Waukon girls track team returns 22 letterwinners for 2017 campaign
2017 Waukon girls track returning letterwinners ... Left to right - Front row: Grace Blocker, Erika Johnson, Regan Wasson, Claire Beyer, Lanci Bulman, Katelynn Griffith, Meredith Lensing. Second row: Cassidy Byrnes, Emily Brown, Lauren Elliott, Megan O’Neill, Alexz Grampovnik, Lauren Griffith. Third row: Brooke Wasson, Kyara Dahlstrom, Emma Roe, Nicole Campbell, Zaida Bockman, Lauryn Behrend. Not pictured: Laurel Keenan, Brigid Berns, Sydney Ross.
2017 Waukon girls track team ... Left to right - Front row: Grace Blocker, Erika Johnson, Regan Wasson, Claire Beyer, Lanci Bulman, Katelynn Griffith, Meredith Lensing, Mariah Behrend. Second row: Cassidy Byrnes, Emily Brown, Lauren Elliott, Megan O’Neill, Brigid Berns, Alexz Grampovnik, McKenzie Cooper, Morgan Van Ruler. Third row: Brooke Wasson, Kyara Dahlstrom, Emma Roe, Nicole Campbell, Zaida Bockman, Gabby Ewing, Lauryn Behrend, Lauren Griffith, Alyssa Nesseim, Madelyn Marti. Fourth row: Maddie Ellingson, Rebecca Thorstenson, Haylee Thesing, Katie Gress, Ellec Armstead, Kaylee Gibbs, Hailey Regan, Carrissa Bockman, Leah Bulman, Alison Sherman, Katelyn Benzing. Not pictured: Laurel Keenan, Sydney Ross, Katie Hagensick, Gabby Marti.
The Waukon girls track team is fielding 41 team members for its 2017 campaign, with more than half of this season’s team members being listed as returning letterwinners from last season. A total of 22 varsity veterans return for this season, some of them not only returning with experience at the highest level of Iowa high school competition with State Meet qualification, but also winning medals at that season grand finale last spring.
Headlining that list of returnees is a collection of seven seniors in Claire Beyer, Grace Blocker, Lanci Bulman, Katelynn Griffith, Erika Johnson, Meredith Lensing and Regan Wasson. Juniors Emily Brown, Lauren Elliott, Alexz Grampovnik and Laurel Keenan add to that roster of letterwinning returnees, with half of this season’s varsity veteran experience coming from the youngest possible group able to do so in sophomores Lauryn Behrend, Brigid Berns, Zaida Bockman, Nicole Campbell, Cassidy Byrnes, Kyara Dahlstrom, Lauren Griffith, Megan O’Neill, Emma Roe, Sydney Ross and Brooke Wasson.
The Indians were scheduled to get their season underway with their Northeast Iowa Conference Indoor Meet at Luther College in Decorah Tuesday, March 21 before competing in their first outdoor competition of the season at the Frostbite Invitational hosted Tuesday, March 28 by Sumner-Fredericksburg. The track Tribe will then prepare for the Tuesday, April 4 Comet Relays at Charles City.
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