With NCAA conference championships in the rearview, it is no surprise to see overreactions on social media. So let's dive into those reactions and share our opinions on the state of NCAA XC as Division I teams prepare for the NCAA Regional Championships.

The Brooks Beasts are in busy season.

One of the great stories of the NCAA Outdoor Championships was Shane Cohen.

There are the stars of the NCAA, and then there are the sleepers.

Cathal Dennehy was reporting live on the ground for FloTrack at the World Indoor Championships over three days capturing all the post-race and post-event moments from Glasgow, Scotland.

(16-Feb) -- The two-day USATF Indoor Championships kicked off today in Albuquerque and all eyes were on Yared Nuguse of the On Athletics Club and Elle St. Pierre of New Balance Boston in the 3000m.  Both athletes emerged victorious and booked their places on Team USATF for the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow next month.

NEW YORK (09-Feb) -- As good as world 1500m champion Josh Kerr is at performing under pressure he's even better at resisting it.After winning the world title last summer in Budapest, the 26 year-old Scotsman skipped the Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene much to the chagrin of Diamond League and World Athletics officials.  Instead, he closed his season the weekend before with a victory at the rainy New Balance Fifth Avenue Mile here.  He just didn't see the point in extending his season by another week when he was already feeling tired."It's been a lot every day," Kerr told reporters last September.  "Obviously, very new to me to win a major (title).  So, it's been a lot of media every day and it's been, like, mentally draining and tiring.  You know, I committed to this race and I really wanted to do it, and I'm just mentally very tired."Throughout the fall and winter, Kerr has been asked whether he would run in the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow next month, a rare opportunity for a Scotsman to compete in a global championships on home soil.  Kerr's compatriot Laura Muir has already embraced the chance to run for gold at the beautiful Emirates Arena, but Kerr remains undecided.  He said here today that after running the two miles at the Millrose Games on Sunday, where he is targeting Mo Farah's world best of 8:03.40, he'll finally make his decision on Glasgow with his Brooks Beasts Track Club coach Danny Mackey."I think that decision will be made after this weekend," he told Race Results Weekly in an interview at a midtown hotel.  "So, people will probably know after this weekend what I'm going to do.  You know, look, I'm just looking to compete at a high level.  I would love more than anything to run World Indoors, but it has to make sense.  My body can't fight me on it."Kerr, who first ran at Millrose while he was a student-athlete at the University of New Mexico in 2018, likes the idea of opening his 2024 Olympic campaign with an over-distance race.  After running a 1:01:51 (downhill) half-marathon in San Diego last December, Kerr came to New York from the high altitude of Albuquerque where he has been training with the Beasts.  A two-mile feels right for him at this stage of the year, instead of the meet's signature Wanamaker Mile where Kerr has finished second three times.  A year ago at Millrose, he ran the 3000m and won in a meeting record 7:33.47, the third-fastest by a European for the 2023 season.  He saw that as an important result for setting him up for his successful outdoor season."I spend the majority of the fall and the winter doing higher distance, higher mileage, and things like that," Kerr told reporters at a press conference here today.  "Starting all the way down at the mile seems like a little bit too much of a jump.  But, I always like to come and compete here at Millrose.  I ran the mile probably four times, three or four times, and haven't quite got the win yet there.  But, we stepped it up to 3-K last year and I was able to get a win.  So I was like, we can replicate something pretty similar, and means we can have a similar set-up for the year."Meeting director Ray Flynn --who also happens to be Kerr's agent-- has two pacemakers, Hazem Miawad and A.J. Ernst, set to lead Kerr through 1600m at 4:01 and 2000m in 5:02.  Kerr will be facing strong rivals --like Ethiopia's Samuel Firewu; Americans Grant Fisher, Cole Hocker and Joe Klecker; New Zealander Geordie Beamish; and Australian Morgan McDonald-- so he'll likely run those final laps with plenty of company.  The American bests of 8:07.07 (outdoors) and 8:07.41 (indoors) could also be broken.Kerr would not say whether any particular result would lead him to decide on whether to compete in Glasgow, or not.  But he made it clear that it was not something that could be forced."With a racing schedule, it's very fluid," Kerr explained.  "It kind of comes with how the training's going.  You can't really fight how the training's going too much.  For me, I signed up for some races that are going to be very competitive.  That's what keeps me excited."  He added: "I just enjoy competing against great fields."In addition, Kerr reminded reporters that racing indoors can take a toll, both on the body (due to the tight turns), but also by usurping valuable build-up time for outdoors where his second Olympic Games await."There might have been some situations in practice if we did push, maybe that would ruin some further training down the line," Kerr said.  "You know, the 200-meter indoor track isn't always the best-suited to some of us, and I need to make sure I'm being careful with that.  If I'm not running World Indoors I probably won't be competing again indoors."Kerr's gold medal has provided a big boost to his kit sponsor, Brooks.  Athletes wearing Nike and adidas shoes have dominated the middle distance medals at the big championships, and Kerr is Brooks's first world champion.  For Sunday's meet here, the Seattle-based company has provided Kerr with a new uniform and special spikes."It's been a fantastic process with them," Kerr said.  "I was their first Olympic medalist; I was their first world champion.  So, they've had a fantastic time over the last couple of months creating my new uniform."  He added: "The spike team put together a design spike for me and, again, that's debuting here on Sunday as well.  We've had a blast being able to push the boundaries, and raising the bar for the Brooks Beasts."

