Mike Morrison

Here are the best performances ever from the Dogwood Track Classic

Here are the all-time marks on the field event side for boys.

Here are the boys top 100 all-time performances at Dogwood.

With adidas Nationals in a week we look at the best performances at NC A&T's venue's history.

Here are the top 100 boys all-time performances from Dogwood Track Classic.

The All American Track Classic is Friday and Saturday at Spring Valley in Columbia. Here are the top 10 boys performances of the decade.

Here are the Virginia state records for both indoor and outdoor track.

Here are the updated state class records for the state events. 

After one set of eliminations is it now time to start round one for the bottom bracket of MileStat Madess. This round features some of the best distance runners the state has ever seen.

A total of six Virginians were named to the All-USA high school track team by USA Today. Three boys and three girls from Virginia were selected to the team chosen by Jack Shepard, high school editor for Track and Field News. Charles Clark of Bayside, Mike Morrison of Great Bridge, Corey Vinston of Phoebus, Francena McCorory of Bethel, Nicole Saunders of Menchville, and Natalie Baird of Park View were the six honorees from Virginia.

As members of a team selected by the NSSF to represent the United States, Bayside\'s Charles Clark, Great Bridge\'s Mike Morrison, and St. Catherine\'s Katie Doswell all picked up first place victories at the first annual Caribbean Invitational held in the suburbs of San Juan, Puerto Rico in Carolina. Clark took the 100 meter dash in a 10.56 clocking, while also being a member of the winning 4x100 (40.67) and 4x400 (3:12.50) meter relays. Meanwhile, Morrison won the pole vault with a clearance of 17\'0.75\" and had a near clearance of 17\'9\", which would have been a personal best for the University of Florida bound Morrison. Doswell was the winner in the girls\' 800 meter run as she posted a top time of 2:15.98.

