At this year’s 83rd Annual Kansas Relays, which begins Wednesday at Memorial Stadium, three distinguished international athletes will compete in a variety of men’s sprint events. The men’s Invitational 100-meter dash will feature Churandy Martina, a two-time Olympian from the Netherlands ...
Veronica Campbell Brown, known as one of the greatest Caribbean sprinters of all-time, will run at the Kansas Relays in the 200-meter dash and 4x400-meter relay on April 17.Brown is one of two women in the history of the Olympic Games to have ever won back-to-back gold medals in the 200-meter ...
Ticket sales for the Kansas Relays began Monday, meet director Milan Donley announced. The meet begins April 15 and runs through April 18.Contact the Kansas Athletics ticket office at 800-34-HAWKS (4-2957) to purchase admission buttons or visit the KU Athletics Web site at www.kuathletics.com.
On a bright, sunny late-April day, there's perhaps no better place to watch a track meet than Kansas University's Memorial Stadium, site of the Kansas Relays for 80-plus years."It is beautiful," ninth-year KU track coach Stanley Redwine said of the annual spring carnival held in and around KU's ...
Track travelsA list of some of Weaver's track travels:¢ Manager for U.S. at 2003 IAAF World Indoor championships in Birmingham, England.¢ Manager for U.S. at 2004 Team Challenge in Munich, Germany.¢ Manager for U.S. Pan American Junior Championship team in 2005 in Windsor, Canada.¢ Manager ...
Former Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver, a manager on international track and field teams for five years, was selected for that same role on the United States team staff for the 2008 Olympic Games next month in Beijing.The Olympic staff is made up of coaches and managers, and Weaver will ...
Kansas University track legend Wes Santee said Tuesday that next spring's Kansas Relays will be the last held at Memorial Stadium, but the athletic department said Santee prematurely was kicking to the finish line this time."We've had a briefing," Santee said. "They're going to take the track ...
Kansas RelaysRelays tip off today (04-16-08)It took a half a century for Bud Smith to learn that his rich memories had visual proof.Now 73, Smith has entered the twilight of his life, complete with charming stories of his past track-and-field accomplishments. One of his proudest moments, in ...
