The New Bern boys from North Carolina continue to impress with an incredible indoor season of amazing relay performances topped most recently tonight at the KTC Indoor Track Classic in Tennessee as their 4x400 meter relay ran the #2 time ever in high school history on all sized tracks with a 3:13.24 performance on the oversized track at East Tennessee State. Their time was actually faster than the listed "national record" in the high school boys indoor 4x400 meter relay set by Muir High School in 1996 at 3:13.34, but Muir High School will keep their national record (for now) as they ran their time on a 200 meter indoor track which is the standard for all high school national record performances in the circular running events. The fastest oversized track perfomance belongs to Dallas Lincoln at 3:11.7, which puts the performance by the New Bern boys in perspective since they just ran the fastest high school 4x400 indoor time since the 1970 performance from the Dallas Lincoln squad.

After a sensational sophomore year which concluded with a World Youth Championships title in the 110 meter hurdles followed by national record breaking indoor season as a junior, Wayne Davis of Southeast Raleigh (NC) hit his first road block last spring in the outdoor season. It turned out the superhuman phenom was actually human as an ankle injury lingered with him throughout the spring and reached a breaking point literally at the USATF Junior Nationals as the initial sprain injury ended up becoming a fracture to end his year. As a result, Davis' hopes of a returning to the World stage against the top junior hurdlers on the planet were lost. In an exclusive interview with MileSplit US though, Davis reveals that the injury may have been a blessing in disguise as it has forced him to pace himself better and re-adjust his training for his senior year, which should set himself to be healthy and finish strong this summer. He certainly does not appear to be behind schedule as his US #1 clocking of 7.09 last weekend at the Virginia Tech Invite puts him only a hundredth of a second off his US #2 all-time performance of 7.08 from last year's meet despite having trained for a significantly less period prior compared to 2008 at this points. The North Carolina high school track star returns to Virginia for a second straight weekend for the Lashawn Merritt Invitational on Saturday being held at the new Boo Williams Sportslex in Hampton.

Would you like to run Cross Country in Australia this summer? For the past 2 years a team made up of NC/SC athletes, Team Carolina, has traveled to the land down under. This team not only has nad a blast spending time in both Hawaii and Australia, but it has also dominated the competition. Want to know more?

Check out how some of NC's athletes performed at the Virginia Tech Invitational. Photo (Milestat.com): Hendrix brothers rock US #1 & US #2 times in the 500! Anthony clocked 1:03.48 and Andrew 1:03.71. Both move way up on the All-time US list.

 King College head cross country coach Peter Dalton is pleased to announce the addition of Heidi Waldbart (Henderson, N.C.) to the Lady Tornado 2009-2010 squad. The Lady Eagle from East Henderson high school is a four-time State cross country qualifier and possesses a personal record of 21:01 for 5,000 meter. Under the tutelage of East Henderson coach Rusty Ward, Waldbart was named to the All-Conference and All-Region teams numerous times and also garnered the Kiwanis All-Star award.

The Eastern HS Challenge, Liberty HS Invitational, & Arkansas Invitational have put some of North Carolina's athletes among the nation's best. Let's take a closer look at who's ranked among the top 25 in the nation after the Jan. 17th weekend. Photo: (Hoerner-VAMilesplit) Polk County's John Spencer Wolfe won the Liberty HS Invitational and is now in the US top-25.

NCRunners is on site today at the Eastern HS Challenge. Races begin at 9:00 am with all of the 55 meter heats and 55mH heats. Also many of the field events will begin at the 9:00 hour. Check out Friday night's highlights. Many of the distance races were held as well as the girl's pole vault. Results & other updates will be posted here throughout the day. You can also check out LIVE RESULTS. Finals *Huge shot by Kenneth Rowland of Northside(2A), breaking the 60' mark. He threw 60-04, US #3 *Wayne Davis II, SE Raleigh, ran 7.15, US #1. Justin Crawford, Ashbrook, was 2nd in 7.37. *Sherice Walker of Cummings ran 8.19, US #7. She also won the LJ in 18-09.50 *Sushannie Blake of NW Cabarrus in 7.06, US #2(tie). Stormy Kendrick of Forestview ran 7.11 for 2nd, US #5. *Dejor Simmons of Green Run(VA) won in 6.36, US #7(tie). Torrence Hunt from Jordan 2nd in 6.38, US #10. *Hicks from Thomas Edison in 5:16 for the 1600 *Bobby Peavey of Kellam(VA) won in 4:14. Alex Taylor of Providence and Steven Bollinger of Olympic clocked 4:24s *Sanura Eley-Oreilly of Jack Britt ran US #3 in 1:16.64. Becca Deloache of Myers Park ran 1:16.94, US #4, in the 2nd heat of the 500 *Breanna Staves of Leesville Rd. won the girl's high jump with a clearance of 5-2 *Stephen Hodapp of Butler won the pole vault with a new personal record of 15-02 *RJ Reynolds's Lamont Jackson won the boy's 500 in 1:06.95, US #13 *Logan Elliston of Western Alamance cleared 6-6 in the boy's HJ to win *Bobby Peavey of Kellam outran Alex Taylor of Providence in the 1000m, 2:33 to 2:35. Both times put them US top-20 *Marlena Wesh of Landstown(VA) broke her own meet record in the 300, 39.4?, US #2 *Lamont Jackson of Reynolds won the 300 in 35.02, US #5 *Lincoln Carr of Pine Forest jumped 23-03 to win the long jump, US #7 *Sherice Walker, Cummings, won her 3rd event of the day. She jumped 37-10 in the triple jump. *Aslynn Halvorson of Butler won the shot with a throw of 41-00.50, US #13 *Landstown(VA) won the girls 4x400 is just over 4:00 *West Charlotte's boys ran 3:27.78  

NCRunners will be on site tomorrow. There will be live updates of finals, some heats, and field events. Highlights from Friday night.

The Eastern HS Challenge brings in some of the best year in and year out. If previous years tell us anything, look for some of the winners here to be National Champions in March. Photo (Mark Keenan): Alex Taylor of Providence currently leads the state in the 1000 & 3200. He is also 2nd in the 1600. Look for him to have a big weekend.  

Performance list to the 2009 Virginia Tech Invitational to be held next weekend in Blacksburg, VA.

This weekend is the one and only indoor meet held in North Carolina and it's a big one. Teams from all over the state converge on Chapel Hill in order to get a feel for the track. The NCISAA holds the indoor state meet here every year. PERFORMANCE LIST Photo (Mark Keenan): Marlena Wesh of Landstown(VA) won the 300m dash last year and is back to defent her title.