Wensel shines at Dickinson Relays
CEDAR FALLS - Linn-Mar sophomore Payton Wensel is obsessed with breaking the Class 4A state record in the 400 meter dash this spring.
In fact, she's got that record time imprinted on her brain.
"55.41," she said Monday, rapidly ticking off the numbers. "It's the password on my computer."
She's definitely headed in the right direction.
Wensel captured the 400 meter dash in 56.73 seconds at the annual Dickinson Relays Monday in the UNI-Dome, an unusually swift time for an indoor meet on a flat 200-meter track in March.
She'll be aiming for that 55.41 sometime this spring, perhaps at the Class 4A state meet on the famed Blue Oval at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.
Ellen Dougherty of Sioux City East set that meet record in 2009 and Wensel types those numbers by memory every time she logs onto her personal computer. "It's definitely in my sights," she said. Last Updated on Monday, 07 March 2016 22:11
