News: NXN; HS Team Rankings; NCAA DI Preview, DIII Region Awards; The Real World

Strib summary of the Minnesota HS runners going to NXN Nationals HERE.

Running Times evaluation of the teams going into the NXN Nationals HERE.

Running Times HS team rankings for boy's HERE, girl's HERE.

Women's race preview for DI NCAA National Championships HERE, men HERE. For a long look down memory lane, Track & Field News has an archive of past NCAA DI championship history, as well as a look at NCAA DIII history HERE.

Fans can watch the NCAA Championship live online at http://t.co/xMKitNcFxN. Tune in at noon CT Saturday! pic.twitter.com/z90zufaB6L
— Minnesota W TrackCC (@GopherWCCTF) November 20, 2014

NCAA DIII Region award winners are HERE. St. Olaf's Grant Wintheiser(athlete) and coach Phil Lundin(coach) earn men's awards. Carleton's Ruth Steinke and Donna Ricks earned the women's honors for 2014.  As with the NCAA DI awards, more athletes and coaches with local ties have been bestowed these honors in years past(Ben Sathre, Dan Greeno, Pete Wareham, Chelsea Johnson, Linda Keller, Marie Borner, Christy Cazzola, Dan Schwamberger)

US hurdler Jason Richardson talks about life on the track circuit, the "real world," and fashion HERE.