BROOKVILLE, Pa. (D9Sports) – Keystone’s Brody Coleman and Clarion’s Laken Lewis won the District 9 Class 2A Boys’ and Girls’ James Manners Award as the MVPs of the District 9 Track & Field Championships Friday at Brookville High School.
(Photo of Brody Coleman and Laken Lewis, the 2019 District 9 Class 2A Manners Award Winners)
Coleman won the 300-meter hurdles (39.34) and the triple jump (45-feet, 5 inches) and took second in the long jump (21-11) and fourth in the 110-meter hurdles (15.32) while qualifying for the PIAA meet in the 110. His triple jump set the meet record topping the previous mark of 44-11 set by Smethport’s Matt Bango in 2004.
Coleman talked after his 300 hurdles victory.
Lewis, meanwhile, won a pair of events taking home the pole vault (11-6) and the triple jump (34-1) while finishing second in the high jump (5-0). She beat Moniteau’s Kendall Grossman in the pole vault by needing fewer tries to clear the 11-6 height with both athletes setting the meet record at 11-6. Grossman held the previous meet mark of 11-4 set last season.
Lewis talked about her triple jump victory.