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MEET RECAP: Mt Si @ Issaquah/Issaquah Icebreaker Invite

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Issaquah track and field hosted Mt Si for our first home meet, where we finished with 2 first-place team finishes and 21 individual event wins.

Our first win in the 110m hurdles from Toren Garcia in a PR of 15.90, and the 100m hurdles were won by Erin Chollman in 18.23. The boy’s 1600m was won by Brennen Rickey in 4:36.57, followed up by the girl’s 1600m, where Jane Harig won in 5:46.48. The boy’s 4x100m was won by the quartet of Carlo Saez, Austin Schildt, Micah Seiffert, and Kelton Jones (45.75). Into the 400m, the boy’s race was won by Benjamin Lucas in 53.82, and the girl’s race was won by Ilora Farren in 1:03.55. The 300m hurdles was won by Toren Garcia in a state-leading 39.89, and Connor Rickey took home the victory in the 800m in 2:01.28, while Clara Michael won the girl’s race in 2:24.92. The 3200m was won by Connor Rickey (9:59.72), and Issaquah won the boy’s 4x400m, with a team of Matthew Fischer, Braydon Staples, Benjamin Lucas, and Ilyaas Motiwalla (3:46.59). 

On the field, Mackenzie Bice won both the high jump (4’6″), while Carson Naehr (6’0″) and Wyatt Chollman (172’6″) won high jump and javelin, respectively. KJ Strunk won the boy’s discus (113’10”) and shot put (44’11”), and Evie Adams won long jump (13’10”). Domfo Abekah won the girl’s triple jump (32’1″), while Aryan Singh won boy’s triple jump (34’5″). At the pole vault, Nolan Menting set a new personal best with a 12′ vault for the event win, as did Sole Miller in a vault of 9′. 

There were so many second and third place finishes, writing it in prose just isn’t feasible! See them listed below:

  • Carson Naehr (110mH, 2nd, 16.77)
  • Tatiana Rivas (100mH, 2nd, 18.39)
  • Chase Sawyer (100m, 3rd, 11.84)
  • Alexander Yahn (1600m, 2nd, 4:41.29)
  • Elena Gehrke (400m, 2nd, 1:04.02)
  • Nora Doyle-Newe (400m, 3rd, 1:04.63)
  • Shontel Bradley-Polk (300mh, 2nd, 47.57)
  • Anthony Dubovitsky (300mh, 3rd, 48.67)
  • Avani Akerar (300mh, 3rd, 54.00)
  • Henry Tait (800m, 2nd, 2:04.47)
  • Sally Davis (800m, 2nd, 2:31.77)
  • Cate Shipley (800m, 3rd, 2:34.36)
  • Girl’s 4x400m (2nd, 4:29.65)
  • Nicholas Barran (shot put, 2nd, 43’6″)
  • Jayce Grant (discus, 2nd, 101’8″)
  • Wyatt Chollman (discus, 3rd, 88’4.5″)
  • Amelie Santi (discus, 2nd, 68’3.5″)
  • Ellory Schofield (discus, 3rd, 64’4″)
  • Erin Chollman (javelin, 3rd, 84’4″)
  • Aryan Singh (high jump, 2nd, 5’6″)
  • Jacob Bradley-Polk (high jump, 3rd, 5’4″)
  • Katherine Dillon (high jump, 2nd, 4’4″)
  • Daniela Jaeschke (high jump, 3rd, 4’4″)
  • Dexter Zablocki (pole vault, 3rd, 10′6″)
  • Lucy Stevenson (pole vault, 2nd, 8’0″)
  • Lola Kagetsu (pole vault, 3rd, 7’0″)
  • Domfo Abekah (long jump, 2nd, 13’9″)
  • Ariana Simms (long jump, 3rd, 13’8″)
  • Evie Adams (triple jump, 2nd, 31’5″)
  • Gemma Babuin (triple jump, 3rd, 29’2″)

Issaquah won both of the team contests, with the girls winning 76.5-69.5 and the boys winning 105-40. 

