The Lady Pounders of Chattanooga Central High School won the Class A-AA East Sub-Sectional Chattanooga Area track meet this week at Red Bank.  (via )

  Calculated as of May 14, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.    

  Calculated as of May 14, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.    

  Calculated as of May 13, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.  

  Calculated as of May 13, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.  

  Calculated as of May 13, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.

  Calculated as of May 13, 2012 These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Marie Rainey speaks with a mother's pride about her son's capacity for compassion. (via )

Brentwood online newspaper - professional, go to place for everything brentwood, advertising, classifieds, obituaries, business directory, high school sports, and brentwood business. Online newspaper for Brentwood. (via )

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

Injuries and illnesses don't slow down Tennessee High and Sullivan Central athletes. (via )

Dickson County High senior Anna DeBerry has spent the last three years going the distance as a cross country runner and she will get to continue racking up the mileage after signing to run cross country for Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn. (via )

Tennessee Wesleyan College, home of the Bulldogs, is getting ready to welcome a Sequatchie County High School (SCHS) senior to the cross-country team. Brooklyn Girdley, best known for her abilities on the mound with the Lady Indians softball team, has shown exceptional skill with the SCHS cross-country team, reports Coach Anne Horgan. (via )

The most decorated female high school track athlete in state history won't be able to add to the list of her TSSAA accomplishments. Howard sprinter LaQuisha Jackson has had to withdraw from competition for the rest of her senior season because of an injury that affects her back and hip. (via )

James Stovall still has a bit of unfinished business before he begins his football career with the Naval Academy. (via )

It wasn't who advanced to next week's TSSAA track and field Class AAA sectional that dropped jaws with surprise. It was who didn't. (via )

It doesn't take Oak Ridge track and field coach Eddie Anderson to tell a fan how valuable every point is during a meet. One only needed to look at the scoreboard at the end of the Metro8 Championship to see the difference. (via )

It’s always nice to walk into a Track & Field venue as a meet just before everything is getting started.  Athletes milling about, getting their marks, some doing hurdle drills, some doing A-skips, and mostly just going through their routine as they warm up for their event. 

The White County High School track and field team traveled to Coffee County Tuesday for the District 6AAA meet and several competitors came home with district titles.MySpartaNews.com. News for Sparta, Tennessee (via )

  Photo by katm288 (User Uploaded) Your one stop shop for all the meet coverage and national elite performances for the the last week or so. To make sure you and your team's performances are listed please have the meet director email us the complete results from your meets.

Meet information, Oline Entry links and more, for the state meet. This is set up to help you make sure you are entered into your qualifing meet. 

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

Austin Peay State University women's track and field team has added to its 2012-13 recruiting class in signing local standout Kymmalette Ross to a National Letter of Intent, announced Tuesday. (via www.apsugovernors.com)

Thunderstorms close enough to make you peak into the sky occasionally, bouts of rain going from light spits to where having an umbrella wasn’t any help at all, and then some breeze picking up to make the temperatures drop a few more degrees than what’s comfortable this time of year. 

Nobody could keep up with Murfreesboro Oakland High School junior Brock Baker in Saturday's mile run of the 49th annual Volunteer Track Classic at Tom Black Track. (via Knoxville News Sentinel)

Hayden Borghetti-Metz of Church Hill's Volunteer High School needed a late kick and a pass in the last 100 meters to win the 2,000-meter steeplechase Friday in the 49th annual Volunteer Track Classic at Tom Black Track. (via Knoxville News Sentinel)

Station Camp’s track and field teams kept their winning streaks intact Thursday evening when they (via gallatinnews.com)

Although he isn't a distance runner, few athletes cover more ground during any track competition than Iman Isang. Because the McCallie senior also is one of the area's most versatile athletes, he is continually hurrying from one event to the next, often competing in one before he has finished another. (via timesfreepress.com)

Kassidy Sommer, a freshman on the Lady Jet track and field team, is now an elite runner, as she finished eighth in the 3200 of the Great 8 Meet Tuesd (via crossville-chronicle.com)

Jacob Simmons signed scholarship papers to continue his running ability in cross country and track and field at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens (via crossville-chronicle.com)

