Nelson-Daniels Classic

Friday, March 16, 2007 Small, Medium Schools at UW-Whitewater's Kachel Center | Harrier Solutions Results


The Nelson - Daniel Classic is named after Whitewater High School Track And Field Coaches Phil Nelson and John T. "Jack" Daniel. They combined their love and enthusiasm for the sport of track and field and led Whitewater High School to eight Southern Lakes Conference Championships

Dave Hahn of UW-Whitewater and Mark Maas of Whitewater high school help in organizing the meet. Coach Maas [ upper left] is shown with Phil Nelson's daughters. Coach Nelson died during the last year and athletes and fans had a moment of silence to reflect on Coach Nelson's contributions to Track and Field. Also recognized was Taylor Falligant. Taylor was a junior at Edgerton High School. Last year at the State Meet she placed fifth in the D2 triple jump. Tragically Taylor died in an auto accident on her way to school on January 15th of this year. She was an outstanding student and athlete at Edgerton and will be missed by the entire Edgerton community. Her goal for this season was to set the school record in the triple jump. Her season best in the triple jump from 2006 was 1/4th of an inch away from the school record. Shawn Holmes [ upper right ] a former track athlete at UW-Whitewater opened the meet by singing the National Anthem.

The first event, the 4x8 relay, produced a meet record. Mauston ran 10:29.04 to break the previous record set by Waunakee [ 10:35.78, 2005]. Relay members were [L-R] Nish Rubash, Leah Hauck, Leah Jurgensen, and Keely Rubash. Two other teams also posted times better than the old record. Whitewater was second with a 10:29.25 and Lakeside Lutheran came in third at 10:29.40.

Another meet record was set in the high jump when East Troy junior Becca Buchholtz the defending D2 high jump champion leaped 5' 07.00 to break Whitewater's Theresa Giorno's 2002 record of 5' 06.00

Above left: Buchholtz is pictured just missing at 5' 08.00. Above right: The record setting jump of 5' 07.00.

Right: Becca is pictured with her mother after setting the meet record. At the 2006 State Meet Buchholtz [left] won the D2 high jump championship by jumping 5' 06.00.




Clockwise from upper left: Liz Amici from Whitewater in the 55m HH preliminaries [2nd in finals,9.13].

Ashley Edgerson of Pewaukee in the 55m HH preliminaries [3rd in finals, 9.35].

[L-R] Kara Haines of East Troy, Kayle Pellman of Marshall and Maggie LaMuro of Fort Atkinson in the 55m dash.

Angela Walhovd of Mauston placed first in the 55m HH with a time of 9.09. [ 9.05 in prelims].

[L-R] Coley Lipp of Waunakee, Asia Cheeks of Brown Deer, Abbi Williams of Howards Grove, Katie Amelse of Monona Grove and Elly Moll of Mauston in the 55m dash preliminaries.