Auburn Rebecca Thareek maintained a goal throughout the season of placing in three events at Star Track XXXIV.

Mission accomplished.

The sophomore followed a fifth-place finish during Thursday’s high jump final with third- and fourth-place medals in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Thareek considers the high jump her best event, and after finishing third last season at state, she was disappointed with her performance at Mount Tahoma High School. Stanwood senior Madison Yerigan won that event with a leap of 5 feet, 6 inches. Thareek finished at 5-2.

“It wasn’t a good day, but I still placed,” Thareek said.

Her best performance came in the 100 hurdles, which she finished in 15.09 – three-hundredths of a second better than Auburn Riverside junior McKenzi Williams, who placed fourth. Kamiakin senior Heather Donais (14.79) won the event.

“It was what I hoped for,” Thareek said.

Saturday’s 300 hurdles were Thareek’s final event, which she finished in 45.07. Thareek also was followed in that event by crosstown rival, Auburn Mountainview junior Molly House, who was timed at 45.35. Yerigan also won that event in 43.24.

Everyone who placed in front of Thareek with the exception of the high jump, which included a sophomore, was older than her. But Thareek said that might not matter in the future because Auburn is moving from the South Puget Sound League 3A to the North Puget Sound League 4A.

“It will be a totally different race,” she said. “For some events like high jump, I feel like 3A is more competitive.”

Thareek wasn’t the only notable Auburn School District sophomore to advance to state. But Auburn Mountainview’s Talan Alfrey, who won league and district titles in the triple jump, could not continue his postseason streak at state in that event. Alfrey finished fifth at 44-4 1/2. Bellevue senior Tyson Penn, who signed to play wide receiver next season at Oregon State, won the triple jump (48-3 3/4).

“I felt all right, but I feel I could’ve done way better,” Alfrey said. “I should’ve been higher up.”

But that was not Alfrey’s biggest disappointment. Toward the end of the triple jump, he left to join his Lions’ teammates in the 400 relay. Auburn Mountainview crossed the finish line in second place, but an illegal exchange during the final turn resulted in a disqualification.

“I think we were out of the exchange zone,” Alfrey said. “Disappointing.”

The school district had one other placer, Auburn senior Demetreus Taua, who finished seventh in the shot put (48-11 1/4).