BANGOR – Sarah Briggs of Orono finished the 400-meter run in the Hershey District Track Meet on Tuesday with a shoelace untied and distance to spare. Briggs didn’t care.

She went to her arms, pumping and cranking to win the 11-12 age group division in 1 minute, 16.82 seconds with all the effort of a future track star.

Of course, there’s no way to tell if track is in Briggs’ future. Tuesday’s race at Cameron Stadium was her first.

“I wanted to do soccer. When my mom and I went to the rec center to look for a soccer camp [in Orono], we saw this meet. I’ve always wanted to do track. I decided to try,” said Briggs, whose family recently moved to Orono from Southwest Harbor. “I think I like it. I did better than I thought I would.”

Having finished in the top two in the 400 as well as the 800, which she won in 3:37.21, Briggs qualified for the state meet held on July 14 at Brewer – but that wasn’t in Briggs’ plans.

“In my dreams,” she smiled. “There was someone ahead of me. I tried to make my goal to stay with them and then around [the far turn] to go ahead of them. I was very dead at the end. I ran pretty hard.”

Spoken like a veteran.

For someone who prepared for the meet by doing pushups and weight training using canned goods, Briggs did all right. In fact, after joining the Orono youth team and coach Jeff Mateja the day before, Briggs may even be hooked.

But Briggs’ experience is not at all typical of the meet’s top athletes, who competed in three age divisions (9-10, 11-12 and 13-14).

At the other end of the spectrum from Briggs’ spur-of-the-moment approach to the sport is Emily Capehart.

The 14-year-old from Bangor is not exemplary of the some 200 athletes at the meet, either. Capehart is a veteran. And a decorated one.

Capehart, who won the standing long jump soaring 7 feet, 10 1/2 inches and took second in the 200 (29.84) and the 100 (14.36), has competed in the meet every year she has been eligible. Twice she finished well enough at the state meet to be chosen for the North American Regional meet in Hershey, Pa.

The Region 6 coordinators choose the team that goes to the national meet in Pennsylvania from the best performances turned in at state meets in Maine, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Even if Capehart doesn’t make the Region 6 team, her season won’t end at Brewer. At the end of July, Capehart will be competing in the pentathlon at the USA Track and Field meet in Seattle. She competed in that meet when she was 10.

“I get pretty nervous. The runners from New York are so amazing,” Capehart said. “They are so much faster. Their work ethic is a little better. I take the winter off, but they run just as hard. They’re used to it. I guess if I was there, I would be too.”

Then there is the brand of Hershey athlete who doesn’t take the meet seriously at all. Like Dana Frasz, who already has a track star’s portfolio, but a basketball player’s disposition.

Tuesday, Frasz, who will be a sophomore at Foxcroft Academy, won the 13-14 division in the 200 in 28.84 and the 800 in 2:29.65. The last time Fries ran the 800 she clocked 2:21, placing second in the Class B state meet behind Belfast’s phenom Erin Herbig.

In fact, Tuesday’s race was a tune-up to prepare Frasz for her next meeting with Herbig in the high school 800 at the Maine Distance Festival on Saturday.

Yet track is nothing more than a diversion for Frasz, who would rather be shooting hoops.

“I just started running a couple of days ago. I haven’t run for a couple of weeks. I’ve been playing summer basketball,” said Frasz in a T-shirt that read “Summer Hoop Camp, Gotta Love It!”

“I think I’ve done as well as I’m probably going to do [running 2:21]. Track is not a lot of fun, there’s a lot of sitting around. Basketball is a lot more fun.”

Local Hershey District Meet (Top two go to state meet) AT BANGOR, Cameron Stadium

Girls 9-10 – 50: Kate Kirby (Orono) 9.15, Nicole Bigda (Bangor) 9.51; 100: Cassie Hodgson (Castine) 17.33, Kate Kirby (Orono) 18.01; 200: Kaitlin O’Donnell (Orono) 1:28.33, Anna Briggs (Orono) 1:29.44; softball throw: Kate Kirby (Orono) 104-2, Cassie Hodgson (Castine) 96-1; standing long jump: Nicole Bigda (Bangor) 6-0, Amy Sturgeon (Lincoln) 5-4 1/4; 400 relay: Castine (Jenny Olivari, Chantal Brouillard, Cassie Hogdson, Jillian Paine) 1:15.31

