On a perfectly sunny, breezy summer day, teens may relax by the pool or hang out with friends and not think about the long school year they just finished. But not all of them. Vernon Hills High School ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - At UMS-Wright, tradition runs deep - but every once in a while, a student-athlete comes along and rewrites the record books. Bulldogs’ discus thrower Chandler Taylor delivered a ...

The story of the day on Tuesday was Laulauga Tausaga's shock win in the women's discus, which was a career-best throw by just over four meters. Laulauga Tausaga's first two throws did not go well on ...

DAYTON — Wade Bolin is historic. The Crestview senior thrower won the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division IIII state championship Thursday in the discus, recording a winning throw of 187-10 ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than four meters (13 feet) at world championships on ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jayden Ulrich will soon become the first United States Olympian in University of Louisville track and field history. The 21-year-old will compete in the women's discus throw ...

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

Football could still be in Roje Stona's future, but the Jamaican thrower who earned All-American honors at the University of Arkansas in the discus and shot put the past two years might do best to ...

The Nixa standout continues rewriting records, dominating both the shot put and discus while eyeing even bigger throws — and an NFL future Nixa junior Jackson Cantwell holds two of the best high ...