COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Track and Field State Tournament returned to Ohio State this weekend with a highly successful meet for central Ohio schools.
The two-day OHSAA track and field championships wrapped up Saturday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The 117-year-old tradition boasted exciting results for many high schools in central Ohio.
In Division I, Olentangy’s C.J. Sanna, who has committed to play football at Ohio State, won discus — and it wasn’t close. The margin between first and second was more than 14 feet following Sanna’s best throw of 194 feet, 14 inches.
Josiah Montgomery from Reynoldsburg won shot put, while Hilliard Davidson’s Anna Wile accomplished her goal of winning the 100m hurdles. Wile finished second in the same race in 2024.
“I fought to the end and I was really happy, tears in my eyes at the end. I can’t explain how proud I am,” Wile said.
In the girls’ 4x200m relay, Pickerington Central was chasing a second championship in three years. When Grace Alls grabbed the baton with a 100 meters to go, the Tigers were in third place. Alls still beat everyone to the line.
“With a young team — those are three sophomores over there — it’s amazing,” Alls said. “It’s such a blessing as a young team … That just was truly a blessing to be able to do what we do.”
Alls wasn’t done; she later won the girls 400m race by almost a second.
Orange High School dominated the 1,600m races. Brooke Chapman backed up her state championship last year with another one winning by exactly a half second. In the next race, Orange’s Matthew Schroff won the boys’ 1,600m.
“Both of us trained really good. We’ve been really running great this season, I definitely had that in the back of my mind, we can definitely sweep this,” Chapman said.
Pickerington Central won the girls’ 4x100m relay by seven-hundredths of a second; Alyvia Mentlow from Westerville Central won the girl’s 200m with a time of 23.96; and Celia Schulte from Davidson won the girl’s 800m.
