With a combined five first-place finishes by individuals, the Wakefield Warriors girls and boys teams each finished second in the 6D North Region outdoor track and field championships.
The boys had three winners and the girls two at the recent two-day high-school meet at South Lakes High School in Reston.
Wakefield athletes had numerous personal-best performances and set multiple school records.
Leading the boys was double winner Chris Gilpin in the long jump (21-2.5) and high jump (6-2) and Silas Lesparance in the 400 dash (49.8). Lesparance also was third in the 200 and Gilpin fourth in the 200.
Finishing second of the Wakefield boys was Thuyon Smith (100), Ben Chapuis (high jump) and Travon Buckner (triple jump).
Third was Mikey Johnson (high jump).
Also for Wakefield’s boys, Frank Mani was fourth in the high jump and fifth in the triple jump, Michael Hutchinson fourth in the shot put, Liam Keish fourth in the 1,600 and sixth in the 800, Bryant Cruz-Lemus and Isiah Ledbetter tied for sixth in the high jump, Diego Fernandez was sixth in the pole vault, Smith was sixth in the 200, Chapuis was eighth in the triple jump, Charles Randolph eighth in the shot and Owen Jacquez 10th in the high jump and 11th in the long jump.
Leading the Wakefield girls was Kenedy Shields with a victory in the long jump (17-6) and seconds in the high jump and 100 and 200 races.
Grace Armitage had Wakefield’s other win, in the 300 hurdles (45.56) and she was third in the triple jump, fourth in the long jump and fifth in the 100 hurdles.
Wakefield’s Ada Jordan was fourth in the 800, Hosanna Connor sixth in the triple jump, Sofia Vazquez seventh in the pole vault, Addison Young ninth in the 1,600, Eulalia Sarli ninth in the 800 and the 4x800 relay second.
The Washington-Liberty girls finished third in the meet, led by Gabriela Netwall’s second in the 400, fourth in the triple jump, fifth in the long jump and seventh in the discus. She also ran on two winning relays.
The W-L 4x100 relay of Netwall, Heidi Kim, Thalia Lynch and Morgan Brown won in 48.96, and the 4x400 relay of Brown, Netwall, Ella Kaplan and Therese Johansson was first in 3:58.21.
Amela Male was second in the discus and fourth in the shot. Johansson was fifth in the 800, Brown fifth in the 100, Elizabeth Rupert fifth in the discus and sixth in the shot, Alexis Morley-Lascano tied for seventh in the pole vault, Alba Edsall was eighth in the 3,200, Eve Jungman eighth in the shot and the 4x800 relay was fifth.
The Yorktown girls finished sixth, led by a win from Marin McCormack in the 400 (56.77) and a third in the 200 and a victory by Sofia Sheldon in the 3,200 (10:52.04) and a third in the 1,600.
Yorktown’s Kaiya Ovando was third in the discus and seventh in the shot, Ellen Malloy was sixth in the 800 and Eleanor Whitehead eighth in the 1,600.
The Washington-Liberty boys placed ninth in the region meet, led by a victory from Charles Gent in the pole vault (13-9).
Third for W-L was Emmett Engelhardt in the 3,200 and he was fifth in the 800. Ian Crowley was fifth in the 110 hurdles, Jackson Nowinski sixth in the 200, Nathanael Fritz seventh in the 3,200 and Joaquin Lynch eighth in the 400.