Michael Spooner

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Mike Spooner had a very long and successful high school career as he made his name known at the state level for 3200 meters as an underclassmen (9:18 as a sophomore). Spooner claimed a total of three Group AAA state titles (1 indoor, 2 outdoor) in the 3200 meter run and won a total of five Northern Region titles including an incredible three consecutive outdoor 3200 titles from 2005-2007. Spooner (pictured left by John Herzog) twice earned All-American honors in the Nike Nationals with top six finishes in the two mile run indoors and 5000 meter run outdoors. The 2007 graduate of West Springfield High School set the Northern Region Indoor meet record in the 3200 meter run in 9:13 and posted personal bests of 4:13 for 1600 meters, 8:33 for 3000 meters, 9:08 for 3200 meters, and 15:01 for 5000 meters in high school.   Spooner currently runs as the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Final 2007 outdoor track rankings for the Virginia Group AAA boys. Event rankings are 50 deep (or as deep as # of performances). Also in a first for MileStat.com, All-MileStat.com Team award winners are going to be extended to each classification (private, A, AA, and AAA). Sean Holston  (pictured right by John Herzog) has been named athlete of the year for Group AAA Boys. Holston fell short of a state meet triple again in the sprints as well as a second national title in the 400 meter dash at Nike Nationals, but still had an amazing spring campaign which included nationally ranked times in the 400 (US #4 46.47) and 200 (US #12 21.07) meter dashes as well as state titles in those events and a runner-up finish at Nike Outdoor Nationals in 400 meter dash. 

2007 All-MileStat.com Outdoor Track Team selections for the distance boys with athletes chosen to the first, second, and third teams. Top 100 state rankings per event are also included. No athletes will be selected in more than one event to make the team more inclusive. End of season performances carried the most weight in the selection process, but were not the only determining factor. Peter Dorrell of Blacksburg, who became the first Group AA male to win all three distance races at the Group AA State Outdoor Championships, was named the 2007 All-MileStat.com boys' distance runner of the year. UPDATE: All individual write-ups are now posted.

4:21 is only good enough for 7th at Nike Spring Invite 1600 Mike Spooner of West Springfield and Chris Tyson of West Springfield worked out a pre-race plan to take the first 800 meters out together in 2:04 and then Tyson would push the third lap in hopes of both attaining personal best times and possibly a run at a sub 4:10. Neither was able to come close to breaking 4:10, but Spooner earned a PR in a 4:13.31 win and their bold racing strategy made the rest of the field come along for the ride with 7 runners at 4:21 or faster for one of the deepest races one will find in Virginia in the distance event. Check out the race video!  (Photo by Brandon Miles)  One of the biggest weekends so far with the number of invitationals being held across the state this weekend, so please be patient as we try to digest it all! MileStat.com's Brandon Miles tried his best to be everywhere by attending three meets in two days with the Fluvanna Invitational on Friday night, Gar-Field Invitational on Saturday, and Nike Spring Invitational on Saturday Night. Photos and video are forthcoming from all three meets by Brandon Miles as well as photos from other selected meets by MileStat.com contributors. Meet directors please email us your meet results. Results posted so far from Caroline Inv, Draper Invitational, EMU HS Qualifier, Five Forks Track Classic, Fluvanna Invite, Gar-Field Invite, Landstown Invite, Lee-Davis Subvarsity Invite, Lynchburg All-Area Meet, Nike Spring Invite, Suffolk Invite, Times-News Relays, T.C. Williams Invite, and VMI High School Classic. Check back Sunday for more results and throughout the week for more coverage from this past weekend with performances, meet summaries, photos, and videos to be added.  Tuesday's focus of site work will be on capturing, editing, and uploading of video and pics from Fluvanna, Gar-Field, and Nike Spring.

Scudieri Team Challenge Highlights: Many stellar performances at the Scudieri Team Challenge at West Potomac High Schook, despite the meet went head to head with the Metro Run & Walk Northern Virginia Invitaitonal to spread out the Northern Region talent between the two meets. W.T. Woodson's Sarrah Hadiji (pictured right by Brandon Miles), fresh off a European spring vacation, showed she obviously stayed fit while on the other side of pond with a state leading time of 5:08.22 in the 1600 meter run and doubled back for a 2:20.25 meter run as two-time 3200 meter state champion sharpens up for the longer event and the 3K at Penn Relays. Robert E. Lee senior Sean Holston, fresh off his MVP 400 and 200 meter double at the Mobile Challenge of Champions in Alabama, came back to Virginia to put on a show for the home crowd with a 21.52 clocking in the 200 meter dash. Complete results and all performances are posted from Scudieri. Full meet summary...

