- May 23, 2025
Mainland's Amyah Watlington and Seabreeze's Hunter Shuler each came won two individual championships at the District 6-3A track and field meet on Friday, April 25, at at Orlando Bishop Moore.
Watlington won both the girls 100-meter hurdles with a personal record time of 14.31 seconds and the long jump with a leap of 5.09 meters (16 feet, 8.5 inches). She also ran opening leg on the Bucs' 4x100 winning relay team and also qualified for regionals on the fourth-place 4x400 relay.
Shuler won both of the boys distance races. He captured the 1,600-meter title with a time of 4:37.93 and won the 3,200 with a time of 10:33.04.
The Bucs were runners-up for the boys team title and placed fifth in the girls standings. Seabreeze won four individual district titles, while Mainland won three.
The Bucs' Kajuan Curry won the district boys 800-meter title for the second straight year with a time of 2:02.86. Curry was also a member of two district championship relay teams — the 4x400 and 4x800. Mainland also won the 4x100 district title.
Seabreeze's Drayton Brackett won the 110 hurdles with a PR time of 15.98 seconds. The Sandcrabs' Emma Uneda won the girls triple jump with a leap of 10.66 meters (34 feet, 11.75 inches).
Other automatic regional qualifiers for the Sandcrabs were: Tabitha Hick (third, 100 hurdles), Cydney Rivard (third, triple jump) among girls; and Rhett Opalewski (third, 400), Dominic Dowell (second, 400 hurdles), Jeremias George (third, triple jump) and Logan Smith (second, javelin) among boys.
Mainland's other automatic qualifiers among the boys were: Eddie Lake (second, 100), Kyle Moore (third, 100), Javon Estes (fourth, 200), Houston Cadette (fourth, 110 hurdles), Antonio Wilson (fourth, discus) and Ethan Figueroa (second in both high jump and long jump). On the girls side, Mainland's Aquila Rivers placed second in the 400.
Both Mainland and Seabreeze are expected to add some at-large qualifiers for the Region 2-3A meet on May 2 at Embry-Riddle.
