Kaila Smith running in her 1st Indoor track meet at the Liberty Christmas Invitational. Her 1st ever 300m dash. She finished 11 out of 120 in 43.5 secs.
Kaila Smith Lane 4 Prelims and Lane 2 Finals running at the 2011 Liberty Xmas Invitational track meet. Placed 6th out of 60.
Photo by Andrew Kicinski The sprints and jumps were dominated for the most part by North Carolina athletes at the Liberty Christmas Invitational, while the distance races went to the Virginians. After completing a breakthrough cross country season which included the Group AA state individual title and qualifying individually for the Nike Cross Nationals, Hidden Valley junior Carolyn Bethel came out on fire for her second indoor season by running two personal best times in the 1600 (5:05.23) and 3200 (11:03.25) meter races at Liberty University. Bethel was only a week removed from wrapping up her cross country season in Oregon at NXN. Read more highlights from Liberty...
The first major invitational of the winter for NC schools, with almost half of the competing teams traveling from our state.