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CROSS COUNTRY | Elis second at Invitational (Yale Daily News)
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The members of the Yale women’s cross country team laced up their spikes on Saturday for the first meet of the season in Fairfield, Conn., at the Fairfield Invitational.
Brett Gotcher wins 20K championship with spectacular sprint finish
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Brett Gotcher triumphed at the USA 20K championships held this morning at the New Haven Road Race, according to NYRR pro racing coverage. Three runners, including Gotcher, Mo Trafeh and Brett Lehmkuhle, looked strong coming into the final mile, but Gotcher turned on the gas to win his first 20K title. The official times have yet to be posted.
Men's USA 20k Champs Race [Video]
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Men's USA 20k Champs Race
September 7, 2009 via Flotrack
Connecticut running events see participant surge
Posted by TheRunning
For runners, Connecticut is a state rich in road races and running clubs, providing beginners to elite athletes a chance to test their training and to become part of an active community.
Recently, it appeared, at least to this observer, that more people were turning up at the area's running events.
To test this theory, I turned to some of the experts, those runners and race organizers who have been watching the sport ebb and flow over the past several decades. Has there been a surge in interest? And, if so, why?
Carney, Swope set to defend USA 20 km titles
Posted by TheRunning
James Carney (Boulder, Colo.) and Jill Swope (formerly Jill Steffens) of Athens, Ga., are set to defend their titles Monday at the USA 20 km Championships in New Haven, Conn. The championships will be hosted by the 31st Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race.
Watson ready for another good run at Boston
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There were two distinct themes to the 2004 Boston Marathon for Stamford runner Jeff Watson. The first was the searing heat that made the race a battle of attrition. Temperatures soared into the 80s, making it one of the hottest Boston Marathons on record. According to the Boston Marathon Web site, nearly 1,100 runners needed medical attention.
(RRW) Athletics: Fagan Continues Irish Tradition With Manchester Win
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With some of Ireland's greatest running heroes earning victory here 11 times before him, Martin Fagan carried the extra burden of tradition on his shoulders coming in to this morning's 72nd Manchester Road Race. He had finished a close second last year, losing to Australia's Andrew Letherby when he fell apart in the last half-mile of the race.
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
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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
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Danbury boys run for New England title today
Running With Mystic canceled, state back to just one marathon (Stamford Advocate)
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Well, it looks like Connecticut is down to one marathon again.
Track Looking For St. Valentine Massacre (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
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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)
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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)
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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
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Individual successes proved only enough for one victory in the Yale women’s track team’s first dual meet of the season.
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
