Saranac Lake’s Jake Kollmer leads a group of runners in the 1,600-meter race during the Section VII Championship in Peru on June 2. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

SARANAC LAKE — Four local student-athletes from the Lake Placid and Saranac Lake track and field teams will compete in the NYSPHSAA state championships this week.

The Red Storm track team will send seniors Dustin Burke, Jake Kollmer and Liam Nobles to the state meet. Lake Placid will send seventh-grader Leila Fey. All of them qualified after winning their respective events at the Section VII State Qualifiers this past Friday at Moriah High School.

“Under very poor conditions, Dustin, Jake and Liam did what they needed to do to make the state meet this weekend,” Saranac Lake’s boys track coach Cy Ellsworth said.

The NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships will take place at Middletown High School on Friday and Saturday.

Nobles qualified for the state after winning the long jump and triple jump for the third year in a row. Kollmer once picked up wins in the 1,600-meter and the 800 events — after winning both last year. Burke won the shot put and discus, while Fey won the girls 1,500- and 3,000-meter events.

Ellsworth said with all three of his athletes competing as seniors, the state meet will be bittersweet for him, since they’ve all been a huge part of the track program over the years.

“They are very talented athletes, but what I will miss most is the leadership that they bring to our team,” he said. “I will be sad to see them go, but I am happy that they have all found a home next year to continue competing in track and field in college.”

Kollmer will run at the University of New Hampshire, Burke will join the Alfred State track team and Nobles will compete for the St. Lawrence University Saints.

“We have a lot of our athletes who have competed and are currently competing at the collegiate level,” Ellsworth said. “One of the biggest highlights of my coaching career is going to college meets and seeing so many of our former athletes competing. We may have not given them everything they have needed from a technical standpoint with 16 different events, but college coaches all know that our kids have structure, they work hard and they are receptive to coaching. It is a great reflection of our coaching staff over the years in both cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field.”

Nobles kicked off Friday’s state qualifiers, placing first in the triple jump with a leap of 42 feet, 2 inches, besting two Saranac Central jumpers. Lake Placid’s Nicholas O’Brien took fourth in that event with a jump of 29-8. Nobles then won the long jump with a leap of 21-1.5 to secure another state qualifier spot.

Burke swept both throwing events, starting with a win in the discus with a throw of 132 feet, before claiming the shot put in 44-3.5. Red Storm track athlete Sam Duprey placed second with a toss of 43-10, and third in the discus with a throw of 126.

Saranac Lake’s Brandon McGinnis-Theis (36-6.5) was fifth in the shot put and fifth in the discus with a throw of 113. Lake Placid’s Michael Kern (35-3) placed sixth in the shot put.

Kollmer secured first in the 800 in 2 minutes, 0.13 seconds, while Saranac Central’s Felix Walker (2:01.72) was second and Ticonderoga’s Cooper Moore (2:09.28) was third.

Kollmer also won the 1,600-meter in 4:26.32, besting Lake Placid’s Aidan Fay, who finished in second place in 4:32.96. AuSable Valley’s Reece Long (4:46.59) placed third.

Also in that race, the Red Storm’s Alex Evans (5:01.18) was sixth overall, followed by Lake Placid runners Trey Mariano (5:01.26) and Jesse Carlson (5:19.09) in seventh and eighth, respectively.

Fay placed second in the 3,200-meter event in a time of 10:31.16. He trailed only Seton Catholic’s Colby Chase (9:59.16). Lake Placid’s Jim Guglielmi also had a solid day, placing third in the 400-meter in 57.57, behind Saranac Central’s Braedon Waldron (53.89) and AuSable Valley’s Avonte Yeates (55.10).

Saranac Lake’s 4×800-meter relay team of Evans, Emmett VanBuskirk, Liam Fletcher and Wyatt Laymon placed second in 9:27.61. Saranac Central’s relay team won in 8:46.37. The Red Storm were rounded out by VanBuskirk’s fifth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:09.55.

On the girls side, Fey claimed the 1,500-meter event in 5:01.59. Seton Catholic’s Bianca Spiegel (5:18.93) was second and Saranac Lake’s Clementine Guenette (5:35.86) was third.

Fey then took home the girls 3,000-meter race in 11:00.30, while Saranac Central’s Nora Mesec (11:29.61) was second.

The Red Storm’s Ally Bourgeois took second place in the girls 800, finishing in 2:33.30. Saranac Central’s Kali Norcross (2:30.95) won that race.

In the throwing events, Gracen Foster led Saranac Lake with a second-place finish in the shot put, with a toss of 31-4. Saranac Central’s Desiree Jean-Pierre (35-3) won the event, while the Red Storm’s Brook Burke (29-9) was third. Saranac Lake’s Alexis Sinclair took seventh in the shot put with a throw of 25-2.

Brook Burke (69-2) also took third place in the discus event, followed by teammates Foster (68-4) in fourth and Emily Bartiss (61-5) in sixth.

Saranac Lake’s Maggie Reed placed second in the girls pentathlon event with 2,233 points. AuSable Valley’s Emma Pelkey won the pentathlon with 2,774 points.

During the pentathlon, Reed won the 800-meter in 2:31.85, while placing second in the other four events — 100-meter hurdles, shot put, high jump and long jump.

The Red Storm rounded out the day with a second-place finish in the 4×800-meter relay. Addy Ash, Maggie Reynolds, Lena Holmes and Eloise Zobel teamed up for second in 10:38.27. Saranac Central’s relay squad won that event in 10:13.23.

Lake Placid was rounded out by Ashe Gagnon’s fourth-place effort in the 100-meter hurdles in 20.69.