Updated with addtional Forks results
TACOMA — Sequim’s Clare Turella and the Neah Bay 4×200 and 4×100 girls relay team joined Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark as state track and field champions this weekend.
Turella won her second straight state championship at the 2A girls track meet Friday evening, setting a personal record with a high jump of 5 feet, 4 inches early Friday evening to better Raegan Dukes of Columbia River, who finished second with a jump of 5-2.
Turella’s previous personal best was 5-3, which she set last year and at the West Central District 3 meet a week ago. She jumped 5-2 to win the state championship last year. Turella also won the high jump at the 2024 USA Track and Field Junior Olympic regional and Pacific Northwest meets.
Turella was the second state champion from the Olympic Peninsula at the 2A meet. Taking first in the javelin Thursday was Teanna Clark of Port Angeles, who threw a personal-best 136 feet, 3 inches to win the event by a whopping 12 feet. It was Clark’s first state championship. She finished third last year.
The Port Angeles girls also picked up an eighth-place finish in the 100 hurdles from Faerin Tait. She finished with a time of 15.59 seconds.
Meanwhile, Sequim picked up a sixth-place finish in the 800 from Dawn Hulstedt, who finished with a time of 2:18.61 to give Sequim 13 points.
The Sequim girls finished 19th at state while the Port Angeles girls 20th. Sehome won the 2A girls meet with 83 points.
Port Angeles’ Brody Pierce finished eighth in the triple jump with a distance of 42-3¼.
1B girls meet
There were a number of great performances at the 1B meet from Crescent, Neah Bay and Clallam Bay athletes, led by the Neah Bay girls.
The Neah Bay 4×200 team of Alexa Greene, Qwaapeys Greene, Brianna McGimpsey and Angel Halttunen won its preliminary heat Friday, then took first in the finals early Saturday morning at the 1B state track and field meet in Yakima in a time of 1 minute, 49.78 seconds, winning by more than a second.
Later in the day, the same four girls, running for the Neah Bay 4×100 team, also took first in a time of 52.34 seconds, winning by 0.16 of a second over a team from Odessa.
Halttunen placed in two more events as an individual. She finished sixth in the 200 meters in a time of 27.14 and eighth in the 100 in 13.28.
The Neah Bay girls finished 10th as a team with 24 points. The Pope John Paul II girls, which dominated the distance races, won the 1B girls meet with 91 points.
Crescent also had a solid state meet with 16 points, finishing 14th. Naomii Sprague led the way for the Loggers, placing in three events. She finished third in the 300 meter hurdles (48.51), fifth in the 100 hurdles (16.91) and seventh in the triple jump (32 feet, 6 inches). She also finished 10th in the long jump with a leap of 15-3¼, though only the top eight finishes collect points.
Her teammate Alexis Dunavant also placed fifth in the shot put with a distance of 34-6. Katelyn Dunavant was 9th in the javelin at 93-6 and 10th in the shot put at 31-11½.
1B boys and more
The Clallam Bay boys had a great meet, led by William Hull.
Hull finished second in the 300 hurdles with a personal-record time of 40.55 seconds, just 0.39 of a second out of first, set by Levi McPherson of Garden City.
Hull also finished seventh in the triple jump at 39-3, while teammate Cyrus Politte was eighth at 38-11¾.
Politte was also seventh in the 110 hurdles in a time of 17.39 seconds.
Neah Bay’s Daniel Cumming had a great meet, as well. He finished third in the discus at 138-7 and fourth in the shot put at 45-9. The Clallam Bay boys finished 17th at state and Neah Bay 11th.
For Forks, Gage Willenbrook finished fourth in the 2B high jump at 5-10.
Forks’ Reagan Dunn finished fifth in the girls javelin with a personal-best throw of 117 feet, 8 inches.
The Forks 4×400 girls relay team of Skye Hestand, Moli Luong, Elizabeth Morrison and Erika Williams finished seventh with a time 4 minutes, 24.01 seconds.
At the 1A meet, East Jefferson’s Arden Moore was fourth 300 hurdles with a time of 46.99.
The East Jefferson girls placed two relay teams. The Rivals’ 4×100 team of Sienna Emerson, Moore, Carina Shiflett and Clara Camp was seventh in 51.13 seconds and the 4×200 team of Shiflett, Moore, Abby O’Keefe and Camp was seventh in 1:47.59.
Other finishes at the six state track meets include:
• Sean Southard, Sequim, 2A javelin, 10th, 153-0.
• Kaleeka Mendoza-McCarthy, Clallam Bay, 11th, 1B high jump, 4-6; 12th, triple jump, 31-2¾.
• Dawn Hulstedt, Sequim, 11th, 2A 1,600 meters, 5:15.71.
• Katelyn Dunavant, Crescent 15th, 1B discus, 91-4.
• Leia Larson, Port Angeles, 17th, 2A 3,200 meters, 12:43.05.
Sequim’s Sean Southard throws the javelin at the state 2A track and field meet at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma on Friday. Southard finished 10th with a throw of 153-0. (Eric Trent/Cascadia Daily News)
