Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA - Despite another day of changeable weather which included a three-hour donner-und-blitzen delay, the third day of the NCAA championships produced a number of excellent performances.

Texas A&M University set a new collegiate record in the women's 4x100m Relay. The Texas Aggie foursome -- all undergraduates -- crossed the finish line in 42.36, nearly 10 metres ahead of Florida State's normally quite respectable 43.33. The winners are all U.S citizens, which shows that Americans can get the stick around quite efficiently, no matter what happens in the Olympic Games.

Jenny Barringer accounted for the second collegiate record.  Five days after running 2009 world leader Gelete Burka to the line and setting a collegiate record of 3:59.90 for 1500m, Barringer, in her final track race as a University of Colorado student, set a collegiate record for her parade race, the 3000m Steeplechase. Running alone far ahead of her 15 competitiors, Barringer won in 9:25.54, three seconds off her own national record.

Trindon Holliday won the men's 100 with a strong midrace surge, reaching the finish in 10.00 (+0.3), a full metre ahead of Ahmad Rashad, 10.10. In the women's 100, Alexandria Anderson gave away nearly two metres at the start but made it up to win in the final strides from Jessica Young, 11.20 to 11.22 -- far from her 11.02 of Wednesday.

The men's 400m Hurdles were won by Jeshua Anderson in 48.47, with Johnny Dutch a close second in 48.62. The women's race was won as expected by Nicole Leach, in 55.39.

Among the several qualifying races, the semis of the men's 400m stood out. Jonathan Borlee (BEL) and Michael Bingham won their races in 45.25 and 45.28 respectively, and you had to run 45.88 or better to make the final.

The women's High Jump was won for the third time in four years by Destinee Hooker, the younger sister of Olympic sprint finalist Marshevet. The 1.91m tall Hooker cleared 1.95m today, and just missed 1.98m. She won in 2006 and 2007, but skipped jumping in 2008 to try to make the U.S. Olympic volleyball team. She will attempt to make both U.S teams in 2012.

Also of note was the 5.70m pole vault by Jason Colwick, on his third jump (and third clearance) of the evening. He then attempted a meet record 5.83m, and came reasonably close. There were good throws -- by American standards -- in both javelins. Chris Hill won the men's speerwurf with an 81.80m cast, and Rachel Yurkovich edged Kara Patterson in the women's jav, 59.62m to 57.96m. All three were PBs.

Finally, Galen Rupp added the 5000m title to the 10,000 he won Thursday night, outkicking Australian David McNeill, 14:04.12 to 14:05.79. But McNeill made American's best young distance runner work for it.

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James Dunaway for the IAAF