Marion Boys Track

Marion wins 3 events at Cascade

CASCADE - The Marion High School track teams captured three events at the Cascade Early Bird Co-Ed Meet on Thursday.

Mahila Brown won the shot put (39-7 1/4) and Haley Blazek claimed the discus (105-5) for the Marion girls.

Devin Quinn, Deshaun Quinn, Blair Brooks and Skylar Cook won the shuttle hurdle relay for the Marion boys (1:02.75).

Maddie Bach placed second in the 1500 and 3000 for the Indians. Kenzie Redmond was the runner-up in the 400. Breanna Smith placed third in the shot put and discus. Marion also placed third in the sprint medley.

The Marion boys collected second-place finishes from Hunter Reifschneider in the 800, Brooks in the 110 hurdles and Deshaun Quinn in the long jump. The Indians got third-place showings from Grant Meth in the 400, Jeremy Fopma in the 1600, Colton Forster in the 3200 and Brooks in the high jump.

The Indians also finished third in the 4x100 relay and 4x200 relay.

Marion boys take 2nd in Iowa City

IOWA CITY - Blair Brooks and Colton Forster won individual events Saturday to help the Marion Indians place second at the Bob Brown Invitational track meet in Iowa City.

Brooks claimed the high jump at 6 feet, 4 inches and Forster took the 3200 meter run in 10 minutes, 2.2 seconds.

Anamosa won the team championship with 164.5 points in the eight-team field. Marion nipped Mount Vernon for second place, 105.5 to 105.

Marion received second-place finishes from Skylar Cook in the long jump (20-1 1/2), Jeremy Fopma in the 3200 (10:03.73), Jacob Manderscheid in the 400 (53.98), Brooks in the 110 hurdles (16.99) and Miles Bach in the 1600 (4:52.04). The Indians also finished second in the 4x800 relay (8:42.71) and the shuttle hurdle relay (1:06.00).

Team Standings

1. Anamosa 164.5, 2. Marion 105.5, 3. Mount Vernon 105, 4. Iowa City Regina 94, 5. Clear Creek-Amana 75, 6. Montezuma 67, 7. West Liberty 42, 8. Davenport Assumption 41.

Zrudsky returns as Marion track coach

Chad Zrudsky has been hired to coach the Marion High School boys track team this spring, pending board approval.

Zrudsky coached the Indians from 2005 through 2011, winning Wamac Conference titles in 2008 and 2009. He will succeed Matt Thornton as head coach.

Zrudsky is the associate principal at Marion High School. He graduated from Coe College in 2001, where he was a two-time Iowa Conference champion in the triple jump and captain of the track team. He received his master's from the University of Northern Iowa in 2008.

Coaches pick All-Metro boys track

Here is the 2014 All-Metro boys track team, as selected by the Metro coaches.

 

DISCUS

Dallas Jacobus (Kennedy)

Michael Lamparek (Prairie)

 

SHOT PUT

Drew Heitland (Kennedy)

Michael Lamparek (Prairie)

 

LONG JUMP

Curtis McCrary (Linn-Mar)

Derek Jacobus (Kennedy)

Famiek Cook (Kennedy)

Nick Stark (Xavier)

 

HIGH JUMP

Willie Rhoads (Kennedy)

Shaun Beyer (Kennedy)

 

3200

Josh Evans (Linn-Mar)

Mitch Pritts (Prairie)

Daniel Murphy (Linn-Mar)

 

110 HURDLES

Quinn Cannoy (Marion)

Shaun Beyer (Kennedy)

Joah Wallace (Prairie)

 

100

Nick Stark (Xavier)

Nate Karlan (Jefferson)

Trevor Northrup (Prairie)

 

4x800 RELAY

Prairie (Mitch Pritts, Matt Lorenz, Ross Adams, Tysen VanDraska)

Linn-Mar (Tanner Rathje, Daniel Murphy, Greyson Dolezal, Bryan Fogerty)

 

200

Nate Karlan (Jefferson)

Landen Akers (Washington)

 

1600

Josh Evans (Linn-Mar)

Mitch Pritts (Prairie)

 

4x200 RELAY

Kennedy (Jacob Shannon, Derek Jacobus, Marcus Perkins, Famiek Cook)

Linn-Mar (Austin Flieder, Tristan Freese, Tim Wolfe, Daniel Gorsich)

Jefferson (Jacob Beaton, Nate Karlan, Dan Larson, Dylan Chittick)

 

400

Landon Akers (Washington)

Jalen Rima (Prairie)

 

400 HURDLES

Marcus Perkins (Kennedy)

Keagan Pinter (Prairie)

 

1600 MEDLEY

Linn-Mar (Austin Flieder, Tim Wolfe, Duggan Trenary, Josh Evans)

Prairie (Trevor Northrup, Joah Wallace, Jalen Rima, Tysen VanDraska)

 

800

Josh Evans (Linn-Mar)

Tysen VanDraska (Prairie)

 

4x100 RELAY

Kennedy (Jacob Shannon, Marcus Perkins, Famiek Cook, Derek Jacobus)

Linn-Mar (Austin Flieder, Tristan Freese, Tim Wolfe, Daniel Gorsich)

Jefferson (Alphonso Soko, Jacob Beaton, Dylan Chittick, Nate Karlan)

 

4x400 RELAY

Jefferson (Dan Larson, Dylan Chittick, Tayvian May, Alphonso Soko)

Linn-Mar (Dalton Gosch, Duggan Trenary, Joe A'Hearn, Bryce Miller)

 

SHUTTLE HURDLE RELAY

Kennedy (Famiek Cook, Derek Jacobus, Marcus Perkins, Shaun Beyer)

Linn-Mar (Zeal Baker, Daniel Gorsich, Tristan Freese, Nick House)

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

Jefferson

Shuttle hurdle relay (Savaun Bounds, Mason Furnish, Dakota Tomkins,

Michael Moncivais)

Jared Eivins (shot put)

 

Kennedy

4x400 relay (Mark Schulz, Nick Duehr, Mitch Gaffey, Zach Tinkey)

Jackson Coker (discus)

 

Prairie

Isaiah Vlasek (3200)

Matt Hilligas (shot put)

 

Washington

4x100 relay (Reid Snitker, Landen Akers, Mason Taylor, Alex Herzog)

Carlos Nelson (long jump)

 

Xavier

4x100 relay (Chris Ball, Nick Stark, Sean Murphy, Miles Sullivan)

Jacob Schmitt (3200)

 

Linn-Mar

Kyle Hayek (shot put)

Tanner Rathje (800)

 

Marion

Trevor Hardman (400)

Colton Forster (3200)

 

COACHES OF THE YEAR: Ken Hopkins (Linn-Mar), Brian White (Kennedy)

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 June 2014 17:26