7 Issaquah Eagles–3 from our boy’s team and 4 from our girl’s team–flew over the mountains this weekend to take on the historic Pasco Invitational. Even though the rain followed us from the west side, our TEAM used this opportunity to compete, and compete they did.

Our first event of the day was the high jump, where Courtney Smith finished 4th with a jump of 4’8″. Freshman phenom Connor Rickey stormed to a 12th place finish (4:35.08) in the boy’s 1600m, competing not only against some of the top runners in the state, but also the elements. The sideways rain didn’t stop Kate Yahn in the girl’s 1600m (5:20.07), where she ended up placing 3rd, and closing her last lap in a blistering 73 seconds.

In the boy’s 800m, Josh Delgadillo ran a perfectly even split race, finishing 11th in a time of 2:03.92, finishing second in his heat. Senior Keira Hanson ran 53.18 in the 300m hurdles, and sophomore Brennen Rickey finished with a near-best time of 10:02.54 in the 3200m. Tough conditions for awesome performances!

As the weather cleared, our lone personal best for the day came from sophomore Jane Harig in the girl’s 3200m. After a 22 second PR last week, Jane shaved another 9 seconds off this week (11:31.45), good for 10th overall. This puts her overall improvement in the event to 31 seconds this year, and moves her ranking to 7th in Kingco. An amazing effort from Jane, and there is more to come!

See full results for this weekend’s races here.

Issaquah returns home for our first competition post-spring break on Wednesday the 20th against Newport HS. Competition begins at 4:30PM.