Girls 11-12 – 100: Erica Kaufmann (Dover-Foxcroft) 15.94, Abbie Maxwell (Winn) 16.37; 200: Leslie Nelson (Dover) 34.37, Samantha Spires (Bangor) 34.92; 400: Sarah Briggs (Orono) 1:16.82, Stephanie Tracy (Bangor) 1:20.26; 800: Sarah Briggs (Orono) 3:37.21; softball throw: Katie Smith (Woodland) 146-5 1/2, Stephanie Tracy (Bangor) 116-0; standing long jump: Laura Swett (Dov-Fox) 6-3 1/2, Erica Kaufmann (Dov-Fox) 6-3; 400 relay: Lee (Shelby Pickering, Michaela Ham, Kristin Hersom, Abbie Maxwell) 1:06.84; Dover-Foxcroft (Laura Swett, Erica Kaufmann, Tamlyn Frederick, Leslie Nelson) 1:06.85

Girls 13-14 – 100: Christine Beal (Winterport) 14.08, Emily Capehart (Bangor) 14.36; 200: Dana Frasz (Dover) 28.84, Emily Capehart (Bangor) 29.84; 800: Dana Frasz (Dover) 2:29.65, Oriana Farley (Hampden) 2:32.59; 1600: Kacey Macarthur (Woodland) 7:45.39, Amber Pyatt (Bangor) 11:00.90; softball throw: Deidra Ham (Lee) 143-5, Samantha Cole (Lee) 110-9; standing long jump: Emily Capehart (Bangor) 7-10 1/2, Oriana Farley (Hampden) 7-3 1/4; 400 relay: Lee (Brittany Mallett, Melissa Hanscom, Samantha Braziller, Deidra Ham) 1:07.17

Boys 9-10 – 50: Wes Hart (Bangor) 8.98, Narthaniel Brown (Hampden) 9.13 100: Taylor Wentworth (Ellsworth) 16.53, Zach Brown (Bangor) 16.77; 200: Taylor Wentworth (Ellsworth) 34.39, Evan Farley (Hampden) 35.48; 400: Evan Farley (Hampden) 1:17.28, Nyasha Millard (Orono) 1:20.01; softball throw: Kyle Leeman (Bangor) 146-0, Wes Hart (Bangor) 137-9; standing long jump: Stas Speransky (Orono) 6-5, Evan Farley (Hampden) 6-1; 400 relay: Lee (Brandon Crocker, Corey Coulombe, Peter Pickering, Drew Pickering) 1:17.26

Boys 11-12 – 100: David Kelley (Bangor) 15.01, Joseph Manzo (Millinocket) 15.42; 200: David Kelly (Bangor) 30.56, Joseph Manzo (Millinocket) 33.95; 400: Kristopher Tracy (Franklin) 1:13.86, T.J. Vanidestine (Bangor) 1Kristopher Tracy (Franklin) 1:13.86, T.J. Vanidestine (Bangor) 1:16.76; 800: Nicolas Tymoczko (Bucksport) 3:00.75, Kristopher Tracy (Franklin) 3:05.97; softball throw: James McPhee (Woodland) 151-9, Nicolas Tymoczko (Bucksport) 148-6; standing long jump: David Kelley (Bangor) 7-0, Joseph Manzo (Millinocket) 6-8 1/4; 400 relay: Lee (Darrin Cobb, Kris King, Brian Crocker, Gerry Worster) 1:11.87, Lee (Charlie Boulrisse, Everett Houghton, Aaron Coulombe, Thomas Braley) 1:14.37

Boys 13-14 – 100: Matthew Jandreau (Millinocket) 14.03, Evan Aurelio (Hampden) 14.71; 200: Mathew Jandeau (Millinocket) 29.73, Josh Taylor (Bangor) 30.56; 800: Dustin Pickering (Lee) 2:32.69, Miles Kirby (Orono) 2:33.03; 1600: Miles Kirby (Orono) 5:38.49, Nathan Goodell (Bangor) 5:47.64; softball throw: Keith Parent (Lee) 192-6, Adam Ham (Lee) 183-6; standing long jump: Matthew Jandrau (Millinocket) 8-0, Adam Standley (Hampden) 7-7 1/2; 400 relay: Hampden (Chris Standley, Jeff Snyder, Adam Standley, Evan Aurelio) 59.99, Lee (Adam Ham, Keith Parent, Jason Mallett, Dustin Pickering) 1:00.39

