EUGENE, Ore. — One night before his big race, Matthew Centrowitz was joking with his father, who until Sunday held sole possession of the family record for making Olympic teams.

“He was a two-time Olympian. I am now. He can't really hold that over my head,” Centrowitz said Sunday night, shortly after winning the men's 1,500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. His father, Matt Centrowitz, is the longtime coach at American who was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic squads.

The younger Centrowitz, a Broadneck graduate, set a trials record, crossing the finish line in 3 minutes, 34.09 seconds, which was good enough to beat second-place Robby Andrews (3:34.88). Ben Blankenship was third with a time of 3:36.18.

“When I finished and saw how fast it was, I was pretty stoked. ... It's neat now that the rest of trials people will be running you'll see my name there until someone takes it down,” said Centrowitz, 26.

Centrowitz finished second at the trials four years ago and then placed fourth at the 2012 Olympics.

“I feel old saying this, but it just seemed like yesterday that I was in London. These four years just kind of flew by. I wouldn't say it's redemption going back, trying to get a medal. It's a different year, a different competition. I'm a different athlete than I was four years ago. But I'll definitely have that fourth place in the back of my mind going into Rio.”

McLaughlin turns heads: Fortunately, there are plenty of flights that go from New Jersey to Brazil, and Sydney McLaughlin won't have to worry about driving.

Just 16 years old and still without a driver's license, McLaughlin finished third in the women's 400-meter hurdles, making her the youngest member of the squad.

Her time of 54.15 was 1.27 seconds behind first-place finisher Dalilah Muhammad; she surprised even herself by making the Olympic team. The Rio Games, she said, were “just a dream in the back of my mind.”

“I was like, yeah, okay, I'm going to the trials, but it's not going to happen,” she said. “It was never really on my radar.”

While the trials can be daunting for the pros, McLaughlin said the pressures twisted her nerves so tightly that she suffered a breakdown earlier in the week.

“Just me doubting everything I've done so far this season,” she said, “not understanding that I worked to get to where I am, that I deserve to be here. I'm 16 — these girls are all professionals. I definitely had a moment where I didn't think I could do it.”

McDonogh graduate Autumne Franklin, a rising senior at Harvard, finished sixth with a time of 54.65 seconds.

Felix misses chance at double: Sprinter Allyson Felix missed out on a spot running both the 200 and 400 in Rio. She finished fourth in Sunday's 200 final, just one-hundredth of a second away from the podium.

Tori Bowie won the race with a time of 22.25, followed by Deajah Stevens (22.30) and Jenna Prandini (22.53). Felix, who had already qualified in the women's 400, finished in 22.54 and will compete in only one individual race in Rio.

“I could only do what I could with the ankle and unfortunately that's what suffered,” said Felix. “I gave it all I have but it just wasn't enough today.”

“This whole year, that had been what I'm working for,” she said. “To end here it's disappointing, but then to look back and see everything that happened, I still think it's amazing that I was able to make this team.”

Clement best in men's 400 hurdles; Nwaba dominates women's heptathlon: Kerron Clement, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist, was second after the final hurdle but used his speed to win the men's 400-meter hurdles in 48.50 seconds, with Byron Robinson second (48.79) and 2012 Olympic silver medalist Michael Tinsley third (48.82).

Barbara Nwaba had a big enough lead before the finale of the women's heptathlon — the 800 — that she didn't have to win that race. The third-best time was enough for her to finish first overall with 6,494 points, with Heather Miller-Koch second (6,423) and Kendell Williams third (6,402).

“I crossed the line and thought, ‘Wow, I'm an Olympian,'?” Nwaba said.

But Sharon Day-Monroe missed a third Olympic berth by finishing fourth (6,385).

“It's the best we've ever had and I knew it was going to be like that,” she said. “I knew that I was going to have to be on my game and it just wasn't quite there.”

Kiani Profit, a former three-time All-American at Maryland, finished 17th. Profit, who entered Sunday in 20th place needing to reach 6,150 points for automatic qualification, finished 17th in long jump, eighth in javelin and seventh in the 800-meter run for a total of 5,629 points.

Kynard wins men's high jump; Suhr takes women's pole vault: Erik Kynard, the London men's high jump silver medalist, earned a Rio berth by clearing 2.29 meters (7 feet, 6 inches). The only other competitors who had reached the Olympic standard of 2.29 were third-place finisher Ricky Robertson and sixth-place finisher Trey Culver.

Jenn Suhr, the London Olympic pole vault champion, won the women's pole vault with a leap of 4.80 meters (15-9). With 2008 Olympic gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva barred from Rio because of the doping scandal engulfing the Russian federation, Suhr's repeat chances look good.

“I've always said that I want to compete against the best if everything is on the up and up. And if people that know more than I do say she's in, then she's in,” Suhr said. “Right now I have no control over it. I'm just happy that I'm in. I am stressed. I'm really stressed. I'm just glad that it's over.”

McDonogh and San Diego State graduate Kristen Brown placed eighth with a 4.5-meter vault.

Baltimore Sun staff and news services contributed to this article.