It's time to vote for the Missouri Boys Performer Of The Week! This is the second poll for the 2024 season.
Congrats to last week's winner, Carson Driemeier of Festus. He won a close battle with Grain Valley's Blayden Pruett. The duo took home nearly 99% of the votes. Driemeier won with 55.36% of the votes, just ahead of Pruett's 44.20%.
Last week's Missouri standouts include some school records and other great performances!
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The junior broke the school's 2-mile record on Saturday at the Shawnee Mission South Relays. His time of 9:25.59 broke a mark that stood since 1976. Acorn's 3200-meter time of 9:22.49 en route to the longer 2-mile is a MO#3 on the season.
The defending Class 3 state champion in the pole vault went to Austin, Texas to compete in the 96th Annual Texas Clyde Littlefield Relays. He jumped a career-best outdoor mark with a leap of 16 feet, 6 3/4 inches (5.05 meters) to take fourth place where he was the only Missouri competitor. The jump moved Harlan atop the Missouri 2024 performance list and ties him for 9th on the national performance list.
At the Bob Sink Invitational on Thursday in Jackson, he swept the jumping events by taking first in the high jump (6 feet, 10 inches/2.08m), the long jump (22 feet, 1/2 inch/6.71m) and the triple jump (43 feet, 1 3/4 inches/13.15m). Graham, the defending Class 5 high jump state champion, is tied for 1st on the state high jump performance list and tied for 7th on the national performance list. Graham's season best of 6.83m/22-4.75 puts him 8th on the state list. Graham's triple jump mark of nearly 43 feet 2 inches puts him 22nd on the state list.
The junior won the long jump (19-1 1/2) and triple jump (40-5) at the Diamond Invitational on March 26. The Indians also took home the first-place trophy--the first meet title for boys program since 1978.