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Here is quite the list of current and former Virginia greats. This list is the top performances ever at Great American.

Here are the top 1,000 times from Great Meadow's non-state course.

Check out our highlights from the New Balance Indoor Nationals. MileStat.com interviewed many of Virginia's top performers at the national meet, while MileSplit US and ArmoryTrack.com's national coverage of the meet included photos and more.     Meet Page w/ Coverage Day 1 Highlights Day 2 Highlights Day 3 Highlights   

Ahmed Bile of Annandale and Jeremy Greenwald of Grassfield (pictured above by Ryan Kelly) battled it out for the AAA state 1000 meter title two weeks ago with Bile winning in a thrilling race with both runners timed at 2:28. They will not be facing each other head to head at the indoor nationals, but in separate races will look to prove themselves as the best distance runners of the indoor season from Virginia with Bile in the fast section of the 800 and Greenwald in the fast section of the mile at the Armory.   A list of all Virginian boys (links to athlete profiles) entered currently in this upcoming weekend's New Balance Indoor Nationals at the New York Armory. Similar list for the Virginia girls to follow. MileStat.com will be on-site with coverage from the Armory.

Photos by Alex Aldaco of https://tx.milesplit.com   The Colonial Forge boys finished fifth in the elite division at Nike South Invitational in The Woodlands, Teas but the most important stat was the VA #3 ranked squad finishing under 25 points away from the nation's #9 and #12 ranked teams by the Harrier Magazine in Southlake Carroll (1st, 100 pts) and The Woodlands (2nd, 101 pts). The Forge boys finished with a team score of 124 points and team average of 16:17 with a small top five spread of 33 seconds. Junior Brian O'Loughlin was once again the team's top finisher as the case was last weekend at Great American in 17th place with a time of 16:07. Following O'Loughlin in a short time span were teammates David Klimek (17th, 16:07), David Klimek (19th, 16:10), David Pennesi (20th, 16:12), Donny Lozier (27th, 16:15), and Neil Clark (41st, 16:41). Colonial Forge also finished ahead of last year's Nike Cross Nationals team champions from Boerne Champion (7th, 194 pts). It could be argued that the Colonial Forge boys had a better team showing this Saturday against national caliber competition in an out-of-state travel meet than their Group AAA state title adversary Midlothian, who competed at Manhattan College Invitational this past weekend.   Photos by Alex Aldaco of https://tx.milesplit.com   The Hidden Valley girls were the defending Nike South champions after winning down in Texas last year en route to a magical season which culminated with a Group AA state team title and Nike Cross Nationals berth. Despite taking several key graduation losses from the 2009 squad, Hidden Valley returned to Nike South with a competitive squad and especially up front with seniors Annie LeHardy and Haley Cutright. LeHardy and Cutright let returning Foot Locker All-American and nationally ranked Rachel Johnson go for a 17:27 win, but the front two for coach Daniel King took care of the rest of the field to finish second and third respectively with personal best times of 17:57 for LeHardy and 18:01 for Cutright. Despite the great front running, Hidden Valley's fourth and fifth runner situation is a still a work in progress with the state meet approaching in five weeks as Hidden Valley finished sixth (148 pts) as a team and 38 points behind the team champions and NXN South #1 ranked Southlake Carroll. The VA #7 ranked Hidden Valley did finally get a win over the VA #6 ranked Colonial Forge girls after finishing behind them at both the Knights Crossing Invitational in September and Great American last weekend. The Colonial Forge girls (9th, 181 pts) were well packed with a 43 second spread for their top five, but lacked the low score cards like Hidden Valley had in top three finishers LeHardy and Cutright as Hannah Dickinson was Colonial Forge's top finisher in 20th place with a time of 18:58.   Find more coverage of Nike South at our MileSplit Texas affiliate site

