The Dino track and field team kicked off the season in March by inviting schools around the area to the Farm Bureau Invitational and making their way through the season and culminating on May 17 & 18 at the State Championships at Brigham Young University.
Listed below is a recap of meets throughout the 2024 season.
March 16- Farm Bureau Invitational
The Carbon Dino track and field squad welcomed teams from across the state for one of the first meets of the season, the Farm Bureau Invitational on Saturday. A total of 20 teams on both the boys and the girl’s sides competed, and the Lady Dinos earned a fourth-place finish while the boys claimed fifth.
For the ladies, North Sevier and Emery tied for the top spot with 87. Union was right behind with 76, Carbon scored 75.66 and Manti rounded out the top five at 71.
Rozlyn Stowe claimed a pair of first-place finishes in two distance runs. In the 800 she would turn in a time of 2:18.61, Sophie Taylor earned fourth. In the 1600, Stowe earned another first place at 5:17.10.
In the 3200, Ellie Hanson earned a second-place finish, behind Emery’s Addie Hurst. Ada Bradford ended the race in third. Gianna White took fifth in the 400.
The Lady Dinos earned a first-place finish in the sprint relay with a time of 4:22.28. They also claimed second in the 4×100 and third in the 4×400.
Juab ran away from the pack literally taking first on the boy’s side with a score of 132, Union landed in second with 99. Uintah, Emery, and Carbon rounded out the top five.
Evan Criddle earned the lone first-place finish for the boys in the 800, turning in a time of 2:06.78. Easton Humes finished eight behind him in second. Humes also took second in the 400, and Criddle finished third in the 1600.
Carbon also claimed two fifth-place finishes in the 4×100 relay and the 4×400.
The Dinos will travel to Delta on Wednesday.
Click HERE for complete results for the Farm Bureau Invitational
March 20- Delta Regional
After hosting the Farm Bureau Invitational on March 16, Dinos track and field traveled to Delta for a regional invitational. A total of nine schools brought teams to participate and at the end of the day the Lady Dinos earned the second spot and the boy’s team took fourth.
Coming off the first meet of the season the Dinos were ready to get back to the track, and Delta was as good a place as any. The Rabbits have traditionally had some of the top track teams in the state.
For the Lady Dinos, North Summit took the top spot with 180 points, and Carbon followed in second with 141. Delta, North Snapete, and Canyon View made up the remainder of the top five.
Carbon earned a pair of top-five finishes in a pair of relays. In the 4×100, the team of Amiah Timothy, Jordan Shorts, Mcklain Lowe, and Blythe Bradford finished in first place with a time of 51.79. In the 4×400, Rozlyn Stowe, Sophia Taylor, Gianna White, and Josie Jespersen claimed a fourth-place finish.
Stowe would once again claim a pair of top finishes in distance races with a first-place time of 5:20.26 in the 1600, and Taylor would finish behind her in second. In the 800, Stowe turned in the top time of 2:16.74, and Taylor claimed second as well. Stowe also earned a second-place finish in the 400 with White finishing third.
Freshman Blythe Bradford earned a third-place finish in the 100 followed by fellow Lady Dinos Lowe and Timothy in fourth and fifth. Lowe and Bradford would go second and fourth in the 200 and Rebecca Swasey came in fifth.
In field events, Timothy claimed a fourth-place finish in the long jump, and Bradford would finish right behind in fifth. Swasey claimed third in the Javelin and Brookleigh Unsworth took second in the discus.
For the boys, Juab earned first with 139 points, and North Summit claimed second. Host Delta claimed third, with Carbon and North Sanpete rounding out the top five.
Distances were good for the boys as well with Evan Criddle taking two first-place finishes in the 1600 with a time of 4:48.78, and Dallin Humes finishing in second. Criddle would also take first in the 800 turning in his time of 2:11.81, followed by Easton Humes in second and Dallin Humes in fifth. Easton Humes would go on to take the top spot in the 400 crossing the finish line with his time of 51.16.
