Tribe Elite Athletics had 10 Elmore County athletes recently qualified for the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic National Championships across 16 individual and relay events. Over the past two months, these athletes accomplished this by competing through a circuit of qualifying track meets in Alabama and Mississippi during June and July. 

In late July, some of the National Championship qualifiers traveled to compete in Sacramento, California elevating themselves amongst the nation’s top youth track and field athletes. Those who recently traveled across the country for this competition include Elmore County sophomore Reece Baker, Wetumpka freshmen Gavan Baxley and Logan Weighall and Wetumpka seventh-grader Grant Weighall. 

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.