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After many canceled track meets due to uncooperative weather the girls Raider track team triumphantly faced Avon and Cuba at Avon on April 5, for the season opener.
For the 7th grade 100-meter hurdles, Rachele Jack placed first and Kayla Rothzen came in third.
Hillary Brooks took third in the 100-meter dash and Kristin Plath fourth.
Rothzen also won the 1600 run with teammate Ashley Coffey coming in third.
Southern's 4x100 relay earned third place. Alicia Phillips received in fourth in the 200-meter dash.
Rachele Jack and Sarah Heller took second and third in the 100-meter run.
Southern took third in the 4x200 relay and first in the 4x400 relay. In field events, Brooks placed second in discus and shot put.
Kayla Rothzen earned a fourth place in long jump. In high jump, Miriam Rutzen took first place and Alicia Phillips ended with a second.
For Miriam's first high jump competition ever, this was quite an accomplishment to receive a first.
In 8th grade events Shanna Avery started the Raiders off with a first in the 100-meter hurdles with teammates Ciara Robinson and Kayla Coffey coming in third and fourth.
Laura Hoover and Shayna Heap placed first and second in the 100-meter dash.
In the 1600-meter run Theresa Brokaw achieved first place.
Southern placed third in the 4x100, first in the 4x200, and second in the 4x400 meter relays.
First, second, and fourth were captured by Laura Hoover, Olivia Crandall, and Paige Lafary in the 400-meter run.
Shayna Heap won first in the 200-meter dash, and in the next event Brokaw also took first in the 800 meter run.
Darci Renken and Crystal Alexander placed first and fourth in the shot put.
In long jump, Laura Hoover and Brokaw earned first and second.
Ciara Robinson won the discus. Heap and Renken took first and second in the high jump.
All of these achievements by the athletes went towards a winning evening for both the 7th and 8th grade Lady Raider teams. Congratulations you survived your first meet!
With a beautiful afternoon for a track met on April 9, Dallas City and Northwestern traveled to Southern for a triangular track meet. The 7th grade Lady Raiders finished second to Northwestern with fifty points. The 8th grade girls however won the meet with a tally of ninety-nine points.
7th Grade: (who placed in the top 4)
100-meter hurdles: Rachele Jack 1st, Kayla Rothzen 2nd
100-meter dash: Hillary Brooks 2nd, Brittany Fox 4th
1600-meter run: Rothzen 1st
4x100 relay: Robin Guile, Rachel Keane, Ashley Coffey, and Miriam Rutzen 2nd
400-meter run: Sarah Heller 2nd, Alicia Phillips 4th
200-meter dash: Hillary Brooks 2nd
800-meter run: Rachele Jack 3rd
4x200 relay: Brooks, Fox, Kristin Plath, Phillips 1st
4x400 relay: Rothzen, Heller, Fox, Jack 2nd
Shot Put: Brooks 3rd
High Jump: Rutzen 1st, Phillips 3rd
Long Jump: Rothzen 3rd
8th Grade: (who placed in the top 4)
100-meter hurdles: Shanna Avery 1st, Kayla Coffey 3rd, Ciara Robinson 4th
100-meter dash: Shayna Heap 1st, Crystal Alexander 2nd, and Julie Stambaugh 3rd
1600-meter run: Brokaw 1st (new school record of 5:44 set by Brokaw 2001)
4x100 relay: Alexander, Darci Renken, Coffey, and Paige Lafary 1st; C. Robinson, S. Robinson, Rabecca Schnathorst, and Stambaugh 3rd
400-meter run: Laura Hoover 1st, Avery 2nd, Lafary 3rd, Crandall 4th
200-meter dash: Heap 1st, Alexander 3rd
800-meter run: Brokaw 1st, C. Robinson 2nd
4x200 relay: Heap, Avery, Crandall, and Hoover 1st
4x400 relay: Hoover, Lafary, Crandall, and Brokaw 1st
Shot Put: Renken 1st, Alexander 2nd, Crandall 3rd, Coffey 4th
Discus: C. Robinson 1st, Stambaugh 3rd, and Coffey 4th
High Jump: Renken 1st, Heap 2nd
Long Jump: Avery 1st, Brokaw 2nd, Hoover 4th
On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 the Raider girls traveled to Carthage. In the triangular meet with Carthage and Mendon Unity the 7th grade girls won the meet with fifty-four points, and the 8th grade girls took first with seventy-three points.
