In their final meet of the year of 2004, Thomas Dale\'s Dennis Boone, St. Catherine\'s Katie Doswell, and Hermitage\'s Queen Harrison made sure they closed out the year strong as each individual won two individuals events at the Green Dragon Clinic meet held at the Arthur Ashe Center over the break for the holidays.

The Friends of Indoor Track (F.I.T.) meet will once again showcase many of the top athletes from the Northern Region of Virginia as well as drawing from some of the fine Maryland public and private schools programs along with some of the top squads from the District of Columbia and the Eastern Region of Virginia.

Over 30 million active runners in this country, and fueled by the ever growing participation in marathons and half-marathons, the group keeps growing! Most runners will at some time experience an injury severe enough to cause them to miss a week or more of training. Fortunately for runners, most of these injuries will indeed heal. An understanding of the causes of running injuries and basic treatment principles will hasten healing and return to training.

At the 51st annual Bishop Loughlin Games held at the New York Armory, Bethel junior Francena McCorory ran the second fastest U.S. high school prep time ever for 300 meters with her 37.60 clocking to win the event. McCorory\'s previous personal best in the event was her state meet record breaking 38.23 clocking at last year\'s Group AAA state title victory. McCorory will certainly have ample opportunities to go after the national record as the season is very young.

Hayfield senior Melissa Dewey earned All-American honors by finishing 13th overall at the 2004 Foot Locker Nationals race held at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Dewey finished with a time of 18:23 on the 5K course and was the second highest finisher from the South region after finishing fourth at the Foot Locker South Regional race. Fellow Virginia Aurora Scott finished 28 seconds behind Dewey in 26th place. The Western Branch freshmen was the third finishing freshmen of five total in the race. The race was won by junior Aislinn Ryan of New York in a time of 17:31.

University of Richmond Director of Track and Field, Lori Taylor, announced the signing of Carly Hess who will join the Spiders in the 2005-06 season. The senior at Warwick High School in Lititz, Pa., has excelled in the short spints and long jump events throughout her prep career. She recorded personal bests in the long jump of 12.2 (Solanco Invitational) and 18-05.75 (PIAA State Championships) last season. The All-State long jumper enters her senior campaign as one of the premiere jumpers in the state of Pennsylvania.

For the fourth consecutive season William and Mary men

James Madison runner Shannon Saunders (Forest, Va./Jefferson Forest) and head JMU cross country coach Dave Rinker have been honored by the Colonial Athletic Association. Saunders, a junior, was selected as the 2004 CAA women

Fresh off leading Virginia Intermont College to the 2004 NAIA National Cross Country Champiopnship title two weeks earlier, Cobra senior All-Americans Fernando Cabada and Corey Duquette took their running to a higher level. Both competed in last weekend

A total of four postseason qualifying times and two school records were set by the VMI men

The Virginia Tech track & field teams began the 2004-05 indoor season with four Hokies breaking school records and four athletes qualifying for the NCAA Championships at the Clemson Opener on Friday and the VMI Invitational today. At the Clemson Opener, Spyridon Jullien (Jr., Athens, Greece) won the men\'s weight throw competition with an NCAA automatic mark of 71\'11\". He also broke his own school record and set a new personal best and Clemson indoor track & field facility record in the throw.

James Madion sophomore Adrienne Mayo (Reston, Va./South Lakes) won the triple jump and qualified for postseason competition at the Bison Opener track and field meet held at Bucknell Saturday. Mayo\'s winning jump of 38 feet, 7 1/2 inches, qualified her to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships in Boston in March.

Senior Ted Herbert (Virginia Beach, Va./Cox) and the Dukes

Four-time defending CAA Champion William and Mary women

Two-time defending CAA Champion William and Mary men

The Richmond track and field squad began its 2004-05 season at the CNU Lid Lifter Invitational Saturday afternoon in Newport News, Va. The Spider women\'s squad garnered a total of six Top-6 finishes in four events including three among the Top-6 in the weight throw.

Performance list to one of the first indoor high school meets of the season at the LATFC Indoor Track & Field Invitational.

Virginia head track and field coach Randy Bungard has announced that five athletes have signed National Letters of Intent and will look to compete for the Virginia track and field program as part of the Class of 2009. The five combined have won numerous state championships and look to help continue the solid tradition of the Cavalier track and field program.

Virginia Tech's track & field teams begin the 2004-05 indoor season at the Clemson Opener on Friday, Dec. 3. The meet will be held at the Clemson indoor track & field complex and is slated to begin at 1 p.m. with the women's weight throw and men's 3000m run, and end with the women's 4x400m relay at 8:50 p.m.