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NBC Sports
02-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time standards announced
The 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time standards are 2:16:00 for men (two minutes faster than 2024) and 2:37:00 for women (the same as 2024), USA Track and Field announced. The qualifying window is this Sept. 1 until 60 days before the trials. The trials date and site have not been announced yet, though the event was held in February in 2016, 2020 and 2024. USATF will make a 'Road to Trials' qualification list once the window opens. Runners can also qualify via half marathon times — 1:03:00 (men) and 1:12:00 (women) — starting Jan. 1, 2027. Additionally, athletes can qualify via results, including top-10 finishes at the U.S. Marathon Championships and members of the last three U.S. Olympic marathon teams, provided they are a USATF member in good standing and eligible to represent the United States in international competitions. The specific qualifying times were chosen to aim for fields of about 200 men and 200 women at the 2028 trials, taking into account data from the 2024 trials qualifying period. For the 2024 trials, there were 228 men's qualifiers (219 via marathon times) and 173 women's qualifiers (158 via marathon times). USATF is also returning to 'A' and 'B' standard qualifying times — the 'B' standards are the aforementioned 2:16:00, 2:37:00 and all half marathon times. Everybody who meets the 'B' standard will qualify for trials, but those who meet the faster 'A' standard will receive travel and accommodation funding for trials. The 'A' standard times will be determined at a later date. In a new policy, all qualifying times will be taken from an athlete's chip time rather than the gun time at eligible races. The changes were made after town hall meetings where USATF long distance running committees received feedback from athletes, coaches and agents. Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Savannah to host 2025 USATF National Junior Olympics
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — According to an email from a spokesperson from Visit Savannah, the Hostess City will be the site of the 2025 USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships. 'Savannah, Georgia, in coordination with the Savannah Sports Council, has been selected by the USATF as the host city for the 2025 U.S. Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships. This event will bring in thousands of youth athletes from all 50 states and their families. The city should prepare for a huge influx of visitors during this historic event,' according to the email. The email goes on to say, 'The event will be hosted July 21-27 at Savannah State University.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
23-03-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
Trans athlete Sadie Schreiner alleges ban from Team USA track events amid quiet rule change to gender policy
Transgender track and field runner Sadie Schreiner posted a video on social media last Sunday claiming to have been banned from the US Track and Field (USATF) events at the USATF Maine Association Indoor Championships. The president of USATF Maine said Schreiner competed in the event and no disqualification occurred. Schreiner recorded the video while sitting by a campfire in the woods, somberly suggesting the athlete had likely just competed in Schreiner's last organized track meet in the U.S. "I very likely just ran what will be my last meet in the United States," Schreiner said, later adding, "I will find a way to keep competing, but I doubt that will be in the United States." Schreiner said USATF changed its policy on transgender eligibility from the one used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which allows biological males to compete in the women's category, to the one used by World Athletics, which bans any athlete who has undergone male puberty from competing as a woman. The USATF's official transgender eligibility policy does now reference the World Athletics guidelines on its official webpage. It previously referenced the IOCs policy, as seen in an archive via Wayback Machine. Schreiner alleges to have been told about the change by USATF at 1 a.m. the night before the competition. "They tried to threaten me by saying they now adopted World Athletics transgender policy," Schreiner said in the video, later adding, "USA Track and Field purely did this just to ban me from competing." USATF Maine president Mark Dennett told Fox News Digital that Schreiner competed at the event in Maine and no disqualification occurred. "The athlete did compete and there were no disqualifications in the meet," Dennett said. Fox News Digital has reached out to Schreiner for a response to Dennett's statement. USATF's updated policy and Schreiner's alleged incident at the Maine Association Indoor Championships came weeks after a controversial appearance at the USATF Open Masters Championships on March 1. There, Schreiner competed in the women's 400-meter dash and 200-meter dash, taking first place in both events. Schreiner won the 400-meter dash by default, as the other participants in the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, had no recorded times and are listed as DNS, did not start. In the 200-meter dash, Schreiner defeated 14-year-old runner-up Zwange Edwards, 16-year-old third-place finisher Zariah Hargrove, 15-year-old Leah Walker and 18-year-old Ainsley Rausch. That event also had multiple participants listed as DNS, including 18-year-old Jordan Carr, 46-year-old Amanda Taylor, Vidolova again and 16-year-old Paula Damiens. Schreiner's appearance and subsequent