ALL-MARAWOOD NORTH TRACK & FIELD - Ten Redmen earned awards, including seven for top-3 efforts

ALL-MARAWOOD NORTH TRACK & FIELD

The Marawood Conference presented individual awards to 10 members of Rib Lake’s track and field program following the conference’s 12-team championship meet in Abbotsford on May 13.

The conference presents first-, secondand third-place awards to the top three finishers in each event. Rib Lake sophomore Jed Henderson earned the team’s lone first-place award by winning the boys high jump competition. He cleared the bar at 6 feet, 1 inch, which tied his personal record and gave him a tiebreaker win over Marathon’s Xander Curtice. Henderson equaled that height 10 days later at the WIAA Division 3 sectional meet in Cameron to qualify for state.

Meanwhile, Olivia Lopez earned second- team and third-team awards for her performances in the triple and long jump in the conference meet. The senior went 34 feet in the triple jump to place second behind Edgar’s Rachel Burke (35-3.5) and went 16-10.5 in the long jump to take third behind Stratford’s Brianna Sherden (177.5) and Newman Catholic’s Mel Severson (17-4.5).

Sophomore Emma Tlusty earned a third-place award in the 100-meter high hurdles with her time of 18.17 seconds. Only Alisha Blenker of Marathon (16.7) and Sydney Falteisek of Abbotsford (17.41) were faster.

Another third-place award went to Rib Lake’s boys 3,200-meter relay team of freshman Henry Regier, sophomore Kaleb Scott and juniors Jack Regier and Elijah Scott. Their time of 9:00.16, a season-best at the time, was only beaten by Stratford (8:46.55) and Marathon (8:53.71).

The league also awards honorable mention to the fourth- through sixth-place finishers in each event and that’s where the Redmen picked up several more awards.

Jack Regier finished fourth in the boys 3,200-meter run at 11:06.44, a personalbest at the time that he would beat by almost 15 seconds a week later at the regional meet in Gilman. Freshman Maddie Rademacher cleared a personal-best 4-10 to take fourth in the girls high jump, one inch behind the third-place Falteisek and an inch ahead of fifth-place Izzy Varden of Marathon.

Lopez, Tlusty, sophomore Isabella Gumz and freshman Kloey Paul were fourth-place finishers in the girls 400-meter relay in 53.72 seconds, their best time of 2024. They were 0.33 seconds behind third-place Marathon in a race won by Stratford (51.48).

Lopez was fifth in the 200-meter dash at 27.01 seconds, just off her school record of 26.9 seconds, set five days earlier at Marathon. Lopez also leaves the program with school records in the long (16-10.5) and triple (343.5) jumps.

Gumz got honorable mention for a sixth-place finish in the 100-meter high hurdles with her time of 18.97 seconds. She was even faster by 0.03 seconds in the preliminaries.

Rib Lake’s girls tied Auburndale for ninth in the conference meet’s team standings with 39 points. Stratford won the team title with 95 points, edging second-place Marathon by two. Rib Lake’s boys scored 21 points to place 10th ahead of Abbotsford (19) and Prentice (13). Stratford outscored Marathon 173-119.5 to win the team trophy.