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Destrehan’s Phillip Wright II pulls away from Zachary’s Caleb Hilton and Woodlawn’s Keylen Sonnier in the 100 meters at the Geo. WM. Rueff Dutchtown Invitational on Thursday, April 3, 2025 in Geismar, Louisiana.
STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON Dutchtown’s Vivian Cayton catches East Ascension’s Katie Truett midway through the 100 meter hurdles at the Geo. WM. Rueff Dutchtown Invitational on Thursday, April 3, 2025 in Geismar, Louisiana.
Cayton edged Truett for the win with a time of 0:14.65. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON St.
Joseph’s Academy’s Jaelyn Jones finishes her winning triple jump, 35-09.50, at the Geo. WM.
Rueff Dutchtown Invitational on Thursday, April 3, 2025 in Geismar, Louisiana. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON Episcopal’s Madeline Greene keeps am eye on the bar while attempting a vault at 9-06.00 at the Geo.
WM. Rueff Dutchtown Invitational on Thursday, April 3, 2025 in Geismar, Louisiana. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Top performances are nothing new for Destrehan High's Phillip Wright, and he proved that again Thursday night at the Dutchtown Invitational track meet.
An LSU football signee, Wright showed off his speed on the track winning both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. "Right now it's going pretty good. I'm building for the state meet so I can do better," Wright said.
The numbers showed him doing well at Dutchtown. He won the 100 with a time of 10.34 seconds, a personal record that is also the fastest state time so far this season.
The time also rates among this year's outdoor top 25 nationally, but Wright outdid that near the end of the meet in the 200. In a race he won by more than one second over second-place finisher Caleb Hilton of Zachary, Wright's time of 20.65 is the fourth-best time nationally.
The overall quality of the meet and its competitors provided an ideal chance for teams to sharpen their skills. "Once we get into April we use meets like this to try and put the pieces of the puzzle together," said Zachary coach Chris Carrier, whose girls' 4x100 team won its event with a state best time of 47.58.
"We've been playing around with the rotation of our 4x100 team, and the group we had tonight looked pretty good. We might stick with them." The Zachary girls finished first in the team competition with 100 points.
Host Dutchtown outpaced the boys competition with a total of 104 points. The Dutchtown girls got a pace-setting win from Keira Melan, who ran 2:15.20 in the 800.
Melan has battled an injury, but came back with a personal record on Thursday. "When I ran at the Texas Relays (on Saturday) everything clicked," Melan said. "It was like I knew how to run again.
I felt good at practice on Monday and coming into this race, I knew everything would be back." Another notable effort came from East Ascension's Kiristen McGirt with a personal best throw of 148 feet, 11 inches in the discus. It was a Louisiana-best toss that rates 19th nationally.
There were other performances that rated among the state's best. Destrehan's Marley Richard won the 100 with a time of 11.51.
It was a time that rates 17th nationally. East Ascension's Kiristen McGirt won the discus with a personal best throw of 148 feet , 11 inches. It was a Louisiana-best toss that rates 19th nationally.
In the girls 100 hurdles, Dutchtown's Vivian Cayton came out on top at 14.65. On the boys side, Central Lafourche's 4x800 relay time of 8:02.
93 was the state's fastest so far..
