By wide margins and with many individual contributors, the host Wakefield Warriors won the girls and boys Liberty District outdoor track and field championships on their own turf over the evenings of May 9 and 10.
With significant depth on both teams, the girls won with 151 points and had 10 first-place finishes in the high-school event, and the boys had 185 with seven winners. Second were the Washington-Liberty girls with 87 and the McLean boys with 83.
The meet titles were the third each in recent weeks for both Wakefield teams, having won the Arlington County and Titan Classic previously.
“Our performances and efforts have been outstanding all season,” Wakefield coach Sam Sharp said.
Leading the Wakefield girls was four-event champion Kenedy Shields. She had firsts in the 100 dash (12.31), the 100 hurdles (25.95), the high jump (5-2) and long jump (18-6), ran on the winning 4x100 relay (49.33) and added an eighth in the shot put.
Hosanna Connor was a double winner for Wakefield, in the triple jump (34-10 1/4) and pole vault (9-9). Ada Jordan won the 800 (2:17.9) and Grace Armitage won the 300 hurdles (46.9), was second in the triple jump and 100 hurdles and third in the long jump.
The 4x400 relay won in 4:07.88 and the 4x80 was second.
Third were Eulalia Sarli in the 800 and Julissa Hernandez Pereira in the discus, Sofia Vazquez was fourth in the pole vault, fifth was Quincy Daigle in the 1,600 and sixth were Vazquez in the triple jump and Addison Young in the 1,600.
Leading the Wakefield boys was double winners Chris Gilpin in the 100 (10.71) and long jump (21-5) and Silas Lesparance in the 200 (22.72) and 400 (49.87). Travon Buckner won the triple jump (42-9), Owen Jacques won the high jump (6-0) and Michael Hutchinson was first in the shot put (50 2 1/4) and third in the discus.
Second were Ben Chapuis in the triple and high jumps, Liam Keish in the 800, Frank Mani in the long jump and Jackson Gray in the pole vault.
Third were Keish (1,600), Jacques (long jump), Diego Fernandez (pole vault), Thuyon Smith (100), Isiah Ledbetter (triple jump) and the 4x400 relay.
Fourth were Charles Randolph (shot and discus) Smith (200), Bryant Cruz-Lemus (high jump) and Ben Chapuis (110 hurdles and long jump). Fifth were Chapuis (300 hurdles), Alex Epstein (pole vault) and Noah Gunville (3,200). Gilpin had a sixth in the high jump, as did Mani in the triple jump.
Travon Buckner had two top-10 finishes, and Leadbetter and Mikey Johnson had others in the top 10.
Leading the second-place W-L girls were Therese Johansson with a second in the 800, Gabriela Newton was second in the 400, Amela Male was second in the shot and a runner-up by the 4x100 relay. Third were Alexis Morley-Lascano (pole vault), Alba Edsall (3,200), Morgan Brown (100) and the 4x400 relay.
Newton also was fifth in the long and triple jumps and sixth in the 100 and Brown was fourth in the 200.
The sixth-place Yorktown girls had four champions with Marin McCormack winning the 400 (57.2), Sofia Sheldon the 1,600 (4:59.2), Kaiya Ovando the discus (114-11) and the 4x800 relay in a meet and school record time of 9:18.47. Eleanor Whitehouse was fourth in the 1,600 and Ovando fifth in the shot.
The winning relay consisted of McCormack, Whitehouse, Sheldon and Ellen Malloy.
For the fifth-place Washington-Liberty boys, Charles Gent won the pole vault (13-0), Ian Crowley was second in the 110 hurdles and seventh in the 300 hurdles, third were Jackson Nowinski (200) and Alexander Calleja (shot), fourth in the 400 was Joaquin Lynch and the 4x100 and 4x400 relays were second.
For the seventh-place Yorktown boys, the 4x800 relay won in 8:04.64. The relay consisted of Reid Dalley Brendan Schmitt, John Thomas and Theo Wargo.
