2009 WIAA Track And Field Championships: Hurdle

Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6, 2009: Veterans Memorial Stadium @ UW-La Crosse. Results.




Partial view of the Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex


'Indees' Cheyenne Gray And 'Wildcats' Tessa Thurs Win Hurdle Events


Above L-R [Finals of the D3 100m HH]: Cheyenne Gray an Independence-Gilmanton junior won the Gold Medal with a 15.49 clocking. Wausau Newman Catholic sophomore Teresa Rock was second [15.57], and ninth grader Tessa Thurs of Edgar was third [15.98]. Rock helped the 'Fighting Cardinals' to a D3 team Championsip. Newman edged Edgar 54- 50.50 to win the team championship. Independence - Gilmanton was third [40.50] and last years champion Whitehalll was fourth.

Saturday's rain made it tough on the athletes although all three athletes above had better times on Saturday than their times in the ideal conditions on Friday. Gray is shown below in the preliminaries. Also shown are Caitlin Thomson [soph, Whitehall, 7th] and Kyrsten Carter [sr, Coleman, 5th].



Above: 100m preliminaries [L-R] Teresa Rock and Tessa Thurs.


Left: 300m D3 LH winner ninth grader Tessa Thurs [45.71 - picture from preliminaries] from the Edgar Wildcats.



Erin Kline And Ashley Maxon Win HH And LH Events


Finals of the D2 100m HH L-R]: Winner Erin Kline a senior from Luxemburg-Casco [15.17], second place finisher Stephanie Zambrowicz [Ripon senior, 15.45], third place finisher Alexa Lewin [Freedom senior, 15.86], amd Gina Hanzlik [Somerset senior, 16.24]. Below: Erin Kline [left] and Stephanie Zambrowicz [right].



Left: Ashley Maxon [blue jersey] and Amelia Campbell. Maxon won the 300m LH event with a time of 45.35.



Maxon is a senior from Random Lake. Campbell was third in 46.23. She is a ninth grader from Sturgeon Bay.



Above: Second place 300m LH finisher Megan Gwyn a junior from Northland Pines.



Homestead's Savitch And Kettle Moraine's Berg Win HH And LH Races


Finals of the D1 100m HH L-R: Samantha Berg [Kettle Moraine, Sr, 2nd, 14.98], winner Marissa Savitch [Homestead, sophomore,14.67], Katelyn Malcore [Brookfield Central, junior, 5th, 15.61], and Shelby Demos [Janesville Parker, senior, 4th, 15.27]. Hidden - 2nd from left [Maddie Emme, Watertown, junior, 3rd, 15.09].


100m HH preliminaries L-R: Shelby Demos [Janesville parker], Sherice Hewett [Milwaukee Vincent], Samantha Berg [Kettle Moraine], Katelyn Malcore [Brokfield Central], and Maddie Emme [Watertown.

Below: Marissa Savitch [Homestead].



Kettle Moraine senior Samantha Berg [left] won the 300m D1 Gold Medal with a time of 45.30. Maya Carter [above] a sophomore from Racine Case was second in the 300m LH [45.82].



L-R: High hurdlers Danielle Allen [Oshkosh North], Gina Gigot [Green Bay Preble], and Kali Kramolis [River Falls] in the preliminaries.