The greater Houston area won 40 AAU National Junior Olympic championships. Track Houston won an astonishing 16 of those championships. In addition, Track Houston set four new national records and was awarded a total of 126 medals. None of the other 903 track clubs participating, came close to this kind of success.
Exerpt from yourhoustonnews.com:
[ . . . Perennial power Track Houston ran to five relay titles, two of which were in record-setting form. The girls age 15-16 team of Kynnedy Flannel, Kailei Collins, Kennedy Gamble, Rachel Hall set a new standard with a time of 45.49 in the 400-meter relay . . . ]
Exerpt from yourhoustonnews.com:
[ . . . Perennial power Track Houston ran to five relay titles, two of which were in record-setting form. The girls age 15-16 team of Kynnedy Flannel, Kailei Collins, Kennedy Gamble, Rachel Hall set a new standard with a time of 45.49 in the 400-meter relay . . . ]
Top Medal Winners:
 Sanjana Perungulam won gold in the 11 year old 1500m race walk at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. |  Caleb Schaunaman won gold in the 12 year old boys 1500m race walk. Garrick Griffy took the silver medal in the same age division event. |
 An awesome job was done by Jeyden Coleman winning Gold in the 11 year old shot put at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. |  In the 13 year old girls division, Sophie Atkinson won gold in the 1500m and 3000m, Heidi Nielson won silver in the 1500m and 3000m, and Kevriana Scott won Bronze in the 1500m and 4th in the 3000m. |
 Camila Vicens continued her national medal collection by winning the 14 year old girls 3000m race walk at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. In that race she also set the new national record to 15:21.48. |  Elijah Bean won gold in the 13 year old 400m at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic in the winning time of 50.98. |
 Ian Gilmore won gold in the 14 year old 400m at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic in a winning time of 49.65. |  Kynnedy Flannel won the 15-16 girls 200m in a time of 23.59 at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. |
 The 15-16 girls 4x100m team of Kynnedy Flannel, Kailei Collins, Kennedy Gamble and Rachel Hall set a new record in the prelims to 45.64 at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. The next day in the finals, the girls broke their own record setting it to 45.49. |  The 15-16 girls won the 4x800m win at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. The winning team was Tamia Badal, Sydney Allen, Jesica Gordon and Alexa Granderson. |
 The 15-16 boys 4x400m relay team of Genson Hooper-Price, Chidera Agim, Sebastian Cooper and Nathaniel McRae won gold. |  The 15-16 Boys set a new AAU National Junior Olympic record in the 4x800m relay. The Gold medal team of Ethan Phillips, Deonte Bradford, Solomon Brent and Sebastian Cooper set the new record to 7:55.91. Their coach Daryl Sanford graciously accepts the 4x800m first place plaque. |
 Andrew Gandy won Gold in the 15-16 boys 3000m race at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. |  Joe Williams (center) of the 17-18 boys division won the 200m in a time of 21.17 at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. |
 Coach Leo Mays had two 4x100m teams to medal in the finals at the 2016 AAU National Junior Olympic. The 17-18 girls team of Sierra Smith, Essance Sample, Charity Thomas, and Nia Williams won Gold and the team of Eriana Henderson, Ariele Adams, Geri Ann Mpagi and Javlyn Cameron took home the Bronze. |
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