Feature Stories from Liberty Flames Invitational Cory Mull Jan 12, 2014

Feature stories by MileStat.com freelance writer Cory Mull from the Liberty Flames High School Invitational on some of the top performing athletes including Blacksburg's Kenneth Hagen, Battlefield's Galissa Gause, Colonial Forge's Crystal Jones, Blacksburg distance girls, William Byrd's Marcellus Fletcher, James W. Robinson's Macey Schweikert, and Parkland's Ebony Williams.

Athlete Spotlight: Ellison Grove (Battlefield) Cory Mull Jan 05, 2014

The failures are the most unnerving, for a number of reasons: That she had a plan and couldn’t execute it; that she got stuck in a position she didn’t want to; that she finished in a place she hadn’t prepared for. But Battlefield senior Ellison Grove needs these races, Alisa Harvey says, because they teach her how to respond. For every great race, there are countless forgettable ones, says the George Mason High track & field coach, who works with Grove privately.