There was a time when the mile run was the signature event in track and field meets in the United States and around the world. (via Knoxville News Sentinel)

   

The White County High School track and field team traveled to Walker Valley last Friday to compete in the Chattanooga Optimist meet with over 600 athletes competing in the event. The big excitement of the day for the WCHS squad was when Tyler Rice, a senior distance runner for the Warriors, established a new school record in the 1600-meter run. His time of 4:46.89 broke the previous school mark of 4:52.3 set by Casey Bales. Rice finished seventh overall in the race. MySpartaNews.com. News for Sparta, Tennessee (via spartaexpositor.com)

Abbi Pierce’s school record setting two-mile run set the pace for Elizabethton at the Frank Carver Invite this past Saturday. Pierce ran a time of 11:53, which places her second on the current A-AA state rankings for Tennessee. Following in Pierce’s footsteps was the boys 4×800-meter relay team. The team of Cody Baker, Coby Atwell, Stewart Clark and Hunter Hughes surprised the field to earn a third-place finish in a highly competitive field, losing only to AAA powerhouses Daniel Boone and Dobyns- Bennett. (via www.starhq.com)

The outdoor track program developed from interest expressed by current TTU students, he said, and the administration saw it as a way to attract more and to keep up with other colleges in the region that recently have started or decided to start track.  (via www.tntemple.edu)

Dee Dee Trotter has had a wonderful career. She has notched national and world championships, a professional contract, and an Olympic gold medal as part of the 2004 4x400 Team USA. Since then she has struggled with injuries and overcome obsticles, but off the track she's had an amazing impact through her foundation "Test Me I'm Clean" whose mission is to stamp out the epidemic of performance enhancing drugs.

Any discussion of the discus at today�s Great Eight invitational track meet at Vanderbilt has to begin with La Vergne�s trio of throwers. (via The Daily News Journal)

La Vergne boasts three of the top four qualifying discus performances entering today�s Great Eight Invitational at Vanderbilt. (via The Tennessean)

Photo by Torrey12 (User Uploaded) These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.We took the individual rankings and relay rankings and scored them as a normal meet: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.   Calculated as of April 16, 2012  MS Coaches, keep sending in your meet results. 

  We added a new feature that allows anyone (must be logged in) the ability to submit videos to us. Once you do so, they are instantly posted on the meet page. This allows you to help us supplement our coverage by shooting some video at the meets you attend, show off your creativity, and share your videos with the flrunners.com community.

When you walk past the gate at the Houston Classic this year, the first thing that comes to mind is the size of the meet… but then you look around and you can really feel why you’re at this meet – the talent.  Champions, Record Holders, Elite… you name it, the adjectives can’t begin to tell the story.

Vikings great Katrina Banks Thomas on hand to see Jennifer Cannon excel again. (via TriCities.com)

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

MileSplit, the nation's leading destination for high school track & field coverage, announced today that they have launched a channel for the Roku device. The Roku is a small three-inch set top box that connects to any modern television, allowing a wide range of video content to be streamed to the big screen via a wireless internet connection.

Chattanooga Christian School is honoring longtime track and cross country coach Mike Fingerle by naming the school track for him. (via www.chattanoogan.com)

The trophies came out of the closet one by one for Tory Kemp during a routine cleaning last weekend. They formed a growing pile - basketball, volleyball, track awards all mixed together. Slowly, the GPS senior'sbed was covered with a metallic shine. The most recent addition to Kemps collection came in February, when she was an all-tournament selection on the Bruisers second straight state-championship basketball team. Her senior volleyball season ended without a title, but she was also an all-st... (via Chattanooga News by Nooga.com)

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

I guess better late than never, here is our first set of team rankings for the 2012 track season. 

  All areas of TennesseeRunner.com are free for a day. No fooling! We have just finished a great month on TennesseeRunner.com. We saw an increase in 20% of traffic from last March.  Knowing that 2012 new track and field season has brought a number of newcomers to the site I wanted everyone to see the features are normally exclusive our subscribers. 

