It’s spring break, but the Selma High School track and field team isn’t taking it easy.

The Saints were sprinting around the track at Memorial Stadium Monday in preparation for their third meet of the year Tuesday in Demopolis.

The Saints have had an impressive start to the year despite a young roster loaded with inexperienced track and field athletes.

“I wasn’t expecting this because I lost so many upperclassmen and sprinters,” said Selma head coach Ivery Williams.

The Saints didn’t look like a team with five seventh and eighth graders in Demopolis. Jonathan Pressley, a tenth grader, ran an 11.14 in the 100 meter dash to take first by a wide margin and he finished second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 23.34 seconds.

Jondarious Evans finished second in the 800 meter finals with a time of 2:34:40 and Hershell Brown won the men’s discus with a total of 111.03 and also won the men’s shot put. Senior Ayanna Robinson also came in fourth in the women’s shot put.

Now the Saints are going back to Demopolis and hoping for the same results. Even during spring break, most of the team was at Monday’s practice.

“I’ve got probably 3/4th of the team out here,” Williams said. “I’m missing five girls and four boys, so about nine.”

After Daisha Simpson hurt her knee during basketball season and was unavailable to throw the shot put this year, Williams wasn’t sure what to expect.

Now he’s thinking his team could surprise some people at the state level.

“I’ve got a good feeling that we will take six or seven to the state this year,” Williams said. “That’s shocking to me because I was thinking we wouldn’t have anybody.”

Selma has had a track meet rained out and missed the deadlnie for another, but the Saints have several meets still on the schedule.

After the Demopolis meet Monday, Selma will host its meet April 2 at Memorial Stadium. Williams said he’s expecting Demopolis, Greensboro, Keith and Francis Marion among others to take part.