Another top-three pair for Waukon girls track team includes winning own Early Bird Invitational, placing third at New Hampton Invitational
Victorious 4x400 relay foursome includes trio of double-winners ... The Waukon girls track and field 4x400 relay quartet of (left to right in above photos) sophomore Reegan Benzing, freshman Miriam Downing, sophomore Cora Miller and junior Emma O’Neill topped that final race of the Indians’ Early Bird Invitational Tuesday, April 15 in a time of 4:37.63. In addition to that final event win, Benzing also won the 3000 meter run in a time of 12:09.78, Downing and Miller teamed up with senior Reese McCormick and sophomore Addie Olson to win the distance medley in a time of 4:45.40, and O’Neill also ran to a second-place finish in the 800 meter run with a clocking of 2:38.22. View and find out how to purchase these photos and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
The Waukon girls track and field team put together another strong pair of meets this past week, continuing its season-long invitational trend of finishing in no worse than third place in either of its competitions again this week. The Lady Indians defended their home track and field complex by winning their own Waukon Early Bird Invitational Tuesday, April 15 before claiming a third-place team finish at the New Hampton Invitational Thursday, April 17.
The Lady Indians were next scheduled to compete at the Crestwood Invitational Tuesday, April 22 before traveling to West Delaware Thursday, April 24 and then preparing for their own Indian Relays scheduled for Tuesday, April 29, with details of that home meet printed elsewhere in a shaded box on this week’s Sports pages. The track and field Tribe will then compete at MFL/MarMac Thursday, May 1 before wrapping up its regular season schedule with the Monday, May 5 Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational and then hosting the final Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Meet ever Thursday, May 8.
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