Utah dog wins high school track meet….kind of
A Utah dog recently won a high school track meet. Well, kind of.
The exploits of Usain Bark (not the dog’s actual name) was first reported, as far as we know, by iHeartDogs, and took place about a week and a half ago during a girls 4x200m relay race at Logan High School.
The actual race was won by Gracie Laney, a Logan High senior, but she wasn’t the first across the finish line, as a smallish blonde dog escaped from the sidelines somehow, under a fence and onto the track, where he or she passed several runners and overcame a 30 meter gap (about 100 feet) to pass Laney for first.
“At first, I thought it was another runner and I was surprised because we had a pretty good lead,” Laney told Salt Lake City news station KSL, an NBC affiliate. “As it got closer, I thought, ‘That’s too small to be a person,’ and then noticed it was a dog.”
A Utah high school track meet was “won” by a dog recently.
Laney was worried that that she would accidentally injure the dog with her spikes, as it crossed into her lane on the way through the course, or that the dog would trip her.
However, they both made it through the event unscathed, and the moment was captured for posterity by someone shooting video, and posted onto YouTube by the MileSplit account under the title “Dog Drops Best Anchor Leg Ever.”
The crowd gave a colossal cheer when the dog, possibly a Goldendoodle, crashed the track, and it was easily the highlight of the meet, a real-life Air Bud moment. It appears to be a stray, as no one knew where he or she came from, as far as we know.
Logan High School’s sports teams are known as the Grizzlies, and they have won eight state championships in football, while distinguished alumni include multiple NFL players, rapper Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa and Little House on the Prairie actor Merlin Olsen.
Logan is located in the panhandle section of northern Utah, and has a population of about 50,000 or so; it’s the county seat of Cache County and the home of Utah State University.
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As big fans of dogs in sports, we think this is a great story, and glad no one was injured.