When 15-year-old track and cross country star Nahum Martinez was shot dead early Saturday morning, the Dallas-Fort Worth area community was understandably stunned. On Sunday, after already gathering for a traditional memorial, Martinez's friends and family got together for a truly appropriate and inspiring way to honor the teenager's memory: They had an impromptu memorial run that traced his daily training route.

As reported by Dallas-Fort Worth network WFAA and CBSDFW, among other sources, a group of nearly 200 teenagers gathered at Wylie (Texas) High, where Martinez was a budding track and cross country runner, to tackle the training rout he covered nearly every day. The event served as a way to remember Martinez for his deep love of being a part of the school's cross country squad just hours after he was shot dead and two 14 year olds were taken into custody in connection with his death.

"When you're a team, you're a family," Martinez friend Kalynn Balssingame told WFAA. "We just looked at each other and realized our family needs to be together right now; we need to go run because that's what we do."

For Martinez's best friend in particular, Wylie student Grant Buley, the spur of the moment memorial run was an emotional way to connect with his closest running partner.

"His dad said, 'You know, every time you run, you know he is going to be right there with you, pushing along,'" Buley told CBSDFW. "I think Nahum was telling me to go more [during Sunday's run]. I just kept on running."

So did plenty of other Wylie teens on a Sunday evening when most would have otherwise been home relaxing and preparing to return to school on Monday.

If you haven't already seen the incredible wall-climbing toddler, you've really been missing out.

A video which was originally posted on Rockclimbing.com showcased a 22-month-old girl scaling an in-house rock climbing wall to fetch her toys, which had been strategically placed high up the wall. In the course of the climb, the girl showcases some pretty impressive climbing skills, including a drop-knee maneuver to ease her way up a particularly tricky impasse.

Quite frankly, the entire clip is almost beyond belief. Yet it's all too real, as the family of the climbing toddler is all too happy to attest to.

In an interview with Prep Rally, Roxanna Jolly said that her daughter, Arianna Dionne, began walking at 8 months old and started climbing shortly thereafter. At the time, she was imitating her father, Jesse Dionne, who often climbed in their bedroom on a climbing wall the couple had built just to the side of their bed in Gold Hill, Ore.

Though Arianna Dionne is now 5, when her exploits were filmed, the wall was set up with handholds only up to eight feet, with her father watching and spotting her from below near the soft mats at the edge of the wall to keep her safe.

"She was climbing for about a year when that was filmed," Jolly said. "We went to Joshua Tree one time when she was about a year old. We've been climbing all over Southern Oregon -- my fiance' [Dionne] is more of a climber than I am -- and when she was little that's what she was exposed to."

Still, some of the younger Dionne's climbing moves truly are prodigy-like. Her parents said they have no idea where she learned to use a drop knee. In fact, they said they didn't even realize that she had used one until reading through comments on the original video's page.

In fact, the climb was so impressive that Jesse Dione said some commenters have accused the family of setting the entire scene up by having her crawl across a climbing wall on the floor and filming it sideways.

Needless to say, that wasn't the case.

As for the eternal question of how the youngster got down from the top of the wall, that had a particularly simple answer.

"Her Daddy brought her down." Jolly said. "She can downclimb a little bit, but at that point she was still a little bit too young to climb all the way down."

It's about time, right? As March Madness -- and the preceding delirium of February in a number of states -- comes to a close, Prep Rally is rounding up some of the best dunks and buzzer beaters from across the nation. As you might guess, there's no shortage of clips to choose from, so here's Prep Rally's favorite crop of them.

• Billy McDonald, North Haven (Conn.) and Ivan Guadalupe, Farmington (Conn.): Hey, if we're going to be highlighting dunks and buzzer beaters, why not kick off the shindig with a clip that includes both? On this play Billy McDonald gave North Haven a late lead with one of the more spectacular prep dunks you'll see -- a reverse slam on a follow -- only to be one-upped by Ivan Guadalupe, who nailed a three-quarter buzzer beater. Seriously.

