Five notable performances by area high school athletes in the past week and five events to watch for in the coming seven days.
Johansen not only won a WIAA state championship Saturday at UW-La Crosse, but she ran the race faster than any other D2 girls runner in state meet history. She won in 11.95 seconds, beating Westby’s Grace Hebel by 0.26 seconds.
Ryann Porter did not have time to dwell on a misfortune Saturday.
The Parkview sophomore's final throw in the wheelchair shot put sailed 24 feet, 11.5 inches at the WIAA state track and field meet in La Crosse. He won his second straight state title in the event and equaled the state record set by Greendale's Zak Giemza in 2012.
Sylvia Johansen of Cklinton leads the list of area qualifiers for the WIAA state track and field meet that begins today in La Crosse.
Janesville Parker's girls 800 relay team and Janesville Craig's boys 3,200 relay team are primed for a podium finish at this weekend's WIAA state track and field meet in La Crosse.
Photo gallery: Craig and Parker combined to send 10 individuals and two relays to next week's state meet in La Crosse. Individuals from Elkhorn, Milton and Badger also qualified.
Craig and Parker combined to send 10 individuals and two relays to next week's state meet in La Crosse. Elkhorn will send four individuals and two relays, Milton will send three individuals and Badger will send one individual.
Jo'Vontae Coleman and Sashi Popke won individual titles at Thursday's WIAA Division 2 East Troy track sectional, while several area relay teams also clinched spots at next week's state track meet.
La Follette scored 119 points to hold off Sun Prairie (114.5) in the boys team race, with Parker (93) and Craig (78) finishing third and fourth, respectively. Sun Prairie ran away with the girls team title, scoring 161 points to easily outpace runner-up Stoughton (93). Parker scored 83 point to take third, while Craig (47) was seventh.
The Parkview Vikings will have plenty of representation at the sectional track and field meet following the team’s success at Monday’s WIAA Division 3 Darlington Regional.
Jo'Vontae Coleman of Beloit Turner broke a school record in the triple jump Monday to highlight area competitors at the WIAA Division 2 Turner Regional.
Five notable performances from area high school athletes over the past week and five events to watch in the coming seven days.
Five notable performances from the past week in area high school sports, and five events to watch for in the upcoming seven days.
Photo gallery: Janesville Craig and Parker competed in the Big Eight Conference track and field meet at La Follette High School in Madison.
Sun Prairie totaled 152 points clinch its third straight girls conference title, followed closely by Madison Memorial (144) and Middleton (135). Janesville Craig tied for eighth with 21 points. Middleton extended its reign in the boys competition, totaling 152 points to breeze to its seventh straight title. Parker (47) was seventh, followed by Craig (40) in eighth.
Janesville Craig's Aaron Leverson has gone from a state-qualifying runner and facilitating guard on the basketball court to a trusted all-Big Eight point guard and state championship contender in the 800 meters.
After some up-and-down sports experiences and an "attitude problem" his first few years at Janesville Parker, Tremar Curry became a leader in laying a foundation for the Vikings basketball program and has a chance to reach the WIAA state track and field meet before he graduates.
Five notable performances by area high school athletes over the past week and five events to watch for in the next seven days.
Parker’s teams both finished second in the 15-team event. The Vikings girls finished with 98 points, just 3.5 behind winner Waterford. The boys scored 81 points to finish 21 back of winning Racine Case.
Janesville Parker's boys and girls track teams beat both Janesville Craig and Beloit Memorial at Monterey Stadium on Wednesday night.
Five notable performances from area high school athletes over the past week and five events to watch for in the next seven days.
Photo gallery: Teams competed in the Cougar Relays at Monterey Stadium on Friday evening.
Janesville Parker's boys and girls track and field teams swept the team titles at Friday night's Cougar Relays at Monterey Stadium.
Janesville Parker competed against Verona, while Janesville Craig took on Madison West in Big Eight track on Tuesday.
