Provo • Herriman throws coach Darin Beierle stepped up on the lower bar on the waist-high fence running around the track, and leaned over top of the fence as he waited for the throw distance to flash on the scoreboard under Blake Freeland’s name.
That was the throw Freeland won the boys’ javelin with, claiming Herriman’s fifth 2018 UHSAA 6A title in a throwing event and setting a state record (179 feet, 51/2 inches). Girls’ javelin was the only throwing event Herriman didn’t win over the two-day meet at BYU’s Clarence F. Robinson Track & Field Stadium on Thursday and Friday.