Decades-Long Record Beat by Riverside Girls Track and Field

There is a phrase in sports that records are meant to be broken, but some take a long time for that to happen. In the case of the Riverside girls 4x100 meter and 4x200 relays, a long time is 41 years. The quartet of Ruby Schneider, Ava Montgomery, Delilah Ceperano, and Athena Jones eclipsed both 1985 marks at the Lakeside Last Chance meet in Nine Mile Falls on May 7 with a pair of second-place finishes. Jones added a title in the shot put and placed second in the 100 meter dash. Ceparano (400 meters) and Montgomery (100 meters) added individual event titles. Schneider placed third at 100 meters. Alyssa Riek won the high jump and added three more top 10 finishes (second place, 300 meter hurdles; fifth place, 100 meter dash; and sixth place, 100 meter hurdles). Also claiming a title was Emma Hare in the 800 meter run. Brynlee McNamee placed sixth in the 200 meter dash and eighth at 400 meters. Miaha Lang placed eighth at both 400 and 800 meter distances. Rounding out the girls running event placers were Faith Jackson (second place, 800 meters) and Phia Wenzl (ninth place, 200 meters). Three top 10 performances by Riverside thrower Gracie Roddick (third place, javelin; sixth place, shot put; and eighth place, discus) paced girls field event placers. Reagan Gwiazda was fourth in the discus and eighth in the shot put. Jordyn Heinecke placed fourth in the javelin and seventh in the pole vault. Ajah Helm was second in the pole vault. Javontae Chambers led the Riverside boys running event performers with a seventh-place 200 meter dash finish, and 10th-place finish at 100 meters. He teamed with Mikah Coleman, Landon Edwards, and Marcus Oergel to place second in the 4x100 meter relay. Coleman would add a fourth-place finish in the shot put and seventh in the pole vault and Oregel won the high jump. Also posting running event top 10 marks were: Liam Hart (fourth place, 800 meters), Taegen Hart (sixth place, 800 meters), and Caysen Taylor (10th place, 200 meters). David Parker, with a title in the javelin, paced Riverside boys field event performers. He was joined by Maxwell Motteshard (third place, pole vault) and Gavin Hurst (sixth place, pole vault). Deer Park ran at Pullman on May 6 where the boys were led by sprinter Kale Blades with wins in the 100 and 400 meter dashes. Unified athlete Tommy Allision won both the 100 meters and shot put and was second in the 200 meter dash. Darrin M c C a n n a was second in the unified 100 meter dash and third in the unified shot put. Frankie Allison placed second in the unified shot put and third in the unified 100 meters. Distance runner Kason Dean placed second at 1,600 meters and third at 800 meters. Chase Bates was second in the 400 meter dash to round out running event scorers. The top field event performer was Ro McNabb with a winning mark in the shot put. William Lang-Senseney was second in the shot put. Caleb Diaz placed second in the javelin and Jesse Schurger was third in the high jump. Emma Bryant’s wins in the 100 and 200 meter sprints topped Deer Park girls performers. Jacey Boesel won the long jump and placed second at 800 meters. The unified athlete tandem of Isabella Taylor and Sophia Phillips went 1-2 in the unified 100 meter dash. Deer Park’s Myah DeSalles won the triple jump and placed second in the long jump. Also scoring in a pair of events were: Ellie Callaham (second place, 300 meter hurdles and pole vault) and thrower Amaia Breneman (third place, javelin and shot put). Kaelin Newsom placed second at 800 meters and Mattison Wainwright was second in the high jump. Scoring third place points were: Brooklyn Jacobs (100 meter hurdles), Chloe Pollock (300 meter hurdles), and Emeri Kapfer (pole vault). The mixed sprint medley relay team of Jazmine Lewis, Taylor, McCanna and Keith Schick placed first. At the Chewelah Relays on May 8, boys long jumpers Logan Moore and Jayden Soderberg took the top two positions. Adding a thirdplace finish for the boys was Jace Santonocito in the high jump. DeSalles topped girls performers with wins in the long jump and triple jump. Callaham was second in the pole vault, Kapfer third in the pole vault, and Naomi Palmer fourth in the shot put. The mixed 4x200 meter relay team of Zayden Holt, Phillips, Ethan Fuhrman, and Elizabth Scott placed third. Deer Park is scheduled to host Rogers and Clarkston on Wednesday, May 13, at 3:30 p.m., while Riverside is off until their league championship meet in Colville on May 20.