Alexander Garcia-Silver entered some hallowed ground on Saturday at the Class 4A cross country state championships ... state championships since Steve Prefontaine accomplished the feat in 1968.

In the half century since his death, Steve Prefontaine lives on throughout Eugene and Oregon as he continues to inspire new generations of runners.

Prefontaine was better known as "Pre" to the crowds that chanted his name as he ran. While at Oregon, he won six national collegiate distance titles, including cross country, under Hall of Fame ...

Prefontaine was a renowned runner for the ... Heinonen’s colleague and former Oregon State University Women’s Track and Cross Country coach Kelly Sullivan spent the majority of his childhood ...

In American skiing circles, he gets compared to Steve Prefontaine, the mustachioed ... the U.S. was looking for its first Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since Bill Koch won the silver ...