Sitka’s Mullin led a sweep of Wolves in the DII portion of the 3,200, with senior teammates Marina Dill and Aliyah Merculief in a field of seven.
“Key is just focusing on staying steady really,” Mullin said. “You don’t want to blow out all your energy in the first 800. I was actually pacing Marina through this race and that was actually really fun. I like doing that. It is nice to be able to encourage someone to get a PR and she PR’d by 10 seconds. It changes it up a little bit, and makes racing fun and exciting. You get to celebrate with your teammates, too.”
Mullin earned the DII Girls Overall Outstanding Competitor Award as she also won DII events of 800 meters (2:18.46), 1,600 meters (5:09.75) and the 4×800 relay (10:32.72) with senior teammates Dill and Merculief and junior Jadelynn Kubik.
JDHS freshman Bella Connally set the stage for a career
of possible state titles as she won the girls’ 100- and 200-meter races in 12.70 and 26.32, respectively, defeating KTN senior Clara Odden in the 200 for key team points.
“It’s amazing,” Connally said after the 100. “It’s crazy. Just, oh country wise email marketing list my gosh, I don’t know what to say. I always think they are just right there behind me and I need to run faster. Key for me was remembering to focus, stay low and just drive through the whole race.”
After the 200 she said, “This one is definitely harder. I feel so dead at the end. It pushes me even more when my teammates are racing right with me. Just them right there. Pushing me to go faster. So much fun.”
JDHS freshman Addie Hartman and Shandies Frommherz finished second and third in the 100, earning points for the Crimson Bears, and Frommherz and freshman Mya Hayes went third and fourth in the 200.
Petersburg freshman Cadence Flint won the first
event of the meet, the DII girls’ high jump with a personal best of 4’08”.
“It feels pretty good since I have been working pretty hard for that goal,” Flint said. “I really had to figure out how to run against the wind and not worry about it in my ears, and I really had to focus on how to create a marketing dashboard not looking at how high up the bar was. My goal all year has just been to clear 4-8. I’ve been working on it all year, doing it at every meet and just slowly working my way up to 4-8. I do a lot of plyometric workouts at practice and work on a lot of sprinting to build up speed to jump.”
Bears in the DI girls’ shot put, placing first ahead of classmate Ayla Keller and JDHS juniors Meliame Tupou and Issy Martin.
Lehauli is the first JDHS team captain from fax database Juneau’s Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School and this was her first year every participating in a track and field event.
“Yes, it feels…it’s crazy,” Lehauli said. “I thought at first, ‘Oh, there are no student-athletes that go to Yaaḵoosgé, maybe I’ll be the first one.’ Then Jesse (coach Stringer) was like, ‘Oh, you can be captain, would you consider being captain?” I, of course, said yes. That is so cool.”