WACO -- Colleyville Covenant's Alex Adams shattered the TAPPS Class 3A state discus record and still he wasn't satisfied.
Adams won gold with a throw of 169 feet, 7 inches, which easily surpassed the record of 157-0 that had stood since 1994.
"It was good," Adams said. "But I wish I could have done a little better to break the overall [TAPPS] state record."
Adams, a junior, will have another shot at the Class 5A record (174-0) next year.
His teammates, Jared Crafton (156-4) and Jeffery Hyde (136-7), finished second and third, respectively, for a sweep of the discus medals.
Adams claimed gold in the shot put as well with a 57-5 1/4 mark. Crafton grabbed silver with 52-6, and no one else bettered 45 feet.
In the Class 4A girls pole vault, the toughest competition Grapevine Faith's Kirsti Wallace faced was herself. She conquered the competition and beat her personal best with a vault of 10 feet.
"I had to focus and I knew I had to get over that bar, whatever it took," she said.
Wallace returned to competition as a junior after winning the pole vault as a freshman by clearing 9-3. She suffered a season-ending knee injury at last year's district meet while running hurdles.
Her boys teammates excelled in the pole vault, too. Keaton Adamcika cleared the 12-foot mark to win the event and an 11-foot vault by Greg Wright was good for second. Pantego Christian's Ben Jones grabbed third at 11 feet.
Arlington Grace Prep sophomore Clay Bing won the Class 5A pole vault with a 12-6 effort.
"I'm really happy," Bing said. "I didn't do as good as I wanted to -- last year my personal record was 13 feet. This year was just 12-6, but I'm hoping to do better next year."
Bing's teammate, Jordan Oddo, won the girls division with an 11-0 vault.
Last year as a freshman, Colleyville Covenant long jumper Adam Smith finished last in the state meet and attributed it to being "nervous." He apparently learned from his debut by winning the Class 3A long jump Friday with a 20-6 leap.
The meet continues today at 9 a.m. at Baylor's Hart-Patterson complex.