Johnson City, Tenn. (March 31, 2012) --- Hosts Milligan College and Science Hill High School shined on Saturday at the final day of the 2012 Johnson City Invitational at Kermit Tipton Stadium in Johnson City, Tenn.  (via Milligan College)

 Please read this important article on how to submit results and make sure your athletes get properly recognized! It's fairly long, but please try to read the whole thing. It has some very important information that you may not know or realize.    

Brock Baker will board a flight to California this evening. It's his next stop in facing some of the country's best track and field distance runners in the country. (via The Daily News Journal)

Brock Baker, Oakland, Jr. � Top distance runner in the county and one of best in state. Maurice Call, Siegel, Sr. � Should be county's top hurdler this year. Trevor Gormley, Blackman, Sr. � Lipscomb signee specializes in sprinting events. (via The Daily News Journal)

If you have a High Jumper on your track team then you need this information.   Some of the most spectacular athletes to watch at a track meet are the high jumpers who seemingly have no limits.  Have you ever wondered how these athletes get to the point where they are so explosive and graceful to make every jump look as though it was the easiest thing in the world to accomplish? 

This episode of The Fit Runner takes us to RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida where we meet with physical therapist Laura Podschun to learn about stride mechanics, stretching and plyometrics drills.

On the morning of March 17 tragedy struck when Hunters Lane HS alum John Yarbrough was killed in a fatal car accident. His brother, former Middle Tennessee star, Linnie Yarbrough is currently hanging on in the ICU.

The Newport Plain Talk - News Story (via newportplaintalk.com) CCHS senior Taylor Hawk (at front, center) recently signed to run track and field at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Joiining Hawk are his mother and father, Mark and Renee Hawk. At rear is CCHS athletic director Casey Kelley and CCHS assistant track coach Randy West.

What do you think about when someone says something is 40 years old?  Over the hill?  Past their prime?  Old?  Ok, I’m probably going over a bit on that (40 is young to me!).  The Bonner Relays at Harding Academy in Memphis kind of turned 40 this year.  In 1973, Harding Academy started these relays.  Well, actually, they weren’t all relays and it wasn’t called Bonner Relays. 

At the moment, Signal Mountain senior Matthew Marshall is enjoying life as a member of the Eagle soccer team. Upon completion, though, he'll be back to the sport that he desires the most -- cross-country. (via timesfreepress.com)

Organization of a high school cross country team was approved Friday by members of the Henry County Board of Education. Sam Miles, director of county schools, told board members he had been approached by Mike Poteete, county athletic director, about the idea of beginning a cross country team on the high school level. (via www.parispi.net)

Photo by CoachTJP (User Uploaded) Those of you that were able to attend the U of M HS invitational Saturday (3/17) were given the opportunity to see several high-level performances.  Let’s start with the Track Meet itself.  Coach Robinson (Head Coach) can honestly say he has a super team of NCAA Student-Athletes.  These student-athletes were all over the track, moving hurdles, helping with field events, encouraging the competitors, and helping at the finish line (I especially liked the bell lap ringers).   

Andrew Ogle's decision certainly caused classmates to raise an eyebrow or two. (via Knoxville News Sentinel)

Download - Released March 15, 2012 Whoa! This looks different! Please forgive the fact that this update is in a transitional change. We are in the pro… (via racetab.milesplit.com)

Photo by CoachTJP (User Uploaded)   High school week is a review of the high school track and field action in Tennessee this week. The events are posted along with performances that meet the MileSplit national siver standard. If your meet or performances are not listed please make sure the meet results are submitted, and in the proper format. 

 Austin Peay State University women's track and field team has signed three athletes for the 2012-13 season; Keana Gray, of Jacksonville, Fla., Breigh Jones, of Memphis, and Tiffany Toler, of Winchester, Ky.  (via www.apsugovernors.com)

Those of us who love the sport of Track & Field are all anxious for this time of year to start.  This past Saturday at Southwind high school, several West TN high schools enjoyed a nice sunny day for the first big meet of the season.  Since this was a pre-season scrimmage style meet, nobody was too concerned about seeing great performances or going up against a full slate of athletes.  But if this is any indication how the season will start, a large meet, sunny day, and great performances, then the 2012 Track & Field season is going to be a good one for sure! 

