Westminster OM secures second in 1A-3A girls indoor track state championship with five event titles

Published 12:28 pm Monday, February 3, 2025

By Andrew Simonson

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By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports Editor

BIRMINGHAM – The Westminster School at Oak Mountain Knights walked away with a red map as they took second place in the Class 1A-3A indoor track and field state championship on Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Birmingham CrossPlex.

The Knights earned second in the girls team standings with 69 points despite not participating in any field events. The boys also just got into the top 10 with a 10th-place finish of 20 points.

Pippa Hussar and Emily Mungai finished one-two in the girls 800-meter run as Hussar set a new personal record with a time of 2:28.62 to win the Class 1A-3A state championship and Mungai turned in a season-record time of 2:29.62 to secure second place.

Hussar was also victorious in the girls 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:44.97 while Sarah Adams came in seventh place with a time of 6:01.90.

Hussar’s two individual state championships will now sit alongside her outdoor state championships in the same 800-meter and 1,600-meter events from 2024.

Maris Sellers gave Westminster OM another state championship in the girls 3,200-meter run with her first-place time of 12:34.96, winning her first individual state title as just a seventh-grader. Her teammate McKenzie Bell came in sixth in the same race with a time of 13:11.63.

In addition, two Knights relay teams secured state titles. The girls 4×400-meter relay team of Mungai, Hussar, Adams and Savannah Schleicher won with a team-record time of 4:25.25 and the girls 4×800-meter relay team of Hussar, Mungai, Sellers and Adams took first with another record time of 10:47.75.

Multiple athletes from the Knights finished in the top eight to secure All-State honors.

The Knights’ boys 4×800-meter relay team finished in third place with a team-record time of 8:49.97 and the boys 4×400-meter relay team came in fifth with another record time of 3:52.21.

Mungai finished in fourth place in the girls 400-meter run with a time of 1:04.12.

Weaver Caldwell earned fifth place in the boys 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:40.11 after finishing second in a four-runner dead heat that was separated by just 0.54 seconds.

Daniel Vansant finished in sixth place in the boys 3,200-meter run with his time of 10:32.76 and Caldwell came in eighth with a time of 10:33.75.

Holden Smith came in seventh place in the boys 400-meter run with a personal-record time of 53.53 seconds and 10th place in the boys 800-meter run with another personal-record finish of 2:11.69.

The Knights took eighth place in the girls 4×200-meter relay team with a team-record time of 2:07.51.

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