Quinn McConnell

With The Desert Twilight XC Festival tomorrow, we decided to take a look back at the ...

Mckenna Mazeski's 17:38 from 2019 is the sixth-fastest time run by a freshman over th...

Cole Sprout is Colorado's fastest runner over the past decade (and ever)....

The women of Furman University have already secured two distance talents before the...

Gunnison's Kelita Baroumbaye went 47-0.75 in his first jump to win the triple jump....

Kara Lucyk moved up to No. 4 in the 100 hurdles all-classification rankings....

Taylor James won the 1,600, 200, and high jump, and finished second in the 400....

Yasin Sado and Austin Vancil made sure the Invite 1,600 lived up to the hype!...

If ever there were a mid-season State Meet preview, this would be it. The 52nd Arcadi...

MileSplit has made a subjective ranking of the top 50 girls recruits in the Class of ...

Connor Ohlson dug deep in the final lap to win the 800....

Max Manson captured his first national title with a 17-7.5 PR....

Sydney Holiday is set to compete in the 60 Hurdles and the 200 at NBNI this weekend....

Preliminary entries are out for New Balance Nationals Indoor, and we've ...

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Check out state-by-state winners of the Gatorade Athlete of the Year award series in ...

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Bayfield's Jordan Lanning will look to defend her state title in the high jump next y...

MileSplit has made a subjective ranking of the top 50 girls recruits in the country 

Dakota Ridge capped their stellar season with a third place finish at NXN....

Colorado is sending a large party to Portland for NXN...

See who's qualified for the Nike Cross Nationals meet....

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If you know your Colorado boys, you can pick a few out here early in the small school...

The NXR Southwest Region had no shortage of electricity in the air after momentous fi...

By midway through the race, there were no challengers left for Cole Sprout and Easton...

Anna Shults is the No. 2 returner from last year's NXR Southwest Championships. ...

Jenna Fitzsimmons and Mountain Vista will eye that automatic berth to NXN....

Only two girls have broken the coveted 17 minute marker at NXR Southwest, and they're...

Listen to another episode of MileSplit's On The Line Podcast, this time featuring Qui...

Kaylee Thompson and The Classical Academy ran away with Saturday's state titles....

We compiled national notes from the Colorado state championships on Saturday...

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Peak to Peak may be able to sweep the team competition Saturday....

Quinn McConnell dominated a field mostly blue to capture her fourth consecutive regio...

The girls in blue have four of the top four in the state....

In our review of the top national performances from this past week, we've compiled th...

Have a look back at the highlight performances at the Desert Twilight XC Festival....

Cole Sprout ran a nation-leading 14:32 to win at Desert Twilight. ...

This weekend was one of the biggest weekends of the cross country season. We've highl...

Check out our preview of the top girls most likely to make an impact at tonight's Swe...

Tatum Miller's 17:42 comes in No. 5 all-time for Colorado...

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Valor Christian's Cole Sprout will open up his season of *racing* at Desert Twilight.

Peak to Peak's Quinn McConnell leads a star-studded squad....

Quinn McConnell and Anna Shults set a hot early pace. ...

Breaking down the importance of speed ratings in cross country, and the top 10 from t...

Who is ready for Liberty Bell?...

Chris Theodore ran the 13th fastest time over the past decade at Liberty Bell last year.

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There's no doubt this year's girls senior class is extremely talented, so check out w...

Cruz Culpepper beat a stacked field to claim the course record....

Peak to Peak returns everyone from their 2017 state championship squad....

The third edition of Throwback Thursday has got some oldies!...

Quinn McConnell and Anna Shults topped the class each year....

Lizzie Harding returns with the fourth fastest time in the class. ...

Former Silver Creek and future Colorado State runner Brock Dykema led the way for Col...

Seven Lindsey claimed two state titles over the weekend. ...

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Event-by-event preview of the 60th Mt. SAC Relays to be held at El Camino College in ...

Michael Mooney chopped another 30-seconds off his PR in the 3,200 to run 8:50 at the ...

Check out the full entry list for the Arcadia Invitational ...

Jordan Lanning is currently on five Top-10 lists. ...

Maya Evans tallied three wins, and three meet records at the Lyons Invite Saturday....

Check out the preview of the top events set to go down this weekend at Chandler High ...

Who will be the Queen of Colorado's Distance scene? We break down the likely contenders.

Mia Manson opened her outdoor season with three wins, and a state-leading mark in the...

Salida's Fern Clark emerged as one of 3A's top freshmen this year....

Brie Oakley dominated the field in 2016, running to the largest-ever margin of victor...

Harrison Scudamore camped out outside the top ten early but found himself within the ...

Check out how things played out at the Foot Locker Midwest Region meet....

Paige Embaugh is one of several Colorado girls who should be looking to make a little...

The same Denver North girls who staked out an intimidating early lead at the St. Vrai...

Carley Bennett was one of a lengthy list of Colorado athletes enjoying stellar days a...