For our first hosted invite–where we had more over 20 schools and 700 students competing–Issaquah showed that home court advantage matters. When it was all said and done, Issaquah girls won the meet over all, and Issaquah boys came in a close second place team finish. Issaquah athletes also brought home 7 event wins.

Our first victory came in the mixed 4x800m relay, where Ellie Miller, Nora Doyle-Newe, Braydon Staples, and Sailor Story ran 9:40.30. Our girls 4x200m of Kamarrie Spencer, Domfo Abekah, Madelyn Kraemer, and Sena Pittman (1:46.58) set a new season’s best and won the event. Our next win came in the women’s long jump, where Domfo Abekah won with a leap of 16’6.5″, and she also won the triple jump in 33’9″. These were jumps that put her at #7 and #3 for junior class records, respectively. Wyatt Chollman won the boy’s javelin, throwing 173’0″, setting a mark that puts him #8 all time for Issaquah High and #7 for seniors. Back to the track, Sena Pittman won the 400m in 59.45, While not a win, Toren Garcia finished second overall in the 300mh, which earned him the junior class record and puts him #3 all time for Issaquah High. The final individual event on the track was the 3200m, where Connor Rickey brought home the individual win in a time of 9:13.51. This time earns Connor the junior class record, and puts him #4 all time. Of note, Alexander Yahn (3rd) and Henry Tait (4th) ran 9:17.25 and 9:17.79, where Alex dipped under the previous junior class record and both cemented themselves in the top 10 all time. A master class by the distance group!

Again, to go through the second through fifth place finishes in prose would take too long! See them listed below:

  • Carson Naehr (high jump, 2nd, 5’10”)
  • KJ Strunk (javelin, 2nd, 156’1″)
  • Toren Garcia (110mH, 4th, 15.63)
  • Avani Akerkar (100mH, 5th, 17.85)
  • Christian Talluto (freshman 100m, 3rd, 12.28)
  • Shane Olsen (100m, 4th, 11.52)
  • Kylee Pachuilo (freshman 100m, 3rd, 13.56)
  • Sally Davis (freshman 1600m, 2nd, 5:27.59)
  • Daniela Jaeschke (400m, 5th, 62.79)
  • Avani Akerkar (300mh, 5th, 51.70)
  • Sena Pittman (200m, 3rd, 26.68)
  • Boy’s 4x400m (5th, 3:35.36)
  • Girl’s 4x400m (4th, 4:19.05)

Issaquah girls won a very close team contest over Skyline 96.5-96, and Issaquah boys finished second to Skyline boys 106-80.5. Skyline brought home the combined team title.

Eagles head up 228th on Tuesday April 5th, for our dual meet against Skyline! Fly Eagles, Fly!

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2024 Track and Field: What to know

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Track and Field online registration is available now.

All forms must be turned in by Monday 2/26/2024 before practice begins to participate in the first practice — NO exceptions.

There is no school the week of February 19th through February 23rd   and forms will NOT be accepted after March 1st.

Fill out the online registration form.  Please note you will need your Family Access Login of the first Parent/Guardian to complete the process.

Track & Field season starts February 26th. Coaches and athletes will meet at the Stadium at 3:30pm. Students should wear workout clothes.

Everything you wanted to know about Practices:

Practice is held five days-a-week, Monday through Friday, after school. Regular practice time is 3:30-5:30ish Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:00-6:00ish on Wednesday; sometimes a little shorter, sometimes a little longer.  Saturday practices may be held for certain events – coaches will notify athletes ahead of time when and where. Once meets start, a weekly routine will begin to take shape and it will be easier to gauge when practices may vary from the standard time frame. There is no practice on days we have a meet even if you are not participating in that meet. There will be no mandatory practices during Spring Break; info about any possible optional practices that week will be announced later. If optional practices for your event area are being held and you are in town over Spring break and able to participate, it is highly encouraged to attend. Any changes in the practice schedule will be announced on the blog or our Instagram, @issyxc_tf.

You are required to participate fully in 10 practices before you are able to compete in any meets per WIAA rules. If you miss four in a row, we begin subtracting from your banked total and will continue each day until you return. There AT LEAST are 18 available practices before our first meet on the Thursday of the fourth week.

