Marion Harding makes its debut in Marion County Track and Field Meet
Marion Harding competed in the Marion County Track and Field Meet for the first time ever May 6 at River Valley. Here's how everyone fared.
CALEDONIA — Romy Yancey and Aycen Rich will always be answers to a trivia question. Who were the first Marion Harding athletes to win events at the Marion County Track and Field Meet? Yancey took the girls 100 meters in 13.
03 seconds, then Rich did the same in the boys 100 with a time of 11. 78. "It’s great.
I’m glad we got invited and were able to run," Yancy said of her history-making finish. The Marion County Meet, hosted May 6 at River Valley, is a remnant from a different era. It came out of the old Marion County League decades before consolidation finished in the early 1960s, changing the landscape of athletics in Marion County forever.
Afterward, Ridgedale, Elgin and River Valley still met up with Pleasant annually. Not part of the meet was Marion's city school — until now. Marion Harding already competes with River Valley and Pleasant in the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference, so the area's athletic directors felt it was time to invite the Presidents and make it an all-encompassing Marion County Meet.
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