Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, 2008: Veterans Memorial Stadium @ UW-La Crosse. Results | Team Champions
Above: Head boys and girls coach Mike Jones of Florence discusses the next jump with junior Aileen Lemanski. For the third year in a row Lemanski won the D3 LJ. This year she set a new D3 record by leaping 18' 06.25. This broke the old record of 18' 02.25 that Lemanski set at the 2007 State Meet. During the season Lemanski had trouble breaking the 17 foot mark. However once the tournament series started that changed. When Lemanski was a ninth grader her sister Abbie was a pole vaulter so it appeared that she might also train for that event. However coach Jones encouraged Lemanski to also try the LJ event. Her first jump as a ninth grader in competition was 14' 11. At the 2006 State Meet she jumped 17' 06.50 to win the LJ title.
Junior Jessi Smith [above left] of Onalaska Luther placed thrid in the D3 LJ [17' 01] while Jodi Bender [above center] a senior from the Whitehall D3 Championsip Team was second [17' 02.50].
In the D3 triple jump event Bria Halama [right] a ninth grader from Independence/Gilmanton jumped 35' 11.75 to win the TJ event.
Jodi Bender was second in the D3 TJ [35' 08.00].
Courtney Slak [left] a sophomore from Living Word Lutheran was third [35' 03.50].
D3 PV L-R: Edgar sophomore Hannah Pospyhalla was third [10' 00]. Gold Medal winner Kelsey Temanson a junior from Stratford vaulted 10' 06. Second place went to Marcia Roeper of Darlington [10' 03].
D3 HJ L-R: Rachel Melum a sophomore from Iola-Scandanavia jumped 5' 03 for third. Cuba City sophomore Katie Langmeier was second [5' 04]. Senior Tessa Warner of Eau Claire Regis won the D3 HJ championship by clearing 5' 05.
Left: D3 HJ winner Tessa Warner from Eau Claire Regis on approach. Above Katie Langmeier from Cuba City clearing the bar.
D2 TJ L-R: Gold Medal winner senior Becca Buchholtz of East Troy [37' 03.75]. Junior Mallori Sydorowicz of Neillsville was second [36' 00.00]. Erika Suchla helped Arcadia to a D2 Team Championsjip by placing third [35' 09.25]. Buchholtz repeated as TJ Champion having won the event in 2007 with a jump of 37' 00.25
D2 LJ: Maya Vazquez a sophomore from Arcadia was first [ 18' 00.00], Kaya Senaya a senior from Brown Deer was second [17' 11.75] and Shelia Opelt a junior from Neillsville was third [17' 11.75].
D2 Pole Vault
Left: Ryanne Bell Boscobel senior pole vaulter on approach.
Right: Bell clears 10' 09 for the Gold Medal in the D2 PV event.
After missing twice at 10' 06 Bell was successful on her first attempt at 10' 09.
In baseball it would be two outs, bottom of the ninth, two strikes and the game on the line. In field events your also out on three 'strikes.' With the bar at 10' 06 senior Ryanne Bell [left and above] of Boscobel was down to one attempt having missed twice after sophomore Danielle Vetesnik of Richland Center had cleared 10' 06. Bell cleared 10' 06 on her last attempt.
Left: Danielle Vetesnik won the Silver Medal with a vault of 10' 06. Ryanne Bell is pictured discussing her next jump with her father Greg. Coach Bell is the vault coach at Boscobel and also the cross-country coach
Left: Becca Buchholtz is pictured on approach in the HJ event. As a ninth grader Buchholtz finished second to Megan Plourde of Somerset. Plourde tied the D2 record in the HJ with a jump of 5' 07 at the 2005 State Meet.
At the 2006 State Meet Buchholtz won the HJ event. Then as a junior she set the D2 record with a jump of 5' 09.
In her final season at East Troy she again won the D2 high jump to close out an outstanding high school career in the HJ, TJ and LJ events.
D1 Long Jump
Pictures by Joseph Frontier
Madison Memorial senior Tiffany Jones is pictured on the left in the long jump event. Jones jumped 18' 11.25 to finish ahead of 2007 D1 LJ champion junior Emily Worden of La Crosse Logan. Worden jumped 18' 10.00 to place second. Wordens teammate senior Emily Betz was third with a jump of 18' 00.25.
Jones is pictured above with her three biggest fans her parents and Memorial jumps coach Sally Erck.
Tiffany Jones
2008 D1 LJ Champion
Emily Worden
2007 D1 LJ Champion
Emily Betz
2006 D1 LJ Champion
D1 TJ: Above- Senior Julie Hebert of Greenfield edged out Emily Worden of La Crosse Logan in the TJ. Hebert recorded a 37' 04.75 while Worden leaped 37' 04.50. After finishing third in the TJ at the 2006 State Meet Hebert won the TJ in 2007 and repeated this year as D1 TJ champion. Shalesa Smith [right] a junior from Milwaukee King was third [37' 01.00] while Heberts teammate Maureen Podkomorski [above right] a senior finished fourth [36' 10.75].
D1 Pole Vault: Above - Champion Melissa Flucke a junior from the Ashwaubenon Jaguars vaulted 11' 06 to win the D1 PV title. Flucke is pictured above right as she plants the pole on her trip skyward.
Junior Hannah Wallace from Whitefish Bay cleared 11' 03 to place second.
Similar to Ryanne Bell in the D2 PV event Shelby Demos [left] a junior from Janesville Parker was one miss away from elimination in the D1 HJ event. The 'old automatic' height of 5' 04 almost proved to be the culprit in being eliminated from further competition. After two misses Demos cleared 5' 04 [above]. Then she cleared 5' 06 on her first try to win the Gold Medal in the D1 HJ.
Verona's Eva Greenwalt [below left] a junior finished third at 5' 05 while versatile Watertown athlete senior Lindsay Schwartz [below center and right] finished second [5' 05]. Schwartz had quite a weekend at La Crosse as she won both D1 hurdle races to go along with her second in the HJ.
