Xavier Girls Track

Prairie girls second at divisional meet

IOWA CITY – Prairie’s Hannah Frazee was a double winner, taking the 1500 and 3000-meter runs, leading the Hawks to a second-place finish at the MVC Mississippi Divisional meet Thursday night at Bates Field.

Host City High, led by divisional athlete of the year Sarah Plock, won the team title with 137 points. Prairie finished with 114 points. Washington was fourth with 79 points.

Prairie other event wins came in the shuttle hurdle and sprint medley relays.

Washington’s Amara Taylor was a double winner. She took top honors in the 100 and 400 hurdles. The Warriors won the 4x200 and 4x100 relays.

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Jenks sets 2 records in Iowa City

IOWA CITY - Linn-Mar junior Stephanie Jenks smashed two meet records at the Women of Troy Relays in Iowa City Tuesday.

Jenks blazed to victory in the 800 meter run in 2 minutes, 14.38 seconds, breaking the old mark of 2:17.69 set by Erin Penticoff of Xavier in 2003. She captured the 1500 in 4 minutes, 35.77 seconds, snapping her own meet record of 4:42.94 set as a freshman in 2013.

Jenks ran the fastest times in the state this year in both events. She also ranks No. 1 in the state in the 3000.

Iowa City West nipped Linn-Mar for the team championship, 146 to 145. Prairie placed third, Kennedy fifth and Xavier seventh.

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Coaches pick All-Metro girls track

Here is the 2014 girls All-Metro track team, as selected by the Metro

track coaches.

 

DISCUS

Morgan Martin, Kennedy, 123-8

Lannie Nietert, Linn-Mar, 115-6

 

SHOT PUT

Lannie Nietert, Linn-Mar, 40-7 1/4

Natalie Rumer, Prairie, 38-1 1/2

 

LONG JUMP

Halle Lueck, Prairie, 17-10 1/4

Amara Taylor, Washington, 16-9 1/2

 

HIGH JUMP

Kenzie Soeken, Prairie, 5-3

Jade Irish, Kennedy, 5-0 1/2

 

3000 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 9:24.67

Alyssa Averhoff, Kennedy, 10:28.22

 

4x800 RELAY

Linn-Mar (Hanna Saville, Ally Hicks, Morgan Garcia, Amber Decker) 9:40.44

Jefferson (Adrianna Hargrove, Sarah Hanna, Caleigh Meyer, Meredith Koenigsfeld) 9:51.38

 

SHUTTLE HURDLE RELAY

Jefferson (Abbie Ranschau, Sam Kitterman, Ellie Trosky, Madison Ranschau) 1:04.65

Prairie (McKenna Mumaw, Katie VanDooren, Natalie Bohnsack, Hailee Montgomery) 1:07.78

 

DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY

Linn-Mar (Sarah Renner, Brooke Lorenz, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 4:07.77

Washington (Kadejah Sanders, Megan Muller, Anne Visser, Shannon Gorman) 4:18.64

 

100 METER DASH

Amarri Waller, Kennedy, 12.44

Kadejah Sanders, Washington, 12.46

 

400 METER DASH

Rachel Perry, Linn-Mar, 58.93

Amber Decker, Linn-Mar, 59.06

 

4X200 RELAY

Jefferson (Abbie Ranschau, Jasmine Blue, Morgan Meese, Lucy Schneekloth) 1:41.12

Kennedy (Dekeylah Thomas, Kelsie Coates, Jade Irish, Amarri Waller) 1:45.07

 

100 METER HURDLES

Madie Ranschau, Jefferson, 14.88

Hailee Montgomery, Prairie, 15.63

 

800 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 2:10.20

Amber Decker, Linn-Mar, 2:14.46

 

200 METER DASH

Lucy Schneekloth, Jefferson, 25.17

Amarri Waller, Kennedy, 25.69

 

400 METER HURDLES

Amara Taylor, Washington, 1:05.36

Kelsie Coates, Kennedy, 1:06.80

 

SPRINT MEDLEY

Jefferson (Madison Ranschau, Abbie Ranschau, Lucy Schneekloth, Jasmine Blue) 1:45.94

Linn-Mar (Halley Morgan, Katie Sommer, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 1:49.83

 

1500 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 4:28.72

Alyssa Averhoff, Kennedy, 4:55.18

 

4X100 RELAY

Jefferson (Lucy Schneekloth, Abbie Ranschau, Morgan Meese, Jasmine Blue) 48.17

Washington (Mariah Ward, Jasmyne Jones, Megan Muller, Kadejah Sanders) 49.84

 

4x400 RELAY

Linn-Mar (Hanna Saville, Kennedy Japenga, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 3:58.59

Jefferson (McKayla Belew, Meredith Koenigsfeld, Autumn Anderson, Sam Kitterman) 4:06.65

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

Jefferson: Brianna Prohaska

Kenendy: Kate Nus, Lyndsey Eades

Prairie: Hannah Grimm, Alexis Thumann

Washington: Kristin Mackenburg, Bri Andrews

Xavier: Molly Breitbach, Kayla Torson

Linn-Mar: Dana Sublett, Maddie Saville

Marion: Mahlia Brown

 

COACH OF THE YEAR: Bill Calloway, Jefferson

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 June 2014 17:57

J-Hawks, Jenks win more gold medals

DES MOINES - Jasmine Blue runs fast for a reason.

"I hate getting second," she said with a sweet, determined smile. "I love first."

Blue had that loving feeling Saturday afternoon with a gutsy anchor to help Jefferson win the sprint medley at the Class 4A state track meet in Des Moines.

Ashley Norem of Urbandale made a spirited bid to pull ahead of Blue on the 400 leg of the medley, but Blue refused to concede.

"I felt her the whole time, but I knew I had to do it," said Blue. "I already knew how it was going to feel if I was going to get second."

And as she said before, "I hate second."

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