Weather Cannot Stop Excellent Efforts By Athletes

Friday, May 7, 2010, at Deerfield High School. Results

Despite overcast conditions, a cool night and a rain that never seemed to go away, seventeen D2 and D3 teams competed at Deerfield. Fans came well equiped and the tent city put up by athletes gave a welcome escape from the weather. Above: Finals of the 100m dash L-R: Bobbie Bush [Omro], Alexis Hanson [Sugar River], Kalee Luedtke [Lomira], Marlene Miggins [3rd, Marshall], Ashley Wolff [2nd, Lake Mills], Lydia Sontelle [4th, Princeton-Green Lake], and winner Amanda Obot [sophomore, Omro].

Obot won the trifecta of the dash events taking the 100m, 200m, and 400m titles. Her wins helped Omro to the team title and a shorter bus ride home as Omro outpointed second place Darlington and third place Lake Mills. Obot is pictured below in the prelims.

Heat 3 of the 100m prelims L-R: Michele Wentz [Abundant Life], Chayse Hermanson [Darlington], Marlene Miggins [Marshall], Megan Collins [Deerfield], Heather Smith [Omro], and Danielle Grycowski [Lomira].

200m preliminaries- Above L-R: Megan Collins [Deerfield], Briana Dunkleberger [Lake Mills], Hannah Huffman [Darlington].

Below L-R: Jazmynn Jarlsberg [Cambridge], Amanda Obot [Omro], and Lydia Sondalle [Princeton -Green Lake].



Distance runners are seldom fazed by the weather. Running in the cool weather and the rain did not stop the Bulldogs from Pardeeville from winning the 4x8 relay event and moving to #2 on the D3 4x8 HR List. Teammembers were [Above L-R]: Brooke Jarchow, Chelsea Becker, Danielle Jarchow, and Anne Ritter. Below: The Sugar River Raiders [Black uniforms-Belleville-New Glarus] provided a spirited duel in the 4x8 finishing second to Pardeeville.
Above L-R: In the 100m HH finals Lindsey Newhaueser [12, Lomira], sophomore Jessica Will [Omro] winner of the 100m HH race, and Omro senior Megan Kasubowski.




Right L-R: In a preliminary heat Omro's Megan Kasubowski and Lomira's Lindsey Newhauser attack the hurdles in the early part of the race.




Below left: Jessica Will in the 100m HH preliminaries. Will completed her hurdle sweep by winning the 300m LH event. Her 300 time of 46.82 [HHT, adjusted to 47.14] , moved her to the top of the Week 8 D2 300m LH HR List.
Above right: Pardeeville's Taylor Hayes begins to take control on the gun lap of the 1600m run. She is pursued by Cambridge runner Katie Hampton who finished second.

Left L-R: Heat 2 of the 1600m showing the start with Victoria Radebaugh [Lake Mills], Christa Warmsley [Darlington], Jamie Brown [Sugar River], Sophie Ptachschinski [Wayland Academy], Emilie Boomsma [Columbus], Katie Hampton [Cambridge], and Taylor Hayes [Pardeville].

Left: Deerfield's Stephanie Jahn anchors the Demons 4x2 relay.

Above: Second exchange in the 4x2. Below left: Start of the 4x2.

Below right: Briana Dunkleberger anchored the winning Lake Mills 4x2 realy team.


Above L-R: D2 Lake Mills won the 4x2 with Briana Dunkleberger, Ashley Wolff, Denay Hering, and Jessica Powers.

Above L-R: Long jump athletes Marianna Esveld [9, Fall River], Jackie Wolff [12, Dodgeland], and winner Briana Dunkleberger a junior from Lake Mills. Dunkleberger is shown jumping 16' 09.50 in the preliminaries. This distance held up as the winning jump. Note- Athletes are creative and despite a lack of gloves they found a way to keep their hands warm.

Above: Lomira junior Kaylee Luedtke in the LJ.

Right: Senior Lindsey Newhauser from Lomira takes off on a jump in the LJ event.

Concentration is a must in the toolbox of skills needed by high jumpers. Each of the athletes pictured used a different pre-jump routine but all the routines had one purpose. That purpose was to defeat an opponent in the form of a bar placed at a height that sometimes exceeds the height of the athlete. Above L-R: Lauren Carpenter [Cambridge], Ashley Brusveen [Sugar River], and Marshall senior Marlene Miggins.

Below L-R: Darlington athlete Abigail Merriam a ninth grader and HJ winner Anne Rauschert a junior from Wayland Academy.