Drake Relays: Wahlert Women Win Again-to-back 4x2 Titles

Libby Wedewer missed the 100-meter last by half a step. Anna Sherman was just getting back on the observe. Bailey Hasken simply needed one other Drake title. And Claire Broderick didn’t need to let her teammates down.


Motivated by setbacks, the Dubuque Wahlert ladies 4x200 group took to Drake Stadium on Friday with a way of vengeance. With a time of 1:42.03 — practically 2 full seconds quicker than runner-up Waukee — the Golden Eagles repeated as the prep Drake Relays 4x2 champions in Des Moines.


"After last yr, we actually had a goal on our backs coming in," said Sherman, a senior who received the same occasion at Drake last year with Hasken, Wedewer and 2017 graduate Jackie Ganshirt.


Sherman has had a rough go this season. She was sidelined for weeks battling mono and only recently returned to competitors, making Friday’s title all the more satisfying.


"Now that we’re all again together, we thought this was our race to win," Sherman stated. "I took 22 days off, so I used to be very nervous about getting again ... I simply discovered it within myself and knew what I needed to do."


Broderick — Wahlert’s 4x2 "newcomer" — mentioned it’s humbling to fill the footwear of Ganshirt, an athlete who helped set multiple school records at Wahlert. But this experienced group has made it simple to fit right in.


"I was really nervous in the beginning," Broderick said. "But they calmed my nerves. That actually helped."


Wedewer and Hasken each ran the 100-meter preliminaries earlier in the day. Hasken missed the minimize with the thirteenth-quickest prelim time. For Wedewer it was even more heartbreaking: she completed at 12.654 seconds, just 2 thousandths slower than Amaria Kirby’s time for the eighth and remaining spot.

Each runners said missing the lower fueled their fire.

"Obviously I was dissatisfied a bit of bit because it would’ve been cool to win," mentioned Wedewer, who also placed twenty fourth in the long jump on Friday. "I simply used that anger in the relay."


The Eagles could possibly be poised for more success today because the Drake Relays come to a close. The same foursome of Hasken, Wedewer, Sherman and Broderick clocked the quickest 4x100 qualifying time at 49.10 seconds. In the same event, Hempstead positioned twenty first, Dyersville Beckman 26th and Western Dubuque 35th to miss qualifying.

Wahlert will run the 4x100 and 4x400 finals at this time.

Additionally at Drake:


Rams win medley medal — Dubuque Senior’s boys distance medley staff of Spencer Schilling, Chris Chapman, Angelo Romagna and Jalen Hildebrand has a 3rd-place medal to take home after clocking 3:32.34. Urbandale received the occasion at 3:30.25, a race that additionally featured Western Dubuque, which positioned twelfth.


Hildebrand also completed ninth within the 800 — his third event of competition at Drake — alongside Wahlert’s Luke Hilby, who placed 11th. Romagna is scheduled to run within the four hundred hurdles right this moment at hogan uomo 12:Fifty two p.m. The Rams also certified for the 4x400 ultimate.


Regardless of inserting fourth in the first heat of the boys 4x100 preliminaries, the Bobcats clocked the sixth-fastest time to qualify for today’s remaining within the event. Will Burds, Zack Butcher, Daniel Fagerlind and Collin Hogan Shoes uomo (click the next internet site) will run in the final at 3:36 p.m.


Bahl for the Bobcats — WD’s Elayna Bahl earned some hardware after qualifying for the ladies 100-meter hurdle final with a sixth-greatest 15.30-second time. She then shaved her run to a personal-record 15.18 to position fourth general. Waukee’s Sydney Winger gained the occasion at 14.31.


For the boys, WD’s Freddie Hosch finished twenty fourth in the a hundred and ten hurdles at 15.77 and missed qualifying for the ultimate.


Local alums shine in school — A number of acquainted faces both earned medals or put their colleges in place to take action on the faculty ranks.


North Dakota State’s Maddy Nilles, a Wahlert grad, had a 49.19-meter toss, good for sixth in the women’s discus. The event featured Northern Iowa’s Hope Koerperich, formerly of Hempstead, who positioned 19th general.


In the women’s 1,500, fellow Panther Brette Correy placed fourth at 4:27.00 — a private report for the Western Dubuque product. And in the women’s 4x400, Wahlert alum Betsy Duehr helped Wartburg qualify for today’s final with a time of 3:50.36.


Tanasha Atwater of Dubuque positioned eighth in the women’s shot put at 14.71. And UD’s men’s 4x100 group qualified for today’s ultimate at 41.9 seconds. The Loras men missed qualifying at 15th place. The Spartan girls medaled with an eighth place within the shuttle hurdle. UD’s men placed 14th in the identical event and Loras 17th.


Kilgore masters the 800 — Rams cross country coach Paul Kilgore showed his runners what it’s all about. He positioned fifth total within the men’s masters division 800 with a time of 2:07.45.