The girls’ 3A 3200 was to be a showdown between freshmen superstars Glacier Peak’s Amy Eloise Neale, NC’s Katie Knight, and Shadle’s Kendra Weitz, all of whom had run under 10:50. Neale with her 10:31 was expected to take the lead but opted out of the early pace setting. After a slow mile Weitz burst from the pack to take the lead and push the pace. The quartet of Wetiz, Neale, Knight and Juanita’s Lystad broke away from the rest of the pack. With 600 meters to go Knight pulled around the others to take the lead but could not shake Neale or Wetiz. Knight still held the lead going into final turn forcing her classmate to run wide. The two finished stride for stride at the line with Neale getting narrow victory and 3A meet record in 10:31.75 over Knight in 10:31.86 and Weitz in 10:37.13. The three freshmen (now 1-2-4 on the All-Time Freshman list) laughed at how slow the pace was the first mile and commented “how glad” they are to be racing each other.
Despite her top seed into 3A State Meet, Columbia River’s Anna Adamko “wasn’t expecting to win.” However, that’s exactly what she did with her PR throw of 126-11 in the discus. She is excited for the win and to compete in the shot and javelin.
Five competitors still remained at 5-6 in the 3A girls’ high jump but only Sasha Weber was able to make the jump. The sophomore from Timberline cleared 5-6 on her first attempt then waited while everyone else had a go. The bar was then moved to 5-8, which she cleared on her final attempt. Now she had the meet record in sight and set the bar at 5-10.25 (the record is 5-10.) She was clearly nervous taking extra time between jumps and waiting for the bell in one of the 3200 races to stop ringing. Even though she missed the record she was thrilled about winning after placing second last year.
