{"id":10144,"date":"2024-04-17T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2024-04-17T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:59:56","slug":"mphs-track-team-members-advance-to-regional-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-track-team-members-advance-to-regional-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Track Team Members Advance to Regional Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fifteen Mount Pleasant High School Tiger and Lady Tiger track team members are just one meet away from making it to the 5A UIL state track meet. MPHS sent 19 athletes to the area meet on Thursday, April 11 at Turner Stadium in Humble. The Tigers placed 2nd as a team and qualified 7 athletes in 7 events with the Lady Tigers qualifying 8 athletes in 5 events for the regional meet.<\/h3>\n<h3>Tiger Regional qualifiers include:<\/h3>\n<h3>100M\u2014Dylan Bennett 1st<\/h3>\n<h3>110M hurdles\u2014Isaiah Hunter 1st<\/h3>\n<h3>200M\u2014Latristan Thompson 3rd<\/h3>\n<h3>Shot Put\u2014Corben Craig 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>Wheelchair Shot Put\u2014Jonathan Ramirez 1st<\/h3>\n<h3>4&#215;100 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>Dylan Bennett, Jonathan Turner, Shane Watkins, Latristan Thompson 3rd<\/h3>\n<h3>4&#215;200 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>Dylan Bennett, Latristan Thompson, Shane Watkins, Isaiah Hunter 2nd<\/h3>\n<h3>Lady Tiger Regional qualifiers include:<\/h3>\n<h3>1600M\u2014Alexia Hawkins 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>Shot Put\u2014Auti Johnson 3rd<\/h3>\n<h3>Discus\u2014Vanessa Sampson 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>4&#215;100 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>Tiya Allen, KK Brannon, Shakiyah Shepard, Anna Norman 3rd<\/h3>\n<h3>4&#215;200 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>Shannon Hines, KK Brannon, Shakiyah Shepard, Anna Norman 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>The Regional meet is April 19-20 at Maverick Stadium at The University of Texas at Arlington. MPHS Track is coached by Jeff Litke (Tiger Head Coach), Travis Buchanan (Lady Tiger Head Coach), Keith Thompson (Relays), Kavan Johnson (Hurdles), Precious Thompson (Long Jump &amp; Relays), Jason Sims (High Jump), Luke Craddock (Triple Jump), Crystal Jackson (High Jump), Jessica Stanley (Throwers), Alex Fellows (Throwers), Taylor Johnson (Pole Vault), Martina Ramirez (Distance &amp; Mid-Distance), Jay Turnipseed (Sprints), and Tina Carrillo (Sprints).<\/h3>\n<h3>Photos:<\/h3>\n<h3>4x100b: Regional qualifying boys 4&#215;100 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>4x100g: Regional qualifying girls 4&#215;100 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>4x200b: Regional qualifying boys 4&#215;200 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>4x200g: Regional qualifying girls 4&#215;200 relay<\/h3>\n<h3>Bennett: District and Area champion in the 100M, Dylan Bennett<\/h3>\n<h3>Craig: Corben Craig, Regional qualifier in Shot Put<\/h3>\n<h3>Hawkins: Alexia Hawkins, Regional qualifier in 1600M<\/h3>\n<h3>Hunter: District and Area champion in the 110M hurdles, Isaiah Hunter<\/h3>\n<h3>Johnson: Auti Johnson, Regional qualifier in Shot Put<\/h3>\n<h3>Ramirez: District and Area champion in the Wheelchair Shot Put, Jonathan Ramirez<\/h3>\n<h3>Sampson: Vanessa Sampson, Regional qualifier in Discus<\/h3>\n<h3>Thompson: Latristan Thompson, Regional qualifier in 200M<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen Mount Pleasant High School Tiger and Lady Tiger track team members are just one meet away from making it to the 5A UIL state track meet. MPHS sent 19 athletes to the area meet on Thursday, April 11 at Turner Stadium in Humble. The Tigers placed 2nd as a team and qualified 7 athletes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}