Michael Carter

Here are the all-time best boys in the steeplechase.

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

Here are the all-time best times from Sugar Hollow

With only days, no hours, separating us from the 2014 Penn Relays Carnival it was time to see how the Blacksburg Bruins were preparing themselves for this prestigious meet. Both the boys and girls 4x800 teams are competing, both out of the small school section, and are looking to not only move into the Championship of America final but to also place well in that the following day. 

The office of the Penn Relays released and posted the accepted entries in the 4x800's and Distance Medley Relays this evening. These include some of the fastest teams and individuals in the state that are also favored in these relays. 

A group of elite Virginia high school individuals and relays have been selected and will be competing in the invitational high school events this weekend at the New York Armory in the midst of the college meet, the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. 

Each week, MileSplit US will rank the top 10 best high school performances across the country for each gender. Below is our top 10 list of the best high school boys performances from this past week ending on February 2nd.

Feature stories by MileStat.com freelance writer Cory Mull from the Virginia Tech High School Invitational on some of the top performing athletes including the Blacksburg boys US #1 4x800 meter relay, Battlefield thower Galissia Cause, Jefferson Forest middle distance runner Alyssa Shupe, and Glen Allen middle distance runner Stanley Davis as the first four of 10 featured stories to come out of the meet this past weekend in Virginia. More stories to come later on Sunday!

Highlights and coverage from Saturday's races (Group 3A, 2A, & 1A) at the 2013 VHSL State Cross Country Championships. 

The Blacksburg boys and girls dominated in their season opener at the Blue Demon Invitational in Christiansburg with a sweep of the team titles and individual titles. 

The downhill Draper Mile road race always breeds fast times as a great pre-season confidence booster for any high school runners gearing up for the cross country season as well as any other runners willing to venture to Blacksburg on the first week of August. 

Photo by Tim O'Dowd Penn Relays has a lot of history. For any athlete to break any meet record at the 119th annual event is quite a few considering how many great athletes converge on Franklin Field every April. Chantilly senior Sean McGorty etched himself in the meet record books with a race performance of epicness. Leading wire to wire and closing with a 59.5 last quarter, McGorty ran a new national leading time and broke the high school mile race record at Penn with a 4:04.57 victory against a top caliber field. More to come on McGorty's race as well as other Virginians performances on Friday and Saturday following the completion of hosting the MileStat.com Track Classic this weekend. MileSplit US video interview with Sean McGorty

The Blacksburg boys are seeking their fourth straight Group AA state cross country team title this fall. Another state title would also be the ninth state title in school history which would push Blacksburg ahead of John Handley (8 state titles) as the most winningest boys' cross country program in Virginia. Blacksburg should be heavily favored to win with only their #6 runner graduating from a team last fall which were 47 points ahead of the state runners-up. 

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.

Another year of fast times were produced at the annual downhill mile road race in Blacksburg, Virginia. Race winners for this year's Draper Mile were recent Blacksburg High grad and incoming Georgetown freshmen Joanna Stevens in 4:45.6 as the top female finisher and Hermitage High alum and current Virginia Tech runner Kieran Lee at 4:08.8 as the top male finisher. Draper Mile race runners-up were two current high school runners at Blacksburg High School with Hannah Brown trailing Stevens in four seconds later at 4:49 to tie for sixth fastest all-time in race history, while Carter ran with Tech's Lee until the end to settle for second and drop two seconds from his 2009 race performance to 4:09. Carter's 14 year old younger brother Michael posted a great time of 4:29 as the top finisher in the 14-16 age group. Michael Carter joins his brother this year on the defending Group AA state cross country champion Blacksburg squad as an incoming freshmen. Results & race video below.   Draper Mile Complete Results Race Video from the Draper Mile - Footage from finish line & course preview