The VaSID all-state track and field teams were announced last week and Roanoke College had several athletes honored. After reaching the NCAA Indoor Championship and again at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, RC track and field team member Brady Fowler and the Maroons’ 4x100m Relay team have been named to the VaSID Men’s College Division Track & Field All-State Team.
Fowler, who qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championship this season in both the 100m and 200m, was a First Team All-State selection in the Sprints categories and he teamed up with Samuel Crawford, Joseph Eldridge, and Aidan Spradlin to earn Second Team All-State in the 4×100. Including both indoor and outdoor seasons, Fowler broke several school records and rebroke his own, including the new 100m outdoor record in 10.50 seconds.The relay team won the ODAC title with a time of 41.22. For the women, Mikayla Hefferon was named to the VaSID All-State First Team after her performance at the 2023 ODAC Championship. Hefferson won the 400m with a time of of 57.47 to help the Maroons to a third place finish at the ODAC Outdoor Championship. This helped her be named First Team All-ODAC.