The NYU men’s cross country team has become a team to be reckoned with nationally, and the Violets will make their fourth trip in a row to the NCAA Division III nationals this Saturday morning at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. For the first time, they will also be joined by their women’s team.

Brooklyn Tech boys and Laguardia girls win City titles. Jason Stapleton of Curtis and Laguardia's Katherine Currier win individual championships.

North Shore senior Brianna Welch, one of the top middle distance runners in the state since middle school, has verbally committed to compete at Duke University next year. She chose the Blue Devils after narrowing her choices to Duke, Virginia and Columbia.

In the immediate aftermath of the boys CHSAA Intersectional Championships, the result was too close to call between St. Anthony’s and Chaminade. Soaked from a day’s worth of steady rainfall, the teams huddled around the finish line and tried to figure out who beat who. Amidst the uncertainty each team’s body language could not have been more different. While St. Anthony’s exchanged high fives and congratulatory hugs, Chaminade’s body language told another story.

PLATTSBURGH -- This season seemed destined to be a special one for Fayetteville-Manilus. On paper, it housed the best squad around. Even when Alex Hatz missed the better part of the season after having kidney surgery in August, many believed that FM would still be the best team in the state.

PLATTSBURGH – People often talk about how the greatest athletes create challenges for themselves or invent doubters that otherwise do not exist. It’s rare that an entire team has to create imaginary resistance or in this case, turn on each other.

Complete results, merged results, winners table, top times, and more to come

Roslyn senior Emily Lipari, the two-time defending Class A state champion, will sit out what would have been her final cross country state meet. Lipari said felt pain in her ankle after the Section 8 conference championships but ran through the discomfort all week and even at the Section 8 championships.

We know it's a little hard to watch the races with the athletes running in Sectional t-shirts instead of their usual uniforms so we decided to offer a few tips.

ArmoryTrack.com will once again be onsite at The NYSPHSAAChampionships, this year being held in Plattsburgh, NY.  We will provide race pictures and video, video interviews, and stories - all to be posted Saturday-Monday.

Photo courtesy: John Olson, South Carolina Runner's

Roslyn’s Emily Lipari chose Villanova. The senior, ranked seventh in the Milesplit National poll, chose Nova last week over Oregon, Providence and Georgetown.

Some showed frustration following Sunday’s  NYAIS championships after an extra loop was inadvertently added to the 5K course at Van Cortlandt Park, extending race by almost half a mile.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Shenendehowa coach Mark Thompson made certain to use the words “soundly beaten” when he talked about where his team stood with three-quarters of a mile left in the Class AA race the Section 2 championships. But whether it was catching a glimpse of the finish line or the sight of sectional championship and berth to the state meet fading away, Shen summoned something in that final stretch.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – When the race was over and the scores were tallied; after the runners had done all they could and accepted the result, Burnt Hills coach Shaun Zepf walked over to Queensbury coach Bob Underwood and gripped his shoulders and shook him behind – a playful gesture and ended in a congratulatory hug.

Here's a quick look at some of the closer races reported so far.  Remember that only the winning team advances to next weekend's state championships.

The qualifying meets for the NYSPHSAA Championships will be held Thursday-Saturday this weekend.  Over fifty different races will be held to determine which team gets to represent their section and try to win a NY State Championships.

Quite obviously, Emma Lazarus and Mary Wittenberg share sisterly
views of the American nation. For sure, their lives - a century and a quarter apart - never coincided, but their visions surely do.

Results from 31 plus meets from last week alone and all of the performances have been added to the database.  The team championships just keep coming.

Monsignor Farrell wins its 24th NY Catholic Sectional Team Championship at Van Cortalndt Park as St. Joseph-by-the Sea's Daniel Zaccariello takes the individual title with a fine 13:09 over the 2.5 mile course.  (Derek Alvez/ Staten Island Advance)

    NEW YORK - Hard-core college cross country fans know that the NCAA Division I Championships haven’t been held at Van Cortlandt Park since 1969.

In a thrilling race that came down to the last few miles American Meb Keflezighi became the first American since Alberto Salazar in 1982 to win the ING New York City Marathon.

 ArmoryTrack.com has 7,337 boys ranked at 5000m right now, the deepest rankings you can find anywhere.  Below are the top 50 boys overall and the top 10 freshma

 Here's a quick look at the top 50 girls in NY State as well as the top 8th and 9th graders.  This should be a reminder that the state rankings can be sorted anyway you like - by class, county, grade, e

This week's How They Train features Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake junior Kiersten Anderson.

ArmoryTrack.com is pleased to welcome St. Anthony’s coach Tim Dearie to this edition of the Coaches’ Corner.

Each winter The Armory College Preparation Program provides SAT instruction for New York City high school students who practice at The Armory. This year, the classes got off to an early start. Last Tuesday evening, fourteen students showed up at The Armory to attend their first session.

WAPPINGERS FALLS –The weather seemed like the weather might have shown its worst already.  Maybe for a second they might have thought that the rain would hold off. The course had already been thrashed by all the precipitation and the previous races.

WAPPINGERS FALLS – Covered in mud and drenched by rain, Amanda Moreland held on to her teammate and stayed in her ear about all the things she could have done better in her race. Not like a coach. Not like disgruntled teammate. But like a big sister that simply wanted to help understand why things happen in a race and how she can learn from them.

The Armory Foundation and USA Track and Field have formed a partnership to save the historic Millrose Games, Armory Foundation president Dr. Nobert Sander, Jr. and USATF CEO Doug Logan announced at the New Balance Track and Field center today.

ArmoryTrack.com is pleased to welcome Don Bosco Prep's Kevin Kilduff to this edition of the Coaches’ Corner.