Kentridge’s Tyler Cronk continues to scale greater heights.<\/p>\n
The 6-fo0t-8 junior cleared a personal-best 7 feet, 2 inches to capture the 4A West Central District high jump title Thursday at French Field.<\/p>\n
Cronk’s leap is ranked second in the country among high school competitors, according to the track and field website Athletic.net. Yukon, Oklahoma’s Vernon Turner is the national leader at 7-6.<\/p>\n
Cronk set a school record of 7-1 at the Ray Cockrum Relays in Wenatchee on March 25.<\/p>\n
The top eight finishers in each event from the two-day district meet qualify for the state championships May 25-27 at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.<\/p>\n
In other finals:<\/p>\n
Kentwood’s Keetaan DeWitz, the North Puget Sound League meet champion, finished third in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.30 seconds.<\/p>\n
The Conquerors’ Harsimran Singh ran personal bests of 1:55.11 and 4:23.72 to finish eighth in both the 800 and 1,600, respectively. He anchored the winning 1,600 relay (3:22.89) with Omari Brown, Daniel Gaik and Camden Phelps.<\/p>\n
The Conks’ Christian Duenas-Palaita was fourth in the discus with a personal-best 147-0, and James Rebro went 42-9 for eighth in the long jump.<\/p>\n
For Kentridge, the 400 relay – Nathan Peak, Jimmie Stennis, Solomon Hines and Miguel Punsalan – finished fifth (43.41).<\/p>\n
Girls highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n Kentridge sophomore Lauryn Ford ran a season-best 12.21 to take fifth in the 100. She later added a seventh in the 200 (25.28) and joined Adama Bojang, Makayla Williams and Kiarra Scott in taking fifth in the 400 relay (49.33).<\/p>\n Scott qualified for state in the triple jump, finishing eighth with a leap of 35-11¾.<\/p>\n Kentwood’s Nicole Soleim grabbed third in the 3,200 (11:22.59) and delivered a personal-best 5:05.43, good enough for fifth in the 1,600.<\/p>\n Also advancing for Kentwood was junior sprinter Hailey Suit (12.34, 100, seventh), sophomore Hannah Roberts in the javelin (personal-best 118-9, fifth) and sophomore Nicole Ajayi in the high jump (5-2, sixth). The Conks’ Destiny Capers was seventh in the discus with a throw of 117-7.<\/p>\n Kentwood’s 800 relay – Jessica Robinson, Alyssa Gonzalez, Alexia “Bebe” Thomas and Suit – finish sixth (1:44.74).<\/p>\n Kentlake’s Jordan Fong was third in the discus with a toss of 124-9 and seventh in the javelin (115-10). Teammate Marylinn Auelua was fourth in the shot put (38-2).<\/p>\n Kent-Meridian’s Olivia Baerny was seventh in the 800 (2:19.33) and eighth in the 1,600 (5:08.42) – both personal bests.<\/p>\n The Royals’ Olivia Carter ran a personal-best 25.56 to finish eighth in the 200. She also was part of the 400 relay with Brittany Tellis, Bri Kamran and Jaleesa Taylor that took sixth in 49.50.<\/p>\n Kamran later added an eighth in the high jump (5-2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kentridge’s Tyler Cronk continues to scale greater heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28424"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}