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Track and Field is a competition consisting of a variety of running, jumping and throwing events. Action began on the track for the Cougars in the men's and women's 4x100-meter relay. Practice running the race using different styles while a coach or training partner times each 100-meter split. Think for a moment about how difficult it would be to find 4 girls on a high school track team that could AVERAGE less than 2:11 for the 800-meter run.

Along with Cline's three standout performances, Bradley Winston earned regional berths in two events, placing second in the 3200-meter run in 10:25.57 and third in the 1600 run in 4:52.91. Caleb Ream was second in the 300 hurdles in 41.61 for Southwestern's other qualifier.

Kendall Ellis set the USC indoor and outdoor 400m records and became the third NCAA woman athlete to run sub-50 in the 400m when she won the Pac-12 title with a time of 49.99. Ellis placed second in the 400m at the NCAA Championships and then ran an epic anchor leg for USC's women's 4x400m relay which won with a time of 3:27.06 to clinch the team title.

Many outstanding girl athletes have dominated state meets, but few ever cross over from the sprints to the field events with Richardson's success, said Beithaupt. Track athletes are afraid of the 400 meters because they are afraid to hurt. The 400m is a sprint with athletes running at over 90% of maximum speed for the one lap.

The second event happened at the Texas 1A Girls State Track & Field Championship Meet in Austin, where Rochelle High School won the team title. Iowa State football commit Darien Porter of Bettendorf, Iowa set the state's 400 meter dash record this Friday - finishing the race in 46.99 seconds.

While running the race your whole body is being used, causing an amended effort to keep going and keep doing it. But for some reason I love it. Every season the four-hundred-meter dash is one of my events, it keeps me challenging myself to get better and better.

Sophomore Chamique Francis of Cardozo went 53.42 in the 400, and Shenendehowa's 400 meter dash 4 x 800 relay team of Danika Simonson, Alex Burtnik, Cara Janeczko and Lizzie Predmore ran 9:01.00. The following records are the Official State of Ohio Interscholastic Track and Field records, as properly reported to the OHSAA.