Twelve records fell at the meeting.
Adriana Mawhinney (Dunstan High School) is one of several promising juniors to look out for in coming years.
The Tania Murray-coached 17-year-old set a record mark of 1.65m in high jump competition and bettered her own record mark of 11.14m, set last year, in the triple jump to establish a distance of 11.35m.
The two records were just reward for the talented teenager, who has fought her way back from a troublesome stress fracture and difficulties with her high jump technique.
"I've finally sorted that out and hopefully I'll just keep going up and up and up,'' she said after going 5cm clear of the 2008 record.
Mawhinney went close to eclipsing her personal best high jump of 1.67m, while attempting 1.70m at her final attempt, only to nudge the bar with a leg on her way down.
The signs were evident last weekend, at the national track and field championships, where Mawhinney competed in the under-20 women's grade.
She finished third in the high jump with 1.65m, and won the triple jump with a personal best of 11.66m.
And it was a big improvement on a fifth place at the national secondary school championships in December where she finished fifth in high jump and second in triple jump.
The business end of Mawhinney's season is just getting under way with three big meetings, culminating in the Oceania championships at the beginning of next month, which Mawhinney said she was "building up to''.
Ellie Duncan (Columba College) was another athlete to feature at a meeting showcasing emerging athletic talent in the Otago region.
Duncan (15) also set two records, just 20min apart.
She first claimed the girls' 400m under-16 record, going 2sec under the previous mark, clocking a smart 58.77sec.
Then with the 200m finals following straight afterwards, she set a second record, clocking 26.47sec, in what was a very competitive race with Sam Nicholls (Dunstan High School) who finished second in 26.94sec, and Taylor Thorne (Otago Girls' High) third in 27.40sec.
Then with close to 50min until the 100m final, Duncan had little time to prepare, but put in an incredible performance to finish second to Nicholls in a photo finish.
Nicholls clocked 13.07sec, Duncan 13.13sec and Emily Paine (Otago Girls' High) was third in 13.64sec.
Moments after her 100m race, Duncan anchored the Columba College 4x100m relay team to second place, and earlier at the meeting she won the senior girls 300m hurdles in 47.29sec.
Other highlights from the meeting were:
● Nathan Hill (Otago Boys' High) overcame a heavy dose of the flu during the week to smash the 1500m record for boys under-16, beating the old mark by 11sec in 4min 7.36sec.
● Sammy Burke (Mt Aspiring College) clinched the senior girls 800m, 1500m and 3000m treble. Burke (16) set a senior girls record for the 3000m with a time of 10min 14 52sec.
● Sarah Langsbury impressed when she won the 80m hurdles, an athletic discipline she has only just started to tinker with in recent weeks. There was little evidence of this when she clocked a smart 13.12sec in winning the under-14 girls title. Later in the meeting Langsbury won the under-14 girls 100m in 13.56sec.
● Jack East (Mt Aspiring College) had a golden hour on the track which began with a record time in the 400m for boys under-14, in which he clocked 53.83sec. Just 30min later he clocked 24.53sec to win the 200m and shortly afterwards won the 100m in 12.43sec. East finished the day as lead-off runner for the Mt Aspiring College team, which finished third in the 4x100m boys under-14 relay.
● Sam Gouverneur (King's High School) won the 400m boys under-16 title in a record time of 51.34sec, a race in which King's High School representatives filled the first three places. Gouverneur also won the 800m in 2min 11sec
● Rebekah Hill (Otago Girls' High) followed her teacher's race instructions to the letter to win the 400m for under-14 girls in 66.25sec.
