Sequim’s girls racked up 26 team points to place eighth while the SHS’s boys were 16th at the Shelton Invitational on April 29.

Sequim junior Jolene Vaara broke a school record in the process. She leapt to a 17-1.25 mark, good for third place — breaking the previous record held by 16-9.5 set in 1981 by Julie Sires.

Sequim sophomore Dawn Hulstedt won the freshman/sophomore 1,600-meter race in 4:55.79 — the fastest 2A girls mark in 2023. She earned a second top-five finish in the 1-mile freshman sophomore race, placing fifth in 5:46.80.

Sophomore teammate Ivy Barrett paced Sequim’s girls with a first place finish in the 400 meters, clocking in at a personal best 60.87 seconds; it’s the fifth-fastest mark among 2A girls this season.

Sequim’s 4×400 relay team (Hulstedt, Vaara, Hi’ilei Robinson and Kaithlyn Bloomenrader) placed third, in 4:15.47 — the fifth fastest 4×400 2A girls time so far — while SHS’s 200 relay team (Barrett, Robinson, Bloomenrader and Vaara) took fifth in 1:48.30, the sixth-fastest 2A time thus far. Both relays are Olympic League and West Central District top times.

Vaara added a fifth place finish in the high jump (5-0).

Leading the way for the SHS boys were bothers Mirek and Ari Skov; Mirek tied for second in the pole vault (12-8) while Ari placed fourth with a personal best 12-2.

Sophomore Andrew Brown tied for fourth in the high jump with a 5-10 mark. He also placed 10th in the 110 hurdles (16.37) and 12th in the 300 hurdles (44.60).

Coming up

Sequim competes in the Olympic League meet on May 4 and May 6 in Poulsbo, vying for postseason berths with athletes from Bremerton, Kingston, North Kitsap, North Mason, Olympic and Port Angeles.

Top finishers advance to the West Central District meet, scheduled for May 19-20 in Renton.