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Track Archive
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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 [...] -
Tempe Prep teams sweep state HS track championships
The best high school track talent in the state gathered at Mesa Community College for four days of competition under the new format that offers just four divisions, instead of the seven used in years past. The largest schools were placed in Division 1, the smallest in Division 4 – and some of the best [...] -
ASU, UA women capture top 4 spots at Pac-10 Multi Event
The championship portion of the 2011 track & field outdoor season in the Pac-10 is here already. And ASU has jumped out to a nice lead on the women’s side. Senior Samantha Henderson, who finished in fourth place in the women’s heptathlon at last year’s combined events portion of the Pac-10 Championships, climbed the ranks [...] -
UA track teams will be hard to beat in Double Dual at ASU
This weekend will present an opportunity for the three Arizona D-I universities to go head-to-head on the track in the annual Double Dual in Tempe. And each of the schools is bringing something to the party. Both Arizona State and Northern Arizona are coming off a successful weekend at the Sun Devil Open, where the [...] -
UA track teams enjoying best outdoor season in years
The University of Arizona women’s track team has been methodically working its way up the national rankings since the outdoor season started in mid-March. They have moved up exactly one spot in each of the weekly computer rankings. This week, the women’s team finds itself in the No. 8 spot after coming off a hugely [...] -
AZ high school track teams flock to Sun Angel Classic
Arizona State has opened its track facilities to some 2,500 high school and college athletes from around the country this weekend. But tomorrow’s events in the 32nd Sun Angel Track Classic could get a little water-logged. For the colleges, the chance of inclement weather didn’t keep many of the best track squads from showing up [...] -
Jim Click Shootout draws Big-10 track teams to UofA
Although we’re several weeks into the college outdoor track & field season, Arizona is looking at this weekend’s “shoot out” as the first true meet on its 2011 outdoor schedule. The University of Arizona women’s track team is set to defend its Jim Click Shootout title Saturday, when Pac-10 foe, Washington State, rolls into Drachman [...]
