??‍♂️?‍♂️ | Meet is underway, and weather reports indicate a beautiful day in store for Lexington.

Expecting a great meet, and we should see some new records set. Let's goooo!

I'll be checking in throughout the day. Please join me in posting updates, analysis, and comments.

● Meet info, including an NFHS livestream link can be found in the thread below ~

bluegrasspreps.com/outdoor-track-field-state-championships-to-begin-at-uk

● KHSAA partner MileSplit's live results link, here ~

ky.milesplit.com/meets/3a-khsaa-track-and-field-state-championship-2025

? Pre-meet form chart predictions based on Regional qualifying marks.

● Girls

1. Assumption, 2. Male, 3. Manual, 4. North Oldham, 5. Campbell Co

6. Oldham Co, 7. GR Clark, 8. Woodford Co, 9. West Jessamine, 10. Notre Dame

● Boys

1. St. Xavier, 2. Trinity, 3. Male, 4. F Douglass, 5. Oldham Co

T6. Madisonville, T6. Dixie Heights, T6. PRP, 9. Cooper, T10. Lafayette, T10. McCracken Co

4x800m Relay

? Meet favorite Assumption strikes gold first. Rockets distance program is so, so good.

Campbell Co 2nd, Conner 5th.

?Oldham County (Kyle Crady, Austin Wheeldon, Sean Crady, Matthew Whtlock) sets a new KY all-class record, 7:50.03. Wow, congrats Colonels!

● Girls 100m Hurdles

? Ally Doyle (West Jessamine SR) adds another medal to her hoarde, winning this event for the third straight year. Ties the Class 3A record, 14.10 too!

4. Tatjana Andracenko, Dixie Heights

6. Kate Resing, Notre Dame

● Boys 110m Hurdles 

? ? Maurice Stephens (Ballard SR), the pre-meet favorite. wins convincingly.

4. Jackson Miller, Simon Kenton 

6. Camrin O'Donnell, Dixie Heights 

100m Dash 

● Girls 

? Grace Bethel (Male SO) prevails against a stacked field - six runners sub 12.20.

6. Alexis Howard, Simon Kenton 

7. London Williams, Dixie Heights 

? Jayden Channer (Henry Clay SR) with a surprise win over all-class leader Claude Spillman (St. Xavier SO). Both under 10.6 but in two different heats - Channer from the "slow," Spillman from the "fast."

11. Nathan Verax, Ryle

? Team scoring leaders through 3 events ~

● Girls: N Oldham 18, Male 15, Manual 13, Assumption 10, W Jessamine 10

● Boys: H Clay 14, St. X 14, Oldham Co 12, Trinity 12, Ballard 10

Boys Shot Put

⭐️ Deegan Croley (Marshall Co JR) tops his nearest competitor by 3+ feet in picking up his third state title (2 outdoors, 1 indoors). Looking for Deegan to become the next 60' thrower in Bluegrass history soon.

4x200m Relay

● Girls

?? Male (Grace Bethel, Olivia Lilly, Kymorah Mucker, Jallyah Taylor). Second gold for Male and Grace Bethel in a super fast race with Oldham Co.

10. Notre Dame (Sadie Yapp, Georgi Kirtley, Kate Blettner, Addison Frondorf)

● Boys

? McCracken Co (James Barragan, Ayden Hunter, Maddox O'Neal, Cooper Falconite). Mustangs peaking at the perfect time, turning in KY's fastest clocking of the year, 1:26.94.

6. Ryle (Reagan Nichols, Cruze Sauley, Kason Thomas, Nathan Verax)

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High Jump 

● Girls

? Kylie Moore (Assumption FR) tops teammate Ashlinn James for the title

Tie 15. Faever Gary, Campbell Co & Ellie Girten, Dixie Heights 

● Boys 

? Aaron Ramey (Central JR), this year's indoor champ, bests a stacked field that included two other 6'-10" performers.

? Brayden Polly (Simon Kenton SR)

1600m 

● Boys

⏱️?Paul Van Laningham (Cooper JR) wins the fastest "metric mile" in Bluegrass history, in a race where three runners bested Jacob Thomson's (Lou Holy Cross) all-class record from 2013. Congrats Paul!

? Nick Sanders, St. Xavier JR

? Xavier Richardson, Lafayette JR

6. Ethan Mann, Conner FR; 8. Lincoln Herald, Grant Co SR.

● Girls

? Leah Penick (Assumption SR) bested Woodford County's Addison Moore, turning the tables from last fall's state XC meet.

4x100m Relay

● Girls

?? Male ran the same quarte that won the 4x2 earlier today. Like butter, they're on a roll.

5. Dixie Heights

● Boys 

? ? McCracken Co picks up its second sprint relay win of the day in a state best 42.00.

12. Dixie Heights

? Team scoring update ~ 

● Boys

St. Xavier 37, Trinity 34, Henry Clay 22, Frederick Douglass 21, Male 20, McCracken Co 20

T13. Simon Kenton 11; T15. Cooper 10; T20. Dixie Heights 8

● Girls 

Assumption 51, Manual 36, Male 35, North Oldham 31, George Rogers Clark 28

8. Dixie Heights 19; 10. Campbell Co 16.5; 16. Simon Kenton 9

? They're running a tight meet today. Doing best to update.

400m Dash

● Boys 

? St. X's James Burnett, the state leader in the event, paced a fast field for the win in 47.45.

⏱️? Dixie's Brennan Simpson ran the fastest 400 in NKY Area 5 history with his 48.94 for 4th.

● Girls 

♈️ Alexandra Allen of Manual picked up the win to keep the Lady Crimson's title hopes alive.

Hoops star Teigh Yeast of GRC nabbed 2nd.

1 hour ago, Runcible Owl said:

High Jump 

● Girls

? Kylie Moore (Assumption FR) tops teammate Ashlinn James for the title

Tie 15. Faever Gary, Campbell Co & Ellie Girten, Dixie Heights 

● Boys 

? Aaron Ramey (Central JR), this year's indoor champ, bests a stacked field that included two other 6'-10" performers.

? Brayden Polly (Simon Kenton SR)

How did Polly do in long jump and triple jump?