An individual state champion and members of a state-title team are among those chosen to Virginia High School League Class 6 all-state girls and boys teams for the 2024 fall season.
Chantilly Chargers’ senior Tristan Thurneysen, who won the Class 6 state championship, heads the all-state boys team. He also won district and region titles preceding the state meet.
Multiple cross-country runners from Fairfax County high schools placed high at the Nov. 30 Foot Locker South Regional meet.
The highest local finishers came in the girls championship race on the 5K McAlpine Park course in Charlotte, N.C.
With a seventh-place finish, sophomore Gavin Silva helped the Langley Saxons place eighth in the boys team standings at a big regional cross-country meet in North Carolina.
Silva’s time was 16:18 in the rising stars race on the 5,000-meter WakeMed Soccer Complex course in Cary, N.C., Nov. 23 at the Nike Southeast Regional high-school meet.
A number of local boys runners and girls teams had strong showings at the Nike Southeast Regional cross-country high-school meets.
The competition was run Saturday (Nov. 23) on the WakeMed Soccer Complex course in Cary, N.C.
It was early in her high-school career that Meghan Sullivan reached a crossroads.
The challenge was what sport to continue — basketball or running?
His cross-country season and career with the Chantilly Chargers concluded in grand fashion for Tristan Thurneysen.
The senior high-school runner won a triple crown of postseason championships during a recent three-week span, capped by finishing first in the Virginia High School League Class 6 boys state meet Nov. 16 on the 5,000-meter Oatlands Plantation course in Leesburg.
Decided by a tie-breaker, the Robinson Rams won this year’s Virginia High School League Class 6 girls state cross-country team championship.
Robinson and the West Springfield Spartans tied for first with 57 points Saturday (Nov. 16) on the 5,000-meter Oatlands Plantation course in Leesburg.
A strategy of starting fast helped the Potomac School Panthers bring home a third straight boys state cross-country championship.
The Panthers won the Division I private-school crown last Thursday (Nov. ) with 63 points on the 5,000-meter Panorama Farms course near Charlottesville. Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries was second with 78.
The Potomac School Panthers girls cross-country team last Thursday (Nov. 7) placed second in Virginia’s Division I private-school competition on the 5,000-meter Panorama Farms course near Charlottesville.
The Collegiate School of Richmond won the high-school meet with 49 points. Potomac School had 98.
By a comfortable margin of 17 points and a much closer two, respectively, the Langley Saxons and Chantilly Chargers won girls and boys region cross country-championships on Wednesday (Nov. 6).
Langley scored 61 points and had its top five runners finish among the top 21 in the 2.98-mile 6D North Region girls high-school race at Burke Lake Park. The Yorktown Patriots were second with 88 points.
