PIAA state track meet 2024: Live updates from Friday's action

The 2024 PIAA state track and field championships are here.

Athletes from across Pennsylvania made their way to Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University for the two-day state meet. The action starts at 9 a.m. Friday with the finals in the 1,600-meter run for boys and girls in both classes and certain field events.

Follow for live updates from Friday's action as several field event finals will be decided, along with preliminaries in the running and hurdle events.

Click here for updates from Saturday's Day 2 action.

2024 PIAA state track and field: Live results from Class 2A

2024 PIAA state track and field: Live results from Class 3A

4x400 relay preliminaries are underway

Watch Beaver Falls' Deidre Cox in the 200 Class 2A prelims

Palmyra's Bucks grabs bronze in pole vault

Spring Grove defending champ cruises to tie for top seed in hurdles qualifying

North East's Crozier claims gold in high jump

Clearing 6 feet, 8 inches in the Class 2A boys high jump competition allowed Noah Crozier to stand atop the two-foot podium during Friday's PIAA track and field meet.

Crozier, a North East senior, and Union-Allegheny Valley rival Hayden Smith were the only athletes who cleared that height. That resulted in a duel to see who could clear 6-10.

It was a height Smith had cleared before, but not Crozier.

A tiebreaker was invoked when neither did after three attempts. That tiebreaker favored Crozier, who cleared 6-8 on an earlier attempt.

Watch Moon's Jaedin Griggs in the triple jump prelims

Cedar Crest's Kaddel Howard easily wins qualifying heat

Watch North East's Noah Crozier, the top seed for the 2A high jump

Palmyra's Tyler Burgess, top seed in 3A hurdles, leads qualifying

District 10 has its first champion in Slippery Rock's Levi Prementine

Slippery Rock's Levi Prementine repeated as the state's best Class 2A boys long jumper. The senior, who was seeded fifth at 22 feet, 6 1/2 inches, defended with Friday's best attempt of 23-3/4.

Conwell-Egan's Anthony Conrey and Mercyhurst Prep's Ja'son Ellman were essentially tied for the top seed with their district distances of 24-1/2. However, Ellman did not start so he could concentrate on the Lakers' top-seeded status in the 2A boys 400 relay.

Ellman is scheduled to run that with teammates Camden Bryant, Vincent Feliciano and Jacob Applebee.Conrey also withdrew from the 2A boys long jump competition.

Butler senior sets PIAA, national record in 1,600

Butler senior Drew Griffith recorded a time in the boys 1,600 never achieved before.

Not just in the PIAA, but the nation.

Griffith completed his four laps in the Class 3A boys portion of the meet at 3 minutes, 57.08 seconds. Not only did that destroy the former state mark of 4:01.56, held by Archbishop Wood's Gary Martin since 2022, but the National Federation of High Schools record of 3:59.51.

Alan Webb of Virginia's Reston South Lakes had held the country's former low since 2001.

Three-time 100 gold medalist Laila Campbell, a LSU recruit, wins heat to advance

Central Pa. athletes wrap up the 1,600

PIAA girls' Class 2A 1,600 race is underway

PIAA athletes line up for pole vault practice

This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: PIAA state track meet 2024: Live updates from Friday's events