Hurricane Invite and Snow Canyon JV

We had a great start to the season the past two weeks with the Hurricane Invitational and Snow Canyon JV meet.
Hurricane Invite: Our top performances at Hurricane included _ State Qualifiers and numerous qualifiers for Herriman.  Setting the pace with our top performance of the meet was Rylee Holt in the 3200.  Placing 2nd in a State Qualifying time of 11:29, Rylee led 3 Panthers who qualified in the event (including Caroline Clements, 4th at 11:38; and Josie Bushar 5th at 11:43) and 6 who placed in the top 10.  Two of our 3200 boys also qualified for State including Nick Hill placing 4th with a 9:49 and Carson Horspool taking 5th in 9:52.  Mitch Price narrowly missed out on the State Q by just 1.5 seconds.  Other notable performance on the distance side included Skylar Abel and Addi Baker both placing 7th in the 1600 (at 4:40 and 5:33, respectfully) and Julien Canales destroying the Freshman Sub-5:00 coming in at 4:53.  Logan Hall also hit a huge PR in his first sub effort at 4:48.  In the sprints, Keaton Jorgenson made finals and took 7th in the 110 hurdles, and Samson Doyle led the way with his 10th place in the 200 and Cierra Costa ended up 6th in 200 for a strong start to the season.  Field events also showed well with a win and a State Qualifier from Neitana Leung Choi with a jav throw of 159'.  Kaytlin Dowdell led the way on the girls' side with a strong 2nd place finish in the discus.  We also had strong jumps from Amelia Goebel who State Qualified in the high jump, clearing 4'10" in her first meet as a Panther.  And Brandon Yates and Jacob McArthur both hit Herriman marks in the high jump on the boys' side.  Finally, Kawika Santiago made finals in the long jump with a solid mark just .5" shy of 19'.
St. George News article

Our athletes of the week from the Hurricane Invite were:

• Boys' Distance: Carson Horspool - a Sophomore, Carson State Qualified in his very first attempt at  the 3200.  Huge season for him on the way.
• Girls' Distance: Rylee Holt - a Freshman, Rylee led much of the way in the 3200 and State Qualified in her very first high school track meet.
• Boys' Field: Neitana Leung Choi - the Senior Throws Captain, won the meet with his big throw of 159' in the jav.  Nate set a new PR, and State Qualified.
• Girls' Field: Amelia Goebel - a Sophomore in her first meet at PV, Amelia cleared 4'10" to take 4th in the high jump and State Qualify.
• Boys' Sprint: Keaton Jorgenson - a Senior Sprint Captain, Keaton made finals with a strong prelims in the 110 hurdles and took 7th place overall.
• Girls' Sprint: Cierra Costa - a Senior Sprint Captain, Cierra was able to make the 200 because of the delays in timing and made the best of it by placing 6th with a strong Herriman Qualifying time.

Snow Canyon JV Meet: Although most of our JV runners also competed at Hurricane, this first JV meet of the season gave many athletes to compete against other runners at their level.  And PV took full advantage of it.  As usual, our distance squad showed up strong.  We placed many in the top 10 in all three distance events.  Some of the best races came from Alex Hill and Logan Hall battling for a relay spot in an 800 showdown, Addi Baker in a strong 3200 effort in the big wind.  PV also placed well in many of the field events led by Anna Baker on the girls' side and Dillan Roberson (getting his first meet of the season in) on the guys' side.

Our athletes of the week from the Snow Canyon JV meet will be announced Tuesday at practice.