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Last Year’s Girls State Meet

Fort Wayne Northrop Sprints to Record
10th Girls Track & Field State Title

For the 10th time in school history 2012-13 State Champions
and second time in three seasons, the
Fort Wayne Northrop Bruins captured Event Champion School Time/Dist./Ht.
the IHSAA Girls Track and Field team Pole Vault Sara McKeeman (11) Carroll (Fort Wayne) 12-3
championship Saturday night at Indiana Long Jump Ari Nelson (12) Homestead 19-1.25
University’s Robert C. Haugh Track and Discus Adriana Brown (11) Lawrence Central 168-6
Field Complex. High Jump Janae Moffitt (10) Oak Hill 5-10
Northrop’s 10 team titles rank high- Shot Put Liz Iversen (11) Martinsville 46-10.5
est among IHSAA member schools in 3200 Relay Eastern (Greentown) 8:53.74
Girls Track and Field.
Head coach Harmony Ake’s team (Jessica Spinkles 9, Sarah Wagner 12, Brittany Neeley 12, Bethany Neeley 12)
finished with 60 points followed by 110 Hurdles Sierra Brown (11) Hamilton Heights 14:53
runner-up Lawrence Central with 51 100 Meters Brionna Thomas (11) Fort Wayne Wayne 11.99
and Bellmont with 41. 1600 Meters Bethany Neeley (12) Eastern (Greentown) 4:53.37
Junior sprinter Dejah Arnold (400 400 Relay Ben Davis 47.22
meter dash) and the 4 x 400 relay of (Maya Caudle 11, Briana Jones 12, Ra’Von Woodson 9, Alethia Marrero 12)
Arnold, Victoria McCuiston (11), Make- 400 Meters Dejah Arnold (11) Fort Wayne Northrop 55.40
lle Skelton (12), and Amber McGee 300 Hurdles Symone Black (11) Fort Wayne Concordia 43.10
(10) turned in first place performances. 800 Meters Brittany Neeley (12) Eastern (Greentown) 2:07.91
Arnold also turned in a 12.3 100 meter 200 Meters Brionna Thomas (11) Fort Wayne Wayne 24.30
dash, good for fourth in the event. The 3200 Meters Anna Rohrer (10) Mishawaka 10:20.68
4 x 100 relay team (Jailyn Krantz, Mc- 1600 Relay Fort Wayne Northrop 3:51.53
Gee, Jaquell Taylor, Skelton) finished in (Dejah Arnold 11, Victoria McCuiston 11, Makelle Skelton 12, Amber McGee 10)
second behind Ben Davis, while Taylor
and Skelton contributed points in each Final Team Standings
of the hurdle events.
The 4 x 800 relay from Eastern 1. Fort Wayne Northrop 60
(Greentown) kicked off the running 2. Lawrence Central 51
events in state record fashion, finishing 3. Bellmont 41
in 8:53.74 and shattering the previous 4. Eastern (Greentown) 37
record of 9:03.77 set by Chesterton in 5. Carroll (Fort Wayne) 29
2006. The performance by senior twins 6. Terre Haute North 26
Bethany and Brittany Neeley, Jessica 7. Hamilton Southeastern 25
Sprinkles (9), and Sarah Wagner (12)
ranks as the eighth best all-time in the 8. Noblesville 22
nation (NFHS.org). It was also the first 9. Columbus North 21
of three championships and a fourth T10. Fort Wayne Wayne 20
place overall finish for the Howard T10. Pike 20
County school located near Kokomo.
The night belonged to the Neeley twins, events in consecutive years joining
as Bethany claimed her second straight Maicel Malone of North Central (1986,
1600 meter title and finished eighth in 1987), LaShanda Harper of Harding
the 300 hurdles; Brittany established (1994, 1995, 1996) and Candyce
a new state record in the 800 meters McGrone of Warren Central (2007,
cruising to the line in 2:07.91. The 2008).
Neeley’s were impactful in each season Lawrence Central junior Adriana
this school year as they helped the Brown’s mark of 168-6 set the other
Comets to a seventh place finish at the new state record in the discus. Her
Girls Cross Country State Finals and fourth place finish in the shot put (43-
then led the basketball team to a 2A 1) helped the Bears to the runner-up
state runner-up finish. finish.
Fort Wayne Wayne junior Brionna Mishawaka sophomore Anna
Thomas was a double winner on the Rohrer raced to first in the 3200 meter
night, finishing first in the 100 (11.99) run, crossing the line in 10:20.68,
and 200 (24.30), successfully defend- just .02 shy of the record, and adding
ing both events from 2012. She be- to the individual cross country state
came the fourth individual to win both championship she won in the fall.
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