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 Rohrer, Ryen Frazier, Matthew Maton, Tanner Anderson and Jonah Koech do? *MB:  Official 10/2-10/3 Weekend NCAA XC Talk – Notre Dame, Paul Short, UW, Rocky Mountain, etc.

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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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.

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.

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

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!!

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.

Fisher is the real deal and only a junior.