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Friday, June 10, 2011

Baker Wins Meet of Champions Crown in 400

Columbia freshman stars, but the track meet is postponed due to lightning.

After going more than a decade without having an individual Meet of Champions winner in the spring, the Columbia girls track team got its second winner in as many years. Freshman star, Olivia Baker, continued her dominant track season, winning the 400 meter state championship, with a time of 54.66, in Matawan on Thursday. Through the first 200 meters, Baker was near the back of the pack in fifth place. But down the stretch, Baker left everyone chasing her, as she exploded passed the competition to win by a considerable margin. Baker has yet to lose in her freshman year in the 400, and became the first ever Cougar girl to win the 400 at the MOC. “I get out smooth but fast. I usually aim for around 26, or 26.5 about [in the first 200] and …

Monday, July 5, 2010

Cougar Girls Place 2nd at Nike National Track Championships

Richards, Jackson, Johnson each place second in the nation in respective events to lead Columbia.

The legacy of the 2010 Cougar girls track team as the best in school history and one of the best in the state's history was cemented this weekend with a second place finish at the Nike National Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Columbia put an exclamation point on an tremendous season (including a conference, county, section, group and national championship), scoring 7,528.17 points, just 193 points behind Chandler. Three different Columbia girls placed second nationally, two finished in third place, one in sixth and one in seventh. "Had we put up our normal numbers, and it could've come from anywhere, we would've won," said CHS head coach Lisa Morgan. "We were winning up until the last two events. There were a lot of …

Jose Ortiz

1:50 pm on Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Ozuzu also finished second in the discus event.   more ›

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