"Matka (Polish for mother)! I'm going to be a Vol!" is a likely phone call that Fork Union senior Axel Mostrag made to his mother back home in Poland this week. Another big committment has came in a short time span among Virginia's best this week after Sean Holston announced today that he'll be attending Florida State and now Fork Union middle distance star Axel Mostrag has made his college decision. Mostrag, the Nike Indoor Nationals champion for 800 meters, will be coached by past Virginia high school prep great George Watts (Thomas Edison HS) at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Tennessee had already picked up another one of Virginia's top distance harriers earlier in the year with West Springfield senior and Footlocker finalist Mike Spooner signing with the Volunteers. Mostrag has personal bests of 1:50.60 for 800 meters, 2:26.11 for 1000 meters, 3:52.20 for 1500 meters, and 4:13.42 for 1600 meters. Both Mostrag and Holston have yet to sign their letters of intent, but have made their verbal committments to Tennessee and Florida State respectively.

Video interview by Brandon Miles with West Springfield senior Mike Spooner, who earned All-American honors in the two mile run at Nike Indoor Nationals with a personal best time of 9:12.07 for two miles, which converts to a 3200 meter time of 9:08.67. Spooner joins a small few of past Virginians in recent history that have ran under 9:10 for 3200 meters indoors.

West Springfield senior Mike Spooner found himself stuck in a strategic and kicker\'s race in the elite high school mile at New Balance Games halfway through the race. He decided to go for it and shoot to the lead on the back stretch of the banked 200 meter track found at the New York Armory with less than a half mile left in the race. However, Spooner\'s leading duties were short lived as he was over taken a pack of runners on the next lap. He was still able to hold onto a sixth place finish and run an indoor personal best time of 4:20.45 for a full mile (converts to a 4:18.85 1600 meter time).

West Springfield senior Mike Spooner is set to compete in a high caliber field of some of the East Coast\'s best prep milers on Saturday at the 12th annual New Balance Games held at the Armory in New York City. Spooner ran 4:16 for 1600 meters and 4:17 for a full mile last spring as a junior. He is coming off a strong cross country season, which included a state championship and appearance at Footlocker Nationals in San Diego.

On the same track that Sean Holston ran a US #1 500 meter dash time of 1:03.93 at last weekend\'s F.I.T. Invitational, he did it again with another national leading time in the event he considers his specialty in the 300 meter dash. At the Southern Maryland Mega Meet held at Prince George County\'s Sports and Learning Complex, the Robert E. Lee senior put his name on the national leaderboard once again on an unbanked track with a 33.99 clocking in the event.

The All-MileStat.com Boys Cross Country Team has been selected for the 2006 season. Awards were given out to runner of the year, coach of the year, freshmen of the year, most improved runner of the year, and comeback story of the year. Also being named were first, second, and third teams consisting of seven members for each team. Performances throughout the season were looked at with championship and post-season races being given stronger, but not ultimate consideration. The very unpredictable and inconsistent nature of the sport on a week to week basis makes any selections tough to break down into a science, but our hope is the main goal of trying to give as much as recognition as possible to individuals in the sport is noted and appreciated.

Virginia will have four representatives in Saturday\'s Foot Locker Nationals held at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The lone female among the Virginians is Aurora Scott as the homeschooled junior from Chesapeake has a strong chance at becoming the first Foot Locker Nationals champion from the state of Virginia as well as the South region since 1986. Meanwhile, Abingdon junior Griff Graves and West Springfield senior Mike Spooner have All-American top 15 aspirations and higher in the 40 runner field for the boys. Mountain View sophomore Thomas Porter will be getting valuable early experience on Saturday at Balboa as only one of a few underclassmen who have qualified for the race among the four Foot Locker regions.

MileStat.com\'s Brandon Miles interviews West Springfield senior Mike Spooner after earning his first trip to Footlocker Nationals with a fifth place finishing run of 15:06 at Footlocker South in Charlotte, North Carolina. Spooner was the second finisher of three Virginians who qualified for San Diego.

Foot Locker South is coming up this weekend as McAlpine Greenway Park in Charlotte, North Carolina will host the best cross country runners from the 14 state region with state of Virginia bringing in some of the best that the South has to offer.

MileStat.com\'s Brandon Miles interviewed AAA state individual boys champion Mike Spooner of West Springfield as well as member of the AAA state champion and NTN bound Midlothian boys in All-State individual (8th) Jonathan Mellis. Sorry for lack of more interviews but filming during the races when A and AA races prevented me from getting more with most teams leaving after the AAA races. Maybe VHSL could do the awards all at once next year!

MileStat.com\'s Brandon Miles interviews Northern Region individual champions Mike Spooner of West Springfield and Sarrah Hadiji of W.T. Woodson at the 2006 Northern Region Cross Country Championships held at Burke Lake Park in Fairfax Station, Virginia on Thursday, November 2nd.

SAT\'s and homecoming dates had plenty of runners at this year\'s Glory Days Grill Invitational held at Bull Run Regional Park attempting a juggling act and being crunched for time on a pleasant and Sunny Saturday. Thankfully, a fast 5K course layout allowed runners to finish their races quickly to head off to the next destination.