Pre 5^000 filled with stars
■The traditionally tough Pre
Classic 5,000 meters looks to
be even tougher with several
big-name entries
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
While most of the events at this
year’s Prefontaine Classic will be
highlighted by one or two stars,
the men’s 5,000 meters will be
filled with nothing but stars.
The 2001 Pre Classic 5,000 field
was released Monday, and it looks
to be the most competitive race on
the oval. Ten all-stars lead the 16
man field.
Two-time defending 5,000
champion Luke Kipkosgei will
aim for a new meet and field
record this year. The Kenyan
owns a personal best of 12 min
utes, 56.5 seconds in the 12 1/2
lap event. Kipkosgei set the meet
record at 13:07.3 in 1998.
American record-holder Bob
Kennedy, who finished close to
Kipkosgei in the two previous
5,000s, will
also compete.
Kennedy, who
owns the U.S.
record of
12:58.2, is re
covering from
a car accident
that kept him
out of the 2000
Olympics in
Sydney, Aus
tralia. The
Westerville, Ohio, native has run
16 of the fastest 20 times by an
American.
Two Oregon alumni who com
peted in Sydney last September
will return to Hayward Field. All
American Karl Keska and No. 4
ranked U.S. 5,000-meter runner
KENNEDY
Nick Rogers will both chase the
leaders at the Classic.
Former Pac-10 competitors
Mebrahtom Keflezighi, Abdi Ad
birahman and Brad Hauser will
make return trips to Eugene for
the Pre 5,000. Hauser won the
NCAA 5,000 title for Stanford
last spring. Keflezighi was a Pac
10 Champion at UCLA and now
owns the U.S. record in the
10,000 meters with a time of
27:13. Adbirahman, an Arizona
graduate, ranked second last year
in the 10,000 meters.
Rounding out the elite entrants
is a trio of Kenyans, led by Kip
kosgei’s running mate, fellow
•Kenyan Albert Chepkurui, Abra
ham Chebii and Ban Maiyo.
The Prefontaine Classic will
take place Sunday, May 27, at
Hayward Field. Tickets are on sale
for $11.50 at the Duck Ticket of
fice at 346-4461.
Sports brief
Huskies coach reacts
to Pharms, Stevens cases
SEATTLE—Washington football
coach Rick Neuheisel said Monday
that he will try to do a better job of
teaching his players about the pit
falls of making the wrong decisions.
He reiterated that he was disap
pointed with the Jeremiah Pharms
and Jerramy Stevens cases.
Neuheisel scheduled a closed
door meeting with Huskies’ players
on the campus Monday afternoon.
Stevens was cited Friday for
reckless driving and hit-and-run by
Seattle police. Police said the jun
ior-to-be tight end’s truck ran into
a Seattle retirement home.
Pharms, a starting linebacker on
Washington’s 2001 Rose Bowl team
that went 11-1, was arrested last
week in his hometown of Sacramen
to, Calif., on a charge of first-degree
robbery. He was accused of shooting
and pistol-whipping a man for
$1,500 worth of marijuana near the
Washington campus last year.
Pharms will be arraigned
Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. at the King
County Courthouse, said Dan
Donohoe, spokesman for the coun
ty prosecutor’s office.
“I have long said we’re in the busi
ness of education,” Neuheisel said.
“We’re going to meet today, and we’re
going to talk again to our players
about how to make good decisions.”
Pharms was released Wednes
day on $250,000 bail. He was
picked in the fifth round of the NFL
draft by the Cleveland Browns.
If Stevens is convicted, charges
of reckless driving and leaving the
scene of an accident could bring a
maximum year in jail and $1,000
fine. He was a second-time all-Pac
10 selection as a sophomore.
“Recruiting players with charac
ter is absolutely vital,” Neuheisel
said. “I tell my assistant coaches to
bring me players with character,
not characters.”
The Associated Press
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