• Marcus Smart, Flower Mound (Texas) Marcus: OK, this dunk happened in an actual regulation game. On a break, Flower Mound Marcus' Nick Banyard tossed up an alley-oop for superstar teammate Marcus Smart, who was all too happy to finish the move with a tremendous slam that brought the house down. As well it should; usually alley oops like that are reserved for dunk contests.

• Nelson Agholor, Tampa (Fla.) Berkley Prep: This is how you finish off a poster jam. Nelson Agholor, better known as a wide receiver prospect headed to USC, showed that he has plenty of athleticism and strength with this flush from a late February game headed into the playoff rush.

• Zak Showalter, Germantown (Wisc.): What's the best way to kick off a heavily-hyped state semifinal game? With a monster slam off the opening tip off, of course. Zak Showalter was more than happy to oblige with that in Wisconsin, where his slam helped set the pace for an 81-43 Germantown drubbing of Madison (Wisc.) Memorial.

Another day, another nasty girls soccer fight. No, really.

In this case, the fight in question occurred in Texas, where the Beaumont (Texas) Ozen High and Bridge City (Texas) High girls teams were engaged in a nasty spat that began in the postgame handshake line. According to Beaumont-based station KIII TV, the fight allegedly began when an Ozen player was walking through the handshake line and shoulder-checked a Bridge City player. When the Bridge City player then protested about the contact, the Ozen player threw a punch.

According to a number of parents who have stepped forward as witnesses, what happened next was a minor brawl involving the entirety of both teams. While no video exists of the brawl, witnesses contend that the Ozen player who landed the first punch later ran across the field to punch another Bridge City player after the two teams had been separated.

Texas' University Interscholastic League has reportedly launched an investigation into the fight, with suspensions or full team penalties possible.

"After UIL officials received a call from a Beaumont media outlet, BISD was contacted by the UIL," a Beaumont school district statement released to the media read. "BISD's Athletic Director and police department are conducting an investigation and awaiting the officials' report of the incident."

While the incident is a troubling development, it isn't the first time an Ozen team has found itself in serious trouble with UIL authorities in recent months. Ozen's football program and coach are currently on probation after a mid-game brawl marred a November playoff game between Ozen and LaMarque (Texas) High.

In the long run, it may seem incredibly ironic that gymnastics, a sport predicated on finesse and precision as much as strength, may have inadvertently given birth to one of the most promising powerlifting careers in the nation. Then again, when the lifter in question is only 8 years old, an age when anything is possible, little can serve as a true surprise.

That's certainly the case with Reagan Lombardo, a Seattle-area 8-year-old who suddenly finds herself getting attention for her powerlifting exploits. As reported by Seattle network KING 5, the Ravensdale, Wash., third-grader set a state record for the top squat in Washington state's lowest weight bracket by lifting 123 pounds. That's more than her body weight, and nine pounds better than the previous record, which was set by a 12-year-old who weighed 40 pounds more than Lombardo.

Clearly, if Lombardo decides she wants to, the mighty mite could have a bright future in powerlifting.

Of course, to do that she may have to abandon her first love, which is why she first became involved in powerlifting in the first place. As Lombardo progressed from simple tumbling routines to more advanced gymnastic endeavors, her parents noticed that she was struggling to run. A light powerlifting routine was suggested as a way to improve her lower body strength and running.

The next thing anyone can remember, Lombardo was developing a full-fledged obsession with powerlifting, begging her parents to take her to practice dead lifts and squats after she got home from gymnastics practice.

For her part, Lombardo's reasons for her growing obsession with powerlifting are simple.

"It's fun," the 8-year-old told KING 5. "And I'm good at it." When asked if anyone was better than her, she quickly responded in the negative.

It was the kind of incident that would almost surely stick with him forever. Madison (Va.) High sophomore Andy McGuire went back to field a deep kickoff … and ended up running into his team's goalpost. The blooper to end all bloopers ended up on "SportsCenter's" "Not Top-10" and was written about all over the Internet, here at Prep Rally included.

