I70 Area Track and Field Athletes Off to Strong Starts, Currently Sit in Top 25 of 1A Event Rankings

Six individual boys, two boys relays, two individual girls and one girls relay have put themselves in the Top 25 for Class 1A event rankings after the first two and a half weeks of the outdoor track and field season. Two girls sit in the Top 10 in the Girls 1A rankings as Altamont freshman Baileigh Starnes finds herself ranked in the top 10 of three events including 4^th in the 400m Dash, 10^th in the 100m Dash and 10^th in the 200m Dash and Vandalia senior Hannah Brown is second in the Shot Put. On the boys side, two athletes and two relays are in the Top 10 as Vandalia senior Kohnor Depew is 2^nd in the 200m Dash and 8^th in the 100m Dash and teammate junior Sam Bowers is 3^rd in the 300m Hurdles and 5^th in the 110m Hurdles. The Vandalia boys 4×800 relay is currently ranked 7^th and the Vandalia boys 4×200 is currently ranked 9^th.

GIRLS in the Top 25:

Baileigh Starnes (FR, Altamont) – 10^th in 100m, 10^th in 200m, 4^th in 400m

Hannah Brown (SR, Vandalia) – 2^nd in Shot Put, 13^th in Discus

Altamont 4×100 Relay (Katie Tedrick, Keely Fleeharty, Quincy Niermann, Baileigh Starnes) – 19th

BOYS in the Top 25:

Kohnor Depew (SR, Vandalia)– 8^th in 100m, 2^nd in 200m

Hayden Bridges (JR, Altamont) – 17^th in 200m, 25^th in High Jump

Nic Jackson (JR, Vandalia) – 23^rd in 800m

Sam Bowers (JR, Vandalia) – 5^th in 110m Hurdles, 3^rd in 300m Hurdles

Brock Wendling (SR, Altamont) – 12^th in Shot Put, 23^rd in Discus

Jayden Hubler-Rench (SR, Vandalia) – 20^th in Long Jump

Vandalia 4×200 Relay (Sam Bowers, Jordan Colburn, Paddy McDowell, Jayden Hubler-Rench) – 9^th

Vandalia 4×800 Relay (Cole Durbin, Matthew McDowell, Ryker Emerick, Nic Jackson) – 7th