6. Three tears for TrinityIf she didn't know it before, Trinity Wilson found out just how badly she wanted to win her first state title when she crossed the line first.
She bent at the waist and wept.
The St. Mary's-Berkeley junior erased a bad memory from the season before with a resounding 100-meter hurdle victory over national leader Cox of Long Beach Poly.
Wilson, whose motto all season was "I refuse to lose," didn't once throughout her junior season and finished it off with a lifetime wind-legal best of 13.41 seconds to 13.57 for Cox.
Despite drizzly conditions, Wilson got an explosive start and held off the USC-bound Cox, who came in with a national best of 13.34. Wilson had a similar start last season but was caught at the line by current Stanford freshman Kori Carter.
Not this year. The race was only 100 meters but the road back to the state finals line was definitely a marathon.
"I was just so happy I just started crying," Wilson said. "I couldn't help it. I could just taste it. I knew I was ready."
She was the last girl in the blocks and she took a giant breath.
"I just shut it down and thought to myself, ‘let's get this party started,' " Wilson said.
And the fact a light drizzle had started didn't deter the animated standout one bit.
"Rain freaks out hurdlers and it freaked me out a little too," she said. "But I didn't care what was out there – thunder, lightning, hail – I wasn't going to lose."
Trinity Wilson didn't lose a race in the spring eason.
File photo by Kirby Lee
