Malibu resident Julia Townsend won a silver medal in the girls’ 3,000-meter race walk at the U.S.A. Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Ypsilanti, MI on June 28. She achieved a personal best time of 18 minutes and 38 seconds.
On her way home from Michigan, Townsend stopped in Reno, NV and won a gold medal in another 3,000-meter race walk at the AAU West Coast Junior Olympic Games.
She is an incoming junior at Louisville High School and also competes for the Westlake Track Club.