Attendance at school for the full school day is required in order to participate in practice or meets that might be on that day. There are approved exceptions when you need to miss  school for appointments and other legitimate, but regardless, you need to bring a signed note from the doctor’s office or other legitimate excused absence to the attendance office in order for you to be able to practice.  In case you didn’t know, skipping class is not a legitimate excuse.

Athletes that consider themselves to be talented, varsity, good, awesome, or anything of that ilk should prove it by being at each and every practice. If you know you will need to miss a practice (some reasons are actually legitimate – the best way to tell if yours qualifies is by looking at your coach’s face when you give him/her your reason for missing practice), you must tell your coach. The best way to do this is to tell them in advance in person or you can email Coach Brookshire, Coach Mike, and your event coach. Their contact info can be found on the blog.

If an athlete is absent from practice or school, it is the event coach’s and head coaches’ discretion whether or not the athlete may compete in the meet(s) following the absence.

Practice begins on-time in the stadium bleachers where we meet as a group before breaking into our specific event groups and before ultimately going outside. We do not wait for anyone, and nothing looks worse than someone that routinely walks in late. Wednesday is probably the hardest day to get to practice without hustling. We do not formally return to the stadium.  Please remember that we are meeting outside, so please dress accordingly (pants, sleeves, rain shell, etc). Any changes in where we meet will be announced on the blog and on our Instagram, @issyxc_tf.

We practice and compete in all weather conditions except in instances of lightning. Any changes in our practice schedules due to weather will be announced on the blog and on our Instagram, @issyxc_tf.

During practice, bring your athletic bags and any other personal items to the grandstand. The school provides lockers for in-season athletes but the logistics around this are yet to be worked-out so it is advised not to depend on lockers being available. They may become available eventually and we will pass on information about this when we know more. It is best not bring anything valuable to practice that is not necessary.

Everything you wanted to know about Meets:

If an athlete is absent from practice or school, it is the event coach’s and head coaches’ discretion whether or not the athlete may compete in the meet(s) following the absence.

Our meet schedule includes non-Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday invitationals and post-season meets that do not include the entire team. We announce entries into these meets both at practice and on the blog.  Athletes that are invited to run will make themselves available for EVERY invitational meet in which they are entered. We attend these meets so our kids have a chance to compete against advanced competition so if you want to be the best, clear up your schedule when we have these meets. Our entire meet schedule can be found on the blog.

Our schedule includes five mid-week dual meets plus at least one meet during KingCo Week for everybody on the entire team. This means there is a minimum of six meets for everybody on the team, provided you meet and maintain eligibility requirements.

You must be passing 6 out of 7 of your classes to be academically eligible to compete in meets. The Athletic Director will notify the coaches about kids that are below these standards. The initial assessment is based on the most-recently completed semester and then there will be at least one grade check during the season.

We issue a standard uniform to each athlete which consists of a singlet and shorts. Jackets may also be issued. Uniforms are to be worn at each meet and are not to be worn at practice. Uniforms and jackets are collected at the end of the season at the Track awards banquet. Fines will be assigned to those who do not return team issued gear.

It is required that you dress appropriately for the weather conditions at practices and meets in order to stay warm and dry as best you can. Invariably, we will have some freshmen (and sometimes seniors) show up to the bus for meets with nothing on but their singlet and shorts. This is ill-advised and should be avoided. Team Gear is available for purchase by each individual athlete – click this link for more details. EVERY ATHLETE WILL NEED TO, AT A MINIMUM, PURCHASE THE TEAM WHITE LONG SLEEVE SHIRT. This is the first item on the store. If a student is unable to purchase, please email Coach Brookshire or Coach Mike and we will find a way get one.

Tips for success:

Proper rest is an essential part of success in Track & Field. Coaches will usually make recommendations for what you should do on off days when we do not have practice or meets.

Please purchase appropriate footwear for your events when possible. A new pair of running shoes for the season for practices is highly recommended. Shoes that are too old or worn can cause injury and delay progress. For competition, we strongly recommend spikes for all running events and any other various specialty footwear for field events. This is not required but merely recommended for optimum performance. Ask your coach at practice for guidance about footwear.

