On a perfectly sunny, breezy summer day, teens may relax by the pool or hang out with friends and not think about the long school year they just finished. But not all of them. Vernon Hills High School ...

Mead senior Simon Rosselli has heaved a discus farther than anybody in Washington high school history. He hopes his state best is nothing more than a placeholder for what becomes a national record ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - At UMS-Wright, tradition runs deep - but every once in a while, a student-athlete comes along and rewrites the record books. Bulldogs’ discus thrower Chandler Taylor delivered a ...

Zach Oliva saw the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays as a chance to show what he could do in discus throwing. Being in that spotlight with some of the top discus throwers made for a tense atmosphere, but ...

DUNLAP — Great performances by individuals and relays are normally witnessed during the state tournament for high school track. Shocking can be added to the great showing Concord’s Donovan Arnold had ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

Cameron Gramzow established a couple of career throwing bests Friday. One was good for an Anchor Bay record. Both brought a smile to the junior’s face. Labor Department won’t release full October jobs ...

Football could still be in Roje Stona's future, but the Jamaican thrower who earned All-American honors at the University of Arkansas in the discus and shot put the past two years might do best to ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...