Maeve McCormick, Nora McCormick, and Kiana Jenkins were event winners, and eighth grader Faith Jenkins placed second in two sprints to pace the La Conner High girls’ team at the Skagit County Track & Field Championships in Anacortes May 1.
Photo courtesy Jason Miller/Concrete Herald
Maeve McCormick captured the county girls’ pole vault crown (9-3) and broke the La Conner High School girls pole vault record, clearing nine feet.
“It felt good! I think it’s the weather—the sunshine made me feel good, and I have really good coaches, they made me feel confident,” Maeve McCormick said.
Nora McCormick returned from injury to win the 100-meter hurdles (16.63), and Kiana Jenkins ran away with the 400-meter dash title in a 1:00.22 finish.
Faith Jenkins was runner-up in the 100-meter (12.79) and 200-meter (26.04) sprints as the Braves placed sixth on the team leaderboard.
The La Conner boys, led by junior thrower Flint Huizenga’s second place toss in the javelin—a personal best 157-7—also finished sixth in team standings among the seven county schools.
Host Anacortes High School, a 2A school, swept both the boys’ and girls’ team championships at the three-day event, held April 30-May 2 at Rice Field.
On the boys’ side of the meet, Anacortes (201) led Mount Vernon (131), Sedro-Woolley (120), Burlington-Edison (115), Mount Vernon Christian (53.5), La Conner (28.5), and Concrete (7).
In the girls’ half of the competition, Anacortes (214.5) ran ahead of Sedro-Woolley (130.5), Burlington-Edison (98.5), Mount Vernon (90.5), Mount Vernon Christian (88), La Conner (67), and Concrete (2).
Nora McCormick, who breezed to first place in the 100-meter hurdles—runner-up Joslyn Chace of Sedro-Woolley was nearly a second behind at 17.57—also joined her sister, junior Maeve McCormick, and the Jenkins sisters to place second and third in the girls’ 4×100 and 4×200 relays, respectively.
The La Conner quartet clocked 50.93 in the 4×100. They were timed at 1:48.00 in the 4×200.
In addition, an all-freshman La Conner relay team of Nora McCormick, Reese Bird, Aisley Zimmerman, and Finley Hancock was sixth in the 4×400 meters with a time of 4:44.71.
Izzy Villard added to the La Conner girls’ point total with a sixth-place effort in the discus. Villard’s toss measured 83-9.
Like Huizenga, La Conner’s Josh Dowry, Simon Bouwens, and Yandel Rosales-Rojas earned points in individual contests for the Braves’ boys.
Dowry was fifth in the pole vault at 11-6. Bouwens placed sixth in the 110-meter hurdles (17.41) and Rosales-Rojas finished sixth in the long jump with a leap of 18-8.25.
Bouwens and Rosales-Rojas weren’t done for the day. They teamed with Keaton Bailey and Maxwell Page to run fourth in the 4×100 meter relay at 45.33.
Bailey, Page, Alex Dowry, and Vireo Angell then brought home a sixth-place finish in the 4×400 (3:46.71) relay.
The Braves thinclads were scheduled for a quick turnaround with the May 7 NW2B/1B League Championship Meet (3:30 p.m.) at Jack Whittaker Field on the La Conner campus.
Bill Reynolds: bill@laconnercommunitynews.org. Bill is a general assignment reporter who covers Town government, schools, and spot news.
