Sentence examples for college race from inspiring English sources

Webb shrugged off the commotion, saying he was pleased to get a college race under his belt.

Three weeks earlier, on Sept. 22, Webb sparked the same excitement when he ran his first college race, the Great American Festival in Rock Hill, S.C.

While at Georgetown, he had what he calls "the best race I ever ran in my life," finishing second to Leslie MacMitchell, who never lost a college race, in the 1938 IC4A cross-country championships.

Piggybacking on the college spring-break tradition, the practice began among private-school seniors around a decade ago, the school heads said, a consequence of the teenagers' urge to let off steam after the college race was done, their family's good financial fortune and childhoods where travel to exotic locales had become second nature.

And if voters in smaller districts had only one community college race to decide every four years instead of three or four every two years, they wouldn't be as overwhelmed by the number of unfamiliar names.

The loser in high school and college races gives his shirt to the winner.

But not in community college races.

I swam competitively through college, raced motor cross and have done every imaginable watersport.

Even as colleges race to raise their endowments, high tuitions have caused a backlash among parents, graduates and members of Congress, criticizing them for sitting on wealth.

As Notre Dame chased its past, dozens of colleges raced past it to the forefront of the sport.

The formal foundation of the club dates from 1835, and official records of inter-college races begin in 1837.