TRACK & FIELD: Qualifiers from Dublin, EL, WL represent at GHSA finals

More than 30 athletes from Dublin, East Laurens and West Laurens advanced to compete in this weekend’s GHSA state track and field championships with top finishes at sectional meets in East Dublin and Milledgeville last Saturday.

More than 30 local athletes advanced to compete in this weekend’s GHSA state track and field championships, after lacing ’em up at sectional meets in East Dublin and Milledgeville last Saturday.  

State championship events, which began Thursday, will run through Saturday, for West Laurens at Albany’s Hugh Mills Stadium and for Dublin and East Laurens at Rome’s Barron Stadium. 

The following, from each of the three programs, qualified for state with their top finishes: 

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Dublin 

• Caitlyn Nesbitt, 100M 

• Janiya Freeman, 800M 

• Shaliyah Parks, 100M hurdles

• Ra’Nyya Washington, triple jump 

• Jordan Renfroe, shot put 

• Azoria Lovett, 400M 

• Jordan Renfroe, shot put 

• Jerrica Charleston, shot put 

• Girls 4×100, 4×200, 4×400 and 4×800 relay teams 

• Micah O’Neal, 110M hurdles

• Cornelius Rozier, 200M dash 

• Jakeem Marion, 400M dash 

• Na’Sir Johnson, shot put, discus 

• Jadon Parker, discus 

• Sirius Tobridge, 400M dash, long jump 

• Boys 4×100, 4×200, 4×400 and 4×800 relay teams 

East Laurens 

• Kimora Dudley, 400M 

• Amiyah Buie, 100M hurdles 

• Kalise Williams, 300M hurdles 

• Deanna Lowther, discus, shot put 

• Girls 4×400 relay team 

• Jakel Rhodes, 800M 

• Ty Snead, high jump 

• Caleb Jackson, discus 

• Boys 4×400 and 4×800 relay teams

West Laurens 

• Armoni Anderson, 400M 

• Keira Davis, high jump, long jump, pole vault

• Tiara Johnson, triple jump 

• Sophie Kavuri, pole vault

• Zion Covin, shot put 

• Girls 4×400 and 4×800 relay teams 

• Zion Stanley, 110M hurdles 

• Juvon Hill, triple jump 

• Bryson Campbell, pole vault 

• Boys 4×200 relay team

Author

Clay took over the Sports Desk in 2020, but has been with The Courier Herald as a virtual jack of all trades since joining the staff as a student intern in 2010. The Dublin native, a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has worked all over the newsroom in a variety of full- and part-time roles and received numerous Georgia Press Association awards for his writing, photography and editing. In addition to reading his area sports coverage, you can also hear him on the radio as a local play-by-play voice, host of 92.7 WKKZ’s “Tailgate Party” and occasional contributor to the Georgia Southern Sports Network.

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