Blake Heriot

With the conclusion of the OATCCC Indoor State Meet, see here for the current/updated All-Times lists for the top-25 performances ever in Ohio.

With adidas Nationals in a week we look at the best performances at NC A&T's venue's history.

Justin Braun, competing on behalf of the Ohio Heat, launched his indoor season at the Sharon-Colyear Danville Opener in Boston with a career best 60m mark.

The 2022 indoor track and field season got underway last weekend with Ohio-based meets plus competition taking place beyond state lines.

Top Ten Ohio Boys All-Time Indoor Performances- The Sprints & Hurdles

It was a big day at the University of Kentucky’s Nutter Fieldhouse and it had nothing to do with the ‘Cats match-up against Vanderbilt. Track and field was the main focus in this impressive facility and the results of todays meet showed why some of the best athletes in the country continue to come back to this meet. 

Each year, some of the best high school athletes in the nation make their way to the Bluegrass State for the UK High School Invitational and this year is no different. The meet consistently yields some of the best performances in the nation as the oval in the University of Kentucky’s Nutter Fieldhouse is a friendly 290-meters, which means fewer curves in all the races 200 meters and up. Last year, Tavaris Tate (Starkville, MS) and Takeia Pinckney (Columbia, GA) both scored US #1 performances for the entire indoor season, with Tate running 47.06 for 400 meters and Pinckney running 7.33 for 60 meters. In all, there were close to 20 different performances that ranked in the top 10 in the nation for the entire indoor season during last year’s edition, continuing an impressive tradition that keeps the talent level high each year.While the meet has consistently brought in several athletes that were clearly the best in their event nationally (Wayne Davis, Chalonda Goodman, and Jacquelyn Coward to name a few), this year the entries don’t pack so much star power, but there is depth in almost every event that should make for nationally-ranked results in all but a few of the events on the day.

A quick but terribly timed snow storm stymied some teams and athletes chance's of competing this weekend while others made the cold and dangerous trek to compete this weekend.

Neither Blake Heriot nor Brady Gehret had raced 300 meters before. Yet, in two different sections of the junior boys 300 they notched the two fastest times in the country this season.

College signings are always interesting to see, but everybody wonders why one athlete chose one schol and why another athlete chose a different school.  Inside you will find out why certain athletes chose the school that they did in their own words.  This article will be updated throughout February as more responses are returned.  

While the official start of the indoor season was two weeks ago, this weekend is usually the time that most teams decide to dust off the spikes and open up their season.  This weekend was full of new OH #1 and US Top 10 times.  

This week marks the end of the Cross Country season as the final national meet of the year, Foot Locker Nationals, took place at Balboa Park in San Diego.  Ohio's lone representative was Colby Alexander of Strongsville.

Blake Heriot of Gahanna Lincoln, the 2009 Ohio High School Division 1 State Champion in the 200m and 400m dash, has chosen to continue his education and track career at the University of Florida.

Ohio Sprinting Sensation, Blake Heriot recently narrowed his college list to five schools.  Heriot plans to make his final decision on where he will further his education during the Thanksgiving weekend.

The Top Five Boys Individual Races to watch in all divisions

National meets and the last in-state qualifier for the OATCCC Ohio Indoor State Championship Meet are in store for this edition of the weekend wrap up.  Ohio seemed to have a minimal amount of entries in the national meets, but there were still some top notch athletes trying to make their mark on the national scene.

With one month to go until the OATCCC Indoor State meet, many student athletes put up some great times and marks.  A total of 30 new Ohio #1 marks were set this weekend, with 25 of those marks being OATCCC Indoor State Meet events.

Kent State finally got to show off their new track at a high school meet and the competition proved that it was a fast track by setting eleven different Ohio leading marks.  Performance Lists now available

Several athletes who lay claim to US #1’s for the current indoor season will be descending upon Lexington, Kentucky this Saturday for the Annual UK High School Indoor Invitational. Due to the central location of the meet, the athletes come from as far south as Florida and Alabama and normally include a high-quality group of athletes from the Midwest as well. This year is no exception as the meet includes 5 athletes who currently hold US #1’s. (Pictured: duPont Manual senior Mary Grace Pellegrini)