Raines' Harrison Robinson, Ponte Vedra's Nathan Lebowitz win Class 3A track championships
Not rain, nor wind, nor lightning could keep Harrison Robinson out of the history books.
The Raines senior: Ichiban again.
Robinson repeated his boys 110-meter championship at Friday night's thunderstorm-delayed Florida High School Athletic Association Class 3A track and field championships at James G. Pressly Stadium in Gainesville.
Last year, Robinson won in 14.29, topping the field by almost half a second. This time, he obliterated his personal best, slashing his time to 13.80 to become only the second Florida high schooler (Nease's Cyrus Ways is the other) to break the 14-second mark to date this year. Robinson's effort lifted him into the top 20 on the national MileSplit list for 2022.
He also brought Raines a multitude of points in other events, coming in fifth in the long jump and seventh in the 300 hurdles.
Robinson, signed with Appalachian State, is the first Raines athlete to win back-to-back boys state championships in an individual event since Mario Williams won the 800 in 1998 and 1999.
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Ponte Vedra, too, had plenty to celebrate, beginning with Nathan Lebowitz in the boys discus. The junior left the field behind with a winning throw of 177 feet, 2 inches on his third attempt, a margin of six and a half feet.
The Sharks' Henry Gainer took second in the boys javelin, behind New Smyrna Beach's Cole Crkvenac, and third in the pole vault, one spot ahead of teammate Landen Scott.
Ponte Vedra's balance brought the Sharks 33 points in the boys standings, good for fifth overall, and one ahead of Raines. St. Thomas Aquinas scored 62 points to edge Fort Lauderdale Dillard by one point, by virtue of Aquinas' second place in the concluding boys 4x400 relay.
Other high local individual finishes included Orange Park's Mychalea Parker, who surpassed 40 feet in the girls shot put to place third.
Seth Stockton of Columbia jumped 47 feet, 7 inches in the triple jump, but had to settle for second behind Kyvon Tatham of Pembroke Pines Charter. Raines' Reshawn Latimer placed fourth in that event.
Parker, led by sprinter Kayla Cleveland, and Ponte Vedra tied for 25th to lead Northeast Florida girls teams in the team standings, which went to perennial power Miami Northwestern.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: High school track & field: Raines' Harrison Robinson repeats in state hurdles
