GIRLS
High school track and field 2024: Six athletes likely to jump farthest and finish fastest
Meet three girls and three boys, most with state titles in place and five committed to prominent colleges.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
April 17, 2024 at 10:58PM
Ashley Fisher, Holy Angels, senior
Signed with Notre Dame
2023 highlights:
Repeated as 100-meter dash state champion in Class 2A (12.07 seconds)
Runner-up in the 200 (24.81)
Anchored the Stars’ second-place 4x100 relay (48.74)
Took fourth in triple jump (37 feet, ¼ inches)
Gabby Keefer, St. Michael-Albertville, junior
2023 highlights:
Fourth in 100 (11.93) at Class 3A state meet
Fourth in 200 (25.92)
Fifth in triple jump (37-5¼)
Claire Kohler, Minnetonka, senior
Signed with Iowa
2023 highlights:
Class 3A state champion in the 100 hurdles (13.80) and 300 hurdles (43.03)
Eighth in triple jump (36-2½)
BOYS
Juriad Hughes Jr., Irondale, senior
Signed with Arkansas
2023 highlights:
Class 3A state champion in the long jump and broke the record from 1982 with a mark of 24 feet, 11 inches
Fifth in 200 (21.60)
Harlow Tong, St. Paul Central, senior
Committed to Harvard
2023 highlights:
Class 3A state champion in 400 (47.90)
Second in 100 (10.49)
Ninth in 200 (32.12)
Tobias Williams, Minnetonka, senior
Signed with Duke
2023 highlights:
Class 3A state champion in 100 (10.47)
Second in 200 (21.29)
Six players plus head coach Garrett Raboin and assistant coach Ben Gordon are from Minnesota. The tournament’s games will be televised starting Monday.
