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Matthew Maton

October 01, 2015

NCAA Weekend XC Preview: No. 1s Colorado And New Mexico To Debut, Stanford Vs. Oregon, And Much More

There are lots of things to pay attention to as the calendar has turned to October. #1 New Mexico will run at the Notre Dame Invite on Friday against three other ranked teams while CU opens the season at the Rocky Mountain Shootout on Saturday. Friday's Washington Invitational (Stanford and Oregon are both in the field) and Saturday's Greater Louisville Classic (Wisconsin, Iona, Michigan, Ole Miss, Iowa St.) highlight the rest of the weekend's action. How will stars like Molly Seidel and the Rosa brothers look in their first tests of 2015? How will super frosh Anna RohrerRyen FrazierMatthew MatonTanner Anderson and Jonah Koech do? *MB:  Official 10/2-10/3 Weekend NCAA XC Talk – Notre Dame, Paul Short, UW, Rocky Mountain, etc.
August 04, 2015

2015 Pan American Junior Championships Results

Team USA cleaned up the distance events winning 9 of the 10 gold medals and 18-medals total. Sub-4 high schooler Matthew Maton won the 5000 in 14:20, closing in a 61-second last lap.
*IAAF: IAAF Pan Am Juniors Recap: Cuba's Yulenmis Aguilar Sets World Junior Javelin Record With 63.33m
*DyeStat Meet Highlights Vashti Cunningham won the women's HJ, setting the American Jr record (and HS record) at 6-5. Noah Lyles ran a very wind-aided 10.07 in the semis and then got silver in the final with 10.18; Cuba's Reyneir Mena won in 10.17.
*USATF Day-By-Day: Final: Team USA sets Pan Am Juniors record with 30 golds
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May 31, 2015

Move Over, Mary Cain - Alexa Efraimson Breaks American High School And Junior 1,500m Records As Her Prom Date Matthew Maton Watches

Alexa Efraimson has displaced Mary Cain as the queen of American high school running and she's the prom date of sub-4 miler Matthew Maton.

May 12, 2015

Matthew Maton Goes Sub-4, Bernard Lagat Sets AR And MWR, Haile G Calls It Quits, Emily Sisson Nearly Laps The Field, And Microdose All You Want

What a week it was: Matthew Maton became the 6th high school sub-4, Haile Gebrselassie ended a tremendous career that was 7 years longer than LetsRun.com, Bernard Lagat tied an American record and set a masters world record, 4 state 2-mile records fell in one race, and Emily Sisson nearly lapped the entire Big East.

May 09, 2015

Video from High Schooler Matthew Maton's Sub Four Minute Mile at Oregon Twilight Meet

Video from Matthew Maton becoming the sixth US high schooler to go sub four minutes in the mile.

May 08, 2015

Matthew Maton Becomes Sixth U.S. High Schooler To Break 4:00 In The Mile With 3:59.38 At Oregon Twilight

It had been 14 years since an American broke 4:00 while in HS. Matthew Maton changed that on Friday night.
*MB: OFFICIAL MATTHEW MATON SUB-4 THREAD!! HSer runs 3:59.38!!

December 10, 2014

2014 Foot Locker Finals Boys' Preview: A Race for the Ages

For the first time in history, the top three boys from last year all return, led by 2013 champ/4:02 miler Grant Fisher. He'll try to hold off John Dressel (2nd last year), Matthew Maton (3rd last year, 4:03 mile, broke Galen Rupp's Oregon state meet course record) and a slew of other contenders in one of the deepest Foot Locker fields ever.