LEWISVILLE – Every inch and second feels consequential at a state meet.
Koen Booker ’27 can attest after bringing his A-game to the long jump on Friday’s first day of the NCISAA Division I Championship Meet.
Christ School leads the competition with 43 points – Metrolina Christian Academy is in second place (35) – thanks in no small part to Koen. He and Metrolina’s William McCormick matched one another for Friday’s best jump (21 feet, 5.5 inches), with Koen having the second-best jump (21-5) as a tiebreaker. The junior from Durham had scratched on three of his six attempts but did enough to become a first-time state champion.
Elsewhere in the meet, the 3,200-meter relay of Noah Clancy ’27, Dominic Rose ’28, Brody Webb ’27, and Dallas Reeves ’27) was a runner-up with a school-record time of 7 minutes, 46.47 seconds and Brooks Barbee ’27 came in second in the individual 3,200 (8:48.40), which was Friday’s last event. William Robinson ’26 placed third in the shot put (51-3).
The meet resumes this morning at 10 a.m. and will run through 4 p.m. on the campus of Forsyth Country Day School, which is located just outside of Winston-Salem.
NCISAA Division I Championship Meet
Friday at Forsyth Country Day
Individual results (Christ School athletes)
3,200-meter run: 2. Brooks Barbee 8:48.50; 4. Reynolds Young 8:50.50; 8. Jack Dennehy 8:57.50; 9. Dallas Reeves 9:03.80; 10. Brody Webb 9:12.30; 11. Carl Baird 9:13.40; 13. Ben Graham 9:16.20; 16. Timmy McDowell 9:23.20; 21. Noah Clancy 9:59.52; Shot put: 3. Will Robinson 51-3; 13. Logan Woolsey 40-7.5; 20. Mathis Lessard 37-11; Long jump: 1. Koen Booker 21-5.5; Pole vault: 4. Alex Jarrett 11-6; 3,200-meter relay: 2. Christ School (Noah Clancy, Dominic Rose, Brody Webb, and Dallas Reeves) 7:46.47; 110-meter hurdles (preliminaries): 7. Lyndon Bryan 17.10; 100-meter dash (preliminaries): 16. Camden Long-White 11.40; 17. Myles Murphy 11.41; 400-meter dash (preliminaries): Sean Kraft 53.22; 300-meter hurdles: 4. Spencer Thompson 41.27; 5. Lyndon Bryan 41.86; 16. Alex Jarrett 45.20; 200-meter dash (preliminaries): 10. Tyler Jones 23.00.