Usain Bolt ended his six-month relationship with a Slovakian fashion designer in order to focus on the upcoming Summer Olympics. News reports suggest Bolt's breakup with Lubica Slovak, 28, was because of his desire to repeat his double-gold/world-record Olympic performance … Continue reading → (via )

The Cape track girls kept hanging and banging, falling and stalling then re-starting over two days of competition, powering through 18 events, taking the ups with the downs but always showing up for the next event. (via )

WILMINGTON — Delaware’s next great sprinter arrived in Baynard Stadium yesterday, tying a state record and leading her team to the New Castle County track title.

Cape boy's track Coach Matt Lindell is calm and steady like a career diplomat And he is tough ,yet fair, all kinds of kids like him because he is easy to be around, he listens to his athletes and their stories including the crazy explanations and mystifying excuses. (via )

FELTON — Team championships might not be able to be secured on the first day of a track meet, but vital points toward the entire team scores can be lost due to jitters or just a bad performance.

After trading the lead over two laps with teammate Joe Casini, Andrew Wade bolted to a narrow victory in the 800 meters that clinched the New Castle County track championship for Salesianum.

The Vikings’ Kayla Albertella won the pole vault as she reached 8 feet 9 inches to help her team lead the standings after the first of the two-day Henlopen Conference Championships May 11 and 12.  The Vikings are on top with 40.50 points after five events. Caesar Rodney is second with 37.83 points. (via )

Lopez Lomong is the U.S. champion at 1500m, but is trying out the 5000m. Since he's still getting used to the event, he had an embarrassing moment in the race at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. [Related: Olympic mascots through the … Continue reading → (via )

Milton — The second annual Quest Fitness Mud Run drew 424 people who were more than willing to get a little dirty. The event, held west of Milton, took runners on a 3.5-mile course that featured a number of muddy obstacles. Enos Benbow of Georgetown was the overall winner with a time of 24:29. Sam Hete of Rehoboth Beach finished just behind at 24:40. Mary Beth Evans of Rehoboth Beach was the women's overall winner with a time of 31:55. For complete results, visit www.seashorestriders.com. (via )

The Cape boys' track team, behind Dre Miller and Amir Conley, defeated Lake Forest 97-47 and Smyrna 93-52 April 24 at the Smyrna track. (via )

PHILADELPHIA - Team USA on Saturday dominated the biggest international field ever assembled for USA vs. the World to sweep all six races at the 13th edition of the event at the Penn Relays. (via )

The huge crowd at the Penn Relays drove Michael Jensen to new heights today

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Tatnall runners smash medley record at relays   Girls fall behind but easily beat leader in the end   (via )  

3 Sam Parsons Tatnall (DE)   9 Michael Jensen Appoquinimink (DE)   7 Amanda Rickert Wilmington Charter (DE)   11 Octivia Booker Hodgson Vo-Tech (DE)   22 Latazah Coleman Appoquinimink (DE)   16 Kadijah Doughty Cape Henlopen (DE)  

  May 2012 04/25- 04/28 Drake Relays Drake University  Des Moines, IA 04/26- 04/28 The Penn Relays Carnival University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA 04/28 15th Annual Lock Haven High School Classic Lock Haven University  Lock Haven, PA 04/28 9th Annual Unionville Invitational Unionville  Kennett Square, PA 04/28 Holy Angels Meet Holy Angels Wilmington, DE 05/01 - 05/02 Blue Hen Conference Championship Appoquinimink High School Middletown, DE 05/01 Go the Distance Ursuline Academy CYM Team  

    Tatnall's Pierce sticks with team on national stage   Star runner opts for distance relay event   (via www.delawareonline.com)  

  NDIANAPOLIS - With less than 100 days until the 2012 Olympic Games, a record number of athletes and countries will compete at the 13th edition of USA vs. the World at the 118th Penn Relays in Philadelphia, this Saturday.    