Leverson finished second in the boys 800-meter run, while Hulick was 19th in the girls 800
Porter set a Red Devil Invite meet record and a school record by going 37 feet, 8 inches in the triple jump. In addition, Porter finished second in the 100 hurdles and finished third in both the 300 hurdles and long jump.
The Janesville Craig boys got a victory in the 4x800-meter relay at the Watertown Invitational on Thursday.
Even with rosters depleted by Spring Break, the Vikings managed to sweep both team titles during a Big Eight Conference dual meet against Madison East at Lussier Stadium.
Sashi Popke qualified for the WIAA Division 2 state meet in four events last year. The Whitewater High senior hopes to repeat the feat, and improve on his final results, in 2019.
Ryann Porter and Brody Lippens helped Janesville Parker’s track and field teams to a Big Eight Conference sweep of Madison West at Monterey Stadium on Tuesday night.
Five notable performances in the past week of area high school sports and five events to keep an eye on over the next seven days.
Photo gallery: Clinton hosted Big Foot, Brodhead, East Troy, Edgerton, Evansville, Jefferson, Palmyra, Parkview, Turner and Whitewater in the first big outdoor track meet of the high school season Saturday.
Craig's boys track and field team beat Sun Prairie 71-70 to open the outdoor season Tuesday. The other three city teams lost.
The high school track and field season begins in earnest Tuesday, with Janesville Craig and Janesville Parker competing in Big Eight Conference duals.
Arlan "Bud" Hilgendorf, one of the most important figures in the history of Parkview athletics, was inducted into the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame in February. It was an honor that had long eluded the decorated coach who led the Vikings to back-to-back state titles.
Janesville Parker’s girls track team got the season off to a strong start Friday night.
The 81st Annual Midwest Invitational was held Saturday, Sept. 22, at Blackhawk Golf Course in Janesville.
The WIAA state track and field meet wrapped up Saturday in La Crosse, with Craig senior Peyton Sippy winning her second state title in as many days and her third overall. Parker's Julia Hartwig, Ryann Porter and Seamus Murphy all medaled at state to close out the year.
The foursome of Jackson Nelson, Brice Enright, Tyler Stauss and Zach Krause held off Lodi by less than a second to win a state title.
Oren set a state record in winning the Division 2 long jump title. That came on the heels of her first state title in high jump just hours earlier.
The final two laps of the eight-lap 3,200-meter race belonged solely to Sippy on Friday. The Janesville Craig senior won the WIAA Division 1 girls race going away, winning with a program-record time of 10 minutes, 42.01 seconds. Kate Jochims, of Muskego, was second, more than five seconds back.
Ashlyn Oren and Sashi Popke are going to be busy at this weekend's WIAA state track and field meet. Oren, an Edgerton senior, and Popke, a Whitewater junior, each qualified in four events for the Division 2 state meet.
Twenty-eight athletes--not including relay alternates--combined from Janesville Parker and Janesville Craig produced 20 individual and seven relay qualifications for the WIAA state meet, which runs Friday and Saturday at UW-La Crosse. Even more impressive, 17 of those 28 will compete in multiple events.
Seven relay teams from Janesville will compete at the WIAA state track and field meet next weekend in La Crosse, including Craig's 4x100 and 4x200 boys teams, which won Big Eight Conference, regional and sectional titles in the past few weeks.
Janesville Parker's girls track and field team saw two program records fall. The Craig boys sent all seven sectional-qualifying entries through to state. And the city had 20 individual state qualifications and seven qualifying relays from Thursday's Badger Sectional.
A roundup of area WIAA track and field sectionals in Divisions 2 and 3 from May 25, 2018.
The Elkhorn boys and the Lake Geneva Badger girls won regional track and field titles in Westosha on Tuesday after the event was postponed one day due to weather.
A steady drizzle didn't slow down area high school track and field athletes Monday as they did their best to finish in the top four at the Division 2 Turner Regional. Those that did moved on to Thursday's sectional competition.
The Janesville Craig and Janesville Parker track and field teams competed at the WIAA Division 1 Verona Regional on Monday.
