U.S. sweeps the relays at World Jr; Loxsom, Andrews finish 2-3 in 800 Jack Pfeifer Jul 27, 2010

Collegians Cas Loxsom and Robby Andrews won the silver and bronze medals in the men’s 800 on Sunday, the concluding day of the weeklong World Juniors championships in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Andrews, Loxsom advance in 800 at WJr Jack Pfeifer Jul 23, 2010

College freshmen Robby Andrews and Cas Loxsom both moved on to the semifinals of the men’s 800 at the World Junior Championships Friday morning in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Ajee Wilson 5th in 800, runs PR 2:04.18 Jack Pfeifer Jul 23, 2010

Ajee Wilson, the sophomore from Neptune (N.J.) High School, finished fifth in the women’s 800 in the World Junior Championships Thursday night in Moncton, New Brunswick. Wilson ran 2:04.18, a lifetime best and the fastest time by a high school girl in the country this year.

Vena 4th in shot, misses the medals; Sisson runs 15:48 in 5k Jack Pfeifer Jul 22, 2010

Nick Vena advances to SP final; Ajee Wilson averts catastrophe in 8 Jack Pfeifer Jul 21, 2010

Nick Vena (Morristown, NJ) advanced to the final of the men’s shot put Wednesday morning at the World Junior Championships in Moncton, New Brunswick. Using the international 6k implement, Vena put 65-3.5 for an automatic qualifier. He finished second in the preliminary round, behind Yongheng Deng of China, who did 65-11.5.

Greany advances to final Jack Pfeifer Jul 21, 2010

Shelby Greany didn’t get an auto Q but she did move into the final of the World Junior steeplechase, after finishing fifth in her heat on Tuesday morning in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Greany readys for steeple at World Jrs; Hasay, Sisson far back in 3K Jack Pfeifer Jul 20, 2010

Columbia grad Hurtault runs 46.02 in Lignano Jack Pfeifer Jul 19, 2010

Erison Hurtault, the Columbia graduate who runs for his native Dominica, continued a solid 2010 campaign, running 46.02 for second place at an invitational meet Sunday evening in Lignano, Italy.

UPDATE: Cuffe is out of 3K, again Jack Pfeifer Jul 19, 2010

Clayton, Cuffe and Fountain added to U.S. Juniors team Jack Pfeifer Jul 19, 2010

French vaulter Lavillenie wins in Paris with 19-4.75 Jack Pfeifer Jul 19, 2010

The young French vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, who wowed the Armory crowd a year ago, won the Meeting Areva competition in Paris on Friday, clearing the final three heights all alone before finally failing at a stratospheric 19-11.

N.J.'s Erin Donohue runs sub-2:00 Jack Pfeifer Jul 15, 2010

Erin Donohue, the Haddonfield (N.J.) native who is back in the metro area training with Coach Frank Gagliano, broke 2:00 in the 800 meters for the first time in her career this week, running 1:59.99 to win the Naimette-Xhovemont meet on Tuesday in Liege, Belgium.

Greany heads to World Juniors looking for a medal in the steeple Jack Pfeifer Jul 14, 2010

Shelby Greany, fresh off a successful first year at Providence College, heads to the World Junior Championships in Moncton, New Brunswick, in Eastern Canada this weekend, to run the 3,000-meter steeplechase as a member of the U.S. team.

CPTC wins National Club Championship Jack Pfeifer Jul 12, 2010

The Central Park Track Club won the USATF national club championships over the weekend in San Francisco, defeating the Norfolk Real Deal Track Club of Virginia by 23 points.

CPTC taking 37 athletes to club championships Jack Pfeifer Jul 07, 2010

The Central Park Track Club/New Balance is taking a large contingent of 37 competitors to this weekend’s USATF club championships in San Francisco, in an effort to reclaim the national team title it won in 2008.

Columbia (N.J.) girls finish second at inaugural Nike meet Jack Pfeifer Jul 06, 2010

EUGENE, Ore. – The Columbia/Maplewood girls’ team – one of three New Jersey schools in the meet – finished second at the first Nike Track Nationals meet last Friday. The event, contested by 12 boys’ teams and 12 girls’ teams from around the country, was an attempt to name the best high school track teams in the country.

Three New Jersey high schools head West for new national meet Jack Pfeifer Jul 01, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. – Three high school teams from New Jersey – the Delsea boys along with the girls’ teams from South Brunswick and Columbia/Maplewood – have come to Oregon this week for an inaugural meet attempting to crown the nation’s best high school track teams.

