Sheepshead Bay, NY breaks national record with 28.93 win in the 4x55m SHR (4 hurdles).

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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.

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.

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

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.

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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.