Dalton Martin has the third-best discus throw by a 1A athlete this spring. (John Fisken photo)
The Magnificent Seven still rides high.
As track and field teams move towards the start of the postseason, the competition is getting ever more cutthroat, and it shows up when you look at the top 10 lists.
A week ago, 10 Wolves could claim a time or distance which put them among the best 1A had to offer.
Seven days later, three of those CHS athletes — Danny Conlisk (1500), Jakobi Baumann (3000) and Jordan Ford (pole vault) have been bumped, through no fault of their own.
For the moment, at least.
But while the list is an ever-changing beast, seven Coupeville athletes are holding strong, led by senior Makana Stone, who appears four times — twice as an individual, twice as a relay runner.
And one of those relay squads, the 4 x 200 girls team of Lauren Grove, Lindsey Roberts, Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt, remains on target to do something that has happened only once in school history — win a state title.
Currently ranked #1, and by almost a full two seconds, they are the team to beat going forward through league, district and state meets.
While CHS has multiple state track title winners in individual events, the only time the Wolves have brought home a title in a relay event was in 2006, when Chris Hutchinson, Jon Chittim, Kyle King and Steven McDonald won the 4 x 400.
Wolves who have one of this year’s 10 best performances in 1A:
Girls:
400 — Makana Stone (6th in 1A) 1:00.78
800 — Stone (7th in 1A) 2:21.89
4 x 100 — Lauren Grove, Lindsey Roberts, Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt (4th in 1A) 51.10
4 x 200 — Grove, Roberts, Stone, Hurlburt (1st in 1A) 1:47.00
Boys:
200 — Jacob Smith (9th in 1A) 23.08
300 hurdles — Lathom Kelley (4th in 1A) 41.48
Discus — Dalton Martin (3rd in 1A) 158-05
To see how Coupeville compares to the rest of the track world, hop over to:
http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Division/Top.aspx?DivID=73261
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