Miller, Bryant compete for USA at Pan Am Games
Oct 24, 2011 | Track and Field
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - The track and field portion of the Pan American Games began on Sunday and will continue through this weekend. A pair of athletes associated with the Texas A&M program, Bryan Miller and Noah Bryant, will represent the United States.
Miller, a 10-time All-American and a member of the Aggie 4 x 400 relay that captured four NCAA titles in the past two years, will run on the 1,600-meter relay for the United States. Bryant, a volunteer assistant with the Aggies, will contest the shot put.
Bryant will be in action first with the shot put final set for Tuesday afternoon at the Telmex Athletics Stadium. Miller will run in the men's 4 x 400 relay on Friday, Oct. 28.
Action from the Pan American Games is available through ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN3.com.
Miller last represented the United States during the World Junior Championships held in Poland during the summer of 2008. He ran the second leg of the U.S. 4 x 400 relay which captured gold in a time of 3:03.86.
Included on the 4 x 400 for the U.S. with Miller are LaJerald Betters, Reuben McCoy, Lee Moore, Tyler Mulder and Josh Scott. Among the 12 teams set to compete are Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
The United States have not won the Pan American Games 4 x 400 since 1987. The Bahamas are the defending champions after Jamaica won a pair of titles in 1999 and 2003.
Bryant is a four-time All-American and a two-time NCAA Champion in the shot put while at USC, who represented the United States at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan. Bryant earned a silver medal in the shot put when he competed for the United States in the Pan Am Junior Championships held in Barbados back in 2003.
The 14-person field for the shot put includes Canada's Dylan Armstrong, who recently earned a silver medal at the World Championships in Deagu, South Korea, and is the defending Pan American Games champion from 2007.
