Telegraph Staff Writer
Lake Butler’s Zoey Marshall earned a medal at the AAU Junior Olympics, placing eighth in the 400m dash at the July 30-Aug. 6 event, which was held at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Marshall, a Lake Butler Elementary School student, competed in the 9-year-old-girls division in three events.
In the 400m, Marshall ran 1:07 in the preliminaries, placing her sixth out of 86. That put her in the finals, where she ran a time of 1:11 to make her way onto the medal podium.
Marshall also ran the 200m, finishing with a time of 30.50 in the preliminaries. That didn’t advance her to the semifinals, but she had the 25th best time out of 107 runners.
The long jump consisted of Marshall and 70 other participants. She jumped a distance of 9-4.75.
Marshall did more than just bring home a medal. She is now known as a 20222 AAU Track and Field All-American. That puts her and her hometown of Lake Butler on the Wall of Fame.
This marked Marshall’s fourth year of AAU competition. She competes with Athletics Academy Elite and is coached by Travis Sheppard.
Marshall earned her way to the AAU Junior Olympics by competing in district and national qualifiers.
