Knights glide to King’s Invitational team titles

Sara Mosiman is more than a quick learner. The King’s sophomore seems to have the Midas touch.

Voted league MVP in volleyball and basketball already this year, Mosiman’s latest conquest is track and field.

And she’s yet to find an event she can’t master.

Mosiman exhibited her versatility at last weekend’s King’s Invitational, winning the javelin and high jump to pace the Knights to their ninth team title in 10 years.

Her first-place javelin throw of 125 feet, 4 inches at the 19th annual meet April 24 at Woolsey Stadium is the top mark statewide by a Class 1A girl this season and the eighth-best mark at any classification.

Mosiman set a school record by clearing 5 feet, 2 inches in the high jump, an event she currently ranks second in among 1A girls. She placed second in the long jump and her measurement of 16-11 is tops at the 1A level.

To focus on the long jump Mosiman pulled out of the pole vault early, but not before clearing 6-6 to secure a tie for third with teammate Caitlyn Faidley.

“She’s got great athletic ability and body control. A lot of stuff comes easy for her,” King’s coach Daunte Gouge said. “It’s rare when a girl comes in who can really throw herself into any event and do so well.”

The King’s girls swept all three relays and registered the fastest 1A times of the season.

Kim Mayhle, Chira Louie, Tatiana Noel and Sarah Smart set a meet record time of 1:48.56 in the 800-meter relay and clocked a 51.43 in the 400 relay.

In the 1,600 relay, Melody Miles, Kristal Friar, Breyanne Nordtvedt and Chelsea Snyder lowered their season-best mark by two seconds to 4:14.93.

“We’ve had several different relay teams running throughout the year,” Gouge said. “There’s still seven girls battling for four spots in the two shorter relays and six girls trying to get on the 4 by 4 team.”

Nordtvedt finished second in the 100-meter high hurdles (17.04) and fifth in both the 300 hurdles (49.64) and triple jump (33-10).

Louie placed second in the 100-meters (13.08), Miles took third in the 800 (2:25.68) and Faidley was fourth in the 3,200 (12:21.34) and third in the freshman/sophomore 1,600 (5:58.34).

Chloe Kieling finished fourth in the 100 hurdles (17.57) and Danielle Clauson took fourth in the javelin (106-11).

The Knights totaled 141.5 points to clinch their second girls team title in a row, followed by Bellevue Christian (86), Riverside Christian (80) and Lynden Christian (69).

Sophomore Michael Davis led a dominating performance in the throws by the King’s boys with a meet and stadium record heave of 186-1 in the javelin.

Calvin Fujii won the shot put with a throw of 50-5 and teammate Troy Mack took second with a personal-best toss of 45-feet even. Fujii placed third in the discus (129-04) and fourth in the javelin (161-0).

The Knights collected 32 of their 135.5 points in the throwing events and coasted to their third straight team championship. Tacoma Baptist (76) was a distant second and Mount Vernon Christian (62) was third.

Robb Waldburger cleared 11-6 to win the pole vault, placed fifth in the high jump (5-8) and eighth in the triple jump (39-05).

Steven Miller overtook three runners on the final lap to win the 1,600 in a personal-best time of 4:31.02.

“That’s huge because he was coming off a bit of a rough outing the week before,” Gouge said. “This is going to bounce his confidence right back. He’s going to put up some great times from here on.”

Brent Woodham placed second in the 3,200 (10:13.56), sixth in the long jump (19-51/2) and anchored the 1,600 relay team that took third (3:38.97).

Alex Croutworst finished second in the 800 (2:06.05), Dan Stueckle took third in the pole vault (10-0) and Ryan Dixon was third in the 110 high hurdles (16.80).

“He’s had some great races lately and he’s ready to break some big times,” Gouge said of Dixon.

Evan Dull (4:57.05) and Jeff Dull (4:57.15) took third and fourth in the freshman/sophomore 1,600 and David Howell was fifth in the 800 (2:07.95).

Life Christian’s Sean Rice set a King’s Invite record of 44-4 in the triple jump and won the long jump to earn outstanding male athlete of the meet honors.

The outstanding female athlete award went to Cedar Park Christian distance runner Jane Larson, who set meet records of 11:14.92 in the 3,200 and 5:14.37 in the 1,600.