wins at that event prompted criticism on social media. Schreiner even suggested that incident is what prompted the recent change. "USA Track and Field has silently banned trans athletes due to my participation," Shreiner said. There has been an ongoing battle over trans inclusion in women's and girls' sports between the state government and President Donald Trump's administration. On March 17, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it found the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School in violation of Title IX for continuing to enable trans inclusion in girls' sports. In the announcement, the department said Maine had 10 days to correct its policies through a signed agreement or risk referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for appropriate action. The deadline to comply is coming up within the week. Schreiner previously competed for Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) women's track and field team and gained national notoriety for dominating female opponents and frequent social media videos boasting about it as an openly transgender competitor. However, Schreiner was ruled ineligible to compete for RIT after the NCAA revised its gender eligibility policy Feb. 6, one day after Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women's and girls' sports. RIT provided a statement to Fox News Digital confirming this on Feb. 12. "We continue to follow the NCAA participation policy for transgender student-athletes following the Trump administration's executive order. Sadie is not participating in the next meet," the statement said. Later in February, Schreiner posted a video claiming the athlete's running speed became slower after taking medication to increase estrogen. Schreiner spoke of wanting to speak to policymakers at the NCAA to discuss the policy before it went into effect. "They could have seen the results of their previous policy and how it made me equitable, but they didn't," Schreiner said. "And I would still love to have that conversation. I would still love to educate more people if I was properly allowed to." Schreiner has been a controversial figure in women's track and field in the past year, especially after an appearance at the 2024 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships in May. Earlier that month, Schreiner competed at the Liberty League Championship and won both the women's 200- and 400-meter, breaking the 400-meter record in the process. Schreiner would have finished last by more than two seconds in the men's competition. In late January, Schreiner bragged after winning an event against female opponents. "Not the race I was looking for at all this week, my spikes nearly fell off on the turn and with a poor start my time wasn't nearly what I wanted," the runner wrote in an Instagram post. "The good news is that the season just started, and I'm going to leave everything on the track at nationals," Schreiner added with a transgender pride flag emoji. On Jan. 17, Schreiner took first place in the 200- and 400-meter dashes at the Brockport Friday Night Rust Buster, taking top spots over two female seniors. In the 200-meter dash, Schreiner beat RIT teammate Caroline Hill by 1.5 seconds and took first place in the 400-meter dash from Brockport's Marissa Wise by nearly 3.5 seconds. Schreiner's results achieved automatic qualification for the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Championships. On Jan. 24, Schreiner took first place in the 200-meter dash at the RIT Friday Meet, beating out Liberty League junior Lexi Rodriguez of Brockport with an even faster time. On Jan. 30, Schreiner took first place in the 200- and 400-meter dashes against Liberty League opponents. Schreiner also spoke out against states and colleges that were not offering the trans athlete a full scholarship when Schreiner wanted to transfer in December. The athlete blamed laws in 25 states that prohibit trans athletes from competing with girls and women. "Among all the hurdles transfers usually have, there is an extra layer because it is trans, 50% of the country banned me from participating and that meant I couldn't attend any of those colleges even if they reached out to me with a full ride," Schreiner said. "It also became clear that states that did, no matter how adamant the coaches were to have me on their teams, the college administrations would usually stop them from allowing me to participate." 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CNN
20-03-2025
- Sport
- CNN
US track star says she feels ‘defeated' after Trump's move against trans athletes
She's a two-time All American in 200- and 400-meter races. A college athlete used to winning, with a goal of making the 2032 US Olympic team. But 21-year-old Sadie Schreiner says she feels 'defeated.' Not by the sport she loves or the physical rigors of the training but by the shifting rules on transgender athletes that have left her running alone around the track or now not running competitively at all. But she won't stop. 'I don't know what would happen if I don't have track and field, and I'm not going to see that reality,' Schreiner insisted. Schreiner knew when she was young that her physical body didn't match her gender and began transitioning while in high school. She takes 8 pills daily to keep her testosterone levels low enough so they aren't detectable on lab tests. '(The hormone therapy) shrank my ligaments. It's made me shorter. It's made me weaker. It's lessened my muscles. It's redistributing my fat. It's lowered my lung capacity,' Schreiner explained. 