Miranda Hatcher crosses the finish line for North Bend while running the anchor leg of the Bulldogs’ 4x100-meter relay during a meet last week. World Photo by Lou Sennick.

Friday’s Coos County Meet will include several athletes who have stamped their names on the history of the state’s oldest annual prep track meet.

People familiar with the meet know of Marshfield senior Ali Worthen, who is going for her fourth high jump title Friday night, as well as the outstanding duels between Jared Bassett and Spenser Lynass in the 3,000 meters the past two years.

But some of the athletes who will make contributions are brand new to track in Coos County.

One, Coquille senior Katlyn Shaw, has been one of the area’s top soccer players and also a basketball standout, but never before competed in track.

She came out this year to stay in shape for college soccer, and made an instant impression on her coach, Wendi Boutiette.

“I’m super impressed,” Boutiette said of Shaw, who will compete this week in the 100, 200 and 400 meters and could be a multi-champion.

Shaw’s natural abilities are outstanding, her coach said.

“She’s a perfectionist and she’s a very hard worker,” Boutiette said. “What we’re dealing with is a lack of experience.”

North Bend senior Luke Clark follows a similar path — he’s a three-sport athlete who tried track for the first time this spring instead of playing baseball one more season. Clark will compete in the high jump Friday night, as will Coquille’s Laurie Breuer, another two-sport standout participating in track the first time. Breuer, who is recovering from an injury, could make more of an impact on Coquille in future weeks.

Another of the newcomers, North Bend’s Miranda Hatcher, is plenty familiar with track, but in California, where she lived before moving to the South Coast for the current school year.

North Bend coach Steve Greif remembers well his first meeting with Hatcher, when he was talking with another student about the school’s top-10 list.

“She came up and said, ‘Can I see you’re top-10 list for the hurdles,’” Greif said. “She said, ‘I’d be on this list.’”

Greif didn’t really buy into what Hatcher was saying until watching her run the hurdles at the first meet of the season in March at Florence.

“At Siuslaw, we watched her run her first high hurdles,” Greif said. “I looked at (assistant coach) Jake Smith and said, ‘She’s legit.’”

Three of the other newcomers Friday night come from Germany and are exchange students at area schools.

Hannah Kamps has become one of Marshfield’s top athletes in the high jump, javelin, shot put and hurdles, partly because of a rich background with a track club in Germany.

That’s been a pleasant surprise for Marshfield coach Fran Worthen.

“Usually, you get foreign exchange students and they just get a really good experience, but they’re not competitive,” Worthen said.

Kamps and Coquille’s Frauke Fuchs both go against that trend.

Fuchs ranks second in Class 3A  in the javelin and likely would compete for the 400-meter title Friday if she hadn’t instead chosen to run the 300-meter hurdles and compete in the long jump, as well as the javelin and mile relay.

Fuchs ran the hurdles for the first time in a meet last week and finished in 49.84, the second best mark among Class 3A athletes this spring.

“She hadn’t done any hurdle work all season since the first week of practice,” Boutiette said.

North Bend’s Steffen Drucks also will compete Friday after playing soccer and basketball for the Bulldogs earlier this school year.

Like the other newcomers, he could make an significant impact in his first Coos County Meet.