Hoover graduate Ashley Muffet-Duncan is ready for the Olympic Trials and has found her calling in coaching. (via )

A quick recap of how athletes with Ohio ties fared at the Olympic Trials.    Kibwe Johnson (Hammer), A.G. Kruger (Hammer), Tianna Madison (100m), Erik Kynard (High Jump), Bridget Franek (Steeplechase) and Hyleas Fountain (Heptathlon) all have ties to Ohio and have qualified to be on Team USA for the 2012 London Olympics.

CHICAGO (June 21, 2012) — In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Donovan Robertson of Berea High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade Ohio Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Robertson is the first Gatorade Ohio Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Berea High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the track, distinguishes Robertson as Ohio’s best high school boys track & field athlete. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award to be announced in June.

NEW ORLEANS – The awarding of The Bowerman – collegiate track & field’s top award – is entering its final stages for the 2012 season. On Tuesday, the award’s Women’s Watch List committee announced this year’s semifinalists – they are: Arizona’s Brigetta Barrett, Oklahoma’s Tia Brooks, Southern Miss’ Ganna Demydova, LSU’s Kimberlyn Duncan, Oregon’s English Gardner, TCU’s Whitney Gipson, Ohio State’s Christina Manning, Southern Illinois’ Jeneva McCall, Illinois’ Ashley Spencer, and Oregon’s Brianne Theisen. (via http://www.ustfccca.org)

USA Track & Field and the United States Olympic Committee announce the following procedures, to be applied to the women’s 100 meters and any other running event for which there may be a dead heat for third place at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field. These procedures were developed through consultation between USATF officials and representatives of the Olympic track & field athlete community, and were presented to and approved by the USOC. USATF President and Chairman Stephanie Hightower, CEO Max Siegel, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun and Sport Performance officials from both organizations contributed to the formation and approval of these procedures. The USOC approves all selection procedures for the Olympic Team in each sport and had previously approved track & field selection procedures entering the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. Those procedures did not take into account a third-place dead heat. The affected athletes and/or their representatives have been informed of these procedures. USATF will provide an update when the final means of determining which athlete will fill the third spot on the Olympic Team in the women’s 100 meters has been established. (via http://usatf.org/)

Saturday night’s final of the women’s 100 meters at the 2012 Olympic Trials involved a photo-finish image to determine third place. Timers use two camera positions for photo finishes: one on the outside of the track and one on the inside. The outside camera is traditionally the one used in photo-finish images. In the women’s 100, the outside camera was inconclusive for determining third place due to athletes’ arms blocking a clear view of their torsos. Torso position is used to determine finishes and times. (via http://www.flotrack.org)

This is a church story of sorts, except that in this one, Moses doesn’t come down from the mount to deliver a couple of stone tablets chiseled with 10 commandments. Instead, he calls and gives a pep talk and some pointed advice before flying over to London to prepare for next month’s Olympic Games. And then Moses’ mom offers up some more tips following services at Bethel Baptist Church in Dayton last Sunday. (via http://www.daytondailynews.com/)

EUGENE, Ore. – There will be speed and there will be pain and, ultimately, there will be results posted in the men's and women's 100 and 200 meters at the Olympic track and field trials. What happens in the next 10 days at Hayward Field will determine which three Americans in those races will qualify for the London Games, which begin in five weeks. The big questions that will be answered on the track. (via http://www.usatoday.com/)

EUGENE, Ore. -- There's something charming about the Mayberry-esque embrace that this city puts on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. At this moment, Eugene is awash in senior citizens and teenagers bedecked in hardcore Duck green-and-electric yellow (no pewter anywhere, football fans) volunteer shirts again declaring that we are in Tracktown, USA. Beneath that warm-and-fuzzy, a few of the plotlines I'll be watching during the trials (June 22-July 1): (via http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

EUGENE, Ore. -- This place is to track and field what Cleveland is to football and, well, football. From Track Town Pizza to the lone luggage carousel at the Eugene Airport, signs proudly welcome more than 1,000 of the nation's best athletes to "TrackTown USA" as it celebrates the return of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Thursday through July 1. If the athletes themselves are in a celebratory mood the next 11 days, they can hoist a TrackTown Triple Jump Pale Ale brewed at Rogue Ales, a few blocks from Hayward Field. (via http://www.cleveland.com)

With the Olympic Trials starting today in Oregon, here are a couple of interviews with two Team USA 100 meter hurdle hopefuls. We talked to these ladies recently at their training ground in Clermont, Florida.

