Jarret Eaton is the 60m Hurdle indoor national champion. He hopes to parley that success to an outdoor national title next week. (ESPN Images)
Well, at least five of them are.
I’ll admit to being a little bit more than a casual track and field fan. I’m not one of those track junkies who follows every major meet. I threw discus with some success in high school. My senior year I actually competed against one Adam Terry in the 2000 NYSPHAA Track and Field Championship held in Liverpool. Hell, I even had plans to try to walk on at Syracuse until a back injury cut short my throwing days.
I say all this not to impress anyone (though I know you’re in awe), but only to make it clear that I’m not just fishing for news on a slow day. Basketball may have been my love when I was young, but discus was what I was good at. Because of that, I’m the guy who will sit through the whole 5,000m race or watch hour upon hour of Olympic coverage for the chance to glimpse the 10 seconds of discus coverage they show during every Olympic games. In short, I care about track, and so should you, especially since Syracuse has a shot to take home some hardware.
The big story, of course, is Jarret Eaton. Eaton won the national indoor championship in the 60m hurdles, and just came away with the Big East title in the 110m event after running a school-record time of 13.44. To be clear, that’s 110m in under 14 seconds, while leaping over four-foot high barriers. Eaton has the fifth fastest time in the nation this year and has a real shot to add another national title to his resume. Continue reading
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