Track/Cross Country

After last week’s regional championship competitions, a long list of local high school track and field athletes have qualified to take part in this year’s Kentucky High School Athletic Association championships meets. The 2025 KHSAA championships are slated to get underway this Thursday, May 29, at the University of Kentucky’s outdoor track facility in Lexington. On that day, several Williamsburg Yellow Jackets and Lady Jackets will be in action in this year’s Class A finale. The complete list of qualifiers and alternates making the trip to UK from Williamsburg includes: Ellie Breeding, Trenton Cornett, Lani Couto, Tatum Croley, Lynsie Durham, Braylee Evans, Ashtyn Foley, Nate Goodin, Nick Hale, Peyton Hamilton, Bailee...

Last week, the Williamsburg High School track and field team hosted its Gold Medal Meet at the University of the Cumberlands. Many coverage area athletes posted top finishes at the event, including the following: Kaylee Rains (W’burg) – Runner-up in girls 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.65 NaShawn Brooks (Corbin) – First place in boys 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.96 and firt place in boys 300-meter hurdles with a time of 40.62 Peyton Hamilton (W’burg) – Runner-up in boys 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.55 and runner-up in boy 300-meter hurdles with a time of 41.34 Bryson Mahan, Colton Mullis, Wesley Sizemore and Dee Parker...

Whitley County High School track and field Head Coach Terry Lanham has described this season as a “full circle moment” for him personally. As a 2001 graduate of WCHS, he was around when the school was still hosting track meets on a regular basis. That ended just a few years after he left, but now, thanks to a major investment by the board of education to overhaul the school’s track facility, the Colonels are ready to host events once again. “It really means a lot to me,” Lanham said, adding that the student-athletes, their families and other community members have all been expressing their excitement recently over the newly remodeled...

After regional competition at Cave Lake Park in Wayne County over the weekend, all four coverage area high schools will be sending runners to compete in this year’s Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Cross Country Championships. The Corbin girls traveled to Wayne County on Saturday and gave a dominant performance in the Class 2A, Region 5 championship race, with all team members finishing in the top 20 to give the Lady Hounds their latest regional championship trophy. From Corbin: Emma Massengill, regional champion in 20:46.74 Hadley Elmore, region runner-up in 21:11.46 Jaycee Frye, seventh place in 22:32.08 Lynlee Flynn, 13th place in 23:28.67 Addison Owens, 15th place in 23:39.95 Mallory...

Earlier this week, the brand new athletic commons area at Corbin High School was officially unveiled to the community. For many current Redhounds and Lady Hounds, it was a chance to check out the facility that they will call home for the duration of their high school athletic careers. “It’s going to be great,” said tennis Coach Chris Jones. “The courts have been resurfaced, there are separate locker rooms for the boys and the girls, they have added bleachers, and then, of course, there is the tower.” The tower that Jones is referring to is a large structure located at the center of the commons area that provides coaches and officials...

“I believe that God spared my life for a reason, and it wasn’t to just sit down and accept what had happened to me. It was to overcome it.” Those are the words of Josh Grubb, the soon-to-be senior at Whitley County High School who less than a year ago was clinging to life after he sustained horrific injuries in a tragic head-on car crash that left several others injured and took the life of one person in another vehicle. Grubb was a passenger in the back seat of the car that he was in. He and some friends had been on a hiking trip earlier in the day, and...

On Monday, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) announced some rules changes via its social media accounts and on the khsaa.org website. One rule change dealt with high school baseball, and read: Players using non-wood bats will have greater flexibility in using substances to enhance their grip on the bat with a change that brings consistency to Rule 1-3-2. This rule revision was one of two proposed by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Baseball Rules Committee after its annual rules meeting held June 2-4 at The Alexander hotel in Indianapolis. The rules changes were accepted by the NFHS Board of Directors and are effective with the...

It was another successful spring season for the Williamsburg High School track and field team. The Jackets and Lady Jackets managed to compile a long list of achievements during the past season, but junior Nate Goodin and senior Lylah Mattingly gave performances worthy of a trip to the recent Nike Outdoor Nationals competition in Eugene, Ore. Goodin came into the season as the defending Class A state champion in long jump. He was able to walk away with another first place finish at last month’s KHSAA State Championships, but this time it was in his personal favorite event – high jump. “Since my freshman year I have always wanted to win...

Last week, coverage area teams competed in the 2024 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Track and Field State Championships. Results from the meets, held at the University of Kentucky, are as follows… Class A championships (Thursday, May 30) • Girls 4x800m relay - Williamsburg 13th place in 10:55.07 (Ryan Fields, Emaly Powers, Emma Moore and Tatum Croley) • Girls 100m hurdles - Lylah Mattingly (W’burg) 5th place in 15.91 • Boys 110m hurdles - Peyton Hamilton (W’burg) 14th place in 16.42 • Girls 4x200m relay - Williamsburg 11th place in 1:51.84 (Kaylee Rains, Lynsie Durham, Lillian Roark, Madison Peace) • Girls 1600m run - Tatum Croley (W’burg) 22nd place in 6:03.25 • Girls 4x100m relay -...

Corbin High School junior Jace Hatfield has a lot going on. He is a lineman on the Redhound football team. He throws shot put and discus for the school’s track and field team. He is an A student taking classes in HVAC repair, and oh yeah, he was recently recognized by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association as the Midway University Student-Athlete of the Year for archery. How does Hatfield feel about this recognition, and a wide range of other subjects? Read on to find out. Did you know that you were being considered for Athlete of the Year? I actually didn’t know. Our coaches went through the KHSAA, and they picked...