Highland senior Juliette Laracuente Huebner won all four of her events over the weekend at the State Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by the Spire Institute in Geneva.
In doing so, she scored 40 points to single-handedly earn the Division II-III team title by four points over Gilmour Academy. The four events she won were the high jump, long jump, 60-meter hurdles and triple jump.
She cleared 5’8.25 to win the high jump, which was a Division II-III state indoor meet record. Her personal best in the event is 5’9”.
In the long jump, she set a venue record and all-divisions state indoor meet record of 20’3.5”. In that event, her personal best is 20’3.75”.
In the 60-meter hurdles, she ran 8.74 in the prelims and 8.56 in the final, with both times beating her previous top effort of 8.77. While her time in the finals would have been a Division I record, it was four hundreds of a second off the Division II-III record.
Finally, her distance in the triple jump of 41’8.75” was both a personal record and set a new all-divisions state indoor meet record.
Her efforts resulted in the first state track title in Highland history and she became the first girl to win a title by herself in the 18-year history of the state indoor meet.
Highland also had a pair of boys compete in the meet. Senior Joel Roberts was in the high jump, while sophomore Kieran Taylor took part in the pole vault.
Information received from Chip Wendt.
