On the strength of six first place finishes, Sequim’s girls track and field squad earned their first league wins in a sweep of Port Angeles and host Kingston on April 13.
The Wolves (2-4) racked up 67 team points, out-pacing Kingston (52) and Port Angeles (39).
SHS’s boys (also 2-4) posted four firsts to earn 41 team points, behind meet winner Port Angeles (87) and ahead of Kingston (23).
Also competing, but not officially scoring, were athletes from Crescent and Neah Bay.
For Sequim’s girls, junior Jolene Vaara won the long jump with a 15-9.5 mark — the 11th-best mark among 2A girls in the state — in her second official try at the event and first since the 2021 season.
Vaara also won the high jump with a 4-6 mark.
Sequim won two of three relays, with Hi’ilei Robinson, Kaitlyn Bloomenrader, Ivy Barrett and Vaara taking the 4×200 in 1:52:10 — the seventh-best 2A girls time this season (as of April 14). In the 4×400, the same quartet won in 4:48.
Also taking firsts were Bloomenrader, a junior, in the 400 meters (1:05.57) and Barrett, a sophomore, in the 800 meters, in 2:40.93.
For league meet scoring purposes, Robinson, a senior, scored first place finishes in the 100 (13.81, second overall) and 200 (28.45, third overall), and sophomore Dawn Hulstedt took first in the 1600 (6:07, second overall).
SHS’s 4×100 team (Emma Bergmann, Amara Brown, Katie Morris, Nikoline Updike) was second, in 57.95.
On the boys’ side, SHS sophomore Andrew Brown topped the field in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.57 second, with teammate Sean Christopher Wilson in second. Brown also won the high jump with a 5-10 mark.
Sophomore Sean Southard won the javelin with a throw of 138-3, and raced to a second-place finish in the 800 meters in a personal best 2:09.30.
Senior Mirek Skov won the pole vault with an 11-6 mark, with brother Ari Skov second (10-6). The Wolves swept the top six places in the event.
In his first meet of the season, Sequim junior Colby Ellefson raced to a third place finish in the 3,200 meters, in 10:20.96.
Skov clears 14 feet at South Sound Classic
Sequim’s Skov topped his own personal best in the pole vault with a height of 14-0 — the best 2A boys mark in the state and second overall — at the at South Sound Classic in Puyallup on April 15.
Teammate Andrew Brown cleared 6 feet in the high jump to place third. He also finished ninth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.30 and 11th in the 300 hurdles with a time of 43.72.
This invite featured athletes from more than 60 schools in all classifications from around the state.
Looking ahead
Sequim travels to Poulsbo to take on Bremerton, North Mason, Port Angeles and host North Kitsap on April 20, and are back in Poulsbo two days later for the Lil’ Norway Invitational.
Following the Olympic League junior varsity meet at Bainbridge on April 27, select Sequim athletes are at their final postseason prep meet, the Shelton Invitational, on Saturday, April 29.
The postseason kicks off for varsity athletes on May 4 and May 6, at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo. Top qualifiers advance to the West Central District meet, set for May 19-20 in Renton.
