Oklahoma State University Athletics
Men's Track Leaves Big 12 With Honors
June 21, 1999 | Track I
Mar. 3.1998
AMES, Iowa - The Cowboy track and field team finished in last place at the Big 12 track and field championships over the weekend in Ames, Iowa, but the Cowboys did leave with several personal bests, a national qualifying performance and an individual Big 12 championship performance.
Junior middle distance runner, Brian Young provided the day's brightest OSU performance. He got boxed in early but came alive in the end to win the conference 1,000m championship, leaving Zach Davies of Kansas State and Missouri's Dan Dellegrazio behind going into the final 300m. He won by nearly two seconds finishing in 2:24.83 to Davies (2:26.72) and Dellegrazio (2:26.74).
"I felt great, great!" exclaimed Young. "I was not worried when I got boxed in, it did not affect my race."
In addition to Young's performance, Sloan's performance was also a crowd pleaser. The crowd was up and cheering for the second heat of the 3,000m run featuring Colorado distance sensation junior Adam Goucher.
Sloan finished 11.53 seconds behind Goucher who won the race in an automatic national qualifying time of 7:55.57. Sloan's time of 8:07.50 provisionally qualifies him for the NCAA meet and is also his personal best.
"I felt good during this race but felt like I may have run the first mile too fast," said Sloan. "I ran with Goucher during the first 400 and when he took off, I went with him." "I was hurting going into the last lap of the race, I may have put myself into debt early on."
"I ran strong early on and that makes me feel good. I was on pace for an 8:00 automatic national qualifying time."
Goucher also dominated the 5,000m run but all three Cowboys finished in the top 10 spots: junior Nathaniel Lane was seventh (14:33.21), junior Ren
