Track Claims VIC Title

Jeremy Eubank

The Tigers took to the track in their final competition of the year at the VIC Track and Field Conference Championships at Virginia Episcopal School on Saturday, May 12th. On one of the hottest days of the year so far, the Tigers were able to overcome and persevere the heat to win their first VIC Track & Field Conference title since the program has been reinstated four years ago.

 

Team Results are as followed:

Hargrave Military Academy – 154.50 points

Eastern Mennonite HS – 119.50 points

Blue Ridge School – 109 points

Roanoke Catholic School – 103 points

Virginia Episcopal School – 58.50 points

North Cross – 38 points

Fishburne MIlitary School – 33.50 points

Covenant School –  8 points

 

“It was a great day to be a Tiger,” stated Head Coach Jeremy Eubank. “We knew that it would be a tight race amongst the three of us (Blue Ridge and Eastern Mennonite) and knew going into it we had to win the point aggregate battle if we were going to have a chance to win.”

 

The Tigers who placed in for All VIC Conference Honors were:

 

1st Place:

Discus – Cameron Spangler

 

2nd Place:

4 x 800 Relay  – Gabriel Medlin, Shiff Helvey, Tyler Morris, Luis Vale

4 x 100 Relay – Richard Jiang, Brian Williams, Mark Billups, Reggie McKinney

4 x 400 Relay – Reggie McKinney, Hamza Al Tell, Christopher Gray, Thaddeus Alexis

300 Hurdles – Brian Williams

3rd Place:

110 Hurdles – Brian Williams; 1600 Meters – Tyler Morris; 3200 Meters – Shiff Helvey;

Long Jump – Reggie McKinney; Triple Jump – Elyas Harris; Discus/Shot Put – Jordan Dunn

 

Overall the Tigers scored (top 8 overall finisher contribute to the team total) in all but one event; where they had 12 of the 18 events all three athletes for the Tigers finished in the top 8 and in 5 of remaining events the Tigers had two of three athletes score for the team.

 

“All of our young men went out and understood what the job was at hand and handled the conditions very well,” stated Eubank. “With the conditions what they are we had quite a few athletes that ran personal best; which for may of them that are seniors it was a great way to go out on top.”

 

Additionally, the Tigers had seven athletes place in the top 20 athletes of the meet for scores:

 

Reggie McKinney – 30 points

Brian Williams – 29 points

Tyler Morris – 13 points

Shiff Helvey – 12 points

Jordan Dunn – 12 points

Elyas Harris – 11 points

Cameron Spangler – 11 points

 

This was the most amount of athletes of any school that placed in the top 20 athletes of the meet with the second closest being Eastern Mennonite with four athletes.

 

“This all started four years ago when the program was started back up after a long hiatus and has grown every year,” Eubank stated. “We have increased our numbers and and or performances each and is a true testament to the faculty and staff that play a role in each of our cadets lives.”

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