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NEW ORLEANS — For all intents and purposes, we’ve reached the end of the regular season in NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field. While there may be a few qualifying meets left, conference championships are right around the corner and would you believe us if we said the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & […]

NEW ORLEANS — This past weekend at the Razorback Team Invitational, Arkansas senior Jarrion Lawson came up clutch. On his fifth attempt in the long jump — the second of a tightly-contested final — Lawson soared 8.17m (26-9 3/4). It was at that moment Lawson found himself not only on top of the NCAA leaderboard, […]

NEW ORLEANS — Kansas State senior Akela Jones took a swing at history last weekend. Jones, competing in the pentathlon for the first time this indoor season, aimed to break the collegiate record in the event set by Georgia’s Kendell Williams. Through four events at the Deloss Dodds Invitational, Jones stood 77 points ahead of […]

NEW ORLEANS — Penn State’s Brannon Kidder brought the 1000 meter collegiate record back home to Happy Valley. From March 2, 2014 until Saturday, former Boston University mid-distance runner Rich Peters owned the best time in the event (2:18.55). Peters actually took the record from Kidder’s teammate, Robby Creese, who held it from 2012 until […]

Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes LOUISVILLE, Ky. – We’re in the Bluegrass State for the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships. Don’t think for a second that we forgot about our duty to bring Q&A2 Max to your ear holes. We put together a very special edition of the podcast, featuring questions you wanted […]

Build your own team to challenge for national glory in the USTFCCCA Team Builder Fantasy XC Challenge! Listen to this podcast in iTunes Is there anything more fun than predicting the outcomes of races? We think not, so we invited several prominent national cross country contributors to join us for a fantasy draft of the […]

Build your own team to challenge for national glory in the USTFCCCA Team Builder Fantasy XC Challenge! Listen to this podcast in iTunes Is there anything more fun than predicting the outcomes of races? We think not, so we invited several prominent national cross country contributors to join us for a fantasy draft of the […]

NEW ORLEANS – Until last Friday there hadn’t been a three-time individual winner in the women’s race at the SEC Championships. Well, there also hadn’t been a runner like Arkansas’ Dominique Scott in quite some time. Using a strong kick over the final 2K of the 6K race, Scott ran away with the title. Scott […]

NEW ORLEANS – Postseason cross country has finally arrived. NCAA Division I conference championships are in the books as teams revealed their true colors – and, in one instance, its full scoring line-up – with the stakes raised, for better or for worse. Either way, the outcomes of league meets significantly impacted the penultimate edition […]

It’s Conference Championships weekend! League titles are at stake all around the country, with numerous showdowns – between both teams and individuals – that double as foreshadowing for the NCAA Championships next month. We’ve picked out eight conference meets with some of the biggest storylines and clashes between nationally ranked teams – all of which […]

NEW ORLEANS – Every year in NCAA Division I Cross Country, there are performances that catch everybody off-guard. This past weekend, Virginia Tech’s Thomas Curtin delivered one of those races in the men’s seeded race at the Pre-National Invitational in Louisville, Kentucky. Curtin, who is no stranger to winning on the oval, captured his first […]

NEW ORLEANS – Are the mighty two-time defending NCAA Division I men’s cross country champion Colorado Buffaloes not as invulnerable as previously thought? At least one voter in the National Coaches’ Poll believes so, as the Buffaloes – decisive winners at the Pre-National Invitational – went from unanimous No. 1 to simply No. 1 in […]

Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes NEW ORLEANS – Welcome back, Aisling Cuffe. After missing the entire 2014-15 cycle due to a stress fracture in her back, Stanford’s Cuffe returned to competitive racing last Friday at the Washington Invitational and made her presence felt. Running in her second meet of the season – first against […]

NEW ORLEANS – This past weekend proved two things in NCAA Division I Women’s Cross Country: New Mexico is in a league of its own, and after the Lobos it’s anybody’s guess as to who will be a viable challenger come November. The latest National Coaches’ Poll, released Tuesday afternoon by the U.S. Track & […]

The collegiate cross country season shifts into another gear this weekend with more than two-thirds of the nationally ranked teams in action! Many of them are at Notre Dame or Washington on Friday, or Louisville or Princeton on Saturday – and you can follow along LIVE with all of them on the USTFCCCA National Results […]