Drake Relays day-by-day highlights

Saturday

* Sophomore Stephanie Jenks continued to put her stamp on the national leader board with a US#1 4:28.72 1500 that just missed the Drake Relays record.

* In a very competitive girls 4x400, Pleasant Valley IA edged Assumption IA 3:53.65 to 3:53.71.

* The Albia IA boys capped off the high school portion of the meet with a fast 3:18.90 win in the 4x400. 

Friday

* Kiana Phelps, sophomore from Kingsley-Pierson, won her second straight discus title with US#15 151-10.

* Jalynn Roberts-Lewis had a big day for Roosevelt with victories in the long jump (PR 19-0, wind legal) and the 100 (12.24 into a 2.1 headwind).

* Jeff Giannettino West Burlington IA cleared a lifetime best and US#4 7-0 to win the high jump.

* Assumption of Davenport (girls) broke the meet record in the 800 medley with 1:45.79.

* The Linn-Mar boys ran 3:26.89 for a meet record in the 1600 SMR with Josh Evans on anchor.

* Mary Young of Urbandale ran a meet record 14.30 to win the 100 hurdles (wind-legal 0.2). 

* Sydne Davis of Roosevelt won the boys 110 hurdles in 14.20.

* Rico Gafford of East (Des Moines) took advantage of a big tailwind (3.5) to win the 100 in 10.65. 

* Assumption almost broke the meet record in the girls 4x200, finishing in 1:41.71.

* Waukee won the boys 4x200 in 1:27.81.

* In one of the best races of the day, Kaley Ciluffo of Pleasant Valley beat Stephanie Jenks of Linn-Mar in the 800, 2:10.23 to 2:11.65.

* Carter Lilly of Sioux City East broke the meet record in the 800 with 1:54.62. Jay Wolfe of Creston also was under the old record with 1:55.05.

Thursday

Jenks runs an all-time Iowa best in the 3,000

Linn-Mar's standout, Stephanie Jenks, charged through a 71-second final lap to win the girls 3,000 meters in an all-time state best and meet record 9:26.87. That's a US#1 and in Iowa it broke Katie Flood's 2010 record of 9:27.25.

"When I ran (9:35.69) at the Lion Relays (a week earlier), I thought to myself, 'Just one more second per lap; I can do this,' " Jenks told Iowa TV station KCRG. "I am really, really happy. This means a lot to me."

The boys 3200 was competitive as well, with Albert Meier of Boone winning in 8:58.46 for US#19 in conditions that were certainly more challenging than Arcadia. Meier's time is the fasted by an Iowan in a 3200-meter race, but is short of Jim Eicken's 1975 all-time state best 8:52.0 for two miles.

Chandler Diercks of Clear Lake jumped US#5 23-10 and got every bit of the allowable wind (2.0) to win the event by 11 inches.

In the boys discus, Ethan Fenchel of Western Christian got off a 181-8 on his last throw to overtake Isaac Holtz of Monticello, second with 180-1.