TWCA track teams set school records at meet
HCN Staff
Members of The Woodlands Christian Academy track and field squads celebrate their victories in the Houston Christian Mickey Riggs Relays on Saturday.
HOUSTON — The Woodlands Christian Academy track and field squad set eight new school records while sweeping the Houston Christian Mickey Riggs Relays on Saturday.
The TWCA boys team accumulated 130.5 points, followed by Temple Christian (124.5) and Houston Christian (94.5). The TWCA girls squad won by a more lopsided number, finishing with 207 points, followed by Cypress Christian (97) and Temple Christian (80).
On the boys' side, TWCA's 4x100-meter relay team of Austin Walls, Wyatt Wheeler, Luke Hudson and Raul Giorgi finished second with a time of 46.36 seconds. The Warriors' Luke Shearer won the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:04.00, and later added a first-place finish in the 1,600 (4:58.25).
Giorgi placed second in the 100 (11.79), while the TWCA distance medley relay team of Nathaniel Regier, Logan Shearer, Will McGrath and Luke Shearer won with a time of 12:38.00.
The Warriors' Jeremy Swisher was third in the high jump (5 feet, 8 inches), while TWCA's Morgan Young and Riley Farra went 1-2 in the girls' pole vault. Young's mark was 7-6.
TWCA's Rachel Earle won the 300 hurdles (53.34) and the high jump (4-10), and teammate Haley Pounds was second in the 400 (1:04.84) and third in the triple jump (30-6).
TWCA's girls 4x100 relay team of Alex Harkins, Darby Dwyer, Iliana Giorgi and Morgan Young was third (57.48). Covenant Christian's quartet of Jean-mari de Jager, Hannah Ramey, Petri=louise de Jager and Jalyn Boudreaux were second with a time of 54.96.
In the 4x200 relay, TWCA's Harkins, Young, Abby Caron and Pounds were second (1:57.05). TWCA was the winner in the distance medley relay. Alyssa Regier, Summer Wheeler, Jessica Robinson and Riley Farra had a time of 15:45.
Haley Hanigan was third in the 3,200 (14:19) while Regier gave TWCA a second-place finish in the 1,600.
TWCA's Katy Adams set a new 1,600 school record, winning that race in 6:19, and she placed third in the 3,200 (13:41). Hanigan was fourth in that event.
TWCA's Haley Pounds, Abby caron, Riley Farra and Rachel Earle set a school record while winning the 4x400 in 4:25.
Swisher set a school record in the boys high jump, while Wyatt Wheeler set a new TWCA mark in the 100 hurdles (17.79) while finishing fifth. Luke Hudson placed fourth in the discus (100-5) while setting a new TWCA school record in that event.
Covenant Christian's Petri-louise de Jager was fourth in the long jump.