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Wisconsin State Meet 2015 Recap - DyeStatPublished by
Field event wins carry Bay Port to 1st title
State Meet Highlights
Top Performances:
- Jack Wellenstein of Madison West won the D1 title in the 400 meters with 47.82 seconds.
- Maurice Simpson of Milwaukee King won the D1 titles in the 100 (11.04) and the 200 (21.88) with the wind in his face for both finals. He became the school’s first sprint champion since 1983.
- Aubrey Roberts of Eau Claire Memorial, a junior, won the D1 3,200 meters with 10:42.76 and also placed second in the 1,600 (4:56.84).
- Danielle Kohlwey of Holmen was a double winner in the D1 hurdles. She won the 100 hurdles (14.85) and the 300 hurdles (44.44).
- Jackie Baldwin of Kenosha Bradford placed second in the D1 100 meters and 200 meters but helped her team win the 4x200 relay.
- Khadiya Hollingsworth of Brookfield East, the 2013 winner and 2014 runner-up, reclaimed her D1 high jump title with 5-8.
- Rayce Albino of New Berlin West won the D1 pole vault with 12-3.
- Racine Park’s boys 4x200 relay team – Jamias James, Vince Cosey, Justin Steward and Jeremy Steward – broke the state record and ran US#61 with 1:26.84.
- Wisconsin Lutheran's 4x800 relay team ran 7:43.18 to repeat as state champions but ran about four seconds slower than its all-time state record from 2014. It was still good for US#11. Arrowhead, second with 7:43.65 was US#15.
- Eric Fogltanz from Manitowoc Lincoln won the D1 300 hurdles in 37.82 seconds.
- Freshman Kenny Bednarek of Rice Lake was a sensation at the state meet, running 47.95 in the 400 meters to push Hofacker to the meet record. He was also second in the 200 meters and sixth in the 100 meters.
- Ben Eidenschink of Nekoosa ran 4:13.70 to win the D2 title in the 1,600 meters. He also broke the D2 record in the 3,200 meters with 9:07.70.
- Karl Tatum of Milwaukee Lutheran won the D2 100 meters and also helped his team win the 4x100 and 4x200 relay titles.
- Mikaela Grant of Jefferson broke the D2 meet record in the 300 hurdles with her prelims time of 43.63. She won it in 45.03.
- Dakota Kauffman of Boscobel won the distance double in D3. He got a narrow victory over Kevin Koski of Chequamegon in the 1,600 meters, 4:20.63 to 4:20.66. Kauffman also won the 3,200 in 9:21.32.
Top Teams:
In D2, Dodgeville-Mineral Point’s girls won the 4x400 relay for a huge 10 points and scored 36 points to edge Mount Horeb by one, while Freedom was a big winner on the boys side with 66.
Top Competition: The competition between distance runners Amy Davis of Edgewood and Alicia Monson of Amery was one of the highlights of the D2 meet. The senior Davis edged Monson, a junior, in the 1,600 meters with US#69 4:53.17 to 4:55.32. In the 3,200, Monson got the jump on Davis and beat her US#37 10:26.86 to 10:46.21. In both races, the winner ran a Wisconsin season’s best. Davis also anchored Edgewood’s winning 4x800 relay.
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