If you compete in any other sporting activity during the track season, whether individually or on another team – particularly club sports – or participate in clubs at the high school, it is important to weigh your commitment to track and field. Track and field is a varsity level high school sport, which requires you to be at practice at least 5 days per week on time. Anyone can find a place on our track and field team, but it is not for everyone. Please understand that persistent and repeated absences are prohibited by the WIAA, and as a result will result in dismissal from the team.

Other specific questions can be asked at practice or by emailing Coach Brookshire and/or Coach Mike.

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MEET RECAP: ISD Meet, Liberty Twilight, Eleventh Hour

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A big week for Issaquah Track, competing in 3 meets in 3 days across 4 different locations. Even with all of the travel and the team going in different directions, we still saw 155 PRs and 16 event wins across the 3 meets. Event winning performances are listed below.

  • At Skyline HS, Wyatt Chollman (141’2″) threw to a victory in the boy’s javelin, while Courtney Smith (86’8″) won the girl’s javelin contest.
  • In the 100m hurdles, Shanthi Hall (16.25) continued her winning ways.
  • In the high jump, Carson Naehr (5’10”) matched his personal best for the win, while Courtney Smith (4’10”) mathed her season’s best for the win.
  • Sole Miller (8’0) matched her personal best for the win in the girl’s pole vault.
  • Daytona Crow (14’8) won the long jump in only her second attempt at the event, and then backed it up by going to the Eleventh Hour meet the next day to improve her mark to 15’5″ for the win at that event.
  • Freshman Dallen Tubbs (5:05.76, PR) won the 1600m event at the ISD meet.
  • Sena Pittman ran a lights out race in the 400m, improving her personal best to 59.79, which ranks her 10th in 4A.
  • In the ISD 800m, senior Hayden Stowe (2:04.45, PR) and junior Ilora Farren (2:24.71) both ran to wins in the boy’s and girl’s events, respectively.
  • Benjamin LaFramboise went to win the long jump competition at the Eleventh Hour, jumping 18’10” and qualifying for Kingco.
  • Freshman Erin Chollman improved her personal best in the girl’s javelin at the Eleventh Hour, winning the event with a throw of 83’4″.
  • And concluding a week of competition at the Liberty Twilight invitational, sophomore Connor Rickey (4:18.06, PR) won the meet over a stacked Kingco field, as did Kate Yahn (4:59.17) in her first time shattering the 5-minute mile barrier. This moves Kate to #4 all time for Issaquah and gives Rickey the sophomore class record in the 1600m.

With so many other amazing performances to highlight, I could continue writing forever. Links to the full results for ISD Meet, Eleventh Hour, and Liberty Twilight are all here.

Issaquah High School sends 65 athletes to the Kingco Championships, which will be contested at Renton Memorial Stadium on May 12th and 13th. Events begin on Friday at 2pm. Fly Eagles, Fly!

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MEET RECAP: Shoreline Invitational

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 Travelling to Shoreline stadium for the first time this season, our TEAM took on what is historically one of the most competitive meets of the regular season. In that pressure, many Issaquah Eagles created performance diamonds. As a result, we saw 16 PRs and 13 trips to the medal stand. Medal winning performances detailed below:

  • Our boy’s and girl’s DMR of Benjamin Konopka, Greyson Pike, Elliot McIntosh, Alex Yahn (10:56.32) and Rachel Dennie, Kamarrie Spencer, Daniela Jaeschke, and Riley Eberhardt (13:34.90) finished 2nd and 6th, respectively. 
  • Senior Shanthi Hall (16.10, PR) ran to a 4th place overall while racing in the 2nd fastest heat.
  • Our very own Domfo Abekah (35’3.5″) and Benjamin LaFramboise (41’5.5″) both leapt to new PR’s in the triple jump, both earning themselves 2nd and 8th place, respectively. 
  • Freshman Clara Michael (5:39.23) made a heroic effort after being tripped 350m into the girl’s freshman 1600m race, finishing 7th overall.
  • Sophomore Toren Garcia ran to an 8th place finish in the 300m hurdles in a near-best time of 41.14. 
  • Senior Kate Yahn (2:18.12, PR) and sophomore Sena Pittman (2:19.70, PR) went 1-2 in the girl’s 800m, taking down a great field and running a great team race.
  • Sophomore Connor Rickey (9:25.36, PR) ran the 3200m for 4th overall.
  • Senior Kate Yahn (11:05.18) doubled back from the 800m in the 3200m and finished 3rd overall. 
  • Our boy’s 4x400m of Nicolas Talluto, Greyson Pike, Elijah Miller, and Toren Garcia (3:30.61) set a new seasons best and finished 5th overall. 
  • Our girl’s 4x400m of Sena Pittman, Ilora Farren, Sophie Penton, and Daniela Jaeschke (4:12.50) ran to a 6th place finish. 

