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Senior Mallory Short leads a group of LCHS
athletes to the IHSA Class 2A Girls State Track and Field
Championships at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston this
weekend.
Short is making her fourth consecutive trip to State.
Short is joined in the 4x400m relay by Kyli Lund, Grace
Schneider and Bailey Tungate. These girls will run in the first
heat today at 1:35 p.m.
Lund and Schneider are making their third trip to State while
this is Tungate’s second trip to State. Tungate is a sophomore
who competed in the high jump last year at EIU. Tungate
basically takes Becca Heitzig’s spot on the relay team from last
year. So experience is definitely on their side. Natalie Geary
is the alternate for the relay team.
The girls competed at the IHSA Class 2A TRG Sectional at Pontiac
last Wednesday with the 4x400m relay team qualifying with a PR
of 4:11.01.
Short qualified for the 400m with an impressive PR of 58.54.
Short will run in the fourth heat today at approximately 12:35
p.m.
Brenley Bruns will be competing in the high jump today around
9:30 a.m. She finished in second place in the sectionals with a
jump of 1.54m (5’ 0.5”). Bruns is a junior.
Adalyn Varner will be throwing the discus today at 11:00 a.m.
She qualified for State with a throw of 34.93m (114’ 7”). Varner
is a sophomore.
The Prelims get underway today with the finals scheduled for
Saturday.
Congratulations and good luck today, Railsplitters! |
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