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While the Speed Meet itself has been an area track and field tradition for years, the 2021 edition took on added meaning as it was the first one run as the John Strickland Speed Meet.
Host Fayette County High competed along with Whitewater, Creekside, Douglas County, Frederick Douglass, Hampton, South Atlanta, Tri-Cities, and Elite Scholars Academy in the meet renamed in tribute to the Tiger legend. Strickland was a teacher and a championship-winning coach at FCHS for more than two decades when he passed just days after completing the fall semester in December 2019 following a brave fight against cancer. The 2020 edition of the meet was set to be the first run under his name, but COVID-19 led to its cancellation and pushed the debut to spring 2021.