COLUMBIA -- The Lexington Wildcats’ boys 4x800 relay quartet has been on an impressive streak over the past month or so and it appears there’s more ahead based on the team’s performance Friday night at Spring Valley High.
COLUMBIA -- Kiah Seymour, a senior from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., set a new U.S. no. 1 mark in the high school girl’s 400-meter hurdles Saturday, crossing the finish line in 1:01.95 and beating the previous mark of Jennifer Cannon of Tennessee High School of 1:02.60, which she ran last weekend at the Beach Run Invitational in Myrtle Beach.
COLUMBIA -- Lexington High’s boys relay team continued its impressive late-season run Friday, narrowly capturing first place in the 4x800-meter finals at the opening night of the 20th Annual Taco Bell Track and Field Classic held at Spring Valley High, and setting a meet record in the process.
LEXINGTON -- Lexington Wildcats Track Coach Matt Oberly has been trying different combinations this season in hopes of finding ones that will give his team the best chance to compete in the various relay distances. He may have found them at last week's Mellow Mushroom Relays in Wando.
LEXINGTON -- Colby Coulter has said he wasn't planning to drift to far from home once he made his decision on a college, and this week he kept to those plans by signing a letter of intent to compete in track and cross country at Winthrop University.
ROCK HILL -- Five years ago, Brandon Hudgins was in a hospital bed at MUSC, receiving chemotherapy and other treatments to ward off a rare disease that was destroying his body's immune system.
HANAHAN -- 2011 was a good year for Hanahan’s Chris Brown.
CHARLESTON -- Brent Demarest had a good year in cross country, dropping his personal best for the second straight season and winning his second straight SCISA championship, but his coach thinks the sophomore’s best years are still ahead.
MAULDIN - It’s been a challenging year in cross country for Brittany Williams.
Lexington High senior Colby Coulter is pumped about his and his team’s chances this weekend at state, especially following a very successful October.
GREENVILLE – As a seventh-grader at Christ Church Episcopal, James Quattlebaum and his father were looking for an extra-curricular activity that might interest the younger Quattlebaum.
Fort Mill’s Meredith Kilburn has been on a nice roll this month in cross county competition. The senior has placed first in three of four races she has competed in on the state high school circuit, a run that should give her momentum heading into the state championships Nov. 5 in Columbia.
NORTH CHARLESTON – Unlike many runners, Drew Buehring loves hills. The bigger the hill, the better the Fort Dorchester senior seems to perform.
GREENVILLE – Laura Miller has come a long way in her short career as a high school cross-country runner.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND – Jack Manesiotis says he’s had a "pretty good" cross country season, so far. He’s trimmed a few seconds off his personal record in the 5K, but the Hilton Head High junior knows he can do better.
LEXINGTON -- He didn’t set a new personal record at the recent Citadel Invitational, but his time there in the 5,000 meters was good enough to earn Tony Morales scrunners.com Runner of the Week honors.
"I hope I can run for the rest of my life," the Dutch Fork team captain said. "I enjoy the challenge that cross country brings."
CHAPIN – Heath Lorick’s dream is pretty simple -- run cross country for a college team. It’s what motivates him.
WEST COLUMBIA -- Siblings don't always take each other's advice, but Megan Stahlberger gives credit to her older brother, Kevin, for helping her to succeed at cross country.
SPARTANBURG -- Heading into this cross country season, Logan Morris said one of her goals this year was to finish a 5,000-meter run under 19 minutes early in the season "and then see what happens from there."
BOILING SPRINGS -- Boiling Springs cross country coach Steve Olejnik describes team member Sage Kosiorek as a student of the sport.
CHERAW -- The Cheraw High School cross country team starts its 2011 season this week, hosting Chesterï¬eld and McBee highs on Sept. 6 and then heading to Columbia four days later for the Coaches Classic.
A former high school and college pole vaulter and coach hopes Lexington County will allow him to build a much-needed indoor vaulting training facility.