The St. Louis area was well represented at last weekend’s Missouri State Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City.
St. Louis-area teams won four state championships, with MICDS (Class 4) and McCluer South-Berkeley (Class 3) winning girls’ state titles and Lafayette (Class 5) and John Burroughs (Class 3) bringing it home for the boys.
MICDS scored 74 points to win its second state championship in girls track. Sophomore Zionn Pearson won the long jump in 18 feet 2 ¾ inches, sophomore Cara Johnson won the 100-meter dash in 12.19 seconds and senior Margaret Sliney won the 400-meter dash in 56.41. The Rams also won the 4×400-meter relay in 3:59.17.
The Rams also finished second in the 4×100-, 4×200- and 4×800-meter relays. Johnson was fourth in the 200, Pearson was fifth in the 100-meter high hurdles and Alexa Smith was eighth in the pole vault.
McCluer South-Berkeley scored 69 points and won an entertaining duel with defending state champion John Burroughs, who finished second in the team standings. The Bulldogs won the 4×400 on the last event to win the state title. It was their only state-championship of the day, but they racked up on high finishes to score well.
Octavia Cato and Raheema Westfall finished second and third in the 100-meter dash, respectively. In the 200, Westfall finished in second place while Cato finished in third place. Westfall also finished third in the 400. NeShay Curtis was second in the 300-meter low hurdles and fourth in the triple jump. Briana Brock finished fifth in the shot put and the 4×200-meter relay team finished in second place.
Lafayette put on a dominant display in the middle-distance and distance events to take home the Class 5 state championship. It all started in the 4×800-meter relay when the team of Alec Haines, Austin Hindman, Devin Meyrer and Dylan Quisenberry set a new state record in a time of 7 minutes 40.29 seconds.
Hindman, Meyrer and Haines completed an incredible 1-2-3 sweep in the 3,200-meter run while Meyrer, Haines and Quisenberry finished second, third and fourth in the 1,600-meter run. Quisenberry won the 800-meter run in 1:54.06 with Haines finishing in fourth place. Sprinter Brad Alexander was sixth in the 100 and fourth in the 200. Chris Roggenburg was seventh in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles while the Lancers’ 4×400-meter relay team finished sixth.
Other individual state champions from last weekend include:
- Madison Fuller (John Burroughs) Class 3 girls 100 and 200 in times of 11.88 and 24.41;
- Deja Ingram (Hazelwood Central), Class 5 girls 100 and 200 in 11.8 and 24.65;
- Isaiah Cole (Hazelwood West) Class 5 boys 400 in 47.21;
- Corey Carter (Principia) Class 3 boys 200 in 21.89;
- Syanne Johnston (Fort Zumwalt East) Class 4 girls 200 in 25.10;
- Jaylon Ashford (SLUH), Class 5 boys 200 in 21.39;
- Chris Gleghorn (Pattonville) Class 5 boys long jump, 23 feet 0 ¼ inch;
- Alex Curtin (Whitfield) Class 3 girls 3,200 in 11:33.59;
- Melissa Menghini (Summit) Class 4 girls 800 in 2:14.45;
- Anna West (Lafayette) Class 5 girls 1,600 in 4:45.61;
- Sara Nicholson (Lafayette) Class 5 girls 3,200 in 10:40.34;
- Dustan Davidson (SLUH) Class 5 boys 1,600 in 4:10.97;
- Austin Lawless (Parkway South) Class 5 boys shot put, 58 feet 6 ¾ inches;
- Austin Perkins (Fort Zumwalt East), Class 4 boys 800 in 1:56.22.
Last weekend’s other relay state championships include:
- Cardinal Ritter, Class 3 girls 4×200 in 1:42.26;
- Lutheran North, Class 3 girls 4×100 in 49.05;
- Hazelwood Central, Class 5 girls 4×200 in 1:39.5;
- Hazelwood West, Class 5 boys 4×400 in 3:17.12.
