Cross Country Horse Racing

The honors keep coming for University of South Dakota junior Jeff Mettler of Eureka.  He was named the USD male athlete of the year this week. This winter, he was the Summit League indoor track and field championship most valuable performer after...

Elizabeth Chikotas enjoyed the challenge as a little kid of trying to keep up with her mother, Ann, during their Hellertown nature walks. Chikotas loved attempting to beat the boys in the recess yard and during elementary school fun runs. The Saucon...

Mike Spinnler, director of the JFK 50 Mile ultramarathon, will be the guest speaker for the annual True Grit Awards Ceremony that will be held Tuesday, May 14, starting at 6 p.m. at Fountain Head Country Club. Tickets cost $25 and are available by...

Their decisions were their own, but from here on out, Alex Beckerson and Bryant Qualls are in it together. The two runners, Beckerson of Burgin and Qualls of Mercer County, have been friends for most of their lives and rivals for almost as long. Now...

Here are the rare moments from South Dakota sports in 2012 from the State Sports Writers Association: Jan. 2: Northern State women’s basketball coach Curt Fredrickson earned career win No. 700 — second most in NCAA DII women’s...

COLLEGE PARK -- The college 5K race was ending too soon for University of Maryland freshman Kikanae Punyua. He summoned his legs to stride faster but felt instead an unnerving sense of fatigue — a vulnerability unfamiliar to a 20-year-old who had...

  Not only did Aaron Braun want to win the Manchester Road Race, he came in Thursday with the goal of breaking the 17-year-old course record.   He accomplished his first goal and came very close on the second.   Braun won the 76th annual 4.748-mile...

Most runners don't move from the United States to Croatia and become Olympic marathoners. But Lisa Stublic did. Stublic grew up in Waterbury, ran for Crosby High School and has dual citizenship in Croatia and the U.S. She will be the first female...

The first step of Jenny Barringer Simpson's athletic career began as a third-grader competing in a mile race around a soccer field. She finished second to a girl named Brittany Baxter. Brittany went to become a cheerleader at Oviedo High School. Jenny...

Jenny Barringer Simpson qualified for her second Olympics on Sunday at the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. Barringer Simpson finished third to claim the final berth in the women's 1,500 meters heading into the Olympics in London later this...

— When the finalists for the 3,000-meter steeplechase emerged from under the grandstand at Hayward Field and onto the historic track Thursday at the Olympic trials, Glastonbury's Donn Cabral was hard to miss. Not because of his flashy shoes or...

Donn Cabral of Glastonbury, a recent Princeton graduate, qualified for the London Olympics in the 3,000 meter steeplechase Thursday night at the U.S. Track and Field trials in Eugene, Ore. Cabral finished second in the race in 8:19.81. Evan Jager won...