Jared Berman

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Returning Foot Locker finalists Ahmed Bile of Annandale and Sophie Chase of Lake Braddock began their 2011 cross country seasons on Thursday by running the fastest times among all races at the Potomac River Running Kick-off Relays at Bull Run Regional Park in Manassas.

Virginia Tech freshmen and James Robinson alum Jared Berman after steeple final 2010 World Junior Champs where he placed 10th with a time of 8:57. (via FloTrack)

Jared Berman 9 Second PR to make the Steeple Final 2010 World Junior Champs, 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships, Track and Field coverage. (via FloTrack)

Virginia Tech freshman Jared Berman ran a personal best 8:55.33 in Friday’s 3,000m steeplechase at the IAAF World Junior Championships and will move on to Sunday’s finals. Berman placed sixth in his heat, 11th overall, and was one of 14 athletes to finish under 9:00.00 in a field of 30 athletes. Berman beat his personal best at Virginia Tech (9:04.76) by over nine seconds, and today’s finish would rank fourth all-time at Virginia Tech. (via hokiesports.com)

Virginia Tech freshman Jared Berman (2010 graduate of James Robinson HS in Fairfax, Va) is set to compete Friday in the initial heats of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. (via hokiesports.com)

The James Robinson boys had the top team in the Northern Region and one of the best in the state of Virginia at the beginning of the decade with their 1999 state championship and nationally ranked squad. However, recent years saw the Rams running in the shadows of other great teams in their region at Thomas Jefferson and Oakton as both brought home state championships from Great Meadow in November. This year is a new year though and a resurgent group of runners under the guidance of Coach Jeremy Workman as they just went through a challenging gauntlet of four major invitationals on consecutive weekends and came through it looking stronger than ever at the end as shown with their victory at Glory Days last weekend. Oakton is still the Group AAA state favorite as shown with a solid showing at Manhattan, but James Robinson appears to be a squad which could challenge down the stretch at the regional and state championships. MileStat.com's Brandon Miles interviewed Coach Workman as he prepares his team for next week's district meet.

The 2008 McDonald's X-Country Festival at Maymont will not only help sort out who will be the favorites for state cross country titles this fall, but also who will be the runners and team seeing themselves racing into December in either Portland or San Diego this season. The Jamestown boys (Williamsburg, VA) have been racing at the Maymont Festival for years and this year's meet could be the most important as the top ranked team in Virginia and #2 ranked team in the Southeast region will be the squad which everyone else in the invitational division will be attempting to measure themselves up against and try to knock off the top ranked school from Williamsburg. The race for first among the top individuals should be even more exciting and wide open with five of the top six ranked runners in Virginia in the field as well as 12 of the top 15. Read more... Pictured left by John Herzog: Andrew Colley of Jamestown is the top individual returnee from the 2007 Maymont Festival as Colley placed 3rd in the invite field behind Peter Dorrell and Jason Witt in a time of 15:39.  

Updated individual rankings for Virginia high school cross country as of September 11th. Western Albemarle's Tyler Stutzman impressed enough in his 9:42 split at the Ragged Mountain Cup to usurp pre-season #1 Thomas Porter, despite Porter winning the Chancellor Invite quite easily to start his season. Group AA boys are also well represented in the Cream of the Crop rankings with five of the top seven rankings in Tyler Stutzman, Andrew Colley, Alex Ott, Kyle Satterwhite, and Josh Morris. Newcomers to the Cream of the Crop (top 15 best individual runners in VA) include James Robinson's Jared Berman, Blacksburg's Allison Homer, Mountain View's Kaitlyn Davis, Midlothian's Leia Lautzenheiser, and Millbrook's Sullivan Parkes. Note: Updated Group A and private school rankings to be added on Friday.

Photo by Ted Plunkett The Oakton boys were already expected to run through the Concorde District again as they have done the past few years. Now with Dante Morales coming over to the defending district champions from Fairfax, Oakton has the top three fastest returning 5K runners in the district with Morales and the Hendricks twins, Neal and Brian. Two other All-District performers are also back in Chris Weil and Patrick Fulghum as Weil broke 4:30 in the 1600 and Fulghum went under 10 minutes in the 3200 this past spring. Chantilly has a potential individual champion contender and an athlete who could break up the Oakton guys up front in junior Christopher Foley. Foley ran a personal best of 9:31 this past spring in the 3200 meter run and earned All-State honors in the event with an 8th place showing at the AAA State Meet.