The most important track week of the season arrived, with teams competing in both their Regional and Sectional in a short span. Fifteen events rose to the occasion and will be heading to State on Friday and Saturday in La Crosse.

Elmwood/Plum City

The EPC girls earned a Regional title in Mondovi. Brewer Link won the high jump, Allie Sauve won the triple jump, Leslie Widman won the long jump and Aurora Sampair won the pole vault. In second place, Sauve, Polly Webb, Adrea Arredondo and Leslie Widman were strong in the 4x100, Arredondo was runner-up in the 200-meter race and Sampair continued her big day in the discus event. Third place finishers were Taylor Asher, Ella Quail, Willow Cripe and Kyra Duval in the 4x800, Widman in the 100 and the 200, Quail in the 1,600, Arredondo in the long jump and Sampair in the shot put. Rounding out the Section qualifiers in fourth place were Arredondo in the 100 and Bryce Bechel in the 400.

The Wolves will be featured in three State events. Allie Sauve took first place in the triple jump at the Bangor Sectional. Sauve has picked up wins in the event all year, but this time the best jump yet, breaking the school record with a 35’-5.5”. Aurora Sampair also won the Sectional in the discus event, scoring a 119-10. Leslie Widman finished fourth in the long jump with a school record-tying 16-9 leap.

The 4x100 girls relay did not qualify for State, but Widman, Sauve, Lillian Pullen and Arredondo did break the school record with a 51.66 time to take fifth place, one spot off qualification.

River Falls

River Falls had a massive day at Sectionals, qualifying six athletes to State. Noah Metro qualified in the triple jump (second place), Blake Schneider in the pole vault (first place), Jackson Magee (second place) in the 300 hurdles, Abigail Treichel in the high jump (first place), Olive Halvorson (second place) in the 1,600 and Mackenzie Schmidt in the 200 (second place).

Days prior at the Regional, Schmidt won the 200, the boys 4x100 (Joseph Tarasewicz, Mason Novak, Devon Fox and Cade Christiansen) won, Treichel won the high jump, Kayla Hoeft won the pole vault and Schneider won the pole vault.

Prescott

Prescott had many qualifiers for Sectionals, including Natalee Huppert in the 200, Scarlett Butler in the triple jump, Addy Allsop in the 300 hurdles, Ruby Magee in the pole vault, Kyra Dix in the 3,200, Makaria Haas in the discus and shot put, Andrew Lesso in the 100, Eyan Miller in the high jump and shot put, Micah Overland in the 110 and 300 hurdles, Nolan Leask in the pole vault, Gavin Miller in the high jump, the girls 4x800 (Addy Allsop, Dix, Amber Van Loon and Lily Vesperman), the girls 4x200 (Keira Link, Sienna Bundich, Kendall Johnson and Miah Smith), the girls 4x400 (Allsop, Smith, Vesperman and Huppert), the boys 4x100 (Andrew Lesso, Andrew Russell, Reese Stanton and Wyatt Budworth), the boys 4x200 (Lesso, Russell, Jaylen Fleming and Budworth) and the boys 4x400 (Ashton Marshall, Liam Haeg/Budworth, Fleming and Russell).

Prescott qualified for four State events. Dix’s 3,200 time broke a school record of 10:53.88. The other three qualifiers were boys relays, being the third place 4x100 (Lesso, Russell, Stanton, Budworth), third place school record 4x200 (Lesso, Russell, Fleming and Budworth) and third place 4x400 (Marshall, Fleming, Budworth and Russell).

Ellsworth

Also at the Altoona Regional, Ellsworth had a long list of Sectional qualifiers. Keegan Stahlke moved on in both the 200 and 400, Jacob Michels in the 800, Adolfo Mendez in the 1,600 and 3,200, Chace Kressin in the discus, the boys 4x800 (Jacob Michels, Kyle VanWatermeulen, Ben Baker and Adolfo Mendez), Audrah Krig in the high jump and 400, the girls 4x800 (Olivia Gilbertson, Mackenzie Hince, Blakely Lucente and Evie Peterson), the girls 4x100 (Julia Boyle, Isabelle Peterson, Lexi Marks and Lily Hanson), the girls 4x200 (Boyle, Isabelle Peterson, Marks and Lily Hanson), the girls 4x400 (Lucente, Boyle, Isabelle Peterson and Hince), Isabelle Peterson in the pole vault and Hanson in the long jump.

The individual champions were Stahlke in the 400 and the boys 4x800 team.

Ellsworth had two State qualifiers who did so with school record times. Stahlke beat his own school record time at the Rice Lake Sectional, finishing with a 50.05 time that beat his previous 50.14 to take third place. The Panthers also saw the 4x800 team of Jacob Michels, Kyle VanWatermeulen, Ben Baker and Mendez break the school record with an 8:09.17, beating the record set a year ago. The team took second place to qualify for State.

Some other Panthers threatened State qualification, including Kressin’s sixth place discus finish and Stahlke’s sixth place 200 time, but no one else cracked the top four.

Spring Valley

Spring Valley had a solid day at the Mondovi Regional to open the week. Katie Matthys took fourth place in the 100-meter hurdles with a 17.88, Parker Cipriano took fourth with a six-foot high jump, the 4x800 girls relay (Maddie Connors, Samantha Spence, Wynni Vanasse and Gwen Yonke) took fourth with a 12:23.76 time and the 4x200 girls relay (Rylie Fritz, Jada Hoolihan, Stella Mathison and Ella Peterson) took fourth with a 1:56.00 time to each advance to Sectionals.

The Cardinals did not have anyone advance to State at the Bangor Sectional but closed the year with a couple of competitive postseason meets.