Muna Lee News

CALL Staff Writer Sporting a short bob cut and black leather outfit, the skinny kid who changed the face of area track didn't seem out of place as she walked the indoor track of Central High school.

The passion of Muna Lee that led her to become a two-time Olympian emerged after the track coach at Central High School pulled her out of basketball practice one day to encourage her.

Since winning the IAAF World Championships in Berlin this past August, Shelly-Ann Fraser is still up at 4.30am to slave through coach Stephen Francis's murderous training sessions before studying at college for her child care and development degree and then jetting back to the track again or heading to the weight room.

After competing in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, Central High School graduate Muna Lee is back in Kansas City.

Two-time Olympic sprinter Muna Lee comes home to Central High School to a pep rally of a different sort today.The 2000 graduate will be launching the Muna Lee Foundation to raise money for college scholarships and to help children from low-income families get shoes, spikes and other track equipment.Her ultimate goal, said Lee , is to see a track ...

American Tyson Gay ran the third fastest 200 metres ever when he clocked 19.58 seconds at the New York grand prix athletics meeting on Saturday.

Usain Bolt ran the fourth fastest 200 meters in history despite wet track and cold conditions at the Van Damme Memorial.

Dawn Fraser, who won swimming gold medals at three Olympics, fought off and helped capture a man who tried to rob her home north of Brisbane.

LaShawn Merritt raised the metallic blue baton high in the air as he crossed the finish line.

USAIN Bolt last night completed his hat-trick of sprint titles as Jamaica cruised to victory in the 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships in Berlin.

Seventeen Big 12 track & field representatives placed in the top eight in the finals of the 2009 IAAF World Championships, highlighted by 12 total medals including eight gold.

Try as they might, the Americans just can't seem to get that baton around the track in the 400-meter relay without some sort of misadventure.

Defending Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton struggled to make the final of the women's discus Wednesday at the track and field world championships.

With the baton firmly in hand, the United States was derailed this time by an injury in the women's 400-meter relay.

LaShawn Merritt raised the metallic blue baton high in the air as he crossed the finish line.

Usain Bolt's hunger for world records continued at the world championships on Thursday when he won the 200m title in a staggering 19.19 seconds.

For once, Usain Bolt ran in a final that didn't produce a world record. That, in itself, is almost a record.

Usain Bolt's third gold medal of the world championships failed to produce a third world record because the Jamaican 400-meter relay team only managed to produce the second-fastest time in history.

Dwight Phillips won the long jump at the world championships Saturday, 73 years after Jesse Owens did the same at the Berlin Games in the Olympic Stadium.

The U.S. needs a strong finish in the final three days of the world track & field championships that end Sunday in Berlin to maintain its stretch of supremacy in medals.