All season, B-CC track and field coach Chad Young has watched sophomore Eugenia Wilson improve. On Saturday, he watched her win -- twice.
Wilson won both the 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter race at the County B Championship at Whitman High School. The meet is a chance to compete for many athletes who are rarely entered in invitational contests.
“It is an opportunity for them to show they can compete in the top events,” Young said. “Someone like Eugenia really took advantage of the opportunity.”
Wilson won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.5 seconds, beating the second place finisher by six-tenths of a second. In the 200-meter race, she won in 27.10, a full second over the second place runner. “She was the star of the day,” Young said. “Over the course of two years, she has worked very hard, has had a great attitude, and I’ve watched her improve a lot.”
In other events:
* The girls’ 4 x 400 meter relay team finished second overall, in 4:40. “It shows the depth we have,” Young said. The team consisted of Wilson (1:06); freshman Angie Peterson (1:11); junior Alison Thomas (1:13); and junior Laila Shehata (1:08). Wilson took the lead, the middle two runners fell behind a couple of teams, but Shehata “made up a lot of ground on the last lap,” he said.
* In the shot put, Junior Phillie Stallone threw her best distance of the year: 20 feet and a half inch. “She was very excited with her throw,” Young said. “She did a great job.”
* In the discus, sophomore Devin Doherty also had a PR, throwing it 68 feet, two inches. “He comes out every single day, always working hard on his throwing,” Young said. “It was great to see him PR.”
* In the long jump, freshman Sam Kaye had his best jump by five inches, going 16 feet, 11.5 inches. Kaye also ran the 200 meter-race, finishing in 25.9 seconds, good for 24th overall.
* Also in the boys’ 200 meter race, sophomore Benton Williams finished 10th in 24.8, almost a second faster than his previous PR.
* In the girls’ long jump, sophomore Nicole Flibbert finished 13th overall, jumping 12 feet, 5 inches. “That was huge for her,” Young said. “She beat more than half the field. She’s improved a lot, and is a really hard worker.”
* And in the high jump, sophomore Kayla Fuller wasn’t so excited about the competition. Coach Alex Gray found her after the jumps had begun, and persuaded her to enter. The bar already had been raised to 4 feet, 4 inches. “She has been a little bit frightened of the bar – it’s sort of like walking to the end of the diving board and having those nerves,” Young said. But Fuller cleared the height on her first try, and she ended up in 8th place. Young was happy for her. “She was very excited, and if she had warmed up, who knows how high she could of jumped.”
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