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Track & Field 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 [...] -
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 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 [...] -
ASU men’s track team dominates MPSF Championships
Twenty years is a long time to wait for a victory – in any sport. But the Arizona State men cured a decades-long drought over the weekend by winning their first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Track & Field Championship. And they did it in convincing fashion, recording the largest margin of victory at the [...] -
Indoor T&F Championships…NAU men set Big Sky record
Prior to the start of the weekend’s Big Sky Conference Indoor Championships, NAU’s head track coach Eric Heins was talking about how excited he was that Northern Arizona would be hosting the event because it gave parents and alumni a chance to watch the Lumberjacks compete. It was the first time in three years that [...] -
AZ colleges putting top distance runners on national stage
Who would have thought Arizona would become a hothouse for developing top distance runners? Our mile-high elevations to the north challenge runners with cold winters and thin air, while down on the desert floor summer temperatures consistently hover above 100 degrees, making training runs perilous at best. But a collection of college runners, and their [...] -
Each AZ track team leaves NAU Open with share of wins
Once again, Northern Arizona University provided an opportunity for the state’s three Division I track & field programs to compete head-to-head, as the NAU Open ran over the weekend. And, as usual, each of the schools left Flagstaff with something positive. The meet isn’t a major event on the schedule, and the Pac-12 schools don’t [...]
