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Brooks PR Invitational
The Brooks PR Invitational is a List of United States High School Athletic Championships, championship American middle school and high school track and field meeting held annually in Seattle, Seattle, Washington. Background The meeting invites the top eight to sixteen fastest American middle school athletes and high school athletes of the year in each event to compete. Events contested in the high school level include the 100 metres, 100 meters, 100 metres hurdles, 100 meter hurdles (girls), 110 metres hurdles, 110 meter hurdles (boys), 400 metres, 400 meters, 800 metres, 800 meters, Mile run, one mile, and two miles. The middle school or junior level contests the 400 metres, 400 meters, 800 metres, 800 meters, and Mile run, one mile. It has been described by the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' as "among the nation's most prestigious track meets". History Brooks PR began on February 24, 2011 as an indoor track and field meeting, held on the Dempsey Indoor track at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track And Field
Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking. Though the sense of "athletics" as a broader sport is not used in American English, outside of the United States the term ''athletics'' can either be used to mean just its track and field component or the entirety of the sport (adding road racing and cross country) based on context. The foot racing events, which include sprint (running), sprints, middle-distance running, middle- and long-distance running, long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