Ed Beathea has been named head coach of the Ohio State men's track and field team, T.J. Shelton, associate athletics director for sport administration, announced Thursday. Beathea, who served as associate head coach since 2006 and interim head coach since April, becomes the eighth head coach in program history and will receive a 5-year contract to lead the Buckeyes. (via http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/)

CHICAGO (June 20, 2012) — In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Alyssa McBride of Bryan High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade Ohio Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year. McBride is the first Gatorade Ohio Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Bryan High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the track, distinguishes McBride as Ohio’s best high school girls track & field athlete. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year award to be announced in June,

Realistically, Alexis Thomas knows her best chance of making the United States Olympic Track and Field team is for the 2016 Games in Rio De Janerio, Brazil, and beyond.
  “But I never dreamed all this would’ve happened to me in the last month,” she said. “So I can dream of making the team this year and going to London. Stranger things have happened.”   Thomas, a junior at Ohio State from Wayne High School, will get a chance to fulfill that dream today as the U.S. Olympic Track and Field trials begin in a nine-day run in Oregon. (via http://www.daytondailynews.com/)

Breaking down each event, with the Ohioans expected to compete. (via http://www.cleveland.com/)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The stage was set for Bridget Franek. The Hiram native and Oregon transplant had every reason to believe she would make her new fans and friends in Eugene leap with joy earlier this month. She was among the favorites when she stepped on the historic Hayward Field track for the 3,000-meter steeplechase in the meet named for the town's favorite son, the (Steve) Prefontaine Classic. (via http://www.cleveland.com)

The long-limbed red, green and blue stick figure on the computer screen hopped over the orange hurdle and hustled down the lane. That brightly shaded avatar was a mirror image of hurdler Lolo Jones' movements on the track and just might go a long way in leading her to another color - gold at the London Games. (via http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

Ashton Eaton has a message for his fellow decathletes at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field this week. “Come get me.” The former five-time NCAA champion at Oregon, who collected his first U.S. title in the decathlon last summer, and went on to claim a silver medal at the IAAF World Championships of Athletics, didn’t utter those exact words. (via http://www.registerguard.com)

In March, the sheets of white paper on the walls of Haley Crouser's room carried a simple message in bold black ink: 181'. That was the Gresham (Ore.) senior's goal for the javelin -- a mark nearly five feet beyond the national high school record. (via http://espn.go.com/)

In 2010, with two years until the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, Matt Scherer had to make a decision that would alter his life for the foreseeable future: hang up the track spikes or give it one more go as a professional athlete. Having not set a personal best at 800m in two years, it would be a tough one for the then 26-year-old to make.  (via http://www.runnerspace.com/)

Another race and another disappointing finish. Alan Webb’s legs didn’t move as fast as they should have, and afterward, his explanation struggled to find a rhythm, as well. “I just keep — it’s just not, it’s just not, it’s not clicking for me,” said one of the most unpredictable and confounding middle distance runners to ever lace up a pair of shoes. “I don’t know what else to say. . . . The race goes, I don’t, you know, it’s just as simple as that.” (via http://www.washingtonpost.com)

Before the Kardashians became household names, Bruce Jenner was the most famous member of the family. He was an American hero, the winner of the 1976 Olympic decathlon who charged across the finish line and onto a Wheaties box. (via http://www.usatoday.com)

Here's a preview of this weekend's track and field Olympic trials, including television information and athletes to keep an eye on. (via http://www.midwestsportsfans.com)

Ever wonder how your old high school teamate is doing in college?  Or how about that stud sprinter from your rival high school?  Well, MileSplit and OHRunners is going to make following your favorite State of Ohio Alumni that much easier.  All you have do is check out the Alumni Report and you can see how former Ohio High School athletes are doing in college.

AUSTIN, TX, June 12, 2012 - Flocasts, a digital media company specializing in video content and sports communities, has signed a multifaceted agreement with MileSplit, the largest network of high school running sites on the Internet. The alliance will significantly expand Flocasts' advertising reach and distribution within the running market, adding depth to its current running verticals of Flotrack and Flotrail. The partnership will produce the largest collection of media sources online for core running participants and fans of competitive running, with a combined reach of 2 million unique visitors a month. A key aspect of this partnership will give Flocasts exclusive sales responsibility for the combined media assets.

