Where Are They Going, 2025 Edition

Signings will start soon for the 2025 school year. To facilitate this for athletes and coaches, here are the top HS Race Walk athletes from this graduation year. Always of interest is where the graduates from any year are going

Where Are They Going, 2024 Edition

Signings have started for the 2024 school year. Always of interest is where the graduates from any year are going to continue their academic and athletic careers in college. Most of the major sites covering Track & Field, regrettably, ignore

2023 Bruce MacDonald HS RW AOY Awards

Clayton Stoil & Heather Durrant were selected as the 2023 winners of the Athlete of the Year Awards. Watch their video announcements below. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel support our efforts.

HSRW-EP6 A Chat with Abby Smith

Abby Smith, the 2010 Bruce MacDonald AOY, sits down to discuss the state of affairs in Maine HS Race Walking and her plans to return the program to prominence.

LTAD in Race Walking

Race Walking, while traditionally kept outside the “normal” opportunity zones for long term athlete development, displays the same pattern of growth to achieve standing at the national or international level of competition. Athletes reaching the level of competency to compete

Understanding the Antidoping Process

As high school athletes start to achieve a higher level of performance that has them qualifying for and competing in national championship level events, they will encounter the Antidoping process. This necessary function in sport is there to assure that

Proper Pacing for Race Walkers

In a recently released study, Pacing behaviour of middle-long distance running & race-walking athletes at the IAAF U18 and U20 World Championship finals, the subject of proper pacing for Race Walkers in the U18 & U20 divisions was evaluated over

Join the Heffernan Challenge

In an effort to grow Race Walking in the UK and around the world, Irish 50 km World Champion Robert Heffernan has put together a program with top RW Official Pierce O’Callaghan where young athletes can have their technique evaluated

It’s All About Heart:

The Benefits of Training Using a Heart Rate Monitor The following article appeared in Walk! Magazine, Vol 4 Issue 1, Spring 2008.Some edits have been made by the author since it was originally published. Much has been made over the

Coach Amberly Melendez

The budding cross country/track & field programs at Pratt Community College have added yet another accomplished coach to its ranks, hiring Amberly Melendez as an assistant. A former North American Central American Caribbean (NACAC) U23 silver medalist, Melendez will assist

Coach AC Jaime

July 23, 2020 will be remembered for many things, but in the Race Walk community, it will be mostly for the passing of a giant, Coach AC Jaime of the South Texas Walking Club, aka The Turtles. Coach, or AC,