See full results here.

Issaquah squad splits up a few different directions this week, as we send a contingent to contest the throws events of the ISD Meet on Wednesday the 3rd, the remaining events will be held at Issaquah High on the 4th, the distance squad will be running at the Liberty Twilight meet held on Friday the 5th, and a small group of people looking for last chance marks will head up to North Creek HS on Friday the 5th for the Eleventh Hour Invitational. Fly Eagles, Fly!

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MEET RECAP: Issaquah @ Eastlake

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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″)
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MEET RECAP: Oregon Relays

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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!

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MEET WEEKEND: Birger Solberg Invite, Tiger Invite, Arcadia Invite

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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!

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MEET RECAP: Issaquah @ Mount Si

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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!

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MEET RECAP: Kent-Meridian Invite

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In our first invitational of the year, Issaquah TF competed extremely well, finishing the day with third- and fourth-place team finishes, 1 individual event win, and 10 runner-up finishes at the Kent Meridian Invite.

Our girl’s 3200m runners, Kate Yahn (2nd, 11:05.46) and Jane Harig (3rd, 11:08.10), kicked the meet off to a strong start. Our girl’s 4x200m of Sena Pittman, Daytona Crow, Madelyn Kramer, and Sophia Mydlil ran a new season best of 1:51.30 for second place. Into the 4x800m relay, Hayden Stowe, Ilyaas Motiwalla, Braydon Staples, and Robert Fischer ran a season best of 8:57.76 for second place. Madelyn Kraemer then went finished second in the girl’s freshman 100m in a PR of 13.75. Connor Rickey finished second in the boy’s 1600m, running a school sophomore record of 4:22.89, while Nathaniel Larsen ran a 4:57.97 for second overall in the boy’s freshman 1600m. The lone individual victory came from Allison Hu, who ran a PR of 5:31.70 to win the freshman girl’s 1600m. Sena Pittman then went to run 1:00.80 for third in the girl’s 400m, and Nicolas Talluto finished second in 53.46 for second in the boy’s 400m. To the 300m hurdles, where we saw Toren Garcia run 41.34 and Sophia Mydlil run 51.94, both of them finishing third place overall. In the penultimate event, Brennen Rickey ran 9:32.55 for a huge PR and second place in the 3200m, and Alex Yahn ran 9:42.83 for third overall. Courtney Smith finished second in the high jump (4’8″) and third in the javelin (97’5″), and Domfo Abekah leapt for a third place finish in the long jump (15’9″). Our girl’s 4x400m of Sena Pittman, Giada Oliva, Ilorra Farren, and Kate Yahn finished second in a season best time of 4:18.43.

After tallying up the scores, the boy’s team finished fourth of the 33 teams, while the girl’s team finished third of the 33 teams. Both our boy’s and girl’s freshman teams finished first overall in the events scored.

Eagles will be racing in our second dual meet, this time at Mt Si High School on Wednesday 3/29. Meet start time is 4pm. Fly Eagles, Fly!

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MEET RECAP: Newport @ Issaquah

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Issaquah track and field hosted our first home meet, where we finished with 2 first-place team finishes and 23 individual event wins.

