Courtesy of the USTFCCCA Communications Staff: Tom Lewis, Tyler Mayforth, Curtis Akey

After blowing up the history books at the 2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, this season's crop of talent certainly lived up to the hype at the outdoor edition of the meet this past weekend. Take a gander at all of the records broken as well as the individual and team scoring highlights below.

Records Broken

COLLEGIATE (4)

Men’s 400 Meters

New: Michael Norman, Southern California, 43.61

Former: Fred Kerley, Texas A&M, 43.70, 2017

Men’s 400 Meter Hurdles

New: Rai Benjamin, Southern California, 47.02

Former: Kerron Clement, Florida, 47.56, 2005

Men’s 4x100m Relay

New: Houston, 38.17

John Lewis III, Elijah Hall, Mario Burke, Cameron Burrell

Former: TCU, 38.23A, 1989 NCAA Meet

Men’s 4x400m Relay

New: Southern California, 2:59.00

Ricky Morgan Jr., Rai Benjamin, Zach Shinnick (45.86), Michael Norman (43.62)

Former: LSU, 2:59.59, 2005

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS (9)

Men’s 400 Meters

New: Michael Norman, Southern California, 43.61

Former: Quincy Watts, Southern California, 44.00, 1992

Men’s 400 Meter Hurdles

New: Rai Benjamin, Southern California, 47.02

Former: Kerron Clement, Florida, 47.56, 2005

Men’s 4x100 Relay

New: Houston, 38.17

John Lewis III, Elijah Hall, Mario Burke, Cameron Burrell

Former: TCU, 38.23A, 1989

Men’s 4x400m Relay

New: Southern California, 2:59.00

Ricky Morgan Jr., Rai Benjamin, Zach Shinnick (45.86), Michael Norman (43.62)

Former: LSU, 2:59.59, 2005

Men’s Pole Vault

New: Chris Nilsen, South Dakota, 5.83/19-1½

Former: Lawrence Johnson, Tennessee, 5.82/19-1, 1996

Men’s Javelin

New: Anderson Peters, Texas A&M, 82.82/271-9

Former: Ioannis Kyriazis, Texas A&M, 82.58/270-11, 2017

Women’s 400 Meters

New: Lynna Irby, Georgia, 49.80

Former: Monique Henderson, UCLA, 50.10, 2005

Women’s 10,000 Meters

Sharon Lokedi, Kansas, 32:09.20

previous: Sylvia Mosqueda, Cal State LA, 32:28.57, 1988

Women’s 4x100m Relay 

New: LSU, 42.09 (semifinals)

Mikiah Brisco (SR), Kortnei Johnson (JR), Rachel Misher (JR), Aleia Hobbs (SR)

Former: 42.36, Texas A&M, 2009

ALL-TIME MEET BESTS (2)

Men’s Decathlon, Long Jump

New: Tim Duckworth, Kentucky, 8.01/26-3½ (0.8)

Former: Chris Huffins, California, 7.99/26-2½

Women’s 100 Meters (low-altitude all-time best)

New: Aleia Hobbs, LSU, 10.91 (semifinals)

Former: Mikiah Brisco, LSU, 10.96, 2017 & English Gardner, Oregon, 10.96, 2013

HAYWARD FIELD RECORDS (5)

Men’s 400 Meters

New: Michael Norman, Southern California, 43.61

Former: Michael Johnson, 43.74, 1993

Men’s 400 Meter Hurdles

New: Rai Benjamin, Southern California, 47.02

Former: Kevin Young, 47.69, 1993

Men’s 4x100m Relay

New: Houston, 38.17

Former: LSU, 38.42, 2016

Men’s 4x400m Relay

New: Southern California, 2:59.00

Former: Texas A&M, 2:59.60, 2014

Women’s 4x100m Relay: 

New: (semifinals) LSU, 42.09

Mikiah Brisco (SR), Kortnei Johnson (JR), Rachel Misher (JR), Aleia Hobbs (SR)

Former: Kentucky, 42.51, 2017

Attendance

Day 1: 9,767

Day 2: 9,702

Day 3: 11,644

Day 4: 12,998

Total: 44,111

Team Scoring Summary

MEN

1. Georgia, 52 (coach Petros Kyprianou)

2. Florida, 42 (coach Mike Holloway)

3. Houston, 35 (coach Leroy Burrell)

4. Southern California, 34 (coach Caryl Smith GIlbert)

Georgia wins first title in men’s team history … previous best finish was 6th in 2014 and 2017 … Florida lands on the podium for the tenth-consecutive year … Houston matches its best team finish in history (1959) … Smith Gilbert is the first female to lead a men’s team to a podium finish (also in 2014) -- USC’s 27th podium finish in the 97-year history of the event.

WOMEN

1. Southern California, 53 (coach Caryl Smith Gilbert)

2. Georgia, 52 (coach Petros Kyprianou)

3. Stanford, 51 (coach Chris Miltenberg)

4. Kentucky, 46 (coach Edrick Floreal)

Southern California wins its second title in program history (2001) and the first for Smith Gilbert as head coach … she is the fourth woman in NCAA DI outdoor history to lead a program to a national crown … Georgia, runner-up last year, lands on podium for third straight year with fifth-straight top five showing … Stanford matches all-time best finish (1984) with third podium showing in program history … Kentucky notches its third podium finish in four years.

The meet entered the 4x4 with 7 teams with a chance at the podium and USC needed to win the 4x4 to win the national crown ... Kentucky is the first in meet history to have teammates sweep the hurdle events ... First time in meet history the top-three placing teams finished within two points of each other.

Individual Scoring Summary

MEN

1. Denzel Comenentia, Georgia, 20 points

(1st hammer, 1st shot put)

2. Andre Ewers, Florida State, 15 points

(2nd 200, 3rd 100, 5th 4x100)

=3. Odaine Lewis, Texas Tech, 14 points

(2nd triple jump, 3rd long jump)

=3. David Kendziera, Illinois, 14 points

(2nd 110 hurdles, 3rd 400 hurdles)

WOMEN

=1. Maggie Ewen, Arizona State, 20 points

(1st shot put, 1st discus)

=1. Keturah Orji, Georgia, 20 points

(1st long jump, 1st triple jump)

=3. Lynna Irby, Georgia, 16 points

(1st 400, 3rd 200)

=3. Karissa Schweizer, Missouri, 16 points

(1st 5000, 3rd 10,000)

Ewen is first thrower in meet history to lead the individual scoring table in back-to-back years and is only the third overall (Jenna Prandini, Kimberlyn Duncan) … Irby is the first since 1989, and the first freshman overall, to score 16 or more points in attempting the 200/400 double. 

Orji won her fourth outdoor triple jump title and is the fifth in meet history to sweep a single event during her career … adding the long jump title as well, Orji is only the third in meet history to record five individual event crowns in her career … combining those with three indoor triple jump top honors, Orji is the most decorated DI women’s field event athlete with eight individual plaudits to her credit … she also only the third in meet history to win the long jump and triple jump at the same championships (Kim Williams, Florida State, 2009 and Sheila Hudson, California, 1990).