2007 WA Random Track Articles

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Girls track tema capsules



These capsules were not published earlier in the week:


Black Hills Wolves

Coach: Terry Scott (North Beach High School, University of Washington, Eastern Washington University)

Last season: League champs.

Key returners: Heidi Dorling, pole vault, senior; Tasha Shipman, sprints, junior; Emma Burleson, sprint; Sabrina Hoeks, high jump; Kelly Castro, sprints; Nikki Farwell, sprints; Rachel Miller, distance; Danielle Kermode, hurdles.

Notable: Coach says Shipman could hold as many as six school records if she tried other events. She already has school records in the 200, 400 and 1,600 and ran a leg on three relays that broke school records.

Capital Cougars

Coach: Kevin Wright (Rex Putnam High School, Western Oregon)

Last season: Finished out of the top 10 in the Narrows Leeague.

Key returners: Amanda Wright, distance, junior; Bailey Campbell, sprints, senior; Hannah Scholes, sprints, junior; Lisa Sulenes, relays, junior; Johannah Verrhulst, relays, sophomore; Hannah Peckler, jumps, senior; Rachel Thompson, hurdles, sprints, sophomore; Ayla Mull, javelin, junior.

Top newcomers: Tosha Hollingsworth, sprints, long jump, freshman; Damica Wolfe, freshman, throws; Emily Wallen, distance, sophomore; Kailyn Swarthout, freshman,

Notable: Team has grown from 18 girls two years ago to 52 this season.

Chehalis Bearcats

Coach: Autumn Ledgerwood (Washington State U.)

Last season: Fourth in league and sixth in district.

Key returners: Alexa Huestis, pole vault, sprints; senior; Caroline Austin, sprints, jumps, sophomore; Dana Carlson, distance, sophomore; Megan Kostick, sprints, junior.

Top newcomers: Alexa Huestis, Caroline Austin.

Northwest Christian

Coach: Bill Kehoe (Gonzaga University)

Last season: District champion.

Key returners: Joscelyn Minton, distance, junior; Janaye Lockett, sprints, sophomore; Alex Collings, sprints, senior; Lindsey Wagner, jumps, distance, junior; Tiare Barr, throws, sophomore.

Top newcomers: Britny Biles, jumps, freshman.

Notable: Coming off first Pacific B League and district championship.

Olympia Bears

Coach: Cris Violette (Rainier High School, Eastern Washington University)

Last seasonn: won 4A state championship

Key returners: Jill Lahmann, sprints, sophomore; Cheri Watson, 800, senior; Annie Dear, distance, sophomore; Ciairra Austin, sprints, junior; Nikki Journey, javelin, senior; Joana Houplin, sprints, senior; Natalie Kirk, hurdles; Laurel Stormans, hurdles, sophomore, Kjersti Gedde, pole vault, junior.

Notable: Tina Schicchi, junior, is recovering from knee surgery. Twenty-seven of the 55 on the team are freshmen.

River Ridge Hawks

Coach: Phil Lonborg (Elma, Western Washington)

Last season: Second in Pacific-9 League at 8-1.

Key returners: Santia Sanders, sprints, jumps, senior; Brianna Schmid, sprints, junior; Allison Turner, relays, junior; Jessica Tarvin, sprints, sophomore; Gabby Christianson, hurdles, sophomore.

Top newcomers: Krystal Smith, thrower, senior; Allysa Turner, jumps, freshman.

Rochester Warriors

Coach: Kevin Jurek (Central Washington)

Key returners: Christain Cabrera, throws, senior; Brooke Betts, sprints, sophomore.

Steilacoom Sentinels

Coach: Laurie Norris (WSU)

Last season: League and district champs.

Key returners: Alex Davidson, sprints, sophomore; Jaminah Hunt, hurdles, senior; Atty Whatley, sprints, junior; Teresa Javillonar, sprints, senior.

Notable: Has new track.

Shelton Highclimbers

Coach: Doug Sells (Shelton High School, University of Oregon)

This season: 0-2 in duals

Key returners: Emma Clarke-Crateau, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, junior; Sarah Brownstein, distance, sophomore; Kay Fitch, shot put, junior; Alex Ehrich, sprints, sophomore.

Top newcomers: Rachael Fennel, 800, sophomore; Kim Yates, discus, sophomore.

