Sports
Hopkins Relay Team Sets Another State Record
Dami Manuel-Moore, Elise Anderson, Siona Fitzhugh and Taylor Anderson finished the 4x100 relay with a time of 47.48.
The Hopkins girls’ 4x100 meter relay team beat their own state record at the Class AA state track and Field championships Friday and Saturday at Hamline University.
Junior Dami Manuel-Moore, junior Elise Anderson, sophomore Siona Fitzhugh and senior Taylor Anderson finished with a time of 47.48.
Hopkins set the previous record last year with a time of 47.73. Manuel-Moore, Elise Anderson and Taylor Anderson were all on that relay team.
Overall, Hopkins girls finished sixth with 34 points.
Taylor Anderson, the 2012 state champion in the 100-meter dash, cinched another first-place finish in the race, but her 11.81-second time was a tenth of a second behind the state record she set last year.
Anderson also finished second in the 200-meter dash.
Hopkins boys finished sixth overall with 29 points.
Junior Terrance Bowers won the triple jump with a leap of 45-feet-9¾-inches.
Meanwhile, junior Shaheed Hickman won the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.90 seconds, a tenth of a second better than the second-place finisher.
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