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Pete Watson On Recruiting At UNC [Video]
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Distance coach Pete Watson talks about recruiting at the University of North Carolina.
2010 Adidas Raleigh Relays Preview [Video]
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The outdoor season is here! On the east coast, one of the biggest meets kicking off the season is the adidas Raleigh Relays hosted by N.C. State. Justin lets you know what to look for this weekend at the meet.
Team USA set for World Cross Country Championships
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Members of the Team USA World Cross Country squad are making final preparations for competition at the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships at Myslecinek Park in Bydgoszcz, Poland on March 28.
The senior women of Team USA are set to challenge for their first team medal since 2005 when they won the bronze medal in the women's 4 km. The quest for a team medal will be led by 2010 USA Cross Country champion, 2008 Olympic Games 10,000m bronze medalist and American record holder Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.) who is also considered an individual medal contender.
Appenzeller to compete for Central College track and field (Boone News Republican)
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In his first year as head coach, Joe Dunham led the Central College men’s track and field squad to an Iowa Conference championship and was named league coach of the year. Dunham returns 26 letterwinners, including six individual conference champions and five all-Americans. The indoor season wraps up with the NCAA Division III meet March 12-13 and Central College will begin its outdoor season at ...
UNC's Pete Watson On Dealing With Injury [Video]
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Throughout his running career UNC coach Pete Watson experienced 11 stress fractures and 4 broken sacrums. Pete understands the importance of being patience when coming back from injury and also the importance of taking a day of rest or recovery when something feels "off". There has to be a long term outlook when thinking about success over your career and remembering that one day off won't kill you, especially if it helps avoid injuries.
Get To Know Coach Craddock And The UNC Program [Video]
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This fall UNC head coach Dennis Craddock started his 25th year in Chapel Hill. He talks about his first experiences in coaching and his journey that led him to UNC. Craddock also touches on the success of the UNC track and field program over the years.
A Brief Chat With Shalane Flanagan
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Shalane Flanagan, the 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medalist, will move up in distance when she does the USA Half Marathon Championships at the Aramco Houston Half Marathon on January 17. Flanagan, 28, holds American records for 5000 (14:44.80) and 10,000 (30:22.22) outdoors and 3000 (8:33.25) and 5000 (14:47.62) indoors.
UNC's Pete Watson On Training And Kenyans [Video]
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North Carolina coach Pete Watson talks to us about the base of his training program and where he received a lot of his guidance. Pete also trained with Kimbia Athletics when he was still competing, which was based in Kenya. Pete mentions what he thinks are some differences in athletes from different countries.
USA Track & Field Championships coming to Myrtle Beach (WPDE Myrtle Beach - Florence)
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Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce says USA Track & Field has awarded the bids for the USA Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships, to be held in July 2011, and USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships, to be held in December 2011, to Myrtle Beach.
Checking In With UNC's Brie Felnagle [Video]
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A couple weeks ago we checked in with Brie Felnagle to see how training was going this fall now that she's done with collegiate cross country. Brie talks about how things are going in her final year at North Carolina and what she hopes to accomplish as she looks towards her last outdoor season. via Flotrack
Duke Coach Kevin Jermyn On The Young Squad [Video]
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Duke University Coach Kevin Jermyn talks with us about his Duke women. The squad is young and looks to have a bright future. Kevin looks back to his national runner-up squad from 2004 and remembers some keys to their success. Timing, maturity and ending on a positive note are things he stresses. If all goes well, possible national contender in 2011? - via Flotrack
Evan Watchempino And Adam Cunningham Of UNC [Video]
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Last week at the ACC Cross Country Championships Evan Watchempino and Adam Cunningham became the first All- ACC cross performers at UNC in the past 7 years when the finished 11th and 12th respectively. At the same meet a year ago they were 34th and 35th. They also led their Tarheel squad to a 6th place team finish, which is the highest placing since before 2002. With the season winding down, Evan and Adam will be aiming their efforts towards the Regional Championships in Louisville, KY next weekend where they will be running for two at-large individual berths to the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute.
UNC Coach Pete Watson - Background And Coming To Chapel Hill [Video]
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This fall Peter Watson started his first season as Head Men's and Women's Cross Country coach at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Pete came from Auburn, where in only four years, he led the team to a 5th place finish at the NCAA Championships. Get to know Pete's background and what the move to Chapel Hill has been like.
