Our Path to the State Meet series focuses on a random selection of individual qualifiers and their seasons and path leading up to qualifying to compete at this weekend's VHSL State Championships. James River junior Freddie Shashaty qualified for the state meet with a 11th place finish of 16:42 at Bells Mill Park in the 6A South Regional Meet.
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Our Path to the State Meet series focuses on a random selection of individual qualifiers and their seasons and path leading up to qualifying to compete at this weekend's VHSL State Championships. Landstown junior Kayla Fisher qualified for the state meet with a third place finish of 19:12 at Bells Mill Park in the 6A South Regional Meet.
One stop coverage and meet results page for all 12 VHSL regional championship meets in Virginia this week.
First race of the season for senior Nikki Park after missing the entire season before due to injury and she showed a remarkable level of fitness coming back from her season-long obstacle in a runner-up individual finish to help lead the Ocean Lakes girls to a dominant team victory at the 6A South Regional. Her return certainly bolsters the lineup for Ocean Lakes to the point that they have to be considered a strong contender for a top 3 state meet finish next Friday in the Group 6A race at Great Meadow. More coverage to come from the 6A South Regional!
Colonial Forge senior Megan Rebholz won the 6A South Region title in 18:43.
In her first race of the season coming back from injury, Ocean Lakes senior Nikki Park led her team to the 6A South Region title with a runner-up individual finish of 18:50.
Landstown junior Kyle Sabourin led his team to a runner-up team finish at 6A South Regional with a runner-uptime of 16:19.
Grassfield's Jay Broom claimed 3rd place with a time of 16:20 in the 6A South Regional race as his team squeaked in the 6th and final state meet spot.
Western Branch's Tyson Robinson competed for the win at the 6A South Regional and finished 4th with a time of 16:21.
Kate Birnbaum & Harper Henson, top two finishers for the Cosby girls, who finished regional runners-up at the 6A South meet.
Virtual meet previews for all 12 VHSL regional meets this week in Virginia. The top 6 teams and top 10 individuals from the non-advancing teams will qualify for the state meet in their regional races.