sell won the race easily in 1 hour 3 minutes 46 seconds, easily bettering the previous course record of 1:07:11 by Kenyan Jared Nyamboki set in 2007. Other Hansons-Brooks runners who bettered the previous course record were Mike Morgan (1:05:16), Todd Snyder (1:05:55), Mike Reneau (1:06:02) and Luke Humphrey (1:06:36). "I came here to run the best that I could, but I didn't have high expectations, so I was very happy with the outcome," Sell told the Florida Sun-Sentinel. "This was a great opportunity to get a good hard effort in at the beginning of our segment here and to get used to warm weather because Beijing is going to be very hot." Yolanda Fernandez of Bogota, Columbia, won the women's race in 1:16:01, bettering the previous women's course record of 1:17:44 by Canadian Deirdre Brill in 2004. Price breaks 800m record Prep standout Chanelle Price of Easton (Pa.) High School, broke the Colgate Women's Games High School 800m record over the weekend, finishing the race in 2 minutes 9.3 seconds. Her performance bettered the previous Colgate Women's Games record of 2:09.73 set by Shola Lynch in 1986. Price will look to break her own record at the 34th Annual Colgate Women's Games Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday, February 2. On January 22, 2008, Price was named USA Track , Field' Athlete of the Week after setting a new women's high school indoor 500m record on January 19 at the 2008 New Balance Games held at the New Balance Track , Field Center at the Armory in New York City. Price won the race in 1 minute 10.30 seconds, which bettered the previous national prep record of 1:11.44 set in 2005 by Devon Williams of Towson Catholic (Md.). Earlier this indoor season Price won the 1,000 meters at the Bishop Loughlin Games at The Armory on December 15 in 2:47.85, which is the sixth-best performance all-time and a Pennsylvania state record. The Colgate Women's Games, the nation's largest amateur track and field series, attract more than 11,000 participants each year. Every weekend in January, girls and young women from elementary school through college and beyond compete in sprints, hurdles, distance runs, high jump and the shot put. Athletes compete against peers in one of six divisions: Elementary School A, Elementary School B, Middle School, High School, College and 30+. For more information on the series visit: www.colgategames.com Masters record recap Jearl Miles-Clark, Jeff Hartwig and Alisa Harvey all set masters age-group records over the weekend. Hartwig bettered his own world indoor masters record with his clearance of 5.60 meters/18 feet 4.50 inches on Friday in Dormagen, Germany. Hartwig's performance bettered his previous M40 masters world indoor record clearance of 5.51m/18-1. Two American masters records were set Friday at the Penn State National Invitational in University Park, Pa. Five-time Olympian and two-time Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist Jearl Miles-Clark finished third in Heat 4 of the women's 400 meters, stopping the clocks in 57.09 seconds. Her performance bettered the previous American W40 age-group record of 57.40 by Lesia Batiste in 2003, and fell just short of the listed world record of 56.82 by Holland's Tily Verhoef-Jacobs in 1997. Also at University Park, 1991 Pan Am Games women's 1,500m gold medalist Alisa Harvey, won the 800 meters in 2 minutes 7.08 seconds at age 42. Harvey's performance bettered her own W40 American record time of 2:07.23. McBarnette sets another record Bruce McBarnette continued to rewrite the M50 masters record book Sunday by twice increasing his own American high jump record at the Sportplex Showcase meet at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md. McBarnette previously set records for the high jump at the Sports and Learning Complex on December 16, 2007 and January 13, 2008.McBarnette bettered the record with his clearance of 1.88m/6-2 on his first attempt on Sunday before later clearing 1.92m/6-3.50 on his third and final attempt at that height. During his masters career McBarnette has set numerous records and has won four world masters championships, and 18 USA Masters Championships for his age-group.