Crestwood High School senior Alan Vanderink won the Portage Trail Conference Metro Division championship in the 100 meters in 2007. Pictured with Vanderink are Coventry’s Chase Carris (center) and Ravenna’s Emmanuel Jones (right).

Vanderink won the championship in a time of 10.9 seconds, while also capturing an additional individual title in the 200 meters, while also anchoring a pair of title-winning relay teams for the Red Devils.

Vanderink advanced to the 2007 OHSAA Division II State Championships and finished as the state runner-up in the 100 meters with a time of 11.00, finishing behind only Steubenville’s Maurice Bougard, who ran a 10.80. Vanderink was also the Division II state runner-up in the 200 meters. He ran a time of 21.86 — just short of Bougard again, who clocked a 21.58.