What are some of the characteristics of great sprinters?  This is a small list:   powerful, explosive, strong, high levels of coordination and body control.   Now let’s look at some of the characteristics of great Olympic Style Weightlifters.  Things that you will notice about this group are their power, explosiveness, their strength, coordination, and body control.  It’s easy to see how these two groups are similar regardless of their performance application.  

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

  The TSSAA Board of Control and Legislative Council will both meet this week in Murfreesboro. Both meetings will take place at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce building located at 3050 Medical Center Parkway, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.   The Board of Control will meet on Tuesday, March 13 at 2:00 p.m. The Legislative Council will meet on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 a.m.  

“Gil has been the fastest runner in Chattanooga the past two years,” McCallie head coach Mike Wood said. “He is also a National Merit Finalist and has tremendous integrity and character. He cares for his teammates and is an incredible leader. I have valued his insights and love how he works hard to improve his talents.” (via www.mccallie.org)

Take a look at what to expect in the 2012 high school track and field season in Middle Tennessee. Brentwood’s Holly Van Grinsven is expected to be among the top contenders for the 100-meter hurdle title in Class AAA. / Aaron Thompson / Gannett Tennessee   (via The Tennessean)

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Senior athletes of all ages and skill levels across the state are gearing up for the 2012 Tennessee Senior Olympic games. Area seniors ages 50 and older are invited to showcase their athletic abilities and share in some friendly competition at the East Tennessee District Senior Olympics, scheduled for April 20-25 in Gatlinburg. (via http://www.oakridger.com)

COOKEVILLE -- Justin Morgan has been a big part of Cookeville's cross country and long-distance track teams the last four years and has helped the Cavaliers pour in the titles on both fronts. Now he's got the shot to do the same on the collegiate level. Morgan recently signed with UT Martin, giving the Cavalier runners two college signees as teammate Chase Mussard also signed with East Tennessee State University. (via www.herald-citizen.com)

Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday, still as vivid in his mind today as that blustery late afternoon more than half a century ago. (via www.universalsports.com)

Geneva, Ohio (March 2, 2012) --- Milligan College senior Tanner Payne (Georgetown, Tenn.) grabbed Milligan's first ever All-American honor in the throwing events at the 2012 NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Championships in Geneva, Ohio, on Friday afternoon.   (via Milligan College)

Alumni recap of the past week's meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee.

Do you have a favorite event in Track & Field?  Some like the split second excitement, and if you’ve seen our USA national teams lately, the potential for disaster in the 400M relay.  Others prefer watching the high jump or pole vault because of the heads up one-on-one match play competitiveness.  Or maybe the thrill of an eight lane photo finish in the 100M Dash. And how many times have you watched a team pull off a meet victory at the last second as their 1600M Relay anchor slips by a competitor with just enough energy to out-lean at the finish line – and then drop to the ground in complete exhaustion.

  by Dan Kearney   Abstract Some states are consistently faster than others at high school cross country running. To use a recent example, in 2011, a New Jersey boy won the individual title at nationals in San Diego and a team from the same state won the team competition in Oregon. People often speculate that reasons ranging from climate to tradition affect running speeds above all else. Moreover, some suspect that the states that excel at running are simply the wealthiest ones. This paper aims to find if wealthier states are, in fact, faster than poor ones.

COOKEVILLE -- Chase Mussard likes the direction the East Tennessee State University cross country team is running. So much so, he decided to go in that direction as well. The Cookeville senior recently signed with the Buccaneers to continue his running career and education for recently hired coach Dave Milner. (via www.herald-citizen.com)

Earlier today, in front of family, friends, coaches and school administrators, Walter Burn, a senior at FRA signed with East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, TN. to continue his track and field career. Burns will compete in the discus, shot put, and hammer throw at the collegiate level. (via sportsnashville.net)

Photo by 4zgirls (User Uploaded)   High School Week in review February 13, 2012 - February 22, 2012

In the third episode of The Fit Runner our host is Dr. Giddeon J. Lewis, foot and ankle specialist, and Chairman of the MileSplit Medical Advisory Board. Joining Dr. Lewis to talk about "Heel Pain" are professional triathletes Jarrod Shoemaker and Alicia Kaye, along with University of Central Florida athletic trainer Jennifer Perez. The group will discuss causes of heel pain as well as preventative tips. This is the latest episode in our series on being a fit runner.