Lizzie Harding, Elizabeth Constien, and Naomi Harding set up strong early. And, they ...

Quinn McConnell is the top returner from 2016 who will actually be back to run this y...

Of course it's another year of hold-your-breath racing shaping up at NXR-SW! And a f...

Landon Rast made an early impression as a freshman....

Quinn McConnell dominated State just as she dominated the season....

It's been a while since we've seen Peak to Peak in blue singlets, but the remainder o...

Check out what's going down across the country this weekend in this edition of the We...

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Hannah Ellis won huge at her regional last week and now faces bigger obstacles at State.

We haven't seen much of this trio in state this year, but they still know how to put ...

Regionals should be a whole lot of deja vu for about about half of the guys in this p...

It's an amped-up SkyView Academy team with Tyler Scholl in the lead role....

It was another crazy performance at the Woodbridge XC Classic, as two Buchanan (Calif...

Quinn McConnell takes a narrow win over Brynn Siles in a merged Liberty Bell - St. Vr...

There weren't any meet records set at Saturday's St. Vrain Invitational, but Charlie ...

There are few spectacles in Colorado high school cross country at stirring as the St....

Carter Dillon broke free on the second loop and carried it forward to a convincing wi...

Not surpisingly, Brie Oakley owns the top time on the current configuration of the No...

Chris Theodore checks around to make sure his lead is for real at the finish of last ...

Up next in our Flo50 girls rankings is No. 17 Quinn McConnell ...

Check out the best of the Class of 2018 this cross country season...

Until someone finds a way of breaking up McConnell, Shults, and Bradfield (mostly hid...

Refamiliarize yourself with the Blue Blob of Broomfield. They're going to be a load t...

It was an all-Colorado Junior Women's team at this year's running of the World Mounta...

Check out the top returners from the NXN Southwest Region. ...

Brie Oakley puts the finishing touches on the fastest outdoor two mile by an American...

Colorado athletes all over the place!...

Madison Mooney tries to take her PR below 4:47 this weekend in Seattle....

If you didn't get to see enough of Brie Oakley and Lauren Gregory at State this year,...

Mary Gillett got way out in front of the girls 200 meter field....

Hayelom Fitsum gets a shot at 800 meters of redemption on Thursday night in St. Louis...

Jordan Lanning successfully transitioned from 2A to 3A this year. The sky could be th...

Maya Evans was unstoppable at state this year, winning the 100, 200, long jump, and a...

There is a long list of high-end talent at the 3A Girls state meet, and Tarynn Sieg i...

Quinn McConnell gave a solid chase, but Lauren Offerman got away....

Though very fast, Nick Ciccio is a kind of secondhand Lion. Baseball gets him first....

Katelyn Sage is part of a CSCS girls hurdle tandem that wasn't on the radar screen wh...

Jacob Dack stayed busy throwing deeper than 53 feet this past week....

Setting off the land mines in the long jump pit....

Frederick's Julia Wyatt enjoyed one of the bigger days of her high school career on S...

Madison Mooney celebrates an Invitational Mile win over Sammy Watson Saturday night a...

Isaac Green and Brie Oakley are two of the Colorado athletes who will be chasing big ...

Rylee Anderson's 5-10 high jump is currently a national #2 ranked mark....

Chloe Peterson has been part of an Elizabeth troupe of girls tearing up runways and s...

William Dixon didn't actually win an event, but he left a bunch of people in his wake...

Ashten Loeks and Elizabeth come down from 4A this year, and they could be trouble....

Cal Banta showed off some high jump skills nobody really knew he had....

Lutheran's Riley Darnell figures as a major force in 3A Metro sprinting this spring.�...

You had to see it to believe it....

Top 21 girls at Nike Cross Nationals...

Whitney Rich and Quinn McConnell ensured that all six of the Southwest region individ...

Brie Oakley's race was mostly an exercise in solitude. Photo by Alan Versaw....

At the midway point, Brie Oakley's lead was already the stuff of legend. Photo by Ala...

The Mountain Vista girls and Coach Dalby help break in the course on this year's cour...

On a day when heat, wind, and dust took their toll on a lot of runners, Casey Clinger...

Katie Rainsberger owns the leader board with Colorado's top four all-time marks on th...

Nobody in Colorado came close to solving the Brie Oakley puzzle this fall. Photo by J...

Brie Oakley ran to the fastest time at State in all classifications. Photo by Jeff Mc...

Of those on this year's Colorado Track XC 3A Girls All-State team, Hannah Ellis took ...

Race leaders both collapse to the ground in this stunning video ...

Among the stellar seniors we bid farewell to on Saturday were 5A standouts Lauren Gre...

Peak to Peak's girls celebrate a team title that came in extraordinary fashion. Photo...

Kayla Young and Quinn McConnell would end up 1-2, but there would be a lot of shuffli...

Mackenzie Moss followed up a solid performance at Desert Twilight on Friday with a PP...

