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Do you have photos of the 2011 Indoor Track Meet you'd like to see featured on the GSWT&FC website? If so, send them to John Haaland (jphaaland44@aol.com) or Fred Polich (fpknight@aol.com) for consideration of publication. Be sure to include the event, name, and photo credit you wish to use.

We will now be accepting late entries for the GSW INDOOR MEET until 6:00PM.  So if you have not had the chance to register and are running late.....come join us! 

There are a lot of you high school track athletes out there that are under the assumption that you need to be invited to the GSW Indoor Meet....ALL ARE INVITED.  There are also no qualifying standards required to participate.  TELL YOUR FRIENDS!  COME AND ENJOY SOME FUN COMPETITION!  

This year both the Greatsouthwest Indoor Classic and the USATF Western Zone Age Group Indoor Championship will be held on: Saturday, February 12, 2011 Downtown Convention Center in Albuquerque, NM. To register for the USATF Western Zone Age Group Indoor Championship go to: www.CoachOregistration.com To register for the 2nd Annual Greatsouthwest Classic Indoor go to: Direct Athletics: http://www.directathletics.com/meets/track/18004.html.  The entry fee is $10 per entry of event, registration ends 2/09/2010 @ 11:59 pm and there is no late r...

Here are the dates for the 2011 Great Southwest Classic Track Meets: 2nd Annual Great Southwest Track and Field Classic Indoor Date: February 12, 2011 USATF Western Zone Age Group Indoor Championship Date: February 12, 2011 36th Annual Great Southwest Track and Field Classic Dates: June 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2011

The 35th edition of the Great Southwest Track & Field Classic came to a close on Saturday with several notable performances.  It all started on Friday, Anicka Newell (New Mexico) became the first Girls Decathlon champion with a score of 5015 points. Then a few hours later Eleanor Fulton (Colorado) broke her own meet record in the Girls 2000M Steeplechase with a time of 6:55.38. On Saturday, records were broken in the Boys Javelin and Boys High Jump.  Devin Bogert (Texas) threw the Javelin 67.57m, or 221-08 feet to break the previous m...

History was made today in the Great Southwest T&F Classic Combined Events, when Anicka Newell became the first female Decathlon winner. Anicka a Junior at Highland High School in Albuquerque, NM, along with Sydney Haase of Missouri, and Alysa Herchet were all medal winners in the Girls Decathlon.  Anicka competing in her first Combined Event (CE) compiled a score of 5015 points to set the Meet Record, followed by Sydney with 4750 points and Alysa with 2751. Other events completed today, were the Boys Decathlon, won by Evan Weinstock, of Ne...

Due to the large number of meet entries, we have had to add several more heats to a number of events.  As a consequence we have had to adjust the meet schedule. CLICK ON THE NEW MEET SCHEDULE BUTTON -----> for an updated meet schedule.

Two more Number One-ranked American schoolboy athletes have entered and will be raising the Performance levels to, perhaps, unprecedented heights.   The boys High Jump already is featuring three seven-footers, and now they are joined by David Smith (Georgia), who decided the quality competition and the thinner air of New Mexico was the ideal situation to improve on his already impressive 7'4" seasonal best.  He may also hop into a 400, where he has run under 47.0 on a relay.     Speaking of versatile, however, it w...

The GSW has an recent tradition of being the greatest high school meet in the country for high school Decathalon and Heptathalon.  These difficult disciplines require young athletes to develop skills in a variety of events outside their naturally-gifted zone.  Last year under adverse conditions, Albuquerque Academy's Curtis Beach broke a national record with 7,909 points and, a few weeks later, won the decathalon at the Junior Pan-American Games.  If not for the high winds here in 2009, he might well have approach...