Wisconsin Athletes At The Olympic Trials

Friday, June 22 - Sunday, July 1, 2012 at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon, . Results

Archive photographs by Dave Figi






At the 2010 WIAA State Meet Seymour senior Jessica Maroszek [left, WIAA 2010] set an All-Division SP record with a throw of 49' 04.50 and won the D1 discus with a distance of 157' 04.

Maroszek then went on to the University of Kansas on a track and field scholarship where she just finished her sophomore year.

At the Olympic Trials Maroszekj finished 20th with a best throw of 163' 6 on Friday, June 22.

At the 2004 State Meet Sussex Hamilton senior Kellyn Johnson [right, WIAA 2004] won the D1 Gold Medal in the 1600m run with a time of 5:01.35.

She added a Silver Medal to her 2004 State Meet accomplishments by placing second in the 3200m run and also qualified for the 800m run at the same meet.

Johnson went on to run at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.

Johnson finished her college running career at Witchita State University and then returned as a volunteer assistant caoch at Witchita State.

Johnson now resides in Flagstaff, AZ, where she is a professional runner for the Adidas- Mcmillan Elite - Team USA Arizona.

At the Olympic Trials Johnson finished 10th in the 10,000m run on Friday, June 22 during Day 2 of the trials.

On Monday, June 25th, she qualified for the finals of the 5,000m run to be held on Thursday, June 28 [on TV 9-11 PM EST on NBCSN].

Johanna Schultz [Holmen, 2006] is pictured above at the 2005 State Meet and to the left at the 2006 State Meet.

Along with Molly Seidel [ULS, 2012] she is the only athlete to win two different events four years in a row. Schultz won the 200m and 400m dash events in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.

After graduating from Holmen Schultz went on to star at Notre Dame University.

The past two years she has been a volunteer assistent at Wake Forest University.

On Thursday, June 28, she will compete in the Olympiuc Trials for the 400m hurdle event.


2005 Brown Deer graduate Megan Seidl is pictured above at the 2005 Nelson-Daniels [Small School] Classic in 2005. She won the HJ [5' 04] at that meet. At the 2005 State Meet she jumped 5' 06 for third place behind winner Megan Plourde [5' 07, Somerset] and Becca Buchholtz [5' 06, East Troy].

Seidl competed at the University of Wisconsin.

She will compete in the Olympic Trials High Jump event on Thursday, June 28.







Heather Miller [Columbus, 2005] is pictured above and left at the WIAA 2005 State Meet where she competed in the LJ [5th], TJ [6th], 400m dash and anchored the D2 Columbus 4x4 team to a 2nd place finish.

She went on to star at St Cloud State [MN] where she was the Division II National Champion in the indoor pentathlon.

She has qualified for the The Olympic Trials for the heptathlon which began Friday, June 30 in the morning and runs through Saturday afternoon, July 1.


Lindsay Schwartz [Watertown, 2008] is pictured at the 2008 WIAA State Meet where she won the Gold Medal int he D1 100m HH and 300m LH events and the Silver Medal in the HJ. She went on to compete at the University of South Alabama. She has qualified for the Olympic Trials in the heptathlon.

At the Olympic Trials Schwartz continued to impress as she set three new PR's and set a new South Alabama school record in the heptathlon.


Lindsay Schwartz at the Olympic Trials

Photo by Kevin FitzPatrick


Waukesha South 2006 graduate Samantha Sonnenberg is shown above at the 2006 WIAA State Meet [2nd in D1, 11' 09]. She went on to compete at the University of Minnesota where in 2010 she had the second best PV performance [14' 01.25] in school history. Sonnenberg competed at the Olympic Trials.


Samantha Sonnenberg of Waukesha South is shown clearing 12' 06.00 at the 2006 Classic 8 Varsity Indoor Championships held at the Waukesha South Field House on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Sonnenberg is shown below with Waukesha pole vault coach Jay Woodard.

The pictures at the Classic 8 Indoor Meet were taken by Mark Woodford