The Blue Devil track team has had a great run throughout their 2024 season. Multiple athletes gave their best through all the meets, and some in multiple events. They competed in three meets prior to district and some athletes went all the way to regionals.
The runners had their district track meet on April 4, 2024, with 12 athletes advancing to area. The girls got third overall at the track meet while advancing nine athletes. The boys got fifth overall while advancing three athletes to area.
Out of the girls, seven sophomores and two freshmen advanced in seven events. Sophomore Izabelle Daily got first place in the 100-meter hurdles. Sophomore Josephine Mayes placed first in the 300-meter hurdles and second in pole vault. Freshman Callie Hay got third place in both the 100 and 300-meter hurdles. Sophomore Savannah Brackeen got third in high jump. Sophomore Emma Garrett placed fourth in the 400-meter dash. The 4×200 meter relay placed third which included freshman Abigail Walston, and sophomores Kayden Robinson, Savannah Yates, and Brackeen with alternates Kenzie Templeton and Jorja Mullins, both freshmen. The 4×400-meter relay placed second which included: Robinson, Emma Garrett, Yates, and Templeton with alternates Daily and Hay.
Out of the boys, there was one senior, a junior, and one freshman advancing in three events. Senior Isai Lopez got fourth in the 400-meter dash. Freshman Marcos Rivera got third in the 800-meter run and fourth in the 1600-meter run. Junior Robert Kimbrough placed third in discus.
The area track meet was supposed to take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, but with the weather delay, it got moved to the next day. The weather was still a big problem causing schools to not be able to make it to the meet, so the meet was canceled. It was decided that the top two people from each district in each event would advance to regionals.
After the area meet got canceled, only eight girls, two of them alternates, advanced to regionals. They left the school on Thursday, ran and did field events on Friday. Finals for field events were in the morning on Friday, and preliminary races started at 4:00 p.m. the same day. None of the athletes advanced to state, but they all still competed to the best of their ability.