The selection was very tough as always for the All-MileStat.com Team. As this cross country season like any other, anything can happen. What you expect to happens never seem to does and what happens you never would have expected. One week someone is hot, the next week that person is out of the picture. A star runner goes down, a newcomer comes out of nowhere. There were many deserving athletes to be on this list. Looking at this year\'s group, there are probably a dozen or so runners who are probably in a group of their own and then 3 dozen or more runners who could beat each other on any given day. Some of the runners missing from this list definitely deserve recognition for their fine seasons. Let these All-MileStat.com selections serve as a way to recognize the great accomplishments of the state\'s top athletes this fall, while serving as motivation and providing drive for those left off or returning next fall to strive for greater excellence in the future.
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Welcome, everyone, to the inaugural edition of the Jois Report, the world\'s first attempt at regular, exclusive, and in-depth coverage of Virginia Independent Schools cross country and track. We will be kicking off with a recap of the 2005 cross country season for private schoolers. In the future, you can expect much more frequent, possibly weekly, coverage.
With the rescheduling of the Albemarle Invitational to Tuesday after the meet was washed out due to rain on Saturday, a meet schedule conflict arised with many of the Fredricksburg area teams obligated to compete in the Free-Lance Star Area Meet on Tuesday as well. Despite losing many solid teams and individuals which would have made for a great meet, the field was still solid nonetheless with some very notable performances at Panorama Farms on Tuesday. E.C. Glass senior Patterson Wilhelm won the boys\' race with ease as he clocked a time of 15:52.14 on the 5 kilometer course. Clarke County junior Simon Biddle-Snead, running as an individual without his Group A #1 ranked team, took runner-up honors in 16:24.69. The Western Albemarle boys won by a convincing margin of 44 points as 54 second gap between top Warriors finisher Will Massie (5th, 16:28.27) and fifth runner Kyle Satterwhite (18th, 17:22.96) helped secure the team title. Albemarle star Rachel Rose was absent from her home meet, so that opened the door for Western Albemarle senior Samantha Stafford to grab the individual glory as she won the girls\' race in a time of 19:13.89. There was no question who was the top girls\' team on Tuesday at Panorama with the Stafford-led Western Albemarle girls as they put up a low team total of 25 points.