NEW YORK (05-Nov) -- Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia and Hellen Obiri of Kenya both got to the finish line first at today's 52nd TCS New York City Marathon, but they used vastly different strategies to clinch their victories.  Tola, 32, who had dropped out of the World Athletics Championships marathon in Budapest last August with stomach problems, broke away mid-race and scampered alone to a course record 2:04:58, the first sub-2:05 on New York's notoriously hilly course.  Obiri, 33, waited until the last 400 meters to break free from her final challenger, Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey, to win in a slowish 2:27:23.  By doing so, she became the first woman since Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen in 1989 to win the Boston and New York marathons in the same year.  Both athletes won $100,000 in prize money, and Tola collected an extra $50,000 for setting a new course record.WOMEN STICK TOGETHERThe 14-woman elite women's field, the smallest since the race adopted an all-women's early start in 2002, started cautiously, despite excellent weather (sunny and 52F/11C).  American Kellyn Taylor was the nominal leader in the first two miles, and even enjoyed a small gap ascending the towering Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the first kilometer, but when the top-11 women hit Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn at the bottom of the bridge they were all together.  Like sailors huddled in a lifeboat, they clung to each other kilometer after kilometer, nobody wanting to test the waters on their own."It was super-weird," Taylor said of the slow pace.  It was probably one of the weirdest races that I ran, especially with the caliber of the talent."  She added: "We were running 6-minute pace for no good reason except that we were doing it."The first three 5-kilometer segments ticked off in 17:23, 17:12, and 17:54.  Taylor was joined by compatriot Molly Huddle and Kenyans Viola Cheptoo, Brigid Kosgei, Edna Kiplagat, Mary Ngugi, Sharon Lokedi (the 2022 race champion) and Obiri.  There were also two Ethiopians, Letesenbet Gidey and Fantu Zewude Jifar.  Nobody was concerned about the pace.  The race organizers, New York Road Runners, don't employ pacemakers like most modern marathons."At the beginning of the race it was just like, let's sit and relax," explained Lokedi, who spent most of 2023 dealing with a foot injury.Despite massive crowds cheering them on, the pace stayed restrained, 17:50 for the 5 kilometers through 20-K and 18:19 for the 5 kilometers through 25-K.  Obiri, the only woman in history to win gold medals in both indoor and outdoor world championships and world cross country, tried to stay calm and wait for the right moment to attack.  She thought about it several times, she said."'Can I try to make a move?,'" she revealed she said to herself.  "You know, the marathon is about patience."When the race re-entered Manhattan after the small section in the Bronx, the real racing finally began.  It was Cheptoo, a younger sister of Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat, who made the first move.  Rounding Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem in the 23rd mile, Cheptoo opened a small lead, but Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and Kosgei caught up.  Taylor --who had done so much of the leading-- fell back and would finish eighth in 2:29:48 (top American).  Mile 23 went into the books in a snappy 5:04, and the pack covered the notorious uphill 24th mile in 5:19, perhaps equal to a sub-5:00 mile if it were flat."I think it was just more like we knew towards the end it would get fast," said Lokedi.  She continued: "When the move is made, be ready."Running in Central Park behind the majestic Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cheptoo and Kosgei fought to stay with Obiri, Lokedi and Gidey, but eventually the trio got away.  Plunging down the Service Road behind the Central Park Zoo, the three women turned right onto Central Park South in a tight group.  Obiri, who lost touch with Lokedi at that point last year, was determined to stay with the leaders."Sometimes you learn from your mistakes," she said.The three stayed together until the final turn back into Central Park.  That section is slightly downhill, and Obiri surged. That move put Lokedi out of contention.  Gidey held on to the back of Obiri, but the Kenyan still had another gear.  The final 400 meters is uphill, and Obiri charged it like the world cross country champion that she is.  Her arms pumping furiously, she put some daylight on Gidey."You know sometimes you must have that speed," she said, adding, "I'm a marathoner, but I'm from track so I can do well."Gidey gave it her all, but Obiri was just too strong.  Her winning time was the slowest here since Edna Kiplagat ran 2:28:20 in 2010, but it mattered not.  Under the coaching of Dathan Ritzenhein at the On Athletics Club in Boulder, Colo., Obiri had prepared well.  Remarkably, in three marathon starts she has two victories and hopes that she will be selected for the Kenyan team for the Paris 2024 Olympics."Sometimes anything can happen in a race," Obiri marveled.  "But for me I trained so well.  I'm strong.  I believed in what I did in my training."Gidey, who was running New York for the first time, took second in 2:27:29.  Lokedi got third (2:27:33), and Kosgei (2:27:45) and Ngugi (2:27:53) ended up fourth and fifth, respectively.  Cheptoo, who made the first move to break open the race, was sixth in 2:28:11.  American Molly Huddle finished ninth in 2:32:02, completing her first marathon since April, 2019.  She said before the race that her goal was 2:29:30.

