The Five Future Boys Stars Of The 2019 Season: No. 3

Aug 07, 2019

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*This week MileSplit USA will spotlight five underclassman athletes (girls and boys) with already large resumes who will head into the 2019 cross country season with ridiculous potential.*

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University High's (WV) Larry Josh Edwards sits top 10 on almost every returning distance list.

The rising sophomore had a stellar freshman cross country campaign, which included top-10 finishes at some of the Northeast's biggest meets. One of his biggest early season performances was a second-place finish at Penn State's Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational. He ran 16 minutes flat. He continued to show consistency time-wise from there, clocking a 16:01.00 at the 26th Annual Carlisle Invitational, a 16:07.78 at the West Virginia State XC Championships, and a 16:22.10 at the Foot Locker South Regional.

His performance at the state meets earned him runner-up in the Class AAA boys division behind only Wheeling Park's (WV) Ronnie Saunders, who graduated this past spring. His time of 16:22.10 in roug...