After wrapping the regular season Saturday, Reagan Callahan and her teammates turn towards the next challenge. (Emma Garcia photo)
One thing is done, another about to begin.
The Coupeville High School track and field team reached the end of the regular season Saturday, competing at the Sunny and 70! Invitational at Lakewood High School.
Vying with 29 other schools, the Wolves won in an event in which they hadn’t previously competed — the steeplechase.
CHS unleashed nine boys and one girl in the event, in which athletes traverse a 2000-meter obstacle course full of barriers and water jumps.
Standing tall at the end was junior Lyla Stuurmans, as “The Franchise” beat her closest rival by 8+ seconds.
Now she and her teammates begin their postseason journey with an appearance at the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships next Wednesday, May 1 in Mount Vernon.
The district meet is May 11 in Coupeville, with state set for May 23-25 at Eisenhower High School in Yakima.
Lyla Stuurmans (left) and Katie Marti are in a winning mood. (Thomas Studer photo)
Saturday’s results:
GIRLS:
400 — Ivy Rudat (22nd) 1:15.72
1600 — Aleera Kent (38th) 6:08.54; Kayla Crane (45th) 6:19.21
3200 — Kent (22nd) 13:38.57
2000 Steeplechase — Lyla Stuurmans (1st) 8:42.47
4 x 100 Relay — Aleksia Jump, Carly Burt, Issabel Johnson, Lexis Drake (9th) 57.90
4 x 200 Relay — Stuurmans, Burt, Johnson, Drake (15th) 2:02.78
4 x 800 Relay — Crane, Lydia Price, Jump, Reagan Callahan (11th) 12:26.80
Shot Put — Katie Marti (13th) 28-07; Reese Wilkinson (26th) 26-02.50
Discus — Wilkinson (7th) 104-02; Erica McGrath (20th) 84-11; Marti (27th) 74-04
Javelin — Marti (8th) 92-06
High Jump — Ayden Wyman (10th) 4-04
Long Jump — Stuurmans (23rd) 12-08.25
Carson Field stayed busy Saturday, competing in three events. (Thomas Studer photo)
BOYS:
400 — Preston Epp (16th) 54.32
1600 — Carson Field (28th) 5:01.27
2000 Steeplechase — Field (16th) 7:57.61; George Spear (20th) 8:20.15; Marcelo Gebhard (22nd) 8:55.49; Dane Hadsall (23rd) 8:56.08; Axel Marshall (24th) 9:19.35; Matthew Kuzma (25th) 9:27.25; Matthew Ward (26th) 9:33.45; Mikey Robinett (27th) 9:37.63; Ethan Walling (28th) 9:38.08
4 x 100 Relay — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Epp, Nick Guay (13th) 46.78
4 x 200 Relay — Ezekiel Allen, Blake Burrows, Gebhard, Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim (17th) 1:45.25
4 x 400 Relay — Kenneth Jacobsen, Burrows, Epp, Guay (10th) 3:59.07
4 x 800 Relay — Jacobsen, Thomas Strelow, Field, Allen (12th) 9:42.02; Spear, Solomon Rudat, Marshall, Simpson-Pilgrim (21st) 10:26.07
Discus — Zac Tackett (12th) 117-00; Zane Oldenstadt (29th) 93-03
Triple Jump — Hank Milnes (20th) 33-09.75
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