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CALN TWP. — Radnor’s Lucy Henkel was thrown a curve shortly before the Class 3A 1,600-meter run got under way Friday at the District 1 Track & Field Championships.
She thought she was running in the second, or faster, of the two heats. Instead, she found out about two minutes before she took the track that she was in the first heat. Not exactly the kind of news an athlete wants to hear moments before she is to run just the second metric mile of her career.
“I kind of had to roll with it,” Henkel said. “I still did what I came here to do, which was to make states.”
Henkel won her heat in a Radnor school-record time of five minutes, 1.97 seconds. She pretty much led from start to finish. The tough part was waiting around to find out where she’d place … which turned out to be second overall. That automatically earned her a trip to Shippensburg next weekend for the PIAA state championship meet, and earned a huge roar from her Raptors teammates as she received her silver medal.
“They’re great,” Henkel said. “They’re always behind me.”
Henkel wasn’t the only Raptor to come home with a medal. Sophomore Sophia Hill was fourth in the pole vault. Her best was 11-6, a good height on a windy day.
“It was really hard,” Hill said of the wind. “I just kept watching my time. You have a certain amount of time (to vault) and I had to be aware of that and then go the minute the wind dropped even a little bit.”
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Radnor’s Lucy Henkel breathes a sigh of victory after winning
her 1,600-meter heat in a time of 5:01.97. That would be good
for second overall at the District 1 track and field championships
Friday at Coatesville Area High School. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
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