University of Maryland may very well have hosted it's last year of student athletes on scholarship, and as the current athletes prepare to transfer, some struggling to find an opening on a new school's squad, Maryland just doesn't feel like home anymore. (via )

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Mtn. View’s Kimberley Ficenec blisters 800 at Southern Track Classic; Georgetown Visitation wins another ISL title; Bowie, Wise impress at P.G. meet.. (via )

The senior captain capped his four-year varsity career with four victories at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association track and field championships. He ran the anchor leg of the 3,200-meter relay team, which set a conference record, was the best time in the state this year and was fifth fastest in the country (7:42.61). He also anchored the winning 1,600 relay (3:23.42) and won the 800 (1:55.80) and the high jump (6 feet, 1 inch). The performance helped Gilman to its fourth consecutive undefeated season and MIAA title. Coach Johnnie Foreman credits Merritt's success to "working hard and studying hard." He has a 4.0 GPA and will be running at Yale next year. (via )

05/15 PVAC Championship Magruder High School Rockville, MD 05/16 - 05/17 3A West Regional Championship Linganore High School Linganore, Md 05/16 - 05/17 4A West Regional Championship Walter Johnson High School Bethesda, MD 05/17 1A East Regional Championship Kent County High School Kent Island, Md 05/17 - 05/19 2A East Regional Championship Kent Island High School Kent Island, Md 05/17 2A West Regional Championship Winters Mill High School Westminster, md 05/17 - 05/19 3A East Regional Championship Reservoir High School Fulton, MD 05/17 - 05/19 3A South Regional Championship Westlake High School Westlake, Md 05/17 - 05/19 4A East Regional Championship Chesapeake High School Glen Burnie, Md 05/17 - 05/19 WCAC Outdoor Championships   Olney, MD 05/18 1A North Regional Championship Owings Mills High Owings Mill, MD 05/18 1A West Regional Meet Mountain Ridge High School Frostburg, MD 05/18 - 05/19 2A South Regional Championship Reservoir High School Fulton, MD 05/18 - 05/19 4A South Regional Championship Henry A. Wise High School Upper Marlboro, MD 05/19 1A South Regional Championship Northwestern BC Baltimore, MD 05/19 2A North Regional Championship Woodlawn High School Woodlawn, Md 05/19 3A North Regional Championship Catonsville High School Catonsville, md 05/19 4A North Regional Championship Woodlawn High School  

Usain Bolt ended his six-month relationship with a Slovakian fashion designer in order to focus on the upcoming Summer Olympics. News reports suggest Bolt's breakup with Lubica Slovak, 28, was because of his desire to repeat his double-gold/world-record Olympic performance … Continue reading → (via )

The Washington County Track & Field Championships had some of it all Thursday at Williamsport High School. (via )

Bulldogs' Charde Barnes, Pumas' Champ Page lead their teams to Prince George's titles (via )

The Milford Mill boys track and field team needed the last event of the day in the Baltimore County track championship on Saturday to secure its first title since 1999. (via )

Top-ranked Gilman used its depth to capture a fourth straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association track and field title Saturday afternoon at Archbishop Spalding. Taking advantage of their talent across the board in sprints, distance, relays and field events, the Greyhounds finished with 202.5 points to easily beat No. 2 Mount St. Joseph (147) (via )

The Edgewood boys and the No. 4 Aberdeen girls took the team titles at Wednesday's UCBAC championship track and field meet at Elkton.Brandon Chase led Edgewood by winning the 100, 200 and 400. He... (via )

On a blustery afternoon at Reservoir High on Thursday, unpredictable gusts of wind effected runners' times, and several high profile disqualifications altered the landscape of the meet.In the end,... (via )

Bowie’s Lexus Ramsey owns five school records, strives for more (via )

With just seven athletes, women’s track team makes mark at national meet (via )

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ELKTON – A slew of individual event titles resulted in a combined five Top-5 finishes between the county’s 10 boys’ and girls’ track teams, but the lasting memory of the final day of the UCBAC Track Championships in Elkton will be the one team title that slipped away. (via )

Alexis Franklin is one of the most successful track and field athletes in Old Mill history. This year, the senior ran the fastest times in the entire country for the 400-meter hurdles (59.05 seconds) and the 300-meter hurdles (41.49 seconds). (via )

TRACK AND FIELD | Wootton junior Gwen Shaw wins both hurdle events and anchors two winning relays at the Montgomery County championships. (via )

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The Arundel boys track and field team won its first team title in 37 years, while Meade's girls stopped Alexis Franklin from carrying Old Mill to another Anne Arundel County title on Wednesday night. (via )

Brenda Brewington, an ecclesiastical administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Ellicott City who had taught earlier in its preschool, died Thursday in her office in a double shooting that also claimed a pastor's life. She was 59. (via )

TRACK AND FIELD | Suitland senior David Winters, who only started running track six months ago, wins the 100, 200 and 400. (via )

