CONTRIBUTED BY MELANIE KENNEDY
Congratulations to the Indoor Track and Field Team for its outstanding performances at the Class 3 State meet. The team traveled to Liberty University on Monday and Tuesday to compete in arguably one of the toughest brackets in the state of Virginia.
We took seven athletes this year and each of them proved that they deserved to be there.
Congratulations to Garrett Jordan!! He is the state champion in the boys 300m. He ran a super fast time of 34.74, the only athlete to break 35 seconds in the meet. Garrett also ran the 55m prelims on Monday. His top eight finish qualified him for the finals on Tuesday, where he ran a personal best time of 6.55, finishing 6th overall in the state.
Jackson Fields had an impressive run in the 300m dash as well, running a personal best time of 35.71, placing seventh overall.
Our boys 4×200 team ran an amazing race in an incredibly competitive field. The boys placed 5th overall with a time of 1:31.07. There was less than one second separating the top eight teams!
On the distance racing side we had Ruby Frazier and Jack Jeffries competing in both the 1600 and the 3200. Ruby finished second in the 1600 with a time of 5:03, and Jack finished 8th in the 1600 with a personal best, blazing fast time of 4:28. They both ran an amazing 3200 race with Ruby finishing 8th overall and Jack,19th.
Ethan McPherson had an incredible day at the pole vault. He cleared a personal best of 12-6, placing him in ninth overall.
It was a great two days for all of these athletes!
