On Saturday the Chesnee track and field team had an impressive day at the Upper State track championships held at Liberty High School as the Eagles qualified for the State Championship in eleven different events.
"It was a good day for our team," said Chesnee head track coach James Davis. "KJ Valentine and Kymiah Blair had good days and my relay teams really impressed me today. Jessa had another impressive day as well and I'm just proud of all of them." On the girls side of the meet the Chesnee 4x100 relay team (NyNy Proctor, Kymiah Blair, Bethany Cheeks, Tracy Taylor, and Aleiyha Crittenden) finished in second place just a second behind Batesburg-Leesville who won the event. Kymiah Blair qualified for the state championship in three separate individual events with a second place finish in the 200m along with third place finishes in both the 100m and 400m events. Jessa Beach was named Upper State champion in the discuss event with a distance of 128'10" as she was the only person to throw over 100' in the competition, including breaking her own personal record twice in the event. "Upper State champion has a good ring to it," said Beach. "It means my hard work is paying off and now we have one more competition so hopefully we can finish it with a bang." She also finished second in the shot put event with a distance of 35'10" finishing only behind Liberty's Savannah Welborn who won with a distance of 40'05." On the boys side of the competition the 4x100 relay team (Bryson Thompson, Kijymie Valentine, Malikhi Franklin, and Ian Harris) won the Upper State championship with a time of 43.41, five tenths of a second ahead of second place. The 4x400 relay team (Bryson Thompson, Malikhi Franklin, Ian Harris, Kijymie Valentine, Andrew Chisholm, and Terrell Kesler) also qualified for the state championship after coming home with a third place finish at upper state. Kijymie Valentine also won another Upper State championship of his own in the 400m event with a time of 51.70, finishing a tenth of a second ahead of second place. The Eagles Corey Seay qualified for the state championship in two separate events as well taking a second place finish in discuss and a fourth place finish in the shot put. "I told our kids coming in today we wanted to just focus and give everything we have," said Davis. "This was a step to go to the big dance and I want them to leave it all out on the track. Now our kids are going to get a chance to go and compete for a ring and I'm really excited for them." The Eagles will now compete in the state championship events from May 21-22 at Lower Richland High School in Columbia, SC. Comments are closed.
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