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TRACK
Seaside tracksters have state championship fever
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
With a roster full of state
champions (some in track,
some in basketball), the
Seaside track team is ready
to run in 2017. And jump,
and throw, and hurdle, etc.
With a few athletes fresh
off a victorious state title in
boys basketball, the Gulls
have that winning attitude.
Chase Januik, Jackson
Januik, Rafi Sibony and
Hunter Thompson are bask-
ing in the glow of their state
championship win on the
hardcourt — and all four
will be running for individ-
ual medals this spring on
the track.
For a few Gulls, they
have already tasted success
at the state track level.
Senior Jackson Januik
will be gunning for his third
straight individual state
championship in the 800
meters — an event that be-
longs to the Gulls over the
last four years (with state
titles by Brett Willyard in
2013, and Januik in ’15 and
’16).
Elsewhere, the foursome
of Januik, Thompson, Will
Garvin and Juneau Meyer
all return after combining
for a seventh-place finish in
the 1,600-meter relay in last
year’s state meet.
Garvin is the defend-
ing district champion in
the 110-meter hurdles and
300-meter hurdles; and
Thompson was a state qual-
ifier in the 1,500 meters.
Meyer is always a con-
tender in the sprints, while
Chase Januik and Bradley
Rzewnicki should be run-
ning with the lead pack in
their respective events.
Phoenix Johnson is a
senior transfer from Clats-
kanie, who ran everything
See Track, Page 8B
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Seaside’s Rafi Sibony, center, and Hunter Thompson, right, are both trying to chase down big seasons for the
Gulls’ track team.
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Bradley Rzewnicki is looking to follow up a great cross coun-
try season with a big spring on the track.
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Juneau Meyer will be one of the top sprinters
in the Cowapa League in 2017.
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Elizabeth Barnes specializes in the middle distances for the Seaside girls’ track team.
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