Craig Rice of the Portland Track Festival was kind enough to take some questions during a busy week leading up to the Friday-Saturday Portland Track Festival at Lewis & Clark College.

Can you give a short history of the Portland Track Festival a...

Rogue River senior Cole Watson at the Oregon Elite Championships in Bend on Saturday and ran away from everyone to take the 800 meters in 1:52.85.

Watson, who will run for Oregon next year, was aiming for something closer to 1:50, but swirling wind...

NCAA Track and Field Preview: Triple Jump

Florida and Texas A&M combine for five of the top 10 jumpers in the field and how they finish will have major team title implications.  In the women’s competition, the current NCAA indoor and...

NCAA Track and Field Preview: High Jump

The absence of defending champion, Destinee Hooker of Texas, from the women’s field opens up the opportunity for a new champion in 2010.  On the men’s side, a Hoosier hopes to finis...

NCAA Track and Field Preview: Pole Vault

A talented group of 18-foot vaulters hope to deny Rice’s Jason Colwick a second outdoor title.  Meanwhile, 2009 women’s NCAA champ, Kylie Hutson of Indiana State, tries to overcome to her co...

NCAA Track and Field: Shot Put

The men’s and women’s shot put features two seniors who have combined to amass three NCAA outdoor titles and have always finished in the top six. Miriam Kevskishvili of Florida and Ryan Whiting of Arizona ...