The FHSAA made it official this past week that they have implemented a 2 day format to the State Track and Field Meet. Contract negotiations are currently ongoing with IMG Academy in Bradenton, the new home for the meet after being held at Hodges...
Dec 21st 2015, 12:55am
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There may be a better place to hold the FHSAA State Track Meet than the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium, but I don’t know where it is. The stadium’s track has nine lanes. The stadium itself seats 9,000. There’s a pr...
May 3rd 2015, 12:57pm
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I appreciate cross country as a team sport, but team scoring in track and field has always seemed artificial to me. Over here is an athlete running long minutes to the point of exhaustion, there is another one sprinting for a few short blinks of an eye...
May 3rd 2015, 12:34pm
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You could make the case that in Florida High School athletics, class 1A is the oldest. A century ago, when the first Florida High School Track & Field Championships were contested in 1915, there was only one classification. 2A was a later invention...
May 2nd 2015, 8:54am
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On the University of North Florida campus in Jacksonville, the Ospreys that the school’s athletic teams take their name from are nesting. The Canada geese are leading around troops of fuzzy goslings. From this avian activity UNF students can tell...
May 2nd 2015, 8:47am
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It’s time for Florida’s State Track and Field Meet again. From the very first time I heard State mentioned, I could hear the capital letter. I wasn’t sure what the speaker was talking about, but I could hear that uppercase “S&rd...