Kirkland high school girls athletes took nine first-place finishes out of the 16 events during the 3A KingCo championship meet held last week at Juanita High School, while the Kang and Rebel boys scored three individual first-place finishes.

As a team, the Juanita girls finished second with 151.33 points behind Liberty with 154 points. The boys also took second place overall with 117 points, behind KingCo champions Bellevue with 185 points. The Lake Washington boys (54) and girls (68) both finished sixth during the meet.

Girls

Juanita senior Alanna Coker finished the meet with first-place finishes in four separate events. Coker won the 100-meters in 12.08 seconds and the 200-meters in 25.87 seconds. In the field events, Coker took first in the triple with 40-feet, 3-inches and the long jump with 17-feet, 1-inch.

Juanita senior Kate Cryderman won the discus with a distance of 122-feet, 2-inches. Cryderman also won the shot put with a distance of 38-feet, 4-inches. Juanita’s Molly Grager won the high jump with 5-feet, 6-inches.

The Juanita girls won two of the three relay events. Rebels Kathryn Wuchter, Kaila Bass, Regi Lammers and Mikayla Jones teamed up to win the 400-meter relay with a time of 50.33 seconds and the 800-meters with a time of 1:48.02.

Sara Wilson won the only event for Lake Washington, taking first in the 300-meter hurdles in 47.43 seconds.

Rebels girls took three of the top five places in the 200-meters and the triple jump.

Boys

Juanita senior Alex Wallin won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.25 seconds and the 300-meter hurdles (40.39).

Lake Washington junior Kenyon Butler won the 400-meters with a time of 49.76 seconds.

Juanita’s depth was on display in the triple jump as Rebel boys too second through fifth place and athletes from Kirkland took seven of the top ten places. Juanita boys took three of the top five spots in the 300-meter hurdles.