State track meet is this weekend, TAPPS state meet was last weekend

Today, 06:00 AM

The UIL state track and field meet will be held later this week in Austin and Kendall County is well represented.

Boerne Champion has four entries, Boerne High has one runner and Comfort has two athletes advancing in field events.

TAPPS held their state meet last weekend and Geneva School of Boerne picked up two state medals The UIL state meet is this weekend in Austin, Thursday through Saturday. The 3A meet is Thursday and the 5A meet is on Friday.

Boerne Champion

Juliana Syroney is entered in two events after she won the 200 and finished second in the 100 at regionals, while Shawn Edwards will race in the 3200 and the 4x100 boys relay of Hayden Fridley, Jaxon Harbuck, Ryan McDonald and Brogan Dempsey qualified.

Syroney, Edwards and the 4x100 all claimed regional titles to make it to state.

Boerne High

Freshman Presley Merkens will run in the 800 Friday in Austin and she beat the school record set in 1998 by state champion Courtney Darter-Bruce (2:12.78) with a time of 2:12.34 to win the region.

Comfort High

Comfort has two athletes that qualified for the 3A state meet and they are both in field events. Carter Pape will compete in the long jump on Thursday after he won the regional title and Molly Gowan will compete in the high jump after she placed second at regionals.

Geneva School of Boerne

The TAPPS state meet was last weekend and Brady Chandler earned two medals for the Eagles after the senior won the pole vault for gold and was third in the long jump for bronze.