Traveling up the foothills to Mt Si high school, Issaquah Track and Field racked up one team win, 19 individual event wins, and 175 total PRs. This was an amazing showing for our TEAM and a great step in the right direction for our season.

Our first victories came in the short hurdles, where Sebastian Powers (16.39) won the 110m race and Shanthi Hall (17.47, SB) won the 100m race. Continuing to the mile, where we saw Brennen Rickey (4:28.54, PR) and Jane Harig (5:11.43, PR) fly around the track. The next victories on the track came back to back, as Toren Garcia won both the 400m (54.02, PR) and the 300m hurdles (43.03). The 800m was next, where we saw Hayden Stowe (2:07.14, PR) and Kate Yahn (2:18.32, PR) take victories in those races, followed shortly by the 3200m where Connor Rickey (9:34.69, PR) and Allison Hu (11:46.76, PR) won those races individually. Our winning didn’t stop there, as the 4x400m saw 2 seasons best, as the boy’s team of Toren Garcia, Nicolas Talluto, Ellie Miller, and Greyson Pike ran 3:35.98, and the girl’s team of Sena Pittman, Sophia Mydlil, Elena Gehrke, and Kate Yahn ran 4:17.67.

Our field event victories saw Isabella May (63’3″, PR) win the discus and finish 2nd in the shot put (23’11”, PR). In the javelin, we had Wyatt Chollman (147’2″, PR) win, and in the high jump we had Carson Naehr (5’6″) and Courtney Smith (4’10”, SB) win the boy’s and girl’s contests, respectively. In pole vault, Dexter Zablocki (11′, SB) took home the win, while in triple jump Ben LaFramboise (39’10”) and Domfo Abekah (32’7″) won the boy’s and girl’s contests, respectively.

When tallying final points, Mt Si took home the girl’s team win 77.5-72.5, while Issaquah won the boy’s team 85-60. Link to full results here.

Going into spring break, Issaquah squads split, sending 5 athletes to the Arcadia and Tiger Invitationals in Southern California, while another group travels to Bellingham on Saturday the 8th for the Birger Solberg Invitational. Events in Bellingham start at 10AM, while the girl’s mile at Arcadia will go off at 9:30AM on the 8th, the boy’s 1600m at the Tiger Invitational will race at 12:30PM on Friday the 7th, the boy’s 800m at 3:45PM, and the boy’s 3200m at 8:20PM. Fly Eagles, Fly!