Brad Sweeney claimed fifth in the 100-meter hurdles, while the 4×400 team of Criddle, Sweeney, Easton Humes, and Maxwell Carlson claimed the top finish with a time of 3:37.09.
In field events, Carson Taylor claimed fourth in the long jump.
The Dinos will head to San Juan on Saturday.
March 23- San Juan Invitational
Carbon track and field headed out on the road to compete in the San Juan County Championships on Saturday. The Lady Dinos captured the top spot while on the boy’s side, Carbon finished in second.
The host team San Juan earned the top spot on the boy’s side scoring 221 points, the Dinos were right behind at 217. Monticello, Whitehorse, and Pinnacle rounded out the top five.
Riley Palmer got it going for the Dinos with his first-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles in his time of 18.64, Carter Branch finished second, Jared Bryson fourth, and Brad Sweeney fifth. Easton Humes turned in another top performance with a time of 52.09 in the 400, and fellow Dinos Tanner Harker and Jaxson Jewkes finished in third and fourth place respectively. In the 1600, Dallin Humes earned first place turning in his time of 5:04.78, Michael Weber finished in third. Sweeney earned a second-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles, followed by Branch in third. Easton and Dallin Humes went two and three in the 800 for the Dinos as well. Weber and Bracken Hanson ended the 3200 in third place and fifth place, and Maxwell Carlson grabbed fourth in the 200.
The Carbon boys would grab one more first-place finish in the 4×400 with a time of 3:41.23 behind the team of Sweeney, Dallin Humes, Carlson, and Easton Humes. Carbon would also get a second-place finish with the team of Cesar Mondaca Valenzuela, Traxton Jewkes, Benjamin Simms, and Ethan Prettyman in the 4×100.
The Dinos would place well in field events as well with Traxton Jewkes earning a second-place finish in the javelin followed by Breydan Jensen in third. Jewkes also took second on the high jump followed by Branch in third and Carlson in fourth. In the shot put, Valyn Unsworth finished in third and Cedric Johnson claimed fourth place in the discus.
The Lady Dinos ran away with first place scoring 344 points, host San Juan was a distant second with 99. Monticello, Green River, and Whitehorse comprised the rest of the top five.
The Lady Dinos captured 11 first-place finishes at the meet, including both the 4×100 and 4×400 relays. In the 4×100 the team of Jordan Shorts, Brooklyn Lowe, Amiah Timothy, and Blythe Bradford crossed the finish line with a time of 52.28. In the 4×400, Josie Jespersen, Sophia Taylor, Gianna White, and Rozlyn Stowe finished first at 4:27.04.
Individual events were kind to the Lady Dinos as well with Lowe earning a first-place finish in the 100 turning in a time of 13.68, Bradford, Mia Crompton, Timothy, and Shorts all rounded out the top five in the race. Jespersen earned a first-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles turning in her time of 18.73, fellow Dinos Camryn Frandsen and Allena Ison went two and three. In the 200, Lowe took the top spot with her time of 28.60, Crompton, Bradford, and Rebecca Swasey made up the rest of the top four finishes.
It was another Dino top finish in the 300-meter hurdles with Frandsen’s time of 56.71, Ella Anderson finished third, and Ison fourth.
Distances were very favorable to Carbon as well, with White getting things started in the 400 with her time of 1:04.65, Swasey and Jespersen finished two and three. In the 800, Stowe finished with a time of 2:20.44, Taylor and Ada Bradford went two and three, with Maggie Truman coming in fifth. Taylor claimed victory in the 1600 with her time of 6:03.24, Alexandra Bryner was third and Hanson fourth. Stowe was back on top for the 3200 crossing the line in a time of 11:14.38, and Bryner and Hanson finished in second and third.
Field events were kind to the Lady Dinos with Timothy earning the top spot in the long jump with 15 7.75. Carbon would claim the top five as Blythe Bradford, Shorts, Lily Peterson, and Swasey finished two through five. Timothy would also claim second in the high jump, with Emily Dufour third and Bailey Johnson fourth.
