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Saturday's Running Event Winners
Wakefield (NC) US #3 1:40.72
With Virginia's best in the likes of Western Branch, Phoebus, and Bethel absent to challenge them, the Wakefield girls from Raleigh, NC ran away from the field in the fast section of the 4x200 meter relay to post a US #3 time of 1:40.72. A six second improvement for the Wakefield girls from their previous season best of 1:46.15 at Liberty University in early December.
Suitland (MD) US #2 1:29.58
(already US #1 at 1:27.79)
The Suitland boys had the opportunity on a banked track again to better their current national leading time of 1:27.79, but the Wakefield (NC) boys took the lead from them in the middle legs to keep them from running clean ahead of the field. Entering the first turn of the anchor leg, Suitland and Wakefield both were fighting for position and the lead with Suitland winning that battle and Wakefield's anchor crashing to the track. Despite not as clean of a race as their US leading time from the Hispanic Games, Suitland was still able to survive as winners and clocking a time faster than the current US #2 at 1:29.58.
Annie LeHardy (Hidden Valley VA) US #7 2:56.79
Ahmed Bile (Annandale VA) US #13 2:32.99
Ariah Graham (Wakefield NC) US #2 38.88
Sean Sutton (Good Counsel MD) US #1 34.35
Dannielle Davis (Southeast Raleigh NC) 7.98 (ran US #2 7.95 in prelims)
Daniel McFadden (Heritage) 7.39 (current US leader at 7.37)
Olicia Sharp (Wakefield NC) 7.11
Ronald Darby (Potomac MD) 6.31 (current US leader at 6.28)
Shannon Morton (Indian River) US #10 1:16.73
Kenneth Williams (Woodrow Wilson VA) US #5 1:05.02
Sarah Rapp (Cardinal Gibbons NC) 5:05.83
Zach Link (Blacksburg VA) 4:25.41
Megan Moye (Cosby VA) 5:00.31
Cody Snyder (Lee-Davis VA) 4:18.29
Girls 4x400 Meter Relay
Wakefield (NC) US #3 3:51.86
Boys 4x400 Meter Relay
DeMatha Catholic (MD) US #3 3:19.83
Saturday's Field Event Winners
Dannielle Davis (Southeast Raleigh NC) US #8 18-5.75
Caleb Wyatt (Lee-Davis VA) 21-10.75
Chelsea Utley (Green Run VA) 5-4
Chris Pillow (Atlee VA) 15-6 (current US #7 at 16-0)
MileSplit US National Elite Performances (258 total)
Below are the performances entered for the meet that met the national silver standard.
258 National Elites.
Full meet summary to come, but complete results, photo gallery, and race videos are now posted below from Virginia Tech.