Over 1,200 athletes representing more than 30 schools participated in the day long meet, which was held in rather brisk conditions with just enough wind to make the temperature feel far less than hovering around the 40 degree mark for most of the contest.
Smith of South Lakes, whose times ranked him among the top three in the country during the indoor season in the 500 meter dash and also 800 meter and 1,000 meter runs, anchored the Seahawks distance medley relay team which included Jonathan Gohrband (1,200 meter leadoff leg), Justin Smyser (400) and Matt Greenspan (800) to victory in 10 minutes, 29.83 seconds with his 1,600 relay split of 4:19.
Smith, who started his anchor leg ten seconds ahead of World Junior cross country finalist Bobby Lockhart of Handley, matched Lockhart\'s quick early pace of 59 seconds for the first 400 and 2:02 at the 800 meter mark and was never challenged with Lockhart also putting up an excellent time of 4:18 in the late morning race.
Smith then came back about six hours later to post a convincing win and break his own meet record in the 800 run with his winning time of 1:55.22. The South Lakes senior posted very even splits as he went through the first 400 in 57.5 and hit the 600 mark at 1:29 enroute to a 30 meter victory.
Huntzinger of Robinson, who ranked seventh in the country indoors in the shot put at 60 feet, 8.75 inches, won the shot at Seahawk by over six feet with a meet record toss of 56-3.5 and also captured the discus throw by over 18 feet in breaking his own meet record with an effort of 162-5.
Wakefield junior Fatima Shuler, who made the rest of the state take a much closer notice of her talents following her wins in the state meet indoors in both the 55 dash and 300 dash events, was also a double winner on Saturday. Shuler came on strong in the second half of the race to win the 100 dash into a headwind at 12.53 with rival Junique Morris of T.C. Williams second in 12.61 and Shuler also took the 200 dash in a new meet record time of 25.57 in holding off runnerup Morris (25.74) again.
Meekins of Oakton, who tied for second in the U.S. indoors in the high jump at 5-10, battled the cold and breezy conditions to claim the high jump at 5-3 and then came back later in the day to win the 100 hurdles in 16.64.
Other local girls winners in the field events included Hayfield junior Ashley Crocker in the shot put (36-6.75), South Lakes senior Latasha Ewell in the discus throw (111-11), pole vaulter Stephanie Prakken of Fairfax (9-0), Oakton\'s Kathleen Woody in the long jump (16-11) and Madison senior Brittany Robinson, who won the triple jump at 36-0.5 in addition to tieing for second in the high jump (5-1) and finishing third in the long jump (16-7).
In the girls running events, Jefferson won the girls 4x100 shuttle hurdle relay (1:09.00), Robinson the 4x800 relay (9:50.87), Wakefield senior Kristina Rios captured the 400 dash (1:00.15) and West Springfield junior Huma Husain (2:22.43) won an exciting stretch battle over Herndon sophomore Heather Fisher (2:22.88) in the 800 run.
Other top local girl finishers were West Springfield\'s Mo Hagan finishing second in the 3,200 run (11:46.66) with Tenke Zoltani of Dulaney (MD) the winner in 11:17.46; Westfield freshman Karen Wooley was second in the 300 hurdles (48.82) to Tiffany Nesfield (48.01) of C.H. Flowers (MD) while Bishop Ireton\'s Jessica Wolfe was the runnerup in the 1,600 run (5:21.01) with 2000 Foot Locker Cross Country National Finalist Julia Pudlin from Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA putting the race away early and easing to victory in 5:11.07.
Locally on the boys side in running events, Centreville sophomore Daniel Bailey got a tremendous start and rolled to an easy victory in the 100 dash in 10.97 with Bailey also grabbing second in the 400 dash (50.77) to Woodrow Wilson\'s (DC) Marco Aguilar (50.09).
Westfield sophomore Alvin Tondereau was the 300 hurdle winner in 41.06 with Tondereau\'s senior teammate Brian Vaccarino taking the 200 dash in 23.23 as Robinson football star Mike Imoh was a close second at 23.25 and Westfield claimed a third win in the meet with their 4x800 relay (8:12.65).
Lake Braddock junior Craig Gallimore, ranked seventh in the country indoors in the 55 hurdles, won the the 110 high hurdles by ten meters in 14.74; Annandale\'s squad of Chris Greer, Tim Greer, Chris Hiatt and Doug McClellan claimed the 4x400 relay (3:29.45) and Wakefield\'s Abdi Dubed continued his senior year surge with a forty meter win in the 1,600 run (4:26.38) and set a personal best by over 30 seconds in the 3,200 run with his second place finish in the 3,200 run (9:28.93) to Georgetown Day\'s (MD) Ben Stern (9:25.69).
Field event winners included Hayfield\'s Robert Malone in the long jump (20-1), Madison\'s Justin Loda in the pole vault (12-1), Brandon Zimmer of Jefferson in the high jump (5-11) and West Potomac took the top two spots in the triple jump with Alrick Donaldson (43-1.5) and sophomore Jeremy Beal (42-9.5).