It was a great mother’s day for many mothers around Northeast Florida. They were able to witness sons, daughters, granddaughters and grandsons compete on the highest stage in Track & Field and win. Check out some of the Track & Field competitors and champions from this weekend.
Class 1A Track & Field Championships 5/7/2021 Friday
Boys 4×100 Relay Champions– Trinity Christian
Trinity Christian brought home the first state championship for Northeast Florida as Kensley Johnson (SR), Christian Ellis (JR), Terrell Jackson (SR), Jahron Williams (SR) in the 4×100 relay running a 42.90. The team also set a school record this year running a 42.10 twice. Amazingly, the speedy group made up the Trinity Christian football secondary that also won a state championship in football this year.
Class 3A Track & Field Championships
Boys 100M Champion -Aaron Bell (SR) Terry Parker HS
Boys 200M Champion- Aaron Bell (SR) Terry Parker
Aaron Bell capped a spectacular senior campaign at Terry Parker winning both the 100 and 200 meter championships at UNF. Bell ran a blazing 10.34 in the 100m and a 20.71 in the 200m. Bell place first in 16 of 18 individual races this year.
Class 2A State Championships
Boys 110 Meter Hurdles Champion– Harrison Robinson (JR) Raines HS
Just a junior Harrison Robinson is one of the most gifted track & field athletes around. A state champion in the 110m hurdles (14.29), he also competed in the 300M hurdles, and the triple jump at state. He has another year to add gold in the those evets to go with his hurdles medal!
Boys 4×100 Meter Champions- Andrew Jackson
41.55 was the time that did it for Jackson High School’s Cornelius Cooks, Justyn Bland, Ronald Hargrove, and Traunard Folson. They won the Boys 4x100M Class 2A State Championship. The team had the best improvement of any group in Northeast Florida going from finishing third in early relay races to having the best time in Northeast Florida and State Champions.
Class 2A 4x400M Relay Champions– Raines HS
From the Football field to the Track & Field, the Raines young guns shot out like cannons in their 4×400 meter relay. Quincy Burroughs (JR), Kareem Burke (JR), Jaquon King(JR), and Kenton Kirkland (SO) were crowned champions running a 3:17.60.
Girls 2A 4X100M Relay Champions – Paxon
Asia Stanford [SR], Rose-Esther Saint-Germain [SO] ,Serenity Wade [JR] , and Kennedi DeVoux [SO] raced their way to a 4X100 state title at the FHSAA Championships at UNF. The fantastic four ran a time of 48.37 to bring the gold home for the Golden Eagles.
Girls 4X400 State Champions– Paxon
The Golden Eagles came back to win another gold medal, this time in the 4×400 at UNF. Danielle Gill (SR), Adriel Strickland (SR), Asia Stanford (SR), and Rose-Esther Saint Germain (SO) ran a 3:56.36 to stave off fellow Jacksonville team Episcopal, to take home the state championship .
Girls 2A 4×800 Meter Relay Champions- Bolles
Bolles was poised to capture another title in track & field and that’s exactly what they did. Thanks to Catherine Kunz (SR), Hadley Ropp (JR), Leila Bata (FR), and Layne Rivera (SR), Bolles was able to bring home the 4×800 gold medal.
2A Pole Vault Champion- Audrey Wuerffel (SR) (Bolles) Result: 11-03.75
2A Girls Shot Put Champion– Torryence Poole (SO) (Palatka) Result: 42-02.25
4A Boys 1600M Champion– Rheinhardt Harrison (JR) Nease Time : 4:08.14
Nease’s Rheinhardt Harrison set records seemingly with ease in this just his junior season. He set a new state record in the 3200 earlier this year running 8:47.43. Before that he set a record in the 1600 running a 4:01.34. It was almost a forgone conclusion that Harrison would take home the gold in those two events. What a year.
4A Boys 3200M Champion- Rheinhardt Harrison (JR) Nease Time : 9:02.26
4A Boys 300M Hurdles Champion– Kevin Davis Jr (SR) (Atlantic Coast) Time: 37.95
Other Notable Results:
Class4A Results
Bradley Anderson Ball Nease HS finished 2nd in Boys 3200
Elo Modozie, Bartram Trail HS place 4th in long jump
Cyrus Ways ,Nease HS finishes 2nd and Christian Washington Sandalwood HS finshes 3rd in the Boys 110M Hurdles
Emma Richard Fleming Island placed 3rd in Javeline
Sydney Campbell Creekside HS finishes 2nd in the Girls 100M and 3rd in the 200M
Creekside 4X100 team finishes 3rd in state championships
Brittany Jennings Sandalwood HS finishes 7th in Girls 300M Hurdles
Arianna Eason Oakleaf HS finished 4th in Girls Triple Jump
3A Results:
James Williamson Columbia HS finishes 3rd in 100M
Desmyn McCall Terry Parker HS finishes 4th in the 110M Hurdles and 3rd in the 300M Hurdles
Class 2A Results
Episcopal and Bolles finish 2nd and 8th in girls 1600 relay
Maddie Popp, Maxine Montoya and Ella Mickler of Bolles 4th, 7th and 8th in girls 3200
*Matthew McClure and Aidan Hasan pick up 4th and 8th in boys 3200
Domictress Robinson of Ribault and Cornelius Cooks of Jackson 2nd and 3rd in boys 200 meters
Catherine White of Bishop Kenny finishes 2nd in girls javelin
*George Duffy and Carlton Skinner of Bolles get 2nd and 4th in boys shot put
*Jayden Harris of BK 3rd in boys high jump
*William Brady of Bolles picks up 4th in boys 800 meters
*Rose-Esther-Saint-Germain picks up 8th in girls 200 meters
Kenton Kirkland of Raines, Kavon Miller of Bolles and Noah Straley of Bishop Kenny place 3rd,5th, and 7th in the boys 400m
*Asia Stanford of Paxon 3rd in girls 300m hurdles
*Harrison Robinson of Raines finished 7th in boys 300M hurdles
*Leila Bata and Catherine Kunz of Bolles pick up 2nd and 8th in girls 800 meters
*Noah Straley of BK finishes 2nd in boys long jump
Raines, Ed White and Ribault go 5th,6th, and 7th in boys 4 x 100
Maxine Montoya and Jillian Candelino of Bolles place 3rd and 6th in girls 1600m
*Adriel Strickland of Paxon, Destiny Phoenix of Ribault and Ky’Myya Haywood of Bishop Kenny place 4th,7th, 8th in girls 400m
1A Results
Khalil McLaughlin, of Bishop Snyder HS finishes 3rd in Boys 400M
Stanley Cowherd of St. Johns Country Day School finished 4th in the Boys 400m
Jonah Casey Providence School finished 2nd in Boys Pole Vault
Skyy Dixon Providence School finishes 3rd in Girls 400m
Jocelyn Pringle Providence School finished 3rd in Girls Shot Put
Alicia Horton 12 Bishop Snyder HS finished 2nd in the Girls Discus
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