Articles filed under Track and Field
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York track coach stepped up to save fallen jumperMay 11, 2024 7:36 pm - York assistant girls track coach Niko Karavolos may have saved a life when a York track athlete collapsed during a meet last month.
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Boys track and field: Batavia wins fourth straight DuKane championshipMay 10, 2024 11:27 pm - The 800-meter run was still anyone’s contest when Batavia senior Felipe Wickler approached the last 300. “I’ve got to show them it was my race to win,” Wickler felt. He k...
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Retiring Schmidt led Burlington Central programs with care for 33 yearsMay 09, 2024 6:00 am - As they go through their careers, high school teachers and coaches learn things right along with their student-athletes. “I think I learned the same thing as a track coac...
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In the NIL landscape, schools are turning to companies to train and manage in-house general managersMay 08, 2024 4:49 pm - ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Riley Ammenhauser has become a record-breaking, triple-jumping track athlete at Michigan and something of an entrepreneur. Leveraging her value with ab...
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Daredevils: It takes a ‘risk taker’ to soar over a bar as high as a house just for sportMay 05, 2024 6:00 am - The skinny on pole vaulters is that they are a little off. A group that gets their kicks catapulting upside-down over a metal bar as high as a house. One must be “a littl...
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Boys track and field: It’s pronounced as a Neuqua Valley victoryMay 03, 2024 11:28 pm - Due to his name being mispronounced in middle school, Neuqua Valley senior Madhan Manikandaswamy has forever since been known as “Muffin,” or “Muffin Man.” When the Muffi...
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Boys track and field: Well-rounded Rams track team looks strongApr 23, 2024 3:38 pm - This is one of the best teams Brent Pitt has had in 21 years coaching boys track at Grayslake Central. It showed April 19 at Wheaton Warrenville South. The Rams’ 146 poi...
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Boys track and field: Speedy York senior is Cash moneyApr 19, 2024 11:33 pm - The race went just like Cash Langley thought it would go. The York senior didn’t lead through his first phase of the 100-yard dash, but was there at the end to win the r...
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Start the spring prep sports season later? I don’t think soApr 19, 2024 6:00 am - Don’t bother trying to shift the spring prep sports season later in the year. It won’t matter weather-wise.
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Former Larkin hoops star returns with a job to doApr 18, 2024 6:00 am - Corry Irvin is coming home. She’s got quite a task ahead of her.