Jacob Thomson pulls in a national honor
The UK Women's Track Team is ranked #1 for the first time in school history!
Former Assumption runner Caroline McCaslin broke the UK steeplechase record this weekend at the Virginia Challenge.
Kianna Gray was named SEC Freshman of the Week for her stellar performance at the Florida Relays.
Jacob Thomson ran the second fastest 10K in school history in his win at the Releigh Relays.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jacob Thomson was named an individual qualifier for the 2015 NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Kentucky men’s cross country team finished fourth at the Southeastern Conference Championships on Friday, earning its best finish since taking the same place in 2011.
LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky’s Jacob Thomson and Kendall Muhammad swept the cross country weekly awards on the men’s side, the league office announced on Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. The Kentucky cross country season begins Tuesday at Masterson Station Park as the Wildcats will host Eastern Kentucky University beginning at 6 p.m.
Kentucky’s Kendra Harrison was named National Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Wednesday.
The Kentucky women’s track and field team finished as the National Runner-up, the program’s best-ever finish, at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships in front of 11,734 fans inside Hayward Field on Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky track and field head coach Edrick Floréal has been appointed the head coach of Team USA's men's delegation at the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships
A couple former Kentucky HS athletes doing well
PHILADELPHIA and CHULA VISTA, Calif. Kentucky Track and Field's Robert Sandlin used a monster kick down the stretch to win the 5,000 meters at the 121st running of the University of Pennsylvania Relays Carnival on Thursday at Franklin Field.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Kentucky track and field's Kendra Harrison opened the outdoor season with a world-leading 400-meter hurdles time for the second year in a row at the Florida Relays.
LEXINGTON, Ky. The Kentucky women's track and field team will enter this weekend's NCAA Indoor Championships with a school-record No. 3 ranking, as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association released its most recent computer ratings on Monday.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., and AMES, Iowa. Keffri Neal became the fourth Kentucky Wildcat to break four minutes in the mile, as he recorded a time of 3:58.02 at the Iowa State Classic on Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. The numbers don't lie. The 2015 Rod McCravy Memorial Track and Field Meet was billed as the best regular-season meet of the year in the lead-up, and the performances that went down inside Nutter Field House the past two days substantiated the initial hype.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Not many track and field meets claim to be the "best meet in the country." Fewer still achieve the near-universal acceptance as just that, but on Thursday such recognition was bestowed to this weekend's Rod McCravy Memorial Meet from many of the nation's most widely consumed track and field-specific media outlets.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Dezerea Bryant was named Southeastern Conference Co-Runner of the Week on Tuesday after she posted a world-leading 200-meter time in addition to a head-turning 60M dash performance at the Kentucky Invitational last weekend.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the second season in a row, the Kentucky women’s track and field program will begin the indoor season ranked in the preseason top 10, as the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association ranked the Wildcats No. 6 in its initial computer rankings on Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky track and field teams announced an initial 2014-15 signing class of eight to join the teams next season, on Thursday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky track and field and cross country all-time great distance runner Chelsea Oswald was named one of the top 30 honorees from 446 school nominees for the 2014 NCAA Woman of the Year Award on Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Aundrea Busse has been named Southeastern Conference Cross Country Freshman of the Week after she won the Belmont Opener in her debut as a Kentucky Wildcat last weekend.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The 2014-15 Kentucky track and field coaching staff will feature two Olympic Medalists and three former Olympians as Allen Johnson was announced as the program’s newest assistant coach on Thursday.