Dash

We just attended the funeral of the mother of a dear friends of ours. The minister, in his tribute to her life, talked about "the dash. " In all my years of attending funerals, I had never heard of this idea, but I love it because of its simplicity, an image so easily visualized. He said that we all have on our tombstones a birth date and a death date, but the only really important dates are all the times that person lived among us, as represented by a simple dash. After the ceremony, we all continued to the Winchester Cemetery.

The West Jessamine High boys took the overall victory at Mercer County Tuesday night by a margin of 37 points. The West girls finished fourth. The East boys finished ninth and the girls took eighth. Randy Troyer of West finished third in the 100-meter dash. Matt Whitley tied for fourth for East. Whitley took fifth in the 200-meter dash while West's David Martin tied for eighth. Whitley also finished third in the 400-meter dash and Chris Henry of West took fourth. Brian Troyer won the 800-mter dash and Evan Ball finished fourth for the Colts.

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The East and West Jessamine High School track teams met at East Tuesday night and the Colts came out victorious. The girls outpaced the Jaguars 64-41 and the boys won 80-34. In the girl's 100-meter dash, East's Sarah Tolliver took first place ahead of West's Morgan Sayre and Amanda Setzer, who took second and third respectively. In the girls 200-meter dash, N.C. Cates of West finished first ahead of Tolliver in second and Stephanie Hale of East. In the girls 400-meter dash, West's Elle Lintemuth prevailed over Tolliver and Hale.

West Jessamine High junior Abby Wiggins and East Jessamine High senior Cody Parks brought home 2A state championships in track and field Friday in Louisville. Wiggins took the state championship in the girls' 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.26 seconds and later added to her first place with a second-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles in 46.89 seconds. Parks won the boys' 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:53.08. Daylei DeKrey of East Jessamine finished tied for second place in the state in the girls' high jump with a jump of 5 feet even.

FRANKFORT - The George Rogers Clark High School track team competed in a 13-team meet at Western Hills earlier this week, with the boys' team placing second and the girls' team finishing fifth. Leading the boys' team in points was Travis Conner, who earned 30 points in four events. Conner placed first in the long jump and triple jump, second in the 200-meter dash and served as anchor for the 4x100 relay team, which placed first. Other members of the relay team were Brandon McCaffery, Ron Morton and Michael Clark.

The George Rogers Clark track and field team participated in the 38th annual Harrison County Invitational on Thursday night and placed 12th out of 17 teams. The boys' team was fourth. "Our goal was to be in the top third," Clark coach Dodd Dixon said. "This goal was achieved. The team was particularly pleased to beat local rivals Bourbon County, Mason County and Paris. " In the girls' competition, Clark was ninth with 22 points. Tristan Jones successfully returned from wrist surgery and placed first in the discuss (135-7)

In one of their final tuneups before the regional this weekend, the East and West track and field teams had stong showings at the Central Kentucky Conference Meet last Friday. On the girls’ side, East placed sixth with 50 points and West placed ninth with 39 points. For the boys, West came in second behind Henry Clay. The Colts totaled 87 points. East placed fifth with 66. Girls West Jessamine’s  4x200-meter relay team, made up of Alyssa Dickens, Abby Wiggins, Allison Lyon and Sarah Redmon, placed fourth with a time of 1:52.45.

Lincoln runner Eric Sanders ran meet record-setting times in the 800 and 1600-meter runs at Harrodsburg Monday and walked away with the "Outstanding Male Athleteâ�? award. The LCMS eighth grader turned in a meet record time of 2:16.19 to win the 800-meter run at the Harrodsburg Middle School Meet, surpassing the previous record by more than 10 seconds. He knocked nine seconds off the previous record in the 1600, crossing the finish in 5:06.11 for first. Meet coaches voted on the "Outstanding Male Athleteâ�

SOMERSET - Lincoln County's Katie King expected to compete against a strong field in the 400-meter dash at regionals. What she didn't expect was to win the event. King ran a personal best of 1:04.10 to claim the Class 3A, Region 7 Championship title at Southwestern High School, and earn an automatic berth in this weekend's state track and field championships. “I was really shocked,” the Lincoln freshman said. “I had only run the 400 one time before so I didn't know what to expect.

