WHITE SALMON — Columbia High School (CHS) senior Sara Miller raced to lifetime bests in two races, a season best in a third, and anchored the Bruin 4x400 meter relay to a season best in a fourth.
Her performance, and those of her teammates helped the Bruins finish third at the Panther Twilight track and field meet May 1 in Washougal. The 18-team event required athletes to meet certain standards to qualify to compete.
Miller sped to runner-up finishes in the girls 400 (61.15 second PR and No. 5 in school history), and in the 200 (26.05 PR, a school record) and was third in the 100 (12.70 season best off her 12.64 No. 3 all-time CHS time). She anchored the Bruin relay of Mariela Casarez, Olivia Allen and Lilah Zimmerman to a season-best and school No. 5 all-time clocking of 4:17.59 to win that event.
Junior Samantha Evans, the school record holder, won her specialty, the girls high jump, at 5 feet, 2 inches. Teammate Jana Deinhofer was fifth at 4-10, and Hailey Tolbert was eighth at 4-8. Tolbert also placed third in the 100 hurdles in 17.55 seconds, while Casarez was third in the 300 lows in a personal best 51.14 (No. 7 all-time in school history). Allen ran a 2:36.97 800; Zimmerman was clocked in a personal best 5:18.88 in the 1500; and Maisey Kollman ran a PR 3200 of 13:34.95.
Hunter Wang led the six Bruin boys qualifiers. The senior finished a close third in a competitive 300 hurdles race in a personal best 41.49 — the No. 3 time in school history. Wang also joined Zephyr Patel, Graham Beck, and Levi Connell on the Bruin 4x100 relay which ran 45.95. Connell went 18-5 in the long jump; Simon Caldwell cleared 5-6 in the high jump; and Aiden Hainline ran the 110-meter hurdles in 18.24.
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