Quite a few Virginians are participating in this week\'s USATF Junior Nationals and USATF Nationals (seniors) held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Live results of the meet can be found here. We will be giving updates of the performances from Virginians throughout each day of events. Sunday: Keith Moffatt, a former athlete at Menchville High, had an outstanding second place showing in the high jump at a height of 7\'6.50\". Moffatt competes at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Shareese Woods just missed qualifying for the finals of the senior women\'s 200 meter dash at 23.15 in ninth place in the semis. A surprise in Allen Johnson not advancing out of the men\'s 110 meter hurdles at a time of 13.59 to finish 10th overall. In the finals of the women\'s 800 meter run, Nikeya Green took seventh in 2:03.24. and Leslie Treherne finished eighth at 2:03.38. Sheena Johnson became a national runner-up in the 400 meter hurdles with a 53.90 run behind Lashinda Demus (53.07). Saturday: St. Catherine\'s senior Katie Doswell finished 13th in the finals of the junior women\'s 1500 meter run with a time of 4:37.51. University of Richmond\'s Jessica Young finished fourth in the finals of the 400 meter dash finals with a 53.39 clocking. Former Lake Braddock great and 1996 Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson won his 1st round heat of the 110 meter hurdles in 13.58. Prince George product Shareese Woods qualified out of her preliminary heat of the 200 meter dash in 22.95. NC State star and former Jefferson Forest High athlete Ebony Foster seized the final spot for the finals of the 100 meter hurdles from fellow Virginians and Hampton University teammates Yvette Lewis (13.14) and Kellie Wells (13.29) finishing fourth in the heat at 13.04. Lewis competed at Denbigh and Menchville High School, while Wells starred at James River in Midlothian. Foster later finished eighth in the finals at 13.02. Gar-Field alum Sheena Johnson ran the second fastest time in the semis of the 400 meter hurdles with a 54.09 clocking to finish second in her heat behind favorite Lashinda Demus (53.50). Hampton University alumn James Carter took third in the finals of the men\'s 400 meter hurdles at 48.44. Lashawn Merritt finished just short of winning his first US senior national title in the 400 meter dash as Andrew Rock (44.45) nipped the former World Juniors champion Merritt (44.50) at the line. Former C.D. Hylton High star and current runner at Jemissa Hess competed in her first US Nationals race with the older athletes as she finished 13th in the 1500 meter run finals at 4:28.58. Friday: Menchville\'s Nicole Saunders just missed finishing in the top two with a personal best time of 58.88 in the 400 meter hurdle finals to finish half a second off of second place Eboy Collins (58.31). Great Bridge\'s Mike Morrison had an off day in the junior men\'s pole vault as he was the defending champion in the event, but finished sixth this year with a clearance of 16\'6.75\". Appomattox\'s Trumaine Kelso (also known as Rashad Kelso) ran a swift time of 47.26 in his 400 meter preliminary heat, but was unable to advance onto the next round. University of Richmond\'s Jessica Young set school records in qualifying for the finals of the 400 and 200 meter dash with times of 53.49 and 23.50 in the junior women\'s prelims for the 400 and finals for the 200. Young finished 6th in the 200 meter dash finals and advances onto the next round in the 400 meter dash. Hayfield alumn and currently starring at George Mason University, Murielle Ahoure just missed qualifying to the next round of the junior women\'s 200 meter dash after finishing second in her heat with a 23.81 clocking. In the senior women\'s 100 meter dash, Virginia native Latasha Colander posted a time of 11.44 to finish second in her heat and advance on. Indiana University senior and former Bethel star Ara Towns finished with a time of 11.80 in the same heat. Two former Virginians in Nikeya Green and Leslie Treherne qualified to the finals of the women\'s 800 meter run with times of 2:02.24 for Green and 2:04.77 for Treherne. Thursday: Menchville junior Nicole Saunders kept trucking from her national runner-up performance at NON in the 400 meter hurdles by winning her prelim heat of the 400 meter hurdles at Junior Nationals with a time of 59.46, which is a personal best for Saunders. Saunders\' time is the second fastest with only UCLA\'s Nicole Leach at 57.84 posting a faster time putting Saunders in good position to qualify for Junior Worlds in Beijing, China in tomorrow\'s finals. Booker T. Washington senior and Norfolk State University bound Marlon Woods finished ninth in the high jump at 6\'6.75\". Patrice Potts, a former Brunswick senior star and currently running at Virginia Tech, ran a time of 11.86 in the 100 meter dash prelims, but failed to qualify to the next round. Northside junior Catherine White ran a time of 9:55.80 to finish fourth in the 3000 meter run with Foot Locker Nationals champion Jordan Hasay of California only five seconds ahead of her as the winner at 9:50. In senior action, UVA assistant coach Dawn Cromer (formerly Dawn Cleary) qualified through the women\'s 3K steeple first round with a time of 10:17, while South Lakes alumni Richard Smith, running for Nike, did not make it out of the first round for the men\'s 800 meter run of 1:48.64. In the men\'s 400 meter hurdles, former Petersburg star Terry Thornton, who currently runs for Hampton University qualified for the next round with a time of 50.32, while former Centreville star Rickey Harris (51.32) failed to qualify out of the first round in the event. Former Woodrow Wilson star Lashawn Merritt, running professionally for Nike, won his heat of the 400 meter dash prelims in a time of 45.26. Merritt\'s time is the third fastest among all qualifiers. Severe weather in the area forced delays in the meet to postpone some of the events to later in the week.

Seniors Charles Clark of Bayside High School (Virginia Beach, VA), Katie Doswell of St. Catherine\'s School (Richmond, VA), and Mike Morrison of Great Bridge High School (Chesapeake, VA) have been named by the NSSF to represent the United States at the Caribbean Scholastic Invitational held in the suburbs of San Juan, Puerto Rico on July 8th. All three Virginians have won individual national high school championships this year with Clark winning the 200 meter title at Nike Indoors and Nike Outdoors, Doswell winning the 800 meter title at Nike Indoors, and Morrison winning the pole vault title at NSIC and Nike Outdoors. NSSF Press Release

Video clip of Mike Morrison\'s attempts in the pole vault competition at the 2006 Eastern Region Meet held at Todd Stadium on Saturday, May 27th, which include his US #1, school record, regional meet, and state record clearance of 17\'6.50\". Which means...NO VIRGINIAN HAS EVER VAULTED HIGHER! The video is of higher quality than usual video clips on the site to better capture this special moment in Virginia high school track and field history.

