Tracy Walters Invitational

Audubon Park, Spokane, Wa

This meet uses a unique scoring system running ten rather than seven members of the team and scoring 8 rather than 5 runners. They also use club scoring to name an overall champion for each gender. Club scoring uses a point value system based on the number of competitors a runner beats rather than the finish place of a runner. In club scoring the high point team wins.

JV Girls; The team won the meet and were lead by Mackenzie Platt running her first race of the season, she finished a close second in 21:42, she was following closely by Caley Featherstone (3^rd) in 21:58. Amber Hughes was 5^th in 22:02, freshman Anne Bahr was 7^th in 22:16, Tara Woodward 13^th 23:00, Lauren Reeder 19^th 23:33, Allie Sisson 25^th 24:20, and Alice Forbes rounded out the scoring in 26^th 24:22. Alice won the ‘anchor’ award for this race by being the final scorer of the winning team. Also running were; Hannah Loveless 31st 24:38, Lauren Christensen 32nd 24:42, Kendra Kotter 39th 25:21, Megan Blackburn 47th 27:06, and Mary Kershisnik 51st 28:23.

JV Boys; the Braves weren’t able to field a complete team as some of the JV Boys were unable to make the trip. But the seven that ran did a very good job. Freshman Jim Shaver ran 19:21 in 33^rd, Joe Uberaga ran 19:38 in 43^rd, Patrick O’Neil 48^th 19:52, Hunter Mann 54^th 20:19, Pete Larson 61^st 20:41, Nils Bruhn 67^th 20:45, and finally Destin Frank 73^rd 21:10.

Varsity Girls; finished 2nd behind only Bozeman a team ranked in the top 25 in the country. Kate Jamboretz ran a great race in 3^rd in an excellent time of 18:49. The next 4 runners finished in a pack and had a time gap of only 27 seconds, Liz Ryan 11^th 19:45, Dessie Weigel 14^th 19:54, Victoria O’Neil 15^th 19:56 and Molly Bradbury 20^th 20:12. Rounding out the scoring were Evan Gustavsen 25^th 20:35, Alex Goode 34^th 20:57, and Rachel Rant 35^th 21:15. Also running were Paige Van Ocker 37^th 21:24 and Mary Hickerson 23:24. As a team the Girls finished second behind Bozeman, (Bozeman, Montana) they are ranked in the top ten in the country.

Varsity Boys; The race was billed as the fastest high school race in the nation, each team in the race was either a state champion or runner up in their state. In the team standings North Central lead the way with Coeur d’Alene the runner’s up the Braves ran a close 7^th gaining a great deal of experience for their efforts. Thomas Rigby finished 16^th in 16:26, Kenton Freemuth 27^th 16:27, Adam Litster 27^th 16:49, Nick Brokaw 31^st 16:52, Miles Ranck 42^nd 17:12, freshman Alden Glass 46^th 17:19, John Jamboretz 47^th 17:19, Max Mulcahy 66^th 18:27, Eric Bellan 68^th 18:41 and finally Nate Showalter 69^th 19:12.

Using the Club Scoring system the Girls team was named the Meet Champions scoring 1409 points to runner up Central Valley's 1287. Eastlake was 3rd, Bozeman 4th, Kamiakin 5th and Coeur d'Alene 6th. The Boys team finished 7th with North Central the meet hosts being named the meet club champions.