2024 蘑菇视频 Girls All-Area Track & Field Team
Four of a kind: Local quartet earns top honors for solid seasons
Laurel Highlands junior Jaden Brambley and California junior Ella Neil both cleared the bar for a pair of postseason medals, Geibel Catholic sophomore Emma Larkin successfully ran distances from the 100 through the 800, plus the 300 intermediate hurdles, and Southmoreland sophomore Megan Mehall excelled in the middle distances and 3,200 relay.
The quartet led the way throughout the season to share recognition as the top performers on the 2024 蘑菇视频 Girls All-Area Track & Field Team.
3,200 relay: Southmoreland.
Honorable mention: Laurel Highlands.
100 high hurdles: Eden Smith, Charleroi.
Honorable mention: Zhariah Reed, Brownsville; Katie Chiado, Laurel Highlands; Shayla Dues, Laurel Highlands; Courtney Martin, Belle Vernon.
100: Diondra Brown, Laurel Highlands.
Honorable mention: A鈥檏ira Dade, Uniontown; A鈥檢yia Dade, Brownsville; Jersey Feick-White, Brownsville.
1,600: Grace Trimmer, Uniontown.
Honorable mention: Mia Medved, Albert Gallatin; Lexi Ohler, Southmoreland; Lily Brenneman, Ringgold.
400: Megan Mehall, Southmoreland/Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic.
Honorable mention: Grayce Panos, Albert Gallatin; Ella Sypolt, Charleroi; Eryka Hackney, West Greene; Taylor Schwertfeger, Laurel Highlands.
400 relay: Brownsville.
Honorable mention: Uniontown, Belle Vernon.
300 intermediate hurdles: Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic
Honorable mention: Katie Chiado, Laurel Highlands; Zhariah Reed, Brownsville; Lizzy Boone, Southmoreland.
800: Megan Mehall, Southmoreland.
Honorable mention: Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic; Mia Medved, Albert Gallatin; Isabella Baker, Laurel Highlands.
200: Diondra Brown, Laurel Highlands.
Honorable mention: A鈥檢yia Dade, Brownsville; Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic; Rylin Bugosh, Mount Pleasant.
3,200: Grace Trimmer, Uniontown/Lexi Ohler, Southmoreland.
Honorable mention: Tessa Rodriguez, Belle Vernon.
1,600 relay: Southmoreland.
Honorable mention: Charleroi, California, Albert Gallatin, Laurel Highlands.
Discus: Allison Painter, Connellsville.
Honorable mention: Mackenza Spangler, Beth-Center.
Shot put: Angelina Massey, Ringgold.
Honorable mention: Madelynn Johnson, Connellsville; Addie Billheimer, Southmoreland; McKenna Bittner, Elizabeth Forward; Hayley Gibson, California.
Javelin: Lily Shahan, Belle Vernon.
Honorable mention: Gabriella McGavitt, Frazier.
High jump: Ella Neil, California.
Honorable mention: Neela Hill, Laurel Highlands; Angelina Massey, Ringgold; Lizzy Boone, Southmoreland; Raegan Gillen, California; Railey Bochna, Waynesburg Central.
Triple jump: Ella Neil, California; Elisabeth Keaton, Frazier.
Honorable mention: Lyric McLee, Uniontown; Ava Livingood, Uniontown; Railey Bochna, Waynesburg Central.
Long jump: Katie Chiado, Laurel Highlands.
Honorable mention: Sophie Slater, Southmoreland; Ava Livingood, Uniontown; Morgan Ross, California; Ionnah Hamilton, Charleroi.
Pole vault: Jaden Brambley, Laurel Highlands.
Honorable mention: Lexie Pulice, Laurel Highlands; Sienna Steeber, Belle Vernon.
Most Outstanding Overall Performers: Jaden Brambley, Laurel Highlands/Ella Neil, California/Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic/Megan Mehall, Southmoreland.
Class AAA Most Outstanding Field Performer: Jaden Brambley, Laurel Highlands.
Class AAA Most Outstanding Track Performer: Grace Trimmer, Uniontown.
Class AA Most Outstanding Field Performer: Ella Neil, California.
Class AA Most Outstanding Track Performers: Emma Larkin, Geibel Catholic/Megan Mehall, Southmoreland.
Most Outstanding Coaching Staff: Class AAA, Laurel Highlands (Gerry Pegg); Class AA, Waynesburg Central (Dave Fowler).
NOTES: Brambley won the county title, placed third in the WPIAL and seventh in the state in the pole vault. 鈥� Neil finished tied for seventh in high jump at the WPIAL meet, but tied for fifth in the state meet at the same height, 5-2. 鈥� Neil also competed in the triple jump in the WPIAL Class AA meet. 鈥� Neil won Section 6-AA titles in the high jump and long jump. 鈥� Mehall finished fifth in the 400, and then came back under threatening skies after a long delay in the WPIAL final for silver in the 800. She capped her season by finishing sixth in the 800 at the state meet. 鈥� Mehall also ran a leg on the Lady Scots鈥� 3,200 relay that was fourth in the WPIAL Class AA final. 鈥� Larkin entered the WPIAL Class AA Championship with the fastest seed time in the 300 intermediate hurdles, but was disqualified from the timed final after the officials hit her with a false start. Larkin managed to gather herself to finish sixth in the 800. 鈥� Larkin had success in the 100 and 200 through section meets to the county meet, dropping the sprints to concentrate on the intermediate hurdles and 800. 鈥� Local female athletes amassed 15 total medals in the WPIAL meet with one silver, one bronze, two fourth-place, fifth-place and sixth-place medals, five seven places and two eighth-place finishes. 鈥� The group added three state medals. 鈥� Brown won two WPIAL medals in her first district meet. She won the FCCA Track MVP, while teammate Lexie Pulice was the Field MVP. 鈥� Reed finished seventh in the 300 intermediate hurdles, just .13 seconds short of a PIAA automatic berth. 鈥� McGavitt was six inches shy of an automatic qualifying distance in the WPIAL Class AA javelin. 鈥� A鈥檢yia Dade swept the 100 and 200 in the Section 6-AA Championship, and finished second behind Brown in both sprints at the county meet. 鈥� Trimmer won the 1,600 and 3,200 in the FCCA Championship and qualified for the WPIAL finals in the 3,200. Trimmer was .22 seconds from making the WPIAL medals stand. 鈥� Medved had a solid spring with gold in the 800 and a second-place finish in the 1,600 in the county meet. 鈥� Pegg and his staff led the Laurel Highlands girls to county and Section 2-AAA team titles. 鈥� Fowler and the Waynesburg Central staff guided the Lady Raiders to a Section 6-AA title.