The Indiana State women’s track and field team ranked 19th in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association ( USTFCCCA ) rankings. For the first time this women’s track and field team moved into the Top 20. At the same time, the Indiana State men’s team made a big jump in the rankings this week, moving up from 31 spots to 57th in the National poll.

It was a hectic day all in the regions for the Ragin’ Cajuns track and field team as they were in the third position in both the men’s and women’s overall score at the Arkansas State Invitational, its second meet is happen to be on Sunday afternoon; of the indoor season.

The Cajuns succeeded in nine events and sets approximately half-dozen of individual records.

There were a total of eight teams in all. Arkansas State came first both in the men’s and women’s side with a score of 147 and 179.50.

Members of the Gustavus men’s indoor track and field team participated at the Bethel Open on Saturday afternoon in the Bethel Field House in Arden Hills, Minn.

List of the players and event they participated and won titles:

The Gustavus men’s indoor track and field team will vie at the MSU-Mankato Open on Jan. 29-30 2010 in Mankato, Minn.  Start time is planned from 10:00 a.m. on both Friday and Saturday.

It’s just 12 days into the New Year and past University of Colorado cross country and track & field show up Jenny Barringer has been honored for her second athlete of the year as she was named the Colorado Sports Hall of prominence 2009 College Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday.

This marks the second direct season that Barringer has been given the honor. She becomes the second person to receive the honor twice in her career, following Shelley Sheetz who won the title in 1993 and ‘95. Just last week Barringer was named the recipient of Mile High Sports Magazine’s College Athlete of the Year.

Barringer had a year to remember; she has won six NCAA records and seven CU records and was awarded several top honors in the process. In December, she won the initial USTFCCCA. The Bowerman award, which identifies annually the most outstanding collegiate male and female track & field athlete. Barringer was also named a finalist for the USATF Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year and was the only collegiate athlete in the field of five entrants. In June, she was named the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for track & field and was one of five finalists for the high-status Honda Broderick Cup, which goes to the nation’s top collegiate female athlete of the year.

The British Virgin Islands Athletic Association will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2010 and one of the ways the association aim to celebrate the occasion is by producing an anniversary book to stress the achievements of the islands athletes, who competed over the past 40 years.

President of the BVIAA Dean Greenaway, told, “We have plans to honor several peoples who have contributed to the improvement of the sport prior to the development of the association. We will create an anniversary book incorporating past publication, highlighting our success over the last 40 years. We will honor all our nationalized record breakers, worldwide medalists over the last 40 years and others who have contributed to the organization on Sept 25, 2010.”

Greenaway too believed, “Over the past year, in particular, the BVIAA, established an ‘Athlete of the Week’ plan (which highlights youth, junior and senior performances) and a National Record Breakers appreciation program. A new plan was introduced for our youth championships, with the top performers from the Inter-Primary Schools Championships, Under 15s from the Elmore Stoutt High, St. Georges and Bregado Flax Educational Center School Championships getting personal invitations. This event attracted over 300 contestants and went over very well.”

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First contest of the 2010 season, the Nittany Lion track and field teams will get things started on Saturday hosting the Penn State Relays at Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track Both Penn State squads are set and ready for big achievement this year, as the Nittany Lion women are coming off a runner-up attempt at the 2009 Big Ten Indoor Championships, while the men captured third place at the conference meet a year ago – the best indoor finish in program history.

In 2010, which will be the sixth for the Penn State Relays, the Nittany Lions will welcome opponents from Duquesne, Gwynedd-Mercy, IUP, Lock Haven, Rider, Robert Morris, Rutgers, St. Francis (Pa.), St. Joseph’s, and Villanova. Action is scheduled to begin with the women’s 35-pound weight throw, set for 10 a.m., Saturday morning

Apart from the men’s 110m jump over, and its star, Liu Xiang, race walking will also come under heavy analysis as the Chinese track and field team prepares for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Of the 117 athletes at the winter training camp out, which are considered as a key part of the build-up for the 2012 Games, 53 of the invitees are race walkers, including World Championships men’s 20km silver medalist Wang Hao and women’s 20km bronze winner Liu Hong. At the World Championships this year, Wang made a major burst through for China with his silver performance.

Before the Worlds, Wang, and some of his teammates, were sent to train in Italy and their successive results at the Berlin Games were measured outstanding.

Consequently, during the winter training period, famous Italian walking coach Sandro Damilano, who has trained two Olympic champions, has been invited to China to help the national team. After his stay here, Damilano will select five young Chinese walkers and take them back to his homeland for more preparation.

Jeomi Maduka’s senior year began with a losing intention. Should I follow my heart, or try to make each person happy, she questioned.

She chose her heart, and that judgment landed her at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., where she practices for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team.

It also destined leaving the Cornell women’s basketball team, a season after being named the Ivy League Player of the Year and leading the Big Red to its first group title.

“I think most people don’t know how difference she was,” said Cornell women’s track and field coach Lou Duesing. “She actually wanted to do both sports. The conflict did just not want to let anybody down.”

So disparate her first three years at Cornell when she was a two-sport star, she payed attention only on track. Many always surprised how good she might be at either if she focused on one sport. The answer didn’t take long.

In February, she was titles for the third-best long jump in the world. Two weeks later, she became the first sportsperson to win four individual events in the 62-year history of the Heptagonal Championships. She did it in a breeze.

Shortly after, she placed second in the country in the long jump at the indoor track and field national championships in her native Texas. Her jump of 21 feet, 4 inches was just 1 1/4 inches shy of the national crown.

Those activities are why Jeomi Maduka has been selected as the 2009 Kenny Van Sickle Female Athlete of the Year.