Speaking with Shalane Flanagan
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The 2008 season couldn't have gone better for Beijing 10,000m bronze medalist Shalane Flanagan. This season was a lot rockier, but the future remains bright. We caught up with Flanagan, who is contemplating a move to the marathon in 2010 and observed the 40th ING New York City Marathon from the lead truck
After 5 Years of Silence, Graham Says He Is Innocent of Doping
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Trevor Graham sat in a memento-filled den in his basement culling through files that traced his own disgrace. Trevor Graham with the uniform Justin Gatlin wore as he won an Olympic gold medal in 2004.
The man who sent the syringe that started the biggest investigation of doping in American sports, Graham still says he is innocent, but few believe him. On Friday, after he took off his ankle bracelet to mark the end of a year of home confinement for a felony conviction for making false statements to a federal agent, Graham broke his five-year silence and began trying to rehabilitate his image.
Shannon Rowbury - Battling For A Medal [Video]
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Shannon Rowbury earned a rare distance medal at a championship event in bringing home the bronze in Berlin. In this segment Shannon talks about her medal and the difficult challenges she faced in 2009. Shannon also gives her thoughts on why racing etiquette among US runners may be different than international competitors. via Flotrack
North Myrtle Beach runner converting track prowess into cross country success (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
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There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile, just ask North Myrtle Beach eighth-grader Benjamin Jenerette. Bursting onto the local seen last spring when she was named the Girls Most Outstanding Performer at the Horry County Track and Field meet, Jenerette claimed the individual crown in the 3,200-, 1,600- and 800-meter races, building quite the resume at the varsity level.
Flanagan to be Volunteer Coach
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Former University of North Carolina track and cross country standout Shalane Flanagan will be back on campus as a volunteer coach or the 2009 season.
Flanagan is a 2003 graduate of the university. While at Carolina, she became the first individual national champion in the history of the Tar Heel cross country program. She won the NCAA title twice, back-to-back in 2002 and 2003. Flanagan also scored many personal bests while running the 1500-meter, 3000-meter, and the 5000-meter events for the track team.
Berlin Bound - July 26th, 2009
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This year has presented me with challenges that have left me both frustrated and motivated. It has been frustrating to know that I have pushed myself to work harder than I ever have before and yet I have not had it come together in my races. Finding a balance has been tricky and may be the key, in allowing my work to shine. Shifting the focus to the process and not the outcome has been my goal on a daily basis. by Shalane Flanagan
Gay to run Worlds before surgery
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Double world sprint champion Tyson Gay will delay surgery on his injured groin in order to compete in next month's Berlin world championships against Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt."The doctor says that I will need surgery some time, but I didn't want to take a chance getting surgery now so I have just been getting some pain pills to work on the pain," Gay told Reuters in a telephone interview.
In 1629, King Charles I of England "erected into a province," all
the land from Albemarle Sound on the north to the St. John's River
on the south, which he directed should be called Carolina. The word
Carolina is from the word Carolus, the Latin form of Charles.
When Carolina
was divided in 1710, the southern part was called South Carolina
and the northern, or older settlement, North Carolina. From
this came the nickname the “Old North State.” Historians
have recorded that the principle products during the early history
of North Carolina were "tar, pitch, and turpentine." It
was during one of the fiercest battles of the War Between the States,
so
the story goes, that the column supporting the North Carolina troops
was driven from the field. After the battle the North Carolinians,
who had successfully fought it out alone, were greeted from the passing
derelict regiment with the question: "Any more tar down in the
Old North State, boys?" Quick as a flash came the answer: "No,
not a bit, old Jeff's bought it all up." "Is that so; what
is he going to do with it?" was asked. "He's going to put
on you-un's heels to make you stick better in the next fight." Creecy
relates that General Lee, upon hearing of the incident, said: "God
bless the “Tar Heel” boys," and from that they took
the name.
(Adapted from Grandfather Tales of North Carolina by R.B. Creecy
and Histories of North Carolina Regiments, Vol. III, by Walter Clark).
source: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/symbols/symbols.htm
