Grady Track & Field: Welcome

Welcome to the official web site for the boys track & field team at Henry Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is a site for the team's runners, parents and fans to follow Grady's track team.

You can find news about the team, including, school records and previous seasons' performances, under the News/Team History button to the left. Links to the state's track & field site, the dyestat national track site and videos of great performances, statistics, training tips and injury prevention under the Videos, Stats, and Training Tips link.

Grady has an additional website on the gatfxc.com state track website. That address is www.milesplit.com/teams/GA/Grady/. On this site, any performances meeting the state elite performance guidelines will be followed and tracked by athlete and by relay teams

2012 Track Schedule-Tentative

Jan. 23-1st day of practice

Tues. Feb. 21-Westlake Early Bird @ Westlake 

Sat. Mar. 3-Panther Relays @ Starr's Mill

Tues. Mar. 6-Grady Opener (Mays, Arabia Mountain, Westlake, Banneker and Druid Hills) @Grady

Sat. Mar. 10-Jerry Arnold Challenge/Carrollton Relays

Tues. Mar. 13-Historic Boys High Challenge (Redan,Washington, Berkmar, Columbia (girls), Maynard Jackson (boys), MLK (boys)) @Grady

Sat. Mar. 17-Stephenson Invitational @ Panthersville

Wed. Mar. 21-St. Pius Quad @ St. Pius

Tues-Thurs Mar. 27,28,29-Atlanta Track Classic (City Championship) @ Lakewood

Sat. Mar. 31-Perk It Up Classic@Lovejoy

Sat. April 7-Peachtree Ridge Invitational @Peachtree Ridge

Week of Apr. 9-possible weather cancellation make-up date 

Tues-Thurs. April 17, 18, 19-Region 5AAA@Lakewood

Sat. April 28-Class AAA West Sectional, Regions 4,5,6,7 @ Carrollton 

Thurs-Sat. May 10,11,12-State Track Meet @ Jefferson

2012 Key returnees

12 Zane Coburn-800, 1600, 4x400

12 Jericho Smith-300 hurdles, 110 hurdles, triple jump, high jump, 4x100, 4x400

12 Gray Quiller-100, 200, long jump, 4x100, 4x400

12 Hughston Leaks-110 hurdles, 300 hurdles, long jump, 4x100, 4x400

11 Shomari Gervin-Pole Vault, long jump, 200, 400, 4x100, 4x400

10 Felton Gray-High jump, triple jump

11 Jawayln Brooks-Pole Vault

12 Rosi Stevens-100, 4x100

12 Tirie Williams-110 hurdles

11 Corwin Rich-110 hurdles, 300 hurdles

10 Tony Wilborn-400, 4x400

2011 Season Highlights

Zane Coburn-State Champion 800 meters, state bronze medalist 1600 meters

4x100-8th place Hoderick Lowe, Rosi Stevens, Jesse Taylor, Gray Quiller

Region 5AAA 3rd Place

Atlanta Track Classic 1st Place

Stephenson Invitational 3rd Place

Grady Boys Track Team State finishes

2011-12th Place AAA
2006-5th Place AA
2005-AA State Runner-up
2004-4th Place AA
2003-3rd Place AA
2002-6th Place AA
2001-3rd Place AA
2000-3rd Place AA
1999-6th Place AA

Grady Girls Track Team State finishes
2006-5th Place AA
1988-AA State Champions

Setting the pace with strong scoring on Day One, the Grady boys captured their first ever Atlanta Track Classic title by defeating several-time defending champion Carver at home at Grady Stadium.

Sophomores and first-year pole vaulters Shomari Gervin and Jawayln Brooks set the tone by going 1 and 2 in their event with prs of 11-6 for Gervin and 10-6 for Brooks to net 18 points, which by the end of the meet, proved to be the edge the Knights needed to hold off Carver by a score of 124.50 to 112.50.

Junior Jericho Smith, voted the meet's most valuable athlete for combined track and field events, won the high jump and placed third in the triple jump. Smith, who transferred this season from Douglass, is having a standout season in his first year at Grady. He also captured a silver medal in the 300 meter hurdles, an event, which earlier this season he ran a Class AAA-leading time of  39.34. Senior Juwan Scroggins, last year's triple jump champion, added 5 points in the event with his fourth place finish.

Junior Zane Coburn and freshman Bailey Roth kicked off the running events scoring on Day Two with first and second place finishes in the 1600. Roth ran a season's best 4:32. 

The finals started favorably with a win by the 4x100 team of  Hoderick Lowe, Rosi Stevens, Hughston Leaks and Damain Swann. After flying to a season's best time of 42.73 in the prelims, the team cruised to a 43.22 victory.

Senior  Lowe, a Tuskegee University football signee, added 8 quick points as he jumped to a lead over the field in the 100 meters to finish second to Carver's Dequadis Tucker. Lowe added 4 more points with his 5th place finish in the 200 meters.

Hughston Leaks, in only his first meet in the 110 hurdles, finished 4th. The junior added another 4th place finish in the 300 hurdles.

Coburn, voted the meet's most valuable runner, raced to a 1:56.6 victory in a photo finish with North Atlanta's Malik Epps. They have Class AAA's fastest and 2nd fastest times this year. Coburn broke the old school record of 1:57 two weeks ago at the Stephenson Invitational.

Roth closed out the team's scoring with a victory in the 3200 in a finish of 10:06. 

Junior Jericho Smith won the 300 hurdles in 39.34 in a quad meet against Dunwoody, St. Pius and Chamblee to eclipse an old school record set by Aaron Killingsworth two years ago.

The time is the fastest so far this season in Class AAA and the third fastest overall in Georgia. As of Mar. 24, Smith's time was the 43rd fastest in the nation. 

Junior Zane Coburn broke Grady's school record in the 800 meters Saturday, Mar. 19 at the Stephenson Invitational, racing to a state No. 2 time of 1:56.38, which leads all runners in Class AAA.

The previous record was held by Collier Johnson. Coburn also won the 1600 in 4:35.95 as he led the team to a third place finish at the Stephenson Invitational.

Other highlights from the meet include first place finishes by freshman Bailey Roth in the 3200 at 10:00.21 and sophomore Jawayln Brooks in the pole vault at 10 feet. Freshman Felton Gray finished second in the high jump with a leap of 5 feet 10 inches, and senior Hoderick Lowe finished third in the 100 meters with an 11.06.

The 4x100 relay team of Lowe, Gray Quiller, Rosi Stevens and Damian Swann ran a region No. 2 time of 43.07. Cedar Grove leads Region 5AAA and the nation with a time of 41.28. 

Junior Jericho Smith and Senior Juwan Scroggins picked up valuable points in the triple jump and the 4x400 team of Coburn, Quiller, Smith and Hughston Leaks scored a point, and Leaks picked up a point in the 300 hurdles in his first race ever with a time of 42.01.