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Track qualifiers

STRICKLAND (L), CONN

White Plains’ dynamic distance duo of Anna Strickland and Maddyn Conn are seeded first or second in the Class 4A-5A 800, 1600 and 3200 and favored to bring home state titles in those events at this week’s State Indoor Track Championships at the Birmingham Crossplex.

Strickland, a Jacksonville State signee, is seeded first in the 800 (2:25.89) and second in the 1,600 (5:23.20). Conn, a freshman, is seeded first in the 1600 (5:11.00) and 3200 (11:27.10) and second in the 800 (2:31.40).

Ohatchee’s Chris Ferguson is seeded first in the boys 1A-3A pole vault.

Here is a list of all the Calhoun County qualifiers (and Munford) headed to the State Meet. Seeding is in parenthesis.

Class 6A
Oxford

4×800 boys relay (7th): 8:43.17, school record
Noah George: 1600, 4:31.51, school record; 3200, 9:44.26, school record; Evan Somers: 800, 2:03.06
Deandre Archie: Triple Jump (16th) 38-9.75
Katie Keur: 800, 2:27.59, school record; 1600, 5:24.17, school record; 3200, 12:06.60, school record
Emerson Maniscalco: 3200, 12:22.45

Class 4A-5A
White Plains

Anna Strickland: 800 (1st), 2:25.89, school record; 1600 (2nd), 5:23.20; 3200 (4th), 12:02.41
Maddyn Conn: 800 (2nd), 2:31.40; 1600 (1st), 5:11.00, school record; 3200 (1st), 11:27.10, school record
Angel Bozarth: High Jump (4th)

Munford

Dakota Frank: 1600 (4th), 4:35.53, school record; 3200 (3rd), 10:00.08, school record
Isabella Foshee: 3200, 12:51.74, school record

Alexandria

Matthew Bunn: Triple Jump (14th), 36-11.75, school record
Tyasha Hunt: Shot Put (16th), 27-2.75

Class 1A-3A
Piedmont

4×200 boys relay
4×400 boys relay
McLaine Mohon: High Jump (T9), 5-6, school record; Long Jump (11th), 18-1.2
Cody Holloway: Long Jump (14th), 17-11; 60 hurdles (2nd), 9.49
Sam Tolbert: Shot Put (14th), 35-8
Max Hanson: 400, 56.83
Austin Estes: 60 (10th), 7.37
Ashlyn Adderhold: High Jump (T8), 4-4, school record; Pole Vault (T2), 8-0, school record; Triple Jump (6th), 32-9
Maggie Langloh: High Jump (T8), 4-4
Lexi Ray: Pole vault (T2), 8-0
Armoni Perry: Shot put (8th), 28-3, school record
Emma Grace Todd: Long Jump (11th), 13-10, school record; Triple Jump (10th), 29-2.5
Hannah Barbee: 60 hurdles, 11.46, school record

Ohatchee

Tyler Waters: Shot Put (6th), 38-4
Chris Ferguson: Pole Vault (1st), 13-0, school record
Coalie Easterwood: Pole Vault (T8), 7-0, ties school record
Gracie George: Shot Put (3rd), 31-8
Brooklyn Fordham: Pole Vault (T8), 7-0, ties school record

Donoho

4×400 boys relay: 3:57.92, school record
4×800 boys relay: 9:55.93, school record
Ethan Rogers: 400, 57.12, school record
Estella Connell: High Jump (2nd), 5-0, school record; Triple Jump (4th), 32-9, school record; Long Jump (5th), 15-2.7, school record
Dena Musa: Pole Vault (T5), 7-6, school record
Ansley Simmons: Shot Put (15th), 25-9.5, school record
Rory Parks: 60 hurdles, 11.78, school record
Mercy Mangum, 60 hurdles, 11.97

Cover picture: White Plains’ Maddyn Conn (L) and Anna Strickland run stride for stride in this year’s Calhoun County Cross Country Championships. Oxford’s Katie Keur is on the outside. All three are contenders at this week’s indoor track state championship. (Photo by Dana Stewart George)

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