Kansas Relays 2024 Recap
Piper scoops up 12 medals at elite meet
It was a weekend of elite performances and shattered records in Lawrence at the 2024 Kansas Relays. The 93rd edition of the competition pulled in top-level high school athletes from all around the Midwest and beyond.
Five Wyandotte County schools participated in the Relays — Bishop Ward, Bonner Springs, Piper, Turner, and Wyandotte. Piper sent the largest contingent and earned twelve medals, four individual events along with both girls’ and boys’ 4×100-meter relay teams.
Among the highlights was the performance of the Piper boys’ 4×800-meter relay team, which set a school record, 8 minutes, 24.14 seconds — a week after setting the previous record at the Free State meet.
In Saturday’s race, despite good splits from the first three runners, the Pirates were in fifth place after six laps, when anchorman D.J. Thomas got the baton.
He overhauled two runners on his first lap, and picked off the two other on the bell lap, opening up a 10-meter margin going into the last turn. The gutsy run took its toll though, and he succumbed to a late challenge at the line from Warrensburg.
Turner sophomore Alyasia Ollie was the only entrant for the Golden Bears, but proved she belonged in elite company with a time of 47.53 seconds, 16th out of 41 racers in the girls’ 300-meter hurdles and the fourth-best time for a Class 5A hurdler this year.
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Among other standout performances, the crowd at Rock Chalk Park witnessed the nation’s best high school pole vault this year, a 17-foot, 7-inch mark by Bryce Barkdull of Andover Central.
World and national champion middle distance runner Bryce Hoppel, a KU alumnus, was also on hand, racing in the collegiate/invitational 4×400-meter race against the KU team, anchored by Piper grad Grant Lockwood.
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See below for a full list of athletes and results.
Medalists
2nd Place
Piper girls’ 4×100-meter relay Sunflower Showdown (Maia Dolinar, Nora Turney, Kylie Rice, Anneliese Lockwood), 50.14s
3rd Place
Piper boys’ 4×100-meter relay Sunflower Showdown (Shinji Pollard, Zane Pudenz, JamarRe’Air Jarrett, Jayden Henry), 43.27s
4th Place
Jayden Henry, Piper, boys’ 110-meter hurdles, 14.46s
7th Place
Devin Kerr, Piper, boys’ high jump, 6’ 4”
9th Place
D.J. Thomas, Piper, boys’ 2000m steeplechase, 6:23.01s
Max Clark, Piper, boys’ javelin, 169’ 9”
Other Results
Bishop Ward
Tyler Holmes, boys’ long jump, 21’ 1 1/4”
Boys’ 1600-meter sprint medley relay (Davontae Davis, Tyler Holmes, Steven Mills, Ricky Wells), 3:57.50s
Boys’ 4×100-meter relay (Steven Mills, Davontae Davis, Davontae Davis, Tyler Holmes), 44.50s
Girls’ 4×100-meter relay (Alexis Nunnally, Hailey Jordan, Deiriai Wade, Davia Gladney), DNF
Boys’ 4×400-meter relay (Steven Mills, Davontae Davis, Jailen Jefferson, Elias Anaya), 3:47.10s
Bonner Springs
McKenzie Campbell, girls’ shot put, 36’ 6 1/4”
Piper
Nora Turney, girls’ 100-meter hurdles, 21.51s
Shinji Pollard, boys’ 110-meter hurdles, 16.08s
Anneliese Lockwood, girls’ 100-meter dash, 12.99s
Nora Turney, girls’ 300-meter hurdles, 47.56s (school record)
Jayden Henry, boys’ 300-meter hurdles, 40.19s
Shinji Pollard, boys’ 300-meter hurdles, 41.08s
Girls’ 4×400-meter relay (Nora Turney, Maia Dolinar, Kylie Rice, Anneliese Lockwood), 4:16.63s
Boys’ 4×400-meter relay (Lane Collette, JamarRe’Air Jarrett, Zane Pudenz, Jayden Henry), 3:28.67s
Boys’ 4×800-meter relay (Quinn Hanson, Lukas Hein, Grayson Lamb, DJ Thomas), 8:24.14s (school record)
Turner
Alyasia Ollie, girls’ 300-meter hurdles, 47.53s
Wyandotte
Jaquelyn Perez-Vela, girls’ 100-meter dash, 12.75s
Jaquelyn Perez-Vela, girls’ 400-meter dash, 59.10s
Girls’ 4×100-meter relay (Jasmin Looney-Cooper, Jaquelyn Perez-Vela, Germya Sanford, Jaylynn Hunt), 52.09s
