Far Left: With baton in hand, Hazel Oberholtzer, in front of the pack, powers home. Above: Linnea Henrikson shows off her hurdling form. Left: Will Surbaugh ran a fast (5:19) 1,600 meters for his age.
Track and Field Coach April Wahlstrom took her teams to the 5th annual Matt Kero Invitational held at Duluth Denfeld High School on May 13 and came away happy with her team’s performances.
“We have a young team that is motivated and their hard work is paying off. With each meet their times are quickening and their distances are getting further. It is rare that the kids are not achieving a PR for each meet. This is a nice reward for their efforts.”
Most of the schools at the track meet were much larger than Cook County, and the meet was not broken up into large and small schools.
Young Viking girls compete well
Claire LaVigne placed 22nd in the 100-meter dash in 15.07 seconds. Zoe Nonnemacher was 29th in 15.76 and Halle Lamb finished 41st in 18.19 seconds.
LaVigne and Sophie Eliasen tied for 18th in the 200-meter dash in 30.98 seconds. Nonnemacher placed 25th in 32.89 seconds.
Malin Anderson placed 26th in the 400-meter run in 1:22.26. Maya McHugh finished 15th in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:41.71 and Chloe Blackburn placed 31st in 3:37.60.
Alyssa Martinson placed 18th in the 1,600-meter run (1 mile) in 6:57.92. Linnea Henrickson placed 22nd in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 23.83 seconds and she placed 20th in the 300- meter hurdles with a time of 1:03.35.
In the girls’ 4×200 meter relay LaVigne, Nonnemacher, Martinson and Hazel Oberholtzer placed 14th in 2:35.12. In the 4×400-meter relay, the team of Ellen Callender, Malin Anderson, Louise Ramberg, and Linnea Henrikson finished 15th in 5:29.92.
The 4×800-relay team made up of McHugh, Martinson, Eliasen, and Ramberg placed 8th in 11:20.53.
LaVigne placed 26th in the long jump with a leap of 11 feet 11 inches.
Claire Sherburne placed 14th in the shot put with a throw of 24 feet 5 inches.
Haley Smith put the shot 22 feet 2 inches to finish 20th and Lucy Callender put the shot 17 feet 6 inches to place 35th.
Sherburne threw the discus 56 feet 10 inches for 22nd; Callender threw 50 feet 10 inches for 27th and Julia Larsen threw 39 feet 11 inches to place 34th.
Boys mix it up
The even-younger boys’ team members tried a variety of new events.
Will Lamb placed 27th in the 100-yard dash with a time of 13.83. Ole Sorenson placed 30th in 14.24. Keenan Hingos placed 35th in 16.9 and Kestrel Pollock placed 37th in 19.21 seconds.
In the 200 meters Jerod Spry placed 22nd in 27.24 seconds; Sorenson placed 34th in 30.92. Vaughn Swindlehurst placed 36th in 32.17 and Hingos placed 38th in 33.45.
Spry ran 60 seconds flat to place 17th in the 400 meters while John Vander Heiden placed 34th with a time of 1:13.68 and Doran Acero finished 6th in 1:20.92 and Stirling Pollock placed 37th in 1:22.94.
Swindlehurst placed 23rd in the 110-meter hurdles in 56.90 and Henry DeArruda-Weaver placed 24th in 1:07.44.
Will Surbaugh placed 14th in the 1,600-meter run in 5:19.71. Kevin Viren ran 6 minutes to place 24th. Tate Crawford ran 6:13 to place 26th and Trent Spry placed 27th in 6:21.
The boys’ 4×200-meter team of Pollock, Henry DeArruda-Weaver, Sorenson and Vander Heiden placed 14th in 2:09.60. The boys’ 4×400-meter relay team of Jack Haussner, Lamb, Surbaugh and Spry placed 12th in 4:17.06. And the boys’ 4×800-meter relay team of Surbaugh, Haussner, Swindlehurst and Andy Kern placed 8th in 10:31.56.
Will Lamb triple jumped 34 feet 8 inches to place 10th while DeArruda Weaver jumped 28 feet 8 inches to place 23rd. Lamb finished 16th in the long jump with a leap of 16 feet 2 inches; Spry jumped 13 feet 11 inches to place 35th; and Crawford leapt 10 feet 11 inches to place 37th.
Hingos put the 16-pound shot 20 feet 11 inches to place 33rd and Pollock put it 13 feet 1 inch to place 37th. Hingos placed 33rd in the discus with a throw of 48 feet 9 inches; Pollock placed 35th with a throw of 37 feet 9 inches.
Viren placed 23rd in the 800-meter run in 2:50.82, Crawford finished 24th in 2:53.68 and Spry was 26th in 2:55.48.
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