WHITE SALMON – The Columbia High School track and field team had its final pre-Spring Break meet March 25 at Seton Catholic in Vancouver, where the Bruins recorded numerous personal bests in the six-team competition.
Among the top performances by the Bruin athletes was the 5-foot-2 girls high jump mark from junior Samantha Evans, the 2025 WIAA 1A state meet runner-up in that event. Senior Sara Miller won the girls 100 meters and the 400, and she was second in the 200 to cap a busy sprint day. Junior Willow Cohen was second in the girls 100, and fifth in the 200.
Also on the track, senior Olivia Allen and junior Maya Tama went 2-3 in the girls 800, and Lilah Zimmerman was second in the 1600. Hailey Tolbert was second in the 100 hurdles and cleared 4-8 for third place in the high jump, while teammate Mariela Casarez was second in the 300 hurdles.
In the throws, Amelia Jewell-Yarnell came a foot shy of her personal best in the shot put, throwing 26 feet. Teammate Frida Ramirez threw a PR in the shot at 24 feet. In the horizontal jumps, sophomore Jana Deinofer was third in the long jump, had a PR in the high jump at 4-4, and was fourth in the 100 in another personal best effort.
On the boys side, sophomore Levi Connell leapt a personal best in the boys long jump of 19-3. Connell also joined Cassidy Ebbert, Graham Beck, and Hunter Wang to finish second in the boys 4x100 relay at 46.24.
Wang added a personal best of 43.09 in the boys 300 hurdles, and Beck was fourth in the 100. In the boys throwing events, Thatcher Wallace was second in the javelin (and added a runner-up finish in the 400), Ezekiel Wilson Ramirez won the discus at 116-8 (over teammate Simon Caldwell, who was second with a PR of 108-9), and was third in the shot put.
Everett Coyner, Luther Thomas and Colby Clark paced the Bruins’ distance runners. Coyner won the 800 meters; Clark, a sophomore, won the 3,200; and Thomas led a 3-4-5 Columbia finish in the 1,600 in a personal best 5:05.49. Clark was fourth and Jack Brooks fifth in the metric mile race.
Commented