The 121st Penn Relays
When: Tuesday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
TV: USA vs. the World: NBC Sports Network, Saturday, 12:30-3 p.m.
Website: For tickets, directions, parking info, visit ThePennRelays.com
Tuesday: Men's decathlon, women's heptathlon during day, CYO at night, 6-9 p.m.
Thursday: High school girls, college women, nighttime distance races.
Friday: High school boys and girls, college men and women's development events
Saturday: College men and women, high schools boys, USA vs. the world.
Field events: Pole vault, long jump, high jump at Franklin Field; hammer, discus, shot, javelin at nearby Irving "Moon" Mondschein Throwing Complex
Weather: Thursday, couple showers; Friday, partly sunny; Saturday, cloudy. Temperatures all 3 days, high 62, lows in 40s.
This year's Wall of Famers: High jumper Mark Boswell, Central Peel (Brampton, Ontario) High '97, Texas '00; Distance runner Gina Procaccio, Sun Valley (Aston, Pa) High '82, Florida '85, Villanova '87, Sallie Mae TC '94; Distance runner John Gregorek, St. Anthony's (Smithtown, NY) High '78, Georgetown '82; 400-meter runner Obea Moore, John Muir (Pasadena, Calif.) High '97; Villanova's 1965 2-mile relay team of Jim Orr, Al Adams, Tom Sullivan, and Noel Carroll; North Carolina College's 1965 880-yard relay team of Robert Johnson, Terrell Amos, Edwin Roberts and Norm Tate; The El Dorado High 2002 4x100-meter relay team of Dion Rodriguez, Marc Burns, Kevin Straker and Darrel Brown and the LSU women's 2003 4x100-meter relay team of Stephanie Durst, Monique Hall, Lolo Jones and Muna Lee.
People to watch
USA vs. world competitors: They will end the suspense soon and when they unveil the names they will be worth watching.
College sprints: TCU's Ronnie Baker; Texas A&M's Shavez Hart, Gregory Coleman, Bralon Taplin and Deon Lendore; LSU's Vernon Norwood; Texas' Courtney Okolo, Ashley Spencer, Kendall Baisden and Morolake Akinosun
College distance: Penn's Thomas Awad; Villanova's Jordy Williamsz, Josh Lampron and Angel Piccirillo. Oregon's Edward Cheserek, Colby Alexander, Marcus Chambers, Niki Franzmair, Eric Jenkins, Will Geoghegan and Peter Stinson; Providence's Emily Sisson; Clemson's Natoya Goule; Stanford's Olivia Baker
Heptathlon: Penn's Noel Jancewicz
Field events: Texas Tech high jumpers JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins; Oregon long jumper Jenna Prandini; Tennessee pole vaulter Jake Blankenship; Penn's javelin thrower, Kelsey Hay
Numerology
1,023 high schools
842 girls' high school teams
809 boys' high school teams
235 colleges are registered
209 men's college teams
203 women's college teams
36 U.S. states are represented (including District of Columbia)
37 high schools from Jamaica,
6 high schools are from California, and 1 from Utah (Park City)
Total athletes competing (including those in more than one event):
16,368 athletes on 4,092 relay teams
2,318 athletes in individual events
- Numbers provided by Frank Bertucci