November 2021
FROM THE EDITOR — Random Thoughts From An Olympic Year
MISS ME YET? Setting aside the special-case ’20 season, ’21 marked the first year since ’76 that I failed to… Read More
2021 High School Girls All-America Team
AFTER A PANDEMIC-INDUCED YEAR OFF we’re happy to be back in the business of naming our High School All-America teams…. Read More
2021 High School Girls Absolute Top 25 Lists
THESE LISTS CONTAIN the leading U.S. high school girls marks — top 25s in standard events, fewer for others —… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — November
WHITHER THE ’25 WC? Japan has thrown its hat into the ring as possible host of the next available World… Read More
LAST LAP — November
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
STATUS QUO — November
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments (with plenty of post-Olympic retirements) In this space last month we… Read More
Road Digest — A Pair Of 10K Records
THE BIG NEWS of the early-fall road season, of course, was the bang-bang staging of the Berlin, Boston, Chicago &… Read More
LANDMARKS — November
Named: Steve Dolan, as Penn Relays director Following the retirement of longtime director Dave Johnson (see “Last Lap”), Penn’s track… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — November
Records reported since the October issue: W = World; A = American; w-o = women-only road record WOMEN ROAD 10K… Read More
2021 High School Boys Absolute Top 25 Lists
THESE LISTS CONTAIN the leading U.S. high school boys marks — top 25s in standard events, fewer for others —… Read More
2021 High School Boys All-America Team
AFTER A PANDEMIC-INDUCED YEAR OFF we’re happy to be back in the business of naming our High School All-America teams…. Read More
HS Boys Athlete Of The Year — Hobbs Kessler
REALLY, NO ONE SAW IT COMING. Not Hobbs Kessler, not his coaches, not his parents; certainly none of those track… Read More
2021 HS Girls Athlete Of The Year — Paige Sommers
“I DON’T THINK I COULD ask for a better senior season,” says Paige Sommers (Westlake, Westlake Village, California). “I accomplished… Read More
Nuttycombe XC Men — Kiptoo’s Strategy Works
VERONA, WISCONSIN, October 15 — Wesley Kiptoo’s plan was the story of the Nuttycombe Invitational men’s race. The Iowa State… Read More
Pre-Nationals XC Women — Nichols Paces Powerful Colorado
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, October 15 — Colorado’s Abby Nichols outsprinted Arkansas’s Lauren Gregory in the last 75m to take the Pre-Nationals… Read More
Nuttycombe XC Women — A Win For West Virginia’s McCabe
VERONA, WISCONSIN, October 15 — Cross country returned to Wisconsin’s Zimmer Course for its first meet since ’19 for the… Read More
Pre-Nationals XC Men — Mantz Beats Course Record
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, October 15 — BYU’s Conner Mantz overcame a barrage of surges from Florida State’s Adriaan Wildschutt to win… Read More
The Art & Science Of Pacemaking In The Modern Era
FOR BOTH Chanelle Price and Erik Sowinski, the road to becoming the most in-demand rabbits on the big-league middle distance… Read More