Eleven years and running. Last week on Wednesday, the St. Louis U. High Track and Field team competed at CBC for the MCC Champions Title and won at both Varsity and JV levels.

The first event for the varsity squad came with a second place finish in the 4x800m relay where the team of sophomore George Donahue, junior Dylan Freeman, and seniors Carter Lowe and Nolan Meera finished with a time of 8:13:08. Next came the 110m hurdles where both of SLUH’s runners placed with junior Jacobi Oliphant (14.97) winning the event and sophomore Matthew Moore (16.83) placing third. The following event, the 100m, saw SLUH finish with a similar result as junior Ryan Wingo (10.69) coming in first and junior Joseph Harris (11.27) taking third. In the 4x200m relay, the Jr. Bills had another dominant performance behind Harris, Oliphant, Wingo, and senior Kam Bailey, winning the event with a time of 1:29.05, showing once again that they hold one of the best relays in the state, clearing the competition by three seconds. The mile saw SLUH take home two additional podium finishes with junior Anthony Zangara (4:36.03) taking first and Meera (4:37.76) third in a very tight finish between the top five runners. The next event saw the Jr. Bills relay of Harris, Bailey, Wingo, and senior Sean Chaffee took an unfortunate, close loss to CBC in the 4x100m as they finished second with a time of 43.63, just two tenths of a second from first. In the 400m, SLUH took second and fourth place behind Moore (52.55) and senior Jeffery Baur (55.04). Oliphant showed his hurdling prowess again in the 300m hurdles with first place finish in under 40 seconds with a time of 39.82. The next event saw Lowe take home a victory of his own in the 800m in a close victory with a time of 1:58.94 and freshman Andrew Freeman came in fifth with a time of 2:06.80. In the 200m, Harris (22.62) took second place just two hundreds of a second away from first. The two mile race saw the Jr. Bills take second and third place behind the sophomore duo of August Talleur (9:55.85) and Donahue (10:05.91). The final race of the night was the 4x400m relay of senior Steffen Mayer, Lowe, Moore, and Oliphant, where SLUH once again took first place by a three second margin.

In the field events, sophomore Luca Rogan notched fourth in the high jump with a height of 1.60m. His victory was followed by two podium finishes by juniors Ben Kean (3.65m) and Elijah Smith (also with a height of 3.65m). In the long jump, sophomore Dylan Humphrey earned fifth place with a jump of 5.65m and in the triple jump, he earned fourth with a jump of 11.93m. In the shot put, senior Alex Fowler (13.71m) and junior Dominic Novotny (12.67m) earned fourth and fifth respectively. Novotny also earned fourth in the discuss with a throw of 37.49m. The final field event, the javelin, saw sophomore Cameron Schlueter win second throwing a distance of 38.84m.

This weekend the team will be hosting the district championship which will be the first of 2 rounds in qualifying for the state meet. “We're excited to host and welcome 19 teams to our track and we're very excited,” said Coach Porter on the district meet, “but our lineup is not based necessarily on trying to win the district meet, because people advance as individuals, not necessarily the whole team.” The district meet will consist of the traditional track meet schedule with the difference of prelims for the sprints races that take place in all of the postseason meets. “Our whole lineup is set on who can get to the state meet and compete!”

In the field events, 

Novice Mile:

JV:

JV Medalists include Lucas Strohmeyer (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles), Jaxon Bennett (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles),  Mason Scargall (1600), Gavin Smith (1600), Hendrix Fyvie (1600), Garret Franks (400), Ethan Bognar (400), DJ Jordan (400), Patrick Jones (800), Jake Fitzpatrick (800), Charlie Murray (3200), Alex Bendana (3200), Noah Evers (3200), Colin Minor (High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump), Charlie Casey (Pole Vault), August Russell (Pole Vault), Keegan Dow (Pole Vault), VirShaun Mosley (Shot Put), the 4x800 relay (Scargall, Bendana, Evers, Murray), the 4x100 relay (Pace, Lezieanya, Phoenix, Kreuter), and the 4x400 relay (Bognar, Scargall, Fyvie, Franks).

JV Team Scores: 1. SLUH-143, 2. DeSmet-76, 3. CBC-71, 4. Chaminade-69, 5. Vianney-27

V:

Varsity Medalists include Jacobi Oliphant (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles), Matthew Moore (110 hurdles, 400),  Ryan Wingo (100), Joseph Harris (100, 200), Anthony Zangara (1600), Nolan Meara (1600), Gus Talleur (3200), George Donahue (3200), Ben Kean (Pole Vault), Eli Smith (Pole Vault), Cam Schlueter (Javelin), the 4x800 relay (Lowe, Donahue, Zangara, Meara), the 4x200 relay (Harris, Oliphant, Bailey, Wingo), the 4x100 relay (Harris, Bailey, Chaffee, Wingo), and the 4x400 relay (Moore, Lowe, Mayer, Oliphant).

Varsity Team Scores: 1. SLUH-130, 2. CBC-84, 3. DeSmet-77, 4. Chaminade-59, 5. Vianney-49