In true Covid year style, last week’s meet preparation was chaotic. We originally planned to compete at Hamline, but decided to host another home meet instead on Friday since Hamline would require all runners to compete in masks. On Wednesday, we moved the meet to Saturday to avoid the forecasted rain. Lots of adjustments to change plans, but we stayed dry on Saturday.
Once the rain was done last week, we scrambled to repaint the throwing sector lines, moved the javelin area to avoid mud, and set up the indoor shot put circles on the football field to throw under the lights. Despite the extra work and cold weather, we still had some good performances.
April 3rd Highlights
Jack Young (Sophomore, Rocori) broke 11 seconds in the 100. The third Johnnie this year under 11.
The 1500 battle between sophomores Lloyd Young (Bloomington Kennedy), Alexei Hensel (Buffalo), and Mitchell Grand (Hutchinson). They finished in that order with times of 4:03.26, 4:05.96, and 4:07.62.
A big vault from Shawn Schindler (Jr, Maple Grove) as he cleared 4.65 meters. Or 15-3 for all of you who don’t use the metric system regularly.
Our freshmen javelin throwers had a good meet as well as Maguire Petersen (Fr, Hutchinson) threw 172-4 and Brett Hague (Fr, Brainerd) threw 161-0
This week’s meet is the 4th Weekly SJU Invite. One more home meet before we hit the road next week. For this week’s meet, we get started on the track at 11:00am on Saturday and will add in the first day of the decathlon as well. The second day of the decathlon will start at noon on Sunday. If you can’t attend in person, check out the live stream to answer all of your T&F performance questions:
How many Johnnies will be under 11 seconds in the 100?
Who wins the battle of the decathlon debuts: Maguire Petersen, Logan Hennen (Fr, Prior Lake), or Mason DeGross (Fr, New Prague)
Alexei Hensel makes his 400 meter debut. Is there any distance he can’t run?
Will the 4x100 break 42.00 seconds with the return of Brady Labine?
We have had a good spectator turnout during our meets and hope to see some of you here this weekend. This will likely be our last home meet of the season.
Jeremy
A heads up to all of our South Dakota fans, we will be competing at Northern State in Aberdeen, South Dakota next Saturday. For everyone else, this sounds like a great opportunity for a road trip!