2013 WIAA TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS: 100m, 200m, and 400m Dash Events
Above: 5/100ths of second separated 1st and 2nd in the D3 100m dash. With 50m to go Jen Wellnitz [#5] and Abby Brown [#4] are even. Wellnitz won the Gold Medal with a time of 12.73 while Brown posted a 12.78 to win the Silver Medal. Also shown are Kira Dittman [#6], Brooke Bahr [#2] and Jessika Dieringer [#1].
Above 400m dash athletes L-R: Brittany Davis [Benton, Scales Mound, IL-Shullsburg, 2nd], Kayla Neff [EC Regis, 3rd], Rachel Winter [Manitowoc Lutheran, 4th], and Liz Bohn [St. Mary's Springs, 6th].
Right: Gold Medal 400m winner Elizabeth Pospyhalla [Edgar, 57.84]. Pospyhalla also won the D3 400m in 2012, was 2nd in 2011, and third in 2010.
Wrightstown junior Bonnie Draxler [3rd from right above] won three Gold Medals at the 2013 State Meet. She started Saturday by winniing the 100m dash event [above]. The D2 junior also won the 400m dash and PV events.
100m dash athletes above L-R: Kyla Blackmon [Brown Deer, 7th], Aimee Rice-Strand [Osceola, 2nd], Nadia Williams [Mount Horeb, 3rd], winner Bonnie Draxler [12.57], Kayleigh Topel [Lake Mills, 6th], and Kailey Reynolds [Whitewater, 4th].
Above D1 100m dash athletes in the finals L-R: Tahtyana Peer [Milwaukee King, 5th], Gabby Beauvais [Monona Grove, 2nd], winner Hannah Rohde [Waukesha West, 12.44], ToNaya Gulley [Kenosha Tremper, 3rd], Jackie Baldwin [Kenosha Bradford, 4th], and Alexis Redd-Triggs [Milwaukee King, 6th].
Below left: Beauvais, Rohde, and Gulley at the 40m mark.
Below right: With 50m to go in the 100m dash event Rohde was not in a position that gave Wolverine fans confidence. But she shifted into another gear and barely edged Gabby Beauvais 12.44 to 12.45 at the finish line.
Above 200m dash athletes in the finals L-R: Ambria Avery [Wisconsin Lutheran, 9th], Alissa Ewing [Brookfield Central, 8th], Bennisha Nunn [Racine Case, 7th], Danielle Riggins [Kenosha Tremper, 3rd], Tahtyana Peer [Milwaukee King , 2nd], winner Hannah Rohde [Waukesha West, 24.77], Gabby Beauvais [Monona Grove, 4th], Cassy Goodrich [Union Grove], Sara Grange [Grafton,5th], and Angel Malone [Milwaukee Riverside, 10th].
Left: 200m winner Hannah Rohde.
Below: 200m runners come out of the turn L-R: Danielle Riggins, Tahtyana Peer, Cassy Goodrich, Hannah Rohde, Gabby Beauvais, and Sara Grange.
Above left: 400m Gold Medal winner Hannah Rohde. Rohde's time of 54.92 broke the record of Chidera Obasih [Brookfield Central] who recorded a 55.18 in 2010.
Abover center: Rohde and Tahtyana Peer [Milwaukee King, 3rd] with 50m to go in the 400m dash.
Above right: 400m finalist Elise Ditscheit [Wauwatosa West, 5th].
Above 400m dash athletes L-R: Cassy Goodrich [Union Grove, 2nd], Tahtyana Peer [Milwaukee King, 3rd], Sara Grange [Grafton, 4th], and Taylor Naatz [Watertown, 6th].
Midway through the 2013 season Edgar's Elizabeth Pospyhalla [above far right] began running in 200m events. Her times were most impressive. As the season unfolded the three time D3 800m State Champion concentrated on the 200m. The result was a Gold Medal for Pospyhalla in the 200m dash State Finalist.
200m dash athletes above in the finals of the 200m L-R: Brittany Davis [Benton-Scales Mound [IL]-Shullsburg, 5th], Kira Dittman [Edgar, 2nd], Abby Brown [Newman Catholic, 3rd], and D2 200m State Champion Edgar's Elizabeth Posapyhalla [25.75].
Left: D3 200m Gold medal winner Elizabeth Pospyhalla in the 200m dash finals.
Above center 200m dash athletes L-R: Jen Wellnitz [Blackhawk, 4th] and Rachel Winter [Manitowoc Lutheran [6th].
Above right: 400m dash athlete Jessika Dieringer on the medal stand [Ozaukee, 5th in 400m dash].
Above 100m dash athletes at the 50m mark L-R: Kyla Blackmon, Aimee Rice-Strand, Nadia Williams, Bonnie Draxler, Kayleigh Topel, and Kailey Reynolds.
Below 400m dash athletes in the prelims L-R: Courtney Kalous [Milwaukee Lutheran, 4th in finals], Alexis Farrington [Shorewood, 6th in finals], Frankie Morris [East Troy, 2nd in finals], and Denielle Gerrietts [Kettle Moraine Lutheran, 3rd in finals].
Above 200m dash athletes L-R: Jaali Parrish [Viroqua, 2nd], Kyla Blackmon [Brown Deer, 4th], winner Aimee Rice-Strand [Osceola, 25.57], Natalie Broome [Somerset, 3rd], and Kayleigh Topel [Lake Mills, 5th].
Left: 200m dash athlete Madeline Tompach [Columbus, 6th].
Right: 200m Gold Medal winner Aimee Rice-Strand [Osceola].
Below: 400m finals L-R: Jaali Parrish [Viroqua, 5th] and winner Bonnie Draxler [Wrightstown, 56.19].
Below right: 400m Gold Medal winner Bonnie Draxler.
Above finals of the 100m dash L-R: Kayla Neff [EC Regis, 7th], Enyo Amet [The Prairie School, 6th], Karina Marchan [Wild Rose, 10th], Taylor Juresh [Royall, 8th], Kira Dittman [Edgar, 3rd], winner Jen Wellnitz [Blackhawk, 12.73], Abby Brown [Newman Catholic, 2nd], Megan Wadsworth [Catholic Central, 4th], Brooke Bahr [Blair-Taylor, 5th], and Jessika Dieringer [Ozaukee, 9th].
