GALLERY: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: County has nine track athletes bring home state titles
Published 11:00 am Thursday, May 8, 2025
Pleasant Home’s Jackson Hawkins, Hyram Josey, John Isaac Hawkins, and Nathaniel Hobbs, team pictured in the center, won their second consecutive 1A boys 4x800 relay state championship with a time of 3:34.70. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Pleasant Home’s Presley Kelley, center, won her second straight 1A girls pole vault state championship with a personal record distance of 8 feet 9 inches. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Pleasant Home’s Chris Scott, center, won the 1A boys pole vault state championship with a personal record distance of 11 feet 2 inches. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Red Level’s Miracle Wright, center, won her fifth straight 1A girls 100 meter state championship with a time of 12.56 and her fourth consecutive 1A girls 200 meter state championship with a time of 26.61. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Red Level’s Caston Black, center, won the 1A boys long jump state championship with a personal record distance of 20 feet 0.325 inches. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Red Level’s Ben Carroll won the 1A boys javelin state championship with a distance of 138 feet 4 inches. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Pleasant Home’s Nathaniel Hobbs, Jackson Hawkins, Alex Scott, and Chris Scott, team pictured to right, finished in third place at the 1A boys 4x800 relay with a time of 8:46.90. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Pleasant Home’s Emma Grace Anderson, Presley Kelley, Jenna Kate Clark, and Kate Kelley, team pictured to right, finished in third place at the 1A girls 4x800 relay with a time of 11:32.20. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
Straughn’s Avery Smith, pictured left, finished in third place at the 4A boys shot put with a distance of 50 feet 0.625 inches. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
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Several athletes from Florala, Opp, Pleasant Home, Red Level, and Straughn represented Covington County and their schools at the 2025 AHSAA State Track Championships from Thursday, May 1, through Saturday, May 3.
Florala, Pleasant Home, and Red Level athletes competed in Cullman, while Opp and Straughn competed in Gulf Shores.
The county had a total of nine athletes bring home 10 state titles.
At Pleasant Home School, Chris Scott was the state champion in 1A boys pole vault. Presley Kelley was the state champion in 1A girls pole vault. Jackson Hawkins, Hyram Josey, John Isaac Hawkins, and Nathaniel Hobbs were the state champions in the 1A boys 4×800 relay event.
At Red Level School, Miracle Wright was the state champion in both the 1A girls 100 meter and 1A girls 200 meter. Caston Black was the state champion in 1A boys long jump. Ben Carroll was the state champion in 1A boys javelin.
Other medalists were Hobbs, Jackson Hawkins, Alex Scott, and Chris Scott from Pleasant Home finishing in third place at the 1A boys 4×800 meter relay event. Emma Grace Anderson, Presley Kelley, Jenna Kate Clark, and Kate Kelley from Pleasant Home also finished in third place at the 1A girls 4×800 meter relay event.
At Straughn High School, Avery Smith finished in third place in the 4A boys shot put.
Visit ahsaa.com for complete 1A-3A and 4A-7A results.
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