Wilson Hall athletic teams both finished fourth in the SCISA Division I state meet

Summer
– Both Wilson Hall School Boys and girls track and field teams finished fourth in the Division I state meet on May 4 at
Porter-Gaud School in
Charleston.

The Wilson Hall girls finished fourth with 74 points.
Heathwood Hall won state with 113 points, while Porter-Gaud finished second with 103 and
Hammond School
came third with 97.

The Wilson Hall boys finished with 63 points. Porter-Gaud won with 106, followed by Heathwood Hall with 94 and Hammond with 74.

The Lady Barons had two state champions
Molly Jones And
Aubrey Payne. Jones finished first in the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 1 minute, 06.21 seconds. Payne won the shot put with a throw of 33 feet, 8 inches.

Payne had a great competition, finishing second in the discus and fourth in the javelin.
Maggie Norris And
McKinley Bad scored points with a fifth place in the discus throw and javelin throw respectively.

Jones scored points with a sixth-place finish in the 100 hurdles.

Bath finished second in the high jump
Camryn Wilmes
came second in the triple jump.

The 4×400 meter relay team
Ella Still,
Emma Howel,
Jane McAdams And
Abby Bradley finished third, while the 4×8 relay team of
Ellis Coker,
Campbell Williams,
Jane Foley
and Bradley finished fourth. Another fourth-place finish was McAdams in the long jump.

Bailey Fleming
came fifth in the triple jump,
Mary Ellen Thorne
placed fifth in the 3,200-meter run and Bradley was fifth in the 400-meter dash.

Others who scored points with sixth place were too
Clara Hulshizer in the pole vault and McAdams in the 400 hurdles.

The only individual state champion for the boys team was
Hugo Humphries
in the high jump he won with a jump of 06-02. Teammate
Daniel Burton finished second.

The 4×8 team of
Gavin Getz,
Caulder Williamson,
Jennings Frerichs And
Jack Gratz won in a time of 8:33.69.

Humphries also placed second in the triple jump. Wilson Hall even took the next four spots for points.
Knox Buxton
came third,
Sheep Vincent came fourth,
Alex Johnson came fifth and Burton came sixth.

Others who finished fourth were
Sam Tristan in discus throwing and
Tucker Burnette
in the 400 hurdles, Williamson placed fifth in the 800. The sixth-place finisher
Gibb Wilder in the pole vault and Burnette in the 110 hurdles

Burnette’s 4×1 team,
Miles Van Patten,
Harris Naylor And Blake VanPatten and Burnette’s 4×400 team,
Ben Rabon. Frerichs and Gratz both finished sixth.