The Colonial Forge coaches may have picked up on Hidden Valley's idea last year by venturing down to Texas for the Nike South Invitational as the Hidden Valley girls winning last year's Nike South against eventual Nike Cross Nationals team qualifiers from the NXN South Region helped the Roanoke, VA squad qualify for the Nike Cross Nationals as an at-large berth. The NXN South Region is made up of several states, but the state of Texas dominates this region and sends the region's four automatic qualifiers (2 boys teams, 2 girls teams) on almost an annual basis. The Texas boys have proved themselves as worthy of receiving two teams to nationals, but the Texas girls have historically struggled in the mud at Portland Meadows as the 5K distance is not commonly run in girls cross country within the state of Texas as the two mile is the established distance including for the state meet. Read more for Nike South preview on Colonial Forge & Hidden Valley...

Stafford sophomore Hannah Lowery continued her great start to the 2010 cross country season by following up her dominant win at Great Meadow by shattering the course record at Loriella Park as the first girl ever under 19 minutes on the challenging 5K course in Fredericksburg with a 18:51 victory at the Chancellor Invitational. Lowery won by a large margin of one minute and 13 seconds as she went through the mile in 5:40 and just under in 12 minutes at the two mile.   The Colonial Forge boys really responded well in bouncing back from a disappointing at the Great Meadow Invitational by not only winning at Chancellor but also defeating the #1 ranked team in the state with Midlothian making their first trip ever to Loriella Park. The top four of the Colonial Forge boys really took charge of the race early on running among the top 10, while Midlothian attempted to pack it up from behind at a more controlled pace and try to reel the competition in during the final mile.   The top four of Donny Lozier (4th, 16:53), Brian O'Loughlin (5th, 16:54), David Klimek (9th, 16:59), and David Pennesi (11th, 17:01) stayed up front for Colonial Forge head coach Michael Porter through the end with all four finishing ahead of Midlothian's top finisher Brayden Burleigh (12th, 17:02). Especially missing their usual #5 and #6 runners, the front running performance by Colonial Forge's front four was huge in overcoming Midlothian's great depth through seven which also extended to the developmental race with five of the top six finishers in the JV division. Midlo's #7 finished 20 places ahead of Colonial Forge's #5, but Colonial Forge putting four ahead of Midlothian's #1 was the different maker in their 82-97 win.    The Riverbend boys finished close on Midlothian's heels for third place with 98 points led by two top 15 finishers in Shaquon Wilkins (6th, 16:55) and Ryan Kuhns (13th, 17:04), while an overachieving Stafford squad claimed fourth place with a surprising runner-up finish from senior Tyler Oliver beating virtually all of the Northwest Region's best with his time of 16:49.   The Midlothian girls executed the similar race strategy and having their team run conserative as a pack through the stages of the race as the only five runners which toed the line for them in the varsity race were together as a group through the two mile mark. As much ground as they covered in the final 1.1 miles, it was not enough real estate for them to run down the Colonial Forge girls who followed their boys with an upset as well of a top ranked Midlothian program. Shaina Manuel led the charge for the Forge girls with her highest individual finish yet in a major invitational as the race runner-up to Lowery in a time of 20:04 as she opened up a 23 second gap herself on third place.   Behind Manuel, the VA #10 ranked Colonial Forge girls put their remaining scoring five among the top 17 places with Hannah Dickinson (5th, 20:41), Mackenzie McDonald (10th, 21:03), Colleen Wade (15th, 21:11), and Lilly Moore (17th, 21:19) for a team score of 49 points compared to Midlothian's 76 point total. Midlothian had four girls really move up in the final move to probably pick off 12 runners each with Kara Dickerson (4th, 20:36), Claire Benjamin (8th, 20:53), Krista Willard (9th, 20:56), and Meghan Mulroy (12th, 21:08) but their fifth runner struggled to make the same move in the final move as Colonial Forge pulled off the major upset.   Neither team raced at full strength with Midlothian missing their top runner Marie Johnston due to illness and her kid sister Kari Johnston unable to make her high school race debut due to a soccer tournament as the younger Johnston figures to run well within Midlothian's top five this season. Colonial Forge sat out their top returning miler in sophomore Jenna Walker this weekend and still have two more likely top varsity runners this season including Hannah Somers who are still on the comeback trail from injury.   The Mountain View girls continue to impress early this season as a team likely to reach the state meet once again out of the Northwest Region as they placed third at Chancellor with 107 points and three runners in the top 16 including Mackenzie Davis (6th), Kimberley Ficenec (11th), and Lauren Braney (16th) while Jamestown really came out strong to represent Region I well finishing close behind Region II's Brentsville (4th, 109 pts) for fifth place with 114 points.   There was the potential for a clash among three top contenders for state titles this fall at Loriella Park with Woodberry Forest's Kevin Bennert, Grafton's Kyle King, and Midlothian's Brayden Burleigh. Unfortunately, a showdown between three of the state's top ranked runners in the preseason never materialized as King was held out of the race as he is training through and Burleigh had to run with his teammates for at least the first half of the race before being allowed to take off. Pre-season #1 ranked Bennert did not even know either was racing anyways until five minutes before the start of the race so it did not change his race plans to runaway from the field at the beginning, which he did throughout the race to win by 21 seconds in a time of 16:28.   Chancellor Invite Results: Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Boys - Developmental Girls Race Videos: Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Boys - Developmental Girls Video Interviews: Hannah Lowery - Kevin Bennert - Brian O'Loughlin & Donny Lozier - Shaina Manuel & Colleen Wade - Tyler Oliver Photo Gallery by Brandon Miles - Over 1,200 total photos from all 4 races & team awards.

