Kennett High Senior Aida Wheat (left) stands with Terry Ballou, Class of 1986 and current criminal justice teacher at the school, after Ballou congratulated Wheat for breaking in 40-year-old school record in the 300 meters indoor track race before a track practice at the high school on Jan. 18. Ballou, daughter of longtime track coaches Bernie and Eileen Livingston, gave Wheat flowers and a baton for breaking the record Ballou set in 1983 by 3/100ths of a second with a time of 43.74 at an indoor track meet at the University of New Hampshire in Jan. 14. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Kennett High Senior Aida Wheat (left) stands with Terry Ballou, Class of 1986 and current criminal justice teacher at the school, after Ballou congratulated Wheat for breaking in 40-year-old school record in the 300 meters indoor track race before a track practice at the high school on Jan. 18. Ballou, daughter of longtime track coaches Bernie and Eileen Livingston, gave Wheat flowers and a baton for breaking the record Ballou set in 1983 by 3/100ths of a second with a time of 43.74 at an indoor track meet at the University of New Hampshire in Jan. 14. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
DURHAM — The Kennett High indoor track team closed the book on the regular season in style with another record-setting performance. Senior Aida Wheat, the defending state champion, broke the school record in the 55-meter dash on Saturday in the Paul Swett Oval at the University of New Hampshire.
Wheat, who set the record last winter at 7.38 seconds, blazed to a record time of 7.35.
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