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Sports Goulash
Odds and ends of Wyoming high school sports.
Five on track
Posted by: Patrick Schmiedt on May 7, 2008 at 12:45AM EST

This week's Five on the Rise is a little bit different. This week, we're highlighting five track and field athletes who've made big strides (or leaps or throws or whatever) in the week before regionals, including some you probably know and some you might not:

1. Kevin Brough, Star Valley: At the BYU Invitational in Provo, Brough ran the first sub-50-second 400 meters by anyone in Wyoming this season. Barely. His time of 49.96 seconds was good enough for sixth place in a stacked field.

2. Nicole Peterson, Rock Springs: Speaking of the BYU Invitational, it was there that Peterson ran a time of 11:19.44 in the 3200, in the process shaving 24 seconds off the best 4A time so far this season. Read that again -- 24 full seconds off the previous best time. That's impressive. Also tied for the No. 2 spot are Mountain View's Amber Henry and Cokeville's Celinda Teichert, and for the same reason. Running in the small-school division at Provo, Henry ran a time of 12:44.39, more than 16 seconds off the previous best in Class 2A, while Teichert's time of 12:12.50 chopped almost eight seconds off the previous best in 1A.

3. Taylor Johnson, Lusk: After an early high jump of 6 feet, 4 inches, Johnson plateued this year. That is, until Saturday's SEWAC meet, where Johnson cleared 6-5 1/4. No one else in 2A has cleared anything higher than 5-11 so far this year.

4. Carson Hessenthaler, Lovell, and Kenny Smith, Powell: Racing against each other at the Lovell Invitational, Hessenthaler and Smith set the stage for both the 3A West Regional meet and the 3A state meet in the sprints. In the 100, Hessenthaler's time of 10.87 seconds (a time that'd be good enough to tie the 3A state meet record) barely nosed out Smith's 11.08, the second-best mark in 3A behind Hessenthaler this year. In the 200, Hessenthaler won again with a time of 22.43 seconds, well off his season best of 21.74 but just ahead of Smith at 22.52 -- again, the second-best time in 3A this year behind Hessenthaler.

5. Beth Bappe, Wind River: Bappe's fourth-place finish in the triple jump at the Shane Brock Invitational in Lander might not look like all that much on first glance. But the jump that got her there -- 33 feet, 0.75 inches -- was the best jump in 2A thus far this year. It was the first time a 2A girl cleared the 33-foot barrier, and it's a good sign for her heading into regionals.

There they are, five athletes to watch for at regionals and beyond. Of course, they're not the only ones. Who else had a fantastic first weekend in May? Post your thoughts below via the cool comment feature.

Posted by patrick.schmiedt@trib.com

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(8) Comments
Posted by: Bulldog Fan on May 7, 2008 9:26AM EST
I'm afraid old man winter had the fantastic first weekend in May in our country. We are pretty well behind the game when it comes to track meets this year.

Posted by: trackfan on May 7, 2008 9:42AM EST
Congrats to Amber Henry and Erin Kirby who both one events at the BYU track meet.

Posted by: wyofloater on May 7, 2008 11:25AM EST
I attended Shane Brock last weekend and it was an interesting meet - lots of teams from different classes and different parts of the state. I don't recall the names but there are quite a few good runners from Saratoga (girls and boys) and I'm sure they're a team to watch at regionals.

Posted by: Chris Gray on May 8, 2008 2:27AM EST
Good call on Kevin Brough, Patrick! I thought that might have been a misprint running a 49.9 & getting 6th! that would have been a fun race to watch! (I'm winded just thinking about it!!)

Posted by: Patrick Schmiedt on May 8, 2008 1:43PM EST
That BYU Invite field is pretty stacked every year. There were several people who made the track leaders board (the one that runs in the paper on Friday) at that meet who didn't even place in the top 10. I think that's why so many southwest track teams go to that meet every year -- they won't see any better competition all year, and that includes the Track Classic, regionals and state.

--patrick

Posted by: TrackFan on May 10, 2008 10:28PM EST
Don't know if anybody will even look at this, but i needed a place to post a track question. Why didn't several Lingle girls run in the finals today? It looks like it was the ones that were pre-qualified who didn't compete, but why? Just curious. If anybody has an answer for this, please let me know.

Posted by: Bulldog Fan on May 11, 2008 1:47AM EST
The weather was really bad this morning. Blowing snow and cold. From what we were told the Lingle girls (or their coaches) didn't want to take a chance on getting hurt in those conditions. There were several others that didn't race in the finals. In Emrick's case the coach had him pass on the 400 final and go for the placement in the 1600(those races were back to back)since the 400 will have prelims at state. Also O'Connor & Humphrey were told to "dog" the hurdles since they both had other events close and needed to place in them to get to state. I am assuming that is what happened with some of the other athletes. We did see several injuries during races. Don't know what happened, but looked like the Gates kid from Saratoga pulled a muscle, but he did finish the 400 very slowly. I know everyone was dealing with the weather and I felt really bad for the kids in Cheyenne, oh heck, I felt really bad for the spectators!!!! Sounds like the other side of the state had just about as much fun as we did. Sure hope I get a suntan at state!!!!

Posted by: ... on May 13, 2008 9:38PM EST
I have to say the Rice girls from Jackson are amazing? Freshman, Brooke, won all 4 of here events last weekend at the 3A West Regionals (400,800,1600, & 3200) and her sister Ellie was right behind her in two of those.

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