David Gregory

  Group AAA indoor shot put state champion Jaja Davis (pictured by Ryan Kelly) of Landstown opened his outdoor season with a big mark of 56'8" on Wednesday in a Beach District regular season meet. Below is list of results and highlights of weekday meets from Monday, March 18th through Friday, March 22nd.

    After letting go of his first love sport of soccer, Kellam senior Billy Boros has really come on strong in his new love sport of running since last indoor track season when he placed 9th in the 1600 meter run as a first time individual state qualifier. The Eastern Region cross country champion last week in a 5K PR of 15:57, Boros should have no problem managing the hills at Great Meadow as shown with his strong finishes earlier in the season at the Maymont Festival and Albemarle Invitational as he aims for a top 10 finish in the Group AAA race on Saturday.

At the 2012 Eastern Region Meet, 1-2 individual finishes were enjoyed by the Ocean Lakes girls with Nicole Park and Olivia Bethune as well as the Kellam boys with Billy Boros and David Gregory. The Hickory boys kept Ocean Lakes from sweeping the team titles for a third year in a row in the final Eastern Region Cross Country Championships.

The final Eastern Region Cross Country Championships will be held Thursday, November 1st at Bells Mill Park in Chesapeake. It has been tough for any Eastern Region team over recent years to beat any cross country squad produced by coach Mike Nestor at Ocean Lakes. The Ocean Lakes cross country program will attempt to make it a sweep of the team titles for the third consecutive year.

  Photo by Ryan Kelly   By no means is the 5K course for the William & Mary Invitational considered a speedway, but West Springfield junior Caroline Alcorta made it look like one this past Saturday. After being challenged and pushed much of the race by Cave Spring's Katie Fortner, Alcorta pulled away to win with the state's fastest 5K time of the season at 18:20. A list of the current top 50 fastest 5K times so far in the 2012 cross country season.

Updated high school cross country individual rankings for the state of Virginia after the first three weekends of meets in the 2012 with top 25 rankings for each classification and the All-Class Cream of the Crop rankings

Results posted so far from invitationals held on September 8th. Meet summaries and additional coverage (photo galleries & race videos) to be added from several of the weekend's major meets.

   Ocean Lakes girls have one of the best duos in the state between rising juniors Nicole Park and Olivia Bethune. Park is the returning Group AAA state cross country runner-up, while Bethune is the defending Eastern Region cross country champion. The top pre-season ranked boys' runner from the Eastern Region is Western Branch's Nick Richardson.