'My biology is fundamentally different than a cis man.' Her NCAA 24:12 personal best for the 200 meters puts her in the top tier of her age group but she said she's a wholly different athlete than the high school kid who ran in boys' races. 'I am now 20% slower than I was in 8th grade.' Undetectable levels of testosterone used to be the standard to compete in NCAA competitions. Schreiner says she makes other accommodations too: 'I don't even change in the locker rooms.' But there's nothing more she can do to run in college events – the competitive home of young US athletes – since the NCAA governing body followed President Donald Trump's executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' with a rule change limiting participation in women's sports to those assigned female at birth. She switched to meets organized by USA Track & Field – the national governing body for the sport – which holds competitions across the country for all ages and skill levels. It was the only place Schreiner was allowed to compete, isolated from her teammates and coaches. In some races, she ran around the track alone, with no competition in her age group, which she called 'brutal.' 'I am literally racing against me, instead of racing at these college meets, at the competitive levels I should be.' Schreiner's support base is now largely limited to her parents and boyfriend Ace. Her dad, Jeff Schreiner, said: 'She's in a completely different spot than she was prior to her transition … and (transgender athletes) all just get looped together in the same conversation. At a meet in Maine earlier this month, entrants alongside Schreiner included elementary and high school children and seniors. She ran the indoor track alone, in a different class to the others. Between her two races, Schreiner checked the USATF's rules on transwomen competing. Two nights earlier she'd received an email stating she didn't meet requirements for transgender athletes. Sure enough, the rules posted online had become more restrictive, matching regulations from World Athletics. Essentially, another ban was in effect. 'They silently changed their policy,' she said. 'It means there's likely no more meets in the United States that I could run.' The impact was not lost on Jeff Schreiner either. 'It's sad, you know, you want to be excited about and celebrate your kids. I love to watch Sadie run and thinking that this is potentially her last race in this country, you become melancholy,' he said. USATF didn't respond to an email from CNN requesting clarification on when and why the policy changed. One hour away from where Schreiner got the tough news at her meet, a rally at Maine's capital was taking place. A crowd held up signs that read 'save women's sports' and 'the weakest men compete with girls.' 'I want to see a fair and equal playing field for women,' said high school senior Cassidy Carlisle, who attended the rally with her parents. The three-sport athlete says it was 'defeating' when she competed and lost to a transwoman in a skiing competition. 'I was being beat by someone that has a physical advantage over me,' Cassidy told CNN. Maine was thrust into the spotlight on this issue in February when the state's governor clashed with Trump during a meeting of governors at the White House. Trump called out Democrat Gov. Janet Mills in the crowd, asking if she was going to follow his executive order. 'I'm complying with state and federal laws,' Mills replied. Trump then warned her federal funding would be stripped from her state if she didn't comply, to which Mills shouted, 'we'll see you in court.' That has become a bit of a rallying cry for some in the state with small shops selling T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase. Multiple investigations by federal agencies – the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services – have followed, and in some cases, federal dollars have been denied to the state. Mills declined multiple requests for an interview with CNN. There's opposition to her inside the state house too. 'Honestly, it's embarrassing we're known for this interaction,' said State Representative Laurel Libby. The three-term Republican was censured by her colleagues, 'muzzled' in her words, after posting on her social media page a picture of a trans athlete pole vaulter who won a state championship. 'We've learned that just *ONE* year ago John was competing in the boy's pole vault … that's when he had his 5th place finish,' Libby wrote, 'Tonight, 'Katie' won 1st place in the girls' Maine State Class B Championship.' Opponents called for Libby to remove the post and apologize, requests she rejected. 'I will not apologize for speaking the truth and standing up for Maine girls who deserve the opportunity to compete on a fair, safe and level playing field, and currently don't have the ability to do so,' she said. Schreiner says the question of safety has no relevance in her case, in an individual sport and as a woman who transitioned years ago. 'I don't exist in any capacity that threatens anyone,' she said. 'When I go to these meets, I'm the one that's getting threatened.' She said she gets death threats regularly but would still be ready to be a voice in the conversation to help people understand her experience and point of view. 'I'm tired. I'm scared in a lot of ways,' she added. 'I feel isolated, and it feels like a very independent fight right now.' But she does not want to give up running and she's looking at moving to Australia or New Zealand, which are 'way more inclusive and years ahead of us in policy,' she said. And even though she US organizations won't let her run, she remains steadfast in her goal to compete in the Olympics. 'Eight years from now, I am going to be in the Olympics, just maybe competing for Australia,' Schreiner smiled.
