For an hour, the Arizona high school track and field record book was rewritten again and again and again and again.
Four state records were broken by runners at the Arcadia Invitational in Southern California on April 8, according to Republic of Arizona.
First Williams Field High School (Gilbert, Ariz.) runner Saira Prince won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.58 seconds. She cleared all 10 hurdles and surpassed the previous mark of 13.59 set in 2014.
Protection of wild I state champion Tyler Matthews of Red Mountain High School (Mesa, AZ) was the next Valley resident to break an Arizona record. He ran the 800 meters in 1:49.32, eclipsing the previous record of 1:50.12. Matthews finished second in the race, falling to someone else with an Arizona connection: Newbury Park star Aaron Salman, who is committed to Northern Arizona University.
Mountain Pointe High School (Phoenix) senior Jayden Davis then broke the 400-meter record with a time of 46.45 seconds, bettering the previous record by 0.02 seconds. He finished third in the race.
Davis told the Republic that he felt inspired after watching Prince and Matthews break records.
“Seeing all those athletes from Arizona that were able to do that, I definitely felt that this time, this race in Arcadia was the time to set the state record,” he said. “Going into it, I was like, ‘This is the time to do it.’
Prince wasn’t done for the night. She completed a wild hour at the Arizona meet in the 300-meter hurdles, winning with a time of 41.24 seconds, breaking the previous state record of 41.38.
With that, the Arizona runners left their mark on the prestigious California high school competition for 60 remarkable minutes.
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