 Briana Simms of Hendersonville, Tenn., and Station Camp High School has signed a women's cross country scholarship with Xavier University of Louisiana.      Simms is XU's first runner signed for 2012.      "Xavier had what I wanted, academically and athletically," said Simms, who has a 3.87 grade-point average and will major in biochemistry. "When I visited, it felt like a family there. I knew that Xavier was where I needed to be."     The Official Online Source for All Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nugget Athletics and Sports Information (via www.xula.edu)

Tennessee Alumni Report for the week of February 13, 2012 - February 22, 2012

Soddy-Daisy High School seniors Matt Jenkins and Ben Kirk signed scholarship papers Wednesday to run cross country and track for Bryan College. (via timesfreepress.com)

Another welcome addition to the team is middle-distance runner Rhavean King from Memphis, Tenn. With three senior athletes graduating this year, there is certainly room for King to thrive during her first year on the team. She is Tennessee’s defending state champion in the 800-meter race, and she has the fastest time in the state in the 400-meter race this year. (via www.kansan.com)

TenTennessee State University Track & Field Director Chandra Cheeseborough-Guice announced the signing of four student-athletes during the recent National Letter of Intent signing period that began on Feb. 1. Clairwin Dameus, Leslye Williams, Jerome Henderson and Quamel Prince all signed their National Letter of Intents to suit up for the Tigers during the 2012-13 academic year. Tennessee State University Track & Field Director Chandra Cheeseborough-Guice announced the signing of four student-athletes. (via www.tsutigers.com)

The Liberty men's cross country team, which has won an unprecedented seven consecutive Big South titles, built for the future on Tuesday. Distance runners Jeremie Bourget and Will Templeton have inked national letters of intent to attend Liberty University for the 2012-13 academic year. Flames News (via www.libertyflames.com)

  Trey Hardee, Alabama State Champion from Vestavia Hills, eventually went onto to become an NCAA and World Champion out of University of Texas. In this video series he goes into details and explains his training regimine for the event. 

  Here is this weeks alumni report a recap of the past weeks meets just for athletes that went to high school in Tennessee. I am sure there has been a few people left off this list, so please email me their names, where the go to college and where they went to high school. 

During a week that was dominated with major college football signing talk all across the country, White County High School had their own athlete ink a college letter of intent, but it was not on the gridiron. WCHS senior cross country standout, Alex Stover, signed her scholarship with the University of Tennessee at Martin to run cross country and distance track. MySpartaNews.com. News for Sparta, Tennessee (via www.spartaexpositor.com)

Vol sophomore Chase Brannon is doing so well in the pole vault this season, one would never surmise that he came to the program as a walk-on out of Brentwood Academy.  (via www.utsports.com)

Senior multi-event athlete Ellen Wortham of Maryville steps into The Exchange Zone to share what it's like to be a Lady Vol and compete in so many different events. (via www.utladyvols.com)

Photo by 4zgirls (User Uploaded) Indoor is a little slower so here is the weeks in review. I made  little longer to get some more meets in. Keep sending the college signings and if you run in an indoor meet you will need to email me the results and let me know where you went, because your not listed as your school it is almost imposible to match everyone with their profiles. 

Blogs (via blogs.commercialappeal.com) Arlington High School announced the signing of Alden Dixon to a National Letter of Intent for cross country and track at Middle Tennessee State University. Dixon is the Class AAA defending state champion in the 3200 meter run (9:19), and the region runner-up in the 1600 meter run with a personal best time of 4:16. He has also been the regional champion and The Commercial Appeal's Pepsi Best of the Preps finalist in cross country.

In this second episode of The Fit Runner our host is Tara Gidus, aka the "Diet Diva" and nutritionist to the Orlando Magic. She gives us some solid meal and hydration ideas for before, after, and during a run. This is the latest episode in our series on being a fit runner.