Nikolas Huffman

Here are the best performances ever from the Dogwood Track Classic

Here are the boys top 100 all-time performances at Dogwood.

Here are the top 100 boys all-time performances from Dogwood Track Classic.

MileStat.com is excited to announce its 2013 All-MileStat.com Outdoor Track & Field Boys Team. Congratulations to all 42 boys who have been selected as there were many accomplished and deserving athletes left off as well to make the selection process extremely difficult!

Better late than ever...here is your 2013 All-MileStat.com Boys Indoor Track & Field Team! All-MileStat.com outdoor track teams for both boys and girls to be announced within the next week.

A gallery of all the boys' state champions (teams, relays, and individuals) from the 2013 VHSL Group A State Outdoor Track & Field Championships held Saturday, June 1st at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. All photos are by either MileStat.com photographers Arnel Maddox or Sara Maddox, which both have full photo galleries uploaded from Radford. 

Virtual meet rankings for Group A boys and all four regions (Region A, Region B, Region C, Region D) scoring all events through 8 places based off performances in the MileStat.com database as of May 1st. Three-time Group A state champion Nik Huffman of Virginia High School has been consistently throwing over 55 feet in the shot put and over 170 feet in the discus throw. The University of Kentucky signee enjoyed throwing in front of his home fans this past Saturday at the Bearcat Invitational as Huffman swept the throws as expected.

  Felecia Majors and the rest of her South County teammates traveled southbound this past weekend while on spring break to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and competed in the Beach Run Invitational. It turned out that Majors and South County were not only on vacation time while down in Myrtle Beach, but getting fast times as well. Majors dominated the meet in numerous events just like she does almost every weekend back home in Virginia including wins in the pole vault (11'0") and long jump (19'6"), but in particular, Majors really took it up a notch on the track with the fastest performances that we have ever seen from her.

  A list of the top returning individuals in each event among Group A schools from last year's outdoor season and links to full returnees rankings lists in each event. Northwestern recruit Hannah Rose of Wilson Memorial has won two state titles in cross country, but would like to finish with more than one state title in track with her 3200 meter state meet victory last June. Rose has the best returning 1600 meter time in Group A by 14 seconds with her 5:10 personal best, while her 10:50 best in the 3200 puts  her at a whopping time difference of over a minute and a half from closest competition currently in her classification. 

  MileStat.com is providing on-site coverage (photos, videos, meet updates) for both days of the Virginia Tech High School Indoor Track & Field Invitational on February 1st and 2nd at the Rector Fieldhouse in Blacksburg.

Hidden Valley senior Carolyn Bethel opened her indoor season in epic style with two monster PR's in a distance double of a 4:53.56 1600 and 2:52.46 1000. Her 1600 time is a US leader, while the 1000 time puts her US #2 currently, but ranks her #9 all-time in Virginia high school indoor history. The 1600 meter time for Bethel also inserts her well up on the state all-time indoor list at #13.

MileStat.com indoor track & field boys' athletes of the week for each discipline of events after week #2 of the high school indoor track season in Virginia.

    This past year, Virginia High School junior Nikolas Huffman became more than just an emerging great discus thrower in Virginia. Huffman transformed himself into an elite performer in the shot put as well as recently capped off a year of growth with breaking a 30 year old Group A State Championship meet record in the shot with a personal best mark of 58'8.50". Coached by his father, a throws coach and former thrower himself in the 1980s at Virginia High School, Huffman has become a full-time thrower and spent the winter months finding meets which he can compete at. During the winter, he got the opportunity to try the weight throw which is the sister event of the outdoor throws event in the hammer throw. At the Volunteer Track Classic in Tennessee in mid-April, Huffman was an impressive runner-up finisher in the hammer despite limited competition experience with a throw of 186'8". The discus is still his original and current specialty as he repeated as Group A state champion in the event and improved his personal best this season to 181'1" to establish himself as the third ranked performer in Virginia regardless of classification. MileStat.com interviewed the Group A three-time throws state champion Huffman as he prepares for the New Balance Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, which he is qualified and competing in the championship divisions of three throwing events (shot, discus, hammer).

  At Radford University this past Saturday, the Stonewall Jackson boys ran away with the Group A state track championship team title led by two individual stars, while a well-rounded James River girls' team were able to pull out a last second victory in the 4x400 meter relay over a formidable Strasburg squad by 5 points. The 2012 edition of the Group A State Track & Field Championships witnessed three meet records going down including one meet benchmark which had lasted for an incredible 3 decades.

Regional rankings in each event for Group A following the district championships.

Photo by John Herzog   A handful of Virginia schools are competing this weekend at the Volunteer Track Classic in Knoxville, Tennessee. One of the leading performances by Virginians in Friday's events was the Lee-Davis girls setting a new meet record by three seconds in the 4x100 meter shuttle hurdles with one of the faster times in state history in the event at 1:02.71. The relay featured state indoor 55 hurdles champion Montasia Golden as well as another state qualifier caliber hurdler in Brie Jackson.   In the rarely contested 2000 meter steeplechase, two Blacksburg seniors placed well with quality times in Sarah Dorrell (7:34.02) and Frank Locascio (6:23.65) both placing third respectively. The hammer throw is just as uncommon event as the steeplechase for Virginia high schoolers, but Virginia High School's Nik Huffman impressed in his event debut with a mark of 166'3", which will rank the sophomore and returning Group A state discus runner-up among the top 15 nationally.   Volunteer Track Classic - Friday Results