USA Track & Field, Jesse Williams and Bob Kersee have two events scheduled for the Southland this year, May 6 at Mt. SAC and May 27 at UCLA.
Described in the simplest terms, Jesse Williams and USA Track & Field are each organizing track and field meets.
It also promises an experience Williams hopes will not only draw die-hard fans who can rattle off world-leading times and nuances of each race but also entertain and engage casual fans who will be vital to the sport’s goal of increasing its popularity. The Grand Prix will host a distance carnival on May 26, followed the next day by a three-hour meet, 90 minutes of which will be broadcast by NBC. Two hours after the meet wraps, a concert dubbed the “USATF Legends Jam” will start nearby on UCLA’s campus.
Famed sprints coach Bob Kersee is also helping organize the meet, and his training group currently includes some of the sport’s most decorated athletes, such as world-record 400-meter hurdler and Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, and Olympic and world championships 800-meter gold medalist Athing Mu.
Los Angeles was once a hotbed for high-caliber professional meets, but that “had dwindled over time, to almost nothing,” Brisco said. Now there will be two within three weeks of each other, with the Grand Prix believed to be the first meet at Drake Stadium not connected to either UCLA or a Pac-12 championship since the 1990 Jack in the Box Invitational, according to research by UCLA’s sports information department.
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