Brian Doherty

Highlighting the top Girls performances in Virginia for Outdoor Season competition during the past week.

A look at the returning athletes positioned to shape this year’s outdoor season.

Here are the all-time rankings on the boys side for 5K

Check out the Virginia boys' all-time performances at McAlpine Park.

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

As the collegiate athletes are just starting to return to their respective campuses this fall in Virginia, one can only be excited for the upcoming cross country season in store. Many schools and individuals have goals set for themselves this fall whether it be as meager as just trying to find five bodies to field a team or just to be able to make the team at the time trial in late August to as big as advancing a team to a NCAA national cross country meet or earning All-American honors individually.

Foot Locker All-American Fleet Hower returned back to racing as he won the 1600 meter race at the Keydet Invitational in a time of 4:29.18 over Daniel Kane of Louisa (4:29.45) and Brian Doherty of Roanoke Catholic.

Many teams and athletes from the Central Virginia area got their indoor season underway at the all-comers meet held at Fork Union Military Academy's 160 meter indoor track at the Estes Athletic Center.

Alex Clayton of Liberty (Colorado) and Shannon Saunders of Jefferson Forest took down course records en route to winning the first ever MileStat.com Invitational.

Brian Doherty of Roanoke Cathlic and Hamil of Collegiate both ran superb races on the challenging Woodberry Forest School 5K course, as they both won state titles at the Independent Schools State Cross Country Meet.

On the fast and flat Newport News Park 5K course, Roanoke Catholic junior Brian Doherty and Bishop Ireton sophomore Jessica Wolfe went on to went Catholic State individual titles with their respective winning times of 15:59 and 19:34.

It seemed more like a track race finish rather than a cross country one with the finish that occured in the boys race at the Metro Invitational between Rockbridge County sophomore John Crews and Roanoke Catholic junior Brian Doherty.