JH Track Competes at Madison
By: Sage Fernau, a freshman at Leigh High School
With two of their first three track meets cancelled due to weather, the junior high track team was very excited to compete in Madison.
The junior high schoolers finally kicked off their first track meet this season that took place in Madison on April 15. It was a cold day outside, but the JH girls victoriously took home second place with 108 points, with the winning team, Elkhorn Valley, scoring 149.
The boys this meet took home third place with 32 points.
“It was a great first outing for everyone,” JH Track coach Mrs. Michelle Held said, “since we didn’t have a track last year at all, and so no one knew what to expect or even what track is like. I was really happy with how the athletes all performed and many placed in their events, which is always fun. They tried their very best, and were encouraging and cheering on their other teammates when they weren’t competing themselves.”
7th Grader Luke Eisenmann said, “It was the first track meet of the year for all us due to Covid cancelling track last year. We started out strong with multiple first place finishers in field events, and kept it going into the running events. It was definitely new for us, but we all came to compete, and the girls team got second place in the meet.”
Event, Name, Time/Length, Place:
Girls: Discus, Teagan Baumert, 55’02.50’’ (3rd place); Makenna Hake, 52’08.25’’ (4th place); Rowan Stodola; High Jump: Izabel Hollatz, 4’00.00’’, (1st place); Baylee Settje, 4’00.00’’, (2nd place); Lexis Gleason, 3’08.00’’ (5th place); Triple Jump: Kammy Held, 27’01.00’’, (1st place); Baylee Settje, 26’03.50’’, (2nd place); Izabel Hollatz, 25’09.00’’, (3rd place) Long Jump: Rylee Balzer, 11’03.00’’, (6th place); Shot Put: Makenna Hake, 22’11.50’’, (2nd place); 100M Hurdles: Ava Kasik, 19.27, (1st place); Kendall Schneider, 20.07, (2nd place), Lexis Gleason, 20.65, (4th place); 100 M Dash: Kendall Schneider, 14.30, (2nd place); Hailey Knapp, 14.47, (3rd place); Cadence Indra, 14.95, (4th place); 1600 M Run: Izabel Hollatz, 6:59.32, (3rd place); Brianne Kuhr, 7:44.84, (5th place); 400 Meter Relay: Amaiya Ross, Nathaly Pinonez, Emily Stender, Rosi Guillen, 1:03.78, (2nd place); Emilie Hajek, Bella McAtee, Hadley Dlouhy, Hannah Cech, 1:12.19, (6th place); 400 Meter Dash: Willow Fernau, 1:24.13, (5th place); Sydney Messerlie, 1:24.16, (7th place); 195m Hurdles: Ava Kasik, 32.00, (1st place); Kendall Schneider, 33.87, (2nd place); Brynn Settje, 36.21, (5th place); 800 Meter Run: Ella Urban, 3:31.75, (6th place); Nevaeh Zulkoski, 3:40.00, (8th place); 200 Meter Dash: Hailey Knapp, 31.84, (3rd place); 1600 Meter Relay: Tegan Baumert, Brianne Kuhr, Emma Gall, Makenna Hake, 6:24.63, (3rd place);
Boys: Discus, Korbin Lemburg, 68’09.50’’, (6th place); High Jump: Luke Eisenmann, 3’08.00’’, (5th place); Long Jump: Jacob Koehn, 13’02.50’’ (6th place); Corey Steffensmeier, 13’00.00’’ (7th place); Shot Put: Korbin Lemburg, 32’10.00’’, (1st place); Levi Gall, 29’02.00’’, (3rd place); 100 Meter Hurdles: Wyatt Crowsley, 21.03, (4th place); Jacob Koehn, 21.37, (5th place); 100 Meter Dash: Tucker Matthies, 13.87, (7th place); Quentin Mullenhoff, 13.88, (8th place); 1600 Meter Run: Coal Fernau, 7:22.68, (5th place); Jario Alvarado, 7:28.03, (6th place); Brayden Loseke, 7:53.15, (7th place); Luke Eisenmann, 8:17.50, (8th place); 400 Meter Dash: Corey Steffensmeier, 1:12.00, (4th place); Brody Vodenhal, 1:20.31, (8th place); 195 Meter Hurdles: Jacob Koehn, 34.22, (3rd place); Wyatt Crowsley, 36.44, (4th place); 800 Meter Run: Nile Jones, 2:50.16, (4th place); 200 Meter Dash: Quentin Mullenhoff, 29.89, (5th place); Tucker Matthies, 29.96, (6th place);