Girls 1,600m Run
Eliana Black came out on top last Friday in a battle of Florida's best in the FSU Relays 3,200m and she will look to attempt the same this Friday in the 1,600m.
Black has yet to run the 1,600m this season, but has a personal best of 4:56 from last spring as an eighth-grader.
In the field with her are several runners who have already dipped under five minutes this spring or certainly ready to between Ponte Vedra junior Lindy White at 4:57, future Florida Gator and Buchholz senior Kate Drummond at 4:59, and Black's own teammate Madeleine Gear of Cambridge Christian at 5:01.
Gear ran 4:58 last spring at her district meet and is coming off a 10:45 3200 PR race at the FSU Relays. White and Drummond both broke 5 minutes for the first time together in the same race earlier this season pushing each other to the line at the East Coast Classic hosted by Flagler Palm Coast.
Eliana Black was the runner-up in last year's Florida Relays when she broke 5 minutes for the first time with a 4:57 performance. She has a chance to not only win this year, but also establish herself as the state's fastest and leader in a second distance event in the 1600 meter run.
Another freshmen to watch in the race and her seed time does not reflect her indoor performances including a 5:00 performance for the full mile is Creekside's Alyson Johnson. The Florida indoor mile state champion Johnson is also scheduled to run the 3200 meter run in the morning and shoot for her first sub 11 minute race, but will many hours to recover back for the 1600 meter run to go off in the afternoon session on Friday to try and challenge Black and rest of the field for the win.
1. Eliana Black 9 Cambridge Christian 4:56.45
2. Lindy White 11 Ponte Vedra 4:57.20
3. Kate Drummond 12 Buchholz 4:59.29
4. Madeleine Gear 11 Cambridge Christian 5:01.86
5. Emily Knopfle 10 Olympia 5:06.91
6. Ava Hendrix 10 Lake Minneola 5:07.81
7. Natalia Martin 12 Olympic 5:07.81
8. Alexandra Raquet 12 Sickles 5:08.06
9. Gianna Del Pizzo 11 Lehigh 5:08.54
10. Alyson Johnson 9 Creekside 5:08.56
11. Emerson Brinn 9 South Fork 5:09.25
12. Olivia Niewald 12 Spruce Creek 5:10.12
13. Ava Povich 12 Evangelical Christian 5:10.57
14. Avery Fronrath 11 King's Academy 5:11.89
15. Addison Boyer 11 South Fork 5:13.18
16. Abigail Clements 12 Osceola (Seminole) 5:13.63
17. Regan Morrall 11 Western 5:13.69
18. Noelle Vu 11 Mount Dora 5:13.85
19. Danielle Baig 10 Wellington 5:15.04
20. Elle Mehltretter 11 Osceola (Seminole) 5:15.40
21. Olivia Gardner FL 12 New Smyrna Beach 5:15.44
22. Lauren Voutour 10 St. Augustine 5:15.46
23. Mackenzie De Lisle 10 Bishop Verot 5:15.47
24. Mackenzie Roy 10 Seabreeze 5:15.78
25. Julia Reitz 12 Bishop Verot 5:16.30
26. Alivia Dragstedt 10 Oak Hall 5:16.50
27. Lucy Voss 11 Buchholz 5:16.55
28. Emily Baldwin 12 Cardinal Gibbons 5:16.74
29. Arianna Roy 10 Seabreeze 5:17.23
30. Ziza Russell 9 Timber Creek 5:17.40
31. Sierra Barrera 12 Oakleaf 5:18.13
32. Haylee Santantonio 10 Western 5:18.62
33. Ella Menke 12 Sarasota 5:18.83
34. Mackenzie Klein 11 Oak Hall 5:18.84
35. Lillian Koeppel 9 Maclay School 5:18.90
36. Keira Hodum 12 Benjamin School 5:19.42
37. Ava Taylor 10 Charlotte 5:20.20
38. Katie Thompson 12 Fleming Island 5:20.30