Becky Breisch News

Running in the fourth of five heats, Lopes-Schliep blazed to a time of 12.56, just shy of her personal best of 12.51, which she recently set at the DN Galan in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 31.

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships Day 5 Team USA morning quotes Jen Rhines , Women's 5,000 meters I felt really good out there.

Edwardsburg High School graduate Becky Breisch finished third in the women's discus Thursday night at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Stephanie Brown Trafton has her first national championship. The defending Olympic gold medalist in the women's discus won her first national title tonight with a throw of 210 feet, 9 inches at the U.S. Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

On her second throw in cold, windy conditions at College of San Mateo, Brown Trafton of Galt spun her disc 217 feet, 2 inches to defeat three-time Olympian Suzy Powell-Roos of Modesto, who reached 203-0. Brown Trafton's winning mark is a 2009 world and U.S. leader and a personal best by one inch.