Track/Cross Country

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.

Corbin’s Sean Simons and Williamsburg’s Mikkah Siler highlighted local track and field competitors’ efforts at the state track meets last week in Lexington. In the Class 2A competition on Friday, Simmons finished second in the boys’ 800-meter run to lead the Runnin’ Redhounds fifth place effort. Simmons ran the 800 meters in 1:57.33, which was one of the top 10 times in the state. The team of Andon Asher, Connor Messer, John Hail and Sean Simons finished fourth in the 4x800 meter relay with a time of 8:27.20. Evan McCrickard’s time of 11.11 in the boys’ 100-meter dash was one of the top 25 times run in the state and good enough to...

Corbin’s Running Redhounds have secured their bid to the state tournament after finishing second at the regional tournament in Harlan on June 2. The men’s team ranked second out of 13 teams with a total of 137 points. The women matched the men’s ranking by also coming in second with a total of 78.5 points. A total of 30 students will participate in the state tournament. “We are in a really tough region,” said Corbin High School Track and Field Coach Tyler Harris. “The last several years, state champs have come out of this region, so for us to be runner-up, all the hard work that we put into it, this just...

Williamsburg will be sending 32 competitors to the Class A state track meet on Thursday in Lexington. The Jackets and Lady Jackets teams both won the Region Six Team Championship, capturing individual titles in 12 events. Williamsburg Boy’s Team Rankings Final team rankings Final team rankings 1. Williamsburg (149 points) 2. Middlesboro (88 points) 3. Somerset (85 points) 4. Leslie County (70 points) Individual results (state qualifiers in bold) 100 Meter Dash 3. Jayden Rainwater 4. Gavon Thomas 200 Meter Dash 1. Jayden Rainwater 2. Gavon Thomas 800 Meter Run 2. Robel Schwarz 4. Nick Baird 1600 Meter Run 1. Robel Schwarz 7. Andrew Myers 3200 Meter Run 4. Andrew Myers 6. Nick Baird 110 Meter Hurdles 3.Hunter Thomas 5. Max Rose 300 Meter Hurdles 3. Max Rose 5. Hunter Thomas 4X100 Meter Relay 1. Williamsburg (Max Rose, Ben Hale, Jayden...

After last week’s ruling from the Kentucky High School Athletic Association that they would move forward with their plan to begin fall athletics in early September, there was much speculation about whether Gov. Andy Beshear would override the decision during his Monday press briefing. As it turns out, Beshear decided to not reverse the KHSAA’s decision, but he also made it clear that he does not think it is wise for schools to allow athletic competitions to resume at this point in time, explaining that we are currently in a perilous situation where the number of new cases of COVID-19 could begin to spike again if we make the mistake...