Hawthorne makes Jamaican national team Jack Pfeifer Jun 30, 2010

Trisha-Ann Hawthorne (Alexander Hamilton, Elmsford) finished fourth in the 100 at the Jamaican national championships over the weekend in Kingston and as a result has been selected to run on the Jamaican national team later this summer.

New York vaulters finish 1-3 at US nationals Jack Pfeifer Jun 28, 2010

It was no surprise to see Jenn Suhr on the podium at Sunday’s national championships in Des Moines, Iowa, winning another pole vault title. The surprise was to see a fellow upstate New Yorker there with her.

Cuffe wins Jrs 5,000 but may not be on team Jack Pfeifer Jun 26, 2010

Aisling Cuffe, the junior at Cornwall Central H.S., defended her national Junior championship on Saturday in the girls’ 5,000 meters and won the race by 25 seconds, but she may not be eligible to run in the World Juniors meet for the United States later this summer.

Manhattan grad Freeman throws 251-0, wins first national title Jack Pfeifer Jun 26, 2010

A few months short of his 30^th birthday, Jake Freeman finally won his first national championship in the hammer throw, throwing 251-0 on Friday evening to defeat clubmate Kibwe Johnson by eight inches.

Loxsom upsets Andrews in Jrs 800; NJ's Ajee Wilson wins girls 8 Jack Pfeifer Jun 25, 2010

In a battle of precocious college freshmen, Penn State’s Cas Loxsom beat Virginia’s Robby Andrews, 1:47.45-1:47.75, in the U.S. Juniors championship 800 Friday afternoon at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Both teenagers thus qualified for the U.S. team that will compete at the World Juniors later this summer in New Brunswick, Canada.

Vena makes Junior team in shot put; Cuffe, Fountain finish 3rd, get NY records Jack Pfeifer Jun 25, 2010

Nick Vena, the junior at Morristown (N.J.) High School, won the Junior men’s shot put at the USATF national championships on Thursday, making the U.S. team for the World Juniors. Vena put the 6k (13.2#) shot 66-1. Hayden Baillio, a freshman at the University of Texas, was 2^nd, at 65-3 ¼.

Fountain 2nd after Day One of Junior hep Jack Pfeifer Jun 24, 2010

\Whitney Fountain (Columbus, NYC) stood in 2nd place after the first day of the USATF Juniors heptathlon on Wednesday at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Fountain, believed to be competing in her first heptathlon – her entry was based on a pentathlon score – scored 3,241 points in the opening four events. She was just behind Ashley Smith (Millikan, Long Beach, Calif), the national high school leader this spring with a best of 5,225.

USATF Preview: Greany, Andrews go for World Juniors Jack Pfeifer Jun 21, 2010

College freshmen Shelby Greany of Providence College and Robby Andrews of the University of Virginia will try to make the U.S. team for this summer’s World Junior Championships, to be held next month in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Henning wins NCAA hammer on his final throw Jack Pfeifer Jun 17, 2010

NCAA Champs: Blood finishes third in 10k, scores first points for Oregon Jack Pfeifer Jun 11, 2010

 

EUGENE, Ore. – Nicole Blood, running just the third 10,000 of her career, finished third in the NCAA final here at the University of Oregon on a cool, rainy evening at Hayward Field Wednesday, scoring 6 points for the hometown Ducks.

Columbia Jack Pfeifer Jun 07, 2010

Kyle Merber, the sophomore at Columbia who at 19 is establishing himself as an important miler, heads to Eugene, Ore., this week for his first NCAA outdoor championships. He won his regional quarterfinal in the 1,500, in a tactical race, to become 1 of 24 runners left in the event.

NCAA D-I: Scarlet Knights ride high/NYers' advance Jack Pfeifer May 31, 2010

Mike Mulqueen’s Scarlet Knights recorded a raft of lifetime bests and school records at the NCAA Division I East Regional meet over the weekend in Greensboro, N.C., as his Rutgers men’s team qualified four individuals and a 4x4 team to the national championship finals. Those will be held June 9-12 in Eugene, Ore.

NCAA D-II/D-III: Neely Spence wins Div II 5,000 Jack Pfeifer May 31, 2010

Neely Spence of Shippensburg defended her national championship at the NCAA Division II nationals over the weekend in Charlotte, N.C., turning back a challenge from a hometown runner, Tanya Zeferjahn of Queens University of Charlotte, 16:14.23-16:20.56. Zeferjahn, a 25-year-old graduate student from California,  had won the 10,000 earlier in the meet.