Saturday was the first major track invitational of the year, and things look good for my team. The boys were missing several top runners for college visits, and we still placed 12th out of 19 teams at the Liberty Lancer Invite.
1600m runner Mike S. won handily with a time of 4:33 - 3+ seconds faster than his race at the same meet last year. Our best 100m runner ran 11.34. Our Pole vaulters placed 3rd, 7th, and 9th. We have a freshman who ran 52.98 in the 400 (placing 5th) and also 23.65 in the 200 (9th). We also had a freshman run 11:11 in the 3200 (16th).
The girls team placed ninth and had new school records in the 300m hurdles (4th place in 48.2 seconds - by a freshman) and in the triple jump (32'11.5" - 2nd place). We also had a high jumper place 6th (with a jump of 4'10"). Also, our returning state champ shot putter pre-qualified for state.
On other fronts, Alum Russ Winger (class of '03 and state champ in shot and discus that year) placed 2nd at the NCAA indoor championships in shot put with a toss of 67' 4" (a personal best by over a foot) which makes him a three-time All-American and ranks him 11th in the world in shot put!
It looks to be a good season.
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Thanks for the update. Whoever urged you to post track results was very wise indeed.
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