Cardinal Ritter Girl's freshman Kayla Watkins hands off the baton to junior Brooklyn Brady in the Girls Class 5 4 x 100 Meter Relay with a winning time of 47.34 on Saturday, May 27, 2023 at Jefferson City High School.
The Cardinal Ritter College Prep Lions firmly established themselves as the dominant powerhouse in Missouri girls prep track and field over the weekend.
Cardinal Ritter sprinted to the Class 5 state championship at the MSHSAA State Championships in Jefferson City. It was the third consecutive state championship for Ritter, which outdistanced its nearest competitor by 31 points. Blue Springs finished in second place with 63 points.
Under the direction of head coach Tiffany Spain, the Lions compiled big scoring totals on the track, in the field and in the sprint relays, where they swept all three races for championships. The Lions won the 4x100-meter relay in a winning time of 47.39 seconds, the 4x200 in 1 minute 39.66 seconds and the 4x400 in 3:48.86.
The Lions got individual state championships from sophomore Kyndall Spain in the 300-meter low hurdles and senior Alexis Taylor in the long jump. Spain posted a winning time of 42.48 seconds in the 300-meter low hurdles while Taylor won the long jump with a winning effort of 19 feet 6 inches.
Kyndall Spain is following in her mother and head coach’s footsteps as an All-State hurdler and state champion. Tiffany Spain (nee’ Jackson) earned All-State honors in both hurdles events as she helped lead Gateway Tech to the Class 4A state championship team in 2004.
MICDS' Maya Anderson (right) is about to win the Mo. Girls Class 5 100 Meter Hurdles State Championship with a time of 13.66. Cardinal Ritter's Kyndall Spain (center) will take second at 13.72 and John Burroughs' Aaliyah Elliott (left) is on her way to a third place finish at 14.07 at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City, Sat. May 27, 2023.
Junior sprinter Aniyah Brown picked up two All-State medals by finishing third in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. Junior Charlye Moody finished fourth in the 200 and third in the 400. Spain also took home a second-place medal in the 100-meter high hurdles. In the field, Taylor also finished fifth in the triple jump and senior Nazariah Jones finished fourth in the same event.
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