Sophomore Aimee Kamau is competing in the discus and shot put. Junior Kaylie Pitts, sophomore Kayla Franklin and freshmen Amariah White and Myanna Williams should be key sprinters. Junior Natalie Beasley is another distance runner.Īyva Leon is a hurdler and jumper and Sakura Yagi is a hurdler. It makes you happy.”Ī key contributor should be senior distance runner Audrey Bannister, who was a four-time state qualifier in cross country and has committed to Northwestern.
“It’s nice to be back out and working with the kids. “It’s going to be nice to get back to almost normal,” Schall said. Schall said the Irish were hit hard by graduation and the lack of a season a year ago. Scioto coach Stacey Schall said her team lacks experience but has individuals with potential.
Next meet: April 17 at Coffman Joe Lenge Classic.Half of our team has not run high school track, but overall we’re looking forward to it.” “I think it’s going to be a fun year,” coach Randi Beatty said. Throwers include juniors Darya Shirzad (shot put, discus) and Annika Sunkura (discus). Sprinters include juniors Meryl LaRue and Caroline Zimovan, with senior Hailey Watson in the long jump and junior McKenna Moritz in the high jump and hurdles. Senior Lauren Metzger and junior Audrey Cook should lead the team’s distance corps, along with senior Miuka Yamauchi and junior Ava DiMasi. Seniors Claire Deffet and Megan Keys are other middle-distance runners, with junior Gwyn Lai in the hurdles and middle-distance races. Three of those competitors - senior Samantha Melican and juniors Raegan Ernst and Maya Fuller - have returned to lead what figures to be a strong middle-distance group for the Celtics.įreshman Chloe Friedman is among those who could fill out the relay after 2020 graduate Emily Oiler was the other leg in 2019.Īlso in 2019, Ernst was a regional qualifier in the 300 hurdles after winning a district title in that event and was OCC-Cardinal Division runner-up in the high jump. Key athletes: Katie Brand, Abby Collier, Abby McGraw, Olivia Oiler, Abby Scherer, Kasey Stammen and Emily Yoshinoĭuring the 2019 season, Jerome’s 1,600 relay ran a program-record 3:55.46 during the Division I state preliminary race and went on to finish eighth (3:57.11) the next day.Next meet: April 17 in Joe Lenge Classic at home.With so few seniors, the flip side of that is you get your kids a chance to compete and maybe extend their seasons and it pays dividends for next year, too.” … We (also) have new juniors that have not competed. The seniors we have are pretty good, but when you have so many freshmen. “We’re young and inexperienced,” King said. McGraw and junior Melanie Kyriacou are in the long jump, with sophomore Emily Yoshino in the pole vault and senior Abby Goldberg, junior Anna Krueger and sophomore Ava Parrill in the shot put and discus. Junior Kasey Stammen is another top middle-distance runner, with junior Kendall Starr, sophomore Alexis Marsico and freshmen Kylie Feeney and McKenzie Vick expected to run distance. Sophomore Olivia Oiler placed seventh in the 1,600 at the state indoor finale March 6 at SPIRE Institute in Geneva and also should run the 800 and possibly the 1,600 relay. Scherer was a regional qualifier in the 800, and Collier competed at the regional in the 400 in 2019. Senior Abby Scherer - who ran a leg of the 3,200 relay that reached the 2019 regional and missed qualifying individually for the state cross country meet by seven spots last fall - should be one of the top competitors in the 800 and 1,600. The top returnee is junior Katie Brand, who placed 13th in the 100 meters (12.59 seconds) at the Division I state meet in 2019. She’ll likely lead a sprint corps that also should include seniors Abby Collier and Abby McGraw. “I’m looking forward to this (track) season.” “It’s nice because cross country was the most normal thing about this (school) year so far,” King said. He’s hopeful that the return to competition in track will go as smoothly as it went in cross country. After the Dublin Coffman girls track and field season was canceled last spring because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, coach Greg King found enjoyment last fall while leading the girls cross country team.
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