HOKA flrunners.com Invitational Virtual Meet Boys Preview

HOKA FLRUNNERS.COM INVITATIONAL 23
MileSplit Staff


Virtual meet projection for the high school girls teams and runners competing at this weekend's HOKA flrunners.com Invitational at Holloway Park in Lakeland, which was rescheduled two weeks later after Hurricane Ian. The meet will be headlined by the FL #1 ranked Belen Jesuit boys, who will have a couple elite individuals in the field to try and break up their top 7 which all broke 16 minute slast weekend at FSU Pre-State Invitational including Braxton Legg of Cambridge Christian and Riley Novack of Montverde Academy.

The Ruiz twins Joshua and Joseph will try to go 1-2 together for Belen Jesuit at Holloway Park, while Legg and Novack have both run well in the 15 minute range to press them. With the meet being two weeks later than usual, the temperatures should be cooler and more ideal for fast times to see potentially the course record set last year by Belen Jesuit's Adam Magoulas of 15:30 challenged.

A quality group of teams behind Belen Jesuit will be battling for the runner-up trophy including Cambridge Christian, Fort Myers, Oviedo, and Mater Lakes Academy.

All boys teams that have top 5 season best team averages under 19:15 are are eligible to compete in the Race of Champions on Saturday morning. The rest of the varsity teams can either compete in Friday afternoon's high school races or Saturday morning's Jason Byrne Invitational race that immediately follows the Race of Champion division races. No race declaration needed with open starting boxes on the line for all races. 

Important information below on parking and entrance points into Holloway Park this weekend. 

General Parking

$10 per car. Spectators please use the Lakeland Highlands entrance: 3050 Lakeland Highland Rd. Lakeland, FL 33803

All cars, even those transporting athletes, will be charged. The only exception is a coach with an FHSAA Identification card.

Buses/Team Vans

Only use the Hwy 98 entrance: 2402 Holloway Park Dr. Lakeland, FL 33803Team buses and vans parking will be on the left side of the park road after going thru the gates, across from lake.