Issaquah travelled up to contest Eastlake HS. Totaled, we had 183 PRs, and 10 total event victories. Going into the finale of our season, this was an awesome way to finish the season off!

To start our winning ways, senior Shanthi Hall (16.38, PR) won the 100m hurdles. Seniors Ben Konopka (4:34.69, PR) and Kate Yahn (5:06.04) won the boy’s and girl’s 1600m, respectively. Our success continued to the 400m, where sophomore Connor Rickey (52.07, PR) showed his range in the sprints. Freshman Avani Akerar (53.82, PR) won the 300m hurdles, and junior Jane Harig (2:23.32, PR) won the 800m. Sophomore Sena Pittman (26.36, PR) took the W in the 200m, while senior Courtney Smith (4’10”) and sophomore Domfo Abekah (34’7″) won the high jump and triple jump, respectively. To close out the meet, our boy’s 4x400m of freshman Nicolas Talluto, junior Greyson Pike, junior Elijah Miller, and sophomore Toren Garcia ran a season’s best 3:33.22 to win the event. Detailed below are the rest of the scoring athletes:

• Toren Garcia – 2nd 400m (52.32, PR)
• Benjamin Lucas – 2nd 800m (2:04.43, PR)
• Ilora Farren – 2nd 800m (2:24.05, PR)
• Henry Tait – 2nd 1600m (4:34.94, PR)
• Carson Naehr – 2nd High Jump (5’8″)
• Erin Chollman – 2nd 100mH (18.71, PR)
• Courtney Smith – 2nd Javelin (92’9″)
• Domfo Abekah – 2nd Long Jump (15’5″)
• Mackenzie Bice – 2nd Triple Jump (27’10”)
• Elijah Miller – 3rd 400m (53.77, PR)
• Sophie Penton – 3rd 400m (1:03.22, PR)
• Elliot McIntosh – 3rd 800m (2:06.80, PR)
• Clara Michael – 3rd 800m (2:30.27, PR)
• Alex Yahn – 3rd 1600m (4:35.94)
• Jonathan Liu – 3rd 3200m (9:47.75, PR)
• Riley Eberhardt – 3rd 3200m (12:16.95, PR)
• Avani Akerar – 3rd 100mH (19.04, PR)
• Katherine Dillon – 3rd 300mh (54.21, PR)
• Nicholas Barran – 3rd Shotput (39’11”)
• Mackenzie Bice and Velena Beeks – 3rd High Jump (4’6″)
• Dexter Zablocki – 3rd Pole Vault (11’6″)
• Lucy Stevenson – 3rd Pole Vault (8’6″)
• Benjamin LaFramboise – 3rd Long Jump (18’3″)
• Shanthi Hall – 3rd Long Jump (14’8″)
• Presley Boettcher – 3rd Triple Jump (27’9″)

We were honored to be accepted to the Oregon Relays, held at historic Hayward Field on University of Oregon’s Campus. 27 Issaquah athletes competed across 23 events, where we saw 26 personal bests and 2 school records fall. Detailed below are all of the performances we saw at the meet.

• Senior Ethan Blazer (23.76, PR) finished 53rd in the boy’s 200m.
• Junior Brennen Rickey (9:30.02, 28th, PR), senior Ben Konopka (9:42.08, 44th, PR), sophomore Alex Yahn (9:42.45, 45th, PR), and sophomore Henry Tait (9:49.43, 50th, PR) all ran in the boy’s 2 mile.
• Junior Jane Harig (11:35.66, PR) finished 42nd in the girl’s 2 mile.
• Juniors KJ Strunk (142’5″, 18th) and Wyatt Chollman (135’5.5″, 22nd) competed in the boy’s javelin.
• Junior Greyson Pike (53.44) placed 49th in the boy’s 400m.
• Sophomore Sena Pittman (1:00.46, PR) placed an Issaquah meet-high 7th place in the girl’s 400m.
• Senior Courtney Smith (4’9″) placed 17th in the girl’s high jump and (95’6.5″) 28th in the girl’s javelin.
• Our boy’s 4x400m of Nicolas Talluto, Greyson Pike, Maxwell Knight, and Toren Garcia ran to a 24th place finish in a season’s best time of 3:33.42.
• Our girl’s 4x400m team of Sena Pittman, Ilora Farren, Sophie Penton, and Kate Yahn ran to a 19th place finish in a seasons best of 4:09.56.
• Our girl’s Sprint Medley Relay [200m-200m-400m-800m] of Daytona Crow, Sophia Mydlil, Ilora Farren, and Kate Yahn ran a new school record in the event of 4:16.41. They placed 4th overall.
• Our boy’s Distance Medley Relay [1200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m] of Brennen Rickey, Nicolas Talluto, Elliot McIntosh, and Connor Rickey ran a new school record of 10:37.30, finishing 12th as a team. They broke the school record previously set in 2018 of 10:57.10.
• Sophomore Elliot McIntosh (4:35.50, PR) finished 52nd in the boy’s mile.
• Senior Shanthi Hall (16.93) finished 29th overall in the 100m hurdles.
• Sophomore Carson Naehr (5’6.25″) finished 28th in the boy’s high jump.
• Sophomore Connor Rickey (1:56.97, PR, Sophomore School Record) and junior Elijah Miller (2:00.05, PR) finished 18th and 39th, respectively, in the boy’s 800m.
• Senior Kate Yahn (2:25.14) finished 34th overall in the girl’s 800m.
• Sophomore Toren Garcia (40.90, PR) placed 14th in the boy’s 300m hurdles.
• Senior Sophia Mydlil (49.64, PR), placed 38th in the girl’s 300m hurdles.
• Our girl’s 4x200m team of Daytona Crow, Sophie Penton, Madelyn Kramer, and Sena Pittman ran to a 20th place finish in a seasons best of 1:48.56.
• Sophomore Domfo Abekah (35’2.75″, PR, Sophomore School Record) leapt to an 11th place finish in the girl’s triple jump.

