Western Albemarle underclassmen take DMR at Louck Games in NY

Rarely do you actually find an event such as the freshmen/sophomore distance medley relay, but the event at the Charles Loucks Games in White Plains, New York was a perfect event for a program with the young distance talent found at Western Albemarle. The boys from Crozet, Virginia won the race by 24 seconds and broke the meet record in the event by an even larger margin of 27 seconds with their winning time of 10:39.07. Three of the four relay members consisted of that incredible trio in the sophomore race at Footlocker South this past November who were all under in 16 minutes for 5K with Tyler Stutzman as the 1200 leg (3:14.8), James Howard-Smith as the 800 leg (1:59.7), and AA 3200 indoor state champ Kyle Satterwhite as the 1600 anchor (4:32.2). Adrian Sitler ran as the 400 meter leg with a 52.5 split. They won the battle with the upperclassmen as well as the junior/senior Western Albemarle DMR squad finishing 17th in the upperclassmen division in 11:00.86. Guiderland of New York, anchored by Footlocker finalist Brian Rhodes-Devey, broke the meet record in the seeded divison of 10:14.52, which was previously held by a Virginian squad in one of the best ever DMR's in the 2004 Westfield team as Guiderland clocked in at 10:12.24.