Agee and Poticher sign with WVU Tech Track

Brothers from different mothers.

Teammates.

Most of all, best friends, and now, staying together as future college athletes.

Monday morning inside the Greenbrier West Auditorium, with family, coaches, teammates and friends in attendance, Greenbrier West all-staters, Brandon Poticher and Isaac Agee signed a National Letter of Intent to run track at WVU Tech.

"It is a big deal and I am excited," Poticher said. "Obviously I am focused on our (track) team and getting better and breaking records right now."

The dynamic senior duo are part of the highly successful Greenbrier West 4x110 shuttle hurdle relay team, along with junior Colton Dunbar and senior Randy Keener.

The Cavaliers are the defending Class A state champions in that event, but oddly enough, the four current standouts have not competed together, as a unit, until this year.

Poticher described finally having the four runners on the track together as, "surreal." The first team all-state football selection missed his junior year due to surgery which repaired a torn labrum.

"It was me and Agee at the start, then we taught Randy," Poticher said. "Then Dunbar came along, but none of us ran together. Now we are running together. We are running great and running good times. It's awesome. I love every other sport I have played, but track is the most fun I have ever had and it is the least physically threatening. I am not going to get a concussion running track."

So far in the early going, the four-man band is making some sweet music owning the fast time (59.14 seconds) in the Mountain State for Class A. The state meet record is 59.01.

Overall, the Cavaliers are second only to Class AA Point Pleasant with a time of 57.97.

"Right now Agee, Dunbar and me are 1-2-3 in the highs (hurdles). We are No. 1 in the shuttles," Poticher said. "If we can go to states and do that, it's the coolest thing in sports that you can do."

Agee is the defending  Class A individual champion in the 110 high hurdles and owns the best time in the state thus far, as well. He too is looking to break the state meet record of 14.63 seconds.

"Everybody wants a record and everybody wants to beat the guy in front of him," Poticher said. "The guy in front right now is Agee. He is chasing a record and we are chasing him."

Poticher explained the key to success for the Cavaliers this year and over the past years.

"Competition is always a good thing. It's good for us because we have a healthy competition among us," Poticher said. "We are not mad when one of us beats each other, but we are all racing each other. At these bigger meets, we have teams like Woodrow (Wilson), Bluefield and PikeView. They have great hurdlers and we have that competition to run against."

Both seniors made their own separate decisions when it came to choosing WVU Tech, but somehow, the quick friends since Agee moved to Greenbrier County in eighth-grade, always seemed destined to stay together.

"We both looked at other places. It was just really more so that the other places didn't really show interest. I wasn't especially going to go out of my way since I really liked Tech as a school," Agee said. "I thought Tech was a good choice. I want to go for engineering and I like their engineering program. Brandon wants to do nursing, so he thought about a couple of other places and not running track. After running track again this year, we have realized just how much we like running together."

Poticher echoed Agee's word as if they were, well, brothers.

"We get that a lot," Poticher said about the brother reference. "We have a little bit different haircut, actually. That's the kicker. We spent the majority of our formative years together and learned off of each other."

"If you can have this much fun in high school, then going to a higher level, with higher competition is only going to make it more fun," Poticher went on to say. "WVU Tech is close to home and I like that. I like the campus and everybody I have talked to about it has been nice about it. It just seemed like a good place and I liked its small (enrollment)."