Dozens advance to provincials
Plenty of Medicine Hat and area athletes earned spots at provincials thanks to their performances at the South Zone track and field championships in Lethbridge Thursday.
A few even set zone records, and a handful claimed individual aggregate titles.
Hat High ran away, sometimes literally, with the 4A banner while Crescent Heights took the 3A title in a close competition with Lethbridge Collegiate.
Leading the Mohawks were a trio of aggregate winners. Junior Joshua Suelzle won his division thanks to gold in discus and silver in shot put and javelin. Ethan Suelzle won the intermediate title with event wins in 100 metre hurdles and silver in long jump and triple jump. And Blake Carriere-Smith tied Winston Churchill’s Brayden Klippenstein for senior aggregate by winning the 100 metre, 200 metre and 100 metre hurdles.
Rhiannon Ware of Hat High was among the record breakers, winning the intermediate girls 80 metre hurdles in a time of 11.90 seconds. The Mohawks’ 4x400 relay teams each set records. Alexandra Stanke, Cait MacMillan, Olivia Hunter and Natasha McGraw won the open girls race in 4:50.60, while Jaxson May, Zachary Campbell, Parker Davidson and Landon Swartz won the boys race in 3:51.58.
Capping the record haul off, Savannah Zee’s time of 52.31 seconds was a new record in girls 300 metre hurdles.
Ware also won javelin with a 31.43 metre throw. Zee also won the senior 100 and 200 metre sprints in 13.25 and 28.34 seconds respectively and was second in 80 metre hurdles.
Also going to provincials in Edmonton next weekend are:
From Crescent Heights: Jane Canadine (junior 400 metre gold), Kia Kannekens (junior javelin gold, shot put silver), Renae Ryan (intermediate 100 metre silver), Olivia Callaghan (intermediate triple jump gold), Lauren Hughes (senior javelin gold, shot put silver), Lewis Benoy (intermediate high jump gold), Rylly Quirante (senior pole vault gold) and Steven Kronebusch (senior shot put silver).
From Hat High: Natasha McGraw (junior 3,000 metre silver), Aimee Maurice (junior pole vault gold), Cait MacMillan (junior pole vault silver), Kayla Stegen (senior 80 metre hurdles gold, pole vault gold, javelin gold), Olivia Hunter (senior 1,500 metre silver, 3,000 metre silver), Alexandra Stanke (300 metre hurdles silver), Anya Bierbach (pentathlon silver), Ethan Hicks (junior 100 metre gold, 200 metre gold), Zachary Campbell (junior 400 metre gold), Ethan Scott (junior 100 metre hurdles gold), Landon Swartz (junior 3,000 metre silver), Noah Dolter (junior pole vault gold), Josh Howe (junior shot put gold), Jaxson May (intermediate 400 metre silver, 800 metre gold), Parker Davidson (intermediate 100 metre hurdles silver, 300 metre hurdles silver), Isaiah Scott (intermediate pole vault silver), Conner Morrow (intermediate javelin gold) and Simon Frelich (senior 100 metre hurdles silver, pole vault silver),
From Monsignor McCoy: Madison Kane-Rissling (intermediate long jump gold, high jump silver), Nyamal Chany (senior high jump silver) and Quinn Halldorson (senior 1,500 metre gold, 3,000 metre gold).
From Eagle Butte: Jasmin Salmon (senior 400 metre gold, 800 metre silver) and Trevor Mickey (intermediate 800 metre silver, 1,500 metre silver).
Provincials are June 1 and 2 in Edmonton.