Canyon girls win 4A state track team title
A senior who ended her UIL state track career with a pair of gold medals began the day for Canyon on Saturday, and a freshmen who began her career with a pair of golds ended it.
And that made Canyon the top Class 4A girls team in the state.
Throwing specialist Audrey Hughes, a senior and distance runner Breanna Stuart, a freshman, swept their respective events early and late respectively at Austin's Mike A. Myer Stadium. Those four golds were the highlights for a Canyon team that claimed the girls state title with 86 points, 14 ahead of Texarkana Liberty-Eylau.
Stuart actually won her first gold in the morning, winning the 3200 meters in 10 minutes, 57.96 seconds. She waited to run again at 9:35 p.m. in the 1600, where she won with a 5:08.74.
But Stuart and Hughes (who won the shot put and discus) weren't the only winners for Canyon. The 800 turned out to be Canyon's biggest event of the day points wise.
That's because sophomore Gabi Davis won with a time of 2:15.80. Davis finished ahead of senior teammate Kelsee Dudley, who ran a 2:18.78 to take silver.
Canyon ended the night by taking silver in the 1600 relay, as Caitlynne Speegle, Whitney Willeford, Ryleigh Taylor and Alyssa Harris combined to finish second in 3:55.23.
Harris also took bronze in the 400 with a 56.34.
Canyon wasn't the only Panhandle school to take home a team title. In Class 2A, Sunray won the team title with 66 points.
Sunray clinched the title by winning the final event of the day, as Katelyn Hernandez, Hope Castillo, Faith Castillo and Olivia Grasse combined to win gold in the 1600 relay with a 4:00.83. That quartet also won the 800 relay in 1:43.78, as those two events won Sunray an invaluable 40 points.
Vega's Zoe Webb was a multiple medal winner in 2A. Webb won the 100 hurdles in 14.82, edging Stratford's Rese Schoonover (15.27) and took silver in the triple jump with a leap of 37 feet, 10 1/4 inches.
Schoonover also took silver in the 300 hurdles in 45.58. Gruver freshman Bailey Maupin was also a multi medal winner, taking bronze in the 2A triple jump (36-10 1/4) after winning the high jump.
Maupin wasn't the only freshman to win multiple medals in 2A. Panhandle's Macklynn Land won gold in the 400 (57.79) and silver in the 200 (25.6).
For the boys, Gruver's Jalin Conyers took silver in the triple jump with a 45-1.