Track and field finals cap best athletic season in PCC history
Greg Wenneborg’s Pima College No. 9 women’s and No. 11 men’s track and field teams compete in the NJCAA finals this week in Texas. It will cap the best athletic season in PCC history. There are three 7-foot high jumpers in Tucson — Mountain View’s Justice Summerset, the UA’s Bryant O’Georgia and Pima College freshman Sam Shoultz. What other city can make that statement? Pima jumps coach Chad Harrison, who coached Kaysee Pilgrim to multiple NJCAA high jump titles, is one of the top coaches in the country. His latest pupil is Amity Brown of Immaculate Heart High School, who won the girls state Division IV high jump for a second time last week and accepted a scholarship to Pima for 2016-17. Brown had a terrific career at Immaculate Heart; she became an “A” student and then a state champion under coach Tom Danehy, even though the school has neither a track, a high jump pit or a weight room. When she gets to Pima, she’ll have access to all those things.
