by usadmin | Jun 18, 2012 | Featured, Half Marathon, News
DULUTH, Minn. – (June 16, 2012) – 2012 Olympic Marathon team members Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.) lived up to their pre-race favorite status, taking the respective men’s and women’s titles at...
by usadmin | Jun 14, 2012 | Featured, News
INDIANAPOLIS – Jesse Williams has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning the high jump and establishing a meet record over the weekend at the adidas Grand Prix in New York. Williams’ jump of 2.36m/7-8.75 is the second...
by usadmin | Jun 10, 2012 | 10k, Featured, Kenya, News
NEW YORK – (June 9, 2012) – On a day when the NYRR New York Mini 10K celebrated 40 years of being the first, and often the best, women-only race in the world, Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat used some nostalgia of her own to pull away from Aheza Kiros of...
by usadmin | Jun 7, 2012 | Featured, News, Track
Olympic champions and record holders Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson, Michael Johnson and Dan O’Brien are the latest American track and field legends to be included among the 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federation...
by usadmin | Jun 5, 2012 | Awards, Featured, News, Youth
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Twin Cities In Motion (TCM) has named Megan Kilbride of Lakeville South High School and Jensen Orlow of Holy Family Catholic High School as the 2012 recipients of the organization’s college scholarships. The TCM College Scholarship is a...
by usadmin | May 29, 2012 | 10k, Featured, Kenya, News
BOULDER, Colo. – May 28, 2012 – When Deena Kastor crossed the finish line in third place at Monday’s 34th Dick’s Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER 10K, she took a few steps and a couple of deep breaths, then turned and hugged teammate Janet...