Today is the seventh Father's Day Kevin Hadsell will be presented a homemade card by three young siblings. He is not their father but more like their rescuer. Bouts with depression and alcoholism made Hadsell's sister unfit to raise her children, prompting the University of Toledo women's cross country and track and field coach to step in and take over custody.  (via http://www.toledoblade.com/)

NEW ORLEANS – Ten men’s semifinalists for collegiate track & field’s biggest award – The Bowerman – were named on Monday. The award’s Men’s Watch List Committee named Princeton’s Donn Cabral, Arizona State’s Jordan Clarke, Illinois State’s Tim Glover, UC Irvine’s Charles Jock, Kansas State’s Erik Kynard, Southern Utah’s Cam Levins, Florida’s Tony McQuay, Florida State’s Maurice Mitchell, Illinois’ Andrew Riley, and Virginia Tech’s Alexander Ziegler as semifinalists. In 2012, several of these athletes thrilled all by winning NCAA titles and notching big performances that changed the record books. (via http://www.ustfccca.org)

He doesn’t want to talk about it. Nick Symmonds needs to focus right now on running the 800 meters, not his mouth. On a beautiful spring evening, Symmonds is sitting outside a Eugene restaurant with friends. He has no intention of raging against the machine. “It gets me so upset,” he says, “I just don’t want to go down that route. (via http://www.registerguard.com/)

A quick look at the results and coverage from the USATF Jr. Nationals and New Balance Outdoor Nationals.

Magnolia’s Justin Baum applied his Malone University running background to Sunday’s 2012 Canton Marathon and brought home a championship. CANTON — Justin Baum knows all about winning and the roads of Stark County from his cross country days at Malone University. His experience paid off Sunday for the 2008 Pioneer graduate. Baum cruised through the Fawcett Stadium finish line to claim the 2012 Canton Marathon (via http://www.cantonrep.com/)

The NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships return to Hayward Field next season. It’s one of the best events in college sports but generates scant television coverage and gains little traction with average sports fans, in part, because of overlapping storylines. The problem, analysts say, is that it’s too hard to make sense of what’s transpiring on the track, in the infield, and at the various throwing venues, let alone which schools are in contention for men’s and women’s team championships. (via http://www.registerguard.com)

When Vin Lananna first arrived at the University of Oregon nearly seven years ago, he was described as a dreamer. A visionary. An optimist with the energy to see things beyond the horizon before others would think of them. As the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials are about to unfold at Hayward Field, he can look back with satisfaction that the majority of his most ambitious plans have come to fruition. (via http://special.registerguard.com)

Later this week athletes will converge on Eugene, Ore., for the United States track and field trials, which begin in earnest on Friday. An estimated 1,000 athletes will compete for roughly 135 spots on the United States Olympic team in what some call the greatest 10-day drama in sports: a concentration of great athletes in a competition where every step, every throw, every jump has no margin for error.  (via http://www.nytimes.com/)

BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Maddie Morrow better brush up on her Spanish. The recent Hoover High School graduate finished third out of 17 competitors in the high jump at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday at Indiana University. She qualifies for the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain, July 10-15. (via http://www.cantonrep.com/)

The girls on the Shroder 4-by-100-meter relay team can tell you what it's like to run on an actual track, its surface made of smooth, forgiving rubber, its lanes and acceleration zones clearly marked. But mostly by memory. It's not as if they have a nice track to practice on. They don't have a track at all, writes Paul Daugherty. (via http://news.cincinnati.com/)

(AP) NEW YORK - U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times — a difference that could have elevated Walter Dix from bronze to the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. Dix still wouldn't have caught the fastest man in the world that day. Usain Bolt of Jamaica simply ran away from the field in the final, setting a world record that he would later break again. (via http://www.cbsnews.com)

Erica King of Cuyahoga Falls is an exciting mix of brawn and beauty. This amazing junior standout has seamless technique that many of us would kill for, while at the same time having unmatchable strength, rarely seen at this level. While being a well rounded thrower, hammer is the event she calls her specialty. That is why she chose Ohio’s first State Hammer Competition as ground zero for her best performance to date, as she annihilated the competition on her way to claim Ohio’s first Hammer Crown. (via http://www.empirethrowing.com)

