Normally, high school track and field qualifying meets are just that — relatively ordinary meets centered on merely qualifying for section finals. They usually are low on risk, high on concentration: don’t foul, don’t jump, don’t drop the baton, don’t pull a hamstring. But there was little normal about the Central Section North Area Meet [...]

Buchanan High star distance runner Hagen Reedy says she’s encouraged about the chances of completing her senior season in track and field after an MRI showed she has severe tendinitis in her left leg. “It was negative stress fracture, negative everything else, so I guess that’s a good thing,” says the Central Section’s defending champion [...]

It promises to be quite a day in the sand at the Sanger Easter Classic track and field meet at Tom Flores Stadium. The 28-team event, beginning at 4 p.m. today, will draw several of the section’s finest in the long and triple jumps. The boys long jump features the section’s top-ranked trio in Kingsburg [...]

COACH OF THE YEAR: BRIAN WEAVER School: Buchanan He’s qualified because: Now a 12-time Bee Coach of the Year and 13-time winner of Central Section boys and girls team titles in the sports, Weaver got his Bears girls cross country team this season to run faster than ever. They twice broke their own section record [...]

Joining Runner of the Year Hagen Reedy on the Bee’s 2012 Fall All-Stars in girls cross country are: HANNAH BENOIT School: Buchanan Grade: Sophomore Setting the pace: A year after showing promise as a freshman on a Central Section championship team, she joined the elite not only individually but also on the fastest team in [...]

During Hagen Reedy’s march the past couple of years toward becoming the fastest female cross country runner in Central Section annals, Buchanan High coach Brian Weaver occasionally threw a number at her, a goal, a new standard. And Reedy typically fired back with something even better. “I loved that about her,” Weaver says of The [...]