COLUMBUS — Salem senior Lucas Adams' first 23-foot long jump put him into first place at the Division III state track and field meet Friday. "I've been waiting to hit 23 for a while," Adams said. "Of course I wanted to be the state champion. But getting 23 feet was all I wanted to do ...
COLUMBUS — Salem freshman Chaya Murray made her presence known at the state track meet Friday. She posted the top time in the 200-meter dash and anchored the 400 and 1600 relay teams in the Division III preliminaries. "It's amazing," Murray. "I had so much fun." The fun starts Saturday ...
COLUMBUS — Southern Local senior Maddy Jones left the state track and field meet in tears again. "I'm crying happy tears," Jones said Friday after becoming the second Southern girl ever to stand on the podium at state. After finishing no higher than 14th place in her previous two trips ...
NO REFILLS CORAL GABLES, Fla (AP) — FIFA has made a late change of policy to bar World Cup fans from bringing refillable water bottles into the tournament's 16 stadiums across North America including some with limited or no shade from the sun. The "Stadium Code of Conduct" update was criticized Thursday by an English fan group, which argued FIFA had given assurances on carrying empty plastic bottles to fill with freely available water at a tournament where heat and extreme weather are expected to be a factor. "Naturally, the immediate thought from supporters is this is just the ...
COLUMBUS - Heartland Christian senior Rebecca Geiss says the new divisions at the state track meet are nothing new. "I feel it is still the same girls," Geiss said. "It seems like I've been seeing everybody for a long time." Geiss finished third in the Division V 3200-meter run Friday ...
COLUMBUS — Wellsville long jumper Clayten Kersey remembers going to his first state track meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium as a fifth-grader. That was in 2019 when Wellsville's Justin Wright captured state championships in the long jump and 100-meter dash. "I couldn't believe he's from ...
