2011 North Shore Indoor Championships

Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Homestead High School. Results

Cedarburg, Germantown, Grafton, Homestead, Milwaukee Lutheran, Nicolet, Port Washington,and Whitefish Bay competed at Homestead in the North Shore Conference Championships. Milwaukee Lutheran is a D2 school while the other schools are D1. Whitefish Bay won the meet scoring 103 points followed by host Homestead and Milwaukee Lutheran.

|--------| The distance between the two vertical lines on the left is 1/2 of an inch. That was the distance that separated 1st and 2nd in the LJ competition. Seniors Marissa Savitch [Homestead, above right] and Alex Schad [Milwaukee Lutheran, above center] both had outstanding jumps. Savitch jumped 17' 11.50 to 'inch' out Schad's 17' 11.00 jump for first place. Germantown's Bethany Laubenheimer [3rd, 16' 00.50] is pictured above left.

Savitch Breaks North Shore Conference 55m High Hurdle Record

Badger recruit Marissa Savitch broke the 55m HH conference record of 8.4 [HHT] set in 1987 by Grafton's Julie Wojcik. Savitch left no doubt about her objective as she blazed to a 8.34 clocking. This also broke her indoor record of 8.38 set in 2010. She is pictured [Above right] grazing hurdle #2. This hurdle was out of alignment by about 2 inches [forward of the other hurdles] which was enough for her to just catch the top of the hurdle. However she powered through that near fall to set the North Shore Conference indoor record in the 55m HH.

Above heat 1 of the HH competition L-R: Savanna Searcy [Milwaukee Lutheran], Katie Neiman [Cedarburg], Megan Ziesemer [Homestead], Jayda Watkins [Whitefish Bay], and Emily Jeniga [Milwaukee Lutheran].

Above heat 3 of the 55m dash L-R: Melinda Gayle [Homestead], Britanie Chmiel [Homestead], Monica Mitchell [Whitefish Bay], Bethany Laubenheimer [Germantown], and Anna Bednarcyzyk [Whitefish Bay].

Heat 4 of 4 of the 55m dash L-R: Jnana Martin [Nicolet], Alex Schad [Milwaukee Lutheran, 4th], Marissa Savitch [Homestead. 1st in 7.56 ], and Sara Grange [Grafton, 2nd in 7.60]. Tierra Brown [Milwaukee Lutheran] was third.

400m dash athletes Sammie Gassner [Germantown, 3rd, above left], Alex Holtz [Homestead,2nd, above right and below left], and Payton Greisch [Port Washington, 1st in 1:04.80, above right and below right].

1600m runners above L-R: Kenzie Vicker [Whitefish Bay, 1st in 5:24.14], Bianca Benkley [Port Washington, 3rd], Vicker, Caitlin Dillon [Germantown, 5th], Vicker, and Lauren Holtz [Homestead, 2nd]. Kenzie Vicker is a senior at Whitefish Bay and also won the 3200m run. Lauren Holtz won the 800m run.

Below L-R: Vicker and Benkley



Above leg 1 of the 4x8 relay: Sara Coffey [Whitefish Bay] and Courtney Kalaus [Milwaukee Lutheran]. Below: Milwaukee Lutheran 2nd and 3rd runners Angie Siegel [below left] and Morgan Mcolash [below right] opened a lead for the Red Knights.

Above left: Leg 3 runners chasing Mcolash from Milwaukee Lutheran. Above right: Emma Sapiro Milwaukee Lutheran anchor. The Red Knights finished 2nd in the 4x8 followed by Port Washington, Homestead, and Grafton.

The Blue Dukes from Whitefish Bay won the 4x8. Above L-R: Sarah Coffey, Alana Blegan, Emily Garcia, and anchor Ally Spiroff [2nd in the 800m run].
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Above left: Red Knight anchor Tierra Brown takes the baton from Lindsey Smith. Brown finished strong as the Red Knights [1:31.02] held off Whitefish Bay [1:31.14] to win the four lap relay. Above right: Lindsey Smith gets the baton from Charese Hampton. Below and top: Alex Schad hands off to Charese Hampton.



Above L-R: Nicolet vaulters Laura Lebrun and Kim Charles. Charles won the PV [9' 03] and Labrun was 4th.



Right: HJ winner Frankie Carroll of Whitefish Bay.

Each jumper concentrates in a special way. However a common thread in that concentration is how to defeat gravity. Above L-R: Frankie Carroll [Whitefish Bay, 1st], Sara Grange [Grafton, 4th], and Anna Pierringer [Port Washington, 5th].

Above: HJ athlete Beth Kuske [Germantown].

Left: Shot put winner Gaby Bronson [Nicolet] also placed third in the HJ. Bronson was a member of the D1 State Champion Nicolet basketball team.

Above: Cedarburg HJ athletes Shelby Graham [Above left, 2nd] and Kelly Lynch [Above right]