Emily Menges

With adidas Nationals in a week we look at the best performances at NC A&T's venue's history.

WASHINGTON - Director of Track & Field / Cross Country Patrick Henner announces the incoming class for the 2010-11 season. The incoming class consists of 23 student-athletes (13 men, 10 women) with one transfer, hailing from nine states as well as the District of Columbia.

Garden City’s Emily Menges, a Georgetown-bound senior, dragged her standout middle-school teammates through 800 meters on the first day of the Section 8 state qualifier. While Menges powered through her best race of the season, seventh-grader Emma Gallagher and eighth-grader Katie O’Neill scurried to keep up like kids following their mom at the mall.

GARDEN CITY -- There’s only one question that matters in track and field: How fast can you run? When Garden City looks at its four best half-milers on paper that question could put the Eagles’ 4x800 relay in elite company. There are five teams in New York history that have even broken the 9-minute barrier.

WHITE PLAINS – Over the course of two years and many head-to-head races, Roslyn’s Emily Lipari and Aisling Cuffe of Cornwall have become good friends, although it’s been a one-sided friendship. At least on the track.

WHITE PLAINS – Suffern’s Shelby Greany has said for months that she would run her races her way. She wouldn’t wait. She wouldn’t be a reactionary runner.

PHILADELPHIA – They pressed up against the fence, waiting for their prize like a group of gitty youngsters waiting for Santa reach in his giant red bag and pull out the one thing they always wanted.

The best of NY State come together at Cornell University this weekend for the NY State Federation Championships. The best athletes from the CHSAA, PSAL, AIS, and NYSPHSAA will battle for the state championships.

The Chaminade boys and Saratoga Springs girls both won the 4xMile Relay's at the Nike Indoor Nationals in Landover, MD. Kyle Merber (HHH West) and Leah Buletti (Westhampton) won individual titles. Check out the complete list of NY athletes and teams to earn All American Honors. FULL LIST HERE