Track & Field

03/17/2010
Two Gophers women earned All-America honors.
03/10/2010
The men and women will be well represented at the NCAA's.
02/28/2010
The Gophers beat the second-place Buckeyes by a 48-point margin.
07/07/2009
Ladia Albertson-Junkans is a candidate for NCAA Woman of the Year.
06/30/2009
Four Gopher athletes extended their season to compete in the USA Nationals last weekend.
By Brian Deutsch |
07/09/2008
Longtime Gophers men's cross country coach Steve Plasencia was announced as Minnesota's next men's track and field coach Monday by Athletic Director Joel Maturi.
By Brian Deutsch |
07/02/2008
Long time Gophers cross country coach Steve Placensia was announced as Minnesota's next men's track and field coach today by Athletic Director Joel Maturi.
By Brian Deutsch |
07/02/2008
Four years ago Shani Marks was two-tenths of a meter from making the United States Olympic team after posting a triple jump score of 13.53 meters - good enough...
By Brian Deutsch |
06/18/2008
Minnesota junior Heather Dorniden picked up her school-record seventh All-American nod and junior Liz Roehrig was the runner-up in the heptathlon this weekend as the Gophers women's track and field team claimed 13th - its highest finish ever ...
By Paul Cordes |
06/04/2008
LINCOLN, Neb. - As tornadoes ripped through central Nebraska leading up to the NCAA Midwest Track and Field Regionals in Lincoln, Gophers sophomore pole vaulter Alicia Rue created a windstorm of her own Friday. Breaking a school record for the fourth ...
By Nate Hackney |
05/09/2008
The Gophers men's track team has reached the last stop on the road to the Big Ten championship meet: home. Minnesota will host the Minnesota Open at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Bierman Track. Many of the Gophers' biggest stars will be taking ...
By Nate Hackney |
05/07/2008
It's May. A time when the sun, the birds and collegiate track stars all come seemingly out of nowhere to light up the summer. Few collegiate track stars have come on as strongly this spring as 6-foot-3, 250-pound sophomore Aaron Studt...
By Nate Hackney |
05/05/2008
For sophomore throwing phenom Aaron Studt, it was another day and another shot put gold Saturday at the Iowa Musco Twilight Meet. The two-time Big Ten Field Event Athlete of the Week bested the field in Iowa City, throwing 58 feet, 7 1/4...
By Nate Hackney |
05/02/2008
The Gophers men's track team's best and brightest will be in action this weekend, at meets around the country. As the team heads down the stretch toward the Big Ten Conference Meet, they will face some tough competition, this weekend.
By Nate Hackney |
04/28/2008
The Gophers women captured two meet titles at the Drake Relays this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa. The women's 4x800-meter relay team highlighted the weekend with an outstanding performance. The team, comprised ...
By Nate Hackney |
04/25/2008
The Gophers women's track team will travel to Des Moines, Iowa to compete in the 99th annual Drake Relays this weekend. Historically one of the largest track meets in the country, Drake will play host to thousands of athletes during the four-day meet...
By Nate Hackney |
04/23/2008
The Gophers men's track team will have one more chance to hone their skills before this weekend's Drake Relays Wednesday at the Macalester Twilight Meet in St. Paul. Coach Phil Lundin said most of the team will compete ...
By Nate Hackney |
04/21/2008
Both the Gophers men's and women's track teams will ride streaks of success into next weekend's pivotal Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. The women had another solid showing Friday and Saturday at the Kansas Relays in Lawrence, Kan....
By Paul Cordes |
04/17/2008
For the Minnesota women's track team's first big track meet of the outdoor season, junior Liz Roehrig has the Gophers off to a good start. The heptathlon competitor jump-started Minnesota at the Kansas Relays Wednesday breaking a school ...
By Nate Hackney |
04/14/2008
While the Midwest weather was frightful, the Gophers men's track team traveled to Arizona to escape the dreary temperatures and compete in two meets in two days. In the throwers' competition at the Mesa Classic in Mesa, Ariz., ...