Lynna Irby repeats 3-peat to lead Pike

State Meet Highlights

 
Indiana operates a single-class high school track and field championship on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. (Two notes - Indiana does not contest triple jump at the HS level. And nine places are scored in each final). Headliners included 2-time Foot Locker champion Anna Roher of Mishawaka, pole vaulter Deakin Volz of Bloomington South and Pike sophomore Lynna Irby.

Top Performances:

 
- Deakin Volz of Bloomington South broke his own state meet record in the pole vault with a clearance at 17-6.

- The West Lafayette boys led four teams under 7:50 in the 4x800 relay, taking the title with US#26 7:45.07. Only one guy in the lineup was a senior.

- Junior John Hankerson of South Bend Washington won the boys 100 meters title with 10.73.

- Clayton Cook of Wawasee ran US#35 13.99 to win the boys 110 meter hurdles. He nosed out Delta’s Mason Bechdolt, who ran US#37 14.02.

- D’Wayne Eskridge of Bluffton, a junior, ran US#65 21.39 to win the boys 200 meters. Senior Isaiah Thomas of Warren Central was right there with him, second in US#67 21.40.

- Zack Snider of Brebeuf Jesuit won the 1,600 meters in US#44 4:10.26.

- Junior Christian Powell from Ben Davis won the boys long jump with US#28 23-9.50 and he also anchored his team’s 4x100 relay to a very strong US#28 41.20.

- Stoney Prowell of Indianapolis Marshall won the 400 meters for the second straight year with US#32 47.09 seconds.

- Sophomore Jalen Walker of Carmel won the 300-meter hurdles in US#68 37.74 seconds.

- Junior Hari Sathyamurthy of Brownsburg won the 800 meters in US#44 1:51.50. A year earlier he was second in 1:51.58.

- Carmel junior Ben Veatch ran 8:53.77 to win the boys 3,200 meters.

- Francis Ehigbai of Hamilton South won the boys high jump at US#20 6-11.

- Lake Central won the boys 4x400 relay with US#45 3:16.49 as eight schools crashed under 3:20.

- Cameron Tidd, a junior from Center Grove, won the boys discus with US#17 190-4.

- Lynna Irby of Pike picked up where she left off as a freshman and completed another sprint triple. She ran 11.50 in the 100 meters to better Maicel Malone’s 1986 meet record. She ran 24.23 to win the 200 meters. She won the 400 meters in 54.73 seconds. She also anchored Pike to third in the 4x400.

 
- Senior Anna Rohrer of Mishawaka made her final appearances in her high school uniform count. She won the 1,600 meters in US#56 4:52.09 and she won the 3,200 meters in a meet record time of US#7 10:11.20. She beat runner-up Lauren Johnson of West Lafayette by 43 seconds.

 
- Senior Samantha Woodford of Plainfield won the 800 meters in 2:11.83.

- Caitlyn Redmon and Kayland Jackson of Warren Central went 1-2 in the 100 hurdles with 14.31 and 14.46, respectively. Redmon was also the runner-up in the long jump (18-9) and ran on the second place 4x100 relay.

- Janae Moffitt of Oak Hill claimed the girls high jump with first attempt clearance at 5-10. She missed three tries at 6-0.

- Kennedy Trine of Angola won the girls pole vault with a make at 12-9.

- Sophomore Victoria Farley of Portage threw 44-6 to win the girls shot put.

- The Ben Davis girls ran a very speedy 46.24 to win the 4x100 relay.

- Fort Wayne Northrop ran 3:49.84 to run off with the girls 4x400 relay title.

- West Lafayette ran 8:58.72 to win the girls 4x800 relay crown. Three of the four in the lineup were non-seniors.

 
- Yamani Hunter of Benjamin Bosse, a senior, repeated her long jump title with US#15 19-8.50. She got the big mark on her sixth and final attempt.

Top Teams:

A year after dropping the baton in the 4x400, Carmel’s boys returned to the top of Indiana track with 49 points. Spurred by Lynna Irby’s sweep, Pike collected the girls team title with 50 points.

Top Competition:

One of the best races of the meet came in the 110-meter hurdles final. Cook and edged Bechdolt as they both made the US top-40. It’s races like these that make Indiana’s one-class track championship so appealing. Cook’s Wawasee HS has 1,000 students. Bechdolt’s Delta has about 800. With a meet split by various classes it’s possible that these two wouldn’t have raced each other and the value of their competition would be lost.

Record-breakers: Irby broke Maicel Malone’s state meet record in the 100 meters but her biggest achievement came later in the summer after she made the U.S. team for World Youth. Irby broke Malone’s long hallowed 400 meters record with a stunning 51.79 in Colombia.