Darryll Oliver runs with passion to the very end

With the NCAA East Preliminary Round for the Track and Field being held in Bloomington, Ind. this weekend, I chronicled the career of Darryll Oliver - one of the finest middle distance runners to ever run come to Penn. Right now Oliver is No. 20 in the nation with a time of 1:48.46, a time which he ran two weekends ago at the IC4A Championships. The article (which will appear in tomorrow's edition of the Summer Pennsylvanian) mentions two key turning points in Oliver's career.

The first was a victory in the 2009 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships when Oliver ran a personal-best by a second to beat heavy favorite Jeff Moriarty. The second was the 2010 Indoor Heps 4x800 when Oliver - who was only in his second meet back after an injury - ran a gutsy 1:49-split on hardly any training. I have posted videos of these races along with his second-place finish at this year's IC4A's below.