White River High graduate Antoinette Scholes recently returned from Norfolk, Va., where she competed in the National AAU Junior Olympic Games.

The games were staged July 30 through Aug. 7 on the campus of Norfolk State University. Scholes competed Aug. 3.

In the 17 to 18 age division, Scholes had a best throw of 106 feet. There were three flights of girls, with 25 in Scholes’ flight, and she failed to advance. Numbers were not that good, she said, because most were having problems with the throwing pit on the NSU campus. In the end, Scholes, who graduated from White River in June, placed 16th among the 65 girls in her division.

She had earned her trip to nationals during an early-June qualifying meet at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner. There, she had a personal best throw of 116 feet, 3 and one-half inches. The week prior to the national meet, Scholes said, she had improved to 120 feet.

Scholes, 18, accompanied a Seattle group to Virginia. There were 28 athletes on the regional team, 19 girls and nine boys.

“It was crazy,” Scholes said of the national meet, which brought together 13,000 young athletes between the ages of 6 and 18.