BAXTER ON THE TRACK
Baxter blitzes to a win in the 3,200-meter race at the CIFState Track and Field Championships in June.
Photo by Craig Morley
Baxter became just the fourth runner in California history to win three girls 3,200 titles, winning in 10:10.71 before almost 9,000 fans at Veterans Stadium on the campus of Buchanan High School in Clovis.
She won by more than 14 seconds though it didn’t surpass her season best of 10:06.74, the second-best mark in the nation for 2013 and first among juniors.
Baxter also had the fourth-best 3,200 time in 2013 while winning the Arcadia Invitational in 9:34.44. Her best time in the 1,600 was 4:53.66.
She’ll try to join Jordan Hasay, a graduate of Mission Prep (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) now starring at the University of Oregon, as a four-time winner of California’s 3,200 run. Baxter started high school just as Hasay had exited and has often drawn comparisons to the distance running legend.
“I am glad to have accomplished nearly everything that she did,” Baxter told reporters after the 2013 state meet. “But I still have a season to go.”
