OGDEN — Hadley Chadwick nearly didn’t run track for Ben Lomond this season.

After two seasons and two top-10 finishes at state last year, Chadwick was prepared to give up competitive races this spring for multiple reasons, but perhaps none more important than that she wasn’t enjoying it.

“I felt like it wasn’t for me,” Chadwick said. “I played soccer all four years, and then I kind of did track as a way to just stay fit, and I just didn’t enjoy it. I think that was on the coaching part, and I think I just didn’t enjoy not doing the right things. … It was hard to be around that.”

As a junior, Chadwick won the 100-meter dash six different times during the regular season, and finished fourth at state in Provo last year. She’s already matched those six medals as a senior, and she’s the 3A leader in the event.

Chadwick’s father, Tyler Chadwick, is a big part of why she tried out again.

“I thought maybe I could actually do this because he knows what he’s doing,” Chadwick said of her father-coach.

Ty Smith, the head football and track coach at BL, welcomed the addition of a parent to his coaching staff and hopes more parents will do the same.

“It’s hard to find people involved with schools,” Smith said. “It’s hard to find people who want to just coach because there’s not a lot of money in it. Everybody now has to go to trainers on the side and make way more money, and I think that’s one thing that we have trouble with here at the moment, big-time.

“We’ve got some good people on staff this year and we’re going to try to get better. That’s my goal, anyway.”

The results speak for themselves: Chadwick is coming off a top-10 finish in the 100-meter and 200-meter races at the BYU Invitational last weekend. Like the 100, Chadwick has won the 200 four times this season and placed seventh at state last year.

This difference this spring, Chadwick said, is priorities. First on the list is enjoying herself — and a state record falls somewhere 0.2 seconds behind.

Notching a personal record of 12.44 seconds in the 100 at BL’s home meet in April, Chadwick is 0.19 away from the 3A state record (12.12) set by Whitney Wilcox of Bear River in 2015.

Without her sprint coach, Chadwick wouldn’t be chasing such history this spring and would instead walk the stage with one less varsity letter. Instead, she’s headed to the state with a clear goal in mind: enjoy it.

Connect with prep sports reporter Conner Becker via email at cbecker@standard.net, X @ctbecker and Instagram @standardexaminersports.