Danny Conlisk hangs out with the parental units Saturday at the 112-team Nike Eason Invitational. (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)
Jean Lund-Olsen, here celebrating a previous win, joined Conlisk in racing against the best in the state. (Brian Vick photo)
After winning two medals, Danny Conlisk hangs out with the track whisperer himself, Randy King. (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)
Small town, big results.
Staring down runners from every state classification at the 112-team Nike Eason Invitational in Snohomish Saturday, a duo of Coupeville runners more than held their own.
CHS senior Danny Conlisk, going toe-to-toe with the best from 4A-1B, claimed two medals, finishing second in the 400 and seventh in the 200.
His teammate, junior Jean Lund-Olsen, didn’t make it out of the prelims in the 100 or 200, yet still set a PR in the first race and ran some of the fastest times any 1A runner has netted in 2019.
Conlisk went straight to the finals in the 400, entering as the #3 seed, then beat the pre-race predictions.
His time of 50.16 seconds was a season-best, narrowly missing his PR of 49.70.
The only foe he couldn’t catch was Ethan Willems of 4A Glacier Peak, a junior who has returned after missing a season with a torn ACL to be the fastest runner in the entire state in the 400.
In the 200, Conlisk busted out a PR (22.55) in the prelims, then ran 23.06 in the final.
He’s ranked #1 in the 200 and #2 (by 0.02 of a second) in the 400 among all 1A runners.
Lund-Olsen just missed the cut in the 100, finishing 12th in a personal-best 11.31 seconds, then claimed 19th in the 200 prelims in 23.18.
He was in the top half of both events, which had 41 and 43 runners in the prelims, respectively.
With one more regular meet before the postseason begins, Lund-Olsen is ranked #3 in 1A in both the 100 and 200.
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