Track & Field »
Features
June 11, 2021
Facility Focus: Illini’s Demirjian Park Head of the Pack
The YouTube video lasts just 96 seconds, but that’s plenty of time for dozens of exciting exultations from the University of Illinois women’s soccer team. It’s the type of over-the-moon exuberance usually reserved for championship celebratio...
May 13, 2021
Mask Mandates Updated in Oregon After Runner Collapses
The Oregon Health Authority updated its mask guidance recently for non-contact sports following a high school runner collapsing during the home stretch of a race in Bend, OR. As part of the updated guidelines, those participating in non-contact sp...
April 7, 2021
Track Coach Fired for Refusing to Force Athletes to Wear Masks
A New Hampshire high school track and field coach was fired earlier this week for not making his student-athletes wear masks. Brad Keyes, a third-year track and field coach at Pembroke Academy, penned a letter to his athletic director, Fred Vezina...
December 10, 2020
OSAA Pushes High School Sports to February
The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) announced earlier this week that the start of the high school sports season will be pushed back to February. In a report from The Statesman Journal, practices for winter sports were slated to begin a...
November 13, 2020
Ivy League Cancels Winter Sports, Delays Spring
The Ivy League became the first NCAA Division I conference to officially cancel its winter sports season, according to an ESPN report. In addition to canceling the winter sports season, the Ivy League also announced the postponement of spring spor...
October 30, 2020
UAA Conference Cancels 2020-21 Winter Season
The University Athletic Association (UAA) Presidents Council has unanimously approved a resolution to cancel all formal UAA winter sport competition for the 2020-21 season. Over the last several months several UAA committees comprising athletic ad...
April 17, 2020
Choosing turf: how one school district implemented a superior product
{Sponsored} Ten years ago, the Hamburg Area School District in Pennsylvania renovated the stadium that contained their football field as well as the track. At the time, the field was grass, and it was subject to all of the issues that can result from...
February 4, 2020
Achieving excellence in coaching by learning from the best
{Sponsored} Lawrence Judge, Ph.D., epitomizes coaching excellence. His experience includes coaching NCAA champions, Olympians, Paralympians and over 100 All-Americans for over 30 years. At the November 2019 World Championships in Dubai, his athletes ...
July 2, 2019
Focusing on warm-ups and warm-downs
What’s the best way for a track athlete to warm up and warm down? If you’re looking for simple answers, University of Arkansas men’s track coach Chris Bucknam isn’t your man. “It gets complicated quickly,” he said. But Bucknam’s hist...
February 13, 2019
Reducing Time, Money and Stress for Turnkey Athletic Construction Projects
{Sponsored} When the Mexico Academy & Central School District (MACS) in northern New York launched the initiative to construct a new athletic stadium, they knew they’d face some unique hurdles. The timeline of this project was critical, espe...
News
Videos
Shop
"Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding." — Jim Valvano![]()
![]()
#WednesdayWisdom
2 hours ago ·
