COLUMBIA – Omar Sharif likes his chances of repeating as Class AA cross country champion on Saturday, news those hoping to take that honor probably didn’t want to hear.
MAULDIN – Nancy Fox was in line to receive Holy Communion on a Sunday morning two years ago when she saw something different about her daughter Lauren who was standing in front of her.
This season has been a homecoming for Waccamaw High coach Brian White, and a successful one for the school’s cross-country teams as they compete this weekend in the 2A Lower State Championships at Sandhills Research Center.
David Moore didn’t PR at the SCTCCCA Coaches Classic, but the Christ Church Episcopal School senior would tell you that he ran the hardest and most satisfying race of his young life on that Saturday.
COLUMBIA – Dreher High’s Savannah Bass ran well last spring at the SCHSL State Championships at Spring Valley, turning in a personal record while finishing sixth in the girl’s 800 meters, but that isn’t what sticks in her mind about that day.
COLUMBIA – Connie Grant shakes his head when he talks about running cross-country at Rock Hill some 40 years ago in Converse tennis shoes.
The South Carolina Track and Cross Country Coaches Association will use chip timing at two high school meets this fall.
COLUMBIA – Former students, colleagues, friends, even his family knew George Washington Johnson, Jr. simply as “Coach.”
LEXINGTON – Blake White and his Wildcat teammates had more than a possible state track and field title motivating them at the championships at Spring Valley this year.
MYRTLE BEACH – For Myrtle Beach High track coach Vince Peeples, the past month and a half has resembled a story created in Hollywood, but this time life imitated art.
Bob Jenkins, a founding member of the SCTCCCA, said today (Wednesday) he’s “disappointed for the young people of this state” regarding the State High School League’s decision not to sanction indoor track and field.
COLUMBIA -- Two-time Olympic gold medalist Monique Hennagan will be in the stands this weekend at Spring Valley, returning to an event she dominated in the early 90s.
MOUNT PLEASANT -- Her given name is Rosa Marie Compton, but those who know the Wando High freshman call her Rorie, a nickname given to Rose Marie shortly after her birth by her sister, Georgia.
COLUMBIA -- If results are an accurate measure of performance, then Shekara Martin’s “work in progress” is close to completion -- at least for this track season.
COLUMBIA -- Kiah Seymour’s record-setting performance in the girls 400 meter hurdles was certainly the highlight on the girls’ side, but there were plenty of other impressive female performances at this year’s Taco Bell Track and Field Classic.
COLUMBIA -- Tevin Hester shook off what he described as a minor hamstring injury on Saturday to take the boys 100 meter dash competition at the 20th Annual Taco Bell Track and Field Classic.
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.