VS Athletics executive and world traveler Brian Springer sent us these photos he took in the Beijing Capitol Airport. Take a close look and you will see the VS Athletics Championship Starting Block! We are now on display in Beijing, home of the 2008 Olympic Games.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Shalonda Solomon feels good as new. The South Carolina junior battled through a hip injury during the indoor circuit but appears to be rounding into the form that catapulted her to the 2006 NCAA indoor and outdoor 200m titles last season.
On Saturday, April 21, the world tragically lost a beloved daughter, sister, friend, and co-worker.
FAJARDO AND LIGHTBODY PR AT SAN DIEGO
Lawrence, Kansas, USA - World champion Bershawn Jackson isn’t quite yet a household name in track and field but the 400m hurdler is doing his best to change that image.Jackson won the 400m Hurdles in 48.75 at the last day of the 80th Kansas Relays yesterday (21) for the fastest time in the world this year in his seasonal debut on a warm and windy afternoon in the featured “Gold Zone” competition at the University of Kansas’ Memorial Stadium on Saturday (21).
Parry O'Brien, whose fascination with the shotput and physics fueled a career in which he held the world record from 1953 to 1959 and won two gold medals and a silver medal in four Olympic games, has died. He was 75.O'Brien, who revolutionized the sport by devising a new throwing technique, died Saturday while participating in a masters' swim meet in Santa Clarita. His wife, Terry, with whom he lived in the Rancho Belago section of Moreno Valley, said he had suffered a heart attack.
VS ATHLETICS WINS FOUR EVENTS AT THE MT. SAC RELAYS
University of Miami head women's coach Amy Deem and Texas A and M head coach Pat Henry have been named to serve as the women's and men's head coaches, respectively, for Team USA's track and field squads for the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan, USA Track and Field announced Thursday. Ralph Lindeman and Diane Wholey will serve as head managers.
On local Boston TV, they were calling it "Monsoon Monday," and in the early hours of Patriots' Day that was as good a name as any. Torrential rains soaked southern New England, while ski country in Vermont got more than a foot of snow. Wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour buffeted volunteers at the finish line in Boston as they toiled just after dawn. Could the race really go on?
Casey Kraychir, a freshman at 29 Palms high School, threw a new girl’s hammer freshman National record and California state record yesterday at the prestigious Mt. Sac Relays.
Shalane Flanagan breaks the Women's American 5000Mrecord with a time of 14:44.80.
Tomas Fajardo announced his arrival on the national shot put scene with personal best throw of 60’ 7¼” (18.47m) to win the shot put at the 2007 Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. A mid-year graduate of Cal State Northridge with a degree in Recreation Management, he is now working on a M.A. degree in Public Administration.
Mobile Challenge of Champions race director Steve Schoenwald and his crew seem to go all out to make sure that everyone – athletes, coaches, parents/fans – have the best possible experience at their national-level meet.
The meet ended with two brilliant 4x400 relays. The girls race (left) saw anchors Takecia Jameson of Eleanor Roosevelt MD and Jasmine Joseph of Poly Long Beach CA race side by side for the last 200 meters, with Jameson never yielding the lead. Roosevelt 3:40.48, Poly 3:41.17. Roosevelt ended with two firsts and three seconds in six relays. The boys race (right) saw Poly win its third relay of the meet in US#1 time of 3:14.63. Bryson Nellum anchored all three wins and also won the open 400 in 46.02.
Shortly after last Halloween, Cal State San Marcos track and cross country coach Steve Scott bought two tubes of fake blood and some fake teeth, and soon put the props to work.Trailing a couple of his runners on a workout, the American mile record holder spread the red stuff across his face, applied the faux teeth, then banged his hand against a pole.
Friday night session is all relays. The girls of Eleanor Roosevelt MD show their amazing range by being top seeded in five relays from 4x200 to 4xMile. They will be severely tested in the sprint relays by California powerhouses Poly Long Beach, Wilson Long Beach and James Logan Union City. The complete preview and analysis is here.
Natasha Hastings has been named USA Track and Field's Athlete of the Week after setting three records at this past weekend's Weems Baskin Sprint Relays in Columbia, S.C.
Jordan Hasay knows her time will come someday both on and off the track.
The VS Athletics Track Club has had a banner month of March in strengthening both its athlete roster and coaching staff with the addition of seven (7) outstanding new team members. New athletes joining the Club are shot/discus throwers Tomas Fajardo, Sam Lightbody and Katelyn Ciarelli, pole vaulter Erin Wessely, and distance runner Ozzie Piña.
