Teiara Denmark

    Briar Woods rising senior Shaquera Leach continues to drop her 400 meter time over the summer. Leach had never broken 58 seconds until the AA State Championships in June and in only two months, she is now knocking on the door of breaking 55 seconds. Leach, who broke 56 seconds in late July at the Russell Blunt Invite for the first time late last month, put together an exceptional preliminary race in New Orleans to roll out another impressive PR at 55.05. Leach will the second fastest qualifier in the finals.

Who is Nichelle Scott? A bunch of people may be asking that question seeing the results from the intermediate girls' 800 meter run finals at the AAU Junior Olympic Games, which has a 2:14 national age group runner-up from Chesterfield, Virginia. We actually caught a small glimpse of Scott's talents in the fall running cross country as a freshmen for L.C. Bird High School when she placed 9th in an always competitive girls' race at the Dominion District Championships (pictured above by John Herzog leading the entire field early). Read more highlights from day 5 at AAU JO's (more to come as well)...

At the 2010 Beach District Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday, Landstown swept the team titles with Stephanie Frenchik and Darrell Wesh leading the Eagles with a pair of individual titles. At the Boo Williams Sportsplex, Frenchik (pictured right by Ryan Kelly) clocked impressive times of 5:06 and 2:58 in her 1600/1000 meter double, while national leader Darrell Wesh was a hundredth of a second off his US #1 time in the 55 meter dash with a 6.37 performance and also posted a personal best time of 35.25 in the 300 meter dash. First Colonial senior Teiara Denmark made a clean sweep of the jumping events, 15 race videos are now added from this past Friday's Beach District Championships.   Beach District Indoor T&F Championships Complete Results   15 Race Videos by Andy Paisley

MileStat.com's Athletes of the Week award winners for the three weeks of limited action during the high school winter break (December 19th-January 2nd). Matt Hoogland of Lake Braddock (pictured above by Brandon Miles) is currently the state leader in the boys pole vault with a US #3 best of 15'1".