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Stefawn Ross spotted everywhere at meet
It took Stefawn Ross about three minutes to win the high jump Wednesday.
And 2:57 of that was devoted to warm-up.
Granted, the triangular at Fauquier High’s Falcon Field was a small track and field meet, but Ross was impressive nonetheless, not to mention versatile. The senior competed in five events and accounted for 11 of the Liberty boys’ 19 points.
Ross’ high jump victory took less than five minutes because he won with just one attempt, clearing the bar at 5 feet, 8 inches after everyone else had failed. Busy competing in other events throughout the afternoon, Ross waited until all other athletes had jumped their highest to make his first attempt.
His approach actually began in the triple jump pit. Ross landed in the sand, completing his second attempt in the triple jump, jogged 120 yards across Falcon Field, stopped in the high jump area, removed his shoe, tapped some stowaway sand out of the shoe, returned the shoe to his foot, stretched his legs, jumped in place a few times, bounded toward the high jump bar, leaped, arched over the bar without disturbing it and landed on the mat. Then he walked away, the winner.
Ross also won the 200 dash in 23.5 seconds, took third in the triple jump in 38-11.75, placed seventh in the discus with a throw of 100-11 and dominated the first leg of the 1,600 relay for a LHS team that took fourth. All that despite becoming a track athlete less than two months ago.
Ross already owns Liberty’s season-best times or distances in the discus, high jump, 200, and 100, and ranks second in the long and triple jumps.
“We just haven’t found anything else for him yet. We’re working on it,” Liberty coach Dan Thompson said with a smile during the meet. “He could run the 400 and probably do well. He could probably run hurdles, it’d just take some technique time.”
Ross joined the track team this season after playing football for the first time in his high school career in the fall and quickly garnering a football scholarship from Virginia Military Institute. He had hoped to play Division I basketball in college, but no scholarship offer came through...
See the Friday print edition of the Fauquier Weekend for the complete story.
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