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February 18, 2026

State Qualifiers

Gore Pirates track athletes Trenton and Weston Cunningham participated in the Oklahoma Indoor Track State Championship preliminaries on Jan. 31 at the University of Oklahoma’s Mosier Indoor Facility in Norman. The duo qualified for state in the 60-meter hurdles as Weston was third and Trenton was sixth, with the two only being separated by four-tenths of a second. The state meet will take place this Saturday at OU’s Mosier Indoor Facility.

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