Although the U.S. is expected to lose the medal count at the London Olympics, there's still one event Americans are expected to dominate: the decathlon. (via )

Scary. It can describe the future of a world-class athlete after a diagnosis that could've ended her track days. Instead, Sanya Richards-Ross pushed p... (via )

  MileSplit now offers live results hosting FREE for all meets! For Hytek Meet Manager... Hytek Meet Manager has long offered live results as a part of their pro software package. However, it has traditionally only been reserved for use by professional timers and only for the biggest meets. Why? Well partially because it required some technical knowledge and resources to set up an FTP server. "An FT-what?" you ask! Our point exactly. Well now we want to make that easier so that any meet (with an internet connection at the event) can easily offer live results. Don't worry, even if it looks intimidating at first... we've made it relatively painless now. Just follow these instructions... Login to your meet's administration page on MileSplit you'll see a new "Live Results" section with the technical details. Set a password (6-16 characters) there and then click save at the bottom of the page. Now fire up your meet in Hytek and go to the "Run" screen. Click on the "Web" option at the top, which will bring up a new window with the live results settings. Enter the information provided in our meet manager page: site address (host), user name, password, and working directory. Click "Test Website Connection" to verify that everything worked. Click "Upload Event Schedule" to publish the base pages for the meet. Click the "Upload Default Result Pages" to publish the base pages for each event. You can click "Upload Heat Sheets or Performances Lists for Rounds Not Done" if you want, which will either upload the heat sheets (if meet is seeded) or upload the entry list (if not yet seeded). Once the meet is running you can press the F11 key to send updated heat sheets or the F12 key on your keyboard to send the event's results. A list of all meets that are publishing live is available at http://live.milesplit.com and your meet will be on the list. This site is mobile friendly, so you can tell people at the meet to access it. (Hytek's meet pages are, however, not mobile-friendly... but still "kinda" work on mobile... we're working on a solution for this... stay tuned) For RaceTab 3... We've made it really easy and even automatic for RaceTab users who download their meets from MileSplit. Here is an instruction video showing it off...      

The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame recognizes achievement of Delawarians in all areas of sport. The new museum opend in June 2002. (via www.desports.org)

Milford, A.I. boys finish even at Twilight Relays (via www.delawareonline.com)  

View the 15 Faces to Watch at the 2012 London Olympic Games photo gallery on Yahoo! Sports. Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries. (via Yahoo! Sports)

Running Man: Usain Bolt readies for London 2012 Olympics 100 days from now, the Olympic flame will be lit in London.  Arguably no spotlight is greater than the one shining on Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet. NBC's Lester Holt traveled to Bolt's homeland of Jamaica to meet the king of the track.  Watch Lester Holt’s full report, “Running Man” Wednesday April 18 at 9/8c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.  

Dee Dee Trotter has had a wonderful career. She has notched national and world championships, a professional contract, and an Olympic gold medal as part of the 2004 4x400 Team USA. Since then she has struggled with injuries and overcome obsticles, but off the track she's had an amazing impact through her foundation "Test Me I'm Clean" whose mission is to stamp out the epidemic of performance enhancing drugs.

  After last year’s initial success, the Art Madric Hall of Fame Invitational looks to continue to grow this spring in its second year of existence in becoming the best outdoor track & field invitational. As we continue to grow and improve the quality of the meet, we also are searching for sponsors to help us put on a first rate event for coaches, athletes, and parents.   In partnering with this event, a potential sponsor would gain great exposure to a large audience between the great number of competitors and spectators expected for this event as well as additional exposure on a larger audience found on meet host Milesplit's network of affiliates, which consistently averages well over 500,000 page views a day. Read more for sponsorship packages for this year's meet.

We interupt our district coverage, just to bring you another quick reminder about FloCoach. We partnered with our friends at FloTrack to help them promote their new series of training and technique videos because we believe it is really quality content that can help you improve.

I wrote this a while ago but finished it yesterday after getting three different versions of “Stop Rolling Your IT band”.  Please let me know what you think. Is Foam Rolling Bad for Yo... (via Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog)

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FELTON — What started as a way to get out of the 400-meter run has turned into three state championships and at least four college scholarship offers for Octivia Booker.

Coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London by NBCOlympics.com includes exclusive video, results, schedules, athletes, news, photos, & TV Listings. (via www.nbcolympics.com)

The Redskins cornerback bet cash against a gold medal on a 100 m race. (via Washington Post)

Rather than slowly pick himself up off the track, Vasconcellos segued directly into 'the worm,' which might be the coolest dance move on the planet. Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

With the construction of Penn Park on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, plenty of new spaces have opened for the athletes of The Penn Relays. One such space is a brand new throwing area for the hammer and discuss events. (via www.thepennrelays.com)

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced on Friday that the association will induct four new members to their Division III Track & Field Athlete Hall of Fame. Leonard Jones (St. Thomas (Minn.)), Rhondale Jones (Lincoln (Pa.)), Vera Stenhouse (Tufts), and Gary D. Wasserman (Nebraska Wesleyan) will be recognized during an induction ceremony on Wednesday, May 23, in Claremont, Calif., held in conjunction with the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships. Division III Athlete Hall of Fame to Have Four New Members (via USTFCCCA)

GREENVILLE — Several local athletes and teams shined despite adverse conditions in the 2012 Diamond State Relays at A.I. du Pont High School Saturday.

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This episode of The Fit Runner takes us to RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida where we meet with physical therapist Laura Podschun to learn about stride mechanics, stretching and plyometrics drills.

The scenario is so ludicrous, it need only be put forth in a straight sentence: The nation's best prep long jumper, a two-time reigning state champion, will spend his junior season on his school's junior varsity team. The player caught in such bizarre circumstances is Devin Field, a DeSoto (Texas) High athlete who was recently declared ineligible because of residency regulations by Texas' University Interscholastic League, which governs scholastic extracurricular activities in the Lone Star state. Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

Channel 3 Sportscaster, and Dover High School all-state basketball player, Ukee Washington will be one of 10 inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame May 17. (via www.wdel.com)

He is the fastest man on two legs, the greatest sprinter of all time – and Usain Bolt can also claim another superlative. He alone has caused the other top athletes in the world to run faster. (via The Independent)

  Need your meet results passed along to a local newspaper? Just ask! I received a few questions last weekend about passing results to local newspapers. This has not been my role in the past, but I'm happy to do that for you. So, if you're a coach (I need to limit the requests just to coaches, please) and would like results from your meet forwarded to a local newspaper, please send me an e-mail in advance of the meet and give me the contact information (especially the e-mail address) of the local newspaper contact(s) to which you would like your meet results sent. Assuming I get those results the day of the meet--which happens in most cases--I will forward those results to the newspaper. Most larger newspapers, however, are reluctant to publish results later than the day after the meet. Newspapers are also perfectly welcome to copy results from this site. Meet results are public domain and no copyright issues are involved. So, it may be easier to train your local sports editor on how to visit the site and find the required results directly. It is my intent to retain mutually beneficial relationships with all newspapers in the state. Meet directors are, of course, welcome to distribute meet results directly to newspapers on their own. Many meet directors already do this faithfully. Thanks!

With faster performances in more events at increasingly elite levels, Haley Pierce this winter achieved national prominence unprecedented for a Delaware runner.   Tatnall’s Haley Pierce has broken state and national high-school records and also bounced back from tendinitis, which kept interrupting her season for six important weeks. / The News Journal/FRED COMEGYS

Glasgow’s Leshon Collins competes in the 55-meter dash at the state indoor track and field championships. / Special to The News Journal/SAQUAN STIMPSON In an event where the difference between stardom and anonymity is measured in hundredths of a second, Glasgow’s Leshon Collins bolted to become one of the nation’s leading high school sprinters.

It's time to go outside, but the Tatnall track team made one last huge statement inside last week. (via saxo.highschoolsports.net)

Usain Bolt reckons London's thriving Jamaican community could help propel him to another monumental Olympic performance as the sprinter seeks to repeat his triple gold-medal haul from Beijing four years ago. (via www.universalsports.com)

An amazing final Sunday with many great performances across multiple events! Complete saturation coverage inside! (Photo by Don Rich)

Coverage of the Track & Field World Championships, Diamond League meets & more leading to the 2012 Olympics. Track video, photos & news on UniversalSports.com. (via www.universalsports.com)