USA Baseball's inaugural Women's Development Camp takes place this weekend at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary.
Details for that camp and camps in other sports, plus team tryouts, league registration, instruction and tournaments can be found in the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar below, an expanded version of the calendar that appears each Tuesday in the print edition Sports section.
The Southern Zone Age Group Swimming Championships, which start today at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, are just one of the many recreational sports events you'll find listed below in the expanded version of the Play! recreational sports calendar.
Winter started barely two weeks ago, but it's already time to count down to when pitchers and catchers report.
And that means parents planning to sign up children for spring baseball and softball leagues should plan now. Some area leagues fill up fast, and registration deadlines will arrive long before warm weather does.
To find leagues in numerous sports and instruction for all ages, check the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar regularly. The online version of the calendar is updated weekly, and the print version appears each Tuesday in the Sports section.
Check out the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar with listings for camps, leagues, tryouts, instruction, fundraisers, tournaments and events around the Triangle and elsewhere.
Triathlon continues to increase in popularity in North Carolina, and now the triathlon world has taken notice of Wilmington's Beach2Battleship Triathon.
The swim-bike-run competition has been ranked the fifth-best
Ironman-distance race in the world by Triathlete magazine in its March
issue.
Under the heading "Best 140.6-Mile Races," the Editor's Choice Award went to the Ford Ironman World Championship, the only other U.S. race in the top 10.
Whether you compete in or just follow triathlon, you will have the
opportunity to hear one of the sport’s all-time greats in Raleigh on
Sunday, Oct. 25.
Six-time Ironman world champion Dave Scott will speak at the North Carolina Triathlon Series awards banquet at the Hilton North Raleigh hotel.
"Ironkids" compete in triathlon on NCSU's Centennial Campus. Photos by staff photojournalist John Rottet.
Love to eat and run. Then mark your PDAs, because ...
This fellow led at the mid-point of last year's KKC — and wasn't heard from again.
Next Saturday, Feb. 7, is the annual Krispy Kreme Challenge, wherein upwards of 3,000 people (2,615 were signed up as of Thursday) will line up at the N.C. State Belltower, run two miles to the Krispy Kreme on Peace Street, consume a dozen donuts, run two miles back to the Belltower. Do it in less than an hour, keep all 12 glazed onboard and a certain type of notoriety/infamy is yours for life. And, do it this year and your feat will be captured on ESPN. (Hey, they show poker games, don't they?). And you will have done one of Sports Illustrated's 102 things to do before you graduate. (Read about last year's KKC here.)
It's $16 to enter, proceeds — totaling $20,000 last year — benefit the N.C. Children's Hospital. More particulars here.
And if you don't keep your glazed on board for the duration, worry not that you'll have to wait a year for redemption because May 23 is the second annual running of Durham's Doughman. GOGF covered last year's inaugural event, in which teams of four essentially eat their way through Durham, and it was something. Event organizers promise that this year's event will be "bigger, badder, doughier." Basically, the four-person teams run, bike and do a "water activity" through the streets of Durham, stopping along the way this year for a bite at Blu Seafood, Daisy Cakes, Four Square Restaurant, Dain's Place and Nosh.
The Doughman benefits the Durham Inner City Gardners program run by SEEDS. Last year's inaugural event raised $1,500. Details on the Doughman as they develop, here.
North Carolina's reputation as a triathlon hotbed continues to strengthen. This morning, Trek Bicycles announced that the state is one of 12 locations for its new Trek Women's Triathlon Series. The series will follow the sprint distance format: 1/2-mile swim, 12-mile bike, 3-mile run. Though it is a point series, the local races are intended to attract athletes new to triathlon as well as avid competitors.
Details on the series are sparse at this time, according to race spokesman Brandon Napolitano. The date of the race or its exact location have yet to be determined. A complete schedule is to be announced Dec. 31. Other locations include: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York City area, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Details as they become available.
Durham's Tom Hughes sets out to break the 12-hour mark at popular Ironman that drew about 80 Tarheel triathletes.
