Athlete of the Week - Zach Tennant

The AotW for June 8th-14th is Zach Tennant of North Marion High School. Zach earns his award (his 3rd in the last 5 weeks...) by virtue of his invasion of Virginia over the weekend. He attended the Milesplit.com Elite Gala and dominated the 1500m in a time of 3:54.89. Mr. Tennant is coached by Josh Simpson and is headed to William & Mary this Fall. Kudos to him for pursuing post-State Meet competition and for his stellar times. I've heard that he is going to run at Nike Outdoor Nationals later this month. Zach narrowly beat out some of the great performances down in Huntington over the weekend. Noteables were Bubby Dent who ran 15:59 at the age of 42, Andrew Benford who won the event, and Jacob Burcham who ran 16:32 at 1/3 the age of Mr. Dent. Tip of the cap to Pat Riley for putting on a first-class event and hopefully starting a new, yearly big-time race in WV.

This week will continue a great streak of WV running action with the NCAA T&F Championships starting on Wednesday and the Festival of Excellence up in Toronto on Thursday, in both events we'll have athletes up against some of the best in the world.