Though classes at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia have ended for most students, several will spend their summer working on a project.
A group of eight students are making a documentary about two acclaimed track runners, Noah and Josephus Lyles -- also students at T.C. Williams.
The Lyles brothers are becoming national names after winning state and national track titles. They've also garnered wide support in the community. In 2015, the two raised over $7,000 to cover costs as they competed in Canada, Colombia and Cuba.
"We live together, we sleep together, eat together, [we're] doing everything together," Josephus told News4 in 2015, "We're like best friends and brothers."
Drew Jones, one of the student documentary makers, expressed his admiration for the two.
“They’ve sort of stuck to who they are,”Jones said, “Which is really cool.”
The students’ goal is to create a full-length documentary and a digital page chronicling the brothers’ journey. Production began in November, as a part of a TV production class; however, the students have continued working on the documentary even past graduation.
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“It’s hard not to take an opportunity when we’ve got potential Olympians that are in our math classes, in our history classes with us,” Jones said.
The students hope the Lyles Brothers make it to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics -- and that word of their documentary follows.
“As far as what we’ve seen, it doesn’t seem like they ever slow down,” Jones said.
