Beachwood Girls Track Team Ties for 7th at State Meet

BEACHWOOD, OH - The Beachwood girls track and field team tied for 7th place at the OHSAA Division II State Championship over the weekend that was contested at Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus.

Headlining the weekend was the girls 4×200-Meter Relay team, who sprinted to a Division II State Championship with a time of 1:39.40. The gold-medal team consisted of freshmen K’Dyn Harris-Tate, Meena Abdul-Basser, and Kyrsten Ginn, and sophomore Marley Readance.

The same quartet - along with support from alternate Ambyr Paul who ran one of the legs in the qualifying round - clocked a 48.41 in the 4x100-Meter Relay to finish as the state runner-up.

Individually, Abdul-Basser earned a third place finish in the 400-meter run with a time of 56.02, while Ginn placed eighth in the state in the 100-meter (12.27) and 200-meter (25.09) dashes.

On the boys side, senior Levi Trudell competed in the 400-meter run, capping his career with a 12th place finish.

The state meet capped an exceptional season for the Bison. Both the boys and girls teams captured Chagrin Valley Conference (CVC) titles, marking the fifth straight conference title for the boys and third straight for the girls. The momentum continued at the Division II Austintown Fitch regional where the team finished as regional runner-up.

A total of 11 student-athletes received First Team All-CVC honors, while Ginn and Turell were named CVC Most Valuable Performers.