Heather Koziel is a senior at Northwestern High School in Rock Hill. Koziel participated in the 2003 Shrine Run and her brother J.C. Koziel runs cross-country at Northwestern.

Four high schools from the Palmetto State competed at the Eastern Challenge on Jan. 24 at Eddie Smith Field House in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dorman, Ridgeview, Spring Valley, and Westside made a presence at the meet. Westside brought both a male and female squad.

South Carolina USA Track and Field Youth Chair Valerie Beesley announced on Friday that University of South Carolina Columbia is allowing the use of Weems Baskin Track and Field complex for the 2004 South Carolina USATF Junior Olympic State Track and Field Championships.

Clemson University is hosting the 2004 Clemson Indoor Invitational High School Track and Field meet on Jan. 31. This year the event is taking place in the new Clemson Indoor Track and Field Complex. In 2003, the meet was not held due to Littlejohn Coliseum renovations, the old location of the indoor track.

The SCTCCCA recently released the 2004 winter meeting minutes from Jan. 17. The meeting took place at the high school league office in Columbia.

The Greenville Track Club, the third oldest running club in the southeast announced on Jan. 20 the hiring of the clubs first Club Administrator. The Board of Directors made the decision to hire the first staff member for the GTC after being in existence for 34 years.

The South Carolina Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association recognized Outstanding Male Cross-Country Runner Brian Raymond (senior, Spring Valley) and Outstanding Female Cross-Country Runner Kate Niehaus (sophomore, Spring Valley) today at the SCTCCCA Winter Meeting in Columbia.

The 2004 South Carolina Track/Cross-Country Coaches Assocation is holding the winter meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17 to discuss the past, present and future of the sport of cross-country and track and field at the high school level in South Carolina.

Chase Shealy is beginning his collegiate academic and pole vault career this January at San Luis Obispo Campus, a part of Cuesta College. The college is in San Obispo, Calif. Shealy graduated from Brookland Cayce High School in May 2003. Classes start for Shealy on Jan. 20.

Spencer Stephens is a senior at South Carolina State University. Stephens competed at Claflin University prior to competing for SCSU. Stephens attended Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School.

As I, John Olson, scrunners.com site administrator was sitting at my computer and while out running or doing other things in my life for the sports of cross country and track and field I started to think about 2004 and what is going to be done with scrunners in 2004. First off, Happy New Years to everyone. In this article I am going to talk a little about what is going to come up on the site, future plans, a little about myself, my philosophy on coaching, running, etc., the message board, and why I administer the site. Included in this article is information on spreading the site to different areas of running by asking for respectable persons to write respectable articles (credit given).

FIRST (The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training) recently released their 2004 lecture series schedule. Each lecture begins at 4 p.m. on Sundays and is repeated on Mondays at 7 p.m. in the Herman W. Lay Physical Activities Center (P.A.C.) Lecture Hall at Furman University.