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Fresh of Big East title, UConn men look for New England's
Posted by Matt
Fresh off winning the BIG EAST Championship last weekend, the University of Connecticut men's track and field team heads to the Track and Tennis Center on the campus of Boston University for the annual New England Championship.
Connecticut sweeps Big East
Posted by Matt
The Connecticut Huskies swept the men’s and women’s team titles on day two of the BIG EAST Indoor Track and Field Championships Feb. 24.
Donn Cabral is State Runner of the Year
Posted by Matt
Donn Cabral Finished eighth with a time of 15:19 in the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championship in San Diego after breaking a 25-year-old meet record at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional meet at Van Cortlandt Park in New York
Article about John Mentzer, who finished 24th at the Olympic Marathon Trials
Posted by Matt
A Navy officer, John Mentzer was the only military athlete invited to compete in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Men's Marathon Team Trials held Nov. 3 in New York City's historic Central Park.
Manchester Road Race results
Posted by Matt
Manchester Road Race results
Andrew Letherby and Amy Yoder Begley win Manchester Road Race*
Posted by Matt
Andrew Letherby, a 34-year-old Australian, outkicked 23-year-old Martin Fagan of Ireland on Main Street to win his second Manchester Road Race Thursday morning in 21 minutes, 54 seconds.
Donn Cabral will look to defend his title at New England Championships
Posted by Matt
Donn Cabral will look to defend his title at New England Championships
Danbury boys run for New England title today
Posted by Matt
Danbury boys run for New England title today
Running With Mystic canceled, state back to just one marathon (Stamford Advocate)
Posted by TheRunning
Well, it looks like Connecticut is down to one marathon again.
Track Looking For St. Valentine Massacre (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
Posted by TheRunning
Winning is beginning to seem routine for the men's track and field team, which returned home victorious for the third weekend in a row. The Huskies captured 14 of 16 events and accumulated 112 points en route to easily defeating Harvard and Northeastern in the Harvard Select meet Saturday in Cambridge.
Men's Track Attempts (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
Posted by TheRunning
Fresh off a second consecutive victory at the Sorlein Invitational, the men's indoor track and field team traveled to Boston for the Reebok Boston Indoor Games and came home with another win. Led by eight individual winners, the Huskies compiled 212.83 points, more than 100 ahead of second-place Northeastern.
W. track dismantles Harvard but no match for Cornell (Brown Daily Herald)
Posted by TheRunning
Coming off a successful meet last weekend at the Sorlein Memorial Indoor Classic, the women's track and field team faced the best the Ivy League had to offer this weekend. On Saturday, the team traveled to Cambridge to compete against Cornell and Harvard and the day turned out to be a split decision.
Yale middle-distance and distance women perform well at home
Posted by TheRunning
Individual successes proved only enough for one victory in the Yale women’s track team’s first dual meet of the season.
Measuring marathon can take longer than running (Stamford Advocate)
Posted by TheRunning
In the space of less than a month, I've run one marathon, and measured another. And let me tell you, measuring was harder. Took longer, too.
Outbreak of rash among NESCAC runners is under microscope
Posted by TheRunning
The state Department of Public Health is investigating the outbreak of a skin rash among about 230 New England college cross-country runners who participated in an Oct. 28 meet hosted by Connecticut College at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford.
CT HS: Kelly Sorrell chooses Quinnipiac
Posted by TheRunning
The Lyman Memorial High School senior signed a National Letter of Intent recently to compete in cross country and indoor and outdoor track for Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
Sullivan named All-American
Posted by LG
Jillian Sullivan, former Bristol Central High School distance runner who finished first in Class L and second in the State Open while earning All-New England honors as a scholastic runner during the fall of 2002, has recently earned All-American honors in college cross country.
RW chat with Alistair Cragg
Posted by LG
Alistair Cragg, the Irish Olympian who won seven NCAA championships while at the University of Arkansas, is running the Manchester Road Race, a 4.75-mile event on Thanksgiving Day in Connecticut
Cragg, Cullen wont play favorites
Posted by LG
The second-place finishers, Alistair Cragg of South Africa and Mary Cullen of Ireland, will be in this year's field.
Cullen Giving It A Re-Run
Posted by LG
Top U.S. miler Alan Webb and last year's winner Nick Willis of New Zealand have decided not to run.
Connecticut was designated the “Constitution State” by
the General Assembly in 1959. As early as the 19th Century, John Fiske,
a popular historian from Connecticut, made the claim that the Fundamental
Orders of 1638/39 were the first written constitution in history. Some
contemporary historians dispute Fiske's analysis. However, Simeon E.
Baldwin, a former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, defended
Fiske's view of the Fundamental Orders in Osborn's History of Connecticut
in Monographic Form by stating that "never had a company of men
deliberately met to frame a social compact for immediate use, constituting
a new and independent commonwealth, with definite officers, executive
and legislative, and prescribed rules and modes of government, until
the first planters of Connecticut came together for their great work
on January 14th, 1638-9." The text of the Fundamental Orders is
reproduced in Section I of this volume and the original is on permanent
display at the Museum of Connecticut History at the State Library.
Connecticut has also been known as the “Nutmeg State”,
the “Provisions State”, and the “Land of Steady Habits”.
source: http://www.state.ct.us/sots/RegisterManual/SectionX/Misc7.htm
