Coupeville Middle School track coach Elizabeth Bitting shares results with some of her athletes. (Deb Smith photos)
Ben Smith waits for his moment to shine.
The weather in Port Angeles was a constantly changing affair.
A new season begins.
Packing 20 or so athletes onto the bus, the Coupeville Middle School track and field squad headed to Port Angeles Wednesday, where it clashed in a three-team meet.
While there, the Wolves faced one team (Forks) comparable in size and one (host Stevens) which had 140+ athletes.
And yes, that is supposed to say 140 and not just 40…
While the Wolves had no shot at bringing home team titles in those kind of conditions, they did battle for individual glory, with Jake Mitten (High Jump) and Ja’Kenya Hoskins (60-yard dash) winning their events.
“We had some standout performances,” said CMS coach Elizabeth Bitting. “We were able to get some places.
“We had rain, wind, sun, a little bit of it all.”
Now, as you gaze upon the following results, give me a little leeway, since A) I’m going off of handwritten results and a couple of numbers were tricky to decipher and B) not a single bit of this is appearing in the Whidbey News-Times.
So, here we go, and let’s see how close I got to reality.
Girls (8th grade):
800 — Catherine Lhamon 3:36.20
1600 — Lhamon 6:31.00
High Jump — Emily Fiedler 4-00
Turbo — Fiedler 62-09; Lhamon 43-09
Girls (7th grade):
60 — Ja’Kenya Hoskins 8.75
100 — Kiara Contreras 16.23; Bella Velasco 16.25; Angelina Gebhard 17.07
200 — Hoskins 20.14
800 — Alana Mihill 2:37.00
4 x 100 Relay — Gebhard, Ella Colwell, Noelle Daigneault, Velasco 1:07.52
4 x 200 Relay — Hoskins, Contreras, Gebhard, Velasco 2:13.03
Shot put — Daigneault 20-12.50
Discus — Colwell 50-04
High Jump — Hoskins 3-08
Long Jump — Gebhard 12-00; Contreras 10-10.50; Colwell 7-10
Turbo — Mihill 35-11
Boys (8th grade):
60 — Ben Smith 9.21
100 — Jake Mitten 13.14, Smith 15.02, James Mayne 16.06; Alex Jimenez 16.91; Trystan Ford 17.64
200 — Mitten 23.30
200 Hurdles — Smith 35.99
Shot Put — Ford 20-05; Mayne 16-07.50; Jimenez 14-05.50
Discus — Ford 56-04; Jimenez 50-07.50
High Jump — Mitten 4-08
Turbo — Smith 72-07; Ford 58-08; Jimenez 46-09
Boys (7th grade):
60 — Zach Murtha 9.36
100 — Aiden Burdge 13.95; Murtha 14.98; Logan Martin 15.26; Gabe Shaw 16.07
1600 — Connor Barton 5:56.30; Murtha 6:20.00
200 Hurdles — Barton 34.40
4 x 100 Relay — Burdge, Shaw, Barton, Murtha 1:00.50
Shot Put — Martin 23-11
Discus — Martin 85-05
Long Jump — Barton 14-00; Burdge 12-04
Turbo — Martin 97-00; Shaw 53-02
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