Locals perform well at state track and field meet
Published 5:45 pm Monday, May 7, 2018
Several local athletes placed well in the state track and field meets which took place Saturday. The Class 1A-3A meet took place in Cullman, while the Class 4A-7A meet was at Gulf Shores.
While no area high school athletes took home individual state championships, several finished in the top six in their event.
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The top local finisher in any event was Elkmont’s Chase Prater, who finished in the top three in both the 1,600 meter and 3,200-meter race. Prater finished in second place in the 3,200-meter race in a time of 9:54.47, five seconds behind state champion David Barrett of American Christian Academy.
He also placed third in the 1,600 meters in a time of 4:35.63, and was agonizingly close to a state championship, finishing just 1.5 seconds behind race winner Matisse Miller of Pleasant Valley.
West Limestone’s Cassidy Winter also took home a third-place finish in the Class 4A girls 800-meter race, finishing in a time of 2:23.05.
Athens High School’s Micah Boles-White took home fourth place in the Class 6A boys 100-meter dash, in a time of 10.78 seconds, while Athens’ Caden Shoulders was fifth in the discus with a toss of 143 feet.
Other fifth-place finishers included Lindsay Lane Christian’s Palmer Smith in the Class 1A boys 800 meters, while Athens Bible’s Nicolas Ulrich placed fifth in the 1,600 meters in Class 1A.
Tanner’s Zakobe Shoulders also took home fifth place in the Class 2A boys shot put event, with a heave of 43 feet, 9.5 inches.
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Complete local results from the state meets are below.
Class 1A
Boys
• 100 meters – Joshua Diddario, Lindsay Lane, 13th, 11.7
• 400 meters – Palmer Smith, Lindsay Lane, 21st, 55.80
• 800 meters – Palmer Smith, Lindsay Lane, 5th, 2:20.28; Nicolas Ulrich, Athens Bible, 6th, 2:10.52; Jack Anderson, Lindsay Lane, 18th, 2:18.84
• 1600 meters – Nicolas Ulrich, Athens Bible, 5th, 4:55.86; Jack Anderson, Lindsay Lane, 15th, 5:22.12; Joseph Graves, Lindsay Lane, 18th, 5:24.67
• Triple Jump – Erik Hall, Athens Bible, 9th, 37-10.50
• Discus – Ethan Wiles, Athens Bible, 15th, 98-06
• Javelin – Christopher Nave, Athens Bible, 12th, 127-10; Erik Hall, Athens Bible, 13th, 126-01
• Shot Put – Ethan Wiles, Athens Bible, 10th, 36-09.75
Girls
• 200 meters – Whitney Prise-Cook, Lindsay Lane, 22nd, 30.55
• Discus – Janna Boydstun, Lindsay Lane, 17th, 61-08
Class 2A
Boys
• Shot Put – Zakobe Shoulders, Tanner, 5th, 43-09.50
Girls
• 100 meters – Alicia Jones, Tanner, 16th, 13.45; Nautica Noble, Tanner, 19th, 13.60; Faith Franklin, Tanner, 23rd, 13.92
• 200 meters – Alicia Jones, Tanner, 23rd, 29.55
• 400 meters – Brooklyn Coleman, Tanner, 23rd, 1:13.17
• 100 meter hurdles – Destiny Long, Tanner, 10th, 18.64
• High Jump – Brooklyn Coleman, Tanner, 6th, 4-06
• Triple Jump – Nautica Noble, Tanner, 6th, 32-08.75; Miracle Scott, Tanner, 11th, 29-09.75
Class 3A
Boys
• 100 meters – Alex Armstrong, Elkmont, 17th, 12.06
• 200 meters – Alex Armstrong, Elkmont, 19th, 25.68
• 800 meters – Brantley Hammock, Elkmont, 20th, 2:23.60
• 1600 meters – Chase Prater, Elkmont, 3rd, 4:35.63; Brantley Hammock, Elkmont, 21st, 5:23.44
• 3200 meters – Chase Prater, Elkmont, 2nd, 9:54.47
• 800 meter relay – Elkmont, 15th, 10:01.81
• Shot Put – Lucas Claunch, Elkmont, 18th, 36-07
Girls
• 100 meters – Michelle Trent, Clements, 19th, 14.29
• 100 meter relay – Clements, 21st, 1:01.72
Class 4A
Boys
• 800 meter relay – West Limestone, 22nd, 9:25.09
Girls
• 800 meters – Cassidy Winter, West Limestone, 3rd, 2:23.05
• 1600 meters – Cassidy Winter, West Limestone, 7th, 5:41.25
3200 meters – Katie Serrato, West Limestone, 14th, 13:00.85
300 meter hurdles – Cassidy Winter, West Limestone, 7th, 49.00
800 meter relay – West Limestone, 7th, 10:39.28
Class 5A
Boys
• 100 meters – Nathan Stafford, Ardmore, 20th, 11.44
• 200 meters – Nathan Stafford, Ardmore, 22nd, 23.26
• 400 meters – JaJuan Powell, East Limestone, 17th, 52.66
• 100 meter relay – East Limestone, 18th, 45.74
• Triple Jump – JaJuan Powell, 10th, 41-00.75
Girls
• 100 meter relay – East Limestone, 19th, 55.25
• Long Jump – Timari Turner, East Limestone, 19th, 13-11.75
Class 6A
Boys
• 100 meters – Micah Boles-White, Athens, 4th, 10.78; Logan Smothers, Athens, 10th, 11.05
• 1600 meters – Elijah Frankel, Athens, 19th, 4:52.54
• 110 meter hurdles – Michael Stephens, Athens, 15th, 16.17
• 100 meter relay – Athens, 6th, 43.58
• 400 meter relay – Athens, 10th, 3:29.77
• Discus – Caden Shoulders, Athens, 5th, 143-00; JaCaury Mason, Athens, 15th, 120-11; Ethan Rinke, Athens, 17th, 120-09
• Shot Put – Santravious Henderson, Athens, 16th, 41-02.50
Girls
• 100 meters – Tiana Young, Athens, 23rd, 13.17
• 200 meters – Sydni Durm, Athens, 22nd, 27.82
• 100 meter relay – Athens, 14th, 52.09
• 400 meter relay – Athens, 14th, 4:22.28
• Discus – Charleka Dye, Athens, 13th, 91-05
• Shot Put – Charleka Dye, Athens, 14th, 32-02.50