Walker Mogen

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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. 

  The River Ridge District has been a great pipeline of great female distance runners over the years and another young star is in line to continue that line of talent in Christiansburg freshmen Mikayla Richardson. Richardson (pictured by Andrew Kicinski) led the Christiansburg cross country team in the fall with a 7th place finish in the Group AA state race and was All-State indoors in the 500 meter dash (8th place). The 800 appears to be her event this spring as she opened with a 2:23 runner-up finish to Katie Fortner at the Knights Track Classic last weekend before winning the 400 meter dash (1:02.09) this past weekend at Abingdon High School for the Falcon T&F Challenge.

  First weekend of the outdoor season with MileStat.com providing on-site meet coverage. Video coverage at the Brian Watkins I-95 Invitational in Stafford at Brooke Point High School and photo coverage at the Knights Track Classic in Salem at Cave Spring High School. Results and highlights as well to come from the Big Red Invitational in Lynchburg at Liberty University.

  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. 

  The Radford boys were able to leap over Region B's best on Saturday at Great Meadow to claim their second Group A state cross country title under coach Mike Carrow with their first title coming back in 2007. Both state champion Radford teams were led by an individual champion as Walker Mogen repeated as the individual state champion for the Bobcats. Their team came on strong at season's end with #2 runner Matt Turk coming back from illness that set him back earlier in the fall.

  A virtual meet preview of the Group A boys state cross country race with all 16 team qualifiers and their runners. Team scores are generated based off the season best 5K times in the MileStat.com database. Individual qualifiers are not included in this virtual meet preview.

Despite failing to win district and regional titles, can the George Mason girls become only the third team in VHSL State Cross Country Championships meet history to win 5 straight team titles?

    Virtual meet rankings for Group A teams and individuals as of October 3rd. The Radford boys led by defending Group A state champion Walker Mogen and his 15:45 5K season best are just ahead of Region C rivals Galax and Floyd County in the virtual meet rankings. Defending Group A state champion George Mason boys have raced in only one 5K invitational this season with that being a slower and challenging Oatlands course to have them currently 6th on this list based on their 5K season best times.

Updated high school cross country individual rankings for the state of Virginia after the first three weekends of meets in the 2012 with top 25 rankings for each classification and the All-Class Cream of the Crop rankings

  Top 25 pre-season cross country individual rankings for Group A.

  A virtual meet preview of the upcoming cross country season for the Group A school teams and individuals in Virginia based on 5K bests from the 2011 cross country season in the MileStat.com database. The George Mason boys and girls are the top ranked teams, while Radford's Walker Mogen (16:18) and Wilson Memorial's Hannah Rose (18:13) have the fastest returning 5K times.  

  MileStat.com will be staggering out a pre-season cross country top 25 returning individual runners list for the upcoming 2012 season in groups of 5 athletes over the next few weeks. Take a look at #21 through #25 on the boys' individual side which includes one of the state's top underclassmen, a Group A state champion, and two Group AA runners looking to see fast times on the track translate to fast times on the grass.

  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.

  Interview with the Region C champion Walker Mogen of Radford, who is also one of the individual favorites for the Group A state race on Saturday.

The Lebanon boys and sophomore John Ulrich (pictured right by Dee Perry) won out in an early season Group A battle at Run fer da Hills this past weekend with pre-season Group A #1 ranked Radford and their sophomore star Walker Mogen.  Urlcich, who placed third in the 3200 at the Group A State Outdoor Championships last spring as a freshmen, won the race individually in a time of 16:59 joining a short list of runners who have ran under 17 minutes on the Holston Dam 5K course.   The Lebanon boys, who move to a #2 ranking this week behind defending state champions Clarke County, finished second overall and 71 points ahead of a fifth place Radford squad. Ulrich leaps to the top of the individual rankings with strong opening win in Bristol, Tennessee. Very minor changes this week in the rankings for the Group A girls.