Coupeville’s Danny Conlisk (right) and Klahowya’s Dylan Jackson, competitors in high school, now teammates on a summer running team. (Dawnelle Conlisk photos)
Conlisk and Co. seek out some shade after running all day in the Tacoma heat.
At this rate, he might need a bigger trophy case.
Coupeville’s Danny Conlisk is in that break period between winning state titles as a high school track runner, and competing as a college athlete.
So he’s filling some of his days by running with the Kitsap Fliers program for a second spring/summer, and Saturday he brought home three more medals.
Conlisk was competing at the South Puget Sound Track Festival at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma, which meant leaving Whidbey at the crack of dawn, and coming home in a race with the fading daylight.
While on the oval Saturday, Conlisk zipped to a 1st place finish in the 4 x 100 relay, while adding a pair of 2nds in the 100 and 200.
He finished 1st in his prelims in the 100.
The relay was the cherry on top of the sundae, as Conlisk and three Fliers teammates — a group which had never even practiced together — crossed the line in a smoking hot 44.12 seconds.
The former Wolf ran the anchor leg, and told his mom it went like magic.
“Danny said it was the best hand-off he has ever had,” Dawnelle Conlisk said. “It was so smooth, like butter.”
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