Wyoming
2024 Wyoming Track Classic Comes to Casper on Friday
Aiming to bring together the best track and field athletes in the state, the Wyoming Track and Field Classic is in Casper on Friday, weather permitting. This outdoor track meet is for the top track student-athletes regardless of classification. It features the eight fastest times on the track for the sprints and mid-distance, the top 12 for the 1600 and 3200 meters, and the nine top marks and ties in field events. Student-athletes are only able to compete in a maximum of two events. Not all the top track athletes and schools choose to attend.
WYOMING TRACK CLASSIC 2024
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
The 307 Track Classic starts at 4 p.m. on Friday from Harry Geldien Stadium in Casper at Kelly Walsh High School. At 4 p.m. will be the boys’ pole vault, long jump, and shot put, and the girls’ high jump, pole vault, long jump, and discus. The 3200-meter run will start at 4:30 p.m. with the girls’ race followed by the boys’ race. At 5 p.m. is the boys’ triple jump, discus, and high jump, and the girls’ triple jump and shot put. At 5:30 p.m. will be the 100 and 110 hurdle races. At 5:50 p.m. is the 100-meter dash. At 6:10 is the 1600-meter run. The 400-meter race is at 6:30 p.m. The 300-meter hurdle races are at 6:50 p.m. At 7:10 p.m. will be the 800-meter run, and the 200-meter dash will start at 7:30 p.m.
Here are the entries for the 2024 Wyoming Track Classic.
Girls Events:
100 meters = Brooklyn Ausmus (Torr), Avery Bever (Land), Kaitlyn Bradach (NC), Kalistynn Crippen (Wor), Desirae Iacovetto (Wht), Hannah Kurz (TB), Grace Miller (TB), Allie Scribner (KW).
200 meters = Brooklyn Ausmus (Torr), Kalistynn Crippen (Wor), Cherise Douzenis (Wor), Kalyanna Flores (Cent), Hannah Kurz (TB), Maddy Lloyd (Wor), Jaden Meyer (Doug), Taliah Morris (East).
400 meters = Lainey Berryhill (Lar), Cami Costello (NC), Cherise Douzenis (Wor), Kalyanna Flores (Cent), Addison Forry (Lar), Waycee Harvey (Pow), Ellie Kaufman (Land), Lily Nichols (Wht).
800 meters = Megan Doherty (TB), Briley Farris (Buff), Daisy Goklish (Land), Ashley Gross (NC), Kenna Jacobsen (Pow), Maggie Madsen (East), Ada Nelson (Cody), Ynes Ronnau (East).
1600 meters = Nicole Clark (NC), Kinley Cooley (Pow), Ameya Eddy (Land), Maya Hall (Buff), Emma Hofmeister (Cent), Kendra Jensen (Cam Cty), Ada Nelson (Cody), Reese Ostrander (NC), Adalyn Racines (Cent), Myah Rakness (Pow), Sofia Rose (Cent), Ava Tapia (Wor).
3200 meters = Karee Cooley (Pow), Kinley Cooley (Pow), Gracie Craig (East), Brynn Hillman (Pow), Mallory Jones (TB), Lexi Longhurst (KW), Maggie Madsen (East), Madison Melinkovich (Cam Cty), Reese Ostrander (NC), Zena Tapia (Wor), Ally Wheeler (NC), Shelby Zickefoose (Pow).
100 hurdles = Addison Alley (Riverton), Nadia Burdett (East), Tristyn Buss (KW), Paisley Hollingshead (Land), Jordan Kroeger (KW), Presley Nacey (RS), Carly Norman (Buff), Anna Richardson (Wor).
300 hurdles = Samantha Ablard (Riv), Caroline Crago (Buff), Natalie Hawes (Torr), Paisley Hollingshead (Land), Lillie Kirkham (Cody), Presley Nacey (RS), Shania Scheel (Raw), Bradie Schlabs (East).
Pole Vault = Ava Andrews (RS), Lauryn Bennett (Pow), Hailey Holeman (Cody), Elise Kovacs (Cent), Oliva Maertens (Buff), Isabelle Paddock (Cody), Kelsey Pomajzl (Cody), Jaesa Whitesell (Cent).
High Jump = Vinae Buford-Stillman (TB), Destiny Cleveland (Kayc), Jessica Hoffman (PB), Desirae Iacovetto (Wht), Davdine King (Therm), Sarah McNiven (Burl), Juli Moreno (East), Mackelle Moss (Rocky Mtn), Martina PlaGuix (Cent), Anna Richardson (Wor), Ashley Rogge (TB), Addy Thorington (Pow), Nicole Wilson (GR).
Long Jump = Brynn Bider (RS), Jaden Meyer (Doug), Taliah Morris (East), Lily Nichols (Wht), Carly Norman (Buff), Tess Rule (Buff), Allie Scribner (KW), Karson Tempel (Cent), Alyssa Wondercheck (Torr).
