Wakefield girls and boys win district track and field championships

By wide margins and with many individual contributors, the host Wakefield Warriors won the Liberty District girls and boys outdoor track and field championships at home on the evenings of May 9th and 10th.

With significant depth on both teams, the girls won with 151 points and had 10 first-place finishes at the high school event, and the boys had 185 with seven winners. In second were the Washington-Liberty girls with 87 and the McLean boys with 83.

The meet titles were the third in as many weeks for both Wakefield teams, having previously won the Arlington County and Titan Classic.

“Our performances and efforts have been outstanding all season,” Wakefield coach Sam Sharp said.

Leading the way for the Wakefield girls was four-time champion Kenedy Shields. She had firsts in the 100 (12.31), 100 hurdles (25.95), high jump (5-2) and long jump (18-6), ran on the winning 4×100 relay (49.33) and added a optimal in the test. Throwing weight.

Hosanna Connor was a double winner for Wakefield in the triple jump (34-10 1/4) and pole vault (9-9). Ada Jordan won the 800 (2:17.9) and Grace Armitage won the 300 hurdles (46.9), was second in the triple jump and 100 hurdles and third in the long jump.

The 4×400 relay won in 4:07.88, and the 4×80 was second.

Third were Eulalia Sarli in the 800 and Julissa Hernandez Pereira in the discus, Sofia Vazquez was fourth in the pole vault, fifth was Quincy Daigle in the 1,600 and sixth were Vazquez in the triple jump and Addison Young in the 1,600.

Leading the way for the Wakefield boys was double winner Chris Gilpin in the 100 (10.71) and long jump (21-5) and Silas Lesparance in the 200 (22.72) and 400 (49.87). Travon Buckner won the triple jump (42-9), Owen Jacques won the high jump (6-0) and Michael Hutchinson was first in the shot put (50 2 1/4) and third in the discus.

Placing second were Ben Chapuis in the triple and high jumps, Liam Keish in the 800, Frank Mani in the long jump and Jackson Gray in the pole vault.

Keish (1,600), Jacques (long jump), Diego Fernandez (pole vault), Thuyon Smith (100), Isiah Ledbetter (triple jump) and the 4×400 relay placed third.

Placing fourth were Charles Randolph (shot and discus) Smith (200), Bryant Cruz-Lemus (high jump) and Ben Chapuis (110 hurdles and long jump). Finishing fifth were Chapuis (300 hurdles), Alex Epstein (pole vault) and Noah Gunville (3,200). Gilpin had a sixth in the high jump, as did Mani in the triple jump.

Travon Buckner had two top-10 finishes, and Leadbetter and Mikey Johnson each had other top-10 finishes.

Second place WL girls were Therese Johansson by one second in the 800, Gabriela Newton was second in the 400, Amela Male was second in the shot and second in the 4×100 relay. Placing third were Alexis Morley-Lascano (pole vault), Alba Edsall (3,200), Morgan Brown (100) and the 4×400 relay.

Newton was also fifth in the long and triple jumps and sixth in the 100, and Brown was fourth in the 200.

Yorktown’s sixth-ranked girls had four champions, with Marin McCormack winning the 400 (57.2), Sofia Sheldon the 1,600 (4:59.2), Kaiya Ovando the discus (114-11) and the 4×800 relay in a meet and time school record of 9:18.47. Eleanor Whitehouse was fourth in the 1,600 and Ovando fifth in the shot.

The winning relay consisted of McCormack, Whitehouse, Sheldon and Ellen Malloy.

For fifth-place Washington-Liberty boys, Charles Gent won the pole vault (13-0), Ian Crowley was second in the 110 hurdles and seventh in the 300 hurdles, third were Jackson Nowinski (200) and Alexander Calleja (shot) , fourth in the 400 was Joaquin Lynch, and the 4×100 and 4×400 relays were second.

For Yorktown’s seventh-ranked boys, the 4×800 relay won in 8:04.64. The relay consisted of Reid Dalley Brendan Schmitt, John Thomas and Theo Wargo.