We've heard a lot about Cole Sprout this season, but Macklin Brockmeyer is also a big...

Quinn McConnell ran the nation's fastest 5K time in the Class of 2019 this weekend: 1...

Simon Kelati led his Greeley Central Wildcat teammates to an overpowering team title ...

Beyond the mile, there would be nobody staying with Daniel Bernal. Photo by Alan Versaw.

The way to beat Peak to Peak is to find a way of getting in front of these three. Goo...

Cecilia Kastner and Claire Shepherd helped give Salida a strong presence toward the f...

Isaac Roberts sets out on a journey to join, and even enhance, the legacy of older br...

Quinn McConnell currently owns the top sophomore time on the season and is joined by ...

At one mile of the boys race, there were still a whole lot of folks in contention. Ph...

Justin Andrade will be putting his state-leading 5K mark on the line at Centaurus on ...

With the finish line directly ahead and all the green behind him, Chris Theodore take...

A rare frontal view of the Great Green Wall at a Mountain Vista cross country meet. P...

Cassie Unruh and SkyView Academy outperformed their preseason projection by a bundle,...

Quinn McConnell is the defending 3A state champion, but nothing will be easy this yea...

This image from last fall's St. Vrain Invitational still tells you a great deal of wh...

A blistering 4x800 set the stage for a solid state meet for Peak to Peak. Photo by Al...

Arria Minor was arguably this year's top freshman girl, but her many talents still ar...

Probably nobody has kept track of the record for jumps state titles in a high school ...

Tarynn Sieg was unstoppable in the throws, going 45-5 in the shot put and 142-10 in t...

Lutheran's devastating class of seniors includes hurdler/triple jumper Kharon Hall. P...

Kiana Gomez dominated the 100 hurdles early in the meet. Photo by Ben Hershelman....

Look forward to more sightings of this trio at this year's St. Vrain Invitational. Ph...

Plenty of heat in this heat. Photo by Alan Versaw....

Arria Minor's 23.65 (-1.8) 200 gives a lot of folks something to think about over at ...

Chantae Steele's finish duel with Heide Baron propelled her to #1 in the US Freshman ...

Taylor Alexander celebrates a long-sought clearance at 12 feet with her father. Photo...

Quinn McConnell returns to competition for the first time since state cross country o...

When it came to deciding the 5A boys individual crown, it all came down to this. Phot...

Long after most former state champions have hung up the spikes, Melody Fairchild is s...

The tandem of Anna Shults and Quinn McConnell helps to explain the steady rise of Pea...

By the team she dropped into the creek crossing, Quinn McConnell had created the sepa...

Plotting Devilish deeds. Photo by Alan Versaw....

We break down the freshman girls who will dominate the headlines of the future....

Madelynn Gerritsen, one of eight freshmen to medal at state this year, explodes off t...

Mae Anderson finds her race face back after a slip exiting the creek. Photo by Jeff M...

Anna Shults, Quinn McConnell, Lily Tomasula-Martin, and Kiara Mattern form a human wa...

Colorado Track XC talks to Paul Roberts, and a bunch of other athletes, about their s...

It will be a first high school state meet for Quinn McConnell and a last for Sydney F...

Ryan Butler closed out the scoring on a dominating performance for SkyView Academy at...

A big part of the reason SkyView Academy is so good is the depth provided by guys lik...

Catherine Liggett broke to a lead early and dominated the gold race at Saturday's Rim...

The race that exacted a toll. Photo by Alan Versaw....

One of the big differences for Salida this season has been the emergence of Seth Mino...

For those who didn't see it coming, the Peak to Peak team led by Quinn McConnell and ...

A lot of eyes will be fixed on the spectacle when the paths of Ben Butler and Paul Ro...

Quinn McConnell jumped to the top of the early freshman rankings with a big debut at ...

Neither Ivy Gonzales nor Ben Dingman won individual titles, but they led their respec...

Julia Jaschke leads a very strong Kent Denver team into the fall season, but even Ken...

Will Tyler Scholl and Quinn McConnell be the big impact freshmen of 2015? Photos by A...

Rachael Metzler is one of several returning bright spots for Peak to Peak cross count...

As a senior next fall, Emily Sowards figures to be a crucial part of Alamosa's bi...

Kenadi Krueger, Taylor James, and Lilly Lavier round the final turn with third place ...

Peak to Peak's Quinn McConnell should be on your short list of favorites to win t...

Midway through the race, Allie Chipman and Quinn McConnell battle for the lead. Photo...

Allie Chipman of Mountain Ridge Middle School rates among the favorites to win the gi...

Zack Retzlaff led a very strong Pueblo West team at the Doherty Spartan Invitational....

Calvin Banta claimed eighth among the Midget boys at 10:37 for 3K. Photo by Lisa Rain...

Tyler Scholl and Andrew King went at it hammer-and-tongs for most of the race before ...