2012 D3 WIAA State Meet Athletes: Field

Friday and Saturday, June 3-4, 2011: Veterans Memorial Stadium at UW- La Crosse. D3 Results
Algoma's Kennedy Blahnik made a grand entrance into her high school track and field career by setting two D3 records. Blahnik [left and above center] threw the shot 47' 00.25 to win that event and set a new State Record.

Kailee Kamps [top right] [11,Belmont] won the Silver Medal with a put of 40' 07.50. Blahnik's team mate Karissa LeCaptain [above right] was fourth [12, Algoma, 39' 06].

Maddie Erickson pictured on the left [12, Glenwood City] placed 6th [ 38' 11].

Joe Frontier's photograph below of Kennedy Blahnik caught the Algoma athlete in the discus event where she set another D3 State Record with a distance of 150' 07.

Shot Put and Discus action photographs by Joe Frontier

Kennedy Blahnik D3 State Discus Champion and D3 Discus record holder

Above L-R: Discus athletes Kailee Kamps [12, Belmont, 2nd, 130' 03] and Leah Nass [12, Manitowoc Lutheran, 4th]

Leah Nass.

JoHannah Theisen

Above left: JoHannah Theisen [10, Eau Claire Regis, 6th]

Silver Medal winner in the LJ was Jena Heidmann [12, Edgar, 17' 02.50].

Above left: LJ Champion Audra Winter [12, Manitowoc Lutheran, 17' 05.75]. Top Center: Audra Winter. Above center: Jenna Ladsten [11, Blair-Taylor, 3rd in LJ].

Long jump athletes L-R: Brianna Wirkus [11, Marathon, 4th], Lindsey Kirchman [12, Algoma], and Lidia Frias [11, Iola - Scandanavia].

Fourteen of the sixteen triple jump competitors were seniors. The other two jumpers were juniors L-R: Leah Nass [12, Manitowoc Lutheran, 35' 04.75] took 4th while Tessa Thurs [12, Edgar, 35' 07.50] was second.

Audra Winter [12, Manitowoc Lutheran] excelled on the track and in the field at the 2011 State Meet. She is pictured above in the HJ event where she and Jenna Breaker [Graduated, Tigerton] both cleared 5' 06. Breaker won on fewer misses.

With her Silver Medal in the HJ Winter ended her weeked at the WIAA State Meet with a first in the LJ and Silver Medals in the 100m and 200m dash events. Winter's performances helped Manitowoc Lutheran to a second place team finish behind D3 Champion Edgar.

Below L-R: HJ athletes Alyssa Iserman [12, Southwestern, 4th] and Adriana Staples [10 Kenosha St. Josephs, 5th].

Left: Katelyn Hoppman [12, Southwestern, 6th].

Right: Cassidy Chambers [11, Darlington, 7th].

Marianna Esveld [11, Fall River]

HJ athletes L-R: Terissa Bierd [12, Deerfield], Stormy Gerndt [11, Suring], and Lillian George [ 12, Lake County Lutheran].

For the second year in a row Faryn Wirkus [12, Edgar, 11' 07] won the PV event and set a D3 State Record

Vaulters L-R: Marlena Wagner [11, Lena-St Thomas, 2nd 10' 03], Amanda Allbaugh [12, North Crawford, 4th], and Miranda Retz [12, Boyceville, 10th].

Valuters L-R: Kayla Wiggand [10, Waterloo], Heidi Lieffort [10, Colfax], and Erin Golz [10, Princeton-Green Lake].


Returning WIAA D3 Field Event Finalists From 2011

Event 15 Girls Shot Put Division 3
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State Record: * 47-00.25 6/3/2011 Kennedy Blahnik, Algoma
State Record: * 47-00.25 6/3/2011 Kennedy Blahnik, Algoma
Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Kennedy Blahnik 10 Algoma 45-06.00 47-00.25* 10
2 Kailee Kamps 12 Belmont 41-01.00 40-07.50 8
4 Karissa LeCaptain 12 Algoma 38-01.00 39-06.00 5
6 Maddie Erickson 12 Glenwood City 33-10.25 38-11.00 3
7 Ellen Sikorski 12 Cadott 35-02.25 37-00.00 2
8 JoHannah Theisen 10 Regis 35-03.75 36-10.50 1
10 Rachel Stone 12 Regis 35-11.00 35-09.00
11 Lydia Pomeroy 12 Hilbert 36-04.00 35-01.00
12 Kirsten Henry 11 Fennimore 37-02.50 34-08.50
13 Kendra Antony 11 Melrose-Mindoro 34-09.50 34-06.75
14 Jessica Janke 12 Athens 35-04.00 34-04.25
15 Carlie Lau 12 Hilbert 33-01.00 30-04.50

