In a message dated Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:19:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, Geoff Thurner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > i'm adding a line to the record section (world/american/collegiate/hayward > field/school) of the oregon track and field media guide and was wondering > if there was an official men's outdoor collegiate 3,000 record>> To wax Clintonian, first you have to define "official." A few years back, the NCAA quit recognizing Collegiate Records (they just do Meet Records), so I would suppose that any set of collegiate-records is therefore unofficial. By T&FN standards, you can only set CRs through the NCAA, at which point we say the collegiate season is over. (You wouldn't say that Michael Jordan set an NCAA single-game scoring record of 125 points if he did it in July during a North Carolina tour of Europe.) If you go to the T&FN website you'll find Chapa 7:37.70 as the "CR" with an appended section for "marks made outside the collegiate season" which indicates the existence of the Rono 7:32.1. FAST (U.S. stat group) still uses the now-discarded T&FN system of including marks through end of August. gh
