🌱 Which Kaplan runners shattered long-standing Vermilion Parish track records?

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• Which Kaplan runners shattered long-standing Vermilion Parish track records?

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📰 News we're reading

• Six Vermilion Parish track and field meet records fall (vermiliontoday.com) — Kaplan track athletes made a big splash at the Vermilion Parish meet, with Liberty Greene and Isabella Hargrave both breaking the 800-meter record and helping Kaplan’s 4x400 relay set a new parish mark. The story also highlights standout performances from Erath and Delcambre athletes, including multiple long-distance and high jump records, plus Kaplan sprinter Kodi Clement narrowly missing his brother’s 400-meter record.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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