MASON CITY, Ill. (WEEK/Gray News) - An eighth grade student from Illinois was hospitalized with serious head injuries after he was hit by a shot put while competing at a track meet. Ryan Swaar says ...

Ponder Independent School District is asking the community for prayers after their track coach was injured during a regional track meet on Saturday in Tyler. Described as a “freak accident,” according ...

What shot-put shots are best for men, women and kids? The shot put has been an Olympic track and field event since Athens, Greece, in 1896. The shot is a heavy metal ball about the size of a ...

Blake Crutsinger, an assistant coach at Ponder High School in Texas, was struck in the head during a state competition on Saturday, May 2 A Texas track coach was struck in the head by a shot put ...

Hartland senior Roman Ignagni threw a personal best 50 feet, 9 inches in shot put, becoming the seventh Livingston County thrower to break 50 feet in 23 years. Ignagni, who recently won a national ...

In what he deemed as "likely" the final high school meet of his career, Jackson Cantwell swept the USA Track and Field Nike Outdoor Nationals in both the Men's U20 Shot Put and Boys Shot Put events in ...

Jordan Geist is having one of his best years throwing the shot put, and his winning effort at last Sunday’s United States Track and Field Championships at New York City’s iconic Ichahn Stadium added ...

Throwing the discus and shot put are forms of art. The two main throwing events in high school track and field may require the most muscle of any discipline, but they also rely heavily on technique ...