Sheroid Evans said he knew. He knew for sure. Which means he either has an excellent internal clock or he should buy a lottery ticket on his 18^th birthday.

There was a point in the race, just off the last curve in the 200 meters, where Ashton Purvis showed that no matter what happened she refused to relent. It was when Whitney Fountain came barreling off the turn and into Purvis’s vision.

Nick Vena already locked up his third straight national title. The pressure faded. He found a familiar place. The Morristown junior imagined himself alone at practice.

Marielle Hall didn’t look at the clock once. That’s what she said. She didn’t look at the clock until she realized that she had a shot to break 17 minutes in her first indoor 5,000 meters.

Richmond Ahadzi and his looked up at the JumboTron hovering above the track, waiting for a time to show up.

Complete winners gallery, links to results, and photo galleries

The brainchild of Peter Walsh, owner of Coogan’s in partnership with the New York Road Runners this past Sundays 5K race was one of the largest and most exciting community running events ever held in New York City. All shades of green costumes, Dominican flags and soul music played along the great long way up Fort Washington Avenue around the Cloisters and back to the Armory at 168^th Street.

Five years after setting a national high school record, Shaquan Brown is finally headed to an NCAA championships. He is scheduled to run the 400 at this weekend’s Div. III nationals, Friday and Saturday at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., for Coach Mike Jackson’s Ramapo College team, of Mahwah, N.J.

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ITHACA – Alex Hatz shook his head in the kind of “aw shucks,” fashion. Not because he lost his race, he didn’t. Hatz just didn’t execute perfectly. He left it get too close. Well, too close for him.

ITHACA – She shouldn’t be, but Kelsey Margey said she was shocked by winning her first state title Saturday at Cornell University’s Barton Hall.

Columbia University sophomore Kyle Merber won the Columbia Last Chance meet today at The Armory in 3:58.52 leading four runners under four minutes.

They all looked at each other with a mix of excitement and confusion. It was the kind of face that asks, “Did that just happen?”

They didn’t start a big celebration or round up the team for a victory lap. They accepted their award, smiled for pictures, packed up and left. They had done all this before.

Sheepshead Bay sulked down the staircase and started to trudge over to the midfield. Coach John Padula had just laid into them about all the lost opportunities. Thinking all the while that the Sharks had lost by two points.

Veronica Campbell-Brown hoped for more. The opportunity was there. Sheri-Ann Brooks pressed her the entire way but Campbell never let her close enough.

NYU Fastrack Invitational Set for Friday,
Expected Weather Concerns Push Start Time Back to 3:00pm

She didn’t want to celebrate early. A couple times already, she brushed the high jump a couple times earlier and she watched those bars shake until they dropped.

The last time Haddonfield’s Jon Vitez took the baton for the anchor leg of the distance medley relay, he felt great for the first few steps. Then his baton hit the runner’s foot to his outside and the stick clink-clinking to the infield, blowing the race and robbing spectators of a showdown between Vitez and West Orange’s Curtis Richburg.

(Photo by Tim Fulton)

The meet is on as scheduled.  Live webcast begins at 6pm.

Johnathan Shawel of Notre Dame looked gassed, like someone ad threw quick-dry cement in his path and Villanova’s Carl MacKenzie fought like mad to get around. Then just when it seemed Shawel might walk to the finish he accelerated again and MacKenzie hit the wall.

The first time Villanova’s Sheila Reid crossed the finish line she smiled wide after she crushed the last 200 meters, leaving the field in her wake on her way to winning the 1,000 meters at the Big East Championships.

Marie Louise Asselin sprawled herself on the track a few meters from the finish line and reached her hand out to West Virginia teammate Clara Grandt for an exhausted low-five. They both got NCAA automatic qualifier they were looking for and owed each other a bit of thanks as well.

Some of New York and the nation’s best will compete as United States as members of Team Jamaica Bickle at the Gibson Relays in Jamaica next Saturday.

NEW YORK -- Ed Grant, whose career covering track and field began 66 years ago, has been named the recipient of the fourth Stan Saplin Sports Media Award.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: There will be NO HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICE on Friday, Feb. 19 and Tuesday, Feb. 23.

New Rochelle coach Rosalind Gallino swore her team had run out of ammunition. North Rockland coach Gene Dall thought the same about his squad. Mount Vernon was poised the snatch the whole thing. But that’s why teams snatch and claw for points early.

Many times championship meets, especially ones that feature traditionally powerhouse teams, boil down to who can last the longest – like two heavyweight boxers waiting for the other to punch himself out. In those cases, the team that has one superstar – that one towering right hook – is the team that leaves with the hardware.

Spokane, Was. - Providence College freshman Shelby Greany won the USATF Championship today.  Competing in the junior 6,000 meter, which is for athletes under 20 years old, Greany ran 20:27 to beat Emily Sisson of Chesterfield, Missouri by five seconds.

If track and field had buzz-beaters it would be like this. Fordham Prep simply needed to score to win. That meant a fifth-place finish.

When St. Anthony’s coach Oliver St. Aude opened his email Saturday morning he did not see the kind of encouraging messages one hopes to get before a championship competition. Instead he saw a bunch of emails from team members who wouldn’t make it to the meet.

Melissa Kurzdorfer walked into the shot put circle for the last of her four attempts in the shot put. But just before she went in she turned to her coach.

These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet. We scored 20 deep for individuals and 20 deep for relays. For example, for individuals 1st place received 20 points for their team, on down to 1 point for 20th place.

