The Eagles have been knocked from their perch as the top track and field program in the South Puget Sound League 4A. Both the girls and boys teams found themselves unable to win the state championship for the third consecutive year.

Despite not taking home the team state championship, there was still plenty of success to go around at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma during the weekend as at least one athlete from each Federal Way school medaled in an event.

The biggest winner was Federal Way’s Mason Sallee who claimed the 4A state championship in the triple jump event. Sallee jumped a distance of 47-7 on his final jump, which was good enough for the title. It is the third consecutive triple jump championship an Eagle has won. Keenan Curran won in 2013 and Tyson Penn, who won the 3A triple jump and high jump this year in Bellevue, won in 2014.

D’Jimon Jones came close to being the state champion in the high jump event as he finished second behind University’s Noah Martin. Martin and Jones both cleared 6-08 but were unable to clear 6-10. Jones needed three attempts to clear 6-08 to Martin’s one attempt, thus giving Martin the top place.

Khristian Pickens also picked up two points in the high jump for the Eagles as he finished in seventh and cleared 6-04.

Chico McClatcher was the last member of the boys team to medal in an event as he finished second in the long jump with a distance of 22-05 1/2. Kentwood’s Brandon Stribling earned the top place with a distance of 23 3/4.

Karis Cameron was the big winner for the girls team. Cameron medaled in the long jump, 100-meter, 200-meter and 4×200-meter events. Her best finish was in the long jump, where she finished fourth with a distance of 17-10 1/2. She finished sixth in both the 100 and 200. The 4×200 team finished in fifth.

Mariyah Vongsaveng also medaled in multiple events. While she was unable to win a state championship for the fourth straight year, she was also a part of the 4×200 team and finished in third in the 100 hurdles. Her leg injury caught up to her again in her final event, the 300 hurdles. She managed to finish the race in eighth and had to be carried to the trainer’s room. She was able to make it to the awards podium.

Ariya Kendrick and Kemi Akinlosotu were the other two members of the 4×200 team, rounding out the medalists from Federal Way.

Todd Beamer’s highest placing athlete was Reed Copeland, who finished sixth in the girls triple jump event. She jumped a distance of 36-11 1/2.

Reeve Normandia medaled for the Titans as he finished seventh in the 300 hurdles.

Thomas Jefferson saw their lone medal come from Taylor Sterling in the girls high jump event. Sterling finished eighth in the high jump event. Her jump of 5-02 was actually tied for the fifth-highest total, but the number of jumps needed to clear the height bumped her down in a tightly contested event.

Decatur’s top performer was Parris Watson, who finished third in both the shot put and discus events. Watson had a distance of 42-1 1/4 in the shot put event. In the discus event, she was one of the four girls to break the 130 foot mark. Her best throw was 133-3.

Three of the four members of the Gators 4×100 team rebounded after a near-miss at qualifying for that event by placing in the the 4×400 relay. Kemuel Santana, Isaiah Diggs and Maksim Afichuk were joined by Daniel Calderon and managed an eighth place finish.

Two meet records set by Decatur’s Franky Siliga in 2013 fell over the weekend. His records in the wheelchair shot put and discus events were broken by Pasco’s Brandon Stroh. Stroh surpassed his record in the shot put by three feet with a throw of 28-03 3/4 and in the discus by 19 feet with a throw of 86-09.

Siliga still holds the record in the javelin throw as Stroh fell short of the 79-01 mark by two-and-a-half feet.

In the 1B state championships at Eastern Washington University, Christian Faith School’s Katrice Pond won both the girls discus and shot put events. Ciera Zimmerman finished second in the girls high jump and Denise Williams finished seventh in the 300 hurdles event. The girls finished in tenth overallwith 30 points.

The boys 4×400 team of Rhett Bryson, CJ Cabiles, Noah Wells and Ignatius Medani placed third. Medani also finished seventh in the 100. Austin Johnson also medaled, finishing eighth in the javelin throw event. The 4×100 team made it to the finals, but was disqualified.

In all, Federal Way schools sent 45 athletes to the state championships. Twenty-two of those athletes went home with medals. Sallee and Pond were the only state champions.