First, it was the 4×200-meter relay, then the triple jump.

Inglemoor High senior Tess Parent and her Viking teammates had them both covered in a big way Thursday night at the 4A state track and field meet at Mount Tahoma High in Tacoma.

The relay — which included Parent, McKenna Grimsby, Lindsy Johanson and Hannah Stevenson — won its preliminary heat with a personal-record (PR) time of 1 minute, 42.51 seconds to earn the top seed in Saturday’s finals.

“It’s all excitement, it’s all good. We’re just hoping to do our best and we’ve been trying to perfect our handoffs this whole season,” Parent said. “We’ve kind of grown together. We’re all really good friends, so it’s been really fun to improve together.”

A few minutes after running the relay, Parent bounced over to the triple-jump area to vie for a state title. Parent nailed a PR of 38 feet, 10 inches on her third jump (38-4 was her previous best) and slotted into second place behind Tahoma senior Bianca Walton with a 39-05.25.

After four more jumps for the field, that’s the way it concluded: a Walton-Parent one-two finish.

“She was really happy with the way she finished out here in the triple, hopefully she’s got a really good shot to win the long jump (Friday),” said Inglemoor coach D.J. Baddeley. “Like a lot of great athletes, you give her a cue and she’s able to do it, first go-around. She’s a tough competitor, but at the same time she’s able to stay positive.”

Parent owns a state-best 18-5.25 mark in the long jump heading into the competition.

Parent said that going from the relay to the triple benefited her performance from the runway to the sand pit.

“It energized me. I was a little nervous, but I think I was kind of on a high because our (relay) time was better,” she said. “I was a little out of breath, but I had a lot of energy — I was ready to go.”

So what does it take to stick a soaring, hair-and-arms-flying, top-two triple jump?

“I needed to go as fast as I could, I knew I needed to stand up when I was going off the board,” Parent said. “You can always tell, from where you are in the pit and how you feel when you land.

“It just felt right.”

Rest of the field

Also on Thursday, Bothell’s Brendan Peterson took 14th in the shot put with 49-0.

In the 100 hurdles prelims, Inglemoor’s Becca Berge took fifth in 15.23.

Inglemoor’s girls 4×400 relay was disqualified in the prelims.