The Georgetown women’s team earned its seventh BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championship title on Sunday, using the final event of the weekend to clinch the victory. , News (via www.bigeast.org)

Trey Hardee, Alabama State Champion from Vestavia Hills, eventually went onto to become an NCAA and World Champion out of University of Texas. In this video series he goes into details and explains his training regimine for the event. 

'Carmelita Jeter takes five strides in the time it takes to say (via The Washington Post)

Coaches, here's a short guide to all you need to know in order to manage your team page, rosters, and schedule.

    Working on updating the 2012 outdoor track meet calendar on Milesplit DC with all meet dates, information, and any meets looking to setup their meets with the MileSplit online registration. Thank you to those meet directors opting to use the online registration system for their meets as 50% of the online registration proceeds go to support Milesplit DC and its coverage. Check the below link for any meets missing and information missing as well. Remember we also offer free meet management software    2012 Outdoor Track Meet Calendar

Prince Harry hopes to line up on the starting blocks next to sprinter Usain Bolt during his diamond jubilee tour of the Caribbean and Central America, it was announced today. (via mirror.co.uk)

On Nov. 27, 2010, a rainy, unseasonably cold Saturday in Fresno, Calif., Holland Reynolds pulsed through the 3.1-mile course upright, trailing only the race’s leader. (via NY Daily News)

Held at the brand-new JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, the meet is open for unattached individuals and clubs from around the Southeast.

Carroll’s Kiah Seymour powers to three impressive victories, but Seton pulls out the girls’ title while Gonzaga wins its fourth straight boys’ championship. (via Washington Post)

Watch exclusive premium videos on flotrack brought to you by flocoach. (via FloTrack)

TRACK & FIELD | London Freeland won four medals as the Crimson Tide swept the girls’ and boys’ titles at P.G. Sports & Learning. (via Washington Post)

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  Today is February 1st, national signing day! Athletes around the country (and world) can now make their college commitments official.

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Mind over matter? Or nature over nurture? What is it that separates Olympic legends like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps from the millions of enthusiastic amateurs around the world? (via CNN)

  Send Your Signings Updates   National Signing Day for cross country and track is February 1st. This time marks the first day that an athlete can sign a national letter of intent to their college destination.  Athletes have until August 1st to announce their choice.   DC Milesplit wants to know where you’re headed!  Send us your news and photos of your announcement and we will share it with the running community. Email slee@milesplit.com

INDOOR TRACK | Wise’s Champ Page was one of several local athletes to turn in top performances at the Virginia Tech Invitational. (via Washington Post)

The American University men's and women's indoor track and field teams will compete at the George Mason Patriot Games on Saturday, January 28.

Phil Wharton is one of my heros in the sport of track and field. He’s extremely knowledgable, extremely passionate about his craft and his compassion for athletes is tremendous. He works with his father Jim at Wharton Performance, working with athletes from a variety of sports. He and his father are best know for their Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) with ropes – “the rope stretching” – but as you’ll hear in this podcast, there is so much more to Phil’s approach than just rope stretching. (via www.coachjayjohnson.com)

Lauren Centrowitz Northwestern girls 4x200 1:47.64.  Joel Roberson 49.71, Dorian Claggett 49.86.  Champ Page 1:04.21

GP and LB MD #1 & #2 Boys DMR's 10:33.87 and 10:46.45

The Georgetown university track & field team hosted the second annual Hoya Spiked Shoe Club Invitational today at the Hanley Center for Athletic Excellence on the campus of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Md. The Hoyas put up a number of impressive performances today and appear to be in impressive midseason form. (via www.guhoyas.com)

For the second straight year, the Georgetown University track & field program will host the Hoya Spiked Shoe Invitational this Friday, January 20 at the Hanley Center for Athletic Excellence on the campus of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Md. The Hoyas welcome the La Salle Explorers as well as a handful of post-collegiate runners for the second annual event. The meet is scheduled for 4 p.m. with the first running event occurring at 4:30 p.m., tentatively. (via www.guhoyas.com)

 Maryland will be one of 23 collegiate teams competing Saturday in the annual Terrapin Invitational indoor meet. (via www.umterps.com)

