By: Jack Pfeifer

Published: 2008-01-15 13:08:51

 

Walter Dix of Florida State and Trindon Holliday of LSU will face off at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational at the Armory Feb. 8-9.
    They were 1-2 in the NCAA 100-meter final last spring in California. Dix also won the 200 and ran on the winning 4x100 relay team, leading the Seminoles to the NCAA team championship. He has lifetime bests of 9.93 in the 100 and 19.69 in the 200 and is a contender for this year’s U.S. Olympic team.
    For the 2007 season worldwide, only Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Derrick Atkins – the three medalists at the World Championships last summer in Osaka – ran faster in the 100. In the 200, only Gay, who ran 19.62, ran faster.
    Holliday has run 10.02, and was a running back on LSU’s national-championship football team this past season.
    The men’s sprint fields are loaded with talent, including such other NCAA finalists as...