Photos taken by Brandon Miles from the 2006 Eastern Region Meet of an historical and remarkable achievement by Great Bridge senior Mike Morrison as he cleared 17 feet and 6 1/2 inches to break the school record held by Olympian Lawrence Johnson, which also stood as a state record and regional meet record. Photos include Morrison\'s two previous clears before the epic clearance, THE CLEARANCE, all 3 of his attempts at a height of 18 1/2 feet, and the post celebration shots.

Mike Morrison is truly one of the best athletes to come out of the state of Virginia in a while. He is not a sprinter. Not a distance runner. Not a jumper. Not even a vaulter. He is simply and well put as an athlete because he seems to excel in any event that he is placed in. While he is known primarily as a pole vaulter as the indoor state record holder in the event as well as having All-American honors, state titles, and a USATF Junior National title to his credit, he also can hold his own in the sprints, hurdles, and jumping events as shown by winning an USATF Junior Olympics age group title in the decathalon during the summer entering his junior year. He also showed that same versatality in last June\'s AAA State Outdoor Track Meet by scoring 40 points individually to lead his Great Bridge squad to co-state title with Landstown. In the state meet, Morrison won a state title and set a new state meet mark in the pole vault at 16\'9\", took three state runners-up in the long jump (22\'9\"), 110 meter hurdles (14.61), and 300 meter hurdles (38.08), anda third place finish in the triple jump (46\'4.50\") to round out one of the longest and greatest individual state meets by anyone in Virginia high school history. As Morrison enters into championship season with the Eastern Region Meet coming up this weekend at CNU and the AAA State Indoor Meet in Fairfax a few weeks from now in March, the University of Florida bound senior was able to take the time to answer interview questions from MileStat.com for an insightful article.

No suprise with the amount of competiton and quality of track found at the Freeman Center\'s Vince Brown Track for the CNU Showcase that many of the state\'s best season times were turned in at the two day event in Newport News. In all, 14 state best peformances were recorded at the meet.

Christopher Newport University will host its second high school invitational of the season this weekend with the CNU Showcase. The two day meet held Friday and Saturday, January 7th and 8th at the Freeman Center\'s Vince Brown Track will be the start of several competitive meets after winter break with the state\'s best athletes going head to head. This weekend\'s meet will feature three of the state\'s biggest stars in Michael Morrison, Francena McCorory, and Angela Jenkins.

The year of 2005 was a very significent year in the state of Virginia\'s high school and college running community with many big stories filling out the 12 months. From the terrible losses with an unusually high number of deaths by young student-athletes in the sport to the stories of championship glory, MileStat.com counts down the 10 biggest news stories of the year. While there were many important events throughout the year, these 10 come to mind as some of ones that really stood out among the rest as attention grabbers.

Several of Virginia\'s elite cross country and track and field high school prep stars have signed their National Letters of Intent in the early signing period which lasts from November 9th to 16th. Multi-event track star Michael Morrison of Great Bridge, two-time All-American Katie Doswell of St. Catherine\'s, state record pole vault holder Ashley of Western Albemarle, and 11-time state champion Francena McCorory were just a few of many top Virginians to finalize their college decisions early. If you know of any athletes that have already signed or committed early in their college decision, please contact MileStat.com at milestat@yahoo.com, so the athlete can be added to our 2006 college signings list. Also if you have any photos of athletes signing their NLI\'s, please email them to us to get posted on MileStat.com.

Recent Fauquier High School graduate and University of Tennesse bound freshmen Sarah Bowman will join fellow Virginian, Great Bridge High School rising senior Michael Morrison in representing the United States of America at the Pan Am Junior Games which will start tomorrow with opening ceremonies on July 28th and run through Sunday, July 31st in Ontario, Canada. Bowman will be competing in the 1500 meter run, while Morrison will be entered in the pole vault. Both athletes earned their spots on the U.S. squad by winning their respective events at the U.S. Junior Nationals Championship in June. Morrison, ranked fourth coming into the meet, will be competing on Friday in the pole vault finals, while top seeded Bowman races on the final day of competition on Sunday.