As middle school sports in Fairfax County Public Schools are being phased into competition for the 2023-24 school year and beyond, cross country is the one sport underway during the current fall season.
On a recent Saturday morning, three big middle-school meets, which included multiple teams at each, were held at county middle-schools Franklin in Falls Church, Key in Springfield and Liberty in Clifton.
There were girls and boys races for seventh and eighth graders, and some combined races, as well. Hundreds of runners ran in the meets.
Runners from a number of schools in the GazetteLeader’s coverage areas, like Cooper in McLean, Thoreau in Vienna, Kilmer in Vienna and Longfellow in the McLean, Falls Church area, participated. Some 20 different schools entered runners.
There was a large contingent of runners from Cooper Middle School at the Key venue. The distance of the races was about 3,000 meters.
Kilmer’s Matteo Lambert and Nicholas Seghezzi were listed as the first two finishing runners in one of the boys races, Longfellow’s Grant Dougherty won another boys event, with Thoreau’s Allison Krog taking second in a girls race.
One of the boys races at Franklin had 98 runners listed as finishers and a girls race at Key had 74 timed finishers.
Full results from those three races can be found at Windsorrunning.com.
More middle-school races were held durng the now completed fall season.
