Region’s best set to tear up track and field championships

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Tibbs noted the team’s culture “is committed to cultivating a holistic environment that supports the development of student-athletes both on and off the field. Through competitive athletics, academic excellence, and a student-first philosophy, we strive to instill values such as passion, sportsmanship, integrity, leadership, and resilience.”

Parker mentioned an obvious change some have been surprised about.

“The scenery,” Parker said. “I am really going to miss the scenery here. I was on a drive the other day with my friend and we were talking about, like, what different places look like, about how the scenery in Iowa was going to be so much different than the scenery here. We went to watch a sunset and I was like ‘I’m not going to get this sun setting behind the mountains for a long time.’ So it is going to be something that I will always appreciate when I am gone and something that I miss too. I’ll miss all the people here too of course, my coaches, my friends, a lot of them I am leaving behind here.”Athletes from around Southeast will country wise email marketing list be competing in the Region V Track & Field Championships at Thunder Mountain Middle School’s Falcons Field on Friday and Saturday.

Roughly 219 athletes from around the Panhandle will be competing in both Division I and DII races.

The winner of each individual event across the five Alaska regions and the next best 11 times or distances from across five regional tournaments qualify for the state championships May 30-31 at Anchorage’s Dimond High School. The winner of each region’s relay events plus the next three fastest relay times also qualify.

Action starts Friday at 11 a.m. with the high jump prelims and finals. Saturday events start at 9 a.m.

Following are some brief top combined division time listenings to date.

For the boys Ketchikan senior Trey Colbert is among three in the state with the second-highest high jump mark of 6’0” with Sitka senior Rowan Olney-Miller, sophomore teammate Ashton Peterson and Skagway junior Royce Borst ranked seventh-11th with 5’10. JDHS junior Carter Harralston leads the Crimson Bears with 5’4. (State Leader is Colony So. Maverick Rodriquez at 6’1). For the girls Petersburg freshman Cadence Flint and SIT jr. Emma Heuer are at 4’6 and KTN jr. Payton Hagan 4’4. JDHS sr. Ayla Keller is at 3’6 (SL so. Nevaeh Watkins, DMD, 5’6).