Day One of the 2025 OSAA State Track & Field Championships — TrackTown USA

“It’s crazy,” Weer said of the field. “I think four of us are from my district…it’s crazy to have so many fast people, especially in the 1A competition. I never imagined that we’d all run this fast.”

Thursday was Weer’s first time running at Hayward Field — she’d watched state championship races there before, but got to take the track for the first time in her win. She tried not to watch herself on the looming video board, she said — she focused on the kick that “comes when she needs it to”. 

She needed it in the final…and it came. She won by less than three seconds.

“Everything is so big,” Weer said of the stadium. “It’s amazing how this is one of the biggest tracks in the country, and so cool to be able to run on that. Not a lot of high school students get to do that.”

Weer’s teammate, boys’ 3000m winner Jett Leavitt, didn’t need a kick. He won his race by more than 51 seconds, in 8:30.37 — a new personal-best and OR #16 time. In second place, too, was his training partner, Jonah Lyman.

“I think it’s really cool,” Leavitt said. “It happened last year, too, but seeing him finish at the end not too far behind me is so cool. We train every day together. Seeing my friend and my teammate finish with me is really cool.”

3A girls’ 3000m winner Jaya Simmons’ win was her second-consecutive state title in the race; a 9:54.73 time secured the win in what could be the Valley Catholic High School senior’s final race in that uniform.

“There was definitely a lot of pain on the final lap,” Simmons said. “I really went out hard, but just knowing as a senior that this is my last 3000m here meant that I had to push through that last lap.”

Friday at Hayward Field welcomes the 4A, 5A and 6A competitors to the stadium. Competition begins with the 4A girls’ 3000m at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time.