New Orleans All-Metro field athlete wins first state title in final meet for Mount Carmel
Miranda Weeks did not find immediate success when she first tried the pole vault. 鈥淲henever I first started, I thought I was so bad,鈥� Weeks said. 鈥淛umping 7 feet when everyone else is jumping so high is not a good feeling.鈥� The Mount Carmel graduate stuck with it and won state for the first time in her final high school meet, reaching 11 feet, 11戮 inches at the Class 5A championships in May. That achievement made her The Times-Picayune鈥檚 All-Metro girls field athlete of the year. Weeks, a UL signee, steadily climbed the state ranks. She finished third at the...
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