The NCAA outdoor track and field season is beginning to ramp up and fans of the sport have now been treated to a few weeks of legitimate collegiate competition.
Of course, with the spring months come new events that the indoor oval can't offer.
Below, we have broken down a few non-traditional disciplines which have featured a few promising true freshman near the top of the NCAA leaderboard through the first few weeks of the outdoor season.
400m Hurdles
The LSU rookie, nicknamed 'Squirell' in high school, made some noise on the indoor oval this past winter, emerging as one of the nation's best 400m talents. With a personal best of 45.57 and an individual national qualifier, Burrell was primed to make a splash on the outdoor oval.
Perhaps, though, in a discipline we didn't quite expect.
Burrell contested the 110m hurdles during high school, but had never toed the line for the 400m hur...