Bryn Campbell may not be portrayed in the new Avenger Movie but that doesn’t mean that he’s not a hammer wielding god. Campbell has a laundry list of accolades accumulated over the course of his high school career. But most recently aside from being a nationally ranked hammer thrower he can now add Ohio High School Hammer Champion. We sit down with Bryn and talk to him about what it means to be the state’s first ever Hammer Champion and his future as an Ashland Eagle. (via http://www.empirethrowing.com)

The New Albany High School boys track and field team's 3,200-meter relay clocked 7 minutes, 54.83 seconds during the Division I regional meet held May 23 and 25 at Pickerington North. (via )

With a mix of a few talented seniors and an impressive group of freshmen and sophomores, the Reynoldsburg High School girls track and field team cruised to the Division I state championship in 2009, finishing ahead of runner-up Cincinnati Withrow by 47 points. (via http://www.thisweeknews.com)

Information about the 2012 USATF Ohio Association Junior Olympic (JO) Championships can be found inside.

The Miami Valley Track Club will be hosting a Javelin and Race Walk Clinic on Wednesday, June 13th at Yellow Springs H.S., Yellow Springs, Ohio.  The clinic is open to anyone, of any age, and will get underway at 6:00 pm with two separate tracts, one for the Javelin and one for the Race Walk.  Each topic area will be taught by some of the top athletes and coaches in those two events.

FT. WAYNE, Ind. -- One week after East Canton senior Duke Taylor finished a disappointing second at the OHSAA Division III State Track & Field Championships, the talented thrower made up for it in a big way. Taylor rebounded at the Midwest Meet of Champions, staged at Indiana's Northrop High School on Saturday, with a discus toss of 193-feet to help a team of track and field stars from Ohio (178.50) cruise to a big victory over Indiana (148.50) and Michigan (138.00). (via http://www.sportsink.com)

A quick look at the results and coverage of the first week of the post season.

Ever wonder how your old high school teamate is doing in college?  Or how about that stud sprinter from your rival high school?  Well, MileSplit and OHRunners is going to make following your favorite State of Ohio Alumni that much easier.  All you have do is check out the Alumni Report and you can see how former Ohio High School athletes are doing in college.  

Lancaster's Brannon Kidder ran a personal best 4:03.12 in placing 4th in the Dream Mile at the Adidas Grand Prix earlier this afternoon.  Reynoldsburg's Destinee Gause ran 8th in the Girl's Dream 100 with a time of 11.80.  

INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track & Field has named two individuals as Athletes of the Week. Jessica Cosby has received the honor after establishing the American record in the women’s hammer throw Friday at the Prefontaine Classic, along with high school athlete Meghan Vogel, who showed selfless sportsmanship at the Ohio High School Division III state meet.(via usatf.org)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Board of Directors made a historic decision today when it approved a recommendation to add eight wheelchair championship final events – four for boys and four for girls – to the OHSAA State Track and Field Tournament beginning in 2013. Wheelchair athletes in one boys division and one girls division will compete in the 100 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and shot put, with participants wearing school uniforms and being awarded for individual honors, although they will not score points for their teams. Track and field is the first sport in which the OHSAA will include wheelchair athletes as part of a state tournament and makes Ohio one of approximately a dozen states to do so.

NEW YORK CITY (June 6, 2012)—The elite high school fields compried of athletes from around the country are set for the 2012 adidas Dream 100 and Dream Mile races to be contested at the adidas Grand Prix on June 9 at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island, organizers have announced.

A quick look at the results and coverage of the Championship Weekend in Ohio.

When distance runner Arden McMath collapsed with 20 meters to go in the Ohio girls' 3,200, Meghan Vogel helped McMath to her feet and carried her across the finish line. (via http://espn.go.com/)

Nickel Ashmeade is hungry. He’s hungry for a place on the medal stand and hungry for success. But Ashmeade doesn’t go hungry at home.

The 2012 OHSAA State Track & Field Championships are in the books.  Friday was a rough day as the athletes had to face rainy, cold and windy conditions.  Saturday, the skies turned blue, the temperature warmed up and the best girl's and boy's track & field athletes in Ohio put on memorable performances, setting numberous State, State Meet and Owen's Stadium records.