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2018 Moapa Valley Girls Track Capsule

MOAPA VALLEY

Head coach: Brandon Jones, 10th season

Returning letter winners: Sixteen

Top athletes: Ashlyn Western (Jr.), Shelby Olson (Jr.), Natalie Mills (Sr.), Bailey Bunker (Sr.)

Outlook: After a seventh-place finish in last year’s Class 3A state meet, the Pirates are hoping for even more success this season.

Western, Olson and Bunker each ran a leg on the Southern Region champion 3,200-meter relay unit. Western also won the region title in the 800 and 1,600. Olson won the region title in the 3,200 and finished second to Western in the 1,600.

Mills finished second in the region in the 100 hurdles and joined Bunker on the runner-up team in the 1,600.

“We return all the girls who qualified for state,” Jones said. “We should be good in the distance and mid-distance races. In order to compete for region title, we need to improve in the field events.”

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