Duo stars for the St. Catherine's girls and Liberty Christian Academy boys helped lead their squads to state team titles at Saturday's Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Indoor Track & Field Championships in Richmond.
Taylor Clevinger and Sarah Katz nearly both won two individual titles each for St. Catherine's with Clevinger as the winner in the 1600 (5:16) and 1000 (3:02), while Katz won the 500 in a personal best time of 1:18.64, while trading wins with Trinity's Jordan Stokes in two events as a close runner-up to her in the 300 at 41.95.
Stokes claimed Runner of the the Meet honors with her 41.80 victory in the 300, a runner-up 1:19 effort in the 500, and placing third in the 55 meter dash finals.
Episcopal's Shantell Bingham was in a class of her own in dominant runaway victories in the finals of the 55 meter hurdles (8.22) and 55 meter dash (7.12) with her dash time being an all-time best for the state leader in the hurdles. Liberty Christian's Dana Mercer swept the horizontal jumps including a national caliber mark of 18'1" in the long jump.
Cody Bingham soared cleanly over a height of 15'6" in the pole vault, while LCA teammate Demitri Knowles blazed the track surface with his times of 6.47 in the 55 meter dash finals and 35.69 in the 300 meter dash to help secure a state team crown for the Liberty Christian Academy squad.
Episcopal senior and Wake Forest bound Reid Nickle impressed in his distance double as he negatively splitted considerably in his 4:29 1600 win and came back later to win a competitive 1000 meter race with Fork Union's Avery Martin and St. Christopher's' Ben Constable in a solid time of 2:33.55. William Miller also helped contribute to a LCA title with first place showing in the 500 meter dash at 1:07.85. More to come from the VISAA State Indoor Championships...
VISAA State Championships Results: Boys - Girls
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