Grapevine, Colleyville Heritage do well at district track meet

The Colleyville Heritage cross country team had a solid showing at the district meet this past week and has a number of athletes moving on to the area round.

Boys coach Bill Anderson said that he has a couple of athletes he believes are capable of moving on to region and even to the state meet.

“We want to try to get as many athletes as we can to finish in the top four so that they can advance onto region,” Anderson said. “David Strome, from the boys team, went to state last year, and we definitely want to get him through. I feel like he has the best chance of winning state.”

Colleyville Heritage has three district championships, including Elizabeth Bolaji in the girls 100 meter finals with a time of 12:90 and Reagan Blaies in the girls high jump with a jump of 5-01.00.

Strome won the 3,200 meters on the boys side with a time of 9:28.28, and several other athletes qualified for area.

Over at Grapevine, the Mustangs had a phenomenal showing at the District 6-5A meet last week, as well, winning multiple district championships and qualifying even more athletes for the area meet this week.

Symone Wessley won the girls 100 meter hurdles with a time of 16.25, while teammate Lauren Edwards brought home a district championship in the 1,600 meters with a time of 5:16.78.

Lindsey Smyth (5:18.15) and Shelby Schumacher (5:29.82) made it a clean sweep for the girls in the event, finishing second and third respectively.

Edwards (11:17.74) also won the 3,200 meters, while Smyth finished second with a time of 11:39.06 and Meredith St. John finished third with a time of 12:31.63.

Schumacher won the 800 meters with a time of 2:25.19 and teammate Jessi Prayter won the girls discus with a throw of 116-07.50.

The girls 4x400 team also won a district championship and Wessley won the high jump event with a jump of 5-02.

On the boys side, Grapevine also swept the 1,600 meter event with Hayden Murphy (4:29.80), Kyle Brozovich (4:34.07) and Matthew Melcher (4:37.61) finishing first, second and third respectively.

Murphy also won the boys 3,200 meter run with a time of 9:57.02 and teammate Kyle Eberlein finished second with a time of 10:18.64.

Zach Evans won the boys 400 meter event with a time of 51.92 and the boys swept the 800 meters event with Brozovich (1:59.09), Melcher (2:00.49) and Hunter Samsel (2:03.94) claiming the top three spots at the competition.

Josh White won the boys discuss with a throw of 130-07.50, and the boys swept the pole vault event with Peyton Weissmann (14-06.00) winning the district championship.

Dawson Towery (12-00.00) and Bradley Williams (11-06.00) finished second and third in the event.

This story was originally published April 19, 2016 at 4:34 PM with the headline "Grapevine, Colleyville Heritage do well at district track meet."