Meet And School Records Week 3 2009

Known records set during week 3: March 30 - April 4

A special thanks to North Division Athletic Director Gisela Benning and Milwaukee King Coach Craig Machut who researched the Milwaukee Public School track and field records, and Gregory Peterson, Jamison Holum, and Mark Gehring for supplying information from DC Everest, Hudson, and Madison Edgewood.

Pictures unless otherwise noted taken by Dave Figi

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Senior Tasha Allen of Milwaukee North Division High School had a conference indoor meet to remember. The MPS Meet was held Tuesday, March 31, at Carthage College. She won three events [55m dash, 200m and 400m dash events] and set records in the 200m and 400m dash races

In the 200m Allen broke the record set by Dana Collins of Milwaukee Marshall in 1992 [25.9 HHT] by blazing to a 24.67 time. Then in the 400m dash Allen sped to a 58.05 performance breaking Theresa Wright's time of 59.9 [HHT, 1980]. Wright was also a Milwaukee North student.

Note: Tasha Allen ran a 7.07 'FAT' 55m at the MPS Meet. The record for the 55m is 6.9 'HHT.'

Milwaukee Bradley Tech senior Sharonda York [L] continued her improvement by breaking the 55m HH record set by Leandrea Collins of Milwaukee Tech in 2000. Vernon had posted a 8.8 [HHT]. York hurdled to a 8.75 clocking in setting the new record.


Eileen Gehring [L] a sophomore at Madison Edgewood High School tied the 55m dash record in the preliminaries at the 2009 Madison City Meet held at the 'Shell' on the campus of UW-Madison on Saturday, March 28 [week 2]. Gehring's time of 7.29 seconds tied the record set by Christina Clark from Madison La Follette in 2000. Four other athletes in the 1970's ran HHT times of 7.1 [translates to 7.34 'FAT']. At the 2008 State Meet Gehring finished 7th in the 100m and 6th in the 200m in D2.



At the Lois Wolf Invitational held at Whitefish Bay High School on Tuesday March 31, Chidera Obasih [R] a sophomore at Brookfield Central High School tied Flatria Horne's 220 yd dash record set by Horne in 1996. Horne was from Racine Park. That record was 26.62.



However a look back at the results of the Lois Wolf meet for 2008 shows that Obasih actually broke the record that year when she sprinted to a 26.58 clocking.



Obasih is the defending D1 100m and 200m champion from the D1 team 2008 team champion Lancers of Brookfield Central.



In a relay meet held on Tuesday, March 31 at Marshfield High School DC Everest's Leanna Rose [above, photograph courtesy of Robert Payne Photography-yearbook picture] set a new Marshfield Fieldhouse record of 11' 03 in the pole vault.

Rose valulted 11' 06 at the Point Invitational earlier in the season and is tied with Melissa Flucke of Ashwaubenon for the top pole vault height on the Honor Roll list. Rose is a junior who was a State Meet qualifier in the pole vault as a sophomore.

Racine Prairie senior Alexis Mikaelian [left] had a banner day at the Midwest Classic Conference Indoor Meet held at Carthage College on Thursday, April 2. Mikaelian broke two records that she set in 2008. In the 800m she posted a 2:24.08 beating her old mark of 2:25.80. In the 1600m she ran to a 5:23.12 clocking which broke her 2008 record of 5:35.90. Mikaelian is a versatile middle and long distance runner. She finished second in the D3 3200m [11:16.61] and 800m [2:13.43] at the 2008 State Meet as well as helping her Racine Prairie 4x8 relay team to a 6th place finish.


School/Meet/Facility Records

At the Milwaukke Public Schools Meet held at Carthage on Tuesday, March 31, Milwaukee Rufus King senior Shalesa Smith not only jumped to the top of the Honor Roll TJ Week 3 list she broke a record set by Milwaukee Rufus King alum LaQuita Brazil. Smith's jump of 37' 09.00 beat the old mark by 3 inches. Smith is pictured on the right long jumping at the Nelson Daniels Classic held at UW-Whitewater on March 21, 2009.




Earlier during week 2 on March 24 at the Tartan Meet held at UW - River Falls senior Hardisha White of Hudson broke a 25-year-old school record in the indoor triple jump at a triangular meet against River Falls and Tartan [suburb of St. Paul, MN] with a jump of 34' 03.50. The old Hudson school record was set in 1984 by Jeanne Kinney [34' 02.50].




The Watertown 4x160 relay team broke the Watertown Fieldhouse record [1:29.58] set last year by running a 1:28.70 at the Watertown Indoor Invitational on Saturday, April 4 . Team members below [L-R]: Alyssa Harmes, Jenna Schwartz, Jodi Bellas, and anchor Maddie Emme. The same four runners set the old record. The team is pictured in the Watertown HS Field House right after setting the record on Saturday, April 4.