These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet. We scored 20 deep for individuals and 20 deep for relays. For example, for individuals 1st place received 20 points for their team, on down to 1 point for 20th place.

Due to expected snow storm Wednesday, the Hudson County Championships have been canceled. There is no makeup date.

Nick Vena’s best throws crashed into the left side of the cage.  But even those throws bounced somewhere around 68 feet. That means that even on his “off” days, Vena is the best thrower in the country.

Neither Blake Heriot nor Brady Gehret had raced 300 meters before. Yet, in two different sections of the junior boys 300 they notched the two fastest times in the country this season.

LSU’s Walter Henning can call the Armory home.  He knows everyone in the building. Even more people know him. Plus he spent endless hours camping out by the throwers’ cage for countless weekends as high schooler at St. Anthony’s on Long Island.

When Melissa Kurzdorfer let the weight go, she let out the sort of primal yell that accompanies throwing events as a matter of custom. But the scream turned from a release of tension to a signal of terror while Lancaster’s star thrower started to tip out the throwing circle.

Ryan McDermott had one of those moments. It was the kind of moment that instigates multiple cell phone calls and tell the same story over and over and over yet each time with a renewed excitement. He already had the story laid out for him. All the Duke senior needed to do was secure the happy ending.

Ryan McDermott had one of those moments. It was the kind of moment that instigates multiple cell phone calls and tell the same story over and over and over yet each time with a renewed excitement. He already had the story laid out for him. All the Duke senior needed to do was secure the happy ending.

D.J. Thornton spent most of his mile race in the front, running all alone. It seemed sort of fitting. Injury kept the Union Catholic (Scotch Plains, N.J.) senior out of all the biggest invitational miles this season.

The Armory will be closed for practice on Thursday, February 4^th between 10am – 3pm. The only time for college and adult athletes to practice on that day will be between 6:30pm – 9:30pm.

Amber Campbell took over the world lead for the 2010 indoor season in the women’s weight throw Friday afternoon in a big weekend of throwing at the Armory.

NEW YORK – It seemed perfect. Bernard Lagat sat exactly where he needed to be with Asbel Kiprop of Kenya taking on all the work while he drafted and Great Britian’s Andy Baddeley kept him honest from behind. (Photo by Mary DiBiase Blaich/wingedfootfotos.com)

NEW YORK – She looked like she had climbed a mountain or finally shouldered down a locked door that she pounded on for years. When Cory McGee finally snapped the finish line tape all she could do was stand there and take a second to enjoy a moment that teased her for her entire high school career.

NEW YORK – Cardozo’s Ahtyana Johnson laid sprawled long the floor in a corridor behind the track. She had nothing left.

NEW YORK – It wasn’t that Chelsea Johnson hated the pole vault. She just wanted no part of it. That was her dad’s thing. She wanted her own thing.

The press conference just ended which is always a good time for a photo op. So Willie Gault backed up in front of a wall of Millrose Games and Visa logos and put his fist up, then Tim Dwight joined him in a fight stance, like two boxers poising for flashing cameras before a Vegas main event.

Bernard Lagat barely remembers his first Wanamaker Mile win at the Millrose Games in 2001. What he does remember is being enchanted by New York City and Madison Square Garden so much so that he didn’t even realize that the track would be, well, umm, weird.

Two-time Olympic silver medalist Adam Nelson and 2006 World Indoor champ Reese Hoffa will each look to win a third Visa men's shot put title, and all-time Jamaican women's sprint great Veronica Campbell-Brown will look to scorch the track in the Visa women's 60 meters January 29 at Madison Square Garden in New York City at the 103^rd Millrose Games.

The Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden is a historical meet with a rich history, an event that immediately invokes magical memories of the One Mile Run for high school enthusiasts.  With the 103rd running of these games set for Friday, January 29th we have put together five defining moments of the girls and boys high school One Mile Run.  Our hope is that these stories encourage others to look up the history of this rich event and discover how many amazing athletes have run this 11-lap-to-the-mile track and emerged with fast times and incredible stories.

Then the race concluded, Natasha Hastings walked in the media room and sprawled across a black couch in the corner and settled in.  She’s always been comfortable at the Armory.

The crowd keep buzzing afterward, the way an audience sounds when they are still trying to accept the moment into reality. That’s how it sounded after the boys 4x200 at the New Balance Games – a buzzing that signified both awe and admiration.

In the ol’ movies there was a collection of riff-raff called the East Side Kids.  The movie plots were about bullies, the powerful gangsters and cops being outwitted and downsized by these street wise, mother loving kids.  Well, here’s the country version - the Juggernauts! They didn’t need much inspiration to train, and they trained laughing, and when their idol Steve Prefontaine died, they trained crying but they trained.  They ran for the love of it, they ran for the fun of it and they won because they were brave enough not to let each other down.

The Suffern senior chose her dream school, even when it seemed like it would turn into a nightmare. Clayton, who leaped 20 feet, 5 inches at the Hispanic Games Jan. 9, made a verbal commitment to Louisiana State University two weeks ago.  Her jump was the ninth-best all-time in the country and the top attempt in the nation this season.

Did you know that after the Armory Webcast's end, we load the entire file to the website so you can watch it on demand.  There is even a pull down menu so you can jump to the event you'd like to see.

American women's pole vault record holder Jenn (Stuczynski) Suhr and 2004 Olympic men's pole vault gold medalist Tim Mack will attempt to reach new heights at the 103rd Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden.

Team Bickle’s all-star squad won two relays at the prestigious Gibson Relays in Kingston, Jamaica this weekend, smashing one meet record.