LONG JUMPER BRITTANY PORTER IS David Mann Apr 03, 2009

If you were in Atlanta Monday and you don’t know who Brittany Porter is, it’s time to get your head out of the sand.  

She is now one of the nation’s all-time best. 

After setting a meet record long jump at Nike Indoor Nationals this year (20-7.25), the Towers High School senior blasted 21-3.5 to win the Dekalb County Championships in Atlanta, Monday. 

“Now everyone at our school is getting on board and is behind us,” said Towers Head Coach Edward Center. 

They ought to be. Brittany’s jump Monday is the #10 all-time, all-conditions mark recorded, and the nation’s best since 2001. And she’s not finished yet, either. 

A relay storm from New Bern NC expected to arrive in Boston by next weekend David Mann Mar 04, 2009

Some years ago, Track Eastern Carolina Coach “Big Dave” Simpson felt that having kids under 13 in his club was too much like running a day care. Odds are he’ll be singing a different tune next weekend.

 
A former teammate told Simpson of 12-year-old twins Anthony and Andrew Hendrix who were running 2:15 halves at the local recreation center. At about that time, Simpson ran into Nicholas Sparks training his son Miles on the oval. Soon thereafter, young Fuquawn Greene was in also in the picture. Something was brewing in New Bern, N.C.
 
But that was five years ago. Now heading up what is possibly the most talked about indoor team in the nation, Simpson is days away from taking these New Bern High School boys on a mission to break records at the 2009 Nike Indoor Nationals.  That’s right – the focus in Boston on March 14 and 15 is not just to win – but to set a new standard. Read more...