How much is a spot on an Olympian's shoulder worth? Nick Symmonds put his skin on the eBay auction site, offering to wear a temporary tattoo with the name of the highest bidder as he competes for a spot on the U.S. team for the London Games this summer. (via sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

INDOOR TRACK | Old Mill senior Alexis Franklin wins the 55 hurdles, 300 and 500 at the SMAC Invitational. (via Washington Post)

Recommendations for your mid-distance and distance runners to avoid contracting an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) while training outside during the winter months. (via Complete Track and Field)

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The United States Naval Academy Official Athletic Site, partner of CBS College Sports Networks, Inc. The most comprehensive coverage of Navy Midshipmen athletics on the web. (via www.navysports.com)

Dunbar senior Dennisha Frazier leaps 19 feet 18.5 inches, the No. 2 long jump in the country this season and nearly two feet better than her previous best. (via Washington Post)

Gators Assistant Track & Field Coach Todd Morgan will take his coaching talents to University of Virginia. Morgan will be the Head Women's Distance Coach for the Cavaliers.

Stanford Head Coach Edrick Floreal Teaches "Triple Jump For Dummies" at the 2012 Track & Field Clinic. See what he has to say about proper approach, landing, jumping drills, and much more.

Senior Mobolaji Adeokun wins two events — the 55-meter dash and the long jump — and places well in two others at the Montgomery Invitational. (via Washington Post)

T&F Technical Certification: College Park, MD (via USTFCCCA)

2012-01-06 at Comcast Center Heritage Hall in College Park (via MDRUNNERS.COM)

Lauren Fleshman arrived at the start of the New York City Marathon in November as a human billboard, wearing temporary tattoos that advertised an energy-bar company she founded with her husband.(via www.nytimes.com)

  01/03 District 5 Challenge   Baltimore, Md 01/03 Terry Baker Invitational   Landover, MD 01/04 Anne Arundel v. Howard   Landover, MD 01/04 Bayside League Meet   Snow Hill, MD 01/04 HCC B Developmental Meet   Hagerstown, Md 01/05 PG County Novice Championships   Landover, MD 01/06 Antietam Conference Championships   Hagerstown, Md 01/06 Delaware Invitational University of Delaware Newark, DE 01/06 UMES Coach O HS Invite University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 01/07 CCBC-ESSEX INVITATIONALS Community College of Baltimore County Baltimore, Md 01/07 Chesapeake & Piedmont Conference Championships   Hagerstown, Md 01/07 Golden Bear Invitational Kutztown University  Kutztown, PA 01/07 - 01/08  

WALTON, Ky. -- A northern Kentucky cross country team makes one final run to honor their late coach. Tuesday, December 27, 2011. (via WLWT.com)

Two former high school standouts have created a website for Christian athletes to network with one another and share their experiences. Tyler Cardillo and Sarah Spann, now freshman runners at the University of Florida started UndefinedChristianAthletes.com in December. Cardillo says the response from the community has been outstanding.

Oakton girls and South Lakes boys look to rock the house on Tuesday in Landover!

This is your source for the best athletes in DC, Maryland, and Virginia high school sports. (via The Washington Post)

This is your source for the best athletes in DC, Maryland, and Virginia high school sports. (via The Washington Post)

Many people don't realize all of the cool features we've got on MileSplit. So I want to start to highlight some of them. One of those is compare athletes, which we recently made much easier to pull up right from the rankings page.

  TRANSITION GAME | High school athletes can learn a lot from Tim Tebow and his compassionate leadership style. (via Washington Post)

Cheserek held off a late charge by Zeinasellassie after a back and forth battle nearly the whole way.  Seidel was able to make a break with 300 to go after Finn led the race for close to 2.5 miles.  Great races all around from all the athletes!  (Photo by Don Rich)

The girls race at Foot Locker Nationals is a little more wide open than the boys race, but there are still a handful of girls at the top who will be difficult to beat.  The top 3 returners from last year have all had great seasons and have proven they can race well under the pressure at Balboa Park. 

Bib chips, such as the one shown here, have a lot of advantages. But do those advantages outweigh their liabilities?

Athletes competing in the Nike Cross Nationals Championship were given the royal treatment at Nike headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Most athletes flew in Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and have since been ushered into a life centered around cross country. The athletes were first picked up at the airport by their own private Nike van. They were taken to the Nike Campus, home of numerous professional athletes sponsored by Nike. The lavish campus pays tribute to past Nike running greats such as Michael Johnson and Steve Prefontaine.

The Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) brings together the best teams in the country and pits them against each other on the most unique course available.  Portland Meadows will once again play host to the championship battle and the manufactured course that traverses the interior of a horse racing track will have all the traditional features of European style cross country racing; including plenty of mud.

Twenty-two of the nations' top teams and forty-five of the best individuals will make the trek to Portland, Oregon for Nike Cross Nationals. The teams are comprised of two winners from nine different regions and four “At-Large” berths, decided on by a team of Nike consultants. 

Mike Crozier poppin' his collar at NXN SE!

Julie Macedo (DE) and Elliot Clemente (FL) won individually, while Tatnall and Belen Jesuit claimed team titles (photos by Jeff Sides).

Photo by Ted Plunkett   Virginia's most prized high school distance running recruit this year in Annandale senior Ahmed Bile has announced this past week that he will be attending Georgetown University next fall. The college decision is now one less thing for Bile to worry about as he heads into this weekend's Foot Locker South Regional in Charlotte and attempts to qualify once again for the Foot Locker Nationals, which he earned All-American honors at last December. With a 1:50 800 meter and 4:09 1600 meter bests, Bile is one of the nation's top returning prep middle distance runners. A four-time state champion cross country and track, Bile joins a handful of Virginians who have moved onto compete collegiately at Georgetown over recent years including Western Albemarle's Derek Armstrong, Western Branch's George Matais, Kellam's Bobby Peavey, and a trio from Blacksburg in Joanna Stevens, Matthew Howard, and Brian Hencke.   Read more on Bile's college committment with quotes from the Annandale school paper

Now includes more information about unattached individuals and those without full teams at the meet.

The University of Maryland track and cross country program will host its annual Run Far, Run Fast elite middle- and long-distance clinic on Friday, Dec. 2 at the Comcast Center. (via www.umterps.com)

  The Georgetown women's cross country program won the NCAA National Championships today at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course at the Wabash Valley Sports Family Center in Terre Haute, Ind., hosted by Indiana State University. (via www.guhoyas.com)

  Georgetown spoiled Big East rival Villanova's bid for a third consecutive DI women's cross country national championship on Monday as the Hoyas took home their first title. (via www.ncaa.com)

Live steraming video of today's NCAA Div.I Championships will be available at Noon at: http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule  

For the third year in a row US#1 Fayetteville Manlius, NY scored a perfect 15-points over US#2 Saratoga Springs, NY at the New York State Championships.

  The Georgetown cross country program had a standout day in Princess Anne, Md., as the Hoyas swept the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships winning the men's title outright while the women shared the team title with fellow BIG EAST institution Villanova. Both the men's and women's teams earn automatic bids to the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday, November 21 at Indiana State University. (via www.guhoyas.com)

US#1 Julie Macedo and US#8 Haley Pierce battled each other relentlessly in Delaware this past weekend, with Haley collapsing and Julie finishing 2nd after staggering close to the finish.  US#4 Grace Tinkey is back and won a state title with the only sub-18 time on the day.  US#6 Erin Finn won her state title in MI and looks poised for a great championship season ahead.  US#7 Katie Knight blasted a 17:10 5k in WA to win a state title and run the fastest time in the state by far.  Full updates on each athletes recent accomplishments are below.  Be sure to click on each athletes name to see times, articles, photos and interviews of each athlete if available.  

US#1 Julie Macedo continues to win, this time taking her conference title with a time of 17:37, as she continues to dominate the national scene.  US#2 Molly Seidel won her 4th straight state title in WI with a time of 13:39.  US#9 Abbey Leonardi won her 4th straight ME crown with a time of 18:27.  US#15 frosh Jordyn Colter won her first CO state title in a dominating way with a time of 18:24.  More state action will heat things up this weekend as we get closer to the championship finals.  Full updates on each athletes recent accomplishments are below.  Be sure to click on each athletes name to see times, articles, photos and interviews of each athlete if available.

Man, what a busy week of high school action.  All here! Bayside, Washington, Carroll, SMAC, UCBAC, Anne Arundel...