TACOMA -- Mid-Columbia athletes won seven individual titles and the Kiona-Benton girls won the school's first state meet trophy in 30 years at the state 1A-2A track and field meet Saturday at Mount Tahoma High.
The statement startled Union sophomore Kinsley Ojukwu for a second.
A tired old joke maintains that the only thing worse than track is field.
You know the old expression, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"?
Taymussa Miller woke up Friday morning with a good feeling about her chances in the 3A girls high jump competition.
TACOMA -- The Kiona-Benton girls track team hasn't taken home a trophy from the state meet since 1978.
Nicole Cochran stood by herself in the middle of the Edgar Brown Stadium infield, cheering as loud as she could.
For the second year in a row, the 3A girls high jump state title is staying in the Tri-Cities.
Pole vaulters tend to be a very congenial group.
Andrea Geubelle is a difficult one to spot at first.
Peter Gilbert likes to surf the Internet and check out the rankings in his track event of choice -- the 800 meters.
Peter Gilbert of Pasco and Galia Deitz of Richland were voted the outstanding boys and girls track athletes for the Columbia Basin League 4A classification.
Call Blair Collins the accidental champion, if you will.
BEND, Ore. -- Hermiston took second in both the boys and girls team standings at the Intermountain district meet.
Richland senior Galia Deitz wouldn't have minded spring waiting one more week to arrive.
A year ago, Day 1 of the 4A/3A Eastern Regional track and field championships proved the worst day of Allyssa Thompson's career.
QUINCY -- Othello's Courtney Kirkwood qualified for state in four events, winning the javelin (142-3), the long jump (16-7 1/2) and the 200 (25.99), while just missing a fourth win in the 100 hurdles at the CWAC district meet.
Through May 16
Kamiakin girls track coach Cheryl Schauble summed up what it takes to be a successful hurdler.
Through May 9
The last time the Pasco girls qualified a runner to the 4A state meet was 2003, the first year Star Track was held at Edgar Brown Stadium, when Nicole Elliott placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles and third in the 300 hurdles.
Prosser senior Cade Wandling was named Male Athlete of the Meet at Saturday's Prosser Rotary Invitational, winning the 400 meters and anchoring a pair of winning relays to lead the Mustangs to the team title.
Through May 3
Through May 1
It's the calm before the postseason storm this week as athletes put the finishing touches on their training before the start of the three-week push to a hoped-for state title.
Through April 30
Through meets of April 26
Richland senior Jessica Clements cleared a school-record 5 feet, 7 inches in the girls high jump, tying for eighth place on the all-time Mid-Columbia list, and the Bombers won a pair of CBL 4A duals at Fran Rish Stadium.
Through meets of April 24
The 23rd annual Kiwanis Invitational takes place Saturday at Kennison Field in Hermiston, with 14 schools from Oregon and Washington scheduled to attend.
WALLA WALLA -- Justin Piek of Walla Walla won the 100, the long jump and triple jump during a meet with Moses Lake and Davis on Thursday.
ROYAL CITY -- Blair Collins ran the 100 in 11.4 seconds to highlight a home meet.
How many athletes sized up their day at the 47th annual Pasco Invitational on Saturday came down to the expectations game.
Cade Wandling exited the Edgar Brown Stadium track Saturday afternoon following his final race, a disgusted look on his face.
All-time area bests in parentheses
BEAVERTON -- Michelle Coombs victory in the shot put led the Hermiston girls to the team title at the Aloha Relays on Saturday.
At Leavenworth
Kelly McNamee finds it a rush to jump over something as tall as she is.
Posted on the wall of the shed the Moses Lake track and field team uses to store equipment are the school records in each event.
WALLA WALLA -- The Waitsburg-Prescott boys and girls each dominated the field in a track meet Thursday at Martin Field.
The 47th running of the Pasco Invitational is Saturday, and while fewer schools than in years past will be at Edgar Brown Stadium, more athletes will compete than a year ago.
Whitney Leavitt easily won the 100 with a time of 12.3 seconds to highlight team victories by Kiona-Benton's boys and girls teams.
The area's top performances through meets of April 15:
ROYAL CITY -- Jade Patterson raced to a win in the 800 with a time of 2 minutes, 7.11 seconds to help the Kennewick boys post a seven-point victory at the Royal Invite.
Ione Invitational
Wahluke
Bryce Fritz of Echo edged teammate Mike Madison to win the 100 at the Ione Invitational.
The latest Mid-Columbia track leaders, through meets of April 5: