BOYS TRACK AND FIELD: 10 to watch
Published 11:37 pm Wednesday, March 14, 2012
BOYS TRACK AND FIELD
Josiah Miller, Oak Harbor, Sr.
Miller went to the 3A state meet in the 100-meter and 200 dashes and the triple jump and also was the anchor leg on the Wildcats’ 1,600 relay team. He’s looking to improve on his fifth-place finish in the 100 dash and sixth-place finish — he had a personal-best jump of 43 feet, 2.5 inches — in the triple jump.
Justin Peterson, Lakewood, Jr.
Peterson missed the 2A state meet a year ago, but his 6-4 jump in the high jump in a meet last year ties him for the second-best mark in 2A in the state going into the season. He’s also looking to improve on eighth- and 11th-place finishes in the triple jump and long jump, respectively, in the 2A District 1 meet.
Kevin Yates, Snohomish, Sr.
Yates took eighth in both the high jump and the long jump in last year’s 4A state meet, but it was what he did later that summer that showed even more promise. Yates recorded personal bests in both events (6-4.75 in the high jump and 22-3.75 in the long jump) at the Club Northwest All-Comers meet on July 6 and is looking to improve on those numbers this year.
Blake McPherson, Arlington, Sr.
Despite tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during the 2010 football season, McPherson competed in the javelin last year and finished sixth at state. He looks to improve upon that and best his school-record shattering throw of 199-5, which he did as a sophomore in the 4A district meet.
Carter Osborne, Shorecrest, Jr.
Osborne broke school records in the 800 and 1,600 runs last year and finished eighth and 12th, respectively, at the 3A state meet. This year he looks to better those times and finish in the top-3 at the state meet.
GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
Summer Cull, Marysville Pilchuck, Sr.
The senior is the defending state decathlon champion — she won the State Multi Events Championship by 1,371 points last June — and took fourth in the pole vault competition at the 4A state meet. She also helped the Tomahawks’ 1,600 relay team finish seventh at state.
Calea Carr, Everett, So.
As a freshman, Carr went to the 3A state meet in four events (shot put, discus, triple jump and 400 relay) and finished in the top-10 in three of them. Her top finish was in the discus, where her throw of 117-9 was good enough for fourth. Her personal best of 122-8, though, would have put her just off second.
Lexi Sarver, Arlington, Sr.
Last year Sarver saved her best for last. The Eagles thrower tossed the discus nearly 5 feet further than she ever had before to take second at the 4A state meet. This year she’ll look to better that, which she’ll likely be forced to do if she wants to beat fellow senior and defending state champ, Kentwood’s Alyx Toeaina.
Leiran Cornish, Snohomish, Sr.
After going to state in both events last year, Cornish is a strong contender in the 200 and 400 races this year. The senior is one of the favorites in the 400 after three of the competitors that finished above her, including Edmonds-Woodway’s Amia Nash, graduated.
Amy-Eloise Neale, Glacier Peak, Jr.
When it comes to running there’s little that this Grizzlies runner has yet to accomplish. She won the 1,600 and 3,200 at last year’s 3A state meet, setting a state-meet record in the 1,600. She’ll try to break that record and break her personal best of 10 minutes, 12.33 seconds in the 3,200. Already this spring she took first in the 800 at the Husky Open.
