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2014, Women's Indoor Track & Field Team
Women's Indoor Track & Field Team 2014
- Induction:
- 2025
Oregon’s path to a fifth straight NCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championship was nothing like the previous four. Phyllis Francis set an American indoor in the 400 meters. Then she anchored the 4x400 meter relay team that beat Texas by .02 – two-hundredths of a second – to give the Ducks the national title by half-a-point over the Longhorns. Oregon joined LSU (1993-97) as the only schools to ever win five NCAA Women’s Indoor Championships in a row. Francis’ extraordinary day began in the 400 meters, where she set school, NCAA, and American records by winning in 50.46. It was the first women’s 400-meter national championship in program history. She then came back at the end of the meet to anchor the Ducks’ 4x400 meter relay team. Chizoba Okodogbe, Laura Roesler, and Christian Brennan ran in second behind Texas on the first three legs of the race. Just 90 minutes after her 400 win, Francis took the baton from Brennan for a winner-takes-all sprint with Texas’ Ashley Spencer, the 2013 World Championships silver medalist. Francis pulled even with Spencer going into the final turn, surged down the final home stretch, and then leaned at the tape for the win in 3:27.40, just .02 better than the Longhorns’ 3:27.42. Roesler won her first individual national title by taking the 800 meters in 2:03.85. Jasmine Todd was the Ducks’ unsung hero by earning six points in the 60 meters (third) and three more in the long jump (sixth). Oregon also got two points for Jenna Prandini’s seventh-place finish in the 60 meters and three points from a sixth-place finish in the distance medley relay (Annie Leblanc, Okodogbe, Samantha Murphy, and Megan Patrignelli). Eleven Ducks earned All-America honors.
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