Spartans Win Girls Track State Championship

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL - Mountain Brook has a history of track and field dominance in Alabama, but the Spartans had experienced an indoor track championship drought lately - if that is what you want to call it - until this past weekend's state championship meet at the Birmingham CrossPlex. The Spartans girls indoor track team captured its first title since 2013 in dramatic fashion, coming from behind with a late surge Saturday.

With a fourth place finish in the 4x400, the girls team scored 5 points to clinch the title. Mountain Brook finished with 71 points, edging Baker by just 10.5 points.

The championship snapped a 5-year winning streak held by Hoover.

Key contributors for the Spartans included Tessa Allen and Lily Hulsey, who scored 14 points in the 1,600-meter run, finishing second and third, respectively. Allen ran 5 minutes, 12.15 seconds, while Hulsey ran 5:13.97. As well, Holli Chapman placed second in the 400 and anchored her team's fourth-place 4x400-meter relay.

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Also contributing were high jumpers Grayson Scott and Ella Cobbs. Scott took third, clearing 5 feet, 2 inches. Cobbs also jumped 5-2 but placed sixth based on her number of attempts.

Scott also finished fourth in Friday's long jump, placing two spots ahead of teammate Anne Carlton Clegg. Alex Pitts and Elizabeth Robertson took fourth and fifth in the 3,200 meters, and Sophie Jane Knott tied for third in the pole vault.

Photo via Mountain Brook Athletics