Colonels, Lady Colonels earn top-10 finishes at Henderson

The Christian County high school track teams participated in the Henderson County Invitational over the weekend to start their 2026 spring outdoor season.. 

Satona Bailey continues to make a name for himself as he took first place in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.30 seconds and he was runner-up in the 100-meter dash in 11.32 seconds. Karmelo Bailey took fifth in the 100-meter dash in 11.68. 

Satona Bailey also ran fifth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.79 seconds. 

The Colonels’ 4×800-meter relay team of Lucas Coats, Max Ray, Bryce Hamlin, and Cayden Cline finished fourth place in 9:34.29. 

Ray turned in a fifth-place finish in the 800-meter run in a time of 2:16.90. 

Cline also earned a ninth-place individual finish in the 1,600-meter run in a time of 4:58.83. 

The Colonels’ 100-meter relay team finished fifth in 46.16 seconds. 

The 200-meter relay team of Satona Bailey, DeAsian Harris, Paul Abren, and Travarous Quarles finished eighth in 1:40.25. 

Christian County’s 400-meter relay team of Satona Bailey, Karmelo Bailey, Ray, and Cline took sixth place in 3:56.59. 

The Colonels finished sixth out of 20 teams in the meet. 

In the long jump, the Colonels’ Chynaysneon Harris was ninth with a leap of 19-feet, 6-inches. Jimmarion Byrd took sixth in the shot put with a throw of 35-feet, 9-inches. 

Christian County’s girls’ team finished seventh place overall out of 20 teams. 

Leading the way Jazmyn Rodriguez, who took third place in the 100-meter dash in 13.86 seconds. Rodriguez also finished fifth in the 200-meter dash in 29.21. 

Genesis McGee, fresh off a successful basketball season, took third place in the discus throw, with a toss of 75-feet, 8-inches. 

In the 400-meter dash, Imani Cushenberry took eighth and Shyla Haverstick was ninth in 1:13.46 and 1:19.93, respectively. 

In the girls’ long jump, Kaliyah Leavell had a leap of 11-feet, 4.5-inches to earn a ninth-place finish. 

The girls’ 100-meter relay team finished fifth in 57.84 seconds and the 400-meter relay team of Mia Gbemudu, Cushenberry, Haverstick, and Malaya Stiger took sixth place in 5:04.43.