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Hayward Field’s Grand Reopening Is Friday, And a Ton of NCAA Stars Will Be Racing April 1, 2021 When the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field reopens on Friday with the Hayward Premiere meet, 1,028 days will have passed since it last hosted a track meet. Back then, on June 9, 2018, the marathon world record was 2:02:57, the Nike Oregon Project still existed, Donald Trump had zero impeachments, and we were still 18 months away from learning the word “coronavirus.” It has been a minute...

NEW ORLEANS – The NCAA spring cross country season is winding down. Here are those six athletes who stood out from their peers this past weekend and were named National Athletes of the Week on Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). NCAA Division I Men – Isai Rodriguez, Oklahoma State NCAA Division I Women – Anna Pataki, Portland NCAA Division II Men – Mason Jones, Florida Southern NCAA Division II Women – Paige Patterson, Saint Leo NCAA ...

Oklahoma State hosted Tulsa in what basically amounted to a dual meet this past Tuesday on the same course that will hold the aforementioned NCAA Championships in just a few weeks (We saw it “basically amounted to a dual meet,” because while it was just Oklahoma State versus Tulsa on the women’s side, a few athletes from Iowa State were mixed in on the men’s side). Well, the men’s race was every bit as thrilling as you’d expect a head-to-head matchup between two top-10 teams. The G...

It was just a few days ago at the Silver State Collegiate Challenge where the Cougars beat the Lumberjacks in a head-to-head matchup that featured not just the top-2 programs from the final National Coaches’ Poll of the 2020 fall segment, but four others as well (No. 4 Notre Dame, No. 18 Washington, No. 24 Weber State and No. 27 Air Force were also in the field). BYU edged NAU by five points as it put four runners in the top-10, led by Conner Mantz’s individual title. This was the second ti...

NEW ORLEANS – We’re less than six weeks away from the 2020 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma, which were postponed until March 15 from their original date of November 21 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Even though there won’t be Regional Championships to decide which teams automatically advance to the meet, we figured it was high time to release the first edition of the NCAA Division I Men’s Cross Country Regional Rankings for the 2020 season to...