The 2013 AAA Indoor State Meet Was Insane

Michael Cherry’s nationwide 300m report

The 2013 indoor state meet may go down in historical past as one in every of, if not the, most insanely gifted meets ever in US historical past. The meet noticed state information, nationwide information, and had a number of world report holders, gold medalists, and NCAA champions in its ranks. 

The highest line story from the meet was Michael Cherry (Oscar Smith). On this meet, properly actually in simply the span of two hours, he ran 1:02 within the 500, broke the nationwide report within the 300 (33.06) on a flat observe and anchored the Tigers with a 46 within the 4×4 for the win. 

What many individuals do not realize although was that Olympian Byron Robinson (Western Department) was second in that race and Mustaqeem Williams (Forest Park) was third and can be a a number of time NCAA All-American. 

Within the 4×200 you had arguably extra expertise with each Noah Lyles and Josephus Lyles working for T.C. Williams (now Alexandria HS) and in addition had a freshman at Grassfield… Grant Holloway. 

Additionally within the sprints you had Quincy Watts who would set a number of state meet information as a senior and Ricky Morgan who was an NCAA champion. 

Within the area occasion competitors the boys excessive bounce featured three seven foot jumpers and within the distance races you had Sean McGorty (Chantilly) who as of final 12 months was top-of-the-line distance runners on the earth and spent a while as world #1. 

Within the women competitors issues have been equally insane. You had famous person Felecia Majors (South County) in almost each occasion after which even had one relay group (Lake Braddock) with three Foot Locker Finalists! 

Individually within the distance races there was Caroline Alcorta (West Springfield) who nonetheless is among the biggest distance runners ever to run in VA. 

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Crew sensible you had a really quick quartet from Woodbridge who would break the state report within the 4×4 and at last you had a stacked race within the 55m sprint closing with Carolyn Brown, Milan Parks, Brandee’ Johnson, and Kiana Hairston. These women would win over 30 state titles and a few of the would even sweep the dash titles outdoor.