Sunnyvale Track Stars 4-Medal Transport Highlights in Dallas region at 4A State Meeting

Sunnyvale Junior Chiora Enyinna-Okigbo was very busy on Thursday. The payout was a whopping four medals. Sunnyvale scored 36 points to third in the 4A girl team competition for occupying alles from Ezyinna-Okigbo.

She started her day to a couple of silver, jumped 5 feet, 7 inches in the high jump and in the long jump with a wind-insulated 18-8½.

It got even better on the route. She won the 100 -meter hurdles in 13.42 seconds, which would easily have been a meeting in class 4a, if not for illegal 2.1 meters per second tailwind, hardly over the permissible 2.0.

She ended her day with another victory in the 300 hurdles with 41.96.

Obviously, Enyinna-Okigbo is used to participating in several events at several events, but she said that this was different with State.

“It is definitely a lot nerve -wracking and more intense, but it's really nice because all girls are really great here so that they can compete,” she said. “I'm definitely satisfied with my 100 hurdles. It was definitely nice to go under 13.5.”

Schools from the Dallas region are characterized in jumping events

The 4A jumping events were good in the Dallas area. Arianna Jefferson by Ferris Double Gold in the long and triple jumps from Girls, Enyinna-Okigbo took Silvers both in the high and long pieces and her schoolmate Cade Andrews took the boys the triple jump.

In the long jump, Jefferson jumped a wind-insulated 19-9¼ to easily hold Enyinna-Okigbo.

The triple jump was more difficult for Jefferson. In the third round she took the lead with 39: 9, but Mackenzie Flaugher von Springtown gave it in fourth with a 39-11¼ and increased her lead in the fifth with a 40-0¼.

But Jefferson was ready for the moment and hit a wind with 40: 8 in the fifth.

This was not Jefferson's first rodeo. Every year it was in the state, with four medals that could show themselves, including Triple Jump Gold in 2023.

“I tend to use this as a motivation,” said Jefferson about the loss of leadership. “I tend to block and I like it is time. ' I feed this type of energy.

Andrews' Triple Jump-Sieg came back for a big moment: a wind-insulated 48-7¼ in the third round. If not, he would have taken second place.

“I felt it through the runway,” said Andrews about his winner. “My first jump, I had to find out what was going on [wrong]And then I just found it out and made it. “

Title defense is too short

Jalen Lott by Frisco Panther Creek knows that a few silvers are a pretty nice medal development on the 4a State Meet, but if they are a defending champion, it is not before expectations.

“I feel pretty good, but obviously I'm a bit salty about it,” said Lott, after I took second place in the high jump (6 feet, 10 inches) and long jump (23-7¼). “But it's a good chance to get better next year.” In 2024 Lott took gold in the long jump.

Both events took place on Thursday in a quick episode, which Lott said that he had taken into account his loss of long jump. “I think I was a little tired from the high jump.”

Lott, a junior, can rely on an expert coaching while he wants to improve – his father is the Athletic Royalty from Texas. James Lott holds the record of State Meet in the high jump at 7-4¾, which competed in 1983 for Refugio. The Elder Lott played in football and track for the Texas Longhorns and won three NCAA high vault championships.

Jalen says that it is “pretty cool to have his father as one of his coaches. Obviously he knows what he is doing.”

Other highlights for schools in Dallas:

• A 1-2-3 finish in the girls 400: Naomi Jones, Lincoln, 55.94; Daisy Thompson, Carter, 56.29; Jada White, Kennedale, 56.52.
• Roy Hughes von Lincoln took 36.58 in the 300 hurdles, the fastest in the nation this year.

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