Although attending a meet at Van Meter last night was a “last minute” decision, the ACGC track and field teams were well prepared. In fact, they may want to think about putting this meet on the regular schedule after breaking three school records and claiming five 1st place finishes.
Noah Nelsen continues his impressive 2018 campaign in the long distance runs, placing 2nd in both the 1600 and 3200. The junior set a personal best for the second consecutive meet, and in doing so smashed the record in the boys 3200 meters for AC/GC with a time of 10:01.22. Guthrie Center’s Trevor Osen had the fastest run previously with a time of 10:08.22 at the 2010 Iowa State Track and Field Championships.
Two additional boys school records fell in Van Meter. Gabe Rowley finished 3rd in the 400 meter hurdles at a time of 1:01.93, just under a second faster than the previous fastest time posted in 2016 by Matt Vannatta. The boys 4×100 meter shuttle hurdle relay also shaved nearly a second off the Charger record, placing 4th with a time of 1:05.49. The quartet included Cole Boyer, Gabe Rowley, Caden Wardyn, and Grady Laabs.
Top finishes at Van Meter included: Kate Crawford (1500), Emma Swanson (3000), Dylan Soper (200), Clay Billheimer (800), and the girls distance medley. The Chargers will hope to keep that momentum going at the Earlham Invitational on Tuesday.
Varsity Scoring Results-Girls:
100 Meter Dash:
*Reagan Rumelhart (14.47)-10th
*Belle Policky (15.32)-13th
200 Meter Dash:
*Savana Fuller (28.82)-4th
*Emma Vogl (32.80)-11th
400 Meter Dash:
*Sabrina Ure (1:15.13)-6th
*Keely Vasey (1:15.72)-7th
800 Meter Run:
*Kate Crawford (2:33.91)-3rd
*Rylee Sloss (2:47.03)-7th
1500 Meter Run:
*Kate Crawford (5:12.88)-1st
*Lauryn Embleton (5:38.41)-4th
3000 Meter Run:
*Emma Swanson (11:34.18)-1st
*Lauryn Embleton (11:51.08)-3rd
100 Meter Hurdles:
*Mady Smith (17.36)- 3rd
*Jenna Stringer (21.30)-12th
400 Meter Hurdles:
*Audrey Stowe (1:18.21)-4th
Relays:
*4×100 (55.44)-4th (R. Rumelhart, Schmeling, Smith, Fuller)
*4×200 (2:06.04)-5th (R. Rumelhart, Kylie Young, Policky, Stowe)
*4×400 (5:01.13)-6th (Sloss, Danker, Kylie Young, Kennedy Young)
*4×800 (11:49.24)-4th (Danker, Chmelar, M. Rumelhart, Trujillo-Garcia)
*800 Sprint Medley (2:03.03)-5th (Smith, R. Rumelhart, Fuller, Schmeling)
*Distance Medley (4:36.704)-1st (Smith, Fuller, Schmeling, Crawford)
*Shuttle (1:28.19)-6th (Stringer, Reese Coffman, Jenna Andersen, Stowe)
Varsity Scoring Results-Boys:
100 Meter Dash:
*Dylan Soper (11.94)-2nd
*Ben Kingery (12.89)-9th
200 Meter Dash:
*Dylan Soper (24.10)-1st
*Caden Wardyn (24.41)-2nd
400 Meter Dash:
*Jason Goff (1:05.60)-11th
*Joe Davis (1:12.27)-14th
800 Meter Run:
*Clay Billheimer (2:04.67)-1st
*Donnie Swanson (2:32.00)-3rd
1600 Meter Run:
*Noah Nelsen (4:49.38)-2nd
*Garrett Young (5:12.04)-7th
3200 Meter Run:
*Noah Nelsen (10:01.22)-2nd**
*Ben Young (12:20.14)-11th
110 Meter Hurdles:
*Cole Boyer (17.82)-4th
400 Meter Hurdles:
*Gabe Rowley (1:01.93)-3rd
*Grady Laabs (1:04.58)-5th
Relays:
*4×100 (48.72)-5th (Austin Wierick, Boyer, Justin Plowman, Soper)
*4×200 (1:46.04)-6th (Kolby Jacobe, Kingery, Wierick, Laabs)
*4×400 (3:42.00)-2nd (Wardyn, Quenton Spack, Billheimer, Carter Schildberg)
*4×800 (10:14.18)-4th (Young, Goff, Davis, Swanson)
*800 Sprint Medley (2:00.58)-8th (Caleb Lovelace, David Mendez, Flavio Gonzalez, Darvon Grubbs)
*Distance Medley-DQ
*Shuttle (1:05.49)-4th (Boyer, Rowley, Wardyn, Laabs)
**Denotes Record