GoDucks.com Student-Athlete of the Week - Rebekah Noble
In the Pepsi Team Invitational last Saturday in Eugene, freshman Rebekah Noble paced the Ducks to their 12th team win in the meet with a meet record in the 800 meters (first, 2:03.11). The first-year Duck won by more than four seconds, and her time Saturday was more than two seconds faster than the previous 2006 collegiate national leader - junior Katie Erdman of Michigan (2:05.17, 4/1/06). Noble also broke the meet record by more than three seconds set by Nebraska’s Lisa Graham in 1992 (2:06.24), and made her debut on the UO outdoor all-time list at fourth behind a trio of top-two NCAA placers and former Duck greats. The returning USA junior and Pan-Am junior champion Noble also improved upon her former personal best that won the 2005 USA Junior Outdoor Championships last June (2:03.73) - a mark that ranked her ninth all-time in U.S. prep history and was the fastest by an American high schooler since 1982. At meet's end, she returned to anchor the 4x400-meter relay to second place to a regional qualifying mark (second, 3:40.17) - a time that was only .62 seconds from the Oregon top-10 list and the UO program's fastest women's 4x400 relay clocking since 1996. Indoors in '06, Noble moved to second all-time indoors for UO in the 800 meters with her NCAA automatic mark of 2:04.72, and in March took second in the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 800 meters.
