The Columbia girls relay team earlier this season.
CHS track star Jessica Polkinghorn.
Columbia High’s track and field team will have athletes competing in 11 events at the 2024 WIAA 1A state championships May 23-25 at Zaepfel Stadium in Yakima.
The Bruin girls will compete in seven of those events, including two relays. They qualified at last week’s District 4 meet at Seton Catholic High in Vancouver, where CHS finished fourth with 88.33 points. Montesano won the boys district title with 102 points; Columbia’s boys were 11th with 28 points.
Senior Jessica Polkinghorn and junior Saylor Hauge each won two girls district titles for the Bruins. Polkinghorn, the state leader in the 1A shot put, won that event at district at 42 feet, 9.5 inches, and added another win in the discus at 112-1. Hauge won the 300-meter hurdles in 50.08 seconds and the high jump at 5 feet.
She also ran legs on the CHS 4x200 relay and 4x100 relays, each of which qualified for state. The Bruin 4x200 team of Bella Hamilton, Sequoia Cohen, Sara Miller, and Hauge set a season best, finishing second in 1 minute, 48.18 second clocking behind La Center’s 1:47.81. The same Columbia team was second in the 4x100 in a school record 50.93 behind Castle Rock at 50.59. The Bruin 2x200 relay time was the No. 2 all-time clocking in school history.
Columbia grabbed two other individual qualifying spots to state. Miller finished second in the 200 (26.87) and Samantha Evans was runner-up to Hauge in the high jump, clearing 4-11.
Other district placings for the Bruin girls: Miller, fifth, 100 meter dash, 13.0; Olivia Allen, sixth, 800m, 2:44.59; Lilah Zimmerman, fifth, 1600m, 5:33.10; Esther Kline, 10th, 3200m, 13:45.08 (PR); Madeline Allen, sixth, discus, 93-2; Hailey Tolbert, sixth, high jump, 4-8; and Amya Shaw, 10th, triple jump, 28-4.25.
The Columbia boys had six district placers (top eight) and one champion in senior August Lorincz, who won the 400 meters in a personal best 51.19 seconds. Teammate Luke Harrison was second in the discus (142-8) and eighth in the 100 meters (PR 11.70 seconds). Harrison’s throwing teammate, Ezekiel Wilson Ramirez, was fifth in the discus at 115-0. Also in field events, junior Garrett Kock was sixth in the triple jump with a PR of 36-8.75.
On the track, distance runner Noah Slayton placed seventh at district in the 1600 in a PR 4:56.18. Teammate Luther Thomas finished 10th, also in a PR of 5:21.46.
In the ambulatory finals, Columbia’s Gavin Clifford was second in both the 100 (a PR 15.88) and 200 (34.53). Clifford, a junior, will compete in the state championships in both events, as will Lorincz (400) and Harrison (discus).
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