Nine Dripping Springs High School track and field athletes qualified for the Region IV-6A Championships after placing in the top four of their respective events at the Area 25/26 Meet on Wednesday, April 9 in Georgetown.
Mattix DaCunha headlined the meet for the Tigers with an area title in the long jump, besting his school record mark with a leap of 23 feet nine inches. Teammate Jackson Mills joined him as a regional qualifier in the event with a third-place finish after recording a jump of 22 feet 11.5 inches.
DaCunha also qualified in the 110-meter hurdles with a school-record time of 14.15 to place third.
The boys’ 4x200-meter relay team advanced to regionals for the fourth consecutive year with Mills, Cooper Reid, Nick Tyndall and Merrik Bloomgren timing 1:28.25 for a third-place finish.
In the mile relay, Reid and Mills joined Maddox Maher and Mikel Mendoza to record a time of 3:19.55 and a fourth-place finish to advance to regionals for the second-straight year.
As a team, the boys tied for fifth with 45 points.
For the girls, Adeline Spies extended her school record in the pole vault with a height of 11 feet six inches to earn a fourth-place finish.
Izzy Crew, a member of the U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Emerging Team, qualified for regionals in the 100 and 400 meters and the shot put. At area, she timed 18.11 in the 100 and recorded a throw of 17 feet one inch in the shot put.
The Tigers will compete at the Region IV-6A Championships on April 18-19 at Heroes Stadium in San Antonio.