The Ocean State

Keith Kelly and Maria McCambridge withdraw, but Irish team ready for World Cross
Posted by Matt
Keith Kelly has had to withdraw from the team due to injury, while Maria McCambridge will be absent as she has decided to concentrate on the European 10K Challenge in Istanbul in a couple of weeks. McCambridge is replaced in the squad by Raheny’s Annette Kealey.

A Brief Chat with Molly Huddle
Posted by Matt
Molly Huddle, who placed fifth in the USA Cross Country Championships in San Diego on February 16 and was third in 26:07 in the Women’s Invitational 8K at the Central Park Challenge in New York on March 15, will compete for the U.S. at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 30.

Martin Fagan boosted by Olympic grant
Posted by Matt
Fresh from dramatically qualifying for the Beijing Olympics last week, Mullingar runner Martin Fagan has received another big boost: 10,000 bursary from the Olympic Council of Ireland

Martin Fagan gets Olympic qualifying time in the marathon
Posted by Matt
Martin Fagan yesterday battled through the pain barrier in the Dubai Marathon to achieve his target of an Olympic qualifying standard for Beijing. Fagan, finished in 2 hours 14 minutes 06 seconds, comfortably inside the Olympic A qualifying standard of 2.15.

Providence runners strive for national title
Posted by Matt
It is safe to call the cross country teams the iron men and women of Providence College fall athletics. Outlasting all other sports, the cross country team is heading to Terre Haute, Ind., to compete for the NCAA championship because of the great showing both teams had at the Northeast Regional Champion-ships on Saturday, Nov. 10.

'Raw Deal' busts labs across U.S., many supplied by China
Posted by Matt
In a four-day series of daylight raids that ended Sunday, Drug Enforcement Administration agents shut down 26 underground steroid labs and made more than 50 arrests across the country, capping what agents are calling the largest performance-enhancing drug crackdown in U.S. history. The DEA also has identified 37 Chinese factories that purportedly supplied the raw materials for the labs, a DEA spokesman told ESPN.

Olympians, record holders, defending champs highlight Downtown 5K field
Posted by TheRunning
The defending men’s champion, the 2007 Carlsbad 5000 winner, the top returning American woman, a double American record holder and a slew of Olympians are just a sample of the talented runners who will be vying for the top spots at this morning’s 18th annual CVS Caremark Downtown 5K.In his bid for back-to-back wins, 26-year-old Iona College graduate Richard Kiplagat, who won the 2006 Providence race in 13:49.9, will have to hold off fellow Kenyan Simon Ndirangu, another promising young runner who won his first race on American soil earlier this year – the Carlsbad 5000 in Calif. with a time of 13:28.

Kim Smith focusing on 10,000 at World Championships
Posted by TheRunning
Top New Zealand middle-distance runner Kim Smith is setting her sights high for next month's World Athletics Championships in Osaka.

Flotrack: A workout with Kim Smith
Posted by TheRunning
Kim Smith Workout Flotrack`s European Adventures July 23, 2007

A Brief Chat with Kim Smith
Posted by TheRunning
Kim Smith, 25, of New Zealand was second behind winner Lornah Kiplagat in the NYRR New York Mini Smith_kimrbknyc07 10K on Saturday in Central Park in 32:18. She’d been second the week before, also in New York, in the 5000-meter run at the Reebok Grand Prix in 15:15.22, behind winner Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia

Kim Smith's breaks her own New Zealand 10,000m record by a fraction of a second
Posted by TheRunning
Kim Smith has broken her own New Zealand 10 thousand metre record at a track and field meeting in California.

Smith withdraws from cross country champs (Stuff)
Posted by TheRunning
Kimberley Smith has withdrawn from the New Zealand team for the world cross country championships in Kenya next month.

RW chat with Mary Cullen
Posted by LG
Mary Cullen, who was the 2006 NCAA 5000-meter champion outdoors for Providence College, will run the Manchester Road Race in Connecticut on Thursday. Cullen was second to her training partner Kim Smith in Manchester's 4.75-mile race in 2005

PCs Martin Fagan successfully defends his 2005 individual crown in a BIG EAST course record time
Posted by LG
The Providence men's and women's cross country squads captured both team titles at the 2006 BIG EAST Cross Country Championships. The event was held in Franklin Park for the first time since 2004.

RW chat with Martin Fagan
Posted by LG
Fagan will compete in the Big East Cross Country Championships this Friday at Franklin Park in Boston; he is the defending Big East titlist

Analysis of the 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Coaches' Poll
Posted by LG
by Mike Scott, University of Rhode Island

Men's And Women's Cross Country Teams Ranked In National Polls
Posted by LG
Men are ranked 18th; Friar women creep into 10th.

A Patient and Confident Martin Fagan
Posted by LG
Treacy's goals for his latest protégé are simple, "Martin Fagan has come back to college full of confidence after his European Championship experience. He will look to retain his Big East title and contend for the NCAA's."

RW chat with Kim Smith
Posted by LG
Kim Smith of New Zealand was second to Sara Hall at the Continental Fifth Avenue Mile in New York on Saturday in 4:30.3. Smith 24, was the a four-time NCAA champion while at Providence College

Famiglietti, Hall win USA 5 km Championships
Posted by LG
U.S. Olympian Anthony Famiglietti and former NCAA All-American Sara Hall each finished second in the Open division as they won their first USA road titles today at the USA 5 km Championships hosted by the CVS/pharmacy Downtown 5K in Providence, R.I.

The “Ocean State” is a nickname used to promote tourism. The nickname “Plantation State” is derived from the states official full name "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations".
source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer