Lolo Jones News

Lufkin's Taylor Lowery, 16, a junior-to-be at Lufkin High School, won the Miss Teen Texas Pageant Friday night in Arlington.

Don't look for Shawn Johnson to appear on TV or radio commercials in the near future for the Iowa Lottery - she's too young.

East St. Louis High School graduate Dawn Harper and Lolo Jones advanced to the semifinals of the women's 100-meter hurdles, setting up a possible rematch from the Beijing Games.

Dawn Harper is once again a champion. A year ago, the 2002 graduate of East St. Louis High School was a champion on track and field's biggest stage earning a gold medal in the women's 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Unlike some who were world champions in 2007 and automatically qualified for this summer's world championships, Allyson Felix elected to compete in all rounds of the U.S. track and field championships that ended Sunday in Eugene, Ore.

Tyson Gay insists he has no regrets about leaving U.S. championships after a single race.

It had been Lopez Lomong's back story more than his running that made him celebrated as a U.S. Olympian.

It takes something pretty special these days to surprise Shawn Crawford, something like, say, winning a national championship in 2009.

Lolo Jones failed to advance to the finals of the 100-meter hurdles Sunday at the USA Track and Field National Championships at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field.

Eugene, Ore. - A.G. Kruger of Sheldon won the men's hammer throw Saturday in Eugene, Ore., with a throw of 247 feet 1 inch.

Allyson Felix had a much better showing in her best event, turning in the top time in the 200-meter prelims Saturday at the U.S. track and field championships.

USA Track and Field can expect a significant windfall if Chicago wins the rights to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Dawn Harper rented a car recently and noticed a gentleman staring at her. He wouldn't stop.

There is little question as to if Sarah Pease is a gifted athlete. In high school, she reached the state finals in three sports - cross country, basketball and track and field - her senior year at South Central Junior-Senior High School.

Press Release Friday 19th June 2009 Blanka Vlasic / Ariane Friedrich, high altitude duel at the Meeting AREVA The curtain has fallen at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin, the first stage of the Golden League, contested on Sunday 14th June 2009.

LaShawn Merritt and Dawn Harper took different routes to their 2008 Olympic gold medals, but both began at Hayward Field.

Senior co-captain Tiffany Ofili A of the University of Michigan women's track and field team has been named as one of four nominees for the 2008-09 Honda Sports Award for Track and Field, given to the most outstanding female collegiate athlete in the nation.

South Robeson track and field coach Larry Inman knew as soon as he saw her. It was four years ago that Inman, then the Mustangs girls' basketball coach, stumbled upon a gangly eighth-grader named Shaquiela Robinson trying out for his team.

Fear. It wasn't there when I first tried the shot put, nor the long jump - but confronted by a flight of high hurdles, I can't shift it from my head.

The numbers: Enders placed third in Class 1A in the 100-meter hurdles, running 16.12 in the final after qualifying at 15.57 seconds.