Kara Goucher finished 3rd at Sunday's ING New York City Marathon. The Duluth native clocked 2:25:53 to become the highest finishing Amer...

The Class AA boys in the early-going. Moorhead sophomore Lukas Gemar the shock individual champion. Robel Kebede of Minneapolis South out-...

Paynesville's Linda Keller winning her second straight Class A individual title. Hear what Keller had to say about her race here ... ...

Duboul Ruon of St. Olaf out-kicks Macalaster's Martin Mudry for the MIAC men's title, leading St. Olaf won the men's team...

There's lots -- LOTS! -- of important action taking place this weekend ... and DtB's the place to stay on top of things. Along with...

The University of St. Thomas has a storied cross country tradition at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships. Both ...

Stiff challenges await the strong Gopher teams competing at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Sunday. The de...

In his column this month, Chris Lundstrom , who refers to himself as "old school" on the matter, weighs in on the debate over Stat...

Kara Goucher is the fascination these days for the broadcasters and scribes covering this Sunday's ING New York City Marathon. The Dul...

Ben Blankenship, the two-time MSHSL Class AA State champion at 1600 meters who transfered to the University of Minnesota this fall, is the s...

We at Down the Backstretch have been eager to offer our opinion on how MSHSL State Meet qualifying could be improved. We see inherent unfa...

If the Class A cross country coaches polls reflects reality, the Blake boys and the Adrian girls are set to be crowned state champions at Sa...

The Wayzata boys and the Eden Prairie girls cross country teams will toe the starting line at Saturday's MSHSL State Meet as the favor...

Along with the high school Section Meet results that have been rolling in since Wednesday, the headline event of the weekend is the Northern...

On the heels of his team's 3rd place finish at the Section 6AA cross country meet on Wednesday, Down the Backstretch asked #3-ranked Edi...

The Carleton College women's cross country team, winners at their home invitational last weekend, have moved back ahead of MIAC rival S...

Edina , the #3-ranked team in boys' Class AA, won't compete at the MSHSL State Cross Country Championships next weekend after finis...

While it's nothing as precipitous as what's happening with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, stock in the Gopher cross country teams...

Olympians Janis Klecker , Shani Marks, and Carrie Tollefson will participate in a panel discussion titled "Minnesota Female Olympians:...

Heading into this week's high school section meet action, three Section 6AA teams lead the state's Boys' Class AA cross country ...