Phillipsburg High School girls’ track team captures league title and breaks records

At the Mid-Continent League track meet held at Phillipsburg on Friday, May 12, the Phillipsburg High School girls’ team captured the league title and saw several MCL and school records fall.

Senior Heather Schemper broke both the school record and the MCL meet record in the longjump when she jumped 18’1”. Schemper had not jumped since middle school and the league meet was her first attempt at the long jump in a meet this season. Schemper won the event.

Schemper also broke her own 400-meter school record with a time of 57.52, which was also a new MCL meet record. Schemper won the race.

Junior Caydence Corman also broke the school record in the pole vault when she vaulted 9’3” to take first.

Individual placings are as follows:

100M: freshman Chloe VanDerVeen, 8^th

200M: Schemper 1^st, senior Taryn Sides 2^nd, senior Trinitti Gross 7th

400M: Schemper 1^st, Sides 2^nd, Gross 4^th

800M: VanDerVeen 5^th

300M Hurdles: sophomore Kayla Jacobs 4^th

1600M Run: freshman Gabby Poels 9th

4x100M Relay: VanDerVeen, Gross, Jacobs, Sides 2^nd

4x400M Relay: Jacobs, Gross, Sides, Schemper 1^st

Pole Vault: Corman 1^st

Long Jump: Schemper 1st, Caydence Corman 9th

Shot Put: senior Austin Dierking 1^st, senior Kaelyn Means 5^th

Discus: Means 1^st, Dierking 3^rd, sophomore Brynn Billings 5th

Javelin: Karissa Keeten 10th

The boys’ track team finished the meet in seventh place with 35.5 points. Hoxie won the meet with 158 points.

Individual placings are as follows:

100M: freshman Tanner Horinek 5^th

200M: sophomore Alex VanAllen 6th, Eli Schemper 8th

1600M: Jaidon Allen 7th

110M Hurdles: VanAllen 3rd

4x100M Relay: sophomore Kaden Sisson, junior Eli Schemper, junior Ryan Babcock, VanAllen 5th

4x400M Relay: Schemper, Babcock, Z. Taylor, VanAllen 7th

High Jump: E. Schemper 7th

Pole Vault: junior Trevor Dierking 2^nd, sophomore Seth Keeten tie 6^th

Long Jump: freshman EJ Hall 5^th

Shot Put: junior Rad Rodriguez 4^th

Discus: Rodriguez 5th, Trace Hanchett 7th

Javelin: junior Trace Hanchett 3rd, Kayden Hudson 5th