A report of the top collegiate performances from around the country of former Alabama high school stars.

Carmen Carlos (McGill-Toolen) wins the girls 3200 with a new US#1 and state indoor record time of 10:34.02.

Joy Maneice-Marbury (Hoover) breaks the 6A Girls 400m record at the 2012 AHSAA State Indoor Track & Field Meet.

Smiths Station Boys break the state 4x200 record and earn the current US#9 spot at the 2012 AHSAA State Indoor Track & Field Meet.

Signing Day 2012 is here and AlabamaRunners expects to be receiving notification of signings from around the state.  Let us know where you are signing to!

Performance Lists and Heat Sheets are posted.

Follow the link to see results LIVE as they happen along with Meet Performance Lists.

David Oliver trains at ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World in Orlando with famed coach Brooks Johnson. He focuses on the fundamentals while looking toward the London Olympic Games.

LIVE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE LISTS

LIVE RESULTS

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE RESULTS FIELD PERFORMANCE LISTS TRACK PERFORMANCE LISTS  

The Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) brings together the best teams in the country and pits them against each other on the most unique course available.  Portland Meadows will once again play host to the championship battle and the manufactured course that traverses the interior of a horse racing track will have all the traditional features of European style cross country racing; including plenty of mud.

Twenty-two of the nations' top teams and forty-five of the best individuals will make the trek to Portland, Oregon for Nike Cross Nationals. The teams are comprised of two winners from nine different regions and four “At-Large” berths, decided on by a team of Nike consultants. 

The AHSAA has announced the 2012-2014 classification reallignment.  

The University of Montevallo’s Women’s Cross Country Team finished runner-up in the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship...

Girls Entries Boys Entries

This first episode covers core training techniques. These workouts will apply to you whether you are already on an elite level or just the beginning. For beginners they may serve as an intense workout to build your core muscles. If you're already in shape they are crucial for you to maintain and sharpen that core strength and to prevent injury by helping you stabilize your movement.

The top Cross Country runners in Alabama are profiled.  More being added all week long.

Recently a few coaches were given a tour of the new Birmingham Indoor facility.  The city of Birmingham has dubbed the facility the "CrossPlex."  Since I know many of you are as excited about Indoor Track and Field being brought back to our state, I thought a few pictures would be the right thing to do.

The NFHS has announced a series of rules updates for Track and Field that make changes to Jewelry, Garments, and PoleVault among other things.

2011 USA Outdoor Track & field Championships UniversalSports.com will have in-depth coverage of the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships from Eugene, Oregon, including recaps, blogs, analysis, results, slideshows, and select race highlights. Check here to find out who will represent Team USA at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

  In the third and final part of the interview, Manzano gives advice to the younger generation. (Cover photo courtesy of PhotoRun.net and leomanzano.com)

The 94 year-old is subject of the bestselling book, ‘Unbroken,’ and was a World War II prisoner of war after his plane was shot down. His running career highlights include 1934 High School Mile World Record which stood for 20 years, 1936 Berlin Olympic 5,000 meters 8th place; 1938, and 1939 NCAA Mile Champ in NCAA Meet Record 4:08.3 on a dirt track which held for 15 years.

Do you find yourself calculating what a time in the 1500 would convert to at 1600 meters? Have you ever been to a meet where the field events have been marked in meters and you shook your head confused? You don't have to worry about that anymore. MileSplit has taken it's great converter calculator resource and made into an application for your mobile device.

Leo talks with Todd Grasley about immigrating to the United States, high school career, and his time as a Longhorn. (Cover photo courtsey of PhotoRun.net and  leomanzano.com)

Homewood senior Aaron Ernest went into his final year of high school track and field knowing it was his last chance to bring home a gold medal, a feat he had yet to accomplish.

2011 AHSAA Least Restrivtive Guidelines for State Competition This is a pdf file that contains the standards that Xpress Timing will use when advancing individuals to State Competition.  There will be a Coaches' Meeting at 7am Friday at both sites.   AHSAA 1A - 3A - Birmingham-Southern LIVE RESULTS -  ACTIVE NOW Brought to you by XpressTiming and AlabamaRunners.com HEAT SHEETS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS   AHSAA 4A - 6A  - Gulf Shores, AL LIVE RESULTS - ACTIVE NOW  Brought to you by XpressTiming and AlabamaRunners.com HEAT SHEETS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  

Division 1A Section 1 - Complete Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 - Complete Results Section 4 - Complete Results Division 2A Section 1 - Complete Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 - Complete Results Section 4 - Complete Results Division 3A Section 1 - Compelte Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 Section 4 - Complete Results Division 4A Section 1 - Complete Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 - Complete Results Section 4 Division 5A Section 1 - Complete Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 - Complete Results Section 4 - Complete Results Division 6A Section 1 - Complete Results Section 2 - Complete Results Section 3 - Complete Results Section 4 - Complete Results

A few Sectionals will have Live Results.  These links will become active during the meet. Division 3A/4A - Section 2 - Montgomery Academy Division 5A/6A - Section 2 - Smiths Station High School Division 6A - Section 3 - Mountain Brook  

The following has been put out by the AHSAA as the official rescheduling of all Sectional Meets. The revised Section Track and Field Meet schedule is as follows. Please note that some sites have been changed. Most meets are scheduled for Monday, May 2, and Tuesday, May 3, unless schools agree to complete the meet in one day. Class 6A, Section 4 is a one-day meet scheduled for Tuesday, May 3. Sites already scheduling one-day meets are noted.  Meet starting times are listed where provided. 