GREENSBORO, N.C -- The University of Maryland Eastern Shore men and women track and field teams competed in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championship on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the women finished in second and the men came in fourth. (via )

Kimbers runs an Olympic Trials B standard in the women's 200-meter dash

TRACK AND FIELD | Georgetown Visitation freshman Emily Kaplan cruises to a win in the 1,600 meters in Alexandria. (via )

Ohio State senior hurdler Christina Manning, with the fastest 100-meter American time this year, has a college season to finish before setting her sights on London. (via )

SALISBURY -- The Salisbury University men's and women's track team will look to finish off a feat that has never been accomplished before in the school's or Capital Athletic Conference history. If the Gulls are able to capture the CAC championship crown at this weekend's meet at Frostburg State University, they would become the first team to ever win the cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field conference championships all in the same year. (via )

Emily Ward didn’t have to be at her best to be the best.A nasty cold that kept the North Hagerstown sophomore out of school Wednesday couldn’t keep her down Thursday at the MVAL Piedmont... (via )

North Point boys, girls track teams claim regular season championships (via )

TRACK | Old Mill’s Alexis Franklin wins the 300 hurdles in 41.49 seconds at the Bob Golliday Invitational, the fastest time in the country this season. (via )

Shaw, Deppen a force to be reckoned with, and are only getting faster (via )

  05/02 Bob Golliday Invitational   , MD 05/02 Landon Mini Invitational Landon School Bethesda, MD 05/02 Oakdale Invitational Oakland Mills High School Aberdeen, MD 05/03 42nd Annual Marc Jenkins Relays Spingarn High School Washington, DC 05/03- 05/05 Big East Championship Rutgers University Rutgers, NJ 05/04 Anne Arundel County B Relay Meet Severna Park Severna Park, md 05/04 Friday Night Lights Eagle Relay Francis Scott Key Senior High School Union Bridge, MD 05/04 Friday Night Lights Eagle Relay Francis Scott Key Senior High School Union Bridge, MD 05/04 Jim Kehoe Twilight Invitational University of Maryland College Park, MD 05/04 Kent Island Invitational Kent Island High School Kent Island, Md 05/04 Manchester Valley Maverick Invite Manchester Valley High School Manchester, MD 05/04 - 05/06 MEAC Outdoor Championships North Carolina A&T University Greensboro, NC 05/05 Ann Arundel Relay Invitational Annapolis Senior High School

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Lopez Lomong is the U.S. champion at 1500m, but is trying out the 5000m. Since he's still getting used to the event, he had an embarrassing moment in the race at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. [Related: Olympic mascots through the … Continue reading → (via )

When it was all said and done after 18 events Monday night at the MVAL Antietam Track & Field Championships at Manchester Valley High School, the Williamsport boys team had 114.75 points — 2.75 more than runner-up Catoctin. (via )

MORE THAN A GAME | Sophie Chase used to run alone in practice. Now she has a training partner, and competition, from Hannah Christen. (via )

    Four seniors from Potomac High School had something to prove at Saturday’s Penn Relays. Wolverines start slow, but finish fourth behind three teams from Jamaica (via )

PHILADELPHIA - Team USA on Saturday dominated the biggest international field ever assembled for USA vs. the World to sweep all six races at the 13th edition of the event at the Penn Relays. (via )

Three Prince George's County high schools have the chance to do what a team from Maryland has failed to do for the first 117 years of the Penn Relays: win the 400 relay. (via )

For one time in Winston Churchill High School's Nadim Elhage's career, his definition of a win would not come down to how many feet he would throw in the shot put or what place he got, the victory was just the accomplishment of getting to the Penn Relays. (via )

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TRACK AND FIELD | Bulldogs 4x800 relay team earns finals berth. Annandale’s Ahmed Bile finishes fifth in mile on Day 2 of Penn Relays. (via )

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TRACK AND FIELD | Old Mill’s Alexis Franklin and Lake Braddock’s Sophie Chase turn in impressive performances in their events. (via )

PERRYVILLE – For the Perryville track and field team, Thursday produced new memories on a day when many were reflecting on old ones. (via )

Montgomery, Frederick Prince George's counties solid on first day of prestigious track meet (via )

Alexis Franklin finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles at the Penn Relays two years ago and took second last spring. But the Old Mill senior took it to another level Thursday in Philadelphia. (via )

CHESAPEAKE CITY – The Perryville track and field team marked its arrival into the Chesapeake Division by doing what it’s done best each of the past two seasons – winning. (via )

Spartans own the state’s best time this spring in the 1,600-meter relay (via )

Largo sprinter has the times, but still waits to be feared by competitors (via )

By John Leaver Jackie Lazzaro played softball for her first three years at Robbinsville High School, so it makes sense that she once again is active this spring. Just one difference: she’s not playing softball. This season, Lazzaro joined the spring track and field team in an attempt to stay in running shape for the fall, when she’ll compete for the University of Maryland’s cross country team. Since beginning high school, Lazzaro ran winter track and cross country before switching to softball in the spring. (via )

  NDIANAPOLIS - With less than 100 days until the 2012 Olympic Games, a record number of athletes and countries will compete at the 13th edition of USA vs. the World at the 118th Penn Relays in Philadelphia, this Saturday.    

