Track And Field News


Discuss (3 comments)October 26, 2007
Running Is A Natural High For Wold
Interview with junior Seth Wold, the lead runner for the Utah State Aggies.

Interview with Utah State senior Amy Egan
Amy Egan talks about her motivation and the inspiration she gets from her coach.

Utah State Aggies top WAC conference poll
The pre-conference meet poll is in and Utah State is ranked at the top of the WAC by the coaches poll

Utah State hosts WAC this weekend
The aggies are ready to go this weekend as they host the WAC Conference Championships

Utah head to MWC Conference Champs
The Ute women head to the MWC championships

Colorado Preps For Big 12 Championships
The buffs are ready for the Big 12 and are headed for Lubbock, tx and looking to extend their streak of conference crowns

UC Irvine Competes at Big West Championships Saturday
UC Irvine set to compete at Big West Champs hosted by Cal Poly SLO.

Q&A with Cal Senior Rebecca Yau
Yau discusses her goals and the team goals at the PAC-10's this weekend

Cal Gears Up For Pac-10 Championships
The Cal Bears gear up for the Pac 10's hosted by Oregon State.

Cal Men Earn Highest Ranking in School History
After their performance at pre-nats, the bears were ranked eighth in the nation, the highest ranking in school history.

Conference Call with M. Wittenberg and Athletes: Peter Gilmore, Josh Rohatinsky
Ryan Shay, Peter Gilmore and Josh Rohatinsky talk about the upcoming Oly Trials marathon and their role as dark horses.

Former Olympian Roy "Robot" Martin Estimates 80% of Elite Runners Used Drugs!?
Two-time U.S. Olympian and national high school 200m record holder Roy "The Robot" Martin says in a new interview that 80% percent of elite runners used performance enhancing drugs in the mid 1980's to early 1990's. Martin says that drugs infiltrated the sport and contributed, despite the advice of jackie joyner-kersee's husband Bob (who also coached martin), to his own retirement and decision to leave the sport.

Oregon Pac-10 XC Champs Preview
PREVIEW for the Ducks for the Pac-10 Champs this weekend

Podcast Audio Interview with Galen Rupp
Rupp reflects on the world champs and discusses the upcoming Pac-10 champs

Ducks prepare for Pac-10s
The season outlook for the Ducks as the approach their conference meet

Everyday Champion - Lauren Denfeld
Interview with Oregon state runner Lauren Denfeld

Big XII Photo Gallery and Results
Lubbock, Texas--The Colorado women's squad won its ninth consecutive conference championship while the men earned their 12th straight title on Friday morning at Rawls Golf Course in Lubbock, Texas. The Buffs have captured every men's title, and 11 of the 12 women's team championships in Big 12 history, with Kansas State winning in 1998.

CU Sweeps Big 12 Cross Country
CU came away with wins in the men's and women's races at the Big 12 champs in Lubbock Texas.

Chasing glory week 6- Picking up Speed
This NYRR article tells about how American distance running is picking up speed in catching the Africans. It also talks about the group training effect

Chasing glory week 6- Return of the Native
The resurgence of American Marathoning and the story of the start of the various group training centers.

Chasing glory week 6- The Coaches
This video tells the story of the coaches of the four main groups that the Chasing Glory documentary is following, Terrance Mahone, Joe Vigil, Steve Jones, the Hansen Brothers, and Dave Murray and their interaction with their athletes

Discuss (4 comments)October 25, 2007
NCAA vacates two Arkansas track titles...
ESPN.com reports "The NCAA vacated two of Arkansas' national championships in track and field Thursday and placed the school on three years' probation after investigating violations involving sprint star Tyson Gay and a former assistant coach".

Interview with Patrick Casey
He is undefeated this season and is fresh off his Class A triumph in the Montana State Championship

AP Sports: French hurdler Naman Keita suspended 2 years for doping
PARIS (AP) - French hurdler and Olympic bronze medalist Naman Keita was suspended Thursday for two years after testing positive for testosterone before the world championships.

Ambulance with dying marathoner gets lost
Ambulance with dying marathoner gets lost

Runner's World chat with alberto Salazar
Chattig with Salazar

A brief chat with Dan Browne
Amby Burfoot writes, "Dan Browne placed third in the 2004 USA Men's Olympic Marathon Trials behind Alan Culpepper and Meb Keflezighi. That year, he trained in Oregon, his home state. However, three months ago he relocated temporarily to Mammoth Lakes CA to train with the Running USA group there. He's got impressive track credentials, too, having qualified to run the 10,000 meters in Athens in addition to the marathon. He has bests at the two distances of 2:11:35 and 27:42.19"

Interview with Claire Durkin
Last fall, Claire was 3rd in the Ohio D1 State Championship, trailing Amanda Burger and Brooklyne Ridder

Interview with Luke Puskedra
Last spring he won the Arcadia 2 mile. Set course record at Bob Firman Invitational

Interview with Alex Banfich
Is going to race at the Portage Invitational.

Interview with Doug Smith
New Jersey's Doug Smith has been on the radar since he dropped an impressive 9:14 3200 as a ninth grader.

Interview with Katie Flood
Katie’s freshman campaign included state titles in track and XC, an Iowa 4k record 13:48 and the Drake 3k win in 9:44.96.

The awakening
personal blog from an elite ultra marathon runner Dean Karnazes, who last year ran 50 marathons in 50 days!

