WINONA, Minn. – The Yellowjacket women's track and field team returned to action Saturday, competing at the St. Mary's Invitational.
It was another week featuring a tough field, and another week where the Yellowjackets made a strong showing as a team.
Leading the way was freshman
Simone Stephens (Scottsdale, Ariz./Saguaro). The Arizona product won the 1,500-meter run, using every inch of her 5-foot-11-inch frame to edge teammate
Halle Barker (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior). Stephens won the event with a time of 4:56.02, beating Barker by one-one hundredth of a second. The times for Stephens and Barker were both personal records.
Super senior
Alexxa DeQuevedo (Silver Bay, Minn./William Kelley) had a good day on the track and in the field, posting multiple top three finishes. On the track, DeQuevedo placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in with a time of 16.83 seconds. In the javelin, she placed second with a throw of 26.25 meters. She placed third in the high jump, clearing the bar at a height of 1.35 meters.
Allison Alessi (Shakopee, Minn./Prior Lake) had a good day in the sprints, finishing third in the 100 meters with a time of 13.34 seconds. She was even better in the 200 meters, finishing second at 27.55 seconds. The latter time was a personal record.
Also earning a second-place finish on the track Saturday was
Colleen Claude (Centuria, Wis./Homeschool), who completed the 400 meters in 1:02.25 and setting a new personal record.
Turning to the field events, the Yellowjackets showed well in the long jump, occupying three slots in the top five.
Aylie Dahl placed third with a jump of 4.74 meters, setting a new personal record. Right behind Dahl was
Summer Hesseldahl (International Falls, Minn./Falls), who placed fourth with a mark of 4.65 meters.
Myla Volk (Wabeno, Wis./Wabeno) was fifth with a mark of 4.45 meters. Volk also had a third-place finish in the triple jump, coming in with a mark of 9.73 meters.
Meet Notes
- Dahl also had a top-five finish in the 100 meters, placing fifth with a time of 14.02 seconds. She placed sixth in the 200 meters.
- Taylor DeCook (Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect) finished fourth in the 800 meters with a time of 2:33.13.
- Hesseldahl placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:31.47. She was just ahead of Isabel Molina (Solon Springs, Wis./Solon Springs), who finished fifth and set a personal record with a time of 1:23.72.
- The 4-x-100-meter relay team, made up of Hesseldahl, Alessi, Claude and Cora Schmitz (Luck, Wis./Unity) placed second with a time of 51.86 seconds.
- Volk placed fifth in the high jump.
- Kenzy Kreuzer (Stoddard, Wis./De Soto) finished fourth in the pole vault, clearing the bar at a height of 2.00 meters.
- Catie McPherson (Ashland, Wis./Ashland), with a mark of 9.15 meters, placed fourth in the triple jump.
- Sidney Bader (Milltown, Wis./Unity) had a good day in the throws, placing fifth in the shot put, seventh in the discus and seventh in the hammer.
- The 4-x-400-meter relay team of DeCook, Barker, Cora Hudella (North Branch, Minn./North Branch Area) and Stephens placed third with a time of 4:33.57.
Next, the Yellowjackets will compete at the Holst Invitational, hosted by Concordia-St. Paul at Sea Foam in St. Paul Saturday, April 20.
