Ocean Springs distance messenger Anna Jarvis likes to challenge herself.

Ocean Springs distance messenger Anna Jarvis likes to challenge herself.

in succession Thursday evening, she did it all for the Lady Greyhound

Jarvis swept the 3200- and 1600-meter hurrys in the Region 4-5A track and field come together at Biloxi High School. Then she outdistanced the field in the 800 For proper measure, a few minutes later, she added a powerful second leg that helped Ocean Springs finish third in the 4x400-meter relay.

Here's the kicker:

She's in the ninth grade.

"She's a machine," injured Ocean Springs racer Nicholas Walker said. "We've gotta fill her up with gas now and then."

Jarvis said the 1600-meter relay is "usually the roughest one" if it were not that she had a special inspiration for this come up to face to face Her father, Pat, had to bear surgery Thursday and missed her first convenient in some time.

"I really busted my tail