By Stephen Kersh
February 18, 2018
Raevyn Rogers certainly showed her mettle as the future of American 800-meter running, but Ajee Wilson held her off over the final 300 meters to seal her title.
This breaks up the 1-2 combo that we’ve become pretty familiar to seeing over the past couple years with Wilson and Lipsey. Rogers now shares the same coach as Wilson and Lipsey but I believe is still training out in Oregon. She’s headed to the world championships.
This hasn’t been the best of seasons for Lipsey as she was much farther back in 2:05.
You should definitely keep an eye out on Kaela Edwards and Ce’Aira Brown, who have put together solid indoor campaigns. It’s a tradition for the 800 to be stacked at USAs and it looks like 2018 will be no different.
Here are some final standings:
Ajee’ Wilson – 2:01.60
Raevyn Rogers – 2:01.74
Kaela Edwards – 2:02.77
Ce’Aira Brown – 2:03.11
Hanna Green – 2:04.61
Charlene Lipsey – 2:05.45
Stephen Kersh
Former collegiate runner for University of Portland and Georgetown, currently a professional runner weighing sponsorship offers from no one. Enjoys using the internet to message Scott Olberding and Paul Snyder about bad story ideas. Does not assume he will work at Citius much longer due to the bad story ideas. He once gave a TED Talk titled "Twitter: How We Are All Just Shouting into a Vacuum" to his best friend and his girlfriend on the beaches of Connecticut.