While the Monroe girls defended their crown, the boys from Heide Trask were able to prevent a North Rowan double.

The best time to have your breakthrough performance?  At the state meet, of course, just like Xavier Brown did.

The Broughton 4x8, led by Mattie Blue and Megan Sullivan, brought home one of the signature performances of the season.

Anna Cockrell (Providence Day) entered the North Carolina all-time list with her two hurdles performances.

Knightdale produced bookend relay wins with remarkable times, including a US #1 and state meet record 4x400 mark.

Nora McKiver (T.W. Andrews) claimed MVP honors by defending her hurdle titles and adding the 200 to her repertoire.

Am I the only one who thinks the battle between these two guys could be the biggest highlight of the meet?  Didn't think so.

Bre'anna Warren is gunning for her second straight double win, but also battling an opponent who won't even be in the stadium Saturday.

Ragsdale's Xavier Jones has recently surged to the top of the list in the sprints, but he still has to deal with a certain defending champ.

Cedar Ridge's A.J. Tucker won the 1600 last year, but this time around he wants to add the 3200 title to his collection.

Nora McKiver (T.W. Andrews) has been working the sprints more this season - will it pay off in the hurdles this weekend?

The Lexington senior has a plan for his future that is quite ambitious, but he has a really good reason for that.

Grace Morken has won 2A titles - a bunch of 2A titles - and she's better this year than she ever was before.

Anna Cockrell has shaken things up in this classification, and could be the final piece to the champioship puzzle for Providence Day.

Trevor Sleight is one of only two athletes at this level that can truly say they would compete for titles in any classification.

  Talk about balance: only three athletes, male or female, lead more than one event, and no school leads more than 2 relays.

Check out the expression on Blake Dodge's face: that's the realization that she hasn't come close to full potential yet.

Cha'mia Rothwell was the sprints/hurdles star of the 3A meet last year, but she has more competition this time around.

Nikolete Hurrinus has emerged as a contender in the long sprints, which could set up a great battle with the defending 200 champ.

I mean, really, who else was going on the cover?  The question of the week: can anyone in 2A or 4A match Trent Friday's times?

Aminah Ghaffar (Fayetteville Academy) now leads the rankings in four events, including both hurdle races.

For the fourth straight year, Wesley Frazier won all three distance races at her conference championship meet.

Wakefield's Kristen Lee claimed her spot at the top of North Carolina's all-time pole vault list at the 4A Mideast.

The bad weather held off, and as the meet went on the performances simply got better and better.

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Brooke Gordon will try to lead TC Roberson to yet another championship as the postseason hits full steam.

Can a school win a regional team title if they only score in 5 events?  We're about to find out this weekend.

Lydia Laws (Western Alamance) will have three shots to add more titles to her indoor long jump championship.

The boys throws will be among the highlight events, including the performances of South Brunswick's Colin Minor. 

In any other meet, Cardinal Gibbons' great depth would make them a favorite, but at the state meet only the top athletes score.

(Photo by Wanda Daubenmeyer King) Trentavis Friday even has the day of the state meet named after him, and he has a chance to bolster his claim to the title of NC's best sprinter.

Sloan Williams and the Winston-Salem Prep girls have impressive stats in the sprint races.

The Hendersonville senior has dominated the throws at the 1A level, and she can compete with anyone in any classification.

The Cardinal Gibbons girls come out on top here, but will their tremendous depth translate into points on Saturday?

After narrow losses last spring, T.J. Logan and the Northern Guilford boys are ready to run for the championship.

Scenes like this one have been all too familiar at the 1A state meet, and North Rowan hopes they keep repeating.

Can Zach Boone and the Mitchell boys pull out a state title?  The guys from Heide Trask may have something to say about it.

If Jahmaal Daniel improves as much at the state meet as he did last year, he could move Terry Sanford into the #1 spot.

Can you guess which school is the top-ranked non-4A squad, and the only non-4A team in the top 10 overall?

Adidas Grand Prix has begun extending invitations to the Dream 100 and Dream Mile in New York on May 25th, 2013.

This week wasn't just about regionals - there were several top performances at conference meets, like's Jasmine Dawson's.

Qizeah Jackson had three wins at her regional, as she gears up for a leap to redemption at the 3A state meet.

In her team's first postseason meet as an official NCHSAA 1A school, Malia Ellington put up three individual wins.

Lydia Laws had a big day at the 3A Mideast regional, elevating her team into a three-way tie for the championship.

Last year, the 800 under the lights produced incredible results by Craig Engels and Nate Gordon.

The Northern Guilford boys have a good chance to win their region, but will they have enough for a run at the state title?

How good are the Monroe girls?  They compete in the toughest region in the state, and they can still dominate.

