Williamsport girls win District 4 Class AAA team title in track thanks to three individual gold medals
- Williamsport celebrate their gold meddals in the 4x100m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
- JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Williamsport’s Isabelle Sanders, left, and Madeline Sanders, right, pose after finishing first and second in the 1,600 in Class AAA, respectively. Both qualified for the state meet.
- Isabelle Morrow of Williamsport wins the girls long jump during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
- Makayla Cerami of Williamsport competes in the 4x100m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
- Eliabeth Hollick of Jersey Shore crosses the finish line as she and her team compete in the 4x400m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
- JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Williamsport’s Isabelle Morrow poses with her gold medals in the high jump, triple jump and long jump in Class AAA on Saturday.
- JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Jersey Shore’s Elizabeth Hollick placed third in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles in Class AAA, qualifying for states in the 300 hurdles.
- The Jersey Shore girls Aaralynn Kimble (4th), Kathleen Loomis (6th) and Marlee Lehman (8th) on the podium after during the medal ceremony after the 400m dash during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette

Williamsport celebrate their gold meddals in the 4x100m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
MILTON — Williamsport didn’t simply win the District 4 track and field team title, it ran away with it. And that’s far from surprising. Just about every girls Class AAA result saw Millionaires high up on the podium.
Add in a handful of champions and state qualifiers, and it’s easy to see why Williamsport scored 207 points and won the team title by 85 over Shikellamy on Saturday at Milton for the District 4 track and field championships.
The Millionaires had three individual champions — one of which claimed two titles on Saturday — and a relay team win gold, two athletes claim silver medals, two claim bronze medals, two claim fourth-place finishes and a relay team take fourth — in addition to Dayanna Baines on Thursday winning javelin gold — en route to winning the title on a day where Williamsport had as much success as you could hope for.
“Williamsport, I just love them so much. We don’t just come out here and do it, we work really hard at practice to be able to do what we do and come to these meets,” Williamsport hurdler Aubrey Phillips-Cobb said. “I just excited to watch my teammates go out there and compete and see their hard work paying off.”
All that hard work definitely paid off for everyone wearing a cherry and white outfit.

JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Williamsport's Isabelle Sanders, left, and Madeline Sanders, right, pose after finishing first and second in the 1,600 in Class AAA, respectively. Both qualified for the state meet.
Two days after breaking the District 4 record in Class AAA for the 3,200, Williamsport’s Sanders sisters went out and not only qualified for the state meet in the 1,600, but broke the district record in that event as well.
“It’s awesome, I love being able to race with Maddy. It’s great to have a training partner right there with you,” Isabelle Sanders said. “It’s fun to compete together, so I’m glad we’re both going together. Hopefully we’ll both get out there and run some PRs.”
“I think it’s great to have someone to work with,” Madeline Sanders said. “That’s a really rare thing on teams to have someone in your own family that you can run with every day and train against. It really helps.”
That’s for sure.
Isabelle and Madeline led the pack on Saturday in the 1,600 early and never let anyone get close to them late. On the final lap, they were ahead all by themselves, pacing with one another. Isabelle took district gold in 4:55.90 while Madeline finished right behind her in 4:58.25. Both not only broke the district record, but also qualified them each for the state tournament as Madeline reached the state qualifying time.

Isabelle Morrow of Williamsport wins the girls long jump during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
It was the same on Thursday — Madeline won 3,200 gold and Isabelle took silver — as both qualified meaning the Sanders sisters get to spend their final meet as juniors in Shippensburg in the mile and two mile together, two events they hold the school records in — the 1,600 for Isabelle, the 3,200 for Madeline.
“It’s super fun, you know, and it’s a great year for breaking records and stuff. It’s been awesome,” Isabelle said.
“It’s definitely a blessing to be able to run together and break records. I think it’s great,” Madeline added.
Williamsport started the morning off right away with district gold. Phillips-Cobb ran a time of 14.64 to win gold in the 100 hurdles event, beating Mikayla Martin of Selinsgrove by 0.61 seconds and Jersey Shore’s Elizabeth Hollick, who took third. Later in the afternoon, Phillips-Cobb was back on the track, this time in the 300 hurdles. And, just like in the morning, Phillips-Cobb again won gold.
In the 300 hurdles, the Millionaire ran a time of 45.11 to win the title, beating out Hollick in a tight race as Hollick ran a 45.24 for silver.