7th Grade: (who placed in the top 4)
100-meter hurdles: Rachele Jack 1st, Kayla Rothzen 2nd
100-meter dash: Hillary Brooks 2nd
1600-meter run: Rothzen 2nd, Ashley Coffey 3rd
4x100 relay: Robin Guile, Rachel Keane, Coffey, and Miriam Rutzen 3rd
400-meter run: Sarah Heller 2nd, Brittany Fox 3rd Alicia Phillips 4th
200-meter dash: Kristin Plath 4th
800-meter run: Jack 2nd, Heller 3rd, Rutzen 4th
4x200 relay: Brooks, Fox, Plath, Phillips 2nd
4x400 relay: Rothzen, Heller, Fox, Jack 3rd
Shot Put: Brooks 2nd
Discus: Brooks 1st
High Jump: Phillips 1st, Rutzen 2nd
Long Jump: Rothzen 2nd, Jack 3rd
8th Grade: (who placed in the top 4)
100-meter hurdles: Shanna Avery 1st, Ciara Robinson 4th
100-meter dash: Laura Hoover 2nd, Shayna Heap 3rd
1600-meter run: TheresaBrokaw 1st (new school record of 5:26 broke her own record)
4x100 relay: Crystal Alexander, Darci Renken, Robinson, and Kayla Coffey 1st; Julie Stambaugh, Symone Robinson, Kerri Wells, Jennifer McCarty 3rd
400-meter run: Hoover 1st, Lafary 2nd, Avery 3rd, Crandall 4th
200-meter dash: Heap 3rd, Coffey 4th
800-meter run: Brokaw 1st
4x200 relay: Heap, Lafary, Crandall, and Hoover 2nd
4x400 relay: Avery, Crandall, Lafary, and Brokaw 2nd
Shot Put: Renken 1st, Robinson 4th
Discus: Robinson 1st
High Jump: Renken 1st, Heap 2nd
Long Jump: Hoover 1st, Avery 2nd, Brokaw 3rd
The Bobcat Relays were held in Warsaw on April 11, 2002, which girls from the Lady Raider track team particiapted. The girls took second overall by one point with sixty-six points. LaHarpe took 1st with 67 points.
Shot Put: Darci Renken 1st, 29'8 3/4"
Discus: Ciara Robinson 1st, 79'6"
Long Jump: Laura Hoover 5th
High Jump: Darci Renken 2nd (tied)
Hurdles: Rachele Jack 5th
1600-meter run: Theresa Brokaw 1st : 5:28.33, Kayla Rothzen 4th
800-meter run: Theresa Brokaw 1st (new school record 2:30.27)
400-meter-run: Laura Hoover 6th
4x100 relay: Hillary Brooks, Darci Renken, Olivia Crandall, and Paige Lafary 6th
4x200 meter relay: Shayna Heap, Rachele Jack, Shanna Avery, and Laura Hoover 3rd
4x400 meter relay: Shanna Avery, Paige Lafary, Laura Hoover, Theresa Brokaw 5th
On April 13, 2002, the girls track team from Southern ventured to Rushville for a sixteen-team relay meet. We finished second with a score of fifty-six, but coming in first was Rushville with sixty points.
1st Place Finishes:
Mile Medley (200, 200, 400, 800)- Shayna Heap, Laura Hoover, Paige Lafary, Theresa Brokaw
4x200 5th & 6th relay- Brittany Fox, Kristin Plath, Sarah Heller, Miriam Rutzen
2nd Place Finishes:
4x800 relay - Rachele Jack, Ashley Coffey, Sarah Heller, Theresa Brokaw
4x100 5th & 6th relay - Brittany Fox, Kristin Plath, Miriam Rutzen, Rachele Jack
Distance Medley (400, 400, 800, 1600)- Laura Hoover, Paige Lafary, Rachele Jack, Theresa Brokaw
High Jump Relay- Darci Renken, Shayna Heap
4th Place Finish:
Shot Put Relay- Darci Renken, Ciara Robinson
This meet concluded a tiresome and long week of running, jumping, and throwing.