When you talk about greatness in the world of MHSAA Track and Field, the program at Brookhaven High School should be in every conversion.

Last week the Brookhaven High girls’ team ran roughshod over their competition at Pearl High to win a fourth consecutive state championship. The Panthers outpointed second-placed Corinth High by nearly 50 points.

The boys’ team finished runners-up with Corinth High just edging out the Panthers and stopping a repeat title win for BHS.

Darien Dorsey, Tonya Johns, Jocelyn Robinson, and Jason Dixon coach the track and field teams at Brookhaven High.

“I’m proud of our kids,” said Dorsey. “Through the trials and tribulations of the season, they still stayed focused on the task of winning another state championship.”

The BHS girls’ team lost some great student-athletes in sprinting and the hurdles from last year’s team to graduation. The program has been able to reload rather than rebuild though.

“We graduated some talented athletes last year, but this year’s team understood the expectations of continuing the tradition to compete for championships,” said Dorsey. “Our coaching staff did a great job of pushing and inspiring them to be great.”

Brookhaven High got a first-place finish in the girls’ 1,600-meter run from its decorated distance star, sophomore Isabella Iles. Iles also helped lead BHS to the 5A Cross-Country State Championship earlier this school year.

Iles finished second in the 400-meter dash and was part of a state championship winning 4×400-meter relay team for BHS. Joining Iles in that relay run were freshman Brooklyn Lenoir, sophomore Jaysha Johnson and sophomore Christiana Smith.

Lenoir finished second in the 800-meter run. Lenior, senior Ariyana Graham, junior Zikyla Carter and senior Jakeriyah Pendleton finished third in the 4×800-relay.

Junior Kema Roberts, another decorated student-athlete with multiple state titles already in her career, once again dominated in winning the discus. Roberts picked up a third-placed finish in the triple jump too.

In the other throwing event, shot put, BHS got a second- and third-placed finish from Londyn Qualls and Gracen Smith respectively. Smith is a junior, while Qualls is an eighth grader who competed for Alexander Junior High this season before making the move up the varsity when the junior high season concluded.

Senior Zyquevia Winters ended her high school career atop the podium after finishing first in the 100-meter hurdles. BHS also got a podium finish in the 300-meter hurdles from sophomore Kymauria Shannon with a third place effort.

Junior J’Kariya Williams won the high jump for the Panthers a year after finishing sixth overall in the event.

On the boys’ side of the ledger, Brookhaven High got first-place finishes from junior Ciaden Quarles in the 200-meter dash and sophomore Coderro McDaniel in the shot put.

It was a second-straight state title for the 6-foot-7 McDaniel, who recently picked up a football offers from Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

Finishing second behind Quarles in the 200-meter dash was his teammate, sophomore Jaden Allen.

Allen, Quarles, freshman Freshawn Stewart and sophomore Chris Sanders ran together in the 4×100-meter relay, a race won by Brookhaven High.

Quarles, Stewart, sophomore Kartayvious Cameron, and junior Zeden Williams finished second in the 4×200-meter relay.

Willliams, Cameron, sophomore Debrecco Mitchell, and sophomore Dex’Treyon Harris finished second in the 4×400-meter relay.

Harris finished second in the high jump, sophomore A’Semiyon Smith finished third in the 300-meter hurdles, and sophomore Markiell Robinson finished third in the discus.

Corinth High just edged the Panthers in the boys’ competition by accumulating 132 total points, 10 more than Brookhaven High with 122 points.