Hoover High School’s girls’ and boys’ track programs swept the AHSAA Class 7A state championships for the third straight year Saturday as the 54th indoor state championships concluded at the Birmingham CrossPlex.

The Bucs totaled 90 points in the girls’ competition. Hewitt-Trussville finished second with 59.

The Hoover girls’ 4×400 relay team put an exclamation mark on the championship by winning the final event with a state record time of .3:53.64. The time is also a new CrossPlex record. The previous 7A record (3:55.24) was set by Hoover in 2018, and the CrossPlex mark (3:53.97) was set by Hoover in 2023.

The Hoover boys amassed 133.5 points to grab the 7A crown for the 13th time in school history. Vestavia Hills took second place with 79 points. The state indoor title was the 11th for the Hoover girls’ program and was seventh time the two teams have swept the indoor state championships in the same year.

The other years were 2014, 20157, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023.

In the Class 4A/5A division, Scottsboro won the girls’ crown with 72 points. Arab finished second with 63. In the boys’ competition, the Wildcats had a much more challenging time. Scottsboro and John Carroll Catholic were separated by just one point heading into the 4×400 relay – the final race of the meet, but a strong finish in the pole vault and a first-place finish in the relay gave Scottsboro 80 points total, and John Carroll finished second with 61.

On Friday, Mountain Brook’s girls won the 6A state title – the school’s 23rd in as row. The 23 championships tied St. Paul’s Episcopal’s 23 indoor state crowns to tie the AHSAA state record.

Northridge won the 6A boys’ state championship, Houston Academy won the 1A/3A girls’ state crown and Cold Springs won the boys’ 1A/3A championship.

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM SATURDAY:

GIRLS:

DAISY LUNA, HOOVER: The sophomore recorded a personal best 55.81 in the 400-meter dash to take first place. Bob Jones freshman Alivia Urrutia finished a close second (56.33) with her personal best. The 7A state record (54.11) was set in 2019 by Nicole Payne of Oak Mountain.

JASMYNE ROCHELLE, BOB JONES: The freshman high jumper cleared 5-04 to win the event in Class 7A. She was just two inches shy of the 7A state meet record set by Hoover’s Genesis Jones in 2018.

TY CASON, CHELSEA: The sophomore came close to breaking the Class 7A indoor state record in the 1,600 meters run with a winning time Saturday of 4:58.00. Oak Mountain senior Lauren Cole was second – also running a personal best – clocking 5:04.33. The 7A state meet record (4:56.68) was established at the 2023 state meet by Chelsea runner Cady McPhail.

TAYLOR CANADA, HOOVER: Won the Class 7A 60-meter hurdles with a winning time of 7.67 seconds. She finished third in the prelims with a 7.75 time. Baker’s Myla Reed has the best qualifying time (7.66 seconds). She slipped and fell coming out of the blocks in the finals, got up and finished the race but did not finish in the points.

KENNEDY MORELAND, VESTAVIA HILLS: Cleared 11 feet, 6 inches to capture the gold in the Class 7A pole vault. Her personal best of the season was 12 feet – which she tried and missed after clearing 11-06.

AKASHA DUDLEY, THOMPSON: Came into the meet with a top throw of just over 42 feet. On Saturday, the junior won the Class 7A event with a toss of 40 feet, nine inches.

CAROLINE SANDERS, SCOTTSBORO: Won the Class 4A/5A indoor long jump with a winning leap of 19 feet, 3¾ inches. The distance not only set a new 4A/5A state record but also tied the CrossPlex record set by Saraland’s Morgan Davis during the regular season last year. The leap also erased one of the longest standing state-meet records (18 feet, 9 inches). Laquinta Aaron of Northridge set the mark in 2004. Sanders set the record on her third and final jump. Sanders also delivered a personal best leap of 36 feet, 11¾ inches to win the Class 4A/5A triple jump for the Lady Wildcats. The senior beat her previous best leap by almost eight inches.

MARY HAYES JOHNSON, CHEROKEE COUNTY: Won the girls’ 4A/5A 400-meter dash with a time of 58.11 The senior edged out another senior, Deja Hines of American Christian, who crossed the finish line at 58.77 seconds.

MORGAN THRIFT, ELBERTA: The senior from Elberta High School had her personal best throw, 36 feet, 4 inches, to win the Class 4A/5A shot put competition. Runner-up Cesleigh Martin of Guntersville also had a personal best (35-10.50) to capture second place.

BOYS

BRADLEY FRANKLIN, THOMPSON: The senior, who came in with a qualifying time of 7.65 seconds in the regular season, sped the 60-meter hurdles prelim race in 7.68 seconds to break the AHSAA Class 7A indoor state meet record (7.81) set by another Thompson runner, Emmanuel Tait, at the 2016 state meet. Franklin then broke his own record in the finals, winning the race with a 7.62 time. The overall state record (7.49) was established by Trey Cunningham of Winfield in a regular season meet at the CrossPlex in 2017.

Two other seniors, Hoover’s Denver Cash (7.95) and James Clemens’ Benjamin Thomason (8.12), finished 2-3 in the prelim with both establishing personal bests. Cash followed up with second-place finish and a new personal best (7.88).

BRADLEY SHAW, HOOVER: The senior football standout won the 7A shot put title Saturday with a winning throw of 51-04. Just four days earlier, Shaw was recognized at the ASWA Mr. Football Awards luncheon in Montgomery as the Class 7A lineman of the year.

PATRICK SWEENEY, AUBURN: Threw the shot put 24 feet, 3 ¾ inches to take the gold in the Class 7A ambulatory shot put division. He also clocked 9.33 seconds in the ambulatory 60-meter dash.

ANDREW PURCELL, ENTERPRISE: The junior won the first event of the day by clearing the high jump bar at 6 feet, 6 inches. He moved the bar past his personal best 6-08 and tried clearing at 6 feet, 9½ inches – which would have been a new Class 6A indoor state record. He had three closes misses, however. The 7A state indoor meet mark (6-9¼) was set in 2023 by Auburn’s T.J. Autrey, a senior finished third Saturday with a 6-04 clearance.

MAX ARMSTRONG, VESTAVIA HILLS: Won a very close 800-meter race with a winning time of 1:54.54. The top four runners finished under 1:56. He also took second place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.08.

ARTHUR LANGLEY, JOHN CARROLL CATHOLIC: The senior runner set a new Class 4A/5A state meet record in the 1,600 meters with a winning time of 4:18.6. Munford’s Dakota Frank, also broke the previous record with as time of 4:18.8. The previous record (4:21.47) was set by Scottsboro’s Evan Hill in 2023. The top two finishers swapped places in the 3,200-meter run. Frank won with a personal best time of 9:24.40, and Langley was second clocking 9:27.69.

JULIAN FENDERSON, BREWBAKER TECH: The junior from Montgomery ran a personal best 6.91 time in the Class 4A/5A 60-meter dash prelims to have the top qualifying time. His performance in the prelims was the 39th best effort in the nation this season, according to Xpress Timing. He followed that race with a 6.89 time in the 60-meter dash finals to take the gold in that event.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON 4X200 RELAY: The BTW relay team was strong from start to finish taking first place in the relay with a winning time 1:232.62. Moody was second with a 1:33.22 time, and Brewbaker Tech finished third thanks to amazing final leg of the race in heat three by Julian Fenderson, who streaked from fourth to first place as the Rams won their heat over Ramsay.

Information furnished by the AHSAA.