AUSTIN, Texas -- Valarie Allman has been throwing discus for 10 years. “When you throw a discus it takes about two seconds, and it’s a combination of power, of grace, of strength… I like to think of ...

The last time we talked with discus thrower Valarie Allman, she broke the Women’s Discus American Record. “In big meets, your body's overflowing with adrenaline," Allman said. "You feel like all of ...

Pardon Stephanie Brown-Trafton if the name Lillian Copeland did not resonate with her. It does now. Way back in 1932 at the Los Angeles Olympics, Copeland, of the United States, won the gold medal in ...