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Why did you start your sport? Answer & Win from Sport Science!
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted August 28, 2011 at 5:14pm

It’s cross country season! Once again, I am coaching a high school girls program. I knew this year would be different and I was excited to see all the things I would learn through this new journey. I wasn’t wrong in my expectation because I feel like ...more

Let's Hear it for the Girls: 2011 Gatorade High School Female Athletes of the Year
by anngaff
posted July 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

LOS ANGELES (July 12, 2011) - Some of the biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles Tuesday night as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the ninth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year a...more

"College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity" (NY Times)
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted April 26, 2011 at 12:18pm

The following is an article published on the New York Times sports section (Apr. 25, 2011) by KATIE THOMAS, titled, “College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity”. Read it and give me your thoughts! Ever since Congress passed the f...more

A broken neck, a gold medal, and a tank full of sass
by Byline to Finish Line
posted April 2, 2011 at 11:27am

Something good had to come from this. Jenna Hanson just knew it. She kept telling herself that, over and over, until she eventually she believed it. A promising three-sport athlete at Honeyoe Falls-Lima High School in central New York State, Jenna’s sp...more

Sunday Evening Decathlete: Flanagan gets bronze, US women marathoners in good shape, Mark Block and more
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted March 21, 2011 at 11:20am

What did we learn this week?Shalane Flanagan has made a huge step up. Three years ago she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 10,000 meters. Today she won a bronze medal at the World Cross Country Championships. How is this a huge step up?First of all, ...more

Trail running and effing ankle rolls
by The Glowing Edge
posted March 9, 2011 at 6:08pm

New training tactics, new hazards. Also new curse words. Well, maybe the same old curse words. All of it is worth the fabulous experience of running a trail, and with the advent of spring (and no more local gym membership) I’m totally off the treadm...more

Sara Ensrud Vaughn: The Student-Athlete Wonder Woman
by JozDalt
posted February 9, 2011 at 10:31am

Sara Vaughn opens up about what it was like to stand tall in her running shoes as a pregnant student-athlete despite expectations to have an abortion....more

Cross Country National Championships
by Fast at Forty
posted February 7, 2011 at 9:41pm

If I was a horse, I would not be a mudder; I hate getting dirty. Luckily, the course for the 2011 Cross Country National Championships in San Diego was entirely on grass. The 2k loop, which was completed four times, was deceptively hard. The first kilome...more

There is no I in team (but there is in triathlon)
by Fast at Forty
posted February 4, 2011 at 5:58pm

In the world of swimming, Masters status is achieved at the age of 18. I swam my first Masters meet when I was 23. In the world of running, Masters status is achieved at the age of 40. Guess what? I am 40. It turns out that being a 40 year old female runn...more

Allyson Felix surprises Aisling Cuffe with announcement of Gatorade honor
by anngaff
posted February 1, 2011 at 5:27pm

This article is part of our National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) celebration. Today, high school cross-country and track & field star Aisling Cuffe got the surprise of her lifetime. Olympic and World Championships gold medalist Allyson Feli...more

Irish runner Fionnuala Britton
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted January 27, 2011 at 9:42am

Fionnula Britton (right) Belgium 2010Cross-country running often calls up images of mud, shivering legs and rain-soaked heads. And that's just in the summer. Irishwoman Fionnula Britton was named Sports Woman of the Month for an impressive month of intern...more

Delaware to drop two sports
by Title IX Blog
posted January 20, 2011 at 8:13pm

The University of Delaware announced this week that they will be dropping men's cross country and men's indoor track from its list of varsity sports in order to comply with Title IX. The two sports will have club status after this year.The option to add m...more

A college track team eliminated
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 19, 2011 at 5:23pm

This morning it was announced that the University of Delaware will eliminate its men's track and cross country teams, effective at the end of this school year. The teams will technically still compete at the club level, but for all practical purposes th...more

Superfan Daily: Weekend Roundup of Track & Field, Cross-Country and Road Result
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 17, 2011 at 12:33pm

Cross CountryCross de Itálica (IAAF Permit)Sunday, Seville ESPWinners: Leonard Komon (8k), Vivian Cheruiyot (8k)IAAF story and resultsKenya Police Inter-Divisional Cross Country ChampionshipsSaturday, Ngong Race Course, Nairobi KENWinners: Geoffrey Mutai...more

Sunday Evening Decathlete
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 16, 2011 at 6:17pm

What did we learn this week?The World Cross Country Championships are going to be very interesting this year. Based on recent form, it looked like Kenyans Joseph Ebuya and Linet Masai were heavy favorites to win the individual titles. But then today's ...more

What's On the Weekend: Edinburgh XC, College Track & Field and more
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 7, 2011 at 1:24pm

Highlight meet of the weekendThe Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meet, will be held in the Scottish capital’s Holyrood Park on Saturday. The course, a version of the 2008 World Championships course, uses ...more

Lessons of my team's 2010 season
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 28, 2010 at 8:43pm

I coach high school cross country. Or rather, I did. Facing a $39 million budget shortfall, last spring our school district cut four sports, cross country among them. I offered to work for free, but in a large 60-school bureaucracy such things don't...more

What's On: The Weekend in Track & Field, Cross-Country and Road Racing
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 11, 2010 at 10:23am

Cross CountryThe Foot Locker High School Cross Country Championships will be held on Saturday in San Diego’s Balboa Park.Meet website / Flotrack coverageLive webcast begins at 11 AM at flotrack.orgRace times: girls at 12:15, boys at 1:00Let's Run predic...more

What's on: The weekend in track & field (11/26/10)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 26, 2010 at 6:56pm

Cross CountryThe Budapest Challenge, an EAA Permit cross country meet, takes place on Saturday in the Hungarian capital’s Népliget Park.Meet websiteEAA previewThe fourth meet in the KCB/Athletics Kenya Cross Country series takes place on Saturday in Ka...more

Sunday Evening Decathlete: Special Tuesday Edition
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 23, 2010 at 7:48pm

What did we learn at the NCAA Cross Country Championships?No surprise winners. All four of my picks for team and individual champions, as posted at Spiked Up Psyched Up, came through for the wins. I thought I was making very safe picks and going with the ...more

Sheila Reid leads Villanova to 9th NCAA Championship
by anngaff
posted November 22, 2010 at 1:17pm

Villanova women celebrating with their National Championship trophy. Photo courtesy of Chris Nickinson of Runnerspace.com Sheila Reid played her cards perfectly in today's NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was a very windy,...more

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