More Honors For Adam

Adam Visokay is in the running for the ESPNHS-Gatorade Virginia Cross Country Runner of the Year. Stay tuned, and vote often.
May have to scroll down to the VA item, posted on Dec. 16th. Adam is one of six boys considered for this annual honor.
VA Player of the Year

Adam Visokay, All-American

Got This One From Milestat.com

Adam capped an incredible senior cross country season with a tenth place finish at the Nike Cross Country National Championships in Portland, Oregon. With his patented closing kick, Adam finished with a time of 15:38, taking the top spot of all SouthEast Regional runners. Congratulations Adam, you have represented your team in the most incredible manner.
Results
Boys Championship Race Video
Milestat Article
Daily Progress Article
Channel 19 Coverage
Interview
Adam's Post-Race Interview
Award Ceremony - Boys Individual Top 10

Nike Promo Photo

Nike Videos

Individual Awards
Boys Open Race
Ciera Interview
Championship Race Footage
The candy canes had the announcer fooled. Adam was announced as Sam Robinson (poser).

Adam Visokay Advances to Portland

Senior Captain Adam Visokay placed second overall at the Nike Southeast Regionals Saturday, and qualified to advance to the National Championships on the Nike Campus in Portland, OR on Saturday December 3rd. His time of 15:08 shaved a full eight seconds off his PR, and is now the sixth fastest time ever run by a high school student athlete on the Cary, NC course. Adam's 15:16 at the Great American XC Festival earlier in the season is still among the top 20 all-time finishes. Adam will fly out to Portland Thursday, for an all-expense paid trip to the west coast. Congratulations Adam, on an incredible year, and best wishes on Saturday.

More posts to follow this week, including links for the live video feed of the National Championship race, and mid-race updates from Adam's timing chip.

Daily Progress Article

Nike Southeast Regionals Championship

The AHS boys team finished fourth at the Nike SE Regional Championships in Cary, NC Saturday. Led by Senior Captain Adam Visokay's second place finish, the team greatly improved upon their 21st place finish last year. Ryan Thomas and Ben Deal were both under 16 minutes with times of 15:50.0 and 15:54.20. Chris Springer ran a 16:31.20, and Will Hunt rounded out the scoring with a 16:59.90. Zach Gentry (17:34.70) and Aaron Elder (17:43.40) finished 6-7 for the team. The team average of 16:05.12 was a second and a half better than the third place team. AHS was predicted to finish 6th or seventh in the most competitive field ever at the SE Regional. The fourth place finish put them in the running for an at-large bid to the finals. Congrats to the team, and to Senior Will Hunt for breaking 17 on his last race.

Nike SE Regionals Open Race

The Varsity B team took a respectible 14th place in the Open Boys race. This was the largest race of the day, and the squad finished with a season best spread of 26 seconds. David Kwiatkowski lead the group with a 17:35.50 finish. Guillome Bailey and Rowen Perry finished with 17:40.10 and 17:41.60 respectively. Senior Captain Zach Coffman broke 18 with a 17:54.70. Sam Gillespie and Alex Levine came across in 18:01.00 and 18:11.90. For Guillome, Rowen, Zach and Alex this race concludes their AHS XC careers.

Team Stats

The full roster with the race results from the whole season has been uploaded to google docs. Click on the link to access:
Team Stats

Photos From Nike

At the link you will find an album of photos from the Open Race, Championship Race and the award ceremony for the Nike Southeast Regionals:
Nike SE Regionals Photos

Final Ragged Mountain Poll

The cross country season nears the end with the final Ragged Mountain Central Virginia XC Poll. Thanks go out to Alec Lorenzoni for coordinating, compiling and publishing the Poll. Thanks also to the Daily Progress for annually promoting the sport of XC.

Photo by Sabrina Schaeffer/Daily Progress



The All-Central Virginia Boys XC Team for 2011 features five AHS runners.
All-Central VA Boys Team
The final Poll:
November 22 RM Poll

Photo by Sabrina Schaeffer/Daily Progress

Adam Visokay was selected Boys XC Runner of the Year:
XC Runner of the Year

Finally, Alec wrote a wonderful article for the Progress talking about the great season area teams and runners had in 2011.
Special Season

Mark Lorenzoni is Awesome

Mark has contributed so much to the Charlottesville running community. Here is his take on the State Meet:

On Saturday morning at The Great Meadows steeplechase course outside Warrenton, Lindy Bain’s Western squad and Buz Male’s Albemarle boys both finished runner-up in their respective divisions at the VHSL State Championships. It was the highest finish in school history for the Patriots as their front runners had one awesome showing. Amazingly they actually placed their first three guys (Adam Visokay third, Ben Deal ninth and Ryan Thomas 10th) ahead of Stafford’s first runner but, alas, the beauty of cross country is that all five count. So by the time all of their runners were in, Albemarle was a mere 20 points down. It was both heartbreaking and incredibly impressive at the same time for Male and his mighty squad. They’ve had a season for the ages as they were led by the talented, steady and ever modest Visokay at every single meet. They only lost to one Virginia school, that being Stafford, all season long and they finished standing on the highest Group AAA tier ever at the State podium! Male’s legacy is simply amazing as he has left an indelible mark at every school he’s coached over the past 35 years and this group of really great guys is most certainly one of his finest squads. These young harriers have so much to be proud.

Here is the link to the full post:
Daily Run Blog
And here is Mark's podcast covering the same race (worth a listen, as always):
11/17 Runcast