Sports
Milton Boys Track & Field Athletes Qualify For State Championship
The state track & field championships will be held May 10-12 at Berry College in Rome.
POWDER SPRINGS, GA — The Milton Track & Field Teams, fresh off their 3rd-ever boys region title, traveled to McEachern HS for the GHSA Sectional meet which qualifies athletes to the State Meet and came away with a new school record and many individual qualifiers for the state track & field championships to be held at Berry College, Rome, GA on May 10-12.
BOYS
The highlight for Milton was the school record performance of the 4x100m relay team. Milton (2nd-41.81) won the first heat in come from behind fashion to qualify for the state meet. Demarrie Taylor, Davis Smith, Solomon Vanhorse & DJ Albright broke the school record that had stood since 2002 of 42.28! Senior Davis Smith had a busy day but qualified in 4 events for the state meet.
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Smith was 2nd in the Long Jump (22’8”), 5th in the 400m (49.55, the 2nd fastest time in school history), 4th in the 300m Hurdles (39.54) & the before mentioned 4x100m relay. Double event state qualifiers also included seniors Nicholas Yanek & Sam Bowers, both in the 1600m (Yanek 2nd-4:26.16, Bowers 6th-4:29.78) & 3200m (Yanek 1st-9:24.10, Bowers 7th-9:53.18) and Solomon Vanhorse in the 100m (7th-10.94) & the 4x100m. Single event state qualifiers included junior Mathew Mazzacano in the pole vault (2nd-14’), Lucas Moore in the long jump (3rd-22’6.5”) and finally senior captain Ryan Beitzell in the 800m (6th-1:58.24).
GIRLS
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The Lady Eagles were led by senior captain Annie Gallagher who qualified for the state meet in two events that were both personal bests and top-5 all-time school performances. In the 1600m, Gallagher (4th-5:06.37) ran close to a 2-second personal best & 4th best in school history. In the 800m, Gallagher (5th-2:15.52) recorded the 2nd best performance in school history.
Single event state qualifiers included the big personal best performance by Amanda Sanchez in the discus. Sanchez (7th-102’10”) threw a 13 foot personal best to move on to the state meet. Sophomore Nyah Hernandez (6th-11:49.55) & junior Taylor Cushman (8th-11:54.78) both qualified in the 3200m to close out Milton’s state track meet qualifiers.
