Lap one under the Friday night lights on N.C. State's 440-yard Tartan track ...
Jim Chapman is wearing Charlotte Myers Park's green & white.
Ric Shriver is in the gold uniform of R.J. Reynolds High.
Lap two. Chapman leads. Shriver follows closely.
Shriver throws in a devastatingly hard, fast 3rd lap to leave
the rest of the field far behind. Shriver won in 9:27.0.
Shriver and Mile winner Joe Browder (Grimsley
HS)
just weeks earlier spent spring break training together
in Banner Elk and
Beech Mountain
with Appalachian State
runners Gary Church and George Phillips. Running three
workouts a day the "camp" produced two NCHSAA champions
and two qualifiers for the 1971 National NAIA Track and Field
Championships. (ASU switched to NCAA the following year.)
Photos by George Phillips.
Ric Shriver, 53 years later:
George Phillips with Ric Shriver, Aug. 31, 2024.
These two R.J. Reynolds HS teammates pushed each other
through numerous workouts, taking each other to higher levels.
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