AT CARIBOU Hershey Track and Field Meet (top two qualify for state meet) 9-10

Boys: 50M dash: Brock Killcollins (Fort Fairfield) 8:24, Seth Marquis (Presque Isle) 8:34; 100M dash: Brock Killcollins (Fort Fairfield) 16:25, Sam Cobb (Ashland) 16:89; 200M dash: Jordan Gard (Houlton) 35.3, Josh Tardiff (Caribou) 37.72; 400M dash: Bradley Burlock (Caribou) 1:26.03, Chris Howland (Houlton) 1:28.04; 4x100M relay: Presque Isle 1:11.13, Houlton 1:12.26; Softball throw: Jordan Gard (Houlton) 108-1, Jesse Lane (Hodgdon) 99-7; Standing long jump: Michael Cleary (Houlton) 5-10, Brock Killcollins (Fort Fairfield) 5-7

Girls: 50M dash: Katie Delong (Presque Isle) 8:83, Brianne McGary (Hodgdon) 8:76; 100M dash: Mallory McPartland 16:59, Sarah Gonsioroski (Presque Isle) 17:10; 200M dash: Julie Carson (Caribou) 38:06, Whitney Jandreau (Presque Isle) 39:80; 400M dash: Racheal Blackstone (Presque Isle) 1:20.06, Whitney Jandreau (Presque Isle) 1:32.83; 4x100M relay: Presque Isle 1:08.45, Houlton 1:15.12, Hodgdon 1:28.88; Softball throw: Kylan Smith (Presque Isle) 84-8, Kassie Lovely (Easton) 79-6; Standing long jump: (tie) Mallory McPartland (Houlton), Kerri Cunningham (Fort Fairfield) 5-9 11-12

Boys: 100M dash: Collin York (Houlton) 13:75, Lee Griffin (Presque Isle) 15:45; 200M dash: Lee Griffin (Presque Isle) 33:28, Greg Whitaker (Presque Isle) 35:25; 400M dash: Joshua Carter (Presque Isle) 1:12.03, Chris Johnston (Mapleton) 1:20.18; 800M dash: Joshua Carter (Presque Isle) 2:47.07, Kyle Alden (Caribou) 2:52.02; Softball throw: Jordan Hil (Houlton) 131-10, John Wildeman (Mapleton) 121-10; Standing long jump: Collin York (Houlton) 7-5, Lee Griffin (Presque Isle) 6-8; 4x100M relay: Houlton 1:06.39, Presque Isle 1:07.40

Girls: 100M dash: Nicole James (Presque Isle) 15:22, Danielle Sewall (Houlton) 15:56; 200M dash: Danielle Sewell (Houlton) 36:20, Lea Lani Thorpe (Caribou) 36:70; 400M dash: Whitney Longworthy (Houlton) 1:15.28, Monique Pelletier (Presque Isle) 1:19.61; 800M run: Lindsay Burlock (Caribou) 2:55.06, Laura Thomas (Presque Isle) 2:57.09; 4x100M relay: Presque Isle 1:06, Caribou 1:09:34; Softball throw: Cora Campbell (Ashland) 102-6, Ginger Graham (Bridgewater) 93-11; Standing long jump: Danielle Sewell (Houlton) 6-3, Lindsay Burlock (Caribou) 6-2 13-14

Boys: 100M dash: Kyle James (Presque Isle) 13.56, Jared Silva (Houlton) 13.76; 200M dash: Matt Pelletier (Presque Isle) 28.25, Daniel Sussman (Houlton) 28.47; 800M run: Brandon Levasseur (Fort Fairfield) 3:03.08, Justin Carter (Presque Isle) 3:10.20; 1600M run: Daniel Sussman (Houlton) 6:24, Justin Carter (Presque Isle) 6:33; Softball throw: Mike Thorpe (Caribou) 221-3, Luke Blackstone (Presque Isle) 183-7; Standing long jump: Mika Thorpe (Caribou) 7-7, Daniel Sussman (Houlton) 7-7; 4x100M relay: Presque Isle 55.41

Girls: 100M dash: Jessica Price (Presque Isle) 14.31, Janna Johnson (Presque Isle) 14.45; 200M dash: Jillian Cater (Presque Isle) 31.06, Janna Johnson (Presque Isle) 31.28; 800M run: Melissa White (Mapleton) 3:09.06, Heather Griffin (Presque Isle) 3:28.47; 1600M run: Betsy Davis (Presque Isle) 6:58; Softball throw: Kasey Cleary (Houlton) 141-11, Rebecca Skehan (Houlton) 131-5; Standing long jump: Jessica Price (Presque Isle) 6-9, Melissa White (Mapleton) 6-8; 4x100M relay: Houlton 1:07