




How’s this for a sprinter? Amir Thrasher-Mosby has helped Sterling Heights start fast this track and field season.
The junior won two open events and anchored a winning relay team to lead the Stallions to an 80-53 victory over Warren Woods-Tower in a Macomb Area Conference Gold Division dual meet on a sunny Wednesday in Warren.
The triumph came two days after the Stallions opened the season with a 73-63 victory over Lake Shore.
“This is nice — two in a row,” said coach Anthony Pavicic, a former Sterling Heights runner. “We haven’t done that in a while.
“It’s nice to bring winning back. I’m proud to coach these guys as an alumni.”
Thrasher-Mosby won the 100- and 200-meter dashes with respective times of 10.92 and 23.0 seconds and closed out the Stallions’ winning 4-by-100 relay effort.
“He’s the anchor of our team, no doubt about it,” Pavicic said. “He loves being the anchor. He loves the spotlight, and he’s humble, which for me trumps everything else.
“He responds well to workouts. He’s very coach-able. He doesn’t complain about anything. He wants to compete.”
Thrasher-Mosby gave the same performance, winning the two sprints and anchoring the sprint relay, against Lake Shore.
His favorite event is the 100.
“It’s straightforward,” he said.
Thrasher ran a season-best 11.4 seconds in the 100 as a sophomore.
“He came out of his shell last year,” Pavicic said.
He has also turned in an 11.2 this season.
“I like to stay low for about the first 40 meters, then I start to come up to get my acceleration,” Thrasher-Mosby said.
In the relay, Thrasher-Mosby took the baton from Stavros Chosehe.
“He’s an amazing curve runner,” Thrasher-Mosby said of the fellow junior. “He knows how to maneuver his body on that curve. He makes a big difference.”
Daniel Mathis led off the relay and handed the baton to Jawuan Kimble.
Pavicic said Thrasher-Mosby is a positive influence on teammates.
“He’s always talking to the JV kids and the freshmen, encouraging them,” the coach said. “You can build a team around someone like him.”
The Stallions’ Cameron Chester and Trent Westover won two events apiece.
Chester, a freshman, won both hurdles races — 19.11 in the 110 highs and 49.03 in the 300 intermediates — and Westover, who’s in the 12th grade, won the high jump (5-9) and long jump (19-0).
Sterling Heights junior Kaden James won the 400 in 57.02.
Warren Woods-Tower senior Josh Golding won the shot put to continue a good week.
He threw 42-9 after winning at Port Huron on Monday.
“I have been focusing on the technical part, my glide,” Golding said. “I’ve been locking down in the weight room.”
A wrestler — Golding defeated an eventual state champion in a regional last winter — and football player who recently took up golf, Golding said any weight training that focuses on the hips helps with the shot put.
“My goal is to get the school record,” the senior said.
Golding said the Steve Johnson Relays at Warren-Mott on April 26 and the Dan Simeck Invitational at WWT on May 2 are meets he’s looking forward to.
The Simeck event, named for a long-time WWT coach who is a member of the Macomb County Coaches Hall of Fame, was approved as an early qualifier, meaning athletes can qualify for state finals by achieving standards set by the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
The Division 1 EQ for the shot put is 53-2.
Golding helped the Titans win three of the five field events against Sterling Heights. The Titans’ Keith Wimberly won the discus at 99-5 and Michael Collins the pole vault at 8-0.
Warren Woods-Tower won the first running event of the meet as Nick Gager anchored the 4 by 800 relay.
Warren Woods-Tower’s Myles Jackson won the 1600 and 3200 runs.
The Titans won the 800 relay.
Maria White won both hurdles races and Amber Bussell won a distance race and a field event to lead the WWT girls to an 85-42 victory.
White ran the 100 high hurdles in 20.08 and the 300 lows in 1:01.
Bussell won the 1600 in 6:45 and the shot put with a mark of 24-7.
Sterling Heights continues its Gold schedule next Wednesday against Marysville while Warren Woods-Tower faces Lake Shore.