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Every record broken at 2023 Washington (WIAA) state track and field championships

Sehome's Jacob Andrews, Bear Creek School's Braelyn Baker, Central Valley's Brandon Thomas, Garfield-Palouse's Kennedy Cook all set two state meet records

Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports

There were 15 state records that changed hands during the 2023 Washington (WIAA) state high school track and field championships. 

Two athletes set two records, one at the 1B/2B/1A state track meet in Yakima and another at the 2A/3A/4A meet in Tacoma. 

Sehome sprinter Jacob Andrews, a USC track signee, set new records in the 2A boys 200 and 400 meter races and Braelyn Baker of Bear Creek School broke state 1A meet records in the 100 and 300 hurdles and Kennedy Cook set 200 and 400 1B girls records. 

Central Valley's Brandon Thomas set two ambulatory state meet records in the shot and discus and placed in two other events.

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Here is a breakdown on all 15 state championship meet records that fell at the 2023 WIAA state track and field championships:

Boys shot put ambulatory — Brandon Thomas, Central Valley (4A)

Thomas hit a state meet record in the shot put with a 49-10 1/4. The all-Greater Spokane League linebacker is head to play football at Eastern Washington.

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Boys discus ambulatory — Brandon Thomas, Central Valley (4A)

Thomas' 123-01 throw was a state meet record and won him the event championship by 23 points. It was one of two state titles — both meet records — and he also placed second in the javelin and third in the 100.

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1B boys high jump — Tomeko Cates, Mary Walker

How's this for a hyped up celebration? The junior hit 6-8 at the Glenn Wolf Invite early in the season and again at the MacDougall Invite in late April, then hit a personal best 6-9 at the 1B/2B/1A state meet in Yakima. to a roaring crowd. 

1B girls 200 — Kennedy Cook, Garfield-Palouse

One of two meet records for the Garfield-Palouse senior at state track in Yakima, Cook went for a record 25.47 in the 200. She finished four seconds faster in the second place finisher.

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1B girls 400 — Kennedy Cook, Garfield-Palouse

Cook's 57.30 in the 1B 100-meter dash blew away the rest of the field — both on Saturday and in 1B meet history. She finished more than four seconds ahead of the second place finisher. 

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3A boys 4x400 — Mt. Spokane

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The quartet of Bradley Runge, Jackson Hale, Ben Sonneland and Boden Gardner ran a 3:18.34, which is a 3A meet record according to the WIAA. The Wildcats finished second as a team in the 3A boys field with a score of 51.5 points (Yelm won with 59).

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2A girls 3,200 — Jessica Frydenlund, Anacortes

Frydenlund finished the 3,200 in 10:40.15 on Saturday, setting a new 2A state girls meet record by more than seven seconds. The record was previously held by Bellingham's Annika Reese, who set it with a 10:47.77 in 2019.

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2A boys 200 — Jacob Andrews, Sehome

He ran a 21.21 to set a new 2A meet record, finishing 7/10ths of a second ahead of the pack in a repeat event championship effort. In 2022 as a junior, Andrews won the event with a 21.25. The USC signee left his fingerprints all over the state meet, also winning the 100, 400 and 4x100 finals. 

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2A boys 400 — Jacob Andrews, Sehome

Andrews ran an unofficial 46.89 to complete the 100-200-400 sweep and set another meet record while he was at it. He was more than a second and a half faster than his winning time as a junior, 48.05.

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3A boys javelin — Roderick Schenk, Central Kitsap

Central Kitsap's Roderick Schenk set a new 3A javelin record with a personal best 219-1 on Friday. Yelm's Brayden Platt, a four-star linebacker and the state of Washington's top football prospect, was right on his tail, finishing second with his own career best throw of 216-0. 

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2A boys 110 hurdles — Andre Korbmacher, Squalicum 

Lightning struck twice for Squalicum phenom Andre Korbmacher. After setting a state record in the 110 hurdles last year as a junior, he broke that record Thursday in the preliminary round by running a 13.80, then broke it again in the final. His state championship-winning 

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3A boys triple jump — Trevontay Smith, Yelm

Trevontay Smith began competing in track last spring. A year later, he's not only a 3A state champion, but also a history-maker. His 50-4 1/2 leap in the triple jump set a state meet record — and is the best mark in the state since 2020. Yelm won a 3A boys team championship.

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3A girls pole vault — Hana Moll, Capital

Moll won the 3A pole vault championship by more than two feet. She didn't quite reach her 15-00 that she hit to win at the Arcadia Invitational, which is the nation's best high school girls outdoor mark nationally this spring, but she set a new meet record. Her twin sister, fellow Washington commit Amanda Moll, was the defending 3A pole vault champ but scratched out of the event the week of state. She hit 14-7 1/4 at the Texas Relays, the nation's No. 2 time. 

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1A girls 100 — Braelyn Baker, Bear Creek School

The junior toppled a record that stood for 27 years — 11.92 —set by LaShaunda Fowler of Foster in 1996. It was one of two 1A state meet records Baker set.

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1A girls 300 hurdles — Braelyn Baker, Bear Creek School

Baker's 41.02 was almost five seconds faster than the second place finisher, and easily beat a 28-year old 1A state meet record — 43.72 set by Megan Franza of Cascade (Leavenworth) in 1995.

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1A boys 100 — Reggie Witherspoon III, Seattle Academy

Witherspoon III's 10.83 in the 1A 100 finals edged out Ray Stark of Elma's meet record set in 2014. The speedy junior also won the 200 (PR of 21.45), 4x100 as the anchor (43.34).

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1B boys 110 hurdles — Sam Plocher, Evergreen Lutheran

Plocher's 14.72 won the 1B 110 hurdles by around a second and a half and beat the meet record set in 2011 by Andrew Wolf of Mt Rainier Lutheran. Plocher also won the 300 hurdles with a PR of 39.87 and didn't lose a hurdle race all spring outdoor season.

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1A boys 800 — Andrew Luce, Lynden Christian

How's this for a one-jump improvement? Luce's preliminary jump of 1:58.74 finished second in his heat but qualified him for the final, where he set a meet record and won the 1A boys 800 title with a 1:52.76 — a nearly six-second improvement.  

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Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports
ANDY BUHLER, SBLIVE SPORTS

Andy Buhler is a Regional Editor of Texas and the national breaking news desk. He brings more than five years of experience covering high school sports across the state of Washington and beyond, where he covered the likes of Paolo Banchero and Tari Eason served on state tournament seeding committees. He works on the SBLive/Sports Illustrated Power 25 national boys basketball rankings. He has covered everything from the Final Four, MLS in Atlanta to local velodrome before diving into the world of preps. His bylines can be found in The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), The Associated Press, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), The Oregonian and more. He holds a degree from Gonzaga and is based out of Portland, Oregon.

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