Timberline Blazers

Coach: Todd Taylor (WSU)

This season: 2-0 in duals

Key returners: Tiarra Jessie, sprints, senior; Laura Hewitt, javelin, junior; Christina Johnson, throws, junior; Susan McClean, sprints, junior; Maddy Glaynik, sprints, junior; Omni Gipson, sprints, senior; Erica Legaspi, hurdles, junior; Sarah Bowen, distance, senior; Sam Dominiak, throws, sophomore; Sarah Dominiak, jumps, sophomore.

Top newcomers: Amanda Angle, distance, freshman; Rene Wyman, hurdles, freshman; Shaina Thompson, junior.

Yelm Tornados

Coach: Dan Baker (Western Washington)

Last season: Seventh in district and advanced three to state.

Key returners: Ashley Gagner, throws; Sarah Brownell, 800; Irene Lowe, high jump; Shayna Gallegos, sprints; Kendyl Kingery, pole vault.

Top newcomers: Ashley Taylor, distance.

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Track season is fast right out of the blocks
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Ease up, wind, and let them run.

When West Valley's oft-windswept Millard Track gets a respite from the spring breezes it has proven to be blazing fast for distance runners in recent years.

The 1,600-meter boys race in Saturday's Ram Relays XV could produce more of the same, weather permitting.

Ellensburg's Isak Bergman, who set a 2,000 meet record in last week's Eisenhower Jamboree, will take on Richland senior Tyler Noland, who ran a 4:19 indoor mile last month, for the 2 p.m. start time.

The 16-team meet gets underway at 11 a.m. with field events and noon for running events.

Last year at the Ram Relays, Megan O'Reilly of Mt. Spokane set a field record of 4:49.42 in the girls 1,600. Two years ago at West Valley, Prosser's Nectaly Barbosa's clocked 1:50.7 in 800.

The meet record for Saturday's boys 1,600 is 4:20.3.

Aside from locals Ellensburg and West Valley, which is making its season debut, the field is comprised mostly of large schools from the Tri-Cities and Spokane.

Riverside Christian will stage its first Eugene "Papa" Wells Invitational at Davis' Kumler Field on Saturday and it has turned into a major event.

The field has ballooned to 23 teams with field events starting at 11 a.m. followed by running events at 12:45 p.m.

Meet director Scott Wells has assembled a broad field of local teams that includes Davis, Selah, Highland, Naches Valley, Klickitat, Lyle, Zillah, La Salle, Yakama Tribal, Trout Lake-Glenwood, Bickleton, Granger, Kittitas, Riverside Christian, Wahluke and Mabton.

Traveling in are St. John-Endicott, Rainier Lutheran, Evergreen Lutheran, Manson, Waitsburg, Quincy and Clallam Bay.

The meet was created in memory of Gene Wells, a longtime local track and field coach who passed away last June. Wells coached West Valley to the team title in the first girls state meet in 1969, was the head coach at Eisenhower and an assistant at Davis and Riverside Christian. He coached 12 state champions in the javelin and high jump.

Yakima's Zaepfel Stadium will stage major invitationals in the next two weeks â€â€

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Top Track Returners
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High School Report: Bremerton Relays Set for Saturday
By Kitsap Sun Staff
March 23, 2007

Bremerton

At last check, 19 teams were entered in the Bremerton Relay Classic, which gets under way at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

Some of those teams are only bringing partials squads, Bremerton coach Lloyd Pugh said.

The entrants: Auburn Riverside, Bainbridge, Bremerton, Camas, Capital, Centralia, King’s West, Mariner, North Kitsap, Olympic, Peninsula, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Sequim, Shelton, South Kitsap, Snohomish, Todd Beamer, Woodinville.

The meet has some unique events, including the steeplechase, hammer throw and sprint and distance medley relays.

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Grizzlies run by Bobcats
By Ray Ryan - Daily World correspondent
Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:58 AM PDT

DAILY WORLD / KATHY QUIGG Hoquiam’s Roy Erhart is congratulated by coach Tim Pelan after winning the 400-meter run Wednesday at the Miller Junior High School track. Pelan did a lot of congratulating as the Grizzlies swept rival Aberdeen in an Evergreen 2A track and field dual meet.

