The Kaua‘i High School girls 4×100-relay team won its event, and Tiffany Ikeda-Simao, the anchor leg runner for that team, topped the Girls 100- meter dash. Those events, coupled with other strong showings from the Red Raider ladies helped Kaua‘i
The Kaua‘i High School girls 4×100-relay team won its event, and Tiffany Ikeda-Simao, the anchor leg runner for that team, topped the Girls 100- meter dash.
Those events, coupled with other strong showings from the Red Raider ladies helped Kaua‘i finish fourth in the Girls portion of the Island Movers State Track & Field Championships Hawai‘i 2008, Saturday.
The Kaua‘i lady athletes collected 48 points for the fourth place overall showing, placing below Kamehameha School Girls (59.25 points), Punahou School Girls (55.75 points) and Kahuku (46 points). Waimea High School finished in 28th place with 2 points, tying with three other schools: Honoka‘a, Aiea and Kailua.
In the boys rankings, Kaua‘i finished in 31st place with a point, tying with Maui High School. Punahou School boys won the rankings with 55.75 points followed by Radford High School at 52 points.
Caralyn Broyles, the strong distance runner for Waimea, earned the Menehune its points with a fifth place finish in the girls 1500-meter run, stopping the clock at 5:24.48. That event was won by Bailey Massenburg of King Kekaulike on a 5:17.47 pace.
Broyles is also the anchor leg runner for the Waimea girls 4×1600-relay team which finished seventh overall on a 4:18.13 performance, a slight improvement over its preliminary performance, Friday, where the team stopped the clock at 4:18.99. Punahou Girls set the pace for that event on a 4:01.36 run.
In addition to Broyles, the team consists of Charleen Miguel, Jayme Jacinto and Natasha Abadila, Miguel and Jacinto being freshman multi-sport athletes while Abadila pacing Broyles throughout the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation’s track season on the distance runs.
Cayla Kitabayashi, a senior at Waimea, finished seventh in the girls 100-meter hurdles on a 16.64 run, just a tad slower than Misha Jones of Waianae who captured the final point on a 16.46 run. Zhane Santiago, top rated following the preliminaries, set the pace with a 15.12 showing in that event. But for Kitabayashi, the finals was a drop from her sixth place showing in the Friday prelims where she finished at 16.84.
Ikeda-Simao, in addition to powering the girls 4×100-relay team, came back from a second seed performance, Friday, to take the girls 100-meter Dash.
On Friday, Ikeda-Simao was edged out of the top slot by Yasmina Taketa of Kalani who beat her by .03 second on a 12.66 run. Ikeda-Simao pushed things to the limit during the finals, Saturday, to rise to a 12.38 showing, a dramatic improvement over her preliminary showing.
The state record for this event is 12.25 set in 2005. Taketa finished the finals on a 12.58 run, good for fifth place.
But Ikeda-Simao was not done, yet, having set a second-place finish in the girls triple Jump at 35-3.25, a little more than four inches shy of top finisher Santiago who leaped 35-7.00.
Jamilee Jimenez, another runner in the girls 4×100-relay team, finished second in the girls long jump event on a 17-73/4 leap. Ikeda-Simao added points to the Kaua‘i girls ranking with a fifth place leap of 16-7. That event was won by Taketa who set the pace at 18-51/2.
Jimenez’s sister Ashlee, a distance runner for Kamehameha Schools-Kapalama, finished third in the girls 400-meter run on a 59.55 run. Ashlee was also part of the K.S. girls 4×400- relay team which finished the event in second place to Punahou on a 4:02.84 run. Ashlee was at Vidinha during one of the KIF qualifying meets at the sponsorship of the Kaua‘i team and qualified for the event while performing there.
Kapa‘a’s Tyler Cram was listed on the rankings of the boys high jump, although no height was given. During the Friday preliminaries, Cram earned a consideration on a height clearance of 5-10, one of 10 jumpers to clear that height.
