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Running Shorts – Nov. 20

Published November 20, 2017 at 10:36AM | Updated November 27, 2017 at 12:31PM

Heritage alumna Weini Kelati led locally-connected collegiate runners at the NCAA Championships with a seventh place finish in the Division I meet, where she helped the New Mexico team to the championship. Georgetown individual qualifier Jonathan Green finished 10th. Clarksburg’s Lucie Noall finished 75, running for Queens and George Marshall’s Jenna Robbins finished 201st with her Shippensburg team in Division II. I have very little research on Division II rosters, so please comment if I’m missing anyone. Christopher Newport finished third in the Division III men’s race, and JJ LaPointe‘s (Bishop O’Connell) 14th place finish went a long way to making that happen. Abigail Levine, a Bethesda-Chevy Chase alumna running for Carnegie Mellon, finish 108th.

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Faces of the Marine Corps Marathon

By Charlie Ban

Published November 13, 2017 at 9:05PM | Updated November 25, 2017 at 10:58AM

Photo By Doug Stroud Efayomi Carr, (27), of Washington, DC finished the 2017 Marine Corps Marathon in 3:43:09. First time running the MCM, Carr just returned home to DC and had friends who are Marines who were running and he wanted to join them. Carr has now run three marathons including the New York Marathon in 2016.

Photographer Doug Stroud asked runners to do just about the last thing they wanted to do after finishing a race — pose for a photo and talk about themselves. And they obliged, right near the Marine Corps Marathon and 10k finish line. A few came back after accepting awards.

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WJ girls in five in a row, Green, Nakasaka, Lockett win Md. titles

By Charlie Ban

Published November 13, 2017 at 12:44PM | Updated November 26, 2017 at 3:21PM

Nobody on the Walter Johnson girls’ team has ever known a world in which they haven’t been defending state champions. That will continue for another year, after the Wildcats won their record fifth straight 4A title.

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Running Shorts

Running Shorts – Nov. 13

By Charlie Ban

Published November 13, 2017 at 9:34AM | Updated November 26, 2017 at 2:36PM

Alexandra Lucki Photo: Maryland Athletics Department

A man found unconscious Saturday on the W&OD Trail has been identified. He was found around 12:43 p.m. near the Fairfax County Parkway. Alexandria’s Bethany Sachtleben qualified for the 2020 U.S. […]

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Lake Braddock girls win third straight title, Tuscarora’s third in four years

By Charlie Ban

Published November 12, 2017 at 7:53AM | Updated November 26, 2017 at 3:54PM

Olivia Beckner leads Heather Holt and Julia Ghiselli in the second mile of the 6A championship. Photo: Bruce Buckley.

Lake Braddock girls won their third straight 6A title, once again beating Oakton, winner of the two state meets before the Bruins’ streak started.

After three years of winning team scores in the 40s, the Bruins nearly doubled that, scoring 86 to Oakton’s 92.

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Loudoun Valley sweeps top five for Va.’s first perfect score

By Charlie Ban

Published November 12, 2017 at 7:45AM | Updated November 26, 2017 at 3:52PM

From right: Sam Affolder leads Peter Morris and Jacob Hunter in the second mile of the Virginia 4A championship. Photo: Bruce Buckley

On the eve of the the most dominant team race in Virginia history, Sam Affolder was a little disappointed.

“We had a team meeting, and I was expecting an inspirational speech about how we were going to make history and we’d come out fired up,” he said. “We talked about what we were going to wear the next day. Nothing about trying to sweep or go after the state record. I’d never had a pre-race meeting like that before.”