LISBON – Rebekah Sullivan has celebrated a shot put state championship. Multiple individual and team titles with her Lisbon High School girls’ track and field team in the Mountain Valley Conference, also.

So, in these days of reflection for every senior preparing for life’s next milepost, what was Sullivan’s happiest accomplishment with the Greyhounds?

“It hasn’t happened yet,” Sullivan said flatly.

Easier, upon hearing that, to understand the thrower and middle distance runner’s excellence. And simple to see why Sullivan arguably is the anchor of Lisbon’s hopes to unseat John Bapst as Class C state champion Saturday at McMann Field in nearby Bath.

Sullivan’s distance of 32 feet, 7½ inches in last June’s state meet added to a proud family tradition. Only two years earlier, Sullivan finished ninth, two spots out of a scoring position, while her sister, Mindy, captured the 2006 shot put crown.

Now, as the standard by which other small-school throwers measure themselves, Rebekah Sullivan sets her own invisible bar by chasing the school records Mindy heaved into the stratosphere.

“I’m going after those,” said the younger Sullivan. “It’s not going to happen in shot put. I’ve come within a half-inch in discus. And she has the javelin record, too.”

Rebekah, likewise, is another four-event pain in the competition’s neck.

At last Friday’s MVC Championship in Lewiston, Sullivan won the shot put and high jump. She was second by a narrow margin to reigning state champion Anna Smithgall of Winthrop in the discus.

Just in case her afternoon in the circle and the pit wasn’t enough, Sullivan hit the track and anchored 4×400-meter relay teammates Allicyn Fitzgerald, Erin Marquis and Jen Caton to a fifth-place finish.

“She’s matured as a leader,” said Lisbon coach Dean Hall. “Kids look up to her. They want to be like her.”

The transition between Sullivan’s diverse itinerary of events isn’t always an easy one.

After winning the MVC discus title as a junior, Sullivan fouled in the event at states and didn’t receive points. Her relay team wound up fourth.

“It’s really hard. In high jump you’re thinking getting as much height as you can, and then in shot put you’re trying to get out,” she said. “It’s a completely different mindset. Some days it’s hard to get into it.”

Sullivan draws both inspiration and instruction from her older sister.

“She is extremely encouraging, actually. She’s always telling me to go for it,” Sullivan said. “She tries to help me as much as she can. She comes down on weekends and we’ll just work on form and stuff like that. She’s very cool about it.”

The potential of at least 30 points from Sullivan is significant for Lisbon in any meet, but especially the closely matched and widely scattered Class C showcase.

Last year’s top three of John Bapst, Hall-Dale and Orono were separated by a mere 28 points. Lisbon finished fourth.

“You can play the plus and minus game all you want,” Hall said. “MVCs, you look at the seeds and say, ‘This seed is strong, this seed is not as strong.’ States, you see people you’ve never seen before: NYA, Bucksport, Traip, Sacopee Valley.”

Sullivan, who is home-schooled, noted that the discipline and structure of her track demands are universally practical.

“Coach Hall always points out it’s our choice to be excellent in everything we do. He tries to get us to carry this over to everything in our lives,” said Sullivan. “The dedication the coaches have, that’s the reason we’re as good as we are. They’re strict, but they support us in everything.”

Sullivan hopes their investment, and her own, will lead to that elusive perfect day on Saturday.

Three individual wins and at least school/family record would be nice. But Sullivan’s primary goal is one final victory lap in a Greyhounds uniform.

“It looks like we have a good chance,” she said.