Discuss (1 comments)October 24, 2007
Goucher's roller coaster ride to success
Jim Ferstle writes, "Like most elite athletes, Osaka 10,000m bronze medallist Kara Goucher is no stranger to adversity. She's very familiar with the roller coaster ride most athletes must navigate. For Goucher that roller coaster began at a young age. Seven days before her fourth birthday, Kara's father, Mirko Grgas was killed by a drunk driver at 6:30 a.m. on Harlem River Drive near 142nd Street in New York City".

24 test positive for drugs
24 test positive for drugs

Sun returns after 4 year drug ban
Only the 4th women to go sub 2:20 in the marathon

Schumaker addresses the media
addresses the media about his team and the future

NCAA XC Polls are out
Oregon and Stanford are still number 1

Track and Field World Records
In the world of sports, few things are as exciting as watching a World record get broken in the track and field events. In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics next August, here is a compilation of a bunch of record breaking youtube videos.

Interview with Scott Bauhs
Though Scott Bauhs has been running at a high level since high school, he didn't begin to make national headlines until last spring, when he upset Nicodemus Naimadu to win the NCAA Division II 10,000m title for California State University, Chico.

Mountain West Cofnerence Champs Relocated
The Mountain West Conference Championships this weekend have been relocated to New Mexico from San Diego because of the wildfires in California

San Diego State University Postpones all Athletic Contests
SDSU has postponed all athletic contests due to the CA wildfires

Fazil Bizuneh's interview with NYRR
he is training in Boulder

Meb leads 134 qualifiers
Meb is the leader this year coming into the trials at New York

Columbia to host Heps
Columbia will host the heps

Discuss (2 comments)October 23, 2007
Geb says that detroit marathon can be big
he ran the first 10 miles of the race and talked about it

PAC-10 Cross Country Championships preview...
Here's the Pac-10 Conference's preview of this Saturday's cross country championships in Corvallis, Oregon.

Scott Bauh runs a 1:03 half
only 21 years old at chico state, bauh ran a 1:03 half marathon

Kiprop to face Kibet in Great South Run
10,000 meter commonwealth champ Kiprop will face World's marathon champ kibet at the Great South Run

Close but no victory
After a brilliant 26.1 miles, Charles Kibiwott found himself on the losing end of a 100m sprint to the finish line at the Gyeongju International Marathon in Gyeongju, South Korea. Countryman and friend, Edwin Komen won the race in 2:09:44; Charles ran 2:09:45. “So close,” he said immediately after the race, his thumb and index finger stretched apart indicating a close margin. “So close…” Laban Kipkemboi was forced to drop out with an injury to the ball of his foot

Great read on Ryan Hall's early training
When he was young he asked his dad if he could go on a 15 miler with him. He said, "sure,but no whining."

fam goes over the nyc course in a video
Fam goes over the nyc course in a short vid.

Olympic Runner & Middle School coach Roy “Robot” Martin Arrested on Drug Ch
Roy “Robot” Martin broke speed records and ran his way on the U. S. Olympics team. Tuesday he was arrested for possessing Xanax without a prescription at Florence Middle School in Pleasant Grove, TX where he is currently employed as the head track & field coach and hall monitor. However, Martin says that the possession stemmed from his efforts to fight the middle schools’ drug problem. He explains that ...

A Blind Competitor Will Not Be Deterred
Aaron Scheidies will attempt to make history Sunday and become the first disabled athlete to finish in under two hours at the United States Open Triathlon.

Division 1 Cross Country Rankings

134 entered for U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon
The largest field since 1984. Only three can go. Who will make it?

Discuss (2 comments)October 22, 2007
7 go under 2:07 at the ING Amsterdam Marathon
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Ideal weather with 10-12 degrees CT, nearly no wind and sun created ideal circumstances for the 32nd ING Amsterdam Marathon. In a race which was open till the last 250 metres, Emmanuel Mutai proved to be the fastest.

What's tempo sports?
The Centaurus High School Cross Country team turned as their spike-haired coach pointed down the dirt path at the lean runner cruising by on the Davidson Mesa. “That’s Alan Culpepper, one of the fastest guys in the world,” the coach said.

Interview with Nate Jenkins
Interview with 27-year old emerging running star Nate Jenkins

Kestner, Stewart Win Nationwide Better Health Columbus Marathon
The winning time was only a 2:31

Results of the Beijing Marathon
Kinyanjui, Chen take top honours in Beijing – Beijing Marathon

Katie Dunn leads #1 cross country team
seeds of Katie Dunn’s success may be bearing fruit now that she’s a senior, but they were sown two years ago, during the last mile of a race in the summer before her sophomore year.

Kenya: Now AK Moves to Resolve Cash Crisis
Athletics Kenya (AK) has moved to calm the storm generated by Wednesday's revelations of a cash scandal related to the March 24 World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa

Kenya:AK to focus on training camp
Athletics Kenya has embarked on a move to gain control of road races and private training camps in the country.

Interview with Stephen Kiogora
After training in Boulder for the last year Stephen Kiogora is ready to roll for the New York City Marathon

Interview with Ben Maiyo
Ben Maiyo hasn't run a good race since worlds in the 2005, can he get back into form by nyc marathon

Chritopher Cheboiboch
Part of the group of kenyans training in Boulder he hopes to make his debut at the nyc marathon

Fazil Bizuneh's latest blog entry
Bizuneh tells what it is like training with one of the most elite groups in the US

The Meb Keflezkhi Story
The story of the leader of the emergence of American Distance running emergence

Olympic Champion to speak before a church
Billy Mills, the track and field icon who is the only American ever to win an Olympic 10,000-meter gold medal with his victory in 1964, remembers a moment at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.