BOSTON -- The second stop in the USATF Indoor Championship Series brings competition to The Reggie Lewis Center on the campus of Roxbury Community College, Saturday, Feb. 7 for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix.
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Matt Centrowitz (Eugene, Oregon),
Casimir Loxsom (New Haven, Connecticut) and
Erik Sowinski (Iowa City, Iowa) should present a competitive field for the men’s 1,000 meters. At last week’s Armory Track Invitational, Centrowitz and Sowinski helped the men’s distance medley relay set a world record of 9:19.93, and Loxsom’s 600m time of 1:15:58 recently broke Sowinski’s previous record by .03 seconds.
Headliners in women’s distance events are 2014 Diamond League Champion
Jenny Simpson (Boulder, Colorado) in the New Balance Women’s Two Mile along with teammate
Emma Coburn (Crested Butte, Colorado) in the 2,000m. Young phenom
Mary Cain (Portland, Oregon) takes on teammate
Treniere Moser (Portland, Oregon) in the women’s 1,000m after Moser was the 800m runner-up at last week’s ATI, where she finished in 2:01.79.
In the men’s 60m,
Ryan Bailey (Salem, Oregon) and
Mike Rogers (Round Rock, Texas) will face Jamaican Asafa Powell, while
Will Leer (Los Angeles, California) and Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Arizona) will go toe-to-toe in the men’s 3,000m.
Women’s pole vault presents another meeting of 2014 USATF Indoor Champion
Mary Saxer (Boston, Massachusetts) against Olympic gold medalist
Jenn Suhr (Churchville, New York).
In men’s shot put, USATF 2014 Indoor Champion and two-time IAAF World Champion
Ryan Whiting (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) faces four-time IAAF World Champion and 2008 Olympic silver medalist
Christian Cantwell (Columbia, Missouri).