Link to full results here.

Issaquah heads to Eastlake for our dual meet on the 27th, and then to the Shoreline Invitational on the 29th. Fly Eagles, Fly!

Big weekend before the start of spring break for Issaquah, as the team split up to attend 3 separate invitationals. In the respective meets, 5 medal winning performances, 24 personal bests, and some awesome big meet experience for our budding team.

Friday night at South Pasadena High School, Brennen Rickey, Alex Yahn, and Ben Konopka all competed in the 3200m at the Tiger Invitational. Rickey ended up finishing 3rd overall in the event in a new PR of 9:25.61, which currently ranks 3rd in 4A rankings, while Yahn and Konopka finished 12th and 13th respectively and ran PRs of 9:36.42 and 9:37.56. These marks also rank in the top-9 in 4A rankings — an awesome showing for our distance crew!

Back in Bellingham, Issaquah sent a contingent to the Birger Solberg Invitational, where our hurdle crew shined on an otherwise dreary day. Sebastian Powers ran a new personal best in the 110m hurdles of 16.27, good enough to finish 3rd in the event, while Toren Garcia ran a near-best effort of 41.48 in the 300m hurdles which earned him 2nd overall. In our field events, Wyatt Chollman heaved another PR in the javelin, as he’s now up to 147’3″, which put him at 2nd overall, and Domfo Abekah competed in the triple jump, where her mark of 32’4.25″ was deserving of 3rd place.

We had two athletes qualify for the Arcadia Invitational, a national level competition in Arcadia, CA — where some of the best high school athletes in the nation competed over the weekend. Connor Rickey ran the mile, where he ran a near-best effort of 4:25.98 for 29th place overall, and Kate Yahn also raced the mile and ran 5:46.24.

All in all — an awesome weekend for Issaquah athletes! Links to all meets are linked here (Birger Solberg, Tiger, Arcadia).

Coming up, we will have our second home meet against Bellevue and Skyline on Wednesday, April 19th — events start at 4:30. We will also be sending a team down to Oregon Relays, hosted by University of Oregon, this Friday and Saturday the 21st and 22nd. Fly Eagles, Fly!

Traveling up the foothills to Mt Si high school, Issaquah Track and Field racked up one team win, 19 individual event wins, and 175 total PRs. This was an amazing showing for our TEAM and a great step in the right direction for our season.

Our first victories came in the short hurdles, where Sebastian Powers (16.39) won the 110m race and Shanthi Hall (17.47, SB) won the 100m race. Continuing to the mile, where we saw Brennen Rickey (4:28.54, PR) and Jane Harig (5:11.43, PR) fly around the track. The next victories on the track came back to back, as Toren Garcia won both the 400m (54.02, PR) and the 300m hurdles (43.03). The 800m was next, where we saw Hayden Stowe (2:07.14, PR) and Kate Yahn (2:18.32, PR) take victories in those races, followed shortly by the 3200m where Connor Rickey (9:34.69, PR) and Allison Hu (11:46.76, PR) won those races individually. Our winning didn’t stop there, as the 4x400m saw 2 seasons best, as the boy’s team of Toren Garcia, Nicolas Talluto, Ellie Miller, and Greyson Pike ran 3:35.98, and the girl’s team of Sena Pittman, Sophia Mydlil, Elena Gehrke, and Kate Yahn ran 4:17.67.

Our field event victories saw Isabella May (63’3″, PR) win the discus and finish 2nd in the shot put (23’11”, PR). In the javelin, we had Wyatt Chollman (147’2″, PR) win, and in the high jump we had Carson Naehr (5’6″) and Courtney Smith (4’10”, SB) win the boy’s and girl’s contests, respectively. In pole vault, Dexter Zablocki (11′, SB) took home the win, while in triple jump Ben LaFramboise (39’10”) and Domfo Abekah (32’7″) won the boy’s and girl’s contests, respectively.

When tallying final points, Mt Si took home the girl’s team win 77.5-72.5, while Issaquah won the boy’s team 85-60. Link to full results here.

Going into spring break, Issaquah squads split, sending 5 athletes to the Arcadia and Tiger Invitationals in Southern California, while another group travels to Bellingham on Saturday the 8th for the Birger Solberg Invitational. Events in Bellingham start at 10AM, while the girl’s mile at Arcadia will go off at 9:30AM on the 8th, the boy’s 1600m at the Tiger Invitational will race at 12:30PM on Friday the 7th, the boy’s 800m at 3:45PM, and the boy’s 3200m at 8:20PM. Fly Eagles, Fly!