
Friday Harbor senior Stella Carli pictured at the Northwest 1B/2B League Championships at Mount Vernon High School May 7. Matt Pranger photo
Friday Harbor’s Stella Carli capped a standout prep running career with first-, second- and fourth-place finishes at the 2026 Class 2B Track and Field Championships in Yakima May 28-30. Sophomore Flora Compton posted eighth- and 11th-place finishes in the long-distance runs for the Wolverine girls.
Carli shaved more than seven seconds off her preliminary effort to win the grueling 800-meter run in a personal-best two minutes,16.27 seconds. The senior crossed the line 2.6 seconds before the runner-up. She also posted the best time in the preliminaries with a 2:23.96 effort.
In the 400 run, another brutal in-between sprint and run event, Carli finished second in :57.98 — .44 seconds behind the winner. She placed first in the preliminaries in :58.03.
Carli exhibited her versatility by placing fourth in the 200 dash 23.30 seconds. In the preliminaries, she finished with the best time — a personal-record of :26.10.
Compton finished eighth in the 3200 run with a PR of 12:17.68. She also ran a PR of 5:36.61 in the 1600 and placed 11th.
Seniot Georgia VanderYacht was 16th in the 3200 in 1:04.64.
The Wolverine girls finished 13th in the team standings with 24 points. Northwest 1B/2B League rival La Conner won the meet with 60 points.
The Friday Harbor boys 4×400 relay team of junior Ben Baisch, sophomore Jasper Mahn, sophomore Eli Lane and junior Channing Kleine missed qualifying for the finals by .01 of a second. Kittitas captured the eighth and last spot in the finals by clipping the Wolverines 3:35.69 to 3:35.79.
Kleine was 12th in the 200 preliminaries in :23.17 and 13th in 100 prelims in :11.30.
Senior Neil Gresseth finished 13th in the 800 preliminaries with a 2:05.29 effort.
Freeman earned the boys team title with 75 points.