Track and Field: Special Forces/Briar Woods Phenom Leach Sets Two PRs in PA Meet; Track Club Having Good Summer at All Age Levels

Leach stands tall on the podium!

(July 18, 2011) - Special Forces Track Club and rising Briar Woods High School track phenom Shaquera Leach blazed her way to two PRs and three medals at the United States Age Group Track Coaches Association Youth Invitational in Chester, Pa. Leach won the 200 meters with a personal best 24.38 and chopped three seconds off her best 400 meters mark with a 55.46 and turned in a 12.19 in the 100.


Special Forces Blaze at USATF Regionals and Cliff Wiley Invitational
Led by sprinter Jasmine Hill, Special Forces continues to build momentum heading to a AAU Junior Olympics showdown against the nation in New Orleans. Hill set the tone blazing to a new PR in the 400m with a 58.4 finish in Atlanta, Georgia.

Over the weekend, Hill followed up by winning the 200m and 400m in 26.2 and 58.2 respectively. Other Gold Medal and Silver standouts at the Cliff Wiley Invitational held in Baltimore, Maryland were Darron Coley, Beau Everett, Mark Melbourne, Miles Howard, Taunysha Bailey, Sidney Webb, and Bryson Riddick as they swept through the 100, 200, 400, 800, and high jump respectively.

Hershey North American Championships
Sprint sensation and current record holder in the 50m, and 400m, Beau Everett will represent Special Forces and Loudoun County at the North American Championships to be held in Hershey, Pa. August 6th. Everett currently runs a 7.3 in the 50m and a 1.06 in the 400m at he 9-10 year old division.

Football: Savage Steps Down from Flint Hill Coaching Staff to Concentrate on Family as Well as Mercury Speed Unlimited and Special Forces Track Club and

Nick Savage

(Sept. 1, 2010) - For the first time in a dozen years Leesburg resident and local business leader Nick Savage finds himself not coaching on the football sidelines as he announced this week that he was not returning to the Flint Hill coaching staff in order to concentrate on family as well as his Mercury Speed Unlimited Inc. business and Special Forces Track Club he runs.

Savage had coached for four years in the CYFL and AYFL local football leagues and then eight years at the high school level, the past four at Flint Hill in Oakton where he served at various times as quarterback coach, defensive back and speed and specialties coach.

"Leaving coaching in the fall is like cutting off my right arm, but supporting my family is like breathing," Savage told VivaLoudoun. "I need to spend time with the family, supporting my wife, kids and my surrogate kids while I they play or act. I also need to take more time with my businesses and get back in the community."