Lincoln County freshman Katie King won the 400-meter dash Thursday at the Class AAA, Region 7 meet at Southwestern High School. King, who posted  a winning time of 1 minute, 04.1 seconds, was one of three Patriots to earn automatic bids to next Saturday's state meet in Louisville. Sophomore Brian Carlson was second in the boys 1,600 (4:31.74) and freshman Morgan Gorley was second in the girls 1,600 (5:43.15). King also placed fifth in the 200 (28.86) and Carlson was third in the 3,200 (10:08.

A memorial walk entitled, “Dash For Life” was held on Saturday afternoon in memory of Danielle Thomas, a Danville native who passed away in June in Astoria, New York. The funds raised will go to the Danielle Thomas Memorial Scholarship fund which will go to a Boyle County High School senior band member who plans to major in musical education in college. Danielle's mother and nana would like to publicly thank Danielle's childhood friends who made “Dash For Life” a reality.

Ato Boldon considers the 100-meter dash the “sexy event” in track and field and is proud that he won four Olympic sprint medals - a record for any male athlete. He was second in the 100-meter dash at the 2000 Olympics and third in the 200-meter dash. Four years earlier at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he was third in both the 100 and 200. He also won four medals at the World Championships, including a gold in the 200 in 1997, and one Pan American Games medal. Boldon retired with a personal best time of 9.86 seconds in the 100 and 19.77 seconds in the 200. Boldon, 38, was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father.

West Jessamine High junior Abby Wiggins and East Jessamine High senior Cody Parks brought home 2A state championships in track and field Friday in Louisville. Wiggins took the state championship in the girls' 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.26 seconds and later added to her first place with a second-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles in 46.89 seconds. Parks won the boys' 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:53.08. Daylei DeKrey of East Jessamine finished tied for second place in the state in the girls' high jump with a jump of 5 feet even.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Anyone who participated in the first Dash for Life and 25th Annual Railroad Days 5K Run-Walk on Aug. 13 knows how inspiring it was to honor our state's donor families and to hear about the gifts of life received by participating organ recipients. Thankfully, 161 people participated. Dan Gutenson, a kidney recipient, chose to honor his living donor by leading the race on a bicycle demonstrating that organ and tissue donation saves lives like his. I am a six-organ recipient, and my grandson Ryan Jackson, and young heart recipient Riley Speckand were trophy presenters who impressed upon the crowd what the gift of life means to families across our commonwealth.

In one of their final tuneups before the regional this weekend, the East and West track and field teams had stong showings at the Central Kentucky Conference Meet last Friday. On the girls’ side, East placed sixth with 50 points and West placed ninth with 39 points. For the boys, West came in second behind Henry Clay. The Colts totaled 87 points. East placed fifth with 66. Girls West Jessamine’s  4x200-meter relay team, made up of Alyssa Dickens, Abby Wiggins, Allison Lyon and Sarah Redmon, placed fourth with a time of 1:52.45.

East Jessamine coach Jacqueline Coleman said her team got away from what got the Jaguars a 10-point lead, and that is what cost them a shot at a district title. The Jaguars led Burgin by 10 early in the third quarter only to see the Bulldogs take the lead then hold on for a 44-40 win in the 46th District tournament semifinals at West Jessamine Tuesday. Emily Underwood and Madison Collins each had 13 points, and Loren Mason added eight points and 16 rebounds for the Jaguars, who finish the season 5-19.

LOUISVILLE -- Midway of the 100-meter dash, Danville's Lamont Key thought he might win the Class A state championship. Instead, favorite Quan Weaver of Frankfort edged him by .07 seconds and he was still thrilled to be second. However, the Danville senior actually ended up third because a runner -- Derrious Brown of Fort Campbell -- in an earlier heat finished in 11.13 seconds compared to Key's 11.2. "I was pretty surprised to be right there with Quan," said Key, who ran a 11.46 in the Class A regional.

We just attended the funeral of the mother of a dear friends of ours. The minister, in his tribute to her life, talked about "the dash. " In all my years of attending funerals, I had never heard of this idea, but I love it because of its simplicity, an image so easily visualized. He said that we all have on our tombstones a birth date and a death date, but the only really important dates are all the times that person lived among us, as represented by a simple dash. After the ceremony, we all continued to the Winchester Cemetery.