Two Lady Cats’ Track Athletes Headed to Meet
Two Lady Cats’ Track Athletes Headed to Meet Two Lady Cats’ track athletes are heading to an area track meet next week after their performances on the first day of competition at the district track meet Monday at Pine Tree. Freshman Sydney Washburn recorded her best time all year and finished third in the 1600-meter run to qualify. Imani Taylor won the long jump with a leap of 17-feet, 9-inches to qualify. Two other Lady...
Wildcats, Lady Cats At District Meet Monday, Wednesday
This year’s district track meet for the Wildcats and Lady Cats is a two-day event at Pine Tree in Longview with prelims on Monday and finals on Wednesday. Athletes will be trying to finish in the top four in their events to qualify for the area track meet on April 20 at Lovejoy. Lady Cats Track Coach Triston Abron said he’s excited to think about what could happen. His team has had several strong showings at previous meets...
Wildcat, Lady Cat Track: Kennedale Meet Results
Wildcats Track Wildcats Track Coach Matt Young said a Thursday evening Kennedale meet was a good competitive one and a last tune up before next week’s district meet. Coach Young said he scaled back the workload for his athletes for this meet. The Wildcats finished sixth at the meet. Coach Young said he was pleased with Ricardo Torres, who surprised his coach by placing sixth in the 400-meter dash. Coach Young said Ian Blanch...
Wildcat, Lady Cat Track Results
Wildcats Track Left with lemons, Sulphur Springs’ track coaches did the best they could to make lemonade. After Mt. Pleasant’s Friday meet was canceled earlier this week due to their tragic bus accident, the Wildcats and Lady Cats’ track coaches were able to put together a dual meet at Paris. Wildcats Track Coach Matt Young said his team was able to get another good workout in at the informal meet. The glorified...
Game Day: Wildcats, Lady Cats in Paris Meet
On Monday, Mt. Pleasant canceled their Friday track meet after a tragic bus accident last week involving their track teams. Two of the schools that were planning to attend the Mt. Pleasant meet, Paris and Sulphur Springs, got together and decided to have an informal dual meet in Paris on this Thursday game day. Lady Cats Track Coach Triston Abron announced the dual meet Monday. Coach Abron said no medals would be presented and he...
Lady Cat Track Travels to Lindale After Spring Break
Lady Cats Track Coach Triston Abron liked the Gilmer Track Meet last Friday for several reasons. He was able to bring more competitors as he fielded both a JV and Varsity team. Coach Abron said due to the tougher competition in this meet, the Lady Cats did not finish first. He enjoyed competing against solid East Texas teams such as Liberty-Eylau, Gilmer, Marshall and Tatum. Coach Abron said the step up in competition gave him a...
Lady Cat Track Team Finish First at Home Meet
Lady Cats Track Coach Triston Abron said it was pretty good that the Wildcats varsity and JV along with his Lady Cats all finished first at the Sulphur Springs Meet held last Friday at the SSHS Track Complex. He said that was the first time it had happened. Lady Cats’ results Friday included sophomore Abbi Beggs taking second in the discus. The Lady Cats finished second, third and fourth in the shot put. Kaylee Jefferson was...
Lady Cat Track Takes First at Denison
The Lady Cats’ track team took first place at their first meet of the season last Thursday at Denison. Coach Triston Abron said he was really pleased with the way his team competed. He added the team wasn’t in real good track shape yet. Abbi Beggs took first in the discus and Jamille Hall was third. Imani Taylor was first in the long jump in second in triple jump. N’ysa Dugan was second in long jump. Kaylee Jefferson...
Regional Track Wrap-up
Wildcats Track Coach Matt Young said distance runner Jacob Gatewood capped off a sensational season competing in the 3200-meter run and 1600-meter run at the regional track meet Friday and Saturday at UT Arlington. Coach Young knew the competition was tough and he hoped Gatewood could finish among the top six. In the 3200-meter run Friday, Gatewood challenged the best runners and was at 4:49 half way through. Coach Young said that was...
Lady Cats Place First; Wildcats Fourth at Mt Pleasant
The Lady Cats Track team finished first and the Wildcats’ track team finished fourth at a Mt. Pleasant meet last Friday. Both Wildcast and \ Lady Cats squad will compete in the district meet April 13-14 in Pine Tree. Coach Matt Young said 65 points was not too bad considering the quality of the competition there. In field events, Derrick Weeks was fourth in the discus with a throw a little shorter than his usual. Newcomer Josh...
