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Track Archive
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Chandler HS sweeps D-I track titles; 7th straight for girls
Chandler High School won the boys’ Division I state team title over the weekend, but Trae Armstrong and Devon Allen held center stage for most of the day. And neither is a Chandler student. Armstrong, from Deer Valley High School in Glendale, swept the three sprint events, but on two of them, the only way [...] -
ASU track teams earn bragging rights at Double Dual Meet
Arizona State‘s track teams literally swept up the competition over the weekend as it won the in-state competition at the Double Duals Meet in Tucson. The Sun Devils swept the men’s and women’s steeplechase and high hurdle events, then the men came back and posted a 1-2 sweep of the top spots in the 400-meter [...] -
Arizona colleges set national marks at Mt. SAC Relays
The Sun Devils and Wildcat track squads went into the weekend’s Mt. SAC Relays with top-20 national rankings for all four teams, and left California with school records, Olympic-qualifying performances, and some of the top collegiate marks in the country. Arizona State‘s men’s team carried a No. 8 ranking into the 54th running of the [...] -
Chandler HS tops Sun Angel field without Jasmine Todd
Lauren Hicks from Gilbert High School won the triple jump at the Sun Angel Classic. And all Jasmine Todd could do was stand by and let it happen. Todd, the record-setting senior from Chandler High School, has owned the triple jump for the past four years. She holds three state championships in that event… as [...] -
Arizona Christian recruiting athletes for new track program
The Firestorm is spreading in north Phoenix. Arizona Christian University, aka the Firestorm, just added men’s and women’s track & field to its growing stable of athletic offerings. That increases the number of sports programs to 14 for the private Christian college formerly known as Southwestern College, and marks the next step in a major [...] -
Pac-12 teams win Jim Click Shootout; UA sets nat’l marks
The University of Arizona track & field program not only won the lion’s share of titles at the Jim Click Shootout over the weekend, but also helped the Pac-12 conference take the winner’s stand. Since there were teams from multiple conferences taking part in this year’s Jim Click Shootout, hosted by UofA, the scoring was [...] -
Prep runners break decades-old records at Chandler Invite
Even the best sports teams have to be pushed to reach their full potential. Chandler High School‘s track team can thank their California rival for providing that extra challenge over the weekend as the Wolves laid claim to a first-place finish at the prestigious Chandler Rotary Invitational. Long Beach Polytechnic High School made the trek [...] -
Prep track champions gathering at Chandler Rotary Invite
Nearly 3,000 high school track & field athletes showed up last year to compete in the Chandler Rotary Invitational. And this year an even bigger chunk of those will be from Arizona. The 72-year-old event, the second-oldest continuously-run invitational meet in Arizona, topped the century mark last year with 107 teams from five states and [...] -
GCU’s new sports programs on fast track to nat’l success
When it comes to developing new sports programs, Grand Canyon University seems to have found the fast track to success. The Antelopes’ track & field program just returned from Minnesota with a national championship in tow – in just the second year of the program’s existence. About the same time, the wrestling team was wrapping [...] -
Snowflake, Mingus flex track muscles at Skydome Classic
Teams from small schools in small towns all around Arizona descended on Flagstaff to open the high school track & field season…from scattered places like Tuba City, Blue Ridge, Holbrook, and Joseph City. In all, 19 boys’ teams and 19 girls’ teams made the trek to the Northern Arizona University campus to take part in [...]