Although the U.S. is expected to lose the medal count at the London Olympics, there's still one event Americans are expected to dominate: the decathlon. (via )

Scary. It can describe the future of a world-class athlete after a diagnosis that could've ended her track days. Instead, Sanya Richards-Ross pushed p... (via )

  MileSplit now offers live results hosting FREE for all meets! For Hytek Meet Manager... Hytek Meet Manager has long offered live results as a part of their pro software package. However, it has traditionally only been reserved for use by professional timers and only for the biggest meets. Why? Well partially because it required some technical knowledge and resources to set up an FTP server. "An FT-what?" you ask! Our point exactly. Well now we want to make that easier so that any meet (with an internet connection at the event) can easily offer live results. Don't worry, even if it looks intimidating at first... we've made it relatively painless now. Just follow these instructions... Login to your meet's administration page on MileSplit you'll see a new "Live Results" section with the technical details. Set a password (6-16 characters) there and then click save at the bottom of the page. Now fire up your meet in Hytek and go to the "Run" screen. Click on the "Web" option at the top, which will bring up a new window with the live results settings. Enter the information provided in our meet manager page: site address (host), user name, password, and working directory. Click "Test Website Connection" to verify that everything worked. Click "Upload Event Schedule" to publish the base pages for the meet. Click the "Upload Default Result Pages" to publish the base pages for each event. You can click "Upload Heat Sheets or Performances Lists for Rounds Not Done" if you want, which will either upload the heat sheets (if meet is seeded) or upload the entry list (if not yet seeded). Once the meet is running you can press the F11 key to send updated heat sheets or the F12 key on your keyboard to send the event's results. A list of all meets that are publishing live is available at http://live.milesplit.com and your meet will be on the list. This site is mobile friendly, so you can tell people at the meet to access it. (Hytek's meet pages are, however, not mobile-friendly... but still "kinda" work on mobile... we're working on a solution for this... stay tuned) For RaceTab 3... We've made it really easy and even automatic for RaceTab users who download their meets from MileSplit. Here is an instruction video showing it off...      

    04/25- 04/28 Drake Relays Drake University  Des Moines, IA 04/25 Hancock Tri-State Invitational Hancock Middle Senior High School  Hancock, MD 04/25 S.P.O.T. Relays Severna Park Severna Park, md 04/26- 04/28 The Penn Relays Carnival University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA 04/27- 04/28 MileStat.com Elite Track Classic presented by Lucky Foot Richmond, VA 04/27 Northern Bedford County (NBCAA) Invitational Northern Bedford  Loysburg, PA 04/28 Apple Blossom Invitational James Wood High School  Winchester, VA 04/28 Cassel's XBC Track Experience Chantilly  Chantilly, VA 04/28 Howard County Spring Track Classic River Hill High School Clarksville, MD  

Three-time All-American Kiani Profit added ACC champion to her stellar resume by winning the heptathlon Friday at the ACC Conference Outdoor Championships. (via www.umterps.com)

Chelsie Stevens’ notable career is highlighted by a race she didn’t win (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)

Clarke wins long jump, helps Titans to third-place finish at Viking Invitational (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)

Hawk runner Eric Villeneuve is excelling in an event he hates to run (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)

Shaw leads her Patriots to a second-place finish while Smith helps his Eagles fly high in first (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)

Dondre Echols of Potomac (Md.) beat friend and rival Ron Darby in one of the highlight races at the Penn Relays warmup hosted by McNamara. (via Washington Post)

WUSA report on Nakita Gray's quest for six feet and to become the best high jumper in the country.

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The Kenwood track and field team is on the rise, thanks to the performances of Travis Jenkins, his teammates and coach Mark Planamente, who has directed the program for the last two seasons. (via baltimoresun.com)

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Running Man: Usain Bolt readies for London 2012 Olympics 100 days from now, the Olympic flame will be lit in London.  Arguably no spotlight is greater than the one shining on Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet. NBC's Lester Holt traveled to Bolt's homeland of Jamaica to meet the king of the track.  Watch Lester Holt’s full report, “Running Man” Wednesday April 18 at 9/8c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.  

Dee Dee Trotter has had a wonderful career. She has notched national and world championships, a professional contract, and an Olympic gold medal as part of the 2004 4x400 Team USA. Since then she has struggled with injuries and overcome obsticles, but off the track she's had an amazing impact through her foundation "Test Me I'm Clean" whose mission is to stamp out the epidemic of performance enhancing drugs.