RECAP: Notable Performances From The KYA Indoor Classic

KYA HS Indoor Classic
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Notable Performances

We're coming up on a week since the KYA Indoor Classic and 6000+ photos and 300+ videos later, we are ready to dig into some of the results from that meet. Here are some notable Tennessee performances we have not yet drawn attention to since. 

  • Trial By Fire's Dreame Williams is a freshman this year at James Lawson High School and if you're looking for sprinter to fill in the void that will be left after Kymora-Lee Williams graduates, look no further. She (see race above) placed 5th in the 200m dash with a 24.74. Only seven girls have run under 25 Indoors since 2021 and she's one of them. More impressively, as an 8th grader ran 56.43 outdoors for 400m this past summer.
  • The fastest indoor 200m time ever run by a freshman indoors in our database is 22.54 run by Molefi Maat in 2011. Maat would eventually sweep the sprints in the Class AAA in 2014. The second fastest... Colt Turner of Wilson Central who ran 22.78 this past weekend. Turner placed 5th at the TMSAA State Meet last year and has already run .7 or so seconds faster since the spring. 


All-Time Freshman 200m Rankings

  • Even though Brentwood's Sophie Yount has had a very decorated career in the hurdles indoors and out, the KYA Indoor Classic has not been her friend in this discipline. In 2023 and in 2024 she failed to qualify for the finals. That wasn't the case this past Saturday. The Clemson commit ran 8.95 in the prelims and placed third in the finals with a state leading and personal best of 8.72.  Through four races in the event this year she has not been over nine seconds. 
  • Before Christmas, Farragut's Bryce Thompson and Anderson County's Luke Dark both threw over sixty feet at the Galleria Games. Dark came out on top 63 and change to Thompson's 61. On Saturday, Thompson, who is committed to Penn State, leapfrogged Dark with a toss of 64' 5.5". Thompson and Dark currently sit #3 and #4 in the US with these throws. 


Current US Shot Put Rankings

  • Staying in the field, Trial By Fire's Camaria Corder became the first Tennessean in our Database to Triple Jump over 40 feet indoors and did so by nearly a foot. Her 40' 11" leap propelled her to the top of the All-Time Tennessee rankings. Corder went undefeated in this event last spring and this is her first time over 40 indoors or out. 

Best Of The Rest

  • Canon Kinder clears 15-9 in Pole Vault, second highest clearance indoors or out. 
  • Trey Polley wins long jump. Finished last year US #7 for freshman. 
  • Khari Webb runs 2:18 in 800m. Possible shift in focus to multi's type events. 
  • Kayla Underwood clears 5-3 in HJ. Opens season matching highest outdoor clearance. 
  • Lanah Lucas runs 58.35 as an 7th grader in the 400m. 
  • 10 boys go sub 2:00 lead by Owen Clemons with 1:55.54