Olympic Track And Field News

The Big Ten Conference office announced its inaugural postgraduate scholarships winners on May 16 with softball infielder Lauren Yao and men's gymnast Scott Rosenthal named the recipients from Penn State.

Rebellious athletes, drained budgets, dysfunctional management and a string of embarrassing scandals forced a major reorganization of U.S. Speedskating over the weekend.

With time to consider the most memorable moment of her Olympic experience, 2003 Everett Area High School graduate Natalie Dell didn't pick having a medal placed around her neck.

Marin Catholic High grad Carmen Eggert is a senior on the UC Davis women's water polo team.

If you're looking to add a little more adventure to mountain biking, try this nighttime race that starts at 8 p.m. through the backwoods of Amelia Park.

Her Excellency Aloun Assamba with Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen , Earl Jarrett of the Jamaica National Building Society, join Zena Wooldridge , director of sport at University of Birmingham; Councillor Mike Whitby; Professor Edward Peck, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Gaynor Whitby.

Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai yesterday, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women's 100 metres and Warren Weir capturing gold in the men's 200 metres.

USC's Haley Anderson and fellow U.S. Olympian Andrew Gemmell won the 5-kilometer races Sunday at the U.S.open water national championships to earn berths at this summer's world meet in Barcelona, Spain.

Track and field events held on Tuesday, May 14 got off to a great start with cool temperatures cobalt blue sky and the Rocky Mountains building a scenic back drop.

Ivet Lalova , Bulgaria's top sprinter and one of the hottest athletes in the world, is to tie the knot with Italian colleague Simone Collio on September 21, the happy future bride has revealed.

Ridgway Secondary School's 28 graduating seniors will be inspired to relentlessly pursue their own personal best - whatever that might be - as Olympic discus thrower Lance Brooks takes the stage to deliver a rousing commencement address at their graduation ceremony next Friday, May 24.

The multiple state champion will attend Texas A&M in the fall on a track scholarship.

DOHA: This week's 18th Arab Athletics Championships will be accorded more importance than usual by the participants as the medal winners in Doha will move a step closer to securing a ticket to IAAF Athletics World Championships to be held in Moscow this year, a top official said yesterday.

A year ago Grace Graham-Zamudio settled for runner-up, third- and fourth-place finishes at the state championships.

Dozens of boys and girls called themselves the fastest in the state at Saturday's state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium.

Amazing efforts of athleticism, the thirst for higher education, the quest for economic success all come into play for participants at the annual Penn Relays, the University of Pennsylvania-sponsored track-and-field meet for college, Olympic-caliber and high school athletes, that's become an anticipated destination for scholastic competitors from ... (more)

Carmelita Jeter, left, grimaces in pain as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, right, sprints to victory in the women's 100 metres at the Diamond League track and field meet Saturday in Shanghai.

Thousands of spectators cheered and hollered as track runners bolted toward the finish line in this weekend's Special Olympics Florida's Summer Games.

Matt Hughes doesn't want to downplay or overplay the significance of winning the first 3,000-metre steeplechase race of the track-and-field season.

Olympic High School long jumper Tommy Secrest hits the pit to win the event at the Class 2A West Central District track and field meet at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.