Kate Buss

Here are the top girls from the VAXC Invitational.

A list of the top 500 girls performances all-time in the MileStat.com XC Invitational meet history.

Here are the top times from VA athlete ever run at Great American.

Check out the top athletes and times from MileStat XC through the years.

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

Here are the all-time top 1,000 times on the Sugar Hollow course.

At tonight's Raleigh Relays for the featured high school 3200 meter races in the middle of the collegiate meet, Blacksburg junior Nick Link (pictured right by Frank Locascio) put forth his best race of the track season this year indoors or outdoors with a runner-up personal best time of 9:16.18. An early season state leading performance by 15 seconds, Link had a nice rebound race at NC State after disappointing races at both the Group AA State Indoor Meet and New Balance Indoor Nationals following a solid regular season campaign during the indoor season. A state runner-up in cross country, Link hopes to compete for the Group AA 3200 state title this spring, but also has another year being only in 11th grade.   In the girls' race, 2011 Group AA cross country champion at 5000 meters and 2012 Group AAA indoor state champion at 1600 meters Carolyn Bethel showed herself to fit in nicely at the in between distance which she has won state titles at. Bethel dropped 23 seconds on her 3200 meter PR with a fourth place finish of 10:40.15. Joining Bethel under 11 minutes for the first time was Blacksburg senior Kate Buss, who has made her own remarkable improvements over the past two years to become her school's most consistent and top performing distance runner. Her junior year best 3200 meter performance came in the same race at Raleigh Relays last March with a 11:21.74 and fast forward 12 months late to find Buss running a time of 10:55.76 to place 10th in a loaded field.   Raleigh Relays HS 3200 Results: Boys - Girls

Photo by Ryan Kelly   Highlights from the Bulldog Invitational held at Liberty University's Tolsma Track Center on January. Monacan senior Kaila Blackburn and Cave Spring sophomore Katie Fortner dueled it out in the 1600 and 1000 meter races to come away with a pair of sensational times for both runners. Blackburn won the 1600 over Fortner (5:01.55) with a seven second PR and state leading time (and US #7) of 4:58.56, while Fortner was able to just edge out Blackburn (US #9 2:58.00) with a US #8 performance of 2:57.89. Read more...   Bulldog Invitational Complete Results

Photo by Jeff George of ncrunners.com   Midlothian girls 3rd, Blacksburg 6th, Hidden Valley 9th, Grafton 11th at the NXN Southeast Regional. Hidden Valley's Carolyn Bethel (4th, 18:04) and Midlothian's Kara Dickerson (5th, 18:08) qualified individually for Nike Cross Nationals. The Midlothian girls were only 3 points away from the automatic qualifying 2nd place team spot and now will have to wait and see if they get one of the four at-large selections.   NXN Southeast - Championship Girls Results

Pre-meet rankings for the 2011 VHSL State Championships including the 16 team qualifiers and top 25 individuals for each classification.

The Blacksburg boys and girls have gotten off to an impressive start in the early portion of the 2011 cross country season with two back-to-back invitational victories at the Clash with the Titans last weekend and then at the Blue Demon Invitational over the Labor Day weekend.

With the Blacksburg and Hidden Valley girls making the trip today to Portland, Oregon to compete this weekend at the Nike Cross Nationals, MileStat.com releases a feature including the top 7 runners of each team filling out a questionnaire survey to get to know better each team and their team members.

Trinity's Barbara Strehler won the Coastal Division in a time of 19:14, which was impressive considering 19:13 was the cutoff for a top 10 performance in the more competitive invitational division earlier. A gallery of many of the high school individual race champions from the 2008 McDonald's X-Country Festival at Maymont. Photos included of 14 race champions on the day.