Makayla Cerami of Williamsport competes in the 4x100m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
“It means a lot,” Phillips-Cobb said of winning gold. “I’ve been through a lot this season, so to just be able to get it all together and come out here and have fun with competing and do well, it felt good.”
Phillips-Cobb got off to a solid start in both events and kept up the pace, not letting anyone dethrone her on her way to the finish line in either hurdles event.
‘I think I did get off to a decent start,” Phillips-Cobb said. “I spoke to my coach and he was like ‘it was a nice start, nice reaction,’ so I’m happy with it.”
In the afternoon session, Williamsport senior Isabelle Morrow competed i the long jump in Class AAA and, like Isabelle Sanders and Phillips-Cobb did earlier in the day, Morrow claimed a gold medal as well. For Morrow, however, it made a clean sweep for her this year. The Millionaire won not one, not two, but three District 4 gold medals this year as she swept the high jump, long jump and triple jump in Class AAA for the first time in her career.
Morrow jumped 17 feet, 10 3/4 inches to win the long jump title on Saturday, winning the event by more than a foot. And, perhaps making it even a little sweeter, Morrow broke the school record in the event by a quarter of an inch too.

Eliabeth Hollick of Jersey Shore crosses the finish line as she and her team compete in the 4x400m during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
She hit the mark on her very last jump, which gave her a lot of relief she joked.
“Our school record is 17-10 1/2 and my second jump, that’s what I jumped. I was like ‘oh my gosh, I got another (record),” Morrow laughed. “And then the last jump I beat it by a quarter of an inch.”
Going three for three in district competition is something Morrow was excited about as well. It made it fitting she was front and center on the podium with all three of her gold medals when the team plaque was awarded to the Millionaires at the end of the meet.
“Definitely (happy). This is my first year winning all three,” Morrow said. “I put so much work in this year and to win all three and perform the way I wanted to? It means a lot.”
Williamsport’s 400 relay team of Mikayla Cerami, Phillips-Cobb, Desiree Ware and Geiani Whaley claimed a gold medal with a time of 48.52, winning by roughly half a second over Shikellamy.

JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Williamsport's Isabelle Morrow poses with her gold medals in the high jump, triple jump and long jump in Class AAA on Saturday.
In the 400, Whaley claimed a silver medal in 57.91, coming less than half a second from besting Selinsgrove’s Gigi Veach, who ran a 57.56 to win the title. Whaley took bronze in the 200 in 26.47 as Jilly Deivert of Shikellamy won in 25.59 and Athens’ Abby Burgess took silver in 26.21.
Loisa Hofstrom was a bronze medalist in the 800 as she finished in 2:16.97, behind only Lake Dent from Selinsgrove, who won in 2:15.34, and Midd-West’s Ashlyn Hoffman, who took silver in 2:16.50. Hofstrom was just 0.10 seconds from reaching the state qualifying time.
Aamiyah Gallishaw of Williamsport was a fourth-place finisher in the long jump with a leap of 16-0 1/4. She was just three-and-a-half inches from bronze. Williamsport’s 400 relay team of Hofstrom, Madeline Sanders, Mila Veldhuis and Whaley ran a 4:10.15 in the Class AAA 1,600 relay to finish in fourth place.

JON GERARDI/Sun-Gazette Jersey Shore's Elizabeth Hollick placed third in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles in Class AAA, qualifying for states in the 300 hurdles.

The Jersey Shore girls Aaralynn Kimble (4th), Kathleen Loomis (6th) and Marlee Lehman (8th) on the podium after during the medal ceremony after the 400m dash during the District IV track & field championships at Milton High School Saturday afternoon. DAVE KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette












