Lockhart trains through meet in preparation for Winter XC Nationals, Gaeta, Carlstrom, and Huntzinger shine at star-studded first year meet.

First up on the 1st report is can Page Co. repeat in 2002? Without Albert Potts putting up 75% of the points for Page Co., who will step it up in the sprinting events for them?

Those at the Microtel Invitational this weeken witnessed some of the state's and nations' fastest times as many of the state's best gathered at Virginia Tech's Rector Fieldhouse in Blacksburg.

Picture gallery of Richard Smith and Alex Tatu's epic 1000m battle at Virginia Tech.

Pictures of Phil Gaeta's win in the 1600 at Microtel Invitational.

Two of Virginia's finest in juniors Alex Tatu of Thomas Dale and Kippy Keino of Fork Union have been selected to run in the elite Millrose Games Mile.

Despite the adversity meet director Winston Brown and his crew faced with today's snow storm with a large number of teams and individuals not allowed to travel to the meet, the Fork Union Invitational survived the storm.

A year after Webb's 3:59, Richard Smith clocks a 4:19 mile at the New Balance Games as South Lakes new distance star.

While the thirteenth FUMA Invitational will feature some outstanding individual talent, the heat sheets say the team titles should go to DeMatha and Bethel. DeMatha is loaded in the long sprints and should be strong contenders in both the 4x200 and 4x400

What one word can best describe a track meet that triples the population of a town in the frosty month of January? Perhaps competitive, or intense, or maybe even colossal. On Saturday the 13th running of the FUMA Indoor Invitational will take place.

Although the meet is four months away, the 2002 Southern Track Classic has a boatload of early commitments from elite talent. Several current National leaders, All-Americans and numerous State Champs have indicated that The Classic is on their schedule.

With entries closing at 5:00pm today the FUMA Invitational is happy to announce that William Fleming

Pictures of Richard Smith's return to racing as he ran a nation's best on the year with his time of 2:30.37 in the 1000 meter race at the CNU Showcase.

The Lakeland boys were the only team from Virginia present at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Invitational at the Hytche Athletic Center, but they may have done the most damage out of any team at the meet.

Foot Locker All-American Fleet Hower returned back to racing as he won the 1600 meter race at the Keydet Invitational in a time of 4:29.18 over Daniel Kane of Louisa (4:29.45) and Brian Doherty of Roanoke Catholic.

Video clips from the 2002 CNU Showcase.

Photo gallery of the boys distance races from the 2002 CNU Showcase held at the Freeman Center in Newport News, Virginia.

Fleet Hower, a Footlocker finalist and All-American this past fall will run the 3200 at the FUMA Invitational next Saturday. Coach Gene Walker made it official Thursday night. Hower

Guy Alton, one of the army of elite Virginia distance runners will run both the mile and 1000 at the prestigious Fork Union Invitational, January 19. With the pending entry of Daniel Kane and rumors of Marion

Bryce Ruiz traveled up to the New York Armory unnoticed to compete in Hispanic Games to run the 3200 meter race. Ruiz showed no signs of race rust as he went onto take second in the race, running a state best time of 9:26.

The question this Saturday was whether it was harder to negotiate the icy turns on the way to the Arthur Ashe Athletic center or the tight turns on the 145-meter rubber made track. Particularly in the sprints athletes had difficulty staying on their feet

Pictures from the boys' and girls' 1600 meter races at the 2002 East Coast Invitational at the Arthur Ashe Center in Richmond.

Pictures of the girls and boys 3200 meter races at the 2002 East Coast Invitational.

Pictures of Matt Keally's eye-popping 3200m run at the CNU Showcase where he clocked a state best time of 9:14.

The Fork Union Invitational is proud to announce the entry of Lindsey Neuberger in the girls