Hartland Arrowhead's Myrhum Invitational

Friday, May 8, 2009 at Harland Arrowhead High School. Results
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Milwaukee North Senior Tasha Allen finished ahead of a talented field of 400m runners by posting an HR season best time of 55.85 in the 400m dash event at the annual Dick Myrhum Invitaitonal held at Hartland Arrowhead High School.


Samara White a junior at Milwaukee Vincent was second in 58.97 while Middleton's Kayla Beckwith who is also a junior was third in 58.99.


Milwaukee North was a D2 school for the 2008 seaosn but this year is designated a D1 school. Last season Allen set records in D2 in the 100m and 200m dash events at the WIAA State Meet.


Tasha Allen set a Myrhum record in the 400m. The old record was set by Micky Logan of Kettle Moraine in 1984. Logan's time was 58.3.

Left: Tasha Allen with 30 meters to go in the 400m dash event. Above: Milwaukee Vincent 100m sprinter Ashanti Benson congratulates Allen after Allen won the 100m dash in 12.14. The 12.14 broke the old record of 12.2 set in 1985 by Dana Butzman of Arrowhead.


Above L-R: Heat 4 of 4 of the 100m finals- Molly Storm [Sussex Hamilton], Samantha Smith [Gary [IN] Lew Wallace], Ashanti Benson [Milwaukee vincent], Tasha Allen, Felicia Carlson [Beloit Memorial], and Chelan Landry [Milwakee Vincent]. Below: Top three in the 100m dash [L-R] - Ashanti Benson, Tasha Allen, and Felicia Carlson.


Above L-R 100m HH: Arrowhead's Phoebe Nygren [2nd, 16.49], winner Sherice Hewitt a junior from Milwaukee Vincent [15.51] and third place finisher Erin McCauley a ninth grader from Middleton [16.57].


Right: Sophomore Janessa Rios from Pewaukee. With her time Hewitt climbed to the #4 spot on the Week 8 HR list for the 100m HH event.


In the 300m LH race Nygren was first in 47.57 while McCauley was second and Hewitt third.



Start of Heat 2 of the 1600m race. Eighteen girls teams competed at the Myrhum Invite. Host Arrowhead won the meet with 114.50 points while Middleton [97.50], Milwaukee Vincent [85], Madison La Follette [54] and Wauwatosa West [47] placed 2-5.

Above: Fourth place finisher Sarah Baltisberger [Madison La Follette] and winner Molly Seidel [5:14.23] a ninth grader from University Lake School.

Above left: Sophomore Emily Bacchuber from D2 Shorewood finished third in the 1600m run.



Above center: University Lake School's Molly Seidel held off several challenges during the 1600m event. Morgan Sickles [blue uniform] a junior from Waukesha Catholic Memorial was second [5:17.87].



Seidel is pictured on the left in the last 50 meters of the 1600m race. Later in the meet Seidel ran a 2:23.88 in the 800m to place third behind 800m winner Andie Zeman [Arrowhead] and second place 800m runner Emily Bacchuber from Shorewood.



Molly Seidel finished first in the D3 WIAA 2008 Cross Country Championships held at the Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapds, November 1, 2008. University Lake School is located in the Hartland area and has an enrollment of 84 students.



Ashlee Ballinger [left and above] a junior from Wauwatosa West won a jump-off to finish first in the HJ event. Ballinger made 5' 02


Ashanti Benson [left and above] a junior from Milwaukee Vincent finished second in the HJ at the Myrhum Invitational. She cleared a height of 5' 02


Big '8' rival head girl coaches John Neumann from Madison La Follette and Tara Franklin from Middleton are pictured as they traveled to the throwing event areas on the campus at Arrowhead High School.



Clockwise from above left: Discus winner Breanna Strupp [121' 04] a senior from Slinger. Second place in the discus event went to Sam Steinbring [119' 07] who is also a senior from Slinger. Tiffany Wade a senior from Madison La Follette was third while her sister Tamara Wade was seventh.


Strupp and Steinbring are two of the Slinger throwers who have shown up as a relay team from Slinger on the HR 'Odd Relays' lists. The Slinger trio of throwers is #1 in the shot and #5 on the discus relay team list for week 8.


Left: Long jump winner Jenna Jubeck a ninth grader from Arrowhead [16' 00.50].


Laura McGinnis [above left] from Middleton in the LJ [3rd].

Liz Eaves [above center] from Arrowhead in the TJ.

Right: TJ winner senior Samia Taylor from Madison La Follette .


D2 Pewaukee won the 4x8 in l0:05.90. Relay runners L-R: Jacki Tarrence, Kelsey Lorenz, Jade Ralz, and anchor Hannah Frett. Lorenz, Ralz and Frett are pictured below.


Arrowhead won the 4x2 in 1:46.75 beating Sussex Hamilton by .12 seconds. Relay members L-R: Liz Duchow, Heather Bong, Ali Slater and Mariah Berendes. Heather Bong won the 200m in 24.93. This broke the meet record of 25.0 set by Jackie Fritz from Mukwonago in 1989.

Above and right: 4x2 relay runners.