With his competitors and other interested onlookers watching in the background, Monticello senior Demarion Forman throws from the discus ring in Friday’s Class 2A preliminaries of the IHSA state boys’ ...

Allen Cooper left the complex unsatisfied. An unwavered and strong-willed competitor by nature, he would go to great lengths over the next 12 months not to see those numbers again the following spring ...

Monticello senior Demarion Forman celebrates after winning a Class 2A state title in the discus on Saturday at O’Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Forman gave the ...

TACOMA – Knowing he needed the longest throw of his life on his last attempt, Grandview junior Titus Jeffrey felt himself slip on a rainy Friday at Mount Tahoma High School. That didn't stop the ...

ST. MICHAEL, Minn. — Ella Theobald knew she was the favorite. But she did her best not to dwell on that. Well, the favorite in the Class 2A state track and field meet discus throw lived up to that, ...

SHIPPENSBURG — Lancaster Catholic’s Margaret Bila was set to cruise control. The opposition couldn’t touch her, sniff the same realm at the District Three Class 2A championships. The senior’s worst ...

CHARLESTON -- One hour provided Alleman High School junior thrower Scott Schilb with enough time on Friday afternoon "to clear my mind" after a disastrous shot put performance. Consider it time well ...

TACOMA — Sydnee Boothby gave the Class 2A girls 1,600 meters all she could and more. “I put everything I had into it,” she said. The Washougal High senior did what she always likes to do on the track: ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Class 2A state champion in the discus last year, Shelby County High School junior Nevaeh Acklin said she almost gave up the sport a few weeks ago. Her uncle, Robert Marshall Sr., died ...

EUGENE — Cori Sanders got to the spot in the final standings Thursday that even her best throws wouldn’t have improved. The East Linn Christian senior remained close to her personal best but couldn’t ...