On Tuesday, April 15th the N-V track team traveled to Neligh for the Neligh-Oakdale Invite. It was another beautiful day for a track meet, and the Cougar athletes set many personal bests. The kids performed very well setting one school record, two Neligh stadium records, and coming within 0.1 of another school record!
Nine teams competed in this track meet Elgin Public/Pope John, Elkhorn Valley, Fullerton, Humphrey-Lindsay, Madison, Neligh-Oakdale, Niobrara-Verdigre, Osmond, and Plainview.
In the end, the N-V girls team won the runner-up team trophy falling just 14 points behind Elkhorn Valley (116-130)! And the boys team finished in a very solid 5th place.
Some highlights of the meet included… Delani Runnels winning 3 individual gold medals (800M, 1600M, 3200M) all while setting new stadium records in the 1600M and 3200M. Allison Sucha winning 2 golds (100M hurdles & 300M hurdles) and 2 silvers (long jump & triple jump). Arlan Lammers winning high jump. Wyatt Shabram winning 3 medals (110M hurdles 2nd, high jump 5th, & 4x400M 6th. Wyatt also joined Alex Motacek as the first two N-V athletes to compete in pole vault. Wyatt broke Alex’s school record set just 6 days ago with a vault of 9-0. That finished him tied for 6th place.
Five different boys were medalists at the meet. And on the girls side, all 12 N-V athletes competing earned medals! Here are the individual medalists:
GIRLS
Long Jump (Allison Sucha) – 2nd place
High Jump (Amber Sucha) – 1st place
Shot Put (Taylor Pavlik) – 2nd place
Discus (Chloe Hanzlik) – 4th place
100M hurdles – Allison Sucha 1st place, Nora Kucera 2nd place **PR**
300M hurdles (Allison Sucha) – 1st place, Chloe Hanzlik 6th place **PR**
Triple Jump (Allison Sucha) – 2nd place **PR**
400M (Taylen Stark) – 4th place
800M (Delani Runnels) – 1st place
1600M (Delani Runnels) – 1st place ** new stadium record 5:27.2 **
3200M (Delani Runnels) – 1st place ** new stadium record 11:51.1 and within 0.1 seconds of her own school rec **
4x800M Relay (Kaydence Jones, Maura Hoferer, Reina Coffman, Aliyah Yunker) – 5th place
4x100M Relay (Kaydence Jones, Maura Hoferer, Taylor Pavlik, Emmarie Pavlik) – 6th place
4x400M Relay (Nora Kucera, Maura Hoferer, Kaydence Jones, Emmarie Pavlik) – 4th place
BOYS
Shot Put (Isaac Pavlik) – 5th place (41-2.5) **PR**
Discus (Isaac Pavlik) – 3rd place (121-10) **PR**
High Jump – Arlan Lammers 1st place, Wyatt Shabram – 5th place
Pole Vault (Wyatt Shabram) – tie 6th place (9-0) **school record**
110M hurdles (Wyatt Shabram) – 2nd place (16.62) **PR**
200M (Kellen Vesely) – 6th place
4x400M Relay (Arlan Lammers, Alex Motacek, Kellen Vesely, Wyatt Shabram) – 6th place
Just missing out on medals…
Jacob Motacek – 7th place discus
4x100M Relay (Connor Thomson, Jacob Motacek, Isaac Pavlik, Kellen Vesely) – 7th place
Arlan Lammers – 7th place 400M
The next meet will be the St. Mary’s Invite in O’Neill on Wednesday, April 23rd.
Story by Jeff Shabram
