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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 Gray Horn, of Waynesfield-Goshen High School, runs a track race at an indoor competition. (Photo provided)
AKRON — In Saturday’s Division II and III indoor state track and field championships, Gray Horn won the pole vault in a meet record 15-feet-6. The vault also tied the Akron University field house high school boys mark. The old meet record was 14-feet-6. Horn had two vaults at 16-feet, narrowly missing both times. The current Ohio high school boys’ indoor record is 16-feet-3 held by Sheldon Riffle of Orrville set in l994.
In the high jump, Horn finished second with a jump of 6-feet-2. His current personal record is 6-feet-4.
Horn was ranked fifth in the 60-meter hurdles, but a distraction at the starting line in his preliminaries led to a false start and he was disqualified in that event.
His 18 points placed Waynesfield-Goshen second among the Division III schools entered in the meet, behind Villa Angela St. Joseph’s 32 points and in a tie for seventh among the 54 Division II/III schools that scored in the meet.
Indoor track is not recognized by Ohio High School Athletic Association, so the meet is organized and administered by the Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Association. Division II and III are contested together, because there are not enough Division III schools who sanction indoor track to justify a separate meet.
At the Nike National Indoor Pentathlon championships on March 10 in Landover Maryland, Gray finished second in a field of 24 of the top high school pentathletes in the country. He set personal bests of 8.50 in the 60-meter hurdles, 43-feet-1 1/2 in the shot put and 2:54.2 in the 1,000-meter run, matched a personal record of 6-feet-4 in the high jump and hit a long jump of 20-feet-9 to score 3,641 points.
His goals include preparing for the high school vault competition at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia in late April, and the Division III state meet in the pole vault, high jump, 110-meter hurdles and the long jump in early June.
Based on attaining performance standards, Horn is a candidate for the USA 17-and-under team that will compete in Ostreva, Czech Republic in mid-July and the USA Pan American Junior team that will compete in Sao Paulo, Brazil in early July.
Horn is the defending national champion in the 15-16 boys decathlon and the pole vault at the USATF national championships scheduled for Mount Sacramento College in Walnut, Calif. in late July.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 23 March 2007 )
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