Sarah Pearson clears the bar in the high jump in recent track action
The streak remains alive……the Coffee County CHS track team will advance another athlete to the TSSAA Spring Fling championships for the 23rd straight year. Freshman Sarah Pearson was notified on Friday that her 3rd place finish in the sectional penthalon put her in position to advance to the state meet after the 2nd place pentathlete for East Hamilton was injured and unable to compete. The state pentathlon will begin at 10 AM on Monday, May 18th at the MTSU track and field complex.
The CHS thinclads have 3 more athletes who have qualified for Tuesday’s sectional track meet as CHS’s Kani Johnson qualified in the 300M hurdles on Thursday at the sub-sectional. Johnson won the first heat with a time of 40.57 seconds and that time stood up through 3 heats to give Johnson the qualifying win. Johnson also finished 3rd in the 110M hurdles. Also on Thursday, the 4×400 relay team of Rein Bozich, Dalton Dehaven, Johnny Dulin and Joe Melton finished 8th, Ben Myers was 14th in the 800M run and Andy Rosson was 14th in the 1600M run. Johnson will join Lady Raiders Cameron Davis, Taylor DeBerry and Sarah Pearson in Tuesday’s sectional track meet at Rhea County. Davis qualified in the discus throw, DeBerry qualified in the 100M hurdles and Pearson qualified in the 300M hurdles. Field events will begin at 1 PM Eastern time. The athletes must finish in the top 4 places in their respective events to advance to the Spring Fling championships.
CHS hurdler Kani Johnson(file photo)