Swasey claimed a second-place finish in the javelin followed by McKenzie Matthews in third and Janyssa Wadley in fourth. Johnson earned fourth-place finishes in the shot put and discus as well.
The Dinos are back on the road this weekend when they will travel to Roosevelt for the Strata Invitational at Union High School
Click HERE for complete results of the San Juan County Championships
March 30- Strata Invitational
The Dino track team took their show on the road over the weekend to Roosevelt to compete in the Strata Invitational at Union High School. The Lady Dinos grabbed another top finish and the boys finished in third on their side of the track.
The track season is all about getting your state qualifiers early, and that is what Carbon has been concentrating on in the opening month of the season.
The Lady Dinos grabbed the top finish with 141 points. Uintah landed in second with 136 points. Rich, Union, and Duchesne made up the remainder of the top five.
The relay team of Jordan Shorts, Josie Jespersen, Mia Crompton, and Brooklyn Lowe claimed a first-place finish in the 4×100, with a time of 51.38. Jespersen, Sophia Taylor, Gianna White, and Rozlyn Stowe finished the 4×400 in second. Lilly Peterson, Stella Smith, McKenzie Fredrickson, and Ellie Hanson ran to a second-place finish in the sprint relay as well.
Stowe earned another first-place finish in the 1600 with her time of 5:04.37, and Taylor finished in second. Taylor grabbed a second-place finish in the 800, teammate Ada Bradford crossed the finish in fifth. In the 3200 Hanson claimed second-place followed by Kaylee Pitcher in third and Taylor fourth.
In shorter distances, Crompton grabbed a third-place finish in the 200 followed by Lowe in fourth, Crompton also claimed fifth in the 100. McKinlee Sharp took fifth in the 100 hurdles, and White took a fourth-place finish in the 400.
In field events, Blythe Bradford finished in second in the long jump, with Shorts taking third, and Emily Dufour took third in the high jump.
Host Union earned the top finish on the boy’s side of the track followed by Uintah. Carbon, Altamont, and Duchesne rounded out the top five.
Carbon grabbed a pair of top finishes in relays starting in the 4×400 with the team of Bradley Sweeney, Evan Criddle, Maxwell Carlson, and Easton Humes turning in the time of 3:38.30. The sprint relay team of Carlson, Humes, Criddle, and Tanner Harker crossed the finish with a time of 3:49.13. The team of Cesar Mondaca Valenzuela. Carlson, Benjamin Simms, and Traxton Jewkes finished in fourth.
Humes earned a first-place finish in the 400 with his time of 52.10, and Criddle claimed second in the 800. Sweeney claimed third in the 300-meter hurdles. Michael Weber finished fourth in the 3200, and Dallin Humes fifth in the 1600.
Traxton Jewkes jumped his way to a fourth-place finish in the high jump.
The Dinos track and field team will enjoy the spring break Holiday and will get back to the track next Friday when they travel to Juab.
Click HERE for the complete results of the Strata Invitational.
April 12- Juab
The Carbon track and field team made the trip to Nephi to take part in the Juab Invitational. A total of four schools took part in the meet and the Carbon girls claimed second with the boys finishing in fourth.
Host Juab grabbed the top spot on the boys’ side with a total score of 198.5, Canyon View took second with 158. Emery took third with 117 and Carbon scored 90.5.
The Carbon boys’ relay teams claimed a pair of top-five finishes. Mario Monari, Tanner Harker, Benjamin Simms, and Ethan Prettyman finished in second place in the 4×100. Max Carlson, Easton Humes, Brad Sweeney, and Dallin Humes finished the 4×400 in fourth.
In individual events, Evan Criddle collected three top-five finishes in distances. In the 3200 he earned a second-place finish, and Michael Weber finished fourth. Criddle also earned two fourth-place finishes in the 800 and 1600. In hurdles, Riley Palmer earned fourth place in the 110, and Sweeney claimed fifth. Sweeney also earned a fifth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles as well.
In field events, Traxton Jewkes earned a second-place finish in the high jump and fourth in the long jump.
