The cream of Minnesota's high school crop will face some of the blue ribbon winners from the rest of the nation at the Nike Outdoor Nati...

The Minnesota Golden Gopher "M" Club will honor two former maroon-and-gold track and field stars at the annual Hall of Fame banque...

USA Track & Field - Minnesota's Summer Track & Field League returns to the schedule in 2007 after a one-year hiatus. The league ...

With Grandma's Marathon coming up on Saturday, it appears that the race still intends to prevent participants from using personal elect...

The Minnesota Distance Running Association's Heidi Keller-Miler alerted us to MDRA's new blog -- Run Minnesota . It shares the same ...

Alex Gits won the 3200m in 10:44.01 Eventual 800m winner Megan Smith (Eden Prairie) on the shoulder of early leader Virginia Senf (Woodbur...

It's a wild time of year for a running and track reporter ... or fan ... or parent. Track and field's various competition levels hav...

Find video of every MSHSL State Class AA track event -- except the Boys 300m Hurdles, we're sorry to say -- via the links below. Costs f...

Michelle Volz wins from McKenzie Melander over 1600m. Rob Finnerty (r) and Ben Blankenship at the 1600m bell. Blankenship storming to hi...

The Class A finals session -- the last segment of 2007 MSHSL State Championships -- is now in the books. Scroll down to find event-by-event ...

Finals in Class A competition at the MSHSL State Championships are about to commence. It's now 80 degrees in St. Paul with winds of 10...

Heather Dorniden's 800m results are HERE . Garrett Heath's 1500m results are HERE . Derek Gearman's triple jump results are HERE...

That concludes Down the Backstretch's live coverage of Class AA action. Special thanks go to Run N Fun for making it financially possibl...

Like yesterday, we're busy at DtB headquarters preparing to cover the preps. Here's nutshell coverage of the Gophers at NCAAs ... ...

The Class A prelim session -- along with selected field event finals and the finals of the 3200m runs --of the 2007 MSHSL State Championship...

The Class AA prelim session -- plus selected field event finals and the finals of the 3200m runs --of the 2007 MSHSL State Championships is ...

Despite an honest wind blowing up the back-stretch, despite a slow opening mile – for guys that can run 9-flat, that is – and despite the pr...

The first starting gun is set to fire shortly at the MSHSL State Track & Field Championships at Hamline University's Klas Field i...

We at DtB are heading up the road to the MSHSL State Meet, so we're short on time to write about the Gophers at NCAAs ... You can find...

On the eve of the MSHSL State Meet, it's time to turn the focus back on the high schoolers ... DtB 's names-and-numbers man Chris Ma...