North Union tracksters to open Iowa Class 1A state meet

HEADED FOR DRAKE — Members of the North Union Warriors observe & discipline groups competing within the Iowa Class 1A State Meet at present via Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines embody, entrance row (l-r): Preston Guerdet, Hanna Sandvig, Cassie Beadle, Lily Henderson Jacey Welbig and Bryer Prochniak. Again row: Hannah Morphew, Libby Stevens, Beth Strueber, Shelby Fraker, Naomi Jones, Ella Ulrich, Olivia Merrill and Sam Nielsen. (Photograph courtesy of Loren Looft)

ARMSTRONG — The excessive leap pit at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, has turn out to be a second spring residence to North Union Excessive Faculty senior standout Sam Nielsen.

Nielsen, who certified for the Iowa Class 1A state observe & discipline meet’s vertical discipline occasion for the third time within the final 4 prep seasons, leads a powerful Warriors’ contingent into motion at present via Saturday.

North Union sophomore thrower Olivia Merrill formally opens the Iowa Class 1A state competitors at 9 a.m. at present. Merrill, who posted a qualifying mark of 35 toes, 3 inches within the shot put, will heave the metallic orb out of the fourth spot among the many 12-thrower first flight.

Warriors’ junior sprinting sensation Bryer Prochniak will comply with 2 hours later at present within the 200-meter sprint preliminaries. Prochniak, who generated a qualifying time of 23.34 seconds, will fill Lane 7 in Warmth 2 at 11 a.m. earlier than ready 2 extra hours to return to the Drake paved floor at 1:05 p.m. at present.

Prochniak, who certified with a seed time of 11.49, satirically, will run out of Lane 7 once more in Warmth 2 for the 100-meter sprint’s preliminaries.

The North Union speedburner captured sixth place within the open 100 (11.36) and eighth place within the open 200 (23.37) on the 2021 Iowa Class 1A state meet in Des Moines.

The Warriors’ foursome of Hanna Sandvig, Cassie Beadle, Jacey Welbig and Lily Henderson will trade handoffs within the 4×800-meter relay at 11:20 a.m. at present. Sandvig, Beadle, Welbig and Henderson, who mixed for a seed time of 10:46.46, will run in Lane 2 of Part 1.

Ella Ulrich, Henderson, Naomi Jones and Shelby Fraker will look to get Friday’s state observe & discipline session off on the proper foot once they trade the baton within the 4×200-meter relay at 10:50 a.m. Ulrich, Henderson, Jones and Fraker, who generated a seed time of 1:52.22, will fill Lane 4 of Part 1.

Nielsen will then compete in her last two state occasions as a highschool trackster inside a 50-minute window at Drake Stadium. Nielsen, who cleared a qualifying peak of 5-1, will leap nineteenth of the 24 rivals beginning at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

Nielsen then will step to the observe to anchor the Warriors’ 4×100-meter relay quartet of Ulrich, Jones and Fraker at 12:40 p.m. on Day 2. The fleet-footed foursome, who produced a seed time of 51.82, will run in Lane 3 of the Warmth 3 preliminaries.

Nielsen will look so as to add to her spectacular prep observe & discipline resume that already options an eighth-place state medal from the 2019 Iowa Class 1A state meet and a share of the silver medal by way of a second-place leap of 5-2 in final spring’s state excessive leap.

Sophomore Preston Guerdet and freshman Jacey Welbig will shut out this 12 months’s state observe & discipline meet at Drake Stadium for the Warriors by competing in a pair of long-distance finals on Saturday.

Guerdet, who posted a seed time of 4:49.28, will run the 1,600-meter race at 2:15 p.m. on Day 3 of the state competitors. Welbig, who generated a qualifying time of 5:28.62, will run the 1,500-meter last at 2:45 p.m. Saturday.