Canyon View took top honors on the girls’ side with 196 points, Carbon was in second with 180. Emery and Juab finished third and fourth.
Rozlyn Stowe earned the only first-place finish of the day for the Lady Dinos in the 1600 with a time of 5:18.46, and Sophia Taylor finished in third. Ellie Hanson earned a second-place finish in the 3200, Kaylee Pitcher was fourth and Ada Bradford finished in fifth. Taylor also grabbed fifth in the 800.
Mia Crompton earned a couple of third-place finishes in the 100 and the 200, Blythe Bradford was right behind in fourth in the 100, and Brooklyn Lowe finished fourth in the 200. Gianna White claimed third in the 400. In hurdles, McKinlie Sharp earned a third-place finish in the 100-meter, while in the 300 Rebecca Swasey finished in third with Josie Jespersen finishing in fourth.
In relays, the Carbon team of Jordan Shorts, Blythe Bradford, Lowe, and Crompton took second in the 4×100, and the team of Swasey, Taylor, White, and Blythe Bradford took second as well in the 4×400. Ivy Beecher, Stella Smith, McKenzie Fredrickson, and Ada Bradford earned a second-place finish in the sprint relay.
The Lady Dinos were well represented in the field events as well with Bailey Johnson earning third in the shot put as well as fourth in the discus, Ella Morley took fifth in the shot put. Janyssa Wadley earned third in the javelin and Swasey took fifth. Shorts finished fourth in the long jump with Blythe Bradford in fifth, and Emily Dufour had a fourth-place finish in the high jump.
The Dinos will now prepare for the Eastern Utah Championships on Friday at Carbon High.
April 19- Eastern Utah Championships
Every track and field season, one regional school hosts the Eastern Utah Championships. Last weekend it was held at Carbon High, with 11 boy’s teams and 13 girl’s teams, the eastern side of the state was covered. The Lady Dinos earned a second-place finish and the boys were able to grab fifth.
Union earned the top spot in the boy’s division, earning 181 points, and Uintah finished in second with 110. San Juan, Emery, and Carbon comprised the rest of the top five.
Distances, relays, and field events were where the Carbon boys earned their points. In the 400 Easton Humes claimed second place, and earned a fourth-place finish in the 800.
The Carbon team of Tanner Harker, Maxwell Carlson, Humes, and Evan Criddle ran to a second-place finish in the sprint relay. Brad Sweeney, Criddle, Carlson, and Humes earned a second-place finish in the 4×400, and the team of Mario Monari, Kayden Vasquez, Benjamin Simms, and Ethan Prettyman crossed the finish in fourth in the 4×100.
In the high jump, Traxton Jewkes jumped to a second-place finish and Carter Branch ended in fourth.
Uintah claimed the top spot in the girl’s division with 148.50 points, the Lady Dinos finished second with 130.5. Union, Emery, and Duchesne made up the rest of the top five.
Relays were kind as always for Carbon, in the 4×100 the team of Jordan Shorts, Brooklyn Lowe, Mia Crompton, and Blythe Bradford finished in first place with a time of 50.44. With a time of 4:20.72 Rebecca Swasey, Sophia Taylor, Blythe Bradford, and Gianna White claimed the top spot in the 4×400, and in the sprint relay, Lisa King, Stella Smith, McKenzie Fredrickson, and Ellie Hanson finished fourth.
Blythe Bradford earned a first-place finish in the long jump, followed by other Dinos Jordan Shorts in second, and Amiah Timothy in third. Emily Dufour claimed a fourth-place finish in the high jump.
White also earned a second-place finish in the 400, while Taylor claimed third in the 1600 with Hanson in fourth. Taylor also took fourth in the 800 followed by Ada Bradford in fifth. Hanson would go on to earn fourth in the 3200.
Crompton finished fourth and Blythe Bradford fifth in the 100. Josie Jespersen finished in third in the 100-meter hurdles and McKinlieSharp was right behind in fourth. Swasey would earn a fifth-place finish in the 300 hurdles.
