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SILVER CLINCHING FINISH -La Conner high track champion Matty Lagerwey’s dive brought her 4x100 relay team second place, 5/100 of a second behind Life Christian Academy. – Photo courtesy Washington Interscholastic Activities Association
Matty Lagerwey soared through the air with the greatest of ease.
Others didn’t.
At least not when compared to the La Conner High junior, who swept the long jump and triple jump events at the State 2B Track Meet in Cheney last week.
Lagerwey set a new personal mark with a leap of 18’-0” in the long jump, winning the event by eight inches. Her triple jump effort of 36’-4” topped the field by half a foot.
Lagerwey didn’t need all her attempts to record her winning distance in the latter event.
“She didn’t let the competition get in the way,” La Conner High head coach Jacob Grantham told the media...
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