Running Stuff

  Chester Girls Win in Initial Athletic Meet The above headline appeared in The Herald newspaper out of Rock Hill, SC on May 4 th , 1925, the day after Chester High School won the first ever girls state championship track meet at Winthrop College. Sure, the SCHSL has the Wando girls track team winning the first two state titles, but just like the boys state track, meet there is more to the story than what is written in the SCHSL record books. As we approach what would be the 50 th running of the girls state championship for track,   (2020 was not run due to Covid), I thought it would be good to go back in time over 100 years to look at some of the pioneers in our sport that are not included in the official record books.   The Winthrop Training School High School in York County hosted track meets for female students as early as 1918. These early meets were intersquad competitions between the various grade levels at the high school and were highly anticipated events in...

  Easley was the Winner Team Took Sylvan Loving Cup – The Contest was Exciting The above headline appeared in the Columbia Record on May 9 th , 1910 following the first ever attempt at organizing a state high school track meet in South Carolina. History buffs will tell you that Clio High School won the first two state track championships, but what they might not know is the state track meet actually began in 1910. The following is a brief history of track in South Carolina and how the state championship track meet and the SCHSL were created. Popularity of the sport had been growing for years with organized track meets taking place in the state since at least the early 1900s. The Y.M.C.A, an early sponsor of some of these meets, started an annual track meet against the University of South Carolina in 1904 which was contested for several years. In 1907, the earliest high school meet I could find, the city of Greenville hosted a track meet between Easley, Westminster, Central, a...

 New running blog, because we don't have enough apparently. This is a way for me to compile some of my research so that it is easy to find and access. I am primarily focusing on history and results for the state of SC (prior to milesplit). Posts here will most likely be very infrequent.