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Hoquiam’s boy and girl tracksters punched their big tickets Wednesday to register dual meet wins over Aberdeen in the chilly confines of the Miller Junior High track.

The HHS boys rolled to a 103-40 victory, winning 14 of the 17 events.

The girls’ contest was closer, the Lady Grizzlies owning just a three-point advantage before running off with both closing relays to prevail, 79-66.

Multiple event winners came in bunches for the Grizzlies in this one.

Their girls, not surprisingly, were led by multi-talented Mackenzie Smith. The versatile senior won three individual events and led off for the winning 4x400 relay combo.

After winning the pole vault, which took place Tuesday at Hoquiam since there’s no pole vault pit at the Aberdeen venue, Smith high- jumped 5-0 and fired the javelin an excellent 123-11 for her two other firsts.

The Grizzlies’ Carly White was a double individual winner in the 800 and 1600 and also handled a relay leg.

Multiple winners dominated the HHS ledger even more on the boys side.


DAILY WORLD / KATHY QUIGG Aberdeen’s Breezy Wentz winds up for a throw in the discus event during Wednesday’s Aberdeen-Hoquiam dual track meet at Miller Junior High School. Wentz was third in the discus, but won the shotput with a throw of 37 feet, 8 inches.


Roy Stansell ran the maximum distance for a single meet by winning the 800, 1600 and 3200 and running a leg of the mile relay.

Seth Ronk was another triple winner in the weights, copping the shot, discus and javelin. This after taking two firsts and a second in the same events at last Saturday’s Ocosta Invite.

Other multiple winners for HHS’ boys were Ben Eaton in the long and triple jumps and Scott Morrison in the 200 and high jump. Both also handled relay legs.

Aberdeen was not without its own multiple winners.

Justine Sturm paced the Bobcats with wins of the 100 dash and 100 hurdles, in the commendable early-season times of 13.4 and 16.3 respectively.

On the boys’ side, the Cats’ Josh Urquhart copped both hurdles.

The AHS boys’ only other first came in one of the day’s closest races. In that one, Aberdeen junior Alex Chicano edged HHS’ Aaron Schreieck by a short yard in an 11.8 100.

The Grizzlies’ Roy Erhart, a talented transfer from Alaska, blasted the 400 in an excellent early-season 52.9 and also anchored a decisive 4x100 relay win.

And HHS junior Izzy Chavez matched his state meet mark from last year (he tied for sixth) with a 12-6 win of Tuesday’s pole vault. Also encouraging for the Grizzlies was the 12-0 negotiated by Brian Muller for second.

Aberdeen’s powerful girl weight crew scored sweeps of the shot and discus with Breezy Wentz putting the shot an impressive 37-8. Kim Smith paced the discus 1-2-3 with a 94-0 fling.

The Cat Ladies were denied a sweep of all three weight events by Mackenzie Smith’s javelin win.

The Bobcats’ other first came from Jenny Voss in the 400.

Hoquiam’s Alyssa Doyle, a two-time county champ in the 400, won the long jump in this meet and also handled a relay leg.

Also winning for the Grizzlies were Amanda Berndt with a 28.4 in the 200; Kelsea Williams in the 3200; Nychele Carley in the 300 low hurdles and Tasha Parris in the triple jump.

“Considering how early and cold it was, this was a good early-season win for us,’’ Hoquiam’s Tim Pelan summed up. “We knew the girls’ meet would be a battle. Steve (AHS coach Reed) has got a great team.’’

The HHS girls were, of course, missing a bundle of points as state-level distance ace Tess Grannemann is out of action with a broken foot.

“It was a good early-season effort for us,’’ the Bobcats’ Reed observed.

The Grizzlies will be back in action Saturday at the Mount Tahoma Relays. The Cats and Tumwater will be at River Ridge for a triangular next Wednesday.

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Stark drives Elma in meet sweep
By the Daily World staff
Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:58 AM PDT

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EHS ready to go the distance
By JEFF WILSON
sports editor


Ellensburg’s Isak Bergman, left, and Prosser’s Nectaly Barbosa are two of the state’s top middle-distance runners. And over the years they have gone from good friends to fierce rivals. At last year's 3A state meet, Barbosa edged out Bergman for the title in the 800-meter run. DAILY RECORD file photo

ELLENSBURG - John Arlt has come full circle.

