High SchoolBy Jay Rigdon on

Lynna Irby is going to run track at Georgia next fall, but she had some unfinished business at the Indiana state track and field championships on Saturday. Irby had a chance at doing something very special, because she’d never lost a state title race in the 100-meters. Nor the 200-meters. Nor the 400, actually. She was 9-9 in those events, and had a shot at going 12-12 across four years of high school.

And she did it:

It made sense that Lynna Irby was secluded Saturday. In Indiana track and field, she is alone.

The Pike senior completed an unprecedented four-year sweep of three sprints at the girls state meet, achieving 12-for-12 perfection that can be equaled but never exceeded. The crowd of 5,100 was on her side and came to see a show.

Irby delivered. Did she ever.

Irby did deliver, to the tune of personal bests in two events:

Here she is winning the 100:

And here she is taking the 200, her final race, which meant she’d already won the 400 and 100. For many, that’d be exhausting, but not for Irby, who is currently the national indoor champion at 200 meters, despite the 400 meter distance technically being her best event.

It didn’t matter:

Watch this interview, and note the race footage from the end of what looks like the 100 meters:

She looks like she’s gliding relative to the other runners. You know how as a kid you have a fastest kid in your grade? And everyone knows who that is, and you grow up knowing, and he or she keeps getting faster, and takes on challengers at recess or gym class, at various sprint distances? Lynna Irby is like that kid.

Except way faster.

[Indy Star]

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Jay is a columnist at Awful Announcing. He is not a strong swimmer. He is probably talking to a dog in a silly voice at this very moment.

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