Eau Claire Jr-Sr High School

"This past Saturday the track team traveled to New Buffalo to compete in the Regional track meet. The boys team showed great effort and achieved third place in the region. The team had 8 runners and thrower qualify for the state track meet. We had Jovany Raya(Senior) qualifying for state by taking first place in discus. Our 4x100 relay team, Devin Hill, Melvin Davis, A'Darion Fort, and Elijah Marlowe qualified for state by taking first place in the race with a new time of 45.41. The same team took second place in the 4x200 qualifying for state with a new time of 1.34.10. Zion qualified for state in high jump, jumping a height of 5'11. Angel Guzman (Senior) qualified for state in the 800 meter run by running a personal record of 2.05.50. Our 4x400 relay team qualified for state by beating a qualifying time and running a new personal record of 3.40.13. Our girls team showed great effort with our 4x100 relay team of Nikya Fort, Mila Jeffries, Wendy Banda, and Arianna Townsend running a new personal record of 55.61. The same relay team ran in the 4x200 and ran a new personal record of 1.57.90. Our only senior girl Jackie Chavez decided to end her track career by running every open distance event at regionals.She ran the 800 meter run, the two mile, and she ran the mile where she got a new personal record of 8.44 dropping 20 seconds of her time. Great job to everyone who ran at regionals this weekend and great job to all of our state qualifiers!"