From a member of the Ellensburg’s track & field team in his youth to running for his father at Central Washington University to back at Ellensburg as an assistant to now the Bulldogs’ head coach, Arlt has seen and done it all.

And now he takes over the reins of the Bulldog program after serving as an assistant coach for the last four seasons.

“We’re pretty well rounded,â€Â

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From Chief to Wildcat
Posted: Friday, Mar 23, 2007 - 03:55:11 pm PDT


Matthews keeps focus on track

MOSES LAKE -- Moses Lake High School senior Billy Matthews recently gave a verbal commitment to throw for the Central Washington University track and field team.

Matthews, a returning district champion and one of the top discus throwers in the state, will enroll at CWU this fall and compete for coach TJ Crater.

Since the end of the 2006 season, Matthews has attended camps and competed in several events throughout the region.


His hard work has resulted in an improvement of 30 feet in his discus mark and 10 feet in his shot put mark.

With the help of coach Davie Alporque, Matthews placed in the top 20 nationally in USA Track and Field competitions.

Matthews' goals for 2007 include breaking the school records in the discus and shot put and to earn a state championship.

The Moses Lake senior plans to study either aeronautical engineering or sports broadcasting and journalism in college, and after that complete a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before making a run at the 2012 or 2016 Olympics.

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T-Birds dominate at Tacoma Relays

ERIC D. WILLIAMS; The News Tribune
Published: March 25th, 2007 01:00 AM


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Spanaway Lake’s Jeremy Delicino catches Hoquiam’s Roy Stansell at the finish to win the 1,600 meters at the Tacoma Relays, an event that helps kick off the high school track season locally, on Saturday.


With a fierce wind pelting slanted raindrops in Danielle Hunter’s face, the Mount Tahoma middle distance runner set a personal best for how fast she put her warmups on after her win in the 1,600 meters Saturday.
Hunter’s time of 5 minutes, 40.69 seconds wasn’t her best, but it certainly was respectable considering the wet, dreary conditions typical for spring in the Pacific Northwest.

“It’s fine because I’m used to practicing in this weather from cross country,â€Â

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Bremerton Relays: Speedy Wolves Win Relay Title
South Kitsap has added some speed to go with its braun and it helped to take home the boys title.

By Terry Mosher, For the Kitsap Sun
March 25, 2007

BREMERTON

When South Kitsap track and field is discussed, the name Renard Williams quickly jumps to mind.





It is difficult to argue that Williams is front and center, because at 6-foot and 300 pounds he demands attention when he steps into the ring to put the shot or throw the discus. But the Wolves’ boys team is more than just Williams.

They have speed to burn, and they showed flashes of it Saturday during the ninth annual Bremerton Relay Classic at Bremerton Memorial Stadium while speeding off with the boys championship (Olympia stormed to the girls title).

On a day not even fit for ducks, the Wolves speedy quartet of Chad Fowler, Ryan Williams, Stephan Tucker and Cedric Carter sloshed over a soggy track on a cold, windy and rainy day to overpower the 400 relay field in a time of 44.27.

Carter, who has signed to play football in the defensive secondary at Idaho, was the quickest of the quick. He was second when he took the baton on the anchor leg, kicked it into another gear and sped away from his pursuers.

Lloyd Pugh, coach at Bremerton and the founder and meet director of the classic, was impressed with Carter and his speedy teammates. His team finished fourth and he said with a determined look: "We will go faster than that."

So may the Wolves, although Carter suffered tightness in a hamstring running a later race and limped across the finish line. SK coach Joanne Warren didn’t think the injury was serious.

"They are quite a team," Warren said, "and should be one of the favorites for state. But we have a ton of speed. I have three other guys who are just as fast."

Warren named off two juniors, Deandra Jackson and Sean Allison and sophomore Sean Korf as contenders to make the relay team.

Fowler, a football player since he was a little boy in Kansas, is in his first year of track.

"He’s just trying to figure it out," Warren said.

Carter holds the school record in the 100 (10.6, although he said he ran it in 10.51 and they rounded it up) and shares the 200 record at 21.9.

Williams, of course, did his thing. He threw the discus 141-4 to help the Wolves win the discus relay. But that’s not his best event. He does that as a team thing. It’s the shot put where he expects to grab the spotlight.

