AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete from Jurupa Valley High, and two others tie for top spot after brief pause in action because of protest.

The transgender high school athlete whose participation in this weekend’s California track and field championships prompted President Trump’s threat to remove state funding is competing in the finals on Saturday after she placed first in three events.

San Rafael resident Ellie McCuskey-Hay and Redwood High’s Annalise Horn scored in the girls long jump at Saturday’s CIF State Track and Field Championships at Buchanan High in Clovis.

White: “Coming out here and doing this not once, but twice? It’s something that not a lot of people can say they did.”

Austin junior Triumph Ogbeide qualified for state in two events on the second day of the Section 1AA meet in Faribault Saturday. Ogbeide took first in high jump with a height of 6-feet, three-inches to reach his first ever state meet and he finished fourth,

West Side’s Malik Mohammed demonstrated exceptional talent in the jumps, securing the Group 3 high jump title as a sophomore. Mohammed clinched the win by being the only competitor to clear 6-6 on his first attempt. He then successfully cleared 6-8 on his third and final attempt.

No one in Kansas history has gone higher at the state meet than the Maize senior did on Friday night in the high jump.

It was a moment of history — only the second time an Indian woman had won high jump gold at the Asian Championships, the first being Bobby Aloysius in 2000.