Olivia Thomas continues to build upon her legacy, and Aiden Janowicz earned recognition for a historic area run.<\/p>\n
Thomas, a PIAA champion in her freshman season, and Janowicz, a senior, were both named to the Pennsylvania Track and Field Coaches Association Track and Field All-State Teams announced on the organization\u2019s website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The PTFCA selects athletes for individual events with no distinction between classifications. Thomas, the Class 2A gold medalist in the triple jump, was named to the first team. Janowicz, a PIAA Class 3A silver medal winner in the 800-meter run, was selected to the third team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really an honor to be picked and knowing that I could achieve this,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cIt helps me a lot and I hope that I can do the same next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her debut season, Thomas finished with a state title in the triple jump with a leap of 39 feet, 11.5 inches during a cold and wet final day at the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University.<\/p>\n
She had a personal-best distance and a District 2 Class 2A record of 40-10.75, which allowed her to reach the state meet. That mark was the top-ranked distance in the state for the 2026 season, according to pa.milesplit.com.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019 performance in the triple jump ranked 34th nationally and is ranked second among freshmen in the country.<\/p>\n
The state title was the crown jewel of a spectacular spring for Thomas. In addition to winning the triple jump at the state meet, she also won silver medals in the long jump (18-11.75) and the 100 hurdles (14.32). Both of her jumping distances are the best recorded in Lackawanna Track Conference history, and her time in the hurdles is second all-time in the LTC.<\/p>\n
On June 18, Thomas will compete at the New Balance National Championships at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Franklin Field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really excited to go down there and compete, and hopefully do well,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI have been working on little things in the jumps and the hurdles. I am preparing myself without doing too much to make sure that I don\u2019t get injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
Janowicz raced in the second of three heats in the Class 3A 800. He finished first with a career-best time of\u00a0 1 minute, 51.52 seconds, which is the fastest recorded in LTC history. Upper Darby senior Josh Sharp won the gold in the fast heat with a time of 1:51.44. Sharp earned the first-team honor, and Mifflin County\u2019s Carter Smith was the second-team selection.<\/p>\n
During the season, Janowicz won the District 2 Class 2A gold medal (1:55.24) and the 1,600 gold (4:27.14). He also won the titles in the 800 at the Robert Spagna Championships and the Walter Godek Twilight Invitational.<\/p>\n
Last weekend, Janowicz finished fifth in the 800 (1:53.32) at the Henderson Last Chance for Nationals Open Meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Thomas continues to build upon her legacy, and Aiden Janowicz earned recognition for a historic area run.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-216612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}