STATE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Update): Port Angeles’ Brody Pierce; Clallam Bay’s Cyrus Politte state champions

Published 2:30 pm Saturday, May 30, 2026

TACOMA — Port Angeles and Clallam Bay each have a state champion in track and field, and both in jumping events.

Brody Pierce, who earlier in the weekend placed eighth in the long jump, won the 2A state championship Saturday at Mount Tahoma Stadium in the triple jump with a personal-best distance of 47 feet, 5 inches, winning the event by nearly 2½ feet.

Pierce’s long jump of 21-9½ was good for eighth and he also finished 11th in the high jump with a leap of 5-10.

Clallam Bay’s Cyrus Politte, who had already placed in the triple jump and the 110 hurdles earlier in the weekend at the 1B state meet in Yakima, tied for first in the high jump with a leap of 6-2. He tied with Logan Green of Mary M. Knight.

Even though there are just two Clallam Bay athletes competing at state, the Bruins finished sixth at the 1B meet as a team.

Politte was also second in the triple jump at 44-1 and sixth in the 110 hurdles (16.11). His teammate William Hull was fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.82) and third in the 300 hurdles (41.06). These two combined to earn 31 team points for sixth place as a team, better than 29 full 1B teams at state.

Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark, who had the top javelin distance in 2A all year, finished second in the javelin Friday with a throw of 129-3. Clark won the javelin last year and finished third at state in her sophomore season for three top-3 finishes in her high school career. Clark graduates as the holder of the Port Angeles school record in the javelin with a throw at the district meet of 141-8, breaking her own record by five feet.

Port Angeles’ Liam Wilson was also third in the 400 in a time of 49.57 seconds. The Port Angeles boys finished 15th as a team at state out of 41 schools with 17 points, largely because of Pierce and Wilson’s performances.

Sequim’s Reid Randall was fifth in the 800 in a time of 1:55.21 and eighth in the 400 in 52.68.

Other 2A athletes included Sequim’s Clare Turella, who was 13th in the high jump at 4-10 and Port Angeles’ Leia Larson, who was 16th in the 3,200 with a time of 12 minutes, 17.12 seconds. Turella won the state high jump championship in 2024 and 2025.

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The Neah Bay girls 4×200 relay team missed out on a state championship by a fraction of a second. The team of Alexa Greene, Qwaapeys Greene, Brianna McGimpsey and Angel Halttunen finished second in 1:49.98, just a whisker behind the winning time 1:49.88 by a team from Entiat.

The same four girls finished sixth in the 4×100 in a time of 53.25 and Halttunen was fifth as an individual in the 400 in a time of 1:04.00.

Neah Bay’s Daniel Cumming had a fantastic shot put performance with a personal-best (by more than two feet) distance of 50-5¾, good for second place. The top distance was 54-3½ by Stuart Grossruck of Evergreen Lutheran. Cumming later finished sixth in the discus with a throw of 133-4.

Crescent’s Naomii Sprague was third in the 1B 100 hurdles (16.68), third in the 300 hurdles (47.80) and sixth in the triple jump (31-9¼). Her teammate Alexis Dunavant was fifth in the shot put (34-8½.) and 10th in the discus (96-4). Sprague and Dunavant’s points total were good enough to put the Crescent girls 12th in the state among 41 1B schools with 19 points.

Clallam Bay’s Kaleeka Mendoza-McCarty was fifth in the 1B girls triple jump with a distance of 32-3¾. She was also 10th in the long jump (15-1¼) and 11th in the high jump (4-4).

Forks’ Noah Foster was sixth in the 400 meters (51.81) in the 2B meet.

The East Jefferson 4×100 team of Sienna Emerson, Arden Moore, Carina Shiflett and Clara Camp was sixth at the 1A meet in a time of 50.94. Moore also finished eighth in the 300 hurdles in a time of 47.54.

Kaida Rodrigues of East Jefferson was ninth in the 1A girls triple jump with a distance of 34-8¼.

East Jefferson’s Leah Ferland was 11th in the 1A girls 3,200 in a time of 12:17.56 and Dustin Hines of East Jefferson was 13th in the 1A boys 3,200 in 9:59.63.

Forks’ Kareena Nandial was 11th in the girls’ 2B shot put with a distance of 30-11¾, while Neah Bay’s Andres Pascua Jr. was 12th in the 1B long jump (18-8¼). Gregory Beard of Neah Bay was 13th in the 1B shot put at 37-9 and Clallam Bay’s Hull was 13th in the triple jump at 36-10½. John Lium of Crescent was 14th in the 1B high jump at 5-6.

Aalyah Johnson of East Jefferson was 15th in the 1A girls triple jump (32-6¼) and 16th in the 1A girls long jump at 14-6¾.