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NCAA & NJCAA XC National Athletes of the Week (October 18)

Weekend Recap: October 15-17

A strong performance by the No. 8 Arkansas men powered the Razorbacks to a third-place finish in the Florida State Pre-National Invitational held on Friday. The same site will host the NCAA Championships in November.

Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational Headlines Huge Cross Country Weekend

PROVO — For a while, it seemed like BYU might be the only school west of Texas to play college football — and most other sports in the fall — while the COVID-19 pandemic surged across America. The Cougars were standing alone on an island until other conferences backtracked on their previous commitments to cancel or postpone the fall season and push it to the spring, most notably the Big Ten and the Pac-12 conferences. The result was a historic football season, but the accolades didnt stop...

Conner Mantz and teammate Casey Clinger finished eighth and 12th, respectively, in the mens 5,000-meter final Sunday morning at historic Hayward Field. Mantz, the reigning NCAA cross country champion who prepped at Sky View, moved up from 11th with four laps to go and briefly led the pack. That pace, which has often been described as "the Mantz zone," helped propel Nikes Paul Chelimo to first in 13:26.82 seconds. Nikes Grant Fisher finished second in 13:27.01 and Woody Kindcaid rounded out the...

Conner Mantz and teammate Casey Clinger finished eighth and 12th, respectively, in the mens 5,000-meter final Sunday morning at historic Hayward Field. Mantz, the reigning NCAA cross country champion who prepped at Sky View, moved up from 11th with four laps to go and briefly led the pack. That pace, which has often been described as "the Mantz zone," helped propel Nikes Paul Chelimo to first in 13:26.82 seconds. Nikes Grant Fisher finished second in 13:27.01 and Woody Kindcaid rounded out the...

Follow along as a variety of former high school and collegiate track and field standouts try to earn an Olympic berth for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in \

Follow along as a variety of former high school and collegiate track and field standouts try to earn an Olympic berth for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in \

Camp-Bennett beat her own personal-best time by about a half-second, clocking a winning time of 4 minutes, 8.53 seconds Saturday to win the 1,500-meter national championship Saturday at the NCAA womens outdoor track and field championships at Eugene, Oregon.