American Fork (UT) senior and Brigham Young University commit Casey Clinger was named the Gatorade National Cross Country Runner of the Year for 2016-17.
American Fork (UT) senior and Brigham Young University commit Casey Clinger was named the Gatorade National Cross Country Runner of the Year for 2016-17.
MADISON, Wis. -- The No. 14-ranked Wisconsin men's track and field team will be well represented in next week's 2014 NCAA West Preliminary Round, as the Badgers will send 19 athletes looking to punch their tickets to the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The University of Houston Track and Field program will send 30 athletes and four relays that qualified to compete in the NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds in Fayetteville, Ark., next weekend. Regionals Schedule |
Skylab 4 returned to earth after 84 days in orbit.Stephen King published his first novel.The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a pack of Wrigley's gum at a Marsh Supermarket store in Troy, Ohio.President Richard Nixon announced his resignation amidst the Watergate scandal.Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in Zaire to regain the heavyweight title.A Hungarian architecture professor invented Rubik's Cube.Derek Jeter and Leonardo DiCaprio were born.And Joe Piane, now the veteran in the University of Notre Dame head coaching ranks, joined the Irish athletic staff as an assistant track coach.
Joe Piane (pea-AH-nee) -- a two-time national cross country coach of the year, tutor of 189 Irish All-Americans and a longtime fixture on the University of Notre Dame campus as head coach of the Irish men's cross country and men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field programs -- has announced his retirement after 39 seasons in those roles.
Four Spartans won Big Ten medals on the second day of competition at the Big Ten Championships on Saturday at Purdue University. Leah O'Connor (3,000m steeplechase), Kurt Schneider (decathlon), Antonio James (discus) and Tim Canfield (pole vault) each earned a spot on the podium to boost Michigan State into fifth place on the men's side with 23 points and eighth on the women's side with 16 points.
University of Houston men's track and field team moved from just six points to 53 points and third place after day two of the inaugural American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships Saturday at USF's Track & Field Stadium.
Junior Elbert Maxwell (Pittsburgh, Pa.) registered his second career mark of at least 7.50 meters and came in first in the long jump in the Princeton Elite Meet at Weaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Villanova concluded competition at the nearby meet with entries in three field events.
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Thanks to nine first-place performances, the No. 18-ranked Wisconsin men's track and field team edged past Missouri, 92-90, to win Saturday's Tom Botts Invitational dual meet.Babatunde Awosika notched a pair of victories by setting personal records in the 200 and 400 meters. The senior started his day by winning the 200 in 21.44 seconds, a career-best time and the fastest by a UW athlete this season. Awosika then followed up that performance with a first-place effort in the 400 in 47.16, Wisconsin's top time of the outdoor campaign.
The UCF track & field team started strong on Friday at the inaugural American Outdoor Championship with sophomore Anne-Marie Blaney earning the gold medal in the 10,000 meters with a time of 34:47.24 Click here to watch the replay of the finish.
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2014-03-06 at SPIRE Institute (GaREAT Sports Complex) in Geneva (via MileSplit)
After setting a new collegiate record in the 1,000m run, senior Rich Peters of the men's track & field team has been named the GoTerriers.com Student-Athlete of the Week.
On the final day to post times that can be considered for selection to the national championships Villanova posted a time of 9:28.06 in the distance medley relay and leaped to third in the nation on the season performance list. The lineup of junior Dusty Solis (Colorado Springs, Colo.), senior Samuel Ellison (Dresher, Pa.), senior Chris FitzSimons (Hamden, Conn.) and sophomore Jordy Williamsz (Melbourne, Australia) competed in the Boston University Last Chance Meet at the Track & Tennis Center on Sunday afternoon and the Wildcats also had individual entries in the Mile and the 800 meters. Sophomore Rob Denault (Aurora, Ont.) posted a time of 3:59.52 in the Mile to notch the third sub-four minute time of his career and the second this season.
Senior Rich Peters of the Boston University men's track & field team set a new collegiate record in the 1,000m run on Sunday at the BU Last Chance Meet, crossing the line with a time of 2:18.55 at the Track and Tennis Center.
Birmingham, Ala. - The UTEP men turned in balanced performances on Saturday to capture the 2014 Conference USA Indoor Track and Field title, the first indoor title since 2006.
The East Carolina women's track and field squad won the Conference USA Indoor Championship for the second time in three years after tallying 88 points which was 15 points more than the second place finisher.
Setting two new conference records, four MSU records and adding three medals, the Michigan State track & field team concluded competition at the 2014 Big Ten Indoor Championships on Saturday. Tori Franklin (triple jump) and Leah O'Connor (mile) each won Big Ten titles en route to earning a spot in the conference record books, while Kurt Schneider (heptathlon) and Caleb Rhynard (5,000-meter) broke decade-old school records to close out the meet. At the end of competition, the Spartan women finished seventh overall with a total of 50 points, while the men tallied 51 points for an eighth-place finish.
February 14, 2014 - February 15, 2014 @ Dempsey Fieldhouse in Seattle, WA (via MileSplit)
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University track & field alumni Rose Richmond (2004), David Neville (2008), Aarik Wilson (2008) and Derek Drouin (2012) have earned a special place in IU athletics history. The group of four, now join the previous 24 and have been added to the IU Track & Field Wall of Honor in Gladstein Fieldhouse.
UCF head track and field coach Jeannette Bolden announced one of the largest classes in program history on Wednesday with 10 student-athletes signing national letters of intent to join the Knights in the fall.
Senior Rich Peters of the Boston University men's track & field team was named Patriot League Male Track Athlete of the Week, the conference announced on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 5th is this year's first day that prospective collegiate student-athletes among the high school graduating class of 2014 can legally and officially sign their binding National Letter of Intents to their future colleges and universities for next fall in which they will continue their academics and athletics on a scholarship (full or partial) earned by their athletic talents. MileSplit US will be your headquarters across the country on reporting and sharing of the top national caliber high school track & field senior athletes that will be putting their pen to paper this week and turning verbal commitments into official commitments. Also visit your respective state sites on MileSplit which will be reporting, posting articles, and sharing signing photos of their athletes on local and state level. Email any college choices that have yet to be posted as well as any photos from a NLI paper official signing ceremony or moment to brandon.miles@flocasts.com or to your respective MileSplit state webmaster's email address in order to get added and posted.