Track And Field News
Discuss (0 comments)October 27, 2007Seminole Women Win First Cross Country ACC Championship
As All-America Susan Kuijken extended her season-long undefeated streak to four, the Florida State women's cross country team glided to the school's first ACC Championship in Charlottesville, Va. The women took first in the 6k race with 64 points, while the men finished third with 130 points behind the only two ranked opponents the 8k run.
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2007 Heps Recap- Princeton Women win THe princeton women won heps, completing a sweep of the meet for the Tigers |
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2007 MAAC Recap Iona's men's and women's teams took home the crowns at the MAAC championship this year help at Van Cordlandt Park. McKayla Plank brought home the title for the women and Mohamed Khadraoui won the race for the men. |
2-Time Olympian Arrested For Drugs At DISD School
As a Dallas high school student, Roy "Robot" Martin broke speed records and ran his way onto the U. S. Olympics team in 1984 and 1988. Tuesday night, he was arrested for possessing drugs at Florence Middle School in Pleasant Grove. Martin is head track coach and a hall monitor at the school. Martin says he should not be charged with a crime. He says he was trying to fight the drug problem at the middle school.
Discuss (3 comments)October 26, 2007
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Running Is A Natural High For Wold Interview with junior Seth Wold, the lead runner for the Utah State Aggies. |
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Interview with Utah State senior Amy Egan Amy Egan talks about her motivation and the inspiration she gets from her coach. |
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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 |
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Utah State hosts WAC this weekend The aggies are ready to go this weekend as they host the WAC Conference Championships |
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Utah head to MWC Conference Champs The Ute women head to the MWC championships |
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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 |
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UC Irvine Competes at Big West Championships Saturday UC Irvine set to compete at Big West Champs hosted by Cal Poly SLO. |
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Q&A with Cal Senior Rebecca Yau Yau discusses her goals and the team goals at the PAC-10's this weekend |
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Cal Gears Up For Pac-10 Championships The Cal Bears gear up for the Pac 10's hosted by Oregon State. |
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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.
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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. |
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Oregon Pac-10 XC Champs Preview PREVIEW for the Ducks for the Pac-10 Champs this weekend |
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Podcast Audio Interview with Galen Rupp Rupp reflects on the world champs and discusses the upcoming Pac-10 champs |
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Ducks prepare for Pac-10s The season outlook for the Ducks as the approach their conference meet |
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Everyday Champion - Lauren Denfeld Interview with Oregon state runner Lauren Denfeld |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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
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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". |
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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.
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Ambulance with dying marathoner gets lost Ambulance with dying marathoner gets lost |
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Runner's World chat with alberto Salazar Chattig with Salazar |
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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" |
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Interview with Claire Durkin Last fall, Claire was 3rd in the Ohio D1 State Championship, trailing Amanda Burger and Brooklyne Ridder |
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Interview with Luke Puskedra Last spring he won the Arcadia 2 mile. Set course record at Bob Firman Invitational |
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Interview with Alex Banfich Is going to race at the Portage Invitational. |
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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. |
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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
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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". |
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24 test positive for drugs 24 test positive for drugs |
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Sun returns after 4 year drug ban Only the 4th women to go sub 2:20 in the marathon |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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San Diego State University Postpones all Athletic Contests SDSU has postponed all athletic contests due to the CA wildfires |
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Fazil Bizuneh's interview with NYRR he is training in Boulder |
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Meb leads 134 qualifiers Meb is the leader this year coming into the trials at New York |
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Columbia to host Heps Columbia will host the heps |
Discuss (2 comments)October 23, 2007
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Geb says that detroit marathon can be big he ran the first 10 miles of the race and talked about it |
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PAC-10 Cross Country Championships preview... Here's the Pac-10 Conference's preview of this Saturday's cross country championships in Corvallis, Oregon. |
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Scott Bauh runs a 1:03 half only 21 years old at chico state, bauh ran a 1:03 half marathon |
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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 |
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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 |
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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." |
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fam goes over the nyc course in a video Fam goes over the nyc course in a short vid. |
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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.
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134 entered for U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon
The largest field since 1984. Only three can go. Who will make it?
