High school track and field 2024: Six athletes likely to jump farthest and finish fastest

Meet three girls and three boys, most with state titles in place and five committed to prominent colleges.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
April 17, 2024 at 10:58PM
Minnetonka has standouts to watch on both of its track and field teams: Claire Kohler (left) and Tobias Williams. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

GIRLS

Ashley Fisher, Holy Angels, senior

Signed with Notre Dame

2023 highlights:

Repeated as 100-meter dash state champion in Class 2A (12.07 seconds)

Runner-up in the 200 (24.81)

Anchored the Stars’ second-place 4x100 relay (48.74)

Took fourth in triple jump (37 feet, ¼ inches)

Gabby Keefer, St. Michael-Albertville, junior

2023 highlights:

Fourth in 100 (11.93) at Class 3A state meet

Fourth in 200 (25.92)

Fifth in triple jump (37-5¼)

Claire Kohler, Minnetonka, senior

Signed with Iowa

2023 highlights:

Class 3A state champion in the 100 hurdles (13.80) and 300 hurdles (43.03)

Eighth in triple jump (36-2½)

BOYS

Juriad Hughes Jr., Irondale, senior

Signed with Arkansas

2023 highlights:

Class 3A state champion in the long jump and broke the record from 1982 with a mark of 24 feet, 11 inches

Fifth in 200 (21.60)

Harlow Tong, St. Paul Central, senior

Committed to Harvard

2023 highlights:

Class 3A state champion in 400 (47.90)

Second in 100 (10.49)

Ninth in 200 (32.12)

Tobias Williams, Minnetonka, senior

Signed with Duke

2023 highlights:

Class 3A state champion in 100 (10.47)

Second in 200 (21.29)

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David La Vaque

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David La Vaque is a high school sports reporter who has been the lead high school hockey writer for the Star Tribune since 2010. He is co-author of “Tourney Time,” a book about the history of Minnesota’s boys hockey state tournament published in 2020 and updated in 2024.

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