MileStat.com visited one of the deepest programs in the state currently on Thursday with the Colonial Forge boys and girls conducting their first time trial of the year to test their fitness after a solid summer of training and 2 1/2 weeks of official practice. With music blaring and unique but actually true to form time trial with a "Tour de France" style as each runner started individually in 30 second intervals on the 2 mile loop at H.H. Poole Middle School in Stafford, the Colonial Forge squad looked very strong and fit. Despite having staggered starts, Colonial Forge boys and girls had their fastest four times each within a slim margin of separation. The Colonial Forge boys had four just over 11 minutes in the time trial with junior Brian O'Loughlin (11:02), senior David Klimek (11:09), junior David Penesi (11:09), and senior Donnie Lozier (11:11) as the team clearly has four runners capable of not only being All-Region in the Northwest Region, but capable of finishing within the top 25 at the state meet. The Colonial Forge boys have put together a lineup for this fall to seriously challenge for the school's first state cross country title. The Colonial Forge girls had five girls within 18 seconds of one another in junior Shaina Manuel (13:06), junior Makenzie McDonald (13:14), senior Colleen Wade (13:16), sophomore Jenna Walker (13:18), and senior Hannah Dickinson (13:24). While an impressive overall effort in their time trial, the Colonial Forge girls are not close to full strength with two likely top seven runners in Hannah Somers and Alyssa DeVane still coming back from injury who did not run in Thursday morning's time trial. Senior Wade, who was a member of a regional champion cross country team as an underclassmen, looks to lead a somewhat inexperienced but certainly talented Colonial Forge girls squad into big invitationals and championship season this fall.   Despite being only eight years removed from their last cross country season as runners themsevles for the Eagles, Colonial Forge coaches Michael Porter and Sean Leyh both have not only used their personal training and racing experiences but learned a great deal from some of the top older coaches in the state including in their annual summer trip to the Blue Ridge Running Camp to apply the knowledge gained to their team with their own successful philosophy which has both boys and girls for the Colonial Forge cross country team ready for a potentially big season. See time trial video and interviews below!   Photo Gallery - 460 total photos from Colonial Forge visit. The Warm-Up Pre-Time Trial Interview w/ Coach Leyh Pre-Time Trial Interview w/ Coach Porter THE TIME TRIAL (2 Miles) Interview w/ Colonial Forge Boys Top 4 Interview w/ Colonial Forge Girls Top 4 Post-Time Trial Interview w/ Coach Leyh Post-Time Trial Interview w/ Coach Porter