AUSTIN (KXAN) — Round Rock senior Xavier Drumgoole repeated as the 6A boys triple jump champion during the UIL track and field championships Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Drumgoole set the winning mark on his first jump, leaping 49 feet, 2.5 inches to edge Spring’s Jaydon Shields by half an inch at 49-2. The event’s podium was tight with Cypress Park’s Jamitrius Jessie coming in third with a mark of 49-1.5.
Drumgoole’s winning leap in 2023 was 49-6.5.
Anderson junior Faith Murphy placed second in the 6A girls 800 meters with a personal-best time of 2 minutes, 7.14 seconds, less than a second behind champion Nicole Humphries of Lewisville Flower Mound. She improved her previous personal best that she ran at the regional championships April 20 by more than two seconds.
Vista Ridge’s Emma Wade placed second in the 6A girls 1,600 with a 4:50.13, edging Denton Braswell’s Macy Wingard at the finish line. Wingard finished in 4:50.52 and Klein Cain’s Felicity Hamilton was on their tails finishing in 4:50.88. Edinburg North’s San Juanita Leal turned in the fastest time this year in 6A to win, finishing in 4:42.30. Leal also won the 3,200 by more than 15 seconds with a time of 10:02.10, the fastest time in 6A this year.
Class 1A and 6A teams wrapped up the 3-day meet Saturday. Gordon stormed to the 1A boys team championship with 83 points, almost doubling up Rankin with 42 points. Roby claimed the 1A girls title with 60 points ahead of Throckmorton’s 44.
In 6A, Humble Atascocita scored 70 points to win the boys title with Duncanville coming in second with 61. On the girls side, Duncanville got it done and won with 68 points, nine ahead of Alvin Shadow Creek.
2024 UIL track and field team champions
- 6A boys: Humble Atascocita
- 6A girls: Duncanville
- 5A boys: Fort Bend Marshall
- 5A girls: Lancaster
- 4A boys: Gilmer and Iowa Colony (tie)
- 4A girls: Iowa Colony
- 3A boys: Yoakum and Hallettsville (tie)
- 3A girls: Universal City Randolph
- 2A boys: Refugio
- 2A girls: Refugio and Panhandle (tie)
- 1A boys: Gordon
- 1A girls: Roby