December 2025
FROM THE EDITOR: Ståhl’s Tokyo Winner A Discus Superlative?
DANIEL STÅHL’S 231-2 (70.47) gold-medal throw on the next-to-last throw of a rain-drenched and delayed 2-hour-and-55-minute discus competition at the… Read More
Where They Are Going — Our New Recruits Roundup
FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS a fall-month edition of T&FN has featured Where They Are Going, an annual roundup devoted… Read More
LANDMARKS — December
Died: Al Carius, 83 On September 09, in Naperville, Illinois; of cancer. Coaching at North Central College for over 50… Read More
STATUS QUO — December
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments (our big annual recruiting feature, Where They Are Going, is featured… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — December
CROWDED STREETS: The NYC Marathon broke the record for the most finishers ever in a 26.2M race with its 59,226…. Read More
LAST LAP — December
HERE’S THIS MONTH’S collection of short takes on generally off-track activities that have gone/will go a long way towards shaping… Read More
Prize Recruit — Ja’Shaun Lloyd (Texas State)
THE OBVIOUS QUESTION for star recruit Ja’Shaun Lloyd is, why Texas State? The No. 2 prep 110 hurdler all-time (13.20)… Read More
Prize Recruit — Anisa Bowen-Fontenot (USC)
SHE HASN’T VENTURED far from her native San Diego for college, but for 100 hurdler Anisa Bowen-Fontenot that 120M relocation… Read More
Prize Recruit — Jake Atwood (Florida State)
MANY ARE THE STORIES of preps who are combination track & field and football athletes, then wind up gravitating toward… Read More
Prize Recruit — Jaicee Jasmer (Louisville)
THOUGH SHE ENDED the season with the nation’s leading high school girls pole vault mark for ’25, Jaicee Jasmer admits… Read More
Big Changes In ’28 Olympic Timetable
THE FULL SCHEDULE for the ’28 Olympics was released on November 12, and the several major changes will make it… Read More
Where They Are Going — Part 2
AS USUAL, part 1 of our “Where They Are Going” offering focuses on the new faces on the collegiate scene…. Read More
Top Women’s Recruits For The 2025–26 Collegiate School Year
THESE LISTS CONTAIN the leading women’s performers signed up for the 2025–26 collegiate year, coming from either a U.S. high… Read More
Top Men’s Recruits For The 2025–26 Collegiate School Year
THESE LISTS CONTAIN the leading men’s performers signed up for the 2025–26 collegiate year, coming from either a U.S. high… Read More
Lemngole’s Back-To-Back Win A Rare Achievement
WINNING THE women’s individual title moved Alabama junior Doris Lemngole into rarefied company as a back-to-back champ. Before the 23-year-old… Read More
Cowboys Avoided ’24 Mistake In Claiming Title No. 6
DAVE SMITH JUST completed his 20th season as men’s cross country coach at Oklahoma State but the 56-year-old mentor admits… Read More
A Foreign Wave Rises High In The NCAA
THE NCAA SCENE has changed dramatically in recent years, as old-school athletics and modern-day money have battled in the courts,… Read More
NCAA Men’s XC — Happy Returns For ’24 Runners-Up
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, November 22 — There’s nothing like winning to quickly erase memories of things gone awry in a previous… Read More
