Hemingway track and field team finishes year at lower state meet

By Neill Kirkpatrick

Special to the HSSR

Hemingway – Class A sports are always tricky when it comes to team numbers no matter what sport is in season especially at schools like Hemingway where it is a challenge sometime to field a team and in track and field the issues usually how many events will your team be able to compete in at each meet.

The Tigers track and field team is small in numbers but they have some very competitive athletes that work hard every day to get better. They are also young and hungry for success with all them being underclassmen.

Two juniors lead the boys team in Akiem Holman and Alexander Timmons. Holman runs the 400 meters and long jumps for the Tigers while Timmons is the top 100-meter man. Holman has a personal best of 1:01.53 and Timmons has a personal best 12.59 in the 100.

Freshmen Deandre Cooper and Daveon Gamble an eighth grader that are making an impact in the 100 and 200. Cooper just posted another personal best at the Hannah Pamlico meet with a time 12.94.

Cayden Hannah is a sixth grader who has shown he can compete at the varsity level already. He has posted personal best in the 100 of 13.25, 200 of 27.12 and 400 of 1:06.07.

On the girls side junior Elisha Singletary. In her career she has thrown the Javelin, long jumped, ran the 100, 100 hurdles and the 200 for the Tigers. Her personal best in the Javelin is 15.47. She is also an all-region volleyball and basketball player.

Junior Shakiya Cooper is the Tigers top sprinter. She recently placed second at Carvers Bay meet in the 100 meter in a personal best of 12.91. She also runs the 200 (PR 27.15) and the 400.

Kennedi Hayward and Leanna Washington are freshmen and Jaela Lewis is a seventh grader who run the 100, 200 and 400 meters

The hurdles (100 and 400) are in good hands with eighth grader Honesty Anderson who also runs the open 400. She ran a personal best of 21.17 at the lower state meet.

Junior Zaniya Woods, junior Terriana Turner and eighth graders Shaesha Turner and Jasmir Taylor handle the throwing events and continue to improve each meet. Shaesha set new personal best in the discus (17.9m) and the shot (7.63m) and Terriana set a new personal best in the discus of 18.71.