JV Track championships @ OHHS

On Wednesday, Oak Harbor HS hosted the WESCO North JV Track championships. The girls team fielded only 8 members, but won 3 events and out of 14 entries, 12 were top-8 finishes.

The first winner was Kathryn Fisken, running her first 3200 meter race of the season. Her time of 13:18 was 17 seconds off her all-time best, but she finished first by almost 30 seconds - nearly half a lap. The final finisher in that race was more than five minutes later.

Also in distance running, Clair Trepanier won her 1600 race. She was just a second off this year's best time, and the finish was close, with Claire ahead by just under 2 seconds.

The final OH winner was Hope Thompson in the long jump, flying for a distance of 14' 3", a foot and a half further than her best this year, and only 1.5 inches further than the second place finisher. Hope also set a PR in the high jump, finishing with 4 others with a height of 4'4".

Personal records for the year were set by Shelbie Peddie in teh 200m, Kim Kyle in the 1600, Erin Buch in the javelin, Kirsten Roof in the 300 hurdles, and Angelica Manansala in the long jump.

The boys side of the meet was full of Wildcats, and they made their presence known. We had 7 first-place finishers, 5 2nd placers, and 26 others in 3rd to 8th place.

Races and events of note were the 400m dash, which the Wildcat men took with a 1-2-3 finish - Greg Goebel, Mike Bressler, and James Jordan; the 4x100 and 4x400 relays; and the triple jump (Marco Mendoza jumping 2 feet further than his nearest competition).

There were a LOT of personal records set Wednesday - too many to list them all, but some of note were Marco Mendoza breaking the 12-second mark in the 100, Dejon Pruitt knocking off a whopping 2 seconds off the 200, Ben Page dropping almost 6 seconds off his 1600 time, Brooks Waller cutting a quarter-second off the 110 high hurdles (almost a full second for the year), Jake Lundstrom and Jon Herrick throwing the shot put further than ever before (Jake threw the javelin an additional 3 feet), Colton Elliot adding 6 inches to his pole vault, and Jared Wirth adding nearly 10 feet to his discus distance. I'd love to name all of you who worked hard and set new records, but my fingers would get sore from that much typing.

157 photos were posted, so enjoy browsing them.

Next up for track is the WESCO league meet next Wednesday and Friday.