By Bill Reynolds
La Conner Community News
Faith Jenkins made plenty of headlines winning four events at this year’s State 2B Track & Field Championships in Yakima, helping the La Conner girls take top honors for the first time in program history.
Now the banner coverage continues with her recent selection as the 2026 Skagit Valley Herald Girls’ Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
The talented freshman isn’t about to rest on her laurels, either.
Jenkins is already eyeing the 2027 track season and the opportunity to set new personal marks in her signature events, the 100 and 200 meter sprints, as well as the 4×100 and 4×200 meter relays while making a run at another state team title.
At Yakima, Jenkins won the 100 meters in 12.42 and the 200 in 25.25, then joined her sister, Kiana, and sisters Maeve and Nora McCormick — fondly dubbed the “McJenkins” quartet by La Conner fans — to capture the 4×100 in 50.22 and 4×200 in 1:45.81.
“I feel like what motivates me is proving to people what I can do,” Faith Jenkins, who had previously captured the state 100 crown as an eighth grader, told the Herald’s Milo Whitman. Because I’m only a freshman, it’s showing them how much more I have when I’m only so young.”
And if the recent past is any indication, seeing Faith Jenkins stand atop medal ceremony podiums the next three years indeed promises to be a recurring sight.
Bill Reynolds is a general assignment reporter for La Conner Community News.
