Thetford Academy’s Ulysses Junker won two events at the New England Track and Field Championships on Saturday and, in the process, set a new standard for Vermont athletes.

Junker won the 200 meters in a personal record and new Vermont state record of 21.52 seconds and won the long jump, clearing 23 feet, 7 inches, 11 inches farther than the second-place finish. Emily Silver, who coaches Thetford track and field with Joel Breakstone, said they were told Junker was the first Vermont athlete to have two wins in the same meet at New Englands.

The wins cap a stellar career for Junker, whose Panthers won their sixth straight VPA Division III track and field championship earlier this month after winning the indoor championship in January, with Junker claiming victories in three individual events.

Silver and Breakstone recalled that, as a freshman, Junker was good enough to qualify for New Englands in the long jump but finished last.

“The transformation to first as a senior is due in large part to his dedication as a student of his events and his genuinely ultra-positive outlook,” the coaches said in an email. “His success is even more impressive given that Thetford doesn’t have a track. Uly completes sprint workouts on a soccer field and practices the long jump on an uneven roll-out runway on a sloping field.”

Hartford High’s Bennett Moreno, the D-II record-holder in the 800 meters, won the event at Saturday’s New England meet in 1:52.55.

Hartford coach Dan Talbot said Moreno’s victory was the culmination of a lot of hard work.

“Bennett’s win in the 800 was amazing, and well-earned,” Talbot said in an email. “He’s worked really hard for the last two years towards this.”

Hanover’s Andrew Valentino was fourth in the 3,200 meters, and Hartford’s Ayodele Lowe took fifth in the long jump and 12th in the high jump.

Other finishes by Upper Valley athletes included Mascoma’s Barnaby Diehn (sixth, discus) and Georgia Kondi (eighth, shot put; 12th, discus); the Hanover 4x800 relay team of Mary Westrich, Alice Bell, Millie Larrick and Lea Perreard (13th); Thetford’s Ava Hayden (11th, 1,600 meters); Hanover’s Megan Faris (14th, 3,200); Newport’s Ayden Hodge (14th, javelin); Thetford’s Luke Miller (15th, 400 meters, Vermont D-III record; 21st, javelin); White River Valley’s Cassandra Armstrong (17th, pole vault; 21st, 400 meters); Hartford’s Matthew Tousknakis (15th, javelin); Thetford’s Brady Sloop (20th, 800 meters); the Thetford 4x400 relay team of Junker, Daniel Mann, Sloop and Miller (15th); Thetford’s Sebastian Perdrizet (19th, long jump); Thetford’s Colin Myers (19th, discus); and the Newport 4x800 relay team of Cayden Forand, Christian Forsythe, Bryce Palmer and John Wilkinson (20th).

Thousands of athletes from about 345 schools competed in the championships at Willow Brook Park in New Britain, Conn.