Massanutten District Champions are Crowned for 2008

All winners are meet record holders as Turner Ashby's Boys and Spotswood's Girls win the inaugural championship.

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Turner Ashby Boys Massanutten District Champions

Spotswood Girls Massanutten District Champions

Southern Valley District Meet Champions

Fort Defiance Girls and R.E. Lee Boys are champs

Staunton News Leader Coverage ~ Gallery

Results

The Valley's Elite Track & Field for '08 

The Final Regular Season Rankings in AA Massanutten and Valley Districts for 2008

 State Class Elite Athletes Abound in the Mountains of Virginia!  Home of the AA State Championships May 30,31st.

Katie Cummings shows state class technique as she rotates out of the back of the discus circle

Results | Gallery

Valley Tracksters warm-up for the district meets with PRs and school records at the ELITE meet at Sports Backers stadium in Richmond Friday night.

Katie Cummings of Fort Defiance PR'd with a discus throw of 129'6"  and a shot toss of 40'9.25 inches for two Runner Up finishes. Justin Smith of TA was runner-up in the shot with a toss of 53'8.25".  Alex Ott of TA placed third in the mile with a time of 4:19.62. Spotswood's 4x100m relay team (after a switch in handoff order) turned in a 49.87 relay for 6th place and a new school record.  That team is Brianna Mitchell to Christen Showker to Jessy Moubray to Kayla Young.  Ricky Suggs finished 7th in the long jump with a jump of 22'3.25 and Jessy Moubray triple jumped to 6th place with a 36'3.5" performance. The Harrisonburg Girls were 9th with 10:32.03

Louisa Last Chance | Results

Harrisonburg High School attended and turned in some improved scores including Nafziger's 3200 of 9:37.24 (1st place) moving him into the Valley's #1 spot in that event. Keith Thomas finished 2nd in the 1600 with a 4:37.9.  Sarah Hamilton finished 2nd in the Discus and third in the shot put and Mandy Kaufmann picked up a pair of 3rds in the hurdles.

Millbrook Invitational | Results

Broadway ,Turner Ashby and Spotswood traveled to Winchester for the Friday Night Millbrook Invite

Paige Price of TA wins the high hurdles with 16.64, TA's 4x800 girls win with 10:20.20 (Beydler, Skidmore, Long, Young), Craig Burkholder wins the highs and Pedro Alonso wins the long jump. Spotswood's Printz wins the Discus.

Augusta County Track Challenge | Results - Note times are hand held

R.E. Lee, Fort, and Waynesboro post some big scores as they battle their neighbors on home turf.

Winners on the Girls side from the Southern Valley District include: Lee's Destiny Simmons (100,200), Fort's Whitney Fulk (800, 1600), Fort's Jasmine Diggs in the 300 hurdles, Fort's Relay Girls (400m, 1600m) and Lee's 4x800. Draft's Christina Fenske jumps a state class 5'7" in the high jump, and Katie Cummings dominates the throws.

On the boys side: Lee's Runners almost swept the meet! They are Chris Williams (200,400) and Rajah Jenkins(100), Andrew Lightner(800, 1600). Draft's Lucas Moffett held Lee's Kearney off in the 3200. Chris Wazsnicky of Fort won the 300 hurdles. The relays were spread among Waynesboro in the 4x100, Fort in the 4x400, and Lee in the 4x800.  The jumps were won by Lee's Scott(HJ), Forts Shreckhise in the vault, Jenkins of Lee in the LJ and Will Walter of Wboro in the TJ.  Fort's Luke Thomason won the shot with a PR of 46'4.25.

The VMI Track and Field Invitational Results | 

Valley Athletes winning events include: 

Katie Cummings of Fort with a PR Discus of 128' 8" (Meet Record),  Amanda Kaufman's 300m Hurdles: 47.64,

Christina Fenske of Stuarts Draft in the High Jump: 5'4",  Justin Smith of Turner Ashby Shot Put: 57'7.5"(Meet Record)

Turner Ashby Boys and Distance Scores in the Boys Races shake up the Valley's Elite Rankings... 

Alex Ott  of TA turns in a 9:37.58 in the 3200, Bryant Clopper of Harrisonburg runs a 4:21.78 1600, and Dan Nafziger of HHS runs a 1:59.76 in the 800m

Jesse Ritchie of TA becomes the Valley's Top 200m runner, Jeff Duncan in the Vault ties the top vault and the Ott cousins lead the way in the distance and 3200m relay to put TA Boys into the drivers seat for the Massanutten Title.

 2008 Dogwood Track Classic at UVA

Milestat.com photo courtesy of Ted Plunkett from the 2008 Dogwood Track Classic held at Lannigan Field, Charlottesville, VA on Saturday April 26th.

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8 Years of Great Meets and Great Pictures

2007 Season in Review

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