The State Meet was held on November 9 at Woodberry Forest School. Both the Boy’s and Girl’s Teams ran well in the Division II events. The Boys completed their best season in 10 years by finishing 20th out of 25 Teams and posted their fastest average and overall combined race time of the season. Their first mile was run under 7 minutes by all team members. Their average time was 21:53 per runner. Their total combined time was 1:49:24.99.

The Girls completed their history-making season by placing all members of the team in the top 100 scoring runners of the 141 total competitors in the race. This was the first time in MMA history that a Girl’s Team entered a full team in the State Cross Country Championships. The Team finished 11th of 15 Teams. The Lady Colonels averaged 26:13.11 per runner and had a combined time of 2:11:05.54. The individual times, places, and scores are as follows:

Boys: 221 Total Runners
78th Stafford Melerine-20:20.53 73 points
111th Nate Harvey-21:00.74 96 points
135th Daniel Lee-22:11.30 111 points
147th Cole Ried-22:55.04 121 points
150th Sen Zhong-22:57.38 123 points
159th HaNul Ryou-23:17.18 129 points
164th C. Sun-23:47.66 134 points

Girls: 141 Total Runners
54th Audrey Fowler-24:56.36 43 points
55th Song Eun Kim-24:59.26 44 points
58th Melissa Sinar-25:10.51 46 points
86th Anna Almekinders-26:12.60 67 points
126th Alexis Greenwood-29:46.81 86 points

Thanks to all for supporting the Cross Country Teams through this historic season!!

- Coach David Strong

The MMA Boy Scout Troop 1899 traveled to Camp Rock Enon in Northwest Virginia over the weekend to compete against other troops in a round-robin style cooking competition. More than 20 troops traveled from Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland to take part in the competition and camping event.  Camp Rock Enon is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and has over 500 acres of forest, ponds, trails, and cabins for scouts to enjoy.

The competition consisted of 8 different "cooking" stations ranging from cooking fresh fish over charcoal, to cooking biscuits in a reflector oven, to cooking a dessert dish in a dutch oven.  MMA Troop 1899 captured 3rd overall place, but maxed points in the mystery ingredient meal and the obstacle course/quickest to boil an egg events.  Even Scoutmaster, Joe Babcock, captured 1st place with his homemade doughnuts in the Scoutmaster Dessert competition.  The Troop camped Friday and Saturday evenings and endured some cold temperatures but enjoyed some camaraderie, competition, and success!

Homecoming 2007 was a huge success.  More than 460 participants-alumni, parents and friends graced our campus in celebration of MMA’s 108^th Homecoming event.  Starting with Friday at our annual Tommy Johnson Golf Tournament, the gentlemen from the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars lead by Frank Painter, Class of 1963 won 1^st place.  Frank also provided the 2008 Jeep Liberty 4x4 from Edinburg Motors that we chose as our Hole-in-One prize.  Unfortunately, we did not have a winner, but we sure had some come close.  This year the tournament raised approximately $6500 in scholarship funds for the Tommy Johnson Scholarship and we hope to be able to have another tournament in the spring of 2008.  Thanks again to all of our participants and our sponsors.  Saturday’s events started with a Homecoming Parade, Tailgate BBQ and our great defeat over Fishburne as MMA won the football game 53-34 and took home the Saber Football Cup.  Our Alumni Banquet and Champagne Brunch were held in the Cook & Kitchin Dining Hall and the after reunion parties went on through the rest of the weekend.  It was great to see everyone and lots of new faces this year.  We hope that you will always come home for this alumni weekend.

For a full rendition of the entire weekend events, just take a look at all of the magnificent photos shot by Randolph & Catherine Carlisle in our photo gallery page.