A total of 336 Virginians have registered so far for the Foot Locker South Regional to be held Saturday, November 29th in Charlotte, NC. Check to see who is registered so far!

In anticipation of removing the concept of product keys altogether in the next version of RaceTab, we have made our current version (version 2) free as well. So while it will tell you that you need to purchase it, simply type FREE as your product key to unlock the full version. RaceTab had already been a cheap alternative for coaches and meet directors in formatting results into a flat html style for easier input of performances into the MileSplit database, but now is FREE!

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We will have a list in the coming week of Virginia high school athletes and teams who will be attending either the Foot Locker South Regional in Charlotte, NC or the Nike Cross Nationals Southeast Regional in Cary, NC, but until then lets a take a vote on who is going where next weekend!

Great post-season racing opportunities for runners this weekend to run fast times in the Northern Virginia area with the 3200 meter race at Chantilly High School and Tidewater area with the 5K race at Norfolk Academy, so I thought I'd provide an event for the Richmond area athletes as well as any others who are willing to travel for it. See information below

MileStat.com 2M/5K PR Time Trial (Midlothian, VA)

Charger 3200 Open (Chantilly, VA)

Run For Sight 5K (Norfolk, VA)
 

A smile is not the normal expression worn on the faces of those running a 5000 meter race, especially when there's less than a mile to go and the view of the course is dominated by a steep, heartbreaking hill. Yet a genuine smile was what filled the face of Trinity senior, Barbara Strehler, as she charged up the hill of the USATF Virginia Association Championships at Pole Green Park this past Saturday.

Photo by Ted Plunkett

      For years the Dominion District, consisting of schools from Chesterfield County, has been one of the most competitive districts in the state for cross country, producing a plethora of great runners. Manchester had the state champion boys and girls teams in 1997, and James River won the girls championship in the fall of 2002, but however recently the team to beat recently has been Midlothian High School. With the last four girls state championships, and numerous state championships on the boys side too, Midlothian has had a grip on the Dominion District. Their streak of individual champions in the district however came to an end this year as James River junior Ted Richardson stepped out from Midlothian’s shadow and onto the podium and into the state spotlight.

Photo by Mark Hall

For the first time in the meet's three year history, Team Virginia swept both of the team titles at the Battle of the Potomac on Saturday at Smokey Glen Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In the post-season event pitting runners from Virginia and Maryland against each other, Virginia had been swept in the inaugural event in 2006 and split wins in 2007 with the Virginia girls winning.

Photo by Mark Hall

Virginia was led by the individual race winners in both seeded races with Leoule Degfae of Thomas Edison pulling just ahead of DeMatha Catholic's Cory Puffett in the downhill finish for a 16:27 victory in the seeded boys race, while the top 2 girls finishers and only runners breaking 20 minutes were both from Virginia as two transfers this year in Kaitlin Davis of Mountain Virginia (originally from North Carolina) and Erica Howes of W.T. Woodson (originally from New York) were first and second with Davis at 19:49 and Howes at 19:57.

Photo by Mark Hall

The first 10 finishers from each state comprised the team scoring with the boys scores at 79 points for Virginia and 131 for Maryland, while the girls scores were 82 points for Virginia and 128 for Maryland.

Battle of the Potomac Complete Results

Battle of the Potomac Race Videos by Kevin Milsted: Seeded Boys - Seeded Girls

Battle of the Potomac Photo Gallery by Mark Hall - 68 total photos.

Battle of the Potomac Photo Gallery by Tim Hagen - 116 total photos.

Young Women 5K Winner - Barbara Strehler (Trinity)

Young Men 5K Winner - Ted Richardson (James River)

Intermediate Boys 5K Winners - Silas Frantz (Douglas Freeman) & Andrew Catanese (Atlee)

Intermediate Girls 5K Winner - Clarissa Schick (Maggie Walker)

Youth Girls 4K Winner - Sarah Stites (Thomas Jefferson S&T)

Youth Boys 4K Winner - Sean Willard (Midlothian MS)

Complete results, photos, video, and meet summary are now posted from the USATF Virginia Association Cross Country Championships.

USATF VA Association Championship Results: Boys - Girls

USATF VA Association Championships Photo Gallery by Brandon Miles - 527 total photos

USATF VA Association Championship Race Videos: Young Men/Women 5K - Intermediate Boys/Girls 5K - Youth Boys/Girls 4K

Stan Morgan had just started to coach cross country at Midlothian High School when the Lake Braddock girls were wrapping up their four year streak of Group AAA state team championships. Fast forward 20 years later and Coach Morgan is still at Midlothian and during that time has built a program to a similar statewide and nationally recognized stature of Lake Braddock as shown with the Lady Trojans recently matching the feat of four consecutive state cross country titles last weekend at Great Meadow. With only one senior graduating from their top 7, his team has a strong chance of becoming the first AAA school to win five straight state titles.

The former football player and quarter miler on the track has become arguably one of the most successful high school cross country coaches ever from the state of Virginia. Most of Morgan's coaching success has came after the age of 60, but he has no plans of slowing down anytime soon. MileStat.com's Brandon Miles interviewed Coach Morgan following another state championship by the Midlothian girls.

Team list and athlete roster of those competing at Saturday's USATF Virginia Association Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, VA are attached.

The Va Association of USATF is hosting this year's Region III Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 22nd, at Pole Green Park also. Only the qualifying Sub-Bantams from Virginia will compete in the Region III Championships with qualifying athletes from South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Potamac Valley.

All other qualifying Virginia age division members (Bantam thru Young M/W) will automatically advance to the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships to be held at Pole Green Park on Saturday, December 13th.

The top (20) individuals and top (3) teams shall advance to their respective next levels and receive medals.

Faxed entries can still be received at 757-926-4557 until noon on Friday, November 14th.

Cream of the crop rankings after the state meet.