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Youth track runs into season
The Chantilly Youth Association organized the April 13 Hannah Skym Invitational track meet, which was attended by nearly 100 of Loudoun's young athletes at Chantilly High School.Leesburg-based Special Forces Track and the Northern Virginia Athletic Club, with branches in Ashburn and Purcellville, began their seasons at the meet.
The athletes, whose ages ranged from 8 to 18, included 9-year-old Janay Jackson, a second-place finisher in his age group for the mile and the 800-meter run.
Nick Arnold and Jessica Rolle, who, like Jackson, participated with Special Forces, took firsts for their age and gender in the 100-meter dash.
Special Forces member and Junior Olympian Steven Fields got in some work at the meet, which for many is the prelude to the Allen Johnson Invitational in Fairfax on April 19.
Johnson, an alumnus of Lake Braddock High School, won Olympic gold in the 1996 Atlanta Games for the 110-meter high hurdles.
The invitational was named this year in honor of Hannah Skym, a sufferer of opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder. Proceeds from the event benefit research to counter that disease.
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