First Flight High School runners win four indoor track state titles
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First Flight High School runners Morgan Miller, Adlai Berryman and Kayla Folkes (l-r) won a total of four state titles in indoor track. (Image courtesy First Flight High School)
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KILL DEVIL HILLS — Three First Flight High School runners won a combined total of four state titles in last week’s 2026 North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) 4A Indoor Track and Field Championships at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem.
Senior Morgan Miller won the girls’ 3,200-meter race with a time of 10 minutes, 52.86 seconds.
Junior Kayla Folkes won the girls’ 1,600-meter race with a time of 5:13.31and the girls’ 1,000-meter race with a time of 3:04.47.
Sophomore Adlai Berryman won the boys’ 3,200-meter race with a time of 9:34:09, finishing over 10 seconds ahead of the next runner.
Miller placed second in the 1,600-meter race, finishing barely over a second behind Folkes, and Folkes placed second in the 3,200-meter race less than 32 seconds behind Miller, official results show.
In team results, First Flight High School girls finished second and the boys finished ninth.
The girls ranked eighth going into state indoor track championships and finished second, while the boys ranked 20th and finished ninth, Head Coach Gray Berrryman shared with multiple exclamation points on the school’s running Instagram account, ffhs_trackandfieldxc.
Miller, who won the 2023 and 2024 cross country state championships, missed this fall’s cross country state championships because of an injury.
Her indoor track 3,200-meter state title win “marked a triumphant return,” according to First Flight High School’s Facebook post about the results.
“For Miller, this race title marked the fifth of her career across the cross country, indoor and outdoor seasons,” the post said.
Folkes, who won the 2025 cross country state championship, has now won a total of four state running titles.
To view the full 4A indoor track state championship results, click here.
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