Small, Lyle break girls’ school indoor track standards at OSU

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Walnut’s field events unit enjoyed another solid out­ing at the Golden Eagles’ sec­ond indoor track meet of the sea­son held Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2 in the French Field House on the cam­pus of The Ohio State University.

Olivia Small scored two firsts in the meet, break­ing the school record in the triple jump with a win­ning effort of 36 feet, 3 1/2 inches, and cap­tur­ing the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 2 inches. She also tied for fourth in the high jump at 4–10.

Jor­dan Lyle joined Small with a school record-breaking per­for­mance in the pole vault as she tied for sec­ond place with a vault of 9–6. Leah Thomas placed fourth in the triple jump at 29–10 while Han­nah Grif­fith fin­ished eighth in the shot put with a toss of 29–7 1/4.

In the run­ning events, Thomas enjoyed another solid out­ing by plac­ing eighth in the 60 meter dash with times of :08.21 and :08.17 sec­onds. The Golden Eagles’ 4x800 meter relay team of Asia Med­lock, MaKenna Hem­ming, Mikaela Smith and Addi­son Shawver recorded with an eighth-place fin­ish in 11 min­utes, 29.66 seconds.

“It was another great day for us,” Big Wal­nut girls indoor track coach Joe Evener said. “We had 23 girls com­pet­ing and they all gained valu­able experience.”

Evener said the Golden Eagles’ field events squad con­tin­ues to progress.

“Our field events have really picked it up so far in the indoor sea­son,” he said. “ I know that was one of our strengths last sea­son, espe­cially out­door with Olivia Small plac­ing sec­ond in the OHSAA State Meet in the long jump, Avery Kerns win­ning a dis­trict title in the high jump, Lay­laa Craw­ford qual­i­fy­ing to the regional in the dis­cus and Jor­dan Lyle plac­ing fifth in the regional in the pole vault.

“And we were strong last indoor sea­son, par­tic­u­larly in the jumps with Olivia win­ning the long jump and plac­ing third in the triple jump, and Leah plac­ing sev­enth in the triple jump in the Indoor State Meet last year,” he con­tin­ued. “It seems as if they picked up right where they left off, and hav­ing Han­nah in the shot put has even made the field events that much stronger.”

The squad has a busy upcom­ing week­end, com­pet­ing Sat­ur­day at Ohio State at 9 a.m. and Sun­day at 10 a.m. at Kenyon College.

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