Girls’ track wins regional championship

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St. Louis girls’ track team celebrating after regional championship.

Alianna Vera-Carrillo, Staff Writer

The girls’ varsity track team took home its first regional championship in 12 years May 21, 2021 with the score of 120 points and placed first out of 13 teams.

Many many girls qualified for the state meet and all four relays qualified for state. The 4×800 of Mikaila Borie, Jaiden Dickman, Mikenna Borie, Libby Munderloh (School Record of 9:42.20), 4×200 Libby Munderloh, Adry Munoz, Monika Borie, Chloe O’Boyle 1:49.03 (Ranked number 2 in the state currently) 4×100  Natalee Hoyt, Adry Munoz, Monika Borie, Chloe O’Boyle 52.46, 4×400  Adry Munoz, Monika Borie, Libby Munderloh, Chloe O’Boyle 4:16.8. Individually, a few girls qualified as well. Korah Honig threw a 96′ for discus and 34’0.5” for shot put. For the 1600-meter run, Mikenna Borie qualified with a 5:17 and Jaiden Dickman with a 5:19. For the 3200 meter run Mikenna Borie ran a 11:48 and Jaiden Dickman ran a 11:51. For the 800  meter run Libby Munderloh ran a 2:24. Lastly, for the 300 meter hurdles, Monika Borie qualified with a 50.91.

According to Coach Tomanek, The effort was outstanding. He said, “The girls battled great competition and high temperatures. They listened to their coaches and took care of themselves in between events.” He stated, “We left a few points out there in a couple of events, I think we have room to improve point-wise in high jump, pole vault and long jump, but we still performed well in those areas.” He believes the team is very talented and works extremely hard. “I felt like we had a shot at winning, but we went in as underdogs to the host Shepherd team. Our relays and throwing events really put us over the top. I knew we won after the 800-meter run.” Tomanek added, “Mikaila Borie overdid her seed placement by a lot and earned us 3 more points than expected.  Then with what we had left in the 3200-meter run and 4×400 relay I knew it was over.” He is extremely proud of his team.