Holly DeHart's four wins lead Kentwood to girls team trophy / 4A Track and Field

TACOMA — Holly DeHart wanted to be reminded of her athletic goals every day.

So, with black eyeliner, she scribbled them down on her bathroom mirror back home in Kent last winter.

Each morning this spring, she stared at those goals. And on Saturday at the Class 4A state track and field meet at Mount Tahoma High School, those goals were realized.

DeHart, a senior at Kentwood, was a part of four winning events to help lift the Conquerors to the girls team title.

Meanwhile, Kent-Meridian took the boys title with 45 points — four better than runner-up Mead.

DeHart swept the 100 meters (11.97 seconds) and 200 (24.29) and ran on two victorious relays as Kentwood scored 66 points to claim the school's first girls track and field state team title.

DeHart had scribbled "11.9" and "24.2" on her mirror and nearly matched those times in the sprints Saturday.

"We left it all on the turf today," said DeHart, one of 14 Kentwood girls competitors in the meet. "That is what we came here for today."

After two days of rain, the sun came out for the final day of competition. That led to better marks.

Although Kasen Williams of Skyline didn't reach his goal of breaking the state-meet record in the long jump, he did win the event with a personal record to sweep all three jump events.

Williams jumped 24-5 ¼ to win a battle against BJ Arceneaux (24-2) of Kentwood. The meet record by Garfield's Peller Phillips in 1988 remains at 24 feet, 10 ½ inches.

"I love coming out here and having competition," Williams said. "I love being pushed."

Jackson's Grant Grosvenor knows the feeling.

Grosvenor held off Kent-Meridian's Derrick Daigre in a sizzling 800 boys final. The pace was so fast that both runners broke the old meet record. Grosvenor finished in 1:50.06, Daigre in 1:50.26. The record was 1:50.43, set by Shelton's Alex McClary in 2004.

"I could feel him the whole time," said Grosvenor.

Another meet record fell in the boys javelin. Sean Keller, a junior from Heritage of Vancouver and the national leader with a mark of 232-1, won at 220-6 — 25 feet farther than the nearest competitor.

Notes

• Federal Way sophomore Majerae Gates received a loud ovation from the crowd during the girls 100 finals after she slowly walked with a limp the entire length of the race. Gates, who held the state's fastest time in the event, pulled her right hamstring Friday, and decided she would walk the race rather than not attempt it at all. "It hurt me a lot just to go out and walk it," Gates said. "I didn't want to give up."

• Mead's Wes Bailey won the 300 hurdles (38.89) after a dive at the finish line by Kentlake's Shad Hall couldn't beat him. Hall finished in 38.91 seconds but left with cuts on his hip and arm from the fall. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Hall said.

• Freshman Isaiah Brandt-Sims of Wenatchee opened some eyes by sweeping the boys 100 (10.74) and 200 (21.29). "I can't wait for next year," he said.

• The Kentwood girls won the 400 relay in 47.61. The relay is comprised of juniors Mykala Benjamin and Madelayne Varela and seniors DeHart and Quincie Proctor-Guyton. The same quartet also won the 800 relay (1:41.09).

• Bothell won the boys 400 relay (42.18). The team was made up of junior Nick Anthony, seniors Dylan Langston and Luke Proulx and sophomore Will McIntyre.

• Woodinville junior Austin Sodorff won the boys pole vault (14-6).

• Garfield's Bryan Howell won the boys 400 (48.30).

• Cascade of Everett's Natasha Caldwell took the javelin title (138-6).

• Katie Lord of Redmond took second in the girls high jump (5-5) behind two-time champion Audrey Ketcham (5-6) of Wenatchee.

• Tansey Lystad of Inglemoor won the 1,600 (4:54.25), followed by Woodinville's Chandler Olson (5:00.89) and Mount Rainier freshman Jordan McPhee (5:01.79).

• Eva Perry, a junior from Issaquah, captured the girls pole vault (11-3).

• Mead's Baylee Mires captured her third 800 title (2:10.28). Federal Way's Jasmine Johnson was second (2:13.84) in the 800.