Snowflake High School’s girls team entered the Division III state meet as one of the favorites to claim a team title and they didn’t disappoint. Snowflake won the girls state team title with a total of 90.5 team points. Salpointe Catholic was second with 80.5. Show Low was a distant third with 41.5 points.
Snowflake’s boy team finished in third place with 60 points. Casteel won the team title with 67 points. Shadow Mountain was second with 62.
Reagan Olson became a state champion in two events. Olson won the long jump with a distance of 17-07.75. She backed that up with a state winning jump in the triple jump traveling a distance of 37-03.
Jessica Neff is a state champion as well after finishing first in the javelin with a throw of 126-03.
Snowflake also won state titles in each of the four relay events. Their 4×100 meter relay time was 50.58. The 4×400 meter relay time was 4:06.23. In the 4×800 meter relay they placed first with a time of 10:04.29.
For the boys team, the only state champion was Dylan Kay who won the high jump clearing the bar at a height of 6-08. Teammates Nathan Kay was second with 6-06; Jake Hall, third with 6-04; and Dallin Hipps, seventh with 6-02.
Garret Wood placed second in the discus with a throw of 139-10.
In the javelin, Caleb Uchytil was third; Jared Fusselman, seventh, and Shane Ciminski, 12th.
In the long jump, Kay was fourth; Hall, 19th; and Layton Hoops, 20th.
In the triple jump, Hall was ninth; and Fusselman, 12th.
In the pole vault, Payson Stepp was 11th; and Benjamin Lara, 13th.
In the shot put, Bradley Ruiz was 11th; and Jordan Patton, 20th.
In the 1600 meter, Keaton Flake placed 25th.
In the 110 meter hurdles, Hall was seventh; and Braden Weech, eighth.
In the 300 meter hurdles, Weech placed third.
In the relay events Snowflake placed ninth in the 4×100 meter relay, eighth in the 4×400 meter relay and they were sixth in the 4×800 meter relay.
In the girls 100 meter, Elaine Zook was fourth and she was seventh in the 100 meter hurdles.
Faith Rogers finished ninth in the 300 meter hurdles.
Mignon Ritz placed sixth in the 800 meter, and she was 13th in the 1600 meter.
In the shot put, Alyssa Brinkerhoff was third; Erin Willis, eighth; and Marquisha Nez, 24th.
In the discus, Willis placed 15th.
In the javelin along with Neff’s first place throw, Katlyn Papa was third; Chloe Lyman, 13th; and Nez, 16th.
In the high jump, Emily Ballard was fourth; Emily Shumway, 10th; Rebecca Gresko, 12th; and Willis, 16th.
In the pole vault, Jaylee Powers was fifth; Janie Tenney, ninth; and Natalya Lyman was 21st.
In the long jump, Ballard placed 20th.
In the triple jump, Powers was 11th; and Trystan Hancock, 16th.
