As both track teams competed in District 20-5A many athletes punched their tickets for the Area Meet. The girl’s team was able to cliche the District title. Meanwhile, the boys were able to cliche 4th place overall. At District, we had many 1st Place finishes.
1st Place
4x100M Relay (Sa´Miya Jacobs, Kyla Heine, Gianna Austin, and Kendal Brown), 4x200M Relay (Reigan Smith, Heine, Austin, and Jacobs), 4×400 M Relay ( Austin, Eva Abshire, Taylor Spradling, Brown), Abshire 300M Hurdles (PR 46.4), Brown 100M Dash, Dezarai Stweart shotput and Discus. Heine long jumps (New School Record 17ft 4.5IN.) Luke Cordle Long Jump, Caleb Morris 100M Dash, 4x400M Relay (Ashton Smith, Cordle, Abdul Mugsit, Wright)
2nd Place
Abshire 100M Hurdles, Brown long jump, Frida Orozco 400M Dash, Ethan Dempsey High Jump, 4x100M Dash (Morris, Axel Flores, Wright, and Perkins)
3rd Place
Brown in Pole Vault, Taylor Brown in Shot Put, David Ladokun High Jump, Jose Lopez Shot Put.
4th Place
Smith 200M Dash, Cierra Dinwiddie 400M Dash, Collin Wright 400M Dash
All the athletes who finished in the top 4 were able to advance to the next round which took place last week. At the area meet the girls placed 3rd overall and the boys placed 7th out of 16 teams. Like District, the top 4 advanced to the regional meet. Area meet finishers are the following.
AREA MEET
1st Place
Stewart Shot Put, Abshire 300M Hurdles (New School Record 45.36) 4x400M Relay (Austin, Abshire, Spradling, Brown)
2nd Place
4x100M Relay (Jacobs, Heine, Austin, and Brown) Stewart Discus (New School Record 125´11) Cordle 200M Dash, 4x400M Relay (Cordle, Morris, Collin Wright, Ashton Smith, 3.26.86)
3rd Place
4x200M Relay (Smith, Jacobs, Heine, and Austin) Brown Pole Vault, Morris 100M Dash
4th Place
Heine Long Jump, Abshire 100M Hurdles (PR 15.80), Cordle Long Jump, 4x100M Relay (Caleb Evans-Pickens, Luke Cordle, Caleb Morris, and Austin Perkins)
Region 3 5A Meet will begin on Friday. We have quite the handful that punched their tickets in. History continues being made with Eva Abshire and the young girl squad. As the boys, you have Luke Cordle making history. He was able to qualify for the regionals in all 4 for his events which have never been done before. We wish luck to these athletes.
