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Results from Huntington North for Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th
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The Viking girls and boys track and field teams competed in the NE8 Championship on Friday, May 3, 2024, at Columbia City High School. The girls would finish runner-up and boys would place 5th. Click the link for full results. The Vikings had many gritty and outstanding performances. More information to be provided.
https://www.tfrrs.org/results/82438/NE8_Meet/
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The Huntington North golf team won the Cole Invite Saturday.
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1st Team All-Conference (1st place)
None
2nd Team All-Conference (2nd place)
Braeden Christiansen- Long Jump
Mason Downey- Discus
Nolan Mitchell, Noah Wagner, Braeden Christiansen, Tatum Brooks- 4x100m Relay
Honorable Mention All-Conference (3rd place)
Tatum Brooks- 100m Dash
Tony Decker- 400m Dash
Eric Frey- Long Jump
Nolan Mitchell, Noah Wagner, Braeden Christiansen, & Tatum Brooks set a new school record in the 4x100m Relay. Their time of 43.64 bettered the previous mark of 43.89 set earlier this season by Caleb Reust, Wagner, Christiansen, & Brooks.
Tatum Brooks is now #2 on the HN all-time 100m Dash list with his time of 11.00 in the 100m Dash Finals
Braeden Christiansen is now #5 on the HN all-time 200m Dash list with his time of 22.71 in the 200m Dash Preliminaries
Nolan Mitchell set a HN 9th grade record in the 100m Dash with his time of 11.42 in the 100m Dash Finals. The previous record of 11.44c was set in 1984 by Shawn Wall.
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Friday night, the Huntington North Girls Track and Field Team competed in a great meet to try for their 3rd straight NE8 Conference championship, but ended-up falling short placing 2nd in the NE8 Conference meet at Columbia City with 111 points. East Noble won the meet with a score of 139.
Leading the way for the Lady Vikings were:
4×800 Relay Team (Alice Friesen, Ella Colclesser, Hannah Haupert and Elle McDonald) -1st
100m Dash—Heather Gaynor 4th
1600m—Alice Friesen 2nd
400m Dash—Gracie Fields 1st
300m Hurdles—Raegan Double 2nd
800m—Ella Colclesser 4th, Gracie Fields 5th
3200m—Alice Friesen 2nd
High Jump—Leah Hertel 5th
Long Jump—Leah Hertel 3rd, Mya Plemons 4th
Shot Put—Annika Carpenter 3rd
Girls Discus—Abby Grube 3rd, Annika Carpenter 4th
Coach’s Comments: “Our girls did such an amazing job at this meet! Many season bests and personal bests! Heather Gaynor had almost a 0.7s PR in the 100, 2 girls (Mya Plemons and Leah Hertel) jumping over 16 feet in the Long Jump, 2 girls (Abby Grube and Annika Carpenter) throwing over 100 feet in the Discus)…and much more! Everyone was involved in this meet whether it was competing or cheering! Senior, Gracie Fields, said it best at out end of the meet team meeting that this was the best meet where we came together in a big way as a complete team checking-in and cheering everyone on! The team unity was there in full force! I could not agree more, and extremely proud of their effort, as well as my amazing coaches that prepared them for this day! Amazing complete team effort, ladies…amazing!”
