The 2024 track season began for the Alliance St. Agnes Crusaders on Thursday with SA taking part in a meet in Grant.
Eleven teams competed in action for both girls and boys and divisions for both seventh and eighth graders. Best team finish for the Crusaders came in the seventh grade boy’s side with St. Agnes ending in third place with 72 points. The Alliance seventh grade girls also had a strong day, finishing in fourth place with 75 points. Both 8th grade squads came in fifth place with the Crusader boys tallying 68 points while the Alliance 8th grade girls had 54 points. Team titles for the boys went to Chase County had scored 194 points in the seventh grade division and 137 points for the 8th grade boys. On the girl’s side it was Sedgwick County winning the 8th grade trophy with 120 points. Chase County won the 7th grade girls competition with 87 points.
Individually St. Agnes had 6 champions, 3 for the boys and 3 for the girls. Alliance’s 8th grade boys had 3 gold medal performances with Coy Childers winning the pole vault, Tanner Salcido winning the triple jump, and the 400 relay garnering the gold. Childers broke his own school record of 8’7 by vaulting 9’6.
Salcido won with a leap of 35’6 in the triple while Alliance was first in the 400 relay with a team of 50.77. Members were: Coy Childers, Salcido, Jackson Devlin, and Jay Shelmadine. For the St. Agnes girls eighth grade Kimber Freiberger had a nice start to her season winning the mile with a time of 6:17 breaking her own school record of 6:25. Reese Armstrong also had a super performance, winning both the pole vault and the triple jump. Armstrong’s mark of 7’6 tied the school record in the vault.
Seventh Grade Girls, 75 Points 4th Overall
1st
Armstrong pole vault 7’6 ties school record
Armstrong triple jump 27’2
2nd
400 relay St. Agnes 1:00 Armstrong Maslin Breen Alexis Shelmadine Aubrey Dutton
Armstrong 200 30.4
Shelmadine pole vault 6’6
Dudden long jump 12’3
Shelmadine triple jump 26’5
3rd
Shelmadine 100 14.6
4th
Breen High Jump 4’2
Breen 100 hurdles 21.1
Eighth Grade Girls, 54 Points 5th Overall
1st
Freiberger mile 6:17 new school record
2nd
Hannah Benzel triple jump 26’9
Freiberger 800 2:50
Freiberger high jump 4’6
3rd
Amora Gonzalez triple jump 26’1/2
5th
400 relay Alliance 1:01 Benzel Gonzalez Lilah Bair Kaitlyn Shannon
Bair 100 hurdles 19.4
Bair 200 31.3
8th
Benzel 100 hurdles 20.6
Gonzalez shot 21’1
Seventh Grade Boys, 72 Points 3rd Overall
2nd
Paxton Richey pole vault 7’0
400 relay Alliance 57.8 Cisco Cody Enzo Kappius Tripp Johnson Dixon Bair
3rd
Grayson Dibrito triple jump 27’6
Johnson mile 5:39
4th
Cody 400 1:09
Johnson high jump 4’4
Braden Myers triple jump 26’5
5th
Danny Jelinek long jump 13’8
Bair 100 13.8
Richey 800 2:47
Jelinek high jump 4’4
Tatum Devlin pole vault 6’0
6th
Kappius 200 30.8
7th
Myers 200 31.2
Cody long jump 13’0
Gavin Mann shot 24’4
Eighth Grade Boys, 68 Points 5th Overall
1st
Coy Childers pole vault 9’6 new school record
Salcido triple jump 35’6
400 relay Alliance 50.7 Coy Childers Salcido Jackson Devlin Shelmadine
2nd
Shelmadine pole vault 8’6
4th
Jackson Devlin 200 27.2
Jackson Devlin 400 1:01
Jett Childers pole vault 8’0
Jackson Devlin triple jump 31’8
5th
Salcido 200 27.27
6th
Trey Carter discus 89’10
7th
Keegan Peters-Marsteller shot 31’9
8th
Jett Childers 100 14.4
Jett Childers triple jump 28’7
St. Agnes along with AMS traveled to Sidney on Friday, and both teams will be at home on Tuesday and next Saturday.