Right after school on Friday, September 23, our caravan of two school vans and seven parent vehicles headed to Hinckley for an overnight before the huge, 150-team, 4,500 runner Milaca MegaMeet. Milaca runs all day Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with 19 races. To keep costs down and fun high, we stop for a dinner in Two Harbors... READ MORE >
Three Cook County High School track athletes headed down to the Minnesota Class A track meet at Hamline University last weekend. The preliminaries for most events were held Friday, June 10 and finals were Saturday, June 11. Track is one of the toughest sports to get to state in. There are about 30 teams in each of the eight sections... READ MORE >
Heading down to the Section 7A finals Friday, June 3, we were pretty confident that three-time state meet participants Ailee Larson and Kieran Scannell would make it through to state. Beyond that we were just happy to have eight athletes at the Section finals. Track is a very hard sport to qualify for the state meet. There are 30 teams... READ MORE >
Last year, only our top three athletes qualified for the section finals out of subsection. This year we had higher expectations. Ailee Larson, Kieran Scannell and Peter Warren were sure bets to repeat last year’s success, so was first year girls’ sprinter Molly Zafft. In addition, either our girls’ 4×400 or 4×200 relay had a chance of qualifying with a... READ MORE >
Fresh from our girls’ team victory at the Barnum Sap Run Invitational, we headed back to Barnum for the Polar League Championships. With the addition of state track power Esko and the very good Two Harbors team to the roster, there was no chance to contend for team titles. But we do have some very good individual competitors and relay... READ MORE >
When we were planning for this meet, our goal was to try and score as many team points as possible, rather than our usual plan of looking for individual improvement in anticipation of the upcoming Polar League Championships and Section 7A playoffs. Realistically, there are many scoring events such as high jumping, pole vaulting, long and triple jumping, and throwing... READ MORE >
Over a month after our only indoor meet, after seven weeks of practice in some of the worst spring weather in memory, and after having our meet scheduled for Tuesday in Two Harbors cancelled because of 30 mph winds, 30 degree temperatures and snow, we finally got a chance to compete at the big 12-team meet in Hermantown Friday, April... READ MORE >
With only a week and a half of practice— all indoors running the hallways and throwing in the gym—the Viking track team headed to the Proctorsponsored indoor meet at the beautiful indoor track facility at University of Wisconsin in Superior. It’s been a crazy start to the season. We’ve had over 50 kids come to practice, over half of them... READ MORE >
Our usual caravan of coaches, teammates, families and friends accompanied our two running stars of the 2010 season, senior Ailee Larson, and sophomore Kieran Scannell down to the State cross country meet at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Thisyear’s group was pretty experienced. Thiswas our ninth straight trip to the state meet. In addition, Kieran and Ailee both went to... READ MORE >
We weren’t too stressed when the Section 7A meet was postponed from Thursday to Friday because of a 10-inch snowfall at the Cloquet Country Club on Wednesday. We were pretty surprised however, when we pulled up to the golf course and saw there was still a couple of inches on the ground. We checked, but the officials said no skis... READ MORE >
