Coach's Corner: Julie Bravin (George Mason)

The daughter of a long-time successful high school cross country coach in Pennsylvania (Bill Bravin at Hollidaysburg Area HS), George Mason High School head coach Julie Bravin has to have made her coaching dad proud with the program that she has built on her own in over a decade at a small Group A school in the city of Falls Church. Under Coach Bravin in the past 12 years, George Mason has become one of Group A's top programs producing state champion individuals in Susanna Sullivan (cross country/outdoor track) and Natalie Young (outdoor track) along with several state meet top three finishing podium squads. The girls' team has qualified for the state meet every year in cross country during that entire time period.The 2010 George Mason girls' cross country team returned all seven runners from the 2009 Group A state cross country champion team and they have been showing no signs of letting down at all this fall in pursuit of a three peat (won first title in 2008) as their fi...