Sarah McCurdy

With adidas Nationals in a week we look at the best performances at NC A&T's venue's history.

The IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships kicked off Tuesday in Poland and Team USA responded with some solid results. With only two finals taking place on the first day of competition, most of the events were prelims. Leading the prep contingent at Worlds were long jumpers Marquise Goodwin (Rowlett, TX) and Christian Taylor (Sandy Creek, GA), who finished the prelims with the second and third best marks on the day. See who else performed well on day one, as we bring you highlights and results all week long. Day One Results World Junior Day One Highlights - Christian Taylor (GA) leaps 25-0.25 in men's long jump prelim - Marquise Goodwin (TX) soars 24-11.25 in men's long jump prelim - Shanay Briscoe (TX) leaps 5-11.25 in women's high jump prelim - Elijah Greer (OR) advances in men's 800m with 1:50.73 effort

A near three hour weather delay slowed down Saturday's portion of USATF Junior Nationals considerably but many prep athletes still competed well, qualifying for the US Junior National team. The best performance of the evening came from Oregon junior Elijah Greer(pictured right by Margot Kelly), who won the mens 800m dash in 1:47.68, a high school U.S. #4 all-time and a junior class record. On the girls side Cydney Ross (MO) and Shanay Briscoe (TX) picked up first place finishes in the 800m dash and high jump respectively. See what else took place on the second of three days in Ohio. Top Saturday Highlights - Elijah Greer (OR) runs U.S. #4 all-time in 800m, 1:47.68 Video - Shanay Briscoe (TX) wins womens high jump in 5-10.75 - Christian Taylor (GA) leaps 52-08 for second in mens TJ - Cydney Ross (MO) runs 2:07.12 to win womens 800m Video Interview - Vashti Thomas (CA) goes 13.62 for second in womens 100mH - Kori Carter (CA) takes second in womens 400mH, 1:00.69 Video Interview - Zachary Mellon (MN) blazes 1:48.64 for second in mens 800m - Dan Block (IL) places second in mens shot put, 62-01.25 - Curtis Beach (NM) makes decathlon squad with 7026 points

Smith runs fast 14.04 HH, DelBene runs 9:10 3200m, Sarah Palmer ties frosh NY State HJ record NEW YORK STARS THIS WEEK Madalayne Smith (Saratoga Springs) 14.04 100m HH Hannah Davidson (Saratoga) 6:46.17 2K Steeple, US#1 Sarah Palmer (Schuylerville) ties the NY State Freshmen High Jump Record at 5-8 Kristin Reese (Carmel) doubles 2:11 800m and 4:51 1600m Colby DelBene (Pawling) 9:10 3200m Troy Faulkner (Curtis) 47.72 400m Dalilah Muhammad (Cardozo) 59.84 Brian McGovern (Mt. St. Michael) 15-07 PV meet record at Loucks Suffern girls 11:59 DMR and 9:16 4x8 at Loucks Pat Dupont (Fairport) 9:13.85 3200m Jeremy Rosado (Grady) 14.43 110 hurdles in season debut Linda Hadfield (NY Mills) sets Section 3 Pole Vault Record with 11'06" winning effort. Aaron Konigsberg (Hackley) sets meet record at Loucks with 183 Javelin throw a week after throwing 199-10 at The Somers Invitational (pictured above) FOR THE FULL WEEKS HIGHLIGHTS, CLICK HERE

Story and photos by Tim Fulton NEW ROCHELLE - Coach Cap might look a little younger come Monday. The long time New Rochelle track and field coach, perhaps best known for making great hurdlers, has a new 400m hurdler on his hands. All American Elizabeth Mott, who placed 4th in the 400m at the National Scholastic Indoor Championships in 54.81, setting a new Section 1 Record in the process, is now running the longer hurdle race. Coach Capellan, or “Cap” as most of his athletes and colleagues call him, bet Mott that if she could break 66 seconds her first time in the event, he’d shave his mustache. From the sound of the gun, it was never in doubt. FULL ARTICLE HERE Photo Gallery Here

By Christopher Hunt      It’s not that Carmel senior Kristin Reese hasn’t been in big races before. She has. But for all the stories of leaving runners struggling in her wake, for all the tales of Reese producing bone-chilling relay legs it was those big races, the ones were everyone’s watching, that she became a footnote.     It’s not that she hadn’t run fast times either. It’s just that she beat people she was supposed to beat. That wasn’t the runner that ran at the New Balance Games last Saturday. Reese says it won’t be the runner that shows up in the girls invitational mile at the Boston Indoor Games tomorrow either. FULL STORY HERE