CNN
20-03-2025
- Sport
- CNN
US track star says she feels ‘defeated' after Trump's move against trans athletes
She's a two-time All American in 200- and 400-meter races. A college athlete used to winning, with a goal of making the 2032 US Olympic team. But 21-year-old Sadie Schreiner says she feels 'defeated.' Not by the sport she loves or the physical rigors of the training but by the shifting rules on transgender athletes that have left her running alone around the track or now not running competitively at all. But she won't stop. 'I don't know what would happen if I don't have track and field, and I'm not going to see that reality,' Schreiner insisted. Schreiner knew when she was young that her physical body didn't match her gender and began transitioning while in high school. She takes 8 pills daily to keep her testosterone levels low enough so they aren't detectable on lab tests. '(The hormone therapy) shrank my ligaments. It's made me shorter. It's made me weaker. It's lessened my muscles. It's redistributing my fat. It's lowered my lung capacity,' Schreiner explained. 'My biology is fundamentally different than a cis man.' Her NCAA 24:12 personal best for the 200 meters puts her in the top tier of her age group but she said she's a wholly different athlete than the high school kid who ran in boys' races. 'I am now 20% slower than I was in 8th grade.' Undetectable levels of testosterone used to be the standard to compete in NCAA competitions. Schreiner says she makes other accommodations too: 'I don't even change in the locker rooms.' But there's nothing more she can do to run in college events – the competitive home of young US athletes – since the NCAA governing body followed President Donald Trump's executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' with a rule change limiting participation in women's sports to those assigned female at birth. She switched to meets organized by USA Track & Field – the national governing body for the sport – which holds competitions across the country for all ages and skill levels. It was the only place Schreiner was allowed to compete, isolated from her teammates and coaches. In some races, she ran around the track alone, with no competition in her age group, which she called 'brutal.' 'I am literally racing against me, instead of racing at these college meets, at the competitive levels I should be.' Schreiner's support base is now largely limited to her parents and boyfriend Ace. Her dad, Jeff Schreiner, said: 'She's in a completely different spot than she was prior to her transition … and (transgender athletes) all just get looped together in the same conversation. At a meet in Maine earlier this month, entrants alongside Schreiner included elementary and high school children and seniors. She ran the indoor track alone, in a different class to the others. Between her two races, Schreiner checked the USATF's rules on transwomen competing. Two nights earlier she'd received an email stating she didn't meet requirements for transgender athletes. Sure enough, the rules posted online had become more restrictive, matching regulations from World Athletics. Essentially, another ban was in effect. 'They silently changed their policy,' she said. 'It means there's likely no more meets in the United States that I could run.' The impact was not lost on Jeff Schreiner either. 'It's sad, you know, you want to be excited about and celebrate your kids. I love to watch Sadie run and thinking that this is potentially her last race in this country, you become melancholy,' he said. USATF didn't respond to an email from CNN requesting clarification on when and why the policy changed. One hour away from where Schreiner got the tough news at her meet, a rally at Maine's capital was taking place. A crowd held up signs that read 'save women's sports' and 'the weakest men compete with girls.' 'I want to see a fair and equal playing field for women,' said high school senior Cassidy Carlisle, who attended the rally with her parents. The three-sport athlete says it was 'defeating' when she competed and lost to a transwoman in a skiing competition. 'I was being beat by someone that has a physical advantage over me,' Cassidy told CNN. Maine was thrust into the spotlight on this issue in February when the state's governor clashed with Trump during a meeting of governors at the White House. Trump called out Democrat Gov. Janet Mills in the crowd, asking if she was going to follow his executive order. 'I'm complying with state and federal laws,' Mills replied. Trump then warned her federal funding would be stripped from her state if she didn't comply, to which Mills shouted, 'we'll see you in court.' That has become a bit of a rallying cry for some in the state with small shops selling T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase. Multiple investigations by federal agencies – the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services – have followed, and in some cases, federal dollars have been denied to the state. Mills declined multiple requests for an interview with CNN. There's opposition to her inside the state house too. 'Honestly, it's embarrassing we're known for this interaction,' said State Representative Laurel Libby. The three-term Republican was censured by her colleagues, 'muzzled' in her words, after posting on her social media page a picture of a trans athlete pole vaulter who won a state championship. 'We've learned that just *ONE* year ago John was competing in the boy's pole vault … that's when he had his 5th place finish,' Libby wrote, 'Tonight, 'Katie' won 1st place in the girls' Maine State Class B Championship.' Opponents called for Libby to remove the post and apologize, requests she rejected. 'I will not apologize for speaking the truth and standing up for Maine girls who deserve the opportunity to compete on a fair, safe and level playing field, and currently don't have the ability to do so,' she said. Schreiner says the question of safety has no relevance in her case, in an individual sport and as a woman who transitioned years ago. 'I don't exist in any capacity that threatens anyone,' she said. 'When I go to these meets, I'm the one that's getting threatened.' She said she gets death threats regularly but would still be ready to be a voice in the conversation to help people understand her experience and point of view. 'I'm tired. I'm scared in a lot of ways,' she added. 'I feel isolated, and it feels like a very independent fight right now.' But she does not want to give up running and she's looking at moving to Australia or New Zealand, which are 'way more inclusive and years ahead of us in policy,' she said. And even though she US organizations won't let her run, she remains steadfast in her goal to compete in the Olympics. 'Eight years from now, I am going to be in the Olympics, just maybe competing for Australia,' Schreiner smiled.
