Chandler’s Henderson shocks with 11.75 time in 100-meter run
It was just the preliminaries Wednesday, but Chandler junior Trinity Henderson showed how much she missed competing at state.
Henderson not only ran the fastest 100-meter time at Phoenix Desert Vista, her 11.75 seconds was among the 10 fastest all-time for girls track and field in Arizona at the AIA Division I state track and field championships.
A hot day with 100 degrees didn’t slow Henderson down. She was the state champion in the 100 as a freshman but had to wait two years to run in the state meet again. Last year, COVID-19 wiped out spring sports.
“I really wanted to run the 100,” she said. “I’ve been really working on it. I am so happy. Oh my God.”
The fifth-fastest time in Arizona high school history by a female is 10.68. She figures to have the sixth-fastest all time.
She said she’s got enough left for Saturday’s finals at Desert Vista.
“Faster,” she said.
Later in the evening, Henderson ran the fastest 200 heat in 24.15 and is in position to take home two individual gold medals on Saturday.
Scottsdale Chaparral junior Neya Jamison also ran really fast Wednesday. Her time of 42.27 seconds in the girls 300 hurdles ties for the second-fastest time ever in Arizona preps history with Jasmine Stauffacher-Gray, who ran that time in 2014 at Phoenix North Canyon.
Jamison, the sister of former Chaparral standout football player and hurdler Brandon Jamison, broke Christy Nore’s 36-year-old school record of 42.67. Jamison will see if she can catch former Oro Valley Canyon del Oro star Jaide Stepter, who set the state record in 2012 with a time of 42.01. Jamison also qualified for Saturday’s state finals in the 100 hurdles, 200 and 4x100 relay.
Desert Vista’s Lauren Ping won the girls 1600 meters championship after trailing most of the race. Ping stayed a spot behind her teammate, Katie Sigerud, for three laps, before turning it on down the stretch and winning in 4 minutes, 54.02 seconds. Sigerud was second at 4:55.31.
“The game plan was staying in second because we also got the 800 and the 4x8 and the 3200 tonight and Saturday,” Ping said. “I just wanted to place.
“It felt really good. This is my first state meet in Arizona.”
Gilbert Perry senior Makayla Long won the girls state title in the shot put at 50 feet, 8 inches, a state record. She had throw it 53 feet in the Red Mountain meet earlier this season, but she said it has yet to be recognized as the record, because she had tape on her hand. The 50-8 is a top-10 mark in the country this year. Chandler’s Makayla Hunter, who also has thrown 50 feet this year, was second in the shot at 42-9.
No female had ever broken 50 feet in the shot in Arizona high schools before this season.
“I was just trying to go out there and execute technique,” said Long, who has committed to Baylor. “I just wanted to show what I can do, all of the hard work that’s paid off. I’ve come up short a few times but to finally have the win, it feels good.”
Mesa Red Mountain’s 4x800-meter relay won the boys state championship with a time of 7:54.03. That’s a school record. The relay was run by Joseph Hamilton, Noah Czajkowski, Thomas Sewell and with freshman Tyler Mathews anchoring it.
“We were trying to break the school record, which was 7:58,” Mathews said.
Aiden Harvey of Phoenix Sandra Day O’Connor had the fastest preliminary
time in the boys 100 meters at 10.61 seconds. That also was a school record.
Phoenix Brophy Prep’s Xander Black captured the Division I boys 3200 championship with a time of 9:29.73. His teammate, Jacson Moran, was third at 9:37.89.
Chandler Hamilton sophomore Rachana Men won the boys high jump with a personal record of 6 feet, 5 inches.
Chandler’s Jamere Haskell beat out Queen Creek’s Krew Jackson for the boys triple jump title with a state season-best 45-8. Jackson came in with the state’s longest triple jump, but he was second at 44-9.
Junior Amar Elmore of Chandler took the discus title at 180-9.
The way Chandler came through during field events on the first day is an indication that the Wolves could cruise through for the Division I boys state championship on Saturday.
After Sigerud’s runnerup finish in the girls 1600, she took first in the 800 with a time of 2:10.64.
Tempe Corona del Sol sophomore Ena McMahon won the girls pole vault title at 11-9, three inches better than runnerup Mira Olden of Scottsdale Chaparral.
Senior Alisha Ellsworth of Gilbert Highland took the girls long jump title 18-8 3⁄4, four inches better than Tucson’s Jenica Bosko.