With Kaiya Ovando leading the way with two victories, a number of athletes from Arlington schools had top finishes at the multi-team Carolyn Legard Relays at C.G. Woodson High School.
Ovando, of Yorktown High School, won the girls discus and shot put competition with throws of 114-2 and 34-1, respectively, in the day-long track-and-field meet last Saturday (March 29).
“She won both of her flights and threw well,” Yorktown coach Emily Stewart said of Ovando.
The night before, Ovando was a starting infielder for Yorktown’s girls softball team.
Wakefield High’s Travon Buckner had a strong performance in the boys meet. He won the triple jump at 44-4, was second in the long jump at 20-8 and fifth in the high jump at 5-8.
The Wakefield girls had the highest team finish from Arlington, placing fifth.
They were led by second from Grace Armitage in the long jump (16-8.5), a tie for third by Madeleine Wearing and Hosanna Connor in the pole vault (both 9-0) and Ada Jordan’s tie for fifth in the long jump (15-9.5). The 800 sprint medley relay was fourth (1:54.19).
The Wakefield boys placed 11th, as in addition to Buckner, Alex Epstein was second in the 110 hurdles (16.06), Diego Fernandez placed fourth in the pole vault (11-6), three relays placed fifth and another was sixth.
The other winner for the Yorktown girls was Molly Hardwick in the 9th-and-10th-grade 1,600 (5:25.19).
The Bishop O’Connell boys placed 14th and the girls 19th.
Leading the boys were the fourth-place 4×200 relay and the sixth-place distance medley relay. Avery Mosley ran on multiple relays for O’Connell.
For the O’Connell girls, Ciara Bliven was fourth in the discus (93-6) and 19th in the shot (24-10), Gabi Jordan was fifth in the triple jump (33-11) and Sadie Smith ran on two distance relays.
O’Connell’s 4×200 relay of Jordan, Mariel Irish-Maldonado, Madi Sullivan and Isabelle Rodriguez was second (1:49.2) and the 4×400 was sixth.