Just got off the phone with the AHSAA. All sectional meets have been delayed until Monday. I will post any updated information I receive.

LIVE RESULTS - will be active during the meet. (4/25/11) Brought to you by: Alabama Runners and Xpress Timing

These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.  We scored 20 deep for individuals and 20 deep for relays.  For example, for individuals 1st place received 20 points for their team, on down to 1 point for 20th place.

These rankings were calculated by scoring the rankings as a meet.  We scored 20 deep for individuals and 20 deep for relays.  For example, for individuals 1st place received 20 points for their team, on down to 1 point for 20th place.

LIVE RESULTS

The annual Mountain Brook Invite has become the yearly pre-state meet where athletes size up the competitors they will be seeing a few weeks later in Gulf Shores.  With over 2000 athletes and some of the best competitors in the state, you can look forward to some great performances. UPDATED SCHEDULE   PERFORMANCE LISTS

Pretty sure this picture says enough.....

Friday Night (Open Division) Performance Lists Saturday Night (Invite Division) Performance Lists Saturday Night (Invite Division) Start List

Aisling Cuffe (NY) and Craig Lutz (TX) were USA's highest junior finishers in 17th and 29th respectively.  (Photo courtesy of © Mike Scott http://miscottrunningphoto.shutterfly.com/2010)

PERFORMANCE SHEETS The girls 4x800 will begin at 8:45am.

 AHSAA votes to use wildcards for the 2011 State Outdoor Meets.  Under the new qualifying method, the top 5 performances per event in each section that meet the minimum qualifying marks will automatically advance to the State meets.  Remaining spots will be filled by 4 wildcards meeting the qualifying standard from a pool of 6th, 7th, and 8th place finishers from the other sectional meets.

At the Wednesday quarterly meeting of the AHSAA Central Board, Indoor track was reinstated for the 2012. 

 Sectional Directors will have a meeting at the AHSAA offices 9:30am on Thursday Jan 27.  See you there.

 AlabamaRunners will be hosting all of the  AHSAA Sectional meets Online Entry this year.  If you are hosting a meet, we would like your business as well.  

The 2010 Foot Locker Nationals are in the books!  Aisling Cuffe and Lukas Verzbicas have put their stamp on history with equally dominating performances with winning times of 16:53 and 14:59.

 The top 100 fastest 5K times during the 2010 cross country season by high school boys runners within the Foot Locker South Region states. Runners currently registered for the Foot Locker South Regional are highlighted in BOLD.

 The top 100 fastest 5K times during the 2010 cross country season by high school girls runners within the Foot Locker South Region states. Runners currently registered for the Foot Locker South Regional are highlighted in BOLD.

I am somewhat of a techie when it comes to software.  Since I moved away from a BlackBerry and picked up a Droid 2, I have been searching for a stopwatch program (sometimes I find myself without a stopwatch - even though I have 10 or so.) More...

The 2010 AHSAA XC Sectionals are here.  While results will be posted on the "Recent Meet" feed, this link will take you to a results page with all of the reporting sections.

Three years after hiring its first editor to provide weekly coverage from a national perspective, MileSplit.US–-the national portal of the 50-state MileSplit Network-–has received a long-overdue makeover.

Cross country by its nature features varied terrain, elevation, and weather conditions.  There will always be variance and two people measuring the same course (or even the same person measuring twice) will probably come up with two different measures.  However, if we lay down certain ground rules then those differences can be minimized and course lengths kept within a reasonable range of 5,000 meters.

 

Team entries for the Gulf Coast XC Stampede with "elite" division minimums.

... or several important facts you should know about the availability of college track and field scholarships.

This article provides instructions for claiming your team, editing your roster, and entering a meet using MileSplit’s Online Registration.

In this installment, we take a look at a few questions to help you dig inside what the personality of your potential college coach is like.

In a press release today from the USATF it was announced that ABC is starting a new TV series called "Shaq VS" where NBA star Shaquille O'Neal will battle other celebrities in their area of expertise.  So one such challenge is going to air on August 17 at 9PM and will face Shaq off in a 200 meter race against Tyson Gay.  So... it's pretty cool I guess to put a track star in front of a mainstream audience, but.... really?  Like okay potentially Shaq could make a better tasting burger than Rachel Ray, but I mean Tyson Gay will have time to eat that burger by the time Shaq gets to the finish.  I guess it's all about the ratings so it doesn't matter!

An updated look at several issues the college-bound athlete wants to take into consideration.

MileSplit has a huge database of performances nationwide that numbers in the tens of millions.  We love to utilize this data to generate various rankings, virtual meets, and scoring systems.  Many people feel that time-based cross country rankings are worthless. I would disagree with those people and feel it is a valuable tool when used in context.  However, obviously is is hard to get an accurate picture by just looking at times with so many variations between courses.  We are in the process of deriving a scoring system, the first step of which is to design a statistically sound rating system of thousands of courses nationwide.

We are now the most widely used online registration system for high school meets in Alabama. Wanna know why? Because we provide a convenient way for coaches to enter right from the alabamarunners.com calendar and save meet directors HOURS of time.

The City of Hoover’s Veterans Park on Valleydale has been selected by the NCAA as the host site for the South Regional qualifying meet for the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 13th

Final Nike Elite story on Bryan Clay continues our Elite coverage as we get closer to the Nike Track Nationals on June 2nd.  One more video interview to go! (Photo by Vic Sailer, PhotoRun.net)