Emily Sisson award ceremony

Parkway Central’s Emily Sisson won the 5,000 meters at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, a meet for the nation’s elite high school track and field athletes, in Greensboro, N.C. Sisson, the Post-Dispatch cross country runner of the year…

Former cross country runner Matt Plummer, a graduate of Chaminade, traded his spikes for skates and has moved to the Olympic training center in Salt Lake City. Still, I think the running community here…

I’ve used the weather as an excuse to skip a run two days in a row and am starting to feel really lazy, as if I’d rather watch a movie instead. So, why not a…

Big River Running finished 12th Saturday in the USA Track and Field Cross Country Club Nationals. Big River’s Ben Rosario was the top local finisher, in 36th.

Here are the team results.

Here are the individual results.

We’ll write more later, but here…

Emily Sisson and Diane Robison, runners from Parkway Central, finished 29th and 36th, respectively in the Foot Locker Cross Country National Finals on Saturday in San Diego’s Balboa Park.

Sisson crossed the finishing line of the 5K in 18 minutes, 37…

Kind of odd to think that St. Louis runners have a big weekend in mid-December. But it be so, with runners entered in national races in San Diego and Spokane.

First, Emily Sisson and Diane Robison of Parkway Central will be…

Jacob Swearingen of Potosi High School, a two-time state cross country champion, finished 15th in a field of 197 of the nation’s best high school runners at the Nike Cross Nationals on Saturday in Portland, Ore. Swearingen was the only area…

Fleet Feet St. Louis has decided to turn its training run on Dec. 6 into a fund-raiser for Jacob Swearingen, two-time Class 3 cross country champ from Potosi whose family lost its home in a fire on the day of…

Watch Big River’s Stephanie Hood win Canadian Cross Country Championships

Stephanie Hood, a runner for Big River Running co., won the Canadian Cross Country championships Saturday in Guelph, Ont. Thus, Hood will represent Canada at the World Cross Country Championships…

Potosi High's Jacob Swearingen. Photo courtesy Big River Running.

Jacob Swearingen  of Potosi High finished second in the regional of the Nike Cross Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday, meaning he has qualified for the Nike Cross Nationals next month…