ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jalaya Showers

Asheboro, girls’ track and field.

Showers is speeding around area tracks for the final time as high school athlete during this spring season.

Showers, a senior, won the 100 meters and 200 meters in Saturday’s Get Your Marks Invitational in Asheboro.

Showers had a time of 12.58 seconds in the 100, and later her margin was more than two seconds in the 200, which she finished in 26.07 seconds. She was part of the winning 400 relay as well.

Showers also picked up two team points for the Blue Comets with a seventh-place finish in the long jump at 10 feet, 4 inches.

Among 11 schools, host Asheboro won the team title with 151 points (compared to 91 for runner-up Wheatmore). Asheboro’s boys’ team had a similar winning margin on Wheatmore in that portion of the meet.