The ACGC track and field teams ushered in the warm weather with several strong performances at the Earlham Co-Ed Invitational last night. Among them was the Charger boys distance medley relay team. The team dropped the baton on one of the exchanges, but that wasn’t enough to stop them from taking the top time at 3:57.51.
Junior Clay Billheimer, the anchor involved in the exchange, describes what was going through his mind at that moment. “Once I dropped the baton I knew I had to catch up, so I just kept on going. Kind of sprinting. It was pretty hard but I got it done.”
Another member of that relay team, senior Caden Wardyn, took another title in the long jump at 20 feet, three inches. Wardyn also helped the boys shuttle hurdle relay team to the top of the podium, despite falling on one of his final hurdles. The final top performance of the night came to junior Noah Nelsen, who won the 1600 with a time of 4:46.78.
The highlight for the girls came off the feet of sophomore long-distance specialist Kate Crawford in the 3000 meter. She set a new meet record with a time of 10:45.24. Junior Mady McDermott also continued her impressive start, winning the shotput and placing 2nd in the discus.
Both teams finished in 4th place out of 14 teams. The boys finished with 92 total team points, while the girls collected 91.
Varsity Scoring Results-Girls:
100 Meter Dash:
*Savana Fuller (13.56)-3rd
*Emma Vogl (15.34)-17th
200 Meter Dash:
*Savana Fuller (28.17)-2nd
*Reagan Rumelhart (30.39)-12th
400 Meter Dash:
*Sabrina Ure (1:16.36)-15th
*Jackie Trujillo-Garcia (1:18.78)-19th
800 Meter Run:
*Lauryn Embleton (2:45.68)-6th
*Aubrey Chmelar (2:52.00)-10th
1500 Meter Run:
*Emma Swanson (5:32.54)-5th
*Rylee Sloss (5:52.19)-7th
3000 Meter Run:
*Kate Crawford (10:45.24)-1st
*Keely Vasey (12:53.97)-6th
100 Meter Hurdles:
*Mady Smith (17.18)-4th
*Jenna Stringer (21.17)-17th
400 Meter Hurdles:
*Audrey Stowe (1:22.82)-9th
*Kenzie Reinhart (1:29.77)-12th
Relays:
*4×100 (R. Rumelhart, Schmeling, Smith, Fuller); (54.98)-5th
*4×200 (R. Rumelhart, Schmeling, Laabs, Fuller); (1:56.21)-4th
*4×400 (Policky, Kylie Young, Kennedy Young, Reinhart) (5:08.77)-9th
*4×800 (Embleton, Stowe, Danker, Swanson); (11:01.92)-4th
*800 Sprint Medley (R. Rumelhart, Smith, Laabs, Schmeling); (2:03.23)-5th
*Distance Medley (Policky, Kylie Young, Kennedy Young, M. Rumelhart) (5:35.93)-9th
*Shuttle (Colling, Andersen, Coffman, Stringer); (1:25.02)-5th
Long Jump:
*Sara Schmeling (15-05.25)-2nd
Shot Put:
*Mady McDermott (35-02.00)-1st
*Kalli Kinney (27-02.50)-8th
Discus:
*Mady McDermott (99-09)-2nd
*Kylie Young (66-00)-13th
Varsity Scoring Results-Boys:
100 Meter Dash:
*Justin Plowman (12.43)-8th
*Kolby Jacobe (12.89)-13th
200 Meter Dash:
*Dylan Soper (24.26)-2nd
*Austin Wierick (26.53)-13th
400 Meter Dash:
*Caden Wardyn (56.42)-4th
*Cole Boyer (1:02.57)-7th
800 Meter Run:
*Noah Nelsen (2:07.83)-2nd
*Clay Billheimer (2:08.07)-3rd
1600 Meter Run:
*Noah Nelsen (4:46.78)-1st
3200 Meter Run:
*Noah Nelsen (10:05.26)-2nd
*Ben Young (12:35.71)-13th
110 Meter Hurdles:
*Cole Boyer (17.44)-5th
400 Meter Hurdles:
*Gabe Rowley (1:01.50)-5th
*Grady Laabs (1:03.47)-8th
Relays:
*4×100 (Boyer, Kingery, Soper, Plowman);(49.29)-8th
*4×200-DQ
*4×400 (Wardyn, Schildberg, Spack, Billheimer);(3:49.35)-4th
*4×800 (G. Young, D. Swanson, Goff, Davis); (10:11.93)-9th
*800 Sprint Medley (Byars, Gonzales, Lovelace, Wierick); (1:54.67)-9th
*Distance Medley (Soper, Spack, Wardyn, Billheimer); (3:57.51)-1st
*Shuttle (Boyer, Rowley, Wardyn, Billheimer); (1:05.61)-1st
Long Jump:
*Caden Wardyn (20-03.50)-1st
Shot Put:
*Quynton Younker (41-11.50)-6th
*Sam Madsen (36-04.50)-14th
Discus:
*Collin Stowe (122-05)-7th
*Bryce Littler (98-02)-13th