Lady Raiders’ Shriver earns top honor on H-S girls track team

Waynesburg Central’s Taylor Shriver was the named the Class AA Most Outstanding Field Performer on the 2019 Herald-Standard Girls All-Area Track & Field Team. The team is listed below with Greene County athletes in bold:
3,200 relay: Elizabeth Forward.
Honorable mention: Bentworth, Belle Vernon, Connellsville.
100 high hurdles: Makayla Boda, California.
Honorable mention: Neveah Hamborsky, Connellsville; Payton Chester, Laurel Highlands.
100: Skye Eicher, Frazier.
Honorable mention: Makayla Slack, Southmoreland; Jamilah Copeland, Brownsville.
1,600: Gionna Quarzo, Brownsville.
Honorable mention: Grace Henderson, Belle Vernon; Ashton Reposky, Brownsville.
400: Hannah Seitzinger, Belle Vernon.
Honorable mention: Rachael Grimm, Connellsville; Bre Trussler, California; Brooke Barner, West Greene; Kayla Moninger, Mount Pleasant.
400 relay: Connellsville.
Honorable mention: Brownsville, Laurel Highlands, Ringgold.
300 intermediate hurdles: Makayla Boda, California.
Honorable mention: Emily Sanders, Albert Gallatin.
800: Sydney Urbine, Beth-Center.
Honorable mention: Callie Cunningham, Connellsville; Kendall Shaporka, Frazier.
200: Jamilah Copeland, Brownsville.
Honorable mention: Rachael Grimm, Connellsville; Skye Eicher, Frazier; Kyela Dungee, Ringgold.
3,200: Gionna Quarzo, Brownsville.
Honorable mention: Grace Henderson, Belle Vernon.
1,600 relay: Belle Vernon.
Honorable mention: Connellsville.
Discus: Ezra Johnson, Belle Vernon.
Honorable mention: Madison Brooks, Waynesburg Central.
Shot put: Madison Brooks, Waynesburg Central/Hannah Hughes, Elizabeth Forward.
Honorable mention: Ezra Johnson, Belle Vernon; Emily Buwawa, Laurel Highlands; Alexis Jacobs, Southmoreland; Chloe Jaworski, Mount Pleasant.
Javelin: Brianna Spirnak, Elizabeth Forward.
Honorable mention: Mya Klejka, Mount Pleasant; Casey Weightman, Belle Vernon; Kierra Rose, Uniontown; Elli Cook, Connellsville; Odessa Hillard, Albert Gallatin; Allison Humbertson, Laurel Highlands.
High jump: Dejuanna Gile, Elizabeth Forward/Bree Echegaray, Waynesburg Central.
Honorable mention: Grace Henderson, Belle Vernon; Sydney Baciak, Belle Vernon; Mercedes Smartnick, Southmoreland; Emma Seto, Brownsville.
Triple jump: Aniya Tarpley, Brownsville.
Honorable mention: Kaylynn Frum, Albert Gallatin.
Long jump: Juliana Fowler, Waynesburg Central.
Pole vault: Taylor Shriver, Waynesburg Central.
Most Outstanding Overall Performer: Gionna Quarzo, Brownsville.
Class AAA Most Outstanding Field Performer: Brianna Spirnak, Elizabeth Forward.
Class AAA Most Outstanding Track Performer: Hannah Seitzinger, Belle Vernon.
Class AA Most Outstanding Field Performer: Taylor Shriver, Waynesburg Central.
Class AA Most Outstanding Track Performer: Skye Eicher, Frazier.
Most Outstanding Coaching Staff: Class AAA, Belle Vernon (Chris Stasicha); Class AA, Brownsville (Jim Barak).
NOTES: Local girls won 25 WPIAL medals and five more at the PIAA meet including Waynesburg Central’s Taylor Shriver with a bronze in the pole vault. … Shriver broke for the WPIAL mark in the pole vault of 12-6 set by former Waynesburg great Marissa Kalsey in 2012, clearing 12-7 for the top spot on the awards stand. The sophomore hit a vault of 12 feet to share third place in the PIAA meet. … Brownsville and Waynesburg Central shared team medal honors with four WPIAL and one PIAA medal apiece. Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward both had a total of four medals. California and Frazier had combined totals of three medals, Southmoreland girls won a pair, and West Greene, Beth-Center, Mount Pleasant and Connellsville each had one.