California record holder now No. 4 all-time prep competitor after 14:04.90 effort in 3,000-meter racewalk; Allen earns another racewalk crown, Beckmon wins back-to-back long jump titles and Garrett gets impressive 400 hurdles victory

By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor

EUGENE, Ore. – Among all the repeat winners, state records and breakthrough performances showcased Friday at Nike Outdoor Nationals, perhaps the most historical achievement came in the first championship race on the schedule.

Talia Green, a sophomore at College Prep in Oakland, Calif., produced a remarkable effort in the girls 3,000-meter racewalk, not only lowering her own California state record, but elevating to the No. 4 all-time prep competitor by clocking 14 minutes, 4.90 seconds at Hayward Field.

Green, who took second last year to Madison Morgan of Episcopal, Texas, by a 14:12.66 to 14:36.10 margin, demonstrated her improvement by not only eclipsing the meet record, but becoming the first California female athlete in meet history to capture the girls racewalk crown.

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Morgan placed second in 14:22.55, with sixth-grader Ava Torgersen – a training partner of Green in Oakland –  achieving a personal-best 16:08.67 to take third overall.

Green and Morgan are two of the leading candidates entered in the women’s 10,000-meter racewalk June 24 at the USATF Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field, along with Ryan Allen and Clayton Stoil in the men’s race.

The Villanova-bound Allen, representing Kingsway Regional in New Jersey, was one of three athletes to secure back-to-back individual national titles, along with Akala Garrett in the girls 400-meter hurdles and Sophia Beckmon in the girls long jump.

Allen held off Stoil, a junior at Langley High in Virginia, to repeat in the boys 3,000 racewalk by a 13:45.62 to 13:48.69 margin.

Allen became the first male athlete to secure consecutive racewalk titles since Evan Crowdus of Union County High in Missouri, triumphed in 2006-07 at the mile distance.

Garrett, a junior at Harding University in North Carolina, ran a lifetime-best 57.46 seconds to become only the fourth female competitor in meet history to win back-to-back 400 hurdles titles and the first since Sydney McLaughlin won four in a row for Union Catholic High in New Jersey from 2014-17.

Aria Wegh, a training partner of Garrett with Purpose Driven Elite and a sophomore at Marvin Ridge High, took third in a personal-best 1:00.87.

Shaina Zinter of Roseville Academy in Minnesota, a Wisconsin signee, placed second and eclipsed the 60-second barrier for the first time by clocking 59.19. Zinter begins competition Saturday in the heptathlon.

Beckmon, a junior at Oregon City, produced the most impressive series of her career, achieving three wind-legal marks beyond 20 feet, including a personal-best 20-8 (6.30m) in the sixth round to become the first female athlete since 2005-06 and the fourth in meet history to win consecutive long jump titles.

Real Training Track Club, representing Niwot High in Colorado, was the only quartet that repeated as champions with another strong effort in the girls distance medley relay, with Madison Shults, Kimora Northrup, Stella Vieth and Eva Klingbeil prevailing in 11:33.91.

Northrup and Shults were members of last year’s championship lineup that clocked 11:33.51.

Mondo Track Club, representing Summit High, produced an all-time Oregon record by placing second in 11:47.47 and JSerra from California took third in 11:55.72.

Valley Project Track Club, representing Ridge High in New Jersey, added an outdoor DMR title to its indoor victory at New Balance Nationals in March at The Armory in New York.

Following a 9:53.40 indoor performance, Andrew McCabe, Patrick Doran, James Kisker and Jackson Barna clocked 9:56.63 to secure the Nike championship, with five other programs achieving sub-10:10 efforts.

Rogue Valley Runners, representing Crater High, were second in 10:02.47, with Forest Park Track Club – representing Lincoln High – finishing third in 10:02.80, and Stark Street Athletic Club, featuring athletes from Central Catholic, placing fourth in 10:03.89.

Loyola from California, competing as the Los Angeles Cubs Track Club, finished fifth in 10:07.09, and the Uncaged Monkeys Track Club – with athletes from Arlington High in Washington – securing sixth in 10:08.33.

Lees Summit West from Missouri became the first program in meet history to capture titles in the girls 4x200-meter relay and 1,600-meter sprint medley relay in the same year.

Aliviah Tolbert, Mikah Scott, Whitney Farrington and Makayla Clark triumphed in the 1,600 sprint medley relay in 3:57.56. Sidney Cole joined Farrington, Scott and Tolbert to clock 1:38.56 in the 4x200.

Will Sumner of Woodstock High in Georgia was pursuing a national high school record in the 800 meters, relying on the pacing of several athletes in an attempt to eclipse the 1996 standard of 1:46.45.

Sumner clocked 1:48.41, trailing former Oregon standout and Australian athlete Charlie Hunter, who ran 1:47.50.

Jaylen Lloyd produced a Nebraska prep all-time best in the boys long jump with a wind-legal 25-5.50 (7.76m) performance in the sixth round, rallying past Aaron Davis of Humble Summer Creek in Texas, who achieved a wind-legal mark of 25-0.50 (7.63m) in the fifth round.

It marked the first time in meet history there were a pair of 25-foot performances in the boys long jump final.

Landon Helms of Emmett High in Idaho, a Texas A&M signee, rallied from sixth place following the opening day of the decathlon to triumph with 7,051 points, a comeback fueled by clocking 13.92 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles, throwing the discus 139-9 (42.60m) and clearing 17-0.75 (5.20m) in the pole vault.

Yan Vazquez of Red Mountain High in Arizona, a UCLA commit, won the boys 400-meter hurdles crown in a personal-best 51.81 seconds. Vazquez became the first Arizona male athlete in meet history to win the event.

Colorado’s relay success didn’t just surround Real Training in the DMR, with Grandview becoming the first boys lineup from the state in meet history to win the 4x200. Charlie Dick, Luke Trinrud, Evan Johnson and David Maldonado ran 1:26.76 for Grandview, which ran a season-best 1:26.22 in the 5A state prelims.

Eaglecrest also became the first quartet from Colorado in either gender to win the 1,000-meter Swedish Relay, with Bianca Gleim, Favour Akpokiere, Jaylynn Wilson and Haley Esser comprising the 100-200-300-400 lineup, clocking 2:18.47.

Katie Wrona, Maclean Majeski, Lilly Morrison and Brandon Bate joined forces to lead Liberty Common of Colorado to the mixed 4x400-meter relay championship in 3:36.79.

Rapid City Stevens eclipsed the South Dakota all-time mark in the boys 1,600 sprint medley relay with a 3:25.12 effort, as Simeon Birnbaum – the youngest sub-4 miler in U.S. prep history at age 16 – covered the final 800 in 1:49.04, joining Tanner Lunders, Justin Juniel and Alex Otten on the record-setting lineup.

Cathedral Phantoms Elite placed second in 3:26.90, with Adonyss Currie and Ekene Onwaeze returning to the track less than 40 minutes after teaming with Tony Walton and William Mullins to win the first Swedish Relay crown in program history in 1:58.34.