Track season gets underway

The Hot Springs County Track and Field kicked off last weekend, with the athletes travelling to Cody for the Yellowstone Sports Medicine Invitational.

Though no team scores were recorded, a couple of the tracksters are already making new personal records, with Jarron Mortimore taking 16th in the high jump with a height of 5’4” and Kaylee Devries placing 26th in the 200 meter dash with a time of 31.98.

Coach Ernie Mecca noted this was the team’s first meet, and about five students were missing due to the spring break, but those who attended competed hard.

Having such as young team, with eight returning letter winners on the girls team and three on the boys, Mecca said a focus is on personal records.

Going into April, Mecca said they will work hard to put students in places where they perform the strongest and will do the most for the team. The focus is two-fold, the coach said, with trying to determine what the best events are for the new kids and breaking personal records.

For the returning letter winners, a focus is also on qualifying for state.

Additional results from the meet include:

Logan Cole — 100 meters 30th, 12.86, shot put seventh, 38’1”

Jarron Mortimore — 100 meters 40th, 13.04

Ethan Becher — 100 meters 46th, 13.24, 300 meter hurdles 12th, 49.62

Jaxson Jensen — 100 meters 58th, 13.59, long jump 26th, 15’10”, triple jump 20th, 32’4.25”

Jesse Skelton — 100 meters 61st, 13.72, 200 meters 34th, 28.43, 400 meters 16th, 1:02.19

Logan Shumway — 100 meters 63rd, 13.97, high jump 15th, 5’4”, triple jump 17th, 33’10.75”

Kolby George — 100 meters 67th, 14.33, 1600 meters 16th, 5:29.57

Mortimore, Becher, Cole and Jensen — 4x100 relay sixth, 55.46

George, Chance Huffstetler, Mortimore and Becher — 1600 sprint medley third, 4:02.28.

Kaylee DeVries — 100 meters 26th, 15.20, 100 meter hurdles 13th, 19.71

Dayna Sandberg — 100 meters 27th, 15.28

Brianna DeVries — 100 meters 31st, 15.39

Ashley McPhie — 100 meters 44th, 16.08, 200 meters 44th, 33.85, triple jump 13th, 28’1.5”

Dani Pebbles — 100 meters 52nd, 17.85, long jump 30th 10’6”

Aspen Jensen — 200 meters 35th, 32.72

Tahja Hunt — 800 meters 14th, 2:58.60, 1600 meters eighth 6:12.00

Olivia Weyer — 1600 meters 11th, 6:29.81, pole vault 15th, 7’0”

McDermott, Sandberg, Weyer and Jensen — 4x400 relay seventh, 5:04.46

Weyer, Brianna DeVries, Sandberg and Haley McDermott — 1600 sprint medley fourth, 4:55.75

Sesi Jensen — triple jump eighth, 30’4.5”

McDermott — pole vault 13th, 7’6”

The teams will next see action at the LAK Invite at Powell on Saturday, April 7 beginning at 9 a.m.