By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Several Burlington-area track and field athletes qualified for the National Junior Olympics later this month in Savannah, Georgia.
Athletes placing eighth or better in the Region 3 championships last month at Reid Ross Classical School in Fayetteville move on to nationals.
D’Anna Cotton was first in the girls’ triple jump in the 17-18-year-old division and advanced in two other events.
Cotton’s triple jump was 38 feet, 5½ inches. She was fifth in the long jump at 17-9¾ and captured sixth in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.08 seconds.
Also in the 17-18 division, long jumper Diamond Moore was fourth at 17-10¼ and Ge’Kayla Goins was sixth at 17-8. Goins was fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:06.02, while Kari Parker was seventh in the high jump at 4-5½.
Kailie Payne (15-16) was the champion in the 100 hurdles in 14.58 and placed third in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.11.
Janay Pegram (15-16) was third in the 200 in 24.34 and in the 400 in 57.21 and fourth in the 100 in 12.07.
Dallas Brooks (13-14) won the 100 hurdles in 16.48 and the long jump at 16-11½ and was the runner-up in the 200 hurdles in 30.02 and the high jump at 4-9.
Also in the 13-14 division for the 200 hurdles, Cyria McKoy was fifth in 32.17 and Kennedy Fuller was eighth at 32.70.
Payton Mcgahee (11-12) was sixth in the long jump at 14-1.
In boys’ divisions, Lacy Flintall III (8-and-under) was first in the long jump at 11-11½. Antonio Trollinger (9-10) was second in the javelin at 65-2, while Josiah McGinnis (11-12) was seventh in the javelin at 72-11.
The National Junior Olympics are set for July 18-30.
