East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...

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 ...

Throwing the discus and shot put are forms of art. The two main throwing events in high school track and field may require the most muscle of any discipline, but they also rely heavily on technique ...

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids athlete Alex Rose has done something that no Samoan athlete has ever done before: medal at the World Athletics Championships. Rose took bronze in the discus ...

UTEP discus thrower Esther Osisike, originally from Nigeria, upset the nation's No. 4 ranked thrower to win the Conference USA championship. Osisike is part of a growing number of Nigerian throwers ...