The Coppell girls track and field team left everyone in awe as they seized the district championship, with the boys team taking third overall at the District 5-6A Track and Field Meet at Buddy Echols Field. The meet concluded on Friday.
Coppell’s individual district champions include Noah Schuller in pole vault, which was a new school record, and Jerome Jones with a 200-meter dash. Runners-up were Adyn Coviak, Jayden Bibbs, Reuben Sarkodie and Jones in the 4×100-meter relay and Jones finishing second in the 100-meter. Third place finishers include Evan Meekins, Cameron Chevelier-Tek, Adyn Coviak and Rueben Sarkodie with the 4×200-meter relay, Sidarth Kerthipathi in the 1,600-meter run and Sibusio Ncumbe-Socks in the high jump.
Cowgirls area qualifiers include Da’Nyah Gilmore in high jump, Ainsley Bramer in shot put, Mia Schuller in pole vault and Sophia Williams in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter.
The Area 5/6-6A Track and Field Meet is Friday at Denton Braswell.
“The athletes have been working since basically August and off season,” Coppell assistant coach Devin Ewing said. “We’ve been working out basically five days a week, all year long.”
With how much the Coppell athletes have been preparing for this meet, they are bound to have made accomplishments.
“I think these kids have worked so hard and they’re so dedicated,” Ewing said.
Athletes prepared both mentally and physically for the meet.
“You have to mentally prepare yourself,” Coppell sophomore athlete Noah Williams said. “Go to sleep, listen to music, and calm yourself down.”
Of course, there are a lot of goals that the athletes wish to achieve for track and field as the school year nears its end.
“My goal at every meet is to always PR,” Coppell junior Avery Easterling said. “But my first goal was to be able to qualify to area, and so I did complete that goal.”
Athletes have to work very hard to prepare to meet even their personal goals as athletes in track and field.
“I practiced everyday, I throw every day, I lift four times a week and I prepare mentally every single night before I go to bed,” Easterling said. “I just feel a lot more confident for the meet day and then I treat a meet just like I would treat a practice.”
