As a junior Kyra Caldwell saw her first action in the girls' Division 2 state meet on Saturday at Zeeland. By all accounts she liked what she saw and plans to be back for more next season.
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The talented runner won two events at the state meet and had by all accounts one of her best days on the track. Caldwell won the 100-meter hurdles in the time of fourteen and sixty-five tenths seconds and she won the 300-meter hurdles in a time of (44.25).
Longtime Ypsilanti girls' track coach Tom Micallef said he was impressed with the way Caldwell ran.
"If you spread your arms apart that is about the distance she won by," Micallef said. "From last season to this year she dropped about five to six tenths in the 100-meter hurdles and dropped about a second and a half in the 300-meter hurdles."
Micallef said that during the season she went undefeated in the league (Mega Red) and in most of the bigger meets that Ypsilanti attended. In the county meet she was beat by the two girls from Ann Arbor Pioneer who finished in the top four in the state in Division 1 the hurdles.
"She (Caldwell) is a good student and in the National Honor Society," he commented. "I was proud of the way she committed herself from last year to this year."
The Braves finished in seventh place at the meet with 26 points. Detroit Renaissance won the meet with 76 points.
Ypsilanti had two relay teams at the meet (800 and 1,600-meter relays). Ester Kutnar, Symone Williams, Talecia Francois and Caldwell ran both relay teams. The Braves finished sixth in the 800-meter relay (1:45.36) and sixth in the 1,600-meter relay (4:03.5).
Micallef was pleased with the way things finished out for the team.
"I am really proud of what this team accomplished this year," Micallef said. "This is a culmination of what she (Caldwell) worked for and her first experience at the state meet."
Micallef is retiring from teaching this year after working 32 years and he is also stepping down as girls' track coach at Ypsilanti High, which he has done for 27 years. He is planning on coaching cross country in the fall by any other plans are uncertain at this point.
Dillon scores at state meet
Ypsilanti Lincoln scored two points in the Division 1 state track and field meet at East Kentwood on Saturday. Ann Arbor Pioneer won the meet with 104 points.
Lincoln's Kayla Dillon was seventh in the discus with a throw of one hundred and sixteen feet and eleven inches.
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