Dandy dozen
FHS track sets personal bests at Vol Classic
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Kambree Fontenot of Farragut High School rotates through her windup during a discus attempt at the Volunteer Track Classic on Saturday, April 18. Fontenot finished 19th with a throw of 93 feet, 1 inch. - Photos by Tony Cox
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Peyton Edmunds of Farragut High School plants her pole and drives upward during a vault attempt at the Volunteer Track Classic at Tom Black Track over the weekend. Edmunds placed eighth in the finals with a jump of 8 feet, 6 inches. - Photos by Tony Cox
Through this spring, the Farragut track and field team has put forth several strong performances. This past weekend saw another one, as the Ads posted seven top 10 finishes and a dozen personal bests during the Volunteer Classic at Tennessee’s Tom Black Track on Saturday, April 18.
The Lady Ads’ 4x800 team of Christie George, Bailey Ann Smith, Zoi LeCours and Addison Haynes finished second at 10:11.14, while the men’s 4x800 team of Corom Hlebasko, Lucas Spadafora, Nick Deguira and Sam Shagan ran an 8:01.63 to clinch fourth. The women’s 4x400 team of Ava Brinley, Elin Rotan, Clara Wothe and Kennedy Dade finished fifth at 4:13.05. The women’s 4x200 team, comprised of Ada Becker, Kennedy Dade, Ryleigh Howe and Emma Pearl Riffer, clinched seventh with a time of 1:46.09, and the women’s distance medley relay team of Gruzalski, Hereford, Dade and Wells finished eighth overall with a time of 14:46.01.
In the men’s 400-meter event, Nathan Jacobs finished fifth overall with a personal best of 50.59 seconds while Peyton Edmunds took eighth overall in the pole vault with a personal record of 8 feet, 6 inches.
Ryleigh Howe set a personal best in the 300-meter hurdle event at 47.80 seconds, and Kambree Fontenot set a new personal mark in discus at 93 feet, 1 inch. Distance runners all set personal bests in their respective events as well. Andrew Cabaniss reached a new mark in the men’s 800-meter run at 2:00.97, while John Williams reached a milestone in the 1600-meter event at 4:38.43. In the 3200-meter run, Bailey Ann Smith, Sam Shagan, Chase Temples and Andrew Kafoed set personal bests of 11L54.37, 9:37.65, 9.39.84 and 10.09.19, respectively.
In sprints, Jake Solaiman hit a personal best with 11.61 in the men’s 100-meter event. Also, several personal records occurred in the 200-meter events: Riffer at 26.38 seconds, Howe at 26.59 seconds, Jacobs at 22.58 seconds and Aaron Pohl at 22.82 seconds.
FHS junior Ada Becker finished ninth in the girls long jump finals while HVA’s Naomi Burum took fourth in that event and sixth in the girls triple jump. On Monday and Tuesday, April 20-21, FHS athletes Chase McAvoy, Tyler Martin, Caden Eaker, Harper McAvoy and Arabella Wray took part in multi-event sectionals at Jefferson County High School.
In other area results from Saturday, two Catholic standouts, Laila Lucier and Charlotte Fowler, took first and second in the girls’ hammer throw with Fowler also claiming fourth in girls’ shot put. Fellow Irish standout JR Fowler finished first in the boys’ hammer throw finals with a mark of 196-4.00. He also finished third in discus and fourth in shot put. Webb’s Lacy Young took first in the girls’ 100-meter dash with Catholic’s Chloe Truss in second, and fellow Spartan Emma Cissna claimed third in the girls’ 2,000-meter steeplechase finals. Young also finished second in the 200-meter while HVA’s Ana Berkheimer took fourth in the girls’ 1600-meter run with teammate Alexandra Vesser in second in the 3200-meter event. Bearden’s Cooper Jones claimed second in the boys’ high jump finals at 6 feet, 4 inches, and HVA’s Colson Crutch and Bearden’s Mouhamed Seck took fifth and seventh, respectively, in long jump with Jones in ninth. Seck also placed third in triple jump with Crutch in sixth.
Concord Christian’s Dasani Moulden and Kohbe Ward took seventh and fourth in the 100-meter dash and 400-meter dash at 10.84 seconds and 50.39 seconds, respectively, while Hardin Valley’s Nicolas Rivers took seventh in the boys’ 200-meter at 22.54 seconds. Catholic’s Reid Bannister took eighth in the boys’ 800-meter finals at 1:59.03, and teammate Cade Duncanson took eighth in the boys’ 3200 with Shagan taking 11th in that event. Bearden’s Evan Fisher claimed seventh in the boys’ 300-meter hurdles at 40.47 seconds, and HVA’s Will Allen took third in the 2000-meter steeplechase with Catholic’s Levi Sprecher in eighth. CCS and CAK claimed sixth and ninth, respectively, in the boys’ 4x100 relay finals, while Bearden’s boys took ninth in the 800-meter spring medley relay finals. CAK’s boys took seventh in the 4x400 version of that same event.
HVA finished right behind FHS in the boys’ 4x800 event, claiming fifth, and the Hawks also finished sixth in distance medley relay. Catholic and CAK finished sixth and eighth, respectively, in the girls 4x400 relay, while Hardin Valley finished fourth in the 4x800 relay with Webb in first in girls distance medley relay.
