Nashaia Nixon had one key goal as she ran the final leg of the 4 x 400 Relay for the Junction City girls track team Saturday evening….a state title!

The Lady Jays needed to finish fifth or higher in the 4 x 400 to win the Class 6A girls team title outright. They finished fourth with Nixon running the baton across the finish line. On her thoughts during that final 400 she stated, “I’m really just thinking, try the best I can do. I wanted to get my team in that spot. I knew that there was a lot on the line. Any person that was in front of me I thought pass them, pass them.”

Tiara Smith, Alana Kramer and Keiana Newman were the other members of the 4 x 400 Relay team.

Lady Jay teammate Lyric Holman finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 meter dash events, and third in the 400. In the process she earned 16 team points for Junction City. “Winning this state championship means a lot for us. We were thinking about this ever since our first track meet. We always talk about it.” Holman added the title meant they all worked hard to accomplish it. “Not just one person, not just two, the whole entire team that made us get there. I’m just proud of everyone in that, I’m just so excited that we were able to win this and show people in Junction City back home what we can do.”

There were other strong performances for Junction City. Keiana Newman won the gold medal in  the 100 and 300 Hurdles and also ran on the gold medal winning 4 x 100 Relay team. She was joined on that relay team by Holman, Shamya Banks and Amaya Booker.

Booker finished third in the 100 Meter Dash and sixth in the 200 Meter Dash,  and Ayi-lissa Dotson finished seventh in the high jump.