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Maurice Pierce, who for 10 years has served as Hampton University’s head women’s track & field coach, was named Director of Track & Field for the school, the Department of Athletics announced on Monday. Pierce will be in charge of both the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field programs. “I’m thankful,” Pierce said. “I’m grateful to (Hampton [...]

Latasha Colander Clark joins the Paine College Athletic staff as head coach for men’s & women’s track and field and women & men’s cross country, Director of Athletics Tim Duncan announced.  Clark, who earned an Olympic gold medal and was part of a world-record relay team, comes to Paine from Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, North Carolina, where she [...]

The Howard University women’s and men’s teams competed in the Milrose Games Collegiate Invitational in the NYC Armory. The results were rewarding as two additional Bison on the men’s team were added to the list in what was a last chance meet. Freshman James Carey ran 4:24 in the mile and sophomore James Jarrett high jumped a foot over his [...]

As men’s track and field head coach Wayne Angel strode away from the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on Sunday night, he described his team’s performance as a “huge breakthrough.” Led by impressive performances across the board, Florida A&M secured one victory, 15 top-10 finishes and six Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Indoor Championship qualifiers during the Gator Invitational in Gainesville, Fla. With [...]

Former Hampton University track & field standout Francena McCorory came away with a gold medal at the 2011 IAAF World Track & Field Championships on Saturday, as she helped the USA 4×400-meter relay team win the title. McCorory anchored the relay team, which also consisted of Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix and Jessica Beard and ran a 3:18.09. The Americans beat [...]

Howard alumnus David Oliver, the 110-meter hurdles Olympic bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Games, continues to set records, capture headlines and tear down barriers on his quest to earn an Olympic gold. Oliver, who is the first two-time All-American in Howard’s history, holds the American record with his 12.89-second burst last summer in Paris, a mark that’s the fourth [...]

More workmanlike than wowing, defending champion David Oliver ran a steady race to claim his second straight and third overall national 110 hurdles championship with a time of 13.04 at the U.S. Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR. “It wasn’t a very good start, I stayed in the blocks a little longer to not false start. [...]

Greensboro, NC: May 15, 2011- With an exceptional run by team members sophomoreCallister Jones (Marketing-Fort Washington, MD), junior Kaneesha Hollis (Criminal Justice- Centreville, MD), junior Latoya Allen(Social Work- Washington, DC) and senior Saleena Green (Marketing- Kingston, Jamaica), the University of the District of Columbia Firebirds Women’s 4×400 team, again, won convincingly at the North Carolina A&T Aggie Classic, with a season’s best time [...]

TURLOCK, Calif. – Kelly Shaw (Soph./Winona, Minn.) of Saint Augustine’s College ran the second-fastest 400-meter time during preliminaries Thursday to qualify for the women’s finals on the opening day of the 2011 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Cal State Stanislaus. Her time of 54.65 seconds was good enough to win the second heat. Teammate Nicketa Bernard (Soph./Westmoreland, Jamaica) also [...]

Atlanta, GA—Morehouse College continued their dominance on Saturday as they won their sixth straight SIAC track & field championship on their home turf at Edwin Moses Track, located at B.T. Harvey Stadium. On the final day, the Maroon Tigers were led by Novian Middleton, who delivered 30 points by finishing first in the 5,000 meters, second in the 10,000 meters [...]

14th consecutive season, & 28th time in the last 29 years, CIAA Men’s Track & Field Championship

The women's team jumped out the gate with 24 points in the 100m dash alone.

The team showed a lot of mental toughness today," said N.C. A&T associate head coach James Daniels.

Records in the 60-meter dash Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex in Landover Friday.

Saturday afternoon at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Maryland.