Prep Track and Field- Thursday evening proved to be perfect time for an almost complete rewrite of the Denny White Relays record book in Mt. Pleasant, while the Fairfield and part of the Washington girls’ team made the trip west to Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont for a meet and competed for team bragging rights.
Denny White Relays
It was quite the night in Mt. Pleasant as a total of 22 meet records fell—nine for the girls’ teams and 13 for the boys’ teams—and a couple of school records were toppled for the Mt. Pleasant girls’ team as they claimed the team title for the meet, their second of the week.
Here’s a look at all the meet records that fell during last night’s competition.
Elizabeth Timmerman of Clear Creek Amana claimed two meet records by the end of the night, winning the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.22 seconds and resetting her own meet record in the long jump with a mark of 17 feet and 8.25 inches on her final jump of the night.
Mt. Pleasant was responsible for three new meet records. The team of Delaney Anderson, Kynlee White, Alex Scott, and Avery Fedler claimed a meet record, school record, and a Blue Oval mark in the sprint medley relay with a time of 1 minute and 47 seconds.
Anderson and White joined Jayden Yoder, and Taylor Williamson to set a meet record in the shuttle hurdle relay. Fedler also took the meet and school record in the 1500-meter run, clocking a time of 4 minutes and 43 seconds.
It was a few years later but Fort Madison’s Avery Rump broke her own meet record in the 3000-meter run by over 30 seconds with a time of 10 minutes and 34 seconds.
Heading back to the relays, Meadow Bennett, Kaylee Webb, Olivia Ritter, and Hannah Ritter flew to the meet record for West Burlington/Notre Dame with a time of 4 minutes and 27 seconds in the distance medley relay.
Stoking the flames of the rivalry, Washington’s 4×200 meter relay team of Jaslyn Villa, Lauren Drahota, Leighton Messinger, and Jaedyn Moore, defeated Mt. Pleasant and broke their meet record with a time of 1 minute and 44 seconds. Lastly for the girls’ teams, Iris Dahl replace Villa in the lineup to claim the 4×400 meter relay with a mark of 4 minutes and 9 seconds, which was eight seconds faster than the record.
On the boys’ side, it was an even race for the team title that Mediapolis was able to grab above Keokuk, despite the Chiefs outranking the Bulldogs when it came to setting meet records.
The first of which went to last year’s silver medalist in the 100-meter dash, Keokuk’s Ryan Bair. The Chief posted a time of 10.99 seconds, which was nearly four-tenths of a second faster than the record set in 2021. Additionally, Travarius Smith got into the fold with a victory in the 200-meter dash with a meet record time of 22.7 seconds.
The Chiefs claimed the 4×100 meter relay record with a mark of 42.77 seconds with the team of Kurt Joy, J Bair, Ryan Bair, and Antonio Crockett. Smith replace Crockett to help the team win the 4×200 meter relay with a time of 1 minute and 28 seconds and the sprint medley relay 1 minute and 32 seconds, both meet records.
Mediapolis’ claimed a pair of meet records. The first being the distance medley relay, as the team of Brock Spears, Kyler Crow, Henry Luttenegger, and Will Schmidgall had a pace two seconds faster than the record at 3 minutes and 35 seconds. The other was the 4×400 meter relay squad of Schmidgall, Will and Henry Luttenegger, and Crow clocking a time of 3 minutes and 25 seconds.
Washington’s Greyson Hartman was busy in the throwing rings, claiming the discus meet record with a toss of 182 feet and 11 inches and the shot put record with a heave of 64 feet and 1 inch. The Demons also broke the 4×800 meet record with a time of 8 minutes and 10 seconds utilizing the team of Andrew Rees, Ethan Hotchkiss, Sawyer Tschantz, and P Tschantz.
Fairfield displayed their athleticism as the Trojans swept the jumping events. Eli Zillman put on a show at the high jump mats, winning by six inches and beating the record by eight inches with a leap of 6 feet and 8 inches. Additionally, Spencer McCready glided 21 feet and 4 inches in the long jump to take the record and the gold.
Lastly, the 400-meter hurdles saw three runners break the meet record, but West Burlington/Notre Dame’s Logan Hamma was the fastest with a time of 56.64 seconds as he took the gold in the event.
Despite the copious amount of success, it can be assumed that the message from the coaches went something along the lines of, “it was a great day, there’s still work to be done.”
Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Girls’ Meet
Despite not being at full strength, Washington managed to generate 80 points and finish in 5th place as a team; still, Fairfield snuck in front of them in the leaderboard with 82 team points.
Amazingly, the Trojans grabbed the silver medal in six events. Elyse Setterstrom’s throw of 104 feet and 1 inch in the discus was the only victory for the Trojans. Setterstrom also finished as the runner-up in the shot put.
Iris Lane took 2nd place in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Samantha Lyons was just a step behind in the 400-meter dash. Kensley Fligg leapt 15 feet and 3.5 inches in the long jump for 2nd place and the Trojans took the silver in the 4×100 meter relay.
Washington saw Emma Horak anchor the 1500-meter run with a time of 5 minutes and 24 seconds, which was the only victory for the Demons.
Up Next
Mt. Pleasant will host a Co-Ed meet on Tuesday, April 21st, with most of our local schools attending on the girls’ side but only the Danville, Mediapolis, and Washington boys’ teams heading to Mapleleaf.
Additionally, the 116th Drake Relays will start on Thursday, April 23rd, with the finalized start lists set to be released tomorrow, April 18th, by noon.