Queen Harrison will compete in the 60 meters at the 104th Millrose Games. She spoke via Skype at the Track Writers' Luncheon at the National Track and Field Hall of Fame Tuesday.
If there is a perfect way to earn a name for yourself, there couldn’t be one better than taking down on of the best quarter-milers in the country in a matchup that includes the biggest rivalry in New York City track and field. Sandrae Farquharson did both.
After the 4x200 trials at the Hispanic Games, Suitland (Md.) knew its relay needed to make a small but major adjustment to they way they raced. “Everybody needed to get out faster,” said anchor leg Levern Jacobs.
Drive phase. Transition. Finish. Potomac (Md.) junior Ronald Darby made it sound that simple when he broke the 55-meter meet record at the Hispanic Games Saturday.
There’s never been a PSAL athlete to clear 50 feet in the triple jump indoors. Only two jumpers in the country did it last year and just one in 2009.
After a training session Sanya Richards-Ross was kind enough to talk with Christopher Hunt about her goals for this year and the possibility of her competing this indoor season.
Things changed so quickly for Francis Lewis senior Chukwuebuka Enekwechi that he barely had a chance to digest it all. Every time he threw a shot put that sailed over 60 feet he felt like a kid on Christmas morning – lulled into a trance by his first bike.
Medgar Evers has no shortage of sprinters. That much is clear. The Cougars proved again Saturday that they can mix and match and still field one of the best relays in the country.
Christopher Columbus junior Strymar Livingston makes no secret about it. The 800 meters is his favorite race. Any threat against that is like an invasion of territory.
When Jordan Yamoah broke the New York State pole vault record Friday, for the second time in three days, everything slowed down the way things do when athletes zero in.
The first installment of the Armory’s Athletes of the Week, sponsored by AT&T, features record-breakers Jordan Yamoah of Arlington and Tatnall’s Haley Pierce.
When Mel Mosley of Middletown won the state championship in the 600 meters last year, he was just as shocked as everyone else. He didn’t come into the race at Bishop Loughlin as a sleeper or even an underdog but that didn’t stop him from dropping jaws all over again.
Mary Kate Anselmini kept dialing it up, never letting Carey get close enough to challenge as Anselmini became the first automatic qualifier for the Millrose Games high school mile. She won the qualifying race at the Bishop Loughlin Games Saturday in 4:58.06, a personal best.
The first qualifier for the invitational high school mile at the Millrose Games kicks off this Saturday at the 2010 Bishop Loughlin Games. This season, the road to Madison Square Garden runs right through the New Balance Track and Field Center and it’s heating up already.
It’s not unnatural for a jumper to look into the stands after each attempt, looking to their coach for what went wrong or what to tweek for the next attempt.
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Claudia Francis has rejoined Cardozo’s track and field team, her mother and coach confirmed today.
PORTLAND, Ore. – One by one they crossed the finish line, each one crying. Fayetteville-Manlius knew what was happening.
PORTLAND, Ore. – When Ammar Moussa finally made it back to his team’s tent someone had already pulled out their cell phone to announce exactly how much his Arcadia team had won by.
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WAPPINGERS FALLS – Before the race, Fayetteville-Manlius coach Bill Aris reminded his team that the race would be the last chance they had this season to prove who they really were.
WAPPINGERS FALLS – Fayetteville-Manilus took another step toward is fifth straight national championship Saturday, claiming the team title at the Nike Cross New York Regional for the third straight time.
WAPPINGERS FALLS – West Windsor-Plainsboro North senior Jim Rosa and Edward Cheserek of St. Benedict’s Prep led the boys race throughout. That much was expected.
They talked about what they did differently. This year Stony Brook coach Andy Ronan didn’t waste any time having his women’s team toiling at smaller meets against lesser competition. They stepped right into the fray against the big guns and had their best season ever.
Stony Brook recorded its best finishes ever both as a team and individually at the NCAA Championships yesterday in Terre Haute, Ind. The women’s team finished seventh overall led by the Van Dalen twins, Lucy and Holly, who finished sixth and seventh respectively.
WAPPINGERS FALLS -- Packer Collegiate's Eddie Owens clocked 15:43.9, the fourth-fastest time ever at Bowdoin, faster than Sayville’s Brian Dalpiaz, who ran at Georgetown, and Tully’s Lopez Lomong, qualified for the 2008 Olympics in the 1500.
PAWLING – The girls said they never gave it much thought. The coach insisted that perfection, or at least a perfect score, was never a goal.
PAWLING – Shaker junior Mike Libruk said his team still thinks of themselves as underdogs. No national ranking – Shaker is ranked eighth -- could change that.
The more you look at the what could happen at New York State Championships Saturday in girls Class AA, the more you look at the rankings and the predictions, the more you look at how the race could play out on paper, it begs the question: Can Fayetteville-Manlius score a perfect 15 again?
No matter what the history of a program graduation can kill a team and because of that there were a lot of folks that didn’t expect much from the Burnt Hills girls team.