Cory Mull

6 days ago | forbes.com | Cory Mull

Standing maybe just a shade over 6-feet, Jane Hedengren is fast becoming one of the all-time greats in high school running. The 18-year-old from Provo, Utah, is currently amid one of the biggest tears in high school track and field history.

6 days ago | austinfitmagazine.com | Cory Mull

Yusuf Bizimana is running on a winding road in the southwest of Virginia. He is standing before Mecca in Saudi Arabia. He is winning an NCAA championship for Texas. He is a boy in London, dreaming about a future unknown. All of these places feel like home to Bizimana, acting as through-lines in a life that has seen the 24-year-old travel across the U.S. and around the world, realizing both his athletic dreams and his identity as a Muslim.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Cory Mull

There was a brief time, right after his Olympic performance in the marathon for Canada, when Rory Linkletter considered returning to Utah. Who would have blamed him? The 28-year-old from Calgary had come of age in Utah, had graduated from high school in Herriman, and even starred at Brigham Young University, where he was among an esteemed crop of athletes like Clayton Young and Conner Mantz who built the Cougars into a modern-day distance running powerhouse.

2 weeks ago | austinfitmagazine.com | Cory Mull

AUSTIN, Texas—Allie Kieffer wasted little time imparting her dominance on Sunday in the 48th annual Statesman Cap10K, claiming her second straight victory on the rangy 6.2 mile course to win in 34 minutes and 18 seconds, a performance 13 seconds faster than her effort a year ago. The victory, which earned Kieffer a $1,500 prize purse, entered the 37-year-old into historic company with Austin’s longest tenure road race, marking the first time since 2016 a women’s athlete repeated.

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Cory Mull

We are just days away from the debut of Grand Slam Track, the new track league hoping to shake up the way fans watch the sport. Of course, there will be no field events here, but league founder and commissioner Michael Johnson, a 4-time Olympic gold medalist who at one-time held the world record for 200 and 400 meters, is hoping a new format and the globe’s biggest stars will draw more than its fair share of storylines and create a blueprint for success down the road.