Millrose Games

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• High School Athletes of the Week

  TRACKThe senior weight-thrower won three events in a week. His best performance came in a first-place finish in the Millrose Games with a throw of 64 feet, one inch and he also earned the CHSAA intersectional title with a throw of 63-3 1/4.MIKE BRANNIGAN NORTHPORT   Read more »

• Bronxville teen Mary Cain becomes a middle-distance sensation

  landscape, adding four all-time American bests to her resume in a single race Saturday night.Her 4:28.79 in the Millrose Games women's mile, as well as the 4:11.72 as she passed the 1,500-meter mark, set two high school and two under-20 (junior) records. Those   Read more »

• Elmont boys set relay mark

  High School, comprised of Kristina Cherrington, Crystal Green, Ashley Suffriant and Kadesha Roberts, also set a Millrose Games record, beating Massapequa 's mark set last year with a time of 3:56.04."We had Kadesha lead it off with a great start, Crystal and   Read more »

• St. Anthony's Pensa wins Millrose weight throw

  before athletes and spectators filed into The Armory in Manhattan for Saturday's Millrose Games , a select group of throwers gathered at St. Anthony's High School for the Millrose High School Weight Throw.It was the first Millrose event held on LI in the 106-year   Read more »

• Garden City's Emma Gallagher will run against Olympians at Millrose Games

  shell have the chance to run against the pros.The sophomore has been invited to run in the Howard Schmertz womens 600 at the Millrose Games on Saturday at The Armory in Manhattan, according to coach Erica Fregosi.The field features five professional runners,   Read more »

Around the web

• On being back: Christian Vande Velde Q&A

  Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Christian Vande Velde races this week for the first time since serving a doping suspension that was reduced to six months in exchange for cooperation with the USADA's case against Lance Armstrong. Veteran Christian Vande Velde   from ESPN Read more »

• (RRW) Athletics: Lomong Breaks USA Indoor 5000M Record: 13:07.00

  Running in a specially arranged race in the Columbia Final Qualifier meet in the Armory in New York City, two-time Olympian Lopez Lomong set a pending USA 5000m indoor record of 13:07.00, just eclipsing Bernard Lagat's mark of 13:07.15 set on the same tr   from Runner's and Triathlete's Web Read more »

• ElliptiGO Project Member Sets New American Record

  Alysia Montaño, the 2012 US Olympic Trials Champion in the 800 meters, clocked a 1:23:59 in the 600 meters at the Millrose Games to set a new American Record. An uncommon distance in current track and field contests, Montaño came to Millrose in top shape   from PRWeb Read more »

• Track. Track To Compete At C-USA Indoor Championship

  O'Hare is the only athlete to have a top-ten time nationally in the 800-meter dash and the mile, as the senior holds the nation's top time in the mile, and the ninth-best time in the 800-meter. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane track and field team will take i   from Tulsa Hurricane Read more »

• Oregon track & field rundown: Team Schumacher wants to make the Millrose Games a habit

  "Great meet, great crowd," Schumacher said after watching Lopez Lomong of OTC/Portland nip favored Matthew Centrowitz and Ciaran O'Lionaird to win the Wanamaker Mile in a personal-record time of 3 minutes 51.21 seconds in the Armory on Saturday. Centrowi   from Oregon Live Read more »