Track/Cross Country

After recent regional track and field meets, several coverage area athletes have qualified for state competition. Those who will be making the trip to Lexington for the 2023 Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s state track and field championships are: From Williamsburg… Lylah Mattingly in the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles Madison Peace in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter dash Alana Mah in the high jump, triple jump and long jump Robel Schwarz in the 1600-meter and 800-meter run Nate Goodin in the long jump and high jump Ben Hale in the 100-meter and 400-meter dash Chase Meddles in the 400-meter dash Alex Gamble in the shot put Joseph West in the discus...

On Thursday, June 1, the Williamsburg track and field team will make their annual trip to Lexington to compete in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s Class A state championship meet at the University of Kentucky. It will mark 50 years since a group of Yellow Jackets made the same trip in 1973, and came home with what is still the school’s only state team title. “We should have won it two years in a row,” said John Jeffries, who placed second in the quarter-mile and half-mile races for the state championship squad. “We actually had a better team my junior year, but we had some bad luck with getting...

When it comes to distance running, it is important to not get ahead of yourself and end up going faster than you’re comfortable with. If you do, then fatigue will quickly set in and you may find yourself having to drop out of a race completely. The same basic principle applies to creating art, with the artist needing to take his or her time to ensure that a drawing, painting, sculpture, etc. is done right, as opposed to just being done quickly. Williamsburg junior Ryan Fields knows all about the type of sustained effort that is required to be successful in the above-mentioned activities. As a distance runner for the Yellow...

Being a student-athlete is no easy feat. Being a successful student-athlete is even harder. Breaking records on the playing field while earning academic honors in the classroom? Well, any young man or woman who can accomplish that is truly special. For Whitley County High School junior Canaan Parsons, the hard work he has put into his athletic and academic careers are paying some pretty big dividends. Recently, he was one of several WCHS students to be inducted into the National Honor Society, a designation reserved only for high schoolers who are able to maintain at least a 4.0 GPA. As impressive as Parsons’ classroom achievements have been, he has also managed...

Abby Mabe has had an amazing career as a runner at Lynn Camp High School. In 2018, as an eighth grader, she placed fifth overall at the cross country region championships with a time of 23:04.06. She has managed to best herself every year since, and she will be hoping to do so again this weekend when she travels back to Monticello to defend her Class A regional championship title. After her top five finish as a middle schooler four years ago, Mabe returned as a freshman in 2019 and placed fourth at the region meet, crossing the finish line with a time of 22:38.59. As a sophomore in 2020,...

It was a big week for area track and field programs, with athletes from Corbin and Williamsburg High Schools winning state championship titles in Lexington on Thursday and Friday. At Thursday’s Class A meet, Williamsburg senior Bronson Bates secured a state title for the Yellow Jackets when he threw the shot put 50 feet and 3.5 inches on his final throw of the day. “I just gave it my all, and tried to throw it as hard as I could,” Bates said of the championship winning toss. “The trip up there was a lot of fun. I got beat at the region meet, so I had a little bit of a...

(Story by Trevor Sherman) The 2022 KHSAA state track and field championships are slated to get underway this week in Lexington, and there are several athletes from our coverage area who will be taking part. In the Class A meet scheduled for Thursday, Williamsburg High School will be sending two teams of runners to compete in both the boys and girls 4x800-meter relay. Lylah Mattingly will run in the girls 100-meter hurdles, while Hunter Thomas will appear in the boys 110-meter hurdles event. Madison Peace has qualified to run in the girls 100-meter dash for Williamsburg, and teammate Martin Shannon will compete in the same event on the boys’ side. Lynn Camp’s Abby Mabe...

(Story by Trevor Sherman) Fans of Corbin Redhound athletics will surely remember the names Hailey Martin and Cora Bo Stevens. Martin, a 2017 graduate from CHS, set multiple school records during her time as a track and field athlete, making history by qualifying for KHSAA state competition in four separate events as a senior: 100m hurdles, 300m hurdles, 100m dash and 200m dash. She medaled in three out of the four events. Stevens, a 2018 CHS grad, also broke records in track and field during her time as a Running Redhound, specializing in relays. She was also a multiple-time region champion in tennis, and was part of two 50th District championship basketball...

Local high school cross country teams have a lot to live up as they are preparing for the 2021 season. Corbin Coach Tyler Harris said the “Runnin’ Redhounds” currently have six boys and seven girls slated to run at the varsity level. The boys’ team is two years removed from a team state championship and are the defending state runners-up. In 2020, both Corbin teams were regional runners-up and went on to compete at the state meet. “I’m looking with some of the returning runners it is going to be good to have that experience,” Harris said noting that several of his runners were on the state championship and/or state runner-up teams. Harris said...

Williamsburg’s Nevaeh Warren and Mikkah Siler recently signed to compete in track and field at the University of the Cumberlands. Warren finished sixth in the Girl’s 800-Meter Run at the Class A state track meet. Siler finished second in the Girls’ High Jump and fourth in the Girl’s 400-Meter Run at the same meet. Siler and Warren also competed on Williamsburg’s Girls’ 4x400 Meter Relay Team that finished fifth at the state competition. Joining Warren and Siler for the signing were Williamsburg Track Coaches Josh Patrick and John Harris and UC Coach Randy Greer.