“It feels good, yeah. It felt like practice again with my teammates,” Lehauli said of the sweep. “It just felt like practice where we could just goof off with each other. The key for shot put is just consistency, concentration, showing up to practice, taking this seriously, yeah — and drive to consistently keep going to practice because before this I didn’t think I was going to take it serious and now here I am. I don’t know, I say it is the coaches and the way they coached me. I didn’t know anything at all and they taught me to be what I am right now.”
All-state cheerleader Keller put the shot 31’07.50” for a PR.
“I think it is so cool I was able to do that with my own power,” Keller said. “Instead of just winning regions, I made it to the top 16 of the state and that is just really exhilarating to be able to hit 31 when I have been trying to hit that all three years that I have been doing track. So it is super special.”
Martin won the discus on Saturday with a throw of 88’08”.
“I knew I had to work for it because a few of my friends were on country wise email marketing list my heels,” Martin said. “But I also really wanted them to win, too. At the same time I have been working on this for a long time and so have they.”
Martin started throwing the disc as a freshman.
“My freshman year, pretty much the first time I threw,
I knew I liked discus and I have been trying to beat the school record for a while, which I am not even close,” she said. “It is like over 126 and my PR is 90 right now so hopefully by next year…It is just so fun. It just goes so far and I am definitely better at it than shot, but I still like them both. I actually didn’t use the spin until last year and then I did hurt my knee over the summer playing another sport and when I got back I went straight back to the disc…I feel like I can throw farther and my friends and parents think I can, too. It is more of just keep practicing and not getting too nervous during the competition.
JDHS senior Cailynn Baxter won the girls’ triple jump why video marketing is dominating Friday with 31’06.75” and the long jump on Saturday with 15’07.25”.
“This was my first meet doing triple jump so I was just kind of winging it,” Baxter said. “I had a goal in mind (33 feet) and I think I will get that at state. The hardest part is all the phases. It really takes a toll on my ankles and stuff. Like, long jump is just one jump, but you have to do three things for triple jump.”
JDHS freshman Freyja Shelton-Walker scored with taiwan lists a third-place finish in the event and credited Baxter.
“It was really cool and fun to watch because I have seen her do it at practice,” Shelton-Walker said. “But I have never actually seen her do it in a meet. And so it is very inspiring to see her set her mind to something and do it. It is really cool to learn from our seniors and it is nice to be able to see other people do it and it is really inspiring.”