Christa Rogers had already won four WPIAL gold medals in one meet before.

Not that the Quaker Valley senior didn't want to repeat that feat in this year's Class AA championships. She just wanted to do something a little more memorable for her curtain call.

Rogers ended her meet with an expected win in the 200-meter run for her fourth gold of 2008. But it was what she saw when she turned to the scoreboard that sent her into a celebration unlike that of her previous six individual gold medal wins.

Her time -- 24.98 seconds -- broke the nine-year old WPIAL record held by Olympic silver medalist and Rochester High graduate Lauryn Williams, putting Rogers' name in the district's record book for the first time as an individual.

"I was so happy. I thought I was going to cry," Rogers said. "I wanted to get a record so bad, and I worked so hard for it."

"I ran a complete race for the first time in the 200, and it felt good."

While Rogers usually carries herself with a business-as-usual attitude on the track, she couldn't hold back when she saw her record time. The senior jumped up and down and waved as her family, seated at the finish line, cheered her achievement.

That her family was seated in their usual spot was appropriate, as Christa was also joining her older sister, Jasmine in the WPIAL record book. Jasmine is still the holder of the WPIAL 100-meter hurdles record, 14.18, set in 2004.

The victory gave the youngest Rogers her 12th WPIAL gold medal and seventh in an individual event, and capped off an all-around successful day for her and the Quaker Valley team as a whole. Rogers' other golds came in the 100-meter (12.14), 100-meter hurdles (14.55) and 4x100 relay (48.88).

"I wanted to go out and win everything," Rogers said. "I wanted to win and get my record, and that's what I did."

Her teammates in the 4x100, Aleeda Kimbrough, Dakkia Kimbrough and Shemaine Benson, combined to come up just short of the record time of 48.51, set by QV last season.

But for Aleeda Kimbrough, a junior, that wasn't the only medal on the day, as she was second to Rogers in the 100-meter run in 12.49.

"Last year I came off of an injury, so this year, I was excited to be back where I was my freshman year, giving Christa good competition," Kimbrough said.

And while Kimbrough says she'll miss her star teammate in 2009, she does see the positive side of Rogers' graduation.

"Now that she's gone, I'm done being second," she said, laughing. "Maybe I can take it next year, finally!"

Rogers wasn't the only record-setter from QV on Tuesday, as sophomore Tabitha Bemis established a new WPIAL triple jump record of 38 feet, 4 1/2 inches to win the event for the second year in a row.

"I have to admit, I peeked to see what the record was, and I knew I had jumped 38 feet, 3 inches, earlier in the season," Bemis said.

"I really wanted that record, and I went all-out for it."

Bemis also captured the bronze in the 100-meter hurdles, in 15.44, and greatly outperformed her seed in the long jump, qualifying for states with a fourth-place distance of 16 feet, 2 3/4 inches.

"Triple jump and hurdles, I kind of expected to place as high as I did," Bemis said. "Long jump, I didn't really expect to do that well, but now that I did it, I'm excited."

With athletes like Rogers, Kimbrough and Bemis, it's no wonder the Quakers were able to repeat as the WPIAL girls team champions last week, despite having barely 20 girls on the squad.

"We were really excited about it. We went in and knew what we had to do," Kimbrough said.

"Some of us did events that we hadn't done all season, so it was nice to get out there and try to do our best in different events. It just proves that we're all strong individually and as a team."

"It was great, but I had to do things I don't normally do, like the 400, and then I had to leave before it was over to go to a dinner," Rogers said. "I got the call that we had won during dinner, and I was so happy about it. I wanted to celebrate."

The Quakers also had two wins on the boys side, the 4x800 relay of Andrew Hotchkiss, Omar Hyjek, John Yankello and Ian Pegg in 8:17.77, and Hyjek, who in the 1,600-meter run in 4:32.37.

"I tried not to look back, because I'm trying to focus on what's ahead of me," Hyjek said. "I was trying to keep my turnover going and going."

In that same race, Yankello placed fourth and Sewickley Academy's J.T. Ahearn placed fifth, qualifying both for states.

In the 800-meter run, Hotchkiss earned silver in 2:00.65, finishing just behind Cornell's Sean Hunt.

QV's Dorian Goosby took bronze in the high jump at 6 feet, 2 inches, and silver in the triple jump at 43 feet, 7 inches, while Sewickley Academy's best finish came from Nick Blodis in the 3,200-meter run.

The Academy junior employed the risky strategy of trying to stay with front-running Jon McElwain of Riverside, but his gamble paid off as he held on for third with a time of 9:58.08.

"I thought if I went out with him and tried to stay near him for the first six laps, maybe I'd be able to separate myself from the rest of the pack," Blodis said.

"He's a great runner, but last year I kept up with him pretty well. Why change a strategy that worked?"