“Hey, I just talked [trash] about you,” a cross-country runner called out to a teammate after an interview. “Oh really?” the other runner sarcastically replied, walking over from a workout. A...

The Missouri women’s cross-country team knows this year is their best shot in three years under coach Marc Burns to earn a berth to the National Championships in November. But aside from exceptional...

The Missouri cross-country team competed in the Commodore Classic on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, where the men placed fifth in a 23-team field and the women placed fifth out of 26 teams. Junior Karissa...

At Neuqua Valley High School, the cross-country coaches combed through the year’s first results, “convinced somewhere in these [race] times was the next Michael Widmann.” This statement from the...

On most teams, you can tell who the best athlete is. You can often tell who the second-best athlete is, too, and so forth. On the Missouri men's cross-country team, it cannot be done – many of the runners...

Damn. They did it. It was a sunny day in Jefferson City on Nov. 5, 2011. The Rock Bridge Bruins boys cross-country runners sat under a tree at Oak Hills Golf Center, still sweaty from their race. They...