Tara Davis opened up the first round of the women's long jump on Saturday at the World Championships with a leading mark of 6.87 meters.

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By Parker Navarro - MileSplit

The most decorated athlete in University of New Hampshire history transitioned smoothly into the professional ranks since graduating last year.

Before the start of his junior year in 2019, Florida’s Grant Holloway had already established himself as arguably the greatest hurdler in NCAA history. His four straight NCAA titles, a 60m hurdles collegiate record and a No. 2 all-time 110m hurdles performance made him a NCAA track and field legend in just two short years.

Two-time Olympian, U.S. champion, American record holder, NCAA champion. Pattisue Plumer has done it all and then some as a middle-distance runner. But this fall marks a new chapter—she moved from her long-time home in the Bay Area, where she spent the last five years coaching Gunn High School and the Stanford Running Club, to steamy Austin, Texas, where she joined the University of Texas staff as assistant cross country and track coach for the women’s distance team. She’s resigned herself to the fact that fall doesn’t begin until late October, but above all, is pleased to rejoin forces with Longhorns head coach Edrick Floreal—with whom she worked for several years as an assistant at Stanford. We talked about “glistening” Texas summers, her goals for the women’s cross country team, and the first story she tells new student-athletes about her athletic career.

Between Clayton Murphy and Donavan Brazier, Drew Windle and Isaiah Harris, Erik Sowinski and Boris Berian, the United States is rich in men's 800-meter runners. But there's still no easy replacement for the charmingly candid, chronic pot-stirrer that is Nick Symmonds, who has now enjoyed a full year of retirement from track and field.