South Kitsap throws coach, Jennifer Macke, said Williams is pumped to get the school record of 59-314 that was set in 1970 by the late Gene Duanais. Duanais died about three years ago.

"He wants it," said Macke.

Williams said he has hit 58 feet in practice. He uncorked a throw of 54-7.5 feet on his final effort of the day to lead the Wolves to victory in the event.

It wasn’t all South Kitsap on this day.

There were plenty of other good efforts, considering the bad weather. Bainbridge especially showed well in the middle and long distance races. The Spartans came into the meet with the state’s best Class 3A 1,600 relay time of just over 3:31 and showed they are the real deal by winning the 1,200 sprint relay and the 1,600 and 3,200 relays in comfortable fashion.

Greg Nance, Patrick Wauters, Bevan Taylor and Austin Hallett won the 1,200, and Taylor, Max Welch, Teo Hunt and Ian Schiah teamed to win the longer relays. Taylor, who was running anchor, was forced to run faster than he wanted in the 3,200 because Olympia forced the action.

"I was hoping I didn’t have to run that hard," Taylor said after finishing the four-man race in 8:33.80. "My coach just told me to run to win. But I ran faster than I wanted to run."

Taylor was run down halfway into the first lap of the two-lap anchor leg. But that was more by design than anything.

"I was wind-drafting," Taylor said. "I didn’t want to run into the wind. And I have faith in my kick."

Not to be outdone, the Bainbridge girls won their 3,200 relay. Annie Taylor, sister to Bevan, and Allie McKenzie, Jessica Stahl and Emily Farrar did the honors for the Spartans.

The Classic was designed by Pugh, who started it in 1999, to allow some of the third or fourth best runners and throwers on a team to compete and earn points. It also allows coaches to experiment to find the right combinations.

The only bad part is that the weather doesn’t always hold up its end.

Or something bad happens.

Last year, Pugh broke his leg when he slipped while going down on of the hills at the stadium in the early morning. He missed half of the meet while his leg was being taken care of at urgent care.

And sometimes Pugh wonders about all the work it takes to put on a relay event like this.

"You check your hole card a few days before the meet," Pugh says, "but when you get here and see the kids, the excitement of the kids, it’s all worth it."

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Track and Field: Team By Team
By Terry Mosher
March 24, 2007

OLYMPIC LEAGUE

Bremerton Knights





Coach: Lloyd Pugh, ninth year (37th year overall)

Last year: 0-6

Top returners: Boys â€â€

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Track and Field Preview: Rucker Has New Race to Conquer
After winning state titles in the 100 and 200, Klahowya's Sam Rucker takes on the 400.

By Terry Mosher, For the Kitsap Sun
March 24, 2007

It didn’t take Sam Rucker long to have an impact on the record book at Klahowya. The senior sprinter broke the school record in the open 400 meters his first time out this season, running it in 51.1 seconds at the Kitsap County Classic track and field meet that opened the season.

That mark blew away the old record of 52.7 seconds.





Coach Leo Suzuki had to smile. A 400 runner himself, he talked Rucker into expanding his track resume by including the quarter-mile event this season. Suzuki figured the trim and fit 5-foot-10, 155-pound Rucker would be stronger the longer he went.

It looks like Suzuki is right.

But it may take a little off Rucker’s track resume. Rucker is the defending Class 2A state champion in the 100 and 200. By adding the 400 it’s quite probable that Rucker may not defend his 100 title when the state meet is held May 25-26 at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

"I’m still going to do the 100 during the season, but if we have a good (1,600) relay team, I will drop it for the relay," said Rucker.

Suzuki, the fourth-year Klahowya coach who ran the 400 at Whitworth College in Spokane, pushed his star sprinter into the longer race because of the long-term benefits.

"This gets him ready for college," says Suzuki. "I think he will do better in the 400 in college."

Rucker has looked down that road. He is already has been academically accepted at Kansas and Washington State and just recently, after the Huskies expressed some interest, applied for entry to Washington.

The Kansas connection is a family thing. Father Rich Rucker played football for the Jayhawks from 1968-71 and still has friends back in Lawrence, Kan.

"John Riggins and I were in the came class," says Rich Rucker. "I always have told people I played with John Riggins â€â€