Lynchburg – Brenden Fariss capped off a highly competitive second season on Varsity Track 👣 and Field Saturday afternoon at Liberty University by participating in the Class 3 High Jump.
Fariss started his Track 👣 and Field career as an 8th grader on the Middle School team coached by Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp. Year three in the business ended with the Sophomore winning the Three Rivers District crown 👑 and qualifying for State on the same day.
” Brenden is a well rounded athlete,” said Jon Delp. ” He would be a perfect candidate for a decathlon if we held those in high school. One day he just decided to try the Long Jump and he looked like a natural.”
Fariss competed but did not qualify for the finals in his event but was soaking up the atmosphere at the event. With Class 3 and 4 competing at the same time, the sheer number of Athletes is breathtaking.
” I wasn’t able to jump as well as I would have liked today,” said Fariss. ” But I am happy to have been able to reach this level.”
Corrie Delp ran in the 100 meter dash after having qualified in the final spot at the Regional meet. The Long Jump is her bread 🍞 and butter 🧈 event, but getting to double dip was a little bonus for the Junior. Delp missed out on making it to the finals set for Saturday, the bright side of that being in won’t pull focus from the Long Jump trials.
Delp is three of three in regards to making it to State in the Long Jump but has yet to advance to the finals. That could very well change tomorrow as she is now jumping a full foot longer than last year.
Saturday morning at 9:30 will be the final time a Carroll County High School Student Athlete competes in a VHSL sanctioned event in the 2024 – 2025 season.
This post 📫 will be a day long one and then it will be reduced to a story that will fit into the Carroll News later.
It’s quite an accomplishment for a Student Athlete to reach the highest stage and the goal over the next two days will be to capture as much of the event through the eyes 👀 of both Fariss and Delp as well as Shawn Montgomery and Assistant Coach Jon Delp.
Fariss qualified in the High Jump the day of the District meet at Floyd County High School. The day was a double scoop of joy as the Cavalier also won 🏆the District Championship that day as well. His event will be right out of the gate today and in a matter of minutes, it will be over.
Our Coaches : Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp
Here on our site, today will be a Track 👣 and Field ONLY type of day. Anything else that comes up will take a back seat 💺 until tonight.
Fariss in action 🎬
Corrie Delp is back competing in two events this season as the Regional Champion in the Long Jump snuck in the final spot in the 100 Meters at the last possible point, last week in Christiansburg.
For those of you not as familiar with Track and Field, today is both the Class 3 and Class 4 State Meet. Liberty University will be filled with some of the fastest and strongest 💪 Student Athletes from across the Commonwealth. In the Field events, each athlete will receive three attempts in their sport in hopes of qualifying for the Finals.
On the track 👣 side, its a one and done with the same goal of qualifying for the finals. Schools 🏫 earn points for each athlete that places in the Top Nine after the finals.
Two years ago, then Senior, Elijah Smith reached the finals in his event and finished 10th in the State. One spot out of earning points for Carroll County High School.
Let’s look at some goals ahead of this afternoon. First, that both of our Student Athletes enjoy their moments in the Sun 🌞 (Temps in the High 80’s) and then that they perform to the best of their abilities.
For the Coaches, its my personal goal that Carroll County scores points between now and the end of Saturday afternoon.
Delp is primed to compete at the highest level and is jumping at her career best. Her latest mark of 17-7.5, 1/4 short of the School record.
More to follow !!! Much, Much more.
The tempature is flirting with 90° as the gates opened at 11am. One of the pics above shows this years design on the T-shirt 👕 and then our two Athletes listed on the back.
Coaches meeting starts at 11:30 am
The work space for Mr Fariss!
11:35 – end of Coaches meeting…
Side Note 📝 – its HOT 🔥 here..
Mr Fariss and Coach Delp !
26 Class 3 Boys, starting with 5’11. Each athlete gets three attempts. Fariss faulted on attempt #1.
Farris faulted in his second attempt but will have one more shot at clearing 5’11.
Fariss had his best form of the day in his third and final attempt but unfortunately he clipped the bar on the way down with his ankle. Our Sophomore has completed his stay at Liberty University but love the fact that he will be staying with the traveling team until the end of the day tomorrow.
Next up will be Corrie Delp in the 100 Meter trials. Roughly 2pm – ish.
Our duo…
2:55 update – Corrie Delp should be running 🏃♂️ here in the next 15 minutes !
3:05 – Hurdles still going on, still waiting..
3:15 – We have a Corrie sighting as her group is in the hole 🕳 (3rd group up)
3:32 – hurdles being removed now
Tomorrow’s schedule 📅
It reached 90° today and still sits at 86° at 5:15 pm. Our Cavaliers are headed back to their Hotel 🏨 now and tomorrow morning 🌄 it will be Miss Delp in her feature event, the Long Jump.
When we left the PT appointment on The Hill Wednesday morning, for the first time in a crazy, crazy Spring of trying to help 12 Carroll County High School sports teams, it felt like we had a big enough window to get Lin some quality time with our Grandchildren in Page County.
It happened to be that our long time friend, Alan Knight was hosting a Regional tournament semifinal game in a place where I called games for roughly a decade. It didn’t take any arm twisting when Lori Mongold asked me if I would be up to announcing the game for the Lady Panthers.
Pre-Game
It was a fun, fun night and the Lady Panthers won 2-1 to advance to the State Tournament next week. But at the end of the night 🌙 one thing was very obvious to me – I truly missed having Kevin Burress in the chair 💺 next to me.
Every sport is so very different in the approach to holding a 🎤🎙🎤 and Softball is one that is best done with a wing man 👨. I have been blessed with sharing the Press Box with Burress the past couple of years and I didn’t realize just how much until last night. I have to add that Tammy Tobler and when she’s in town, Macie Adkins add something special to the mix.
Friday morning 🌄 will be spent down (from here) at Liberty University alongside Corrie Delp and Brenden Fariss. In between now and then, Page County will host a Regional Championship game at Alan F Knight Field at 6pm.
Not sure if the stars will line up for that one or not, but if it does, I will be there without Mr Burress and that makes it a bit different.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 