After two years on the outside looking in, the way finally cleared for Inglemoor High School senior Nick Laccinole last week.

He didn’t set any records, nor did he sniff at one of the state’s top marks, but the standout distance runner swept the 1,600 and 3,200 meter events at the 4A KingCo Track and Field championships on May 11 and 13 at Juanita High School in Kirkland.

The Inglemoor High boys won the team title, edging Issaquah 110-94 and winning five events.

Laccinole took the 1,600 in 4 minutes, 15 seconds and won the 3,200 in 9 minutes, 11 seconds.

Senior Michael Rhoads improved on his time from preliminaries on May 11 to win the 400-meter title in 49.7 seconds.

Inglemoor junior Jalen Woodley won the 300 meter hurdles in 40 seconds flat, barely beating out Redmond’s Steve Brown, who finished in 40.35 seconds. Woodley also won the long jump at 10 feet, 9.5 inches.

Rhoads finished third in the 200 in 22.48 seconds, and junior Ethan Karlinsey placed fourth in the 800 meters in 1:56.64.

Gavin Parpart finished fourth in the 3,200 meters, and was less than a 10th of a second from a fourth-place finish in the 1,600 meters.

The Inglemoor 4×400 relay team of Connor Keyes, Alex Zamudio, Rhoads and Woodley finished third in 3:25.04. Inglemoor’s Noel Azure finished fourth in the pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches, and Chinedu Ugokwoli finished third in the triple jump at 43 feet, 1 inch.

The Bothell boys’ 4×100 relay team of Jalen Ford, Daniel Summers, Dane Siegelman and Kevin Liu finished first in 43.01 seconds.

The Bothell boys finished sixth in the team standings with 67 points, while the Bothell girls took third with 87 points. Issaquah won the girls’ meet with 166 points.

Inglemoor senior Ruby Charney won two of three throwing competitions, going 35 feet, 9 inches in the shot put and 99 feet, 2 inches in the discus. Bothell’s Elizabeth Lowell-Forker won the javelin, clearing 125 feet, 10 inches while Bothell freshman Natalie Holmer took second at 118 feet, 4 inches.

Inglemoor’s Ifeoma Emeka won the girls’ triple jump with a mark of 34 feet, 9.75 inches and took second in the long jump, clearing 16 feet, 4.5 inches.

Bothell senior Sophie Bowles finished second in the 200 meters and third in the 400 meters. The Bothell girls’ 4×100 relay team of Paiton Sabatini, Emma Gagliardi, Emily Gibson and Lauren Stavig finished second.

The Wesco/KingCo Bi-District meet, at which athletes can qualify for the state championships, was scheduled to begin on Wednesay, May 18 with finals on Friday, May 20. A full list of district qualifiers and results from the meet can be found on the Reporter’s website.