Coverage
Holloway Park in Lakeland will be the site for a quadruple regional featuring 4A-2, 3A-2, 2A-3, and 1A-2. Flrunners.com will be on-site with video coverage by Todd Grasley and Billy Simpson, photos by Jeff Adams and Donald Lamb, race recaps by Andy Warrener, results, and much more! In the meantime check out our video previews of each race as well as how our virtual meet predicts each race playing out on both the individual and team front.
Oak Hall junior Grace Blair and Indian Rocks Christian junior Cooper LaBrant finished as regional runner-ups in 2015. One year later they both were victorious at Holloway Park with convincing wins of 19:15.30 and 17:04.21.
Donald Lamb was on-site at the 1A Region 2 Championship at Holloway Park and processed over 400 photos including this images of Olivia Rovin. Dawning the yellow S of Shorecrest Prep, Rovin's story is more like that of a superhero after being diagnosed with cancer at the start of 2015. The senior has since beaten the disease, went onto make the state meet in both cross country and track over the past year, and recently had her best regional cross country finish, crossing the line in second place at this year's meet.
Jeff Adams was on-site at the 1A Region 2 Championship at Holloway Park as part of our coverage team and took over 750 photos of the days' events including this shot of Oak Hall's Austin Montini and a pack of runners behind him. The group was all trying to catch "Mini Cooper" Cooper LaBrant of Indian Rocks Christian who pulled away early on in the race.
Grace Blair of Oak Hall and Cooper LaBrant of Indian Rocks Christian both finished second at last year's regional, but came away with gold in 2016. On the team front the Oak Hall girls achieved their goal of winning with less than 40 points, while the boys had it a little harder edging out St. Stephens Episcopal by THREE points 97-100. Andy Warrener recaps all the 1A Region 2 action.