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MileStat.com creator Brandon Miles announced today plans to host a high-caliber post-season high school track meet to be held at Sports Backers Stadium in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, June 10th and Sunday, June 11th. The meet lies on the June weekend in between the Virginia public schools\' outdoor track state meets and the Nike Outdoor Nationals. Meet promoter and director Brandon Miles is hoping to gather many of Virginia\'s top track and field athletes for the post-season invitational as well as bring in talent outside of the state. The event called the MileStat.com Elite Track Gala will be a meet that serves several different purposes for high school track athletes and others. (This USATF sanctioned meet is open for WV athletes).
7 Years Ago - News
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Summary is courtesy of Mr. Thomas Antenucci.
9 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Florida Atlantic University's Raynell Hagberg was named Atlantic Sun Women's Cross-Country Runner-of-the-Week by the conference office Tuesday afternoon. Hagberg receives the honor for the third time in her career and the first time this season after helping the women's team finish third overall at the Disney World Classic.
9 Years Ago - News
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This week's rankings has a few new #1's. The Brenstville boys have reclaimed their #1 spot in AA. Brentsville's Nick Gehlsen has moved ahead of Christiansburg's John Horst for the top spot among AA boys. Lake Braddock moves ahead of Western Albemarle as the top ranked girls team in the state. And for the first time ever, the private school rankings are 5 teams and 15 individuals deep.
9 Years Ago - Rankings
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9 Years Ago - Rankings
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Tragedy hits the Virginia high school track community after the death of a runner late Friday night in Norfolk. Cameron Reed of the Kecoughtan High School boys track team was murdered at an IHOP in Norfolk on late Friday night. He was hit by a stray bullet that was ignited by a fight across the street from the IHOP. Reed had personal bests of 51 for 400 meters, 1:09 for 500 meters, and 2:01 in the 800 meter run.
9 Years Ago - News
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Keira Carlstrom, a 2002 graduate of Oakton High School, and currently a sophomore at American University in Washington, D.C., was featured in a recent article on
fast-women.com. Carlstrom is coming off an oustanding sophomore season of cross country where she earned NCAA All-American honors with a 16th place finish at the NCAA Division I National Cross Country Championships.
10 Years Ago - Interview
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Both Christopher Newport University men and women's teams recorded their best regional team finishes in recent years with both men's and women's squads taking regional runner-up honors to regional meet host, Emory University.
10 Years Ago - News
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The William & Mary men and Virginia men had strong showings at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships held at Lake Kristi with third (94 pts) and fourth places finishes (95 pts) as they were separated by a mere one point difference. The William & Mary women were the top finishing Virginia school with their fifth place finish (165 pts), while the Virginia Tech ladies finished a surprisingly strong sixth place (179 pts). Both squads were led by an NCAA Nationals individual qualifier each with Tech's Marlies Overbeeke (5th, 20:20) and William & Mary's Ali Henderson (7th, 20:23).
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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The following teams have received bids to The State Open to be held next Saturday at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Virginia. A committee of coaches from all levels of classification gathered today at the Ragged Mountain Running Shop in Charlottesville to make the selections of the "at large" bids. The decision was made to extend the number of "at large" bids to 10 teams instead of the previously agreed upon number of 6. State champions in each classification already had earned automatic bids. Contact Mark Lorenzoni (daytime: 434-293-3367, evening: 434-977-7208) for more information.
10 Years Ago - News
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The following individuals are automatic qualifiers for the first annual Virginia State Open, which is to be held next Saturday at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is the first time that Virginia will hold a meet to really determine the fastest high school cross country runners and best cross country teams in the state! The girls\' race starts at 11:30 and the boys\' race at noon. The individual qualifiers include the top 50 fastest times from the public school state meet (held at Great Meadows on November 8th) and the top 20 finishers from the private school championships (held at Woodberry Forest on October 31st).
