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Jim Wieners’ Sports Roundup: Triple Digit Titles
Trinity’s First Girls And Boys State
Track-Field Titles Are Triple Digits
By Jim Wieners
In 2018, Trinity Catholic Track And Field notched their first individual and relay event state titles but the Titans fell short of 60 points and fell short of State Team titles
May 25, 2019, Trinity had unfinished business and their mission is complete. The Titans won their first Boys Class Three State Title by scoring 100 points. Trinity Girls did even better by scoring 118 points to win their first Class Three State title. No other team, Boys or Girls, in any of the other four classes, manage to score 100 points.
Trinity won the Class Three State Track And Field Titles at the University of Missouri’s Audrey J. Walton Track Facility in Columbia. The meet moved to Columbia from Jefferson City High due to an EF-3 Tornado that damaged Adkins Stadium and Licklider Track on May 22 at 11:30 p.m. All Three of Trinity’s State titles, including the Class Three Football Title on Dec. 1, 2018, were at Mizzou.
Trinity dominated the Girls’ State Championship by doubling the 59 points scored by 2018 Champion John Burroughs while Cardinal Ritter and Knob Knoster share third place with 29. Trinity’s Boys finished 18 points ahead of 2018 Champion Cardinal Ritter (82), 52 ahead of Centralia (48) and 73 ahead of Maplewood-Richmond Heights (27). Trinity Girls and Boys titles are six years after Hazelwood Central won Class Four Girls and Boys (2013).
Four Girls won half of the State 100-Meter Hurdles medals after taking first-fourth in District Three and Sectional Two Sophomore Akilah Heffner won in 14.85 seconds, senior Shaila Jones took second (14.77 seconds), sophomore Sydney Juszczyk took third (14.86 seconds) and freshman Brooke Moore took Fourth (14.98 seconds).
Sydney Juszczyk set a new all class and Class Three Record in winning the Javelin with a 152’1” throw. The throw smashed her own Class Three record of 142’3” she set last year while passing the old all-class mark of 149’6” set in 2017 by Springfield-Kickapoo’s Jordan Sanders. Juszczyk took third in the Triple Jump (36’25.3”).
Heffner won the Long Jump (18’2)’ and took seventh in the 100-Meter Dash (12.6 seconds) while Moore won the Triple Jump (38’5”). Sophomore Kayla Millett won the 300-Meter Hurdles (45.65 seconds), while senior DeAyvion Smith took second in the High Jump. Freshman Leah Thames took third in the 200-Meter Dash (12.45 seconds) and fourth in the 100-Meter Dash (12.38 seconds) while sophomore Dayna Reid took third in the 400-Meter Dash (57.99 seconds) and fifth at 200 Meters (25.47 seconds)
Jones, Juszczyk, Thames and senior Samantha Sieve won the 4×100-Meter Relay (48.47 seconds) while Moore, Sieve, Jones and Smith took second in the 4×200-Meter Relay (1:43.32)
Seniors Paul Reed, Isaiah Williams, Alphonzo Andrews and Kemeric Winston won the Boys 4×200-Meter Relay (1:27.76) while Andrews, Williams, Winston and junior Thomas Sonntag won the Boys 4×100-Meter Relay (42.34 seconds).Winston won the 100-Meter Dash (10.71 seconds) and the 200-Meter Dash (21.33 seconds). Sonntag took second in the 110-Meter Hurdles (14.72 seconds) and 300-Meter Hurdles (38.56 seconds) while Williams took second in the Triple Jump (47.8”).
Sophomore Malcolm Harvey won the Javelin (184’8”), junior David Reed took second in the Shot Put, (49’4”) and senior DaJuan Young took third in the Triple Jump (46’5”) and fifth in the High Jump (6’1”).
