Gala...a success!

Jun 11, 2006

Many great performances from the first annual MileStat.com Elite Track Gala. The meet may have had its humble beginnings, but it will grow into becoming something truly great for the state of Virginia as well as all incoming athletes from other states. To show my appreciation for those who came to attend or compete in the MileStat.com Elite Track Gala...photos and video clips from the meet will made available to all for a full a week! Subscribe anyways if you want to support the future of the site and events like these to continue! Photos from John Herzog from both day 1 and day 2 and video clips from Brandon Herzog are now posted. Click on links below!

Some of the top performances include: Great discus competitions filled with state's champions with Penn Relays champ Natalie Baird of Park View (141'9") and upset winner Chad Lawson of Mills Godwin (176'10"). Mike Morrison cleared 16'6" in the pole vault with several good attempts at 17'2". Great Bridge teammate Kristy Tobin smoked a state best time of 2:12.39 in the 800. Deep boys 800 with 7th place at 1:57 with Delaware's Brian Sklodowski the winner at 1:55.93. Katie Doswell wins highly anticipated mile in 4:59. Group A state champion Rasheeta Hundley of West Point picks up double wins in the sprints (100/200), while Manchester's Anthony Chesson does the same in the boys. DeMatha Catholic of Maryland's Jeremy Samuels smokes a 47.48 400 time, while also helping DeMatha to quick times in the 4x200 (1:27.88) and 4x400 (3:18.85).

Other out of staters to pick up victories were Jason Gross of Maryland in the boys triple jump (47'9.75"), Theresa Lewis of Maryland in the girls 100 meter hurdles (14.48), Keith Brown of Maryland in the boys 110 meter hurdles (14.88), Diana Filtz of Pennsylvania in the 5K (18:50), Emma Burton of Colorado in the two mile (11:38), Ben Hahn of Pennsylvania in the boys 2 mile (9:37), Dakota Lowery of North Carolina in the boys mile (4:23.69), Callie Pottinger of Georgia in the 400 (56.41), and Geoffrey Daley of Maryland in the 400 meter hurdles (56.35).