Adcock to Compete in North American Under 23 Championships

University of Missouri sophomore Nick Adcock (Kansas City, Mo. / Oak Park HS) will be traveling to Mexico later this week, joining Team USA for competition in the men's decathlon at NACAC (North American) Under-23 Championships. The event will be held 40 miles from Mexico City in Toluca, a city that lies at high-elevation at 8,750 feet. For Adcock, at the young age of 20, this will be his second U.S. team, having competed with Team USA at the 2007 Pan-Am Junior Games where he won Silver in the decathlon.
Adcock has had quite a 2008 which started with the indoor season and his Big 12 title in the heptathlon, the seven-event cousin to the decathlon. At the conference meet, Adcock won with a near-meet record of 5,795, toppling Olympian Hans Uldal's school record by a wide margin. Adcock would later earn his first All-America honor in placing fourth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
In the outdoor season, Adcock won the decathlon at the Kansas Relays and then set his current personal best of 7,657 in placing second at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, at altitude, in Boulder, Colo. Adcock again finished fourth at the national meet to earn his second All-America certificate of the year to total a team-high, 10 national-team points for the entire 2008 indoor and outdoor seasons.
Adcock had been training past the NCAA Championships for a possible bid in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, but was the "first one out". A day after the decathlon at the trials had completed, Adcock received the call from USA Track & Field that he had been chosen for the NACAC roster.
In 2007, Adcock won the USATF Junior crown in the decathlon to earn an automatic spot on the U.S. team that traveled to Brazil for the Pan-Am Junior Games where Adcock mined Silver. Adcock is the grandson of Galen and Betty Ruckman of Grant City.