40th Annual Shoreline Track and Field Invite Saturday, April 27

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

In its second year of coed format, Shoreline Schools get ready to host largest invite ever!

Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Shoreline Stadium, 18560 1st Ave NE (entrances on 185th). Starting time 9:00am

Coed format: Last year marked the first time since 1982 that the Shoreline Invite provided a coed meet format. It was a huge success and 2019 promises another strong contingent of the Northwest’s finest prep Track and Field athletes.

This year’s meet will be the largest ever Shoreline Invitational for the 40th annual event on Saturday, April 27. Over 1600 athletes from 77 schools are expected at one of the biggest invitational meets in the Northwest. Both Track and Field events are slated to begin at 9am with last event scheduled for 6:55pm.

Storied history here at Shoreline: This year’s meet is celebrated as the 40th annual meet. The meet first began in 1974 and continued through 1982, with the coed version being held between 1977-1982.

With the closing of Shoreline High School, the meet shut down from 1983-1988. In 1989, the meet started up again under the name Thunderbird Invitational as an all-boys format and has been going strong since. The name was changed back to Shoreline Invitational in 1994 with both Shoreline high schools (Shorecrest and Shorewood) supporting the meet. 2018 marked the switch back to coed.

Ticket Prices: Adults $8
Students W/ASB $5
Seniors and Children $5

Team title up for grabs: Last year, Kamiakin boys and Curtis girls were team champions. Curtis girls are back to defend their title while Kamiakin is not attending due to conflicts with Prom. This year’s field is really balanced and predicting a team champion will be as easy as predicting the weather in Western Washington in the spring.

Both boys and girls fields are packed, and some great competition for the hardware will be in play.

Girls Records to be broken: Considering the girls' meet records were from such a small sample size (1977-82), every girl’s meet record but three were broken last year. The only holdouts were Roosevelt’s Dana Carr in Long Jump (18-0 ¼, 1978), Lynnwood’s Jacki Henry in Discus (148-8 ½, 1979) and Sammamish product Julie Cosgrove in High Jump (5-6, 1977). 

Fun fact: Those hold over records from the 70’s would rank in the top 10 statewide this current year on athletic.net, with Henry’s Discus sitting at the number 2 slot. No doubt more records will fall in this the 2019 meet.

State’s best are here: Of the 17 events that exist on the athletic.net state leader board, many of the state leaders will be in attendance on Saturday. In addition, multiple events include three or more of the state’s top 10. State leaders are here in boys 100 and 200 (Dorien Simon, Lakes), Girls 1600 (Allie Janke, North Central), Girls Pole Vault (Chloe Cunliffe, West Seattle), Girls Shot Put (Matehya Bryant, Eastlake), Girls Javelin (Natalie Holmer, North Creek) and Girls High Jump (Allison Kremer, Skyline and Holland Pilukas, Woodinville).

You don’t want to miss the distance races as Shoreline has a history for some record fast times and this year should be no exception! See other state leaders and entries by visiting athletic.net.

2019 Shoreline Invitational Participating Schools

Adna

Annie Wright

Auburn

Auburn

Mountainview

Auburn Riverside

Bainbridge

Bear Creek

Bellevue

Bellingham

Bishop Blanchet

Bothell

Brookswood

Charles Wright Academy

Cheney

Curtis

Eastlake

Eastside Catholic

Edmonds-Woodway

Eisenhower

Emerald Ridge

Enumclaw

Frank Hurt (Canada)

Franklin

Franklin Pierce

Garfield

Gig Harbor

Glacier Peak

Henry Jackson

Holy Names Academy

Inglemoor

Ingraham

Interlake

Issaquah

Joel Ferris

Kamiak

Kent Meridian

Kentridge

King’s

Kingston

Lakes

Lakeside

Lake Stevens

Lewis and Clark

Liberty (Issaquah)

Maple Ridge (Canada)

Mariner

Meadowdale

Medical Lake

Monroe

Mt Rainier

Mt Si

Nathan Hale

Newport (Bellevue)

North Central

North Creek

O’Dea

Olympia

Rainier Beach

Renton

Roosevelt

Seattle Prep

Selah

Shoreline Christian

Shorecrest

Shorewood

Skyline

Southridge

Stadium

Stanwood

Steilacoom

Sumner

Thomas Jefferson

Todd Beamer

Wapato

Washington

West Seattle

Woodinville