A pair of local state champion track and field athletes, Foley’s Emily Wolf and St. Michael Catholic’s Tia Acker, are up for MileSplitAL’s Junior Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

Voting runs until Friday, July 22, at 9 p.m.: al.milesplit.com/articles/317221/vote-alabama-junior-girls-tf-athlete-of-the-year.

At the Class 4A-7A State Championship meet at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Acker claimed the 4A state title in the three sprint events, 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. She registered the fastest 400-meter dash time out of all classifications at 55.65 and set the 4A state-meet record in the 200-meter dash by eight-hundredths of a second at 24.56.

On the 7A stage, Wolf won the discus by nearly eight feet with a length of 118’ 2” and added a sixth-place finish in the shot put and registered ninth in the javelin. At the 7A Section 1 Championships, Wolf swept those three events to help the Lions set a state record with 53 points scored in the throwing events, the most in a meet across Alabama.