November 2025
FROM THE EDITOR: A Harrier United Nations
2025’s GRAND TRACK SEASON is just behind us and this High School Annual issue now in your hot little hands… Read More
NYC Marathon Men — Kipruto Claims Win By 3/100ths!
NEW YORK CITY, November 02 — After an uneventful opening 16M, the 54th New York City Marathon gradually turned into… Read More
NYC Marathon Women — Obiri’s Final Drive Nets Course Record
NEW YORK CITY, November 02 — After 22 years, the venerable New York City Marathon course record was finally toppled…. Read More
Collegiate XC Conference Digest
VARIOUS SITES, October 31 & November 01 — Intriguing storylines and questions abounded as the NCAA XC calendar reached conference… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — November
New Absolute Records reported since the October issue: ; A = American. MEN’S ROAD Marathon 2:04:43 A Conner Mantz (Nike)… Read More
STATUS QUO — November
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments (our big annual recruiting feature, Where They Are Going, will be… 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
ON YOUR MARKS — November
THE ULTIMATE HONOR: After France’s Jimmy Gressier shockingly won the Worlds 10,000, soccer legend Zizou Zidane sent him an autographed… Read More
LANDMARKS — November
Died: Otto Bartsch, 81 On October 23. The 4th-placer in the ’72 Olympic 50K walk for the Soviet Union, the… Read More
Curtis Thompson Leveled Up Large In Tokyo
HE HAS BEEN hovering just outside of greatness. Curtis Thompson has been very good, to be sure. He won titles… Read More
Valencia Half-Marathon — Ngetich 16 Seconds Shy Of WR
VALENCIA, SPAIN, October 26 — For a second year in a row, Agnes Ngetich put a pre-Halloween scare in Letesenbet… Read More
2025 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
2025 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
2025 HS Girls Athlete Of The Year — Jane Hedengren
YEARS IN THE MAKING. The most dominant distance runner in prep history, Jane Hedengren, cannot be characterized as an overnight… Read More
2025 Girls High School All-America Team
THIS YEAR’S GROUP comprises the 47th such collection of elites since we began recognizing girls All-Americas with the ’78 season…. Read More
2025 Boys High School All-America Team
THIS YEAR’S GROUP comprises the 51st collection of elites since we began recognizing All-Americans with the 1974 season. Eight athletes… Read More
2025 HS Boys Athlete Of The Year — Cooper Lutkenhaus
IN A SEASON FULL of great performances, assuredly the single best moment for a high schooler came on the final… Read More
Nuttycombe XC Men — Lobos Led By Samuel Win By 99
VERONA, WISCONSIN, October 17 — Habtom Samuel’s 2025 cross country season debut at the Nuttycombe Invitational is hardly the beginning… Read More