Our first win came from the 4x200m of Daytona Crow, Sophia Mydlil, Madelyn Kramer, and Sena Pittman in a season best time of 1:52.14. We then saw a win in the 110m hurdles from Sebastian Powers in a PR of 16.29, and the 100m hurdles were won by Alexandra Clarke in 19.59. The boy’s 100m was won by Joseph Talluto in a PR of 11.63, followed up by the girl’s 1600m, where Clara Michael won in 5:57.41. Into the 400m, the boy’s race was won by Nicolas Talluto in 54.42, and the girl’s race was won by Ilora Farren in 1:06.30. The 300m hurdles was won by Toren Garcia in a Kingco-leading 42.00, while Sophia Mydlil won the girl’s race in 54.29. Connor Rickey took home the victory in the 800m in 2:01.84, while Kate Yahn won the girl’s race in 2:30.17. In the 200m, Sena Pittman had a 26.51 for the win and the personal best. The 3200m was won by Ty Lauritzen (10:39.59, PR) and Rachel Dennie (12:53.15, PR), and Issaquah swept the boy’s and girl’s 4x400m, with teams of Benjamin Konopka, Connor Rickey, Elliot McIntosh, and Brennen Rickey (3:42.73) and Riley Eberhardt, Kate Yahn, Allison Hu, and Jane Harig (4:33.53).

On the field, Courtney Smith won both the high jump (4’2″) and the javelin (99’2″), while Carson Naehr (5’8″) and Wyatt Chollman (138’2″) won those events, respectively. Ben LaFramboise won the boy’s triple jump (38’6″), and Domfo Abekah won the long jump (15’1.75″) and the triple jump (31’6.25″). At the pole vault, Lucy Stevenson matched her personal best with a 8′ vault for the event win.

There were so many second and third place finishes, writing it in prose just isn’t feasible! See them listed below:

  • Toren Garcia (110mH, 2nd, 16:43)
  • Avani Akerkar (100mH, 2nd, 20:12)
  • Sena Pittman (100m, 2nd, 13.04)
  • Liv Jensen (1600m, 2nd, 6:00.81)
  • Boys 4x100m (2nd, 45.52)
  • Girls 4x100m (2nd, 1:01.27)
  • Maxwell Knight (400m, 2nd, 55.31)
  • Giada Oliva (400m, 2nd, 1:07.37)
  • Avani Akerar (300mh, 2nd, 55.40)
  • Brennen Rickey (800m, 2nd, 2:04.16)
  • Daytona Crow (200m, 2nd, 27.63)
  • Oscar Ruiz (3200m, 2nd, 10:41.64)
  • Georgia Short (3200m, 2nd, 13:01.24)
  • Jayce Grant (discus, 2nd, 95’9″)
  • Velena Beeks (high jump, 2nd, 4’2″)
  • Nolan Meeting (pole vault, 2nd, 10′)
  • Sebastian Powers (long jump, 2nd, 17’10”)
  • Madelyn Kraemer (long jump, 2nd, 13’11”)
  • Sophia Mydlil (100mH, 3rd, 20.14)
  • Shane Olsen (100m, 3rd, 11.97)
  • Daytona Crow (100m, 3rd, 13.54)
  • Hayden Stowe (400m, 3rd, 55.89)
  • Elena Gehrke (400m, 3rd, 1:07.37)
  • Alexandra Clarke (300mh, 3rd, 55.73)
  • Benjamin Konopka (800m, 3rd, 2:06.78)
  • Joseph Talluto (200m, 3rd, 23.81)
  • Domfo Abekah (200m, 3rd, 28.97)
  • Mackenzie Bice (3200m, 3rd, 13:08.04)
  • Kolin Kodama (shotput, 3rd, 21’1″)
  • Rowan Mason (javelin, 3rd, 65’8″)
  • Erin Chollman (high jump, 3rd, 4′)
  • Dexter Zablocki (pole vault, 3rd, 9′)
  • Ben Laframboise (long jump, 3rd, 16’8″)
  • Presley Boettcher (long jump, 3rd, 13’5.5″)

Issaquah won both of the team contests, with the girls winning 111-38 and the boys winning 75-70.

Eagles travel south to the Kent Meridian Invite on Saturday March 25th. Fly Eagles, Fly!