State Decathlon Recap

2015 State Decathlon Recap

At nine am Tuesday, day two of the boys Decathlon got underway with the Division 2 starting off in the hurdles. George Patrick (Brentwood Academy) won the first event looking like it was just an easy hurdle race. On the contrary though, it bettered his personal best by 0.02 that he ran a week ago and gave him 959 points in just this one event. George either tied or won seven out of the ten events, totaled up 6882 points, and easily put his mark as the top Decathlete of the meet. P.J. Settles (Ensworth) was the second place finisher with 5941 points. P.J. won the triple and tied George in the high jump and overall stayed a pretty steady top finisher in all his events. Well, until he and George took up the rear in the event all Decathletes love, the 1500 run. During the event, George mentioned that he was trying to conserve some energy since including this week including decathlon, prelims, and opens, he would have competed in over 30 events. These athletes cert...