Polk County High School Wolverines mens and womens track teams swept the 43rd Annual Times News Invitational hosted at Polk County High on Saturday.
Host to the meet for several years, this marked the first time both Polk boys and girls took home the gold.
Polk County womens event winners:
Letoya Twitty (Long Jump and Triple Jump).
Amanda DeFisher (Pole Vault).
4×400 Meter Relay (Maggie Conner, Rebecca Elliott, Mary Kate Christiansen, Maggie Phipps).
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Polk mens event winners:
John Spencer Wolfe (400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1600 Meter, anchor leg of 1st place 4×400).
Kayce Martin (110 Meter Hurdles).
4×400 Meter Relay (Wolfe, Andy Conner, Ethan Rhodes, Valentin Santos).
4×800 Meter Relay (Are Farstad, Cabell Brand, Andy Conner, Flynn Chapman).
Two Polk athletes earned this years Times News awards: Most Valuable Male Runner John Spencer Wolfe (Polk), Most Valuable Female Field Athlete Letoya Twitty (Polk).
Womens Results:

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(Event, Athlete, Time or Distance, and Place) Shot Put Letoya Twitty 294″ 7th; High Jump Maggie Conner 410″ 2nd, Amanda DeFisher 46″ 6th; Long Jump – Twitty 159.5″ 1st, Jamie Miller 137″ 7th; Triple Jump – Twitty 335″ 1st, J. Miller 281″ 3rd; Pole Vault DeFisher 9 1st; Savanna Mitchell 76″ 5th, Skyelar DeFisher 76″ 6th; 100 Meter Dash Tori Madigan 13.77 5th; 200 Meter Dash Madigan 28.21 2nd; 400 Meter Dash Mary Kate Christiansen 1:03 2nd, Maggie Phipps 1:05 4th; 1600 Meter Run Rebecca Elliott 6:03 8th; 100 Meter Hurdles Conner 17.01 3rd; 300 Meter Hurdles Conner 48.61 2nd, Elliott 55.48 7th; 4×800 Meter Relay (Elliott, Phipps, Anna Koenig, Katie Vonderlois) 11:39 5th; 4×100 Meter Relay (Madigan, Asia Miller, Ashley Kershaw, Aliyha Mullins) 54.78 3rd; 4×200 Meter Relay (Deaver, Phipps, Christiansen, Kershaw) 1:55 4th; 4×400 Meter Relay (Phipps, Elliott, Christiansen, Conner) 4:23 1st.Mens Results:(Event, Athlete, Time or Distance, and Place) Shot Put Tanner Ramsey 437″ 2nd, Markece Cunningham 413″ 4th, Seth McCool 394″ 7th; Discus Ramsey 1168.5″ 2nd, Cunningham 1161″ 4th; High Jump Parish Gary 510″ 4th; Long Jump Ethan Rhodes 196″ 4th, Andy Conner 1810.5″ 6th; Pole Vault Bryan Lieberman 13 2nd, Ricky Mozqueda 11 5th; 200 Meter Dash Robby Franklin 24.58 4th; 400 Meter Dash John Spencer Wolfe 51.35 1st, Valentin Santos 52.02 2nd, Ethan Rhodes 58.49 5th; 800 Meter Run Wolfe 1:58 1st; 1600 Meter Run Wolfe 4:21 1st; 100 Meter Hurdles Kayce Martin 16.15 2nd, Juan Ornelas 18.65 6th; 300 Meter Hurdles Martin 43.72 3rd; 4×800 Meter Relay (Andy Conner, Cabell Brand, Flynn Chapman, Are Farstad) 8:46 1st; 4×100 Meter Relay (Zach Bright, Ian Harper, Cary Littlejohn, Juan Ornelas) 48.85 3rd; 4×200 Meter Relay (Lucas Williams, Franklin, Bright, Littlejohn) 1:37 3rd; 4×400 Meter Relay (Conner, Rhodes, Santos, Wolfe) 3:35 1st.

Two athletes met the national silver standard signifying elite performances; Polks John Spencer Wolfe ran 4:21 in the Mens 1600 Meter Run and Chelsea Treadway of Swain County ran 2:18 in the Womens 800 Meter Dash.
True excitement surfaced in the add-on race of the day, the 4×100 Throwers Relay. Made up of only athletes from prospective teams who throw in the field events, it is always a spectator favorite. This one came down to a photo finish with Polks thrower team edging RS Central by the narrowest of margins. Polk ran 51.16 followed by Centrals 51.19 lean. Polks 4×100 Throwers Relay team members: (Markece Cunningham, Michael Bell, Tanner Ramsey and anchored Male Team Rankings:Polk County 159, Shelby 117, Hendersonville 78.50, West Henderson 67.50, Tuscola 52.50, Christ School 37.50, RS Central 37, Brevard 34, Ashe County 32, East Rutherford 26, East Henderson 21, Challenger 4.home by Seth McCool).

Female Team Rankings:Polk County 136, W. Henderson 127, Ashe County 109.50, Hendersonville 81.50, Tuscola 78, Swain 56, East Rutherford 43, Brevard 28, E. Henderson 25, RS Central 17.Polk will host the Western Highlands Conference Showdown today at 2 p.m. Come Support The Wolverines!