"You can give this one to the seniors," state coach of the year Marshall Ware said. "We came out of the field events pretty even and the next three races [the seniors] sort of set the tone.

"We won the 4x8. We won the hurdles. We won the 55 with [senior] Addison [Gosline]...It was great."

Two seniors, Matthew Noble and Dougie Boardman, teamed up with Noah Smith '27 and Asher Green '26 to run 8:22 and capture first place in the 3200-meter relay. Then senior captain Jayden Brown delivered the 55 hurdles crown in 7.85 with fellow senior captain Durham Dodson third (7.92), setting up Gosline (also a captain) to nip the field in the 55 in 6.54, just ahead of StC's Maddox White '26, who got third in 6.55.

Speaking of White, he had a fabulous meet, ripping off a 35.75 for the 300 crown, and running the anchor leg of the school- and meet-record setting 4x200 team. Will Ackerly '27, Jaerron Johnson '27 and Elisha Asare '26 joined White stamping a 1:30.77 run to beat Woodberry, who also beat the previous meet record in 1:30.86.

The aforementioned field-event performance was led by Victor Olesen '26. He erased his pole vault meet record from 2024 with a vault of 17-3, nearly a full foot better than a year ago.

Senior Henry Rice got fourth in the triple jump, 6th in long jump - supporting third-place George Julias '26 and fourth-place Gosline - and got 5th in high jump, a slot behind senior captain Ford Hunter. Senior Grayson Herndon got a bronze in shot put, supported by junior Walter Cart's fourth-place throw.

"I'm so happy for the seniors," Ware said. "They got the job done."