The Dinos will head back to the track on Wednesday when they travel to Emery for the Darrel Gardner Invite.
Click HERE for a link to the complete scores for the Eastern Utah Invitational.
April 24- Darrel Gardner Invite
Carbon High School track and field were back at it on Wednesday, this time in Castle Dale for the Darrell Gardner Invitational. With 12 schools from around the region participating Carbon took the top spot in both divisions.
The boys scored 138 points to claim the top spot, followed by Richfield in second with 129. South Sevier, host team Emery, and Altamont made up the remainder of the top five.
Easton Humes got things started for the Dinos with a first-place finish in the 400 turning in his time of 51.35, Maxwell Carlson would finish third in the race. In the 110-meter hurdles, Riley Palmer finished second with Carter Branch in third. The Carbon trio of Bradley Sweeney, Branch, and Palmer went three, four, and five in the 300-meter hurdles.
In distances, Evan Criddle took third in both the 1600 and 3200, and Michael Weber came in fourth in the 3200 as well. The sprint relay team of Dallon Humes, Weber, Cesar Mondaca Valenzuela, and Kolton Finch ran to a second-place finish, and in the 4×100, Marco Monari, Kayden Vasquez, Benjamin Simms, and Brayden Jensen claimed third.
Branch would place third in the high jump with Traxton Jewkes finishing in fourth, and Dexter Packard finished fifth in the long jump.
For the girl’s side, Carbon scored 126.5 to claim first, and Emery would finish second with 120. Richfield, South Sevier, and North Sevier rounded out the top five.
In three relays the Lady Dinos claimed three top-two finishes. Jordan Shorts, Mia Crompton, Amiah Timothy, and Blythe Bradford took the top spot in the 4×100 with a time of 51.16. Bradford, Rebecca Swasey, Sophia Taylor, and Gianna White ran their way to a second-place finish in the 4×400, and in the sprint relay Lilly Peterson, Stella Smith, McKenzie Fredrickson, and Ellile Hanson finished in second as well.
Distances are still good to Carbon, with Taylor earning a first-place finish in the 800 in a time of 2:34.25, Taylor also took second in the 1600. Hanson turned in a time of 13:31.80 to take first in the 3200, and Kaylee Pitcher finished third. White took second in the 400.
Crompton and Bradford claimed third and fourth respectively in the 100. McKinlie Sharp finished fifth in the 100-meter hurdles, and Rebecca Swasey took third in the 300-meter hurdles. Crompton also claimed third place in the 200.
In field events, Bradford earned first place in the long jump and Jordan Shorts finished second.
The Dinos head back to it on Saturday when they travel to the Delta Invitational.
Click HERE for the complete results of the Darrell Gardner Invitational.
May 3- Dino Trax
The Carbon Dinos played host to the largest track and field event in the program’s history as 33 other teams from around the state participated in the Dinos Trax Meet this past Friday at Carbon High School.
Pegged as the final meet before the Regional Championships, teams got a taste of heavy competition as schools from all classifications competed.
“There are so many people that helped make this a great event,” said Carbon track and field coach Jimmy Jewkes during Friday’s meet. “We have coaches from other programs helping out, our state champion marching band doing concessions and so many volunteers.”
Kanab ended as the top school on the boys’ side of the track as they gathered 72 points throughout the afternoon. San Juan finished in second with 67.5 points, followed by Panguitch. Delta and Carbon rounded out the top five on the boys’ side of the field.
North Summit took home first place on the girls’ side of the track as they accumulated 135 points. Carbon finished in second with 106, easily topping third-place North Sanpete’s score of 81. Kanab and Monticello completed the girl’s top five.
Below is a photo gallery of the event. Click HERE for the complete results from the event.
May 8 & 9- Region 12 Championships
The Dinos track and field squad traveled to Nephi for the Region 12 Championships that took place on Wednesday, and Thursday. Eight schools from the conference participated and both the boys and the girls finished the event in sixth place.