Covering absolutely everything at all the state meets is a challenge, and we need your help to pull it off!

Quote from a rival coach: "Cameron Stinson is good at track."  Yes.  Yes he his.

Nora McKiver (T. W. Andrews) leads the state in the 300 Hurdles as she gears up for her postseason.

1A and 3A athletes competed in their conference championships, while 2A and 4A athletes were tuning up for next week.

The Knightdale boys are having a big weekend up in Philadelphia on a quiet weekend in North Carolina.

Combine the best elements from last year's two NC postseason meets into one huge celebration of track & field? CHECK.

Even though she has been dominant for a while, Bre'anna Warren is going to have some real competition in the state meet.

The boys' triple jump is getting extremely competitive, with state leader Steffon Hill (East Henderson) leading the way.

Anna Cockrell (above), Emma Brown, and 4 top-ranked relays have the Providence Day girls in good position.

PHILADELPHIA – The event that often draws the most excitement at track and field meets is the one-mile run. It should be no different this weekend (April 25-27) when some of the top prep milers from the northeast and beyond leg it out at the 119th annual Penn Relays Carnival, held at historic Franklin Field.

Isaiah Moore (Cummings) has had a low-key spring so far, but he is showing signs of returning to his top form soon.

Reneazia Collins (Monroe) is one of two female athletes that hold the top spot in three different events.

Trevor Sleight (Carolina Day) continues to dominate the rankings in both the 1600 and 3200.

The North Lincoln boys continued to prove they can hang with schools twice their size, averaging under 4:30 for 4x1600.

Relays take center stage in the East and the West, and points between, on the last major weekend of invitationals this spring.

Distance races take center stage this weekend at one of the oldest and proudest meets in the state of North Carolina.

Chris Cubra (AC Reynolds) will be defending his home turf this weekend, as 40 teams gather in Asheville.

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Four of the top six teams in the current ratings reside in Wake County, with Knightdale holding a narrow lead.

Wakefield's girls lost their county meet to the depth of Southeast Raleigh, but they gained the top spot in the Power Ratings.

The girls' 800 at Taco Bell was a North Carolina affair, as our athletes claimed the podium (and 4th place as well).

(photo by John Olson) John Crossley (West Carteret) showed Saturday that he will be in any conversation about the best distance runners in NC.

If the three big county meets were one, would Amara Bell be able to lead her Southeast Raleigh teammates to the title?

North Carolina athletes headed to Columbia for the Taco Bell Classic will encounter former NC athlete Kaila Smith.

By: Roy Benson (via www.runningcamps.org)

The 4x800 takes center stage for both boys and girls on Saturday, with Cary and Knightdale right in the middle of it.

Blair Ramsey will try to lead Grimsley against powerful Southeast Guilford in one of three major county meets this weekend.

COLUMBIA -- Finally, feels like spring in the Palmetto State. Just in time for the 21st annual Taco Bell Track and Field Classic. As the season changes so do the times, after 20 years Kevin Shaw has passed the baton onto me and the era of Shaw’s Shakedown reaches the finish line. Please don’t worry as Kevin isn’t going anywhere and will keep his vital role as one of the meet directors.

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth title in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il. Photo by Image of Sport.

Wesley Frazier posted the top time in the nation in the Raleigh Relays, and Eliza Dekker also made the US top 25.

Knightdale's boys have put up some impressive times in three relays, although they have good competition in the rankings.

This past weekend, Durham Academy's Eliza Dekker became the first North Carolina girl to break 5 minutes this season.

The Wakefield girls faced national power St. Thomas Aquinas, and came away with US #11 or better in all three relays.

Parkland's girls, who chose pink out of their multitude of uniform options, entered the North Carolina all-time top 10 in the 4x100.

Cameron Stinson (wearing #5) ran the fastest FAT 100 in the state this year, and also tied for the top spot in the long jump.

Shakinah Brooks (lane 6) and Southeast Raleigh will try to take one more step toward putting it all together.

  Cameron Stinson, indoor state champion in the long jump, will try to win that event and the sprints in his home town.

Dejah Hayes is the only girl from any classification to have triple-jumped further than 37 feet so far this season.

The boys in black and gold currently lead 3 of the four relays, and you have to bet that they will put up a big 4x2 before long.

This familiar sight from cross country has returned for track season, as Doggett and Ebihara lead Cardinal Gibbons.

Fike's Ian West began defense of his pole vault state title with a PR of 15' 1", putting him in the state lead for all classes.

Anna Cockrell (lane 5) has continued her breakout in the hurdles, and her teammates lead the state in all 4 relays.

Marcus Abraham is just one of the many athletes from this classification that can hang with anyone from the public schools.