Calhoun County track
- Updated: April 16, 2025
Several individual county records fall, and Oxford’s boys, girls sweep to county team championships.
Team scores
BOYS
1. Oxford 162
2. Anniston 117.5
3. Weaver 102
4. Jacksonville 83
5. Pleasant Valley 38
5. Piedmont 38
7. Alexandria 35
8. Faith Christian 32.5
9. Saks 28
10. Ohatchee 23
11. White Plains 22
12. Donoho 12
13. Wellborn 2
GIRLS
1. Oxford 147
2. Alexandria 139
3. Jacksonville 90
4. Anniston 76
5. White Plains 60
6. Faith Christian 45
7. Jacksonville Christian 39
8. Weaver 31
9. Saks 23
10. Pleasant Valley 20
11. Donoho 9
12. Ohatchee 7
12. Piedmont 7
13. Wellborn 1
Editor’s note: For complete Calhoun County meet results, follow this link.
By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today
OXFORD — Oxford’s boys maintained their dominance of Calhoun County track at the county meet. Oxford’s girls regained the top spot.
Led by most valuable athletes Matt Tippets and Jereniah Wall, the Yellow Jackets swept this year’s county meet at Choccolocco Park. The boys amassed 162 points to second-place Anniston’s 117.5 and claimed their eighth consecutive county title. Oxford’s girls edged defending champion Alexandria 147-139 to win for the third time in four years.
This in a meet that saw several county records fall:
—Tippets set the new standard in the 1,600-meter run (4:29.12) while winning gold in all three distance events.
—Oxford’s Cedric Twyman ran the 200 dash in 21.90 seconds, breaking the mark of 21.99 set by Piedmont’s C.J. Savage in 2015. Twyman also won the 100 (10.81).
—Oxford’s D.K. Wilson won the 400 in 49.03, breaking a 20-year-old meet record held by Jacksonville’s Ricky Davis.
— Jacksonville Christian’s Mollie Mullinax set the new record in the 100 hurdles (14.73) in Tuesday’s qualifying and beat the old record again by running 14.79 in the finals. She also broke the record in the 300 hurdles (47.54) on Wednesday.
She accomplished the feat while competing in her first county meet, but she won in the 2024 King of the East meet at Choccolocco Park.
“It’s very exciting, very nerve-racking,” Mullinax said. “I’m just glad all of my hard work showed something.”
—Weaver added another chapter to its run as Hurdles High School, with KeShawn Allen, Harper Williams and D.J. Marbury finishing first, second and fourth in the 110 Williams, Allen and Kaden Gooden going first, second and fourth in the 300. Allen set the county 110 record (14.26) in Tuesday’s qualifying, and Williams broke the 300 mark (38.03) in the 300. All three Weaver hurdlers broke the old 300 mark set by Jacksonville’s Tyrone Gray (41.22) in 1986. Williams also set a new meet record while winning the long jump (24-04.50)
It’s on par for the Weaver hurdles. Allen won state in the 110 in 2024, and Williams took third. They swept the 300, with Allen, Kaden Gooden and Williams going 1-2-3.
They push each other to greatness in practice.
‘It’s really good to have somebody in practice that’s the same speed as you, that pushes you to help you get better,” Allen said. “Everybody, we’re all cool. We all congratulate each other. It’s a great environment.”
In other highlights, White Plains’ Maddyn Conn, one of the county’s most decorated distance runners, won the 3,200 (11:56.56), 1,600 (5;28.93) and 800 (2:28.38) in her second meet back from a stress fracture in her back.
The injury felt similar to an injury from nine years ago, in her gymnastics days, she said. It cut short her indoor track season.
“It started in cross country, and I kept going,” she said. “I didn’t go to the doctor until after state. I didn’t think anything of it.
“It was January I found out, and I was doing great. I PR’d indoors, and it only bothered me after I ran. When I’m running, it doesn’t bother me, so it was kind of a letdown. I just got a PR, and now I have go quit.”
Wall took second in the 100 hurdles (16.98), second in the 300 hurdles (48.57) to finish as MVP for the girls’ county meet.
Oxford’s Alexis Johnson won the long jump (15-09.75).
Oxford’s girls went into the javelin, the meet’s final event, clinging to a five-point lead on Alexandria, and Ayanna Hemmings took gold (108-05) on her first throw.
“I was really nervous on my first throw, but it was my best throw,” she said.
Oxford and Alexandria went into the final event of last year’s meet batting for the title, and Alexandria came away with a narrow victory. Oxford’s girls regaining the county title was a matter of depth, Oxford coach Landon Delozier said.
“It’s just recruiting our hallways and making sure we get as many girls out as we can,” he said. “That way, we have the ability to fill the spots. If you have empty spots, you have empty events, and that makes it really hard.”
As for Oxford’s boys, Delozier called winning the county title “tradition at this point.”
Oxford’s record setters, Tippets’ record run in the 1,600 broke a record that former Yellow Jacket Morgan Silvers held for since 1991.
“I was so excited,” Tippets said. “I felt on top of the world. It was great.
“I’d just like to say, I give all the glory to God for all of my performances. If not for Him, I would not be where I am at all.”
Twyman’s big day went beyond his record in the 200 and a school record in the 100. He also anchored the victorious 4×100 relay team (42.59).
“I finally got a good lane in the 200,” he said. “My lane has been outside and inside, and I had a good lane today, and I just think that’s what got me over the hump today.”
Gallery by Joe Medley and Brad Campbell
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