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Track Archive
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AZ colleges open track season at Lumberjack Invitational
They’re off and running. And winning. All three Division I colleges in Arizona gathered together over the weekend in Flagstaff to try to determine just how prepared they are for a new track & field season. The results from the Lumberjack Invitational, hosted by Northern Arizona University, seem to have pleased just about everybody. NAU [...] -
UA track teams start outdoor season with Top 10 rankings
Evidently, the track coaches around the country are not expecting much fall-off from a University of Arizona track & field program that last year finished with both men’s and women’s teams ranked in the nation’s Top 10. Pre-season rankings released yesterday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association have both squads [...] -
UA track team adds top Tucson HS talent for next season
It looks like the University of Arizona track & field program is taking a “shop at home” approach to its recruiting. The Wildcats will add 16 newcomers to its roster for the 2011-12 season and just four of those are in-state recruits. But all four are from Tucson high schools. Some of the best high [...] -
Chandler wins 2nd straight title at Nike track nationals
All seven girls on the Chandler track team that won the high school national title last year were expected to be back to try again this year. But California Long Beach Poly, a track & field power, was nonetheless inserted as the favorite to win the 2011 title. So Chandler went about proving why that [...] -
UA track & field off to a good start at USA Championships
Brigetta Barrett will be in good company this afternoon, as she prepares to compete in the high jump for a chance to represent the United States later this summer at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. The sophomore at the University of Arizona is part of a contingent from the Tucson school that traveled [...] -
UA, ASU finish NCAA track championships with nat’l titles
Both of Arizona’s Pac-10 representatives left their mark on the just-completed outdoor portion of the track & field scene this year, with the Arizona Wildcats breaking a state record. The Cats finished in fifth place (35 pts) in the women’s competition, the third-best NCAA mark in school history, and the men’s team brought home a [...] -
UA, ASU share lead at NCAA track & field championships
They’ve just finished the first day of the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, but Arizona and Arizona State are off to a great start. The women’s teams at both Pac-10 schools have a share of the lead. The only two athletes representing the Wildcats on the first day of competition picked up All-America honors [...] -
AZ colleges pack for NCAA Track & Field Championships
Arizona will be well represented next week at the NCAA Track & Field Championship Finals at Drake University. The state’s three Division I universities have qualified a combined total of 34 athletes for the national meet. Arizona earned 19 qualifications, the most among the three schools, at the just-concluded NCAA West Preliminary Championships in Eugene, [...] -
Billy Orman eclipses decades-old AZ distance records
Billy Orman will probably never get an Arizona mountain named in his honor, as did Lori Piestewa. But in the tiny town of Tuba City, he has earned the celebrity reserved for very few. For the past couple of years, Orman has been the face of Tuba City, a small town of fewer than 2,000 [...] -
Oregon narrowly beats UA track teams for Pac-10 title
The University of Arizona track team is probably still having bad dreams about Ducks, almost a week after the close of the Pac-10 Conference Championships. The University of Oregon held off Arizona’s men’s and women’s teams to win the Pac-10 titles this year, leaving the Wildcats to settle for second place. And, to make matters [...]
