Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA football: Zips lift quarterback prospect Chandler Kincade from Pitt’s backyard
- George M. Thomas: Finals ratings go up with stakes
- George Thomas: Magic Johnson prescribe’s Heat’s cure
- UA notebook: Keith Dambrot has Zips working for future
- On the record — Three former KSU golfers in U.S. Open
- Zips teams showing academic progress
- Q&A with Quincy Diggs, who returns to Zips basketball after suspension
- Former Zips point guard Abreu pleads guilty in drug case
- UA football: Defensive lineman gains sixth year of eligibility, set to transfer to UA from Florida State
- Reports: Zips football grab FSU defensive tackle
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Athletes among nation's best
Track
Here's some updates on Akron runners and jumpers and how they stack up against the rest of the country.
- Junior John Russell leads the nation (college and professional ranks) in the pole vault with his Superman-ian 18-foot-1 jump. This weekend, however, he is matched up against Brad Gebauer from Michigan State at the Kangaroo Invitational. Gebauer is the ninth best vaulter in the nation.
- Natalie Sako is tied for second in the nation in the high jump at 5-feet 11.5-inches. She is a MAC champion and All-American.
- Sophomore Brittany Hocker, the fastest person on campus not named Cedrick Middleton, is tenth nationally with her 400-meter time of 54.39.
The Kangaroo Invitational is Friday at 7 in the Field House. Want to know what a track event is like? Read my previous post about it.
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