Now, some 18 months later, McGuire has proven that he can take a licking and do more than simply keep on ticking. As highlighted on Dan Steinberg's excellent D.C. Sports Bog at the Washington Post, the teen is the top-ranked junior baseball prospect in the state of Virginia and, according to NBC Washington, recently became the first Virginia player to ever receive a scholarship offer to the baseball hotbed that is the University of Texas (he accepted the offer, for what it's worth).

If that's not enough, McGuire is even an early contender to be a first-round draft pick in the 2013 MLB draft.

When asked about his unfortunate run-in with a goalpost today, McGuire can now laugh about the incident, all while admitting that he took plenty of ribbing from his baseball colleagues.

"I guess I took one too many steps," McGuire told NBC Washington. "I caught it, turned around and the next thing I know I look up at the ref, he's laughing and I hand him the ball."

The Madison baseball coach was one of the people who gave him grief.

"I was more impressed that he held on to the football," Madison coach Mark Gjormand told NBC Washington. "He hit that thing hard. I mean, of course we joked about it, of course I made fun of him about it, but I think in the end he had the best line of all."

What you see below is incredible. It's also frightening -- thankfully there appears to be a safety mat below the synthetic rock wall -- and possibly inspiring? Perhaps most impressively, it's not a Huggies ad … though maybe it should be (seriously, she's wearing a pink diaper and everything).

Rather, it's a video of a 22-month-old child climbing up -- way up, for that matter -- a in-home climbing wall to retrieve toys that had been strategically placed on the wall by her father. While little more than that is now about the tyke, she apparently lives in Bend, Ore., based on her parents' Rockclimbing.com personal accounts. She's also become a bit of a viral video sensation in recent days, catapulting from virtual anonymity to receive more than 180,000 video views on YouTube.

Why he decided that was a wise thing to do, Prep Rally has no idea. Regardless of reasons, the climber's remarkable dexterity and determination shows that toddlers can be truly inspiring climbers, at least when trained to do so, whether overtly or subconsciously.

As Deadspin pointed out, no one has any idea how this little girl got down from the wall, and no mention of that was made on Rockclimbing.com, where the video originally surfaced. Hopefully she was safely retrieved and brought down by her father once he stopped filming her.

The McDonald's All-American Game is the most hyped event on the annual high school hoops calendar. Being named a McD's All-American establishes any top prospect as the cream of the crop and all but ensures that their whereabouts will be followed for the rest of their lives (or at least until they become a principal in suburban Michigan or a manager of a Denny's if basketball doesn't work out).

Given the sheer talent on display from the game's selectees, it's a bit surprising that one would spend his time off the court at a part time job. What's even more stunning is where that top recruit is employed: Wendy's.

That's right, Alex Poythress, among the jewels of another stunning incoming Kentucky class, spends his off days working at Wendy's. As the video above from Ty Kish of CityLeagueHoopsTV shows, Poythress initially applied at a Wendy's down the street from his Clarksville (Tenn.) Northeast High campus as a joke, but was called back in and offered a job.

That's when Poythress had a decision: Already on track to be a McDonald's All-American, he could walk away from earning minimum wage at a competing fast food joint, or he could take the job and assume that no one would notice.

Poythress went all-in, likely making him the only ongoing Wendy's employee to play in McDonald's signature event.

"I just applied when someone else applied but I ended up getting the job," Poythress told CityLeagueHoops. "I thought I might as well keep it."

So far life seems to be going well for Poythress at Wendy's, too. The teen has been working at the burger joint for three months and had only one significant complaint: He hates making wraps.

"I hate making wraps. Cesar wraps … all the wraps. You have to cut the chicken up and everything. The wraps are horrible."

While some might argue that Poythress is only taking undue risk by working at a Wendy's -- he could cut his hand, he could gain weight by eating fast food -- the job also shows a significant amount of initiative. If nothing else, it testifies to his work ethic that he would take a job during basketball season while already balancing hoops and school.