Wesley Smith

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.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - University of Louisville track and field long jumper Wesley Smith concluded his indoor season on Friday at the NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - D'Ana McCarty, Khadija Abdullah and Wesley Smith of the University of Louisville track and field teams are set to compete at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in College Station, Texas, on Friday, March 11-12, at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Wesley Smith won two AAA state outdoor titles while at Oscar Smith High School in 2007 and 2008 in the long jump. Smith (pictured left by Ted Plunkett), who currently competes in track & field at the University of Louisville, was also a Nike All-American and AAU age group national champion in the long jump with his high school best mark of 24'7".   At Louisville in his freshmen season this past year, Smith was an All-Big East performer and qualified for NCAA regional competition. Smith went over 23 feet in a dozen meets as a prep and ventured over 24 feet twice including his 24'7" win at the 2008 AAA State Outdoor Championships. Read more for interview with Wesley Smith...

Western Branch rising senior Ermeshia Fair (pictured right by John Herzog) became the fourth Virginian girl to leap over 40 feet this year in the triple jump at this weekend's Russell Blunt East Coast Invitational in North Carolina. Fair, competing in the young women's division, improved by six and a half inches from previous best at the MileStat.com Gala of 39'4" with a new best of 40'0.50". Of the four girls who went over 40 feet this past year in Matoaca's Mia Aghaji (40'11.75"), Lee-Davis' Rachel Butler (40'10.50"), and Brooke Point's April Sinkler (40'3.50"), Fair will be the only one returning in 2008 as all others have now graduated. The final day of competition wraps up on Sunday with two days completed on Friday and Saturday.

The Virginia Beach Flames Invitational this past weekend had some of the best high school performances in the summer track season so far this year with numerous noteworthy marks and times in the intermediate boys and girls as well as young men and women divisions.   Booker T. Washington junior DeShana Briggs (pictured left by John Herzog), who has struggled in the past with her consistency in the high jump as well as performing well in state competition, seems to be correcting that now after being a non factor at the AAA State Indoor Meet despite clearing 5'8" two occassions before the season.  Briggs cleared 5'8" in two early season outdoor meets and returned back to her season best height at the AAA State Championships to place third in the event.   Much of the higher expectations which were placed on Briggs this year were due in large part to a clearance of 5'10" last summer at the AAU State Meet. Well she is back in top form again after this weekend with her second clearance ever at 5'10". With the likes of multiple state champion Ashley Gatling and Nike Outdoor Nationals champion April Sinkler graduating, the expectations will once again placed on Briggs to win a state championship after another 5'10" clearance to tie Gatling as a state leader for the year.