Top Ten Highlights Select Athletes

Top Ten

The Top Ten track meet was held in Glasgow May 3. Meant to highlight the top ten athletes in each event, the meet produced some inspiring performances.

Although the athletes participating were serious about the competition, the evening was fairly relaxed, the competition was friendly, and sportsmanship was prevalent.

The Scotties were well represented and finished strong.

Both Leinie Hughes and Luke Breigenzer qualified for the state meet. With her qualifying throw of 34-08.50 in the shot put, Hughes placed third and achieved a personal best. Breigenzer is headed for the state meet after a 16.14 run in the 110m hurdles, which earned him top spot on the podium Tuesday.

Also competing in the 110m hurdles was Ethan Etchart, who finished fourth with a time of 17.15.

Senior Alex Simensen earned second place in two of her individual races with a time of 13.19 in the 100m dash and a time of 27.10 in the 200m dash. In addition, Simensen ran a leg on both girls' relays.

In one inspiring performance for the Scotties, Brooke Westby cut more than 20 seconds off her previous PR in the 3200m run and earned a second-place medal with her time of 13:10.32.

Teagan Fossum bested her previous PR in the same race by five seconds and earned a spot on the podium with a fourth-place run of 2:33.26.

With a notable performance of her own, returning to competition after an illness, senior Julia Kolstad ran the 100m hurdles in 17.00 for third place, which was also a new personal best for her.

Jordan Kulczyk placed fourth in the long jump with a distance of 15-06.50. She also ran a leg of each relay for the girls.

The girls' short relay finished in first place with a time of 52.15, with Baylie Chappell, Kulczyk, Simensen and Emily Kolstad each running a leg for the Scotties. The boys' short relay also placed first with a time of 45.50, with Breigenzer, Etchart, Trent Herbert and Benji Phillips each running a leg.

For the girls' long relay, Simensen, Kolstad and Kulczyk were joined by lead-off runner Brinlie Nielsen to finish second with a time of 4:16.61, which was another PR for the team. Also earning a PR was the boys' long relay with a time of 3:36.86. Breigenzer, Phillips and Etchart were joined by Brett Glaser for a third-place finish.

In addition to his qualifying run in the 110m hurdles, Breigenzer earned his second medal of the evening with a second-place finish in the 300m hurdles.

Phillips struggled a bit in the javelin with what appeared to be some knee discomfort, but still finished the event on top with a throw of 178-08. In addition to the javelin and the two relays, Phillips placed fourth in the 100m dash in a time of 11.53, and second in the long jump with a leap of 20-09.00.

Freshman Cade Myrick set a personal best and claimed fourth place in the 1600m run with a time of 4:46.64.

Finally, senior thrower Trevor Toavs earned a second-place medal with his throw of 132-00 in the discus.

Throughout the meet, athletes from different towns could be seen encouraging and congratulating each other, which is just as inspiring as the great athletic performances. It says a lot about the caliber of athletes we have in Montana.

Wolf Point

The Wolf Point track meet was held May 6. Glasgow girls easily won the meet with 203 points. Saco finished 6th with 20 points, Lustre Christian 7th with 14 points, Whitewater 9th with 12 points, Nashua 12th with four points, Hinsdale 13th with two points and Frazer 14th with one point.

The boys placed third with 73.5 points behind Wolf Point (98 points) and Harlem (92 points). Whitewater finished 6th with 43 points, Frazer 7th with 31 points, Hinsdale 11th with 12 points, and Lustre Christian 12th with eight points.

Glasgow individual results:

Boys

400m Ethan Etchart 4th, 55.78; Brett Glaser 5th, 56.78.

800m Cade Myrick 1st, 2:17; Merlin McKean 5th, 2:21.

1600m Ellis McKean 1st, 5:13.

3200m Cade Myrick 1st, 11:02.06; Ellis McKean 2nd, 11:02.42.

1600m relay team 1st, 4:05.97.

Pole vault Logan Gunderson and Cody King tied for 1st, 10-00.

Girls

100m Julia Kolstad 1st, 13.94; Emily Kolstad 4th, 14.12.

200m Emily Kolstad 4th, 29.40.

200m Karissa Liebelt 6th, 30.40.

400m Emily Kolstad 1st, 66.55.

800m Teagan Fossum 2nd, 2:33; Morgan Guttenberg 5th, 2:53.

3200m Brooke Westby 1st, 13:42.53; Morgan Guttenberg 2nd, 13:56.13 (PR).

100m hurdles, Julia Kolstad 1st, 16.94; Alaina Sallee 4th, 19.53 (PR); Kaylee King 5th, 20.23; Katie Kaiser 6th, 23.42.

300m hurdles, Julia Kolstad 1st, 53.11; Alaina Sallee 3rd, 55.63 (PR).

400m relay team 1st, 54.04.

1600m relay team 1st, 4:31.32.

Shot put Leinie Hughes 1st, 34-9.5 (PR).

Javelin Jordan Kulczyk 1st, 99-07; Teagan Fossum 2nd, 98-08 (PR); Alex Simensen 5th, 87-00.

High jump Kaylee King 3rd, 4-08; Baylie Chappell 4th, 4-04; Alaina Sallee 5th, 4-04.

Pole Vault Katie Kaiser 1st, 8-06; Alex Simensen 3rd, 7-06; Kaylee King 4th, 7-06 (PR).

Long jump Karissa Liebelt 1st, 15-01.5; Jordan Kulczyk 2nd, 15-01.

Triple jump Alaina Sallee 2nd, 29-00; Karissa Liebelt 4th, 27-11.5.

Also achieving personal bests were: Ashlyn Aten, long jump, 12'10"; Cordelia Nickels, javelin, 82'6"; Auguste Salyards, javelin, 70' and discus, 48'6"; Natosha Sand, shot put, 25'8.5" and discus, 61'6"; Walker Allen, pole vault, 9'; Alex Fransen, shot put, 30'5"; Tayson Hoerster, long jump, 14'3"; and Shane Sinclair, long jump, 15'5".

The Scotties will be competing in the district meet here in Glasgow on Saturday, May 14.