Event 82 Girls Discus Throw Division 3
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State Record: * 150-07 6/4/2011 Kennedy Blahnik, Algoma
Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Kennedy Blahnik 10 Algoma 150-11 150-07* 10
2 Kailee Kamps 12 Belmont 138-08 130-03 8
5 Leah Nass 12 Manitowoc Luther 120-04 129-00 4
6 JoHannah Theisen 10 Regis 122-02 124-11 3
13 Natalie Parker 12 Saint Mary's Spr 124-11 113-02
14 Maddie Erickson 12 Glenwood City 118-05 112-06
16 Rachel Maggi 11 Kohler 120-05 86-06

Event 8 Girls Long Jump Division 3
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State Record: * 18-06.50 2009 Aileen Lemanski, Florence
Name Year School Seed Finals Wind Points
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1 Audra Winter 12 Manitowoc Luther 16-02.50 17-05.75 NWI 10
2 Jena Heidmann 12 Edgar 16-06.50 17-02.50 NWI 8
3 Jenna Ladsten 11 Blair-Taylor 16-04.50 16-09.50 NWI 6
4 Brianna Wirkus 11 Marathon 15-04.50 16-04.75 NWI 5 2
10 Sami Grebe 11 Saint Mary's Spr 15-07.00 16-00.50 NWI
11 Hayley Bresina 12 McDonell Central 16-03.00 16-00.25 NWI
15 Lindsey Kirchman 12 Algoma 15-11.00 14-10.50 NWI
16 Lidia Frias 11 Iola-Scandinavia 15-00.00 14-09.00 NWI
-- Katelyn Hoppman 12 Southwestern 16-09.00 ND NWI

Event 97 Girls Triple Jump Division 3
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State Record: * 38-05 6/4/2011 Bria Halama, Independence/Gil
Name Year School Seed Finals Wind Points
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2 Tessa Thurs 12 Edgar 35-05.50 35-07.50 NWI 8
4 Leah Nass 12 Manitowoc Luther 35-08.75 35-04.75 NWI 5

Event 5 Girls High Jump Division 3
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State Record: * 5-09 2009 Rachel Melum, Iola-Scandinavia
Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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Finals
2 Audra Winter 12 Manitowoc Luther 5-02.00 5-06.00 8
4 Alyssa Iserman 12 Southwestern 5-01.00 5-02.00 5
5 Adriana Staples 10 Kenosha St. Jose 5-00.00 5-00.00 4
6 Katelyn Hoppman 12 Southwestern 5-01.00 5-00.00 3
7 Cassidy Chambers 11 Darlington 5-00.00 5-00.00 1
10 Elizabeth Pospyhalla 11 Edgar 5-00.00 5-00.00
11 Marianna Esveld 11 Fall River 5-01.00 5-00.00
12 Terissa Bierd 12 Deerfield 5-01.00 5-00.00
13 Emily Minniecheske 12 Tigerton 5-00.00 4-10.00
16 Stormy Gerndt 11 Suring 5-00.00 4-10.00
17 Lillian George 12 Lake Country Lut 5-00.00 4-08.00
-- Lexi Siverling 10 Cadott 4-11.00 NH

Event 90 Girls Pole Vault Division 3
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State Record: * 12-07 6/4/2011 Faryn Wirkus, Edgar
Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Faryn Wirkus 12 Edgar 12-00.00 12-07.00* 10
2 Marlena Wagner 11 Lena/St. Thomas 11-03.00 11-03.00 8
4 Amanda Allbaugh 12 North Crawford 9-06.00 9-09.00 4.50
10 Miranda Retz 12 Boyceville 8-06.00 9-00.00
11 Kayla Wiggand 10 Waterloo 8-09.00 8-00.00
-- Heidi Lieffort 10 Colfax 8-00.00 NH
-- Erin Golz 10 Princeton/Grn Lk 8-06.00 NH