and finished third in the 110 high hurdles.
PHOTO BY BRIAN HOFFMAN
James Madison University was the site of the VHSL Class 1 & 2 state track meets last weekend and both Glenvar teams finished in the top 10. The boys were fourth as a team and the girls were 10th.
The Floyd County boys, a fellow Three Rivers District team, won the state championship with 76 points. Glenvar had 44 and Radford was third.
“For the boys, of the top four teams in state three came from the Three Rivers District,” said Glenvar coach Neil Swanson. “Pretty impressive if you ask me. Just shows how competitive and how much talent there is in our district.”
Glenvar had a boys’ state champion as Joey Loder won the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 39.72. Loder was third in the 110 hurdles in 14.86 and ran on the third place 4×400 relay team with Will Howard, Tyson Hobbs and Colby Thompson.
Hobbs also finished third in the triple jump. Thompson was fourth in the 400 and sixth in the triple jump and Tyler Davis took sixth place in the 3,200. Glenvar’s 4×100 and 4×800 relay teams both finished seventh.
Clarke County won the girls’ state championship with 64 points and Glenvar had 25 for 10th. The 4×400 relay team of Anna Hall, Aidan Beverly, Rayya Bryson and Kayleigh McDonald was was fourth, the 4×100 team of Selena Noel, Sophia Hammersley, Elle Graffeo and Beverly took fifth and the 4×800 foursome of Hall, Bryson, Everly Shanks and Lauren Smith was sixth.
Individually, Aliya Guzman was fifth in the pole vault and Beverly was sixth in the 200. Hammersley and Jade Evans were seventh and ninth in the 100 meter hurdles, Hall was ninth in the 400 and Bryson was 10th in the 800. Hammersley was eighth in the triple jump.
