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By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com
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illcrest High senior Anthony Davies is a racer. He’s out to beat the other runners, not to try for a certain time. “I do better when I race people,” he said. His coach, Scott Stucki, agrees: “He’s a lousy ‘time trialer.’ He can run a pace and hit repeats in practice, but he’s the kind of runner who wants to beat people in the meets.” At the April 17 Davis High Invitational, Davies raced against some of the state’s top competition in the 3200 meters. “I wanted to just go for it,” he said. Stucki was clocking most of the early 400s of the eight-lap race at 70 and 71 seconds. Then, when others in the race picked it up around lap five, Davies didn’t. He dropped to fourth place, which worried Stucki. “I knew the quality of runners in the race and knew Anthony likes to race them. He was 20 meters back with a lap to go. I was thinking he had to run a 60 for the school record, when he actually needed like a 63,” he said, thinking it might be another missed attempt at the 43-year-old school record. Davies had run an indoor track time faster than
Hillcrest High’s Anthony Davies broke the long-standing school mark in the 3200 meters, which was set in 1978. (Julie Slama/City Journals)
the record before COVID-19, but indoor school records are kept separate from outdoor records, Stucki said. The coach had expected Davies to get the outdoor 3200 record last spring, but with the pandemic, the UHSAA canceled the spring sports season. Earlier this season, Davies competed at a meet at Snow Canyon. He ran well in the 1600 on the first day, but the lack of training after an Achilles injury proved to be an issue on the second day of the meet when he raced the 3200. At other meets, he didn’t have much luck inching toward the 9:27.63 record that was set at the state meet by Dave Griffin in 1978. However, Davies wanted to beat that pack at Davis High, and he needed the time to do that. “I just decided to pass as many of the runners as I could,” he said about laps seven and eight. “It didn’t seem like I’d get the record until that last lap. I felt good.” So good, he ran that split in 58 seconds and got the win and the record. His time was more than six seconds faster than Griffin ran. “It’s a really cool experience,” he humbly said. Stucki knew Davies can run fast. At his indoor meet, he had a “huge kick” to set that record at 9:37, six seconds faster than the previous mark. “I knew he could run fast; it was pretty cool to Continued page 8
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