I appreciate cross country as a team sport, but team scoring in track and field has always seemed artificial to me. Over here is an athlete running long minutes to the point of exhaustion, there is another one sprinting for a few short blinks of an eye...
May 3rd 2015, 12:34pm
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You could make the case that in Florida High School athletics, class 1A is the oldest. A century ago, when the first Florida High School Track & Field Championships were contested in 1915, there was only one classification. 2A was a later invention...
May 2nd 2015, 8:54am
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On the University of North Florida campus in Jacksonville, the Ospreys that the school’s athletic teams take their name from are nesting. The Canada geese are leading around troops of fuzzy goslings. From this avian activity UNF students can tell...
May 2nd 2015, 8:47am
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It’s time for Florida’s State Track and Field Meet again. From the very first time I heard State mentioned, I could hear the capital letter. I wasn’t sure what the speaker was talking about, but I could hear that uppercase “S&rd...
Think of Florida’s high school track and field season as toiling in an iron mine. If you’ve done a few track workouts on a hot spring day, this isn’t such a leap of imagination. If you continue with the analogy, the District Meets pic...
Florida’s High School Track and Field Championships run for two days, Friday, 1 May 2015, and Saturday, 2 May 2015. The nice thing about the Saturday session is that most people can catch all of the action without playing hooky from work. The cla...
Florida’s High School Track and Field championships are slated for Friday, 1 May 2015, and Saturday, 2 May 2015, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, with class 4A competing on Saturday. There are no dull events in track and field....