On the boys’ side, it was host team Juab that took the top spot with 155, Canyon View earned second with 140. Emery, Richfield, and Delta made up the top five with the Dinos right behind in sixth.
For Carbon Easton Humes earned a first-place finish in the 800 turning in his time of 2:02.01, Humes would also take third in the 400.
In the sprint relay, the Dinos earned second with the team of Benjamin Simms, Ethan Prettyman, Maxwell Carlson, and Humes.
Canyon View claimed first for the girl’s division with 156.5 points, Emery finished in second with 113. Richfield and Delta tied for third and North Sanpete rounded out the top five. Carbon finished in sixth.
In individual events, Josie Jespersen finished fourth in the 300-meter hurdles, Sophia Taylor earned two fourth-place finishes in the 800 and the 1600, and Gianna White earned a fifth-place finish in the 400.
Carbon had three top-three finishes in relays. In the 4×100, Jordan Shorts, Brooklyn Lowe, Mia Crompton, and Blythe Bradford finished in second. In the 4×400, Crompton, Bradford, White, and Taylor earned third place. Lowe, White, Taylor, and Amiah Timothy finished in second in the sprint relay.
The Carbon track and field team heads back to competition on May 16 when they will travel to BYU for the 3A State Championships.
Click HERE for complete results of the Region 12 Championships.
May 16-18- State Championships
The Carbon track and field squad along with all others across all classifications were in Provo over the weekend to take part in the State Track and Field Championships, hosted by Brigham Young University. Blythe Bradford earned the State Championship in the long jump helping the Lady Dinos earn an eighth-place finish. The Carbon boys finished the meet in 15th.
Carbon coach Jimmy Jewkeas was a guest on KOAL’s Drive Time Sports before the meet and was asked about all the other things that go on this time of year with school coming to a close, how do you keep them focused for state?
“It is really, really hard, depending on where the kids are at. You know seniors, by now let’s be honest, they’re checked out. School is just about over, they’ve got Senior Sluff, and they’re done. The good thing is, is that the kids that we do have that are seniors, like the Sophie Taylors, Jordan Shorts, and the Amiah Timothys, they’re gamers. On the bus ride home from region, those girls were in the back of the bus talking about being ready, and they know, they know that they’ve got to step up their game and they’re gonna come. It’s their last time to run at state, it’s their last time to be on the track and to run with some of these teammates that they’ve been running with for four years, and that means a lot to them, and I think there is not a lot you can do as a coach other than just get out of the way and let them have some of those emotions.”
The Union Cougars earned top honors with 94.00 points, Canyon View finished second with 88.50. Delta (69.00), Emery (67.00), and Morgan (43.00) rounded out the top five. Carbon scored 30.00 to finish in eighth.
Bradford, a freshman, was the only top finisher for the Dinos with her first place in the long jump. Bradford was also part of the 4×100 with teammates Mia Crompton, Brooklyn Lowe, and Jordan Shorts who finished in second place, and the 4×400 team of Gianna White, Sophie Taylor, and Rebecca Swasey claimed a seventh-place finish.
Crompton earned an eighth-place finish in the 200, White took seventh in the 400, and Taylor earned seventh in the 1600.
The Carbon team of Lowe, Amaiah Timothy, White, and Taylor went on to finish fourth in the sprint medley relay.
The Morgan Trojans took the top spot on the boy’s side of the track scoring 102.50, and Juab claimed second with 87.00. Union (82.00), Canyon View (79.0), and Summit Academy (58.00) rounded out the top five. Carbon finished 15 with 11 points.
Easton Humes claimed a pair of top-ten finishes in the 400, where he took fifth, and the 800, finishing in seventh. Humes was also part of both Carbon relays. In the 4×400 he joined Evan Criddle, Bradley Sweeney, and Max Carlson as they ran to an eighth-place finish, and in the sprint medley relay Humes, Benjamin Simms, Ethan Prettyman, and Carlson finished in fifth.
Check Castle Country Radio in the coming weeks for a complete review of the 2023-2024 track and field season.
Click HERE for complete results of the 3A State Track and Field Championships.