10 Years Ago - News
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10 Years Ago - News
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Hidden Valley senior Jennifer Beury made an amazing comeback race from a stress fracture injury that has forced her to sit
out almost the entire cross country season. Beury made her return at the River Ridge District Meet against the #2 ranked
runner in the state and #1 ranked runner in AA, Kirsten Hagen of Christiansburg. The two battled it out for the 5K distance
at Greenhill Park, but it was Beury who came out on top in this colossal battle with a winning time of 18:25 over Hagen's
18:32. No race rust here as it was a personal best 5K time for the UVA bound Beury.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Today was a good day to be a member of the CNU men's and women's cross country teams as both teams came away with team titles at the Mason-Dixon Conference Championships held in Williamsburg. Also, CNU senior Aimee Gibbs and freshmen Brandon Miles earned individual conference titles.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Very quite weekend as teams prepare for their championship season races with only the Jefferson Forest hosted Runnin' With The Wolves Invitational and Georgetown Prep Invitational in Maryland being run off.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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A very busy weekend for Virginia schools with the NCAA Pre-National Meet in Iowa having many of the state's best teams in attendance, while back at home the Tribe Open and Mason-Dixon Championships were held on the same course on the same day in Williamsburg.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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Busy weekend of racing action before teams get in two weeks of quality training before their district meets. The MileStat.com Invitational, Albemarle Invitational, Chesapeake Invitational, Glory Days Grill Invitational, and Metro Invitational all drew strong fields to disperse the state\'s talent among them for exciting races. Meanwhile, other squads took lenghty trips out of state to compete at the Manhattan Invitational (NY) and Disney Classic (FL).
10 Years Ago - News
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Virginia was well represented by two teams who made the journey north this past weekend to the Manhattan College Invitational, where the teams competed on the one of the nation
10 Years Ago - News
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The Virginia DII-III state meet was held this past weekend, while Lynchburg traveled north to Indiana to compete in the DIII Pre-Nationals race and Richmond went south to Disney World to compete at the Disney Classic in Orlando, Florida.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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The William & Mary Invitational and Octoberfest Invitational were big draws this past weekend in terms of quality teams and individuals as a number of top ranked teams and individuals gathered in Williamsburg and at Great Meadows.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Plenty of fast times were posted this weekend by Virginian collegiates on the speedways known as the Paul Short Invitational and Pirate Invitational (held by East Carolina University). Meanwhile, the University of Richmond men and women had impressive showings at the LaSalle Invitational.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Quite a handful of collegiate teams competed in this past weekend's two big cross country festivals on the East Coast at Great American and Maymont, while the George Washington Invite saw a strong field assembled on the battlefield of Bull Run and the Bridgewater Invitational drew a small field of division III schools.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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The Maymont Cross Country Festival kicked off in it's inaugrual year with flying colors, while previously established meets such as Bristol Cross, Great American, and Lee-Davis Invitational had plenty of action happening this past weekend.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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Virginia Tech, James Madison University, and Roanoke college all hosted home invitationals this weekend, while Mary Washington traveled to New York City to compete at Van Courtland Park.
10 Years Ago - News
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In the wake of Hurricane Isabel\'s destruction, many weekend invitationals were cancelled or postponed, but several invites in the Southwestern part of the state were able to go off as the area was not hit terribly hard by the storm.
10 Years Ago - News
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10 Years Ago - Rankings
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A floodgates opened this past Friday across the state of Virginia as the state was drenched by a storm system that rolled through leaving many of the cross country courses for this past Saturday\'s invitationals in a muddy, sloppy, and slow mess.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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Mary Washington College and Roanoke College headed northward to duel it out in Pennsylvania, while the University of Virginia hosted a highly competitive home meet that included the likes of Duke University and William & Mary. Washington & Lee University also was host to a number of schools at their home invite.
10 Years Ago - News
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Virginia teams saw action at Virginia Tech and in Greensboro, North Carolina this past weekend.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary
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College weekend meet action included Lynchburg College hosting their own home invitational, while CNU traveled north to compete in Salisbury, Maryland.
10 Years Ago - Meet Summary