Triple Jump = Sophie Berglund (Buff), Nadia Burdett (East), Tristyn Buss (KW), Cami Costello (NC), Waycee Harvey (Pow), Ina King (Therm), Sophie Louderback (Upt), Trishell Pontarolo (Torr), Karson Tempel (Cent).
Discus = Lillian Allison (GR), Adelyn Anderson (Land), Teagan Becker (KW), Jessica Hoffman (PB), Katie O’Brien (Pow), Manaia Peterson (Wor), Emma Schubach (TB), Jalyn Shepherd (TB), Brynn Sybrant (NC).
Shot Put = Lillian Allison (GR), Adelyn Anderson (Land), Teagan Becker (KW), Harper Boche (SE), Haley Dibble (NC), Kate Lewis (Lar), Katie O’Brien (Pow), Emma Schubach (TB), Jalyn Shepherd (TB).
Boys Events:
100 meters = AJ Baustert (Cody), Logan Borden (NC), Dillon Brost (Cody), Jace Jarrett (Cody), Tegan Krause (Cent), Bridger Norton (TB), Landon Scalise (TB), Gavin Stafford (BH).
200 meters = AJ Baustert (Cody), Tyler Bohnen (Wht), Dillon Brost (Cody), Bradley Ekstrom (TB), Tegan Krause (Cent), Carson Lundberg (NC), Bridger Norton (TB), Jackson Reed (Lar).
400 meters = Flynn Arnold (Lar), Logan Borden (NC), Bradley Ekstrom (TB), Chase Holler (Doug), Braden Killpack (RS), Seth Needham (Therm), Kalub Padilla (RS), Cameron Pilcher (TB).
800 meters = Kalel Brubaker (NC), Bridger Brokaw (Cent), Zach Freise (Buff), Charlie Hulbert (Cody), Tanner Johnson (Doug), Race Morrell (Cent), Jonah Rigg (Cent), Brody Roberts (LFL).
1600 meters = Jaxson Allard (Raw), Patrick Hardesty (TB), Charlie Hulbert (Cody), Howard McNiven (Burl), Paul McNiven (Burl), Ethan Miller (Wor), Race Morrell (Cent), Trevor Schmidt (Cent), Ben Stewart (Cody), Trajn Swalstad (Wor), Liam Taylor (Pow), Ivan Thomas (Wor), Sullivan Wilson (LFL).
3200 meters = Will Bishop (Wor), Ira Croft (Wor), Jadeth Elder (Therm), Diego Lobatos (Land), Logan Milek (Land), Jameson Munari (NC), Ethan Rayo (Buff), Davian Spoonhunter (Riv), Lucas Steveson (East), Korbyn Warren (Pow), Marshall Walton (Riv), Aden Zwonitzer (East).
110 hurdles = Bridger Anderson (NC), Shawn Basart (Cent), Reed McFadden (Land), Noah Mitchell (Wor), Jack Nicholls (KW), Caleb Ortberg (KW), Kaecen Paden (KW), Stuart Shoopman (Pow), Wyatt Trembly (Dub).
300 hurdles = Shawn Basart (Cent), Neven Coleman (NC), Boston Cronebaugh (Cody), Noah Mitchell (Wor), Matthew Newman (Lovell), Caleb Ortberg (KW), Wyatt Trembly (Dub), Christopher Wilson (GR).
Pole Vault = Maddix Blazovich (RS), Kaden Clark (Cody), Keagan Eicholtz (East), Fisher Frude (Lar), Kavin Hoff (NC), Ethan Jackson (Wht), Nicholas Lewis (Cent), Carson Shear (TB), Adam Williams (Pow), Kyler Winters (Burl).
High Jump = Maddax Ball (Cody), Josiah Coleman (NC), Levi Curtis (Doug), Cage Hardy (Newc), Ben Hogan (Cody), Kaiden Lee (NC), Nathan Miller (Lusk), Keaton Mills (Sund), Quincy Paris (Mid), Trennan Pearson (Doug), Jake Schommer (Sund), Jonas Slater (RS), Owen Walker (Lovell), Eric Whitley (KW), Isaiah Woyack (Lusk).
Long Jump = Bridger Anderson (NC), Charlie Fonseca (Raw), Luke Moulton (Cody), Kaiden Lee (NC), Gavin Stafford (BH), Zaven Thomas (NC), Landon Walker (KW), Christopher Wilson (GR), Seth Wilson (NC).
Triple Jump = Corey Bruegger (Lusk), Adnan Khan (Lovell), Luke Moulton (Cody), Matthew Newman (Lovell), Quincy Paris (Mid), Ethan Schiller (Upt), AJ Sirdoreus (Lar), Landon Walker (KW), Isaiah Woyack (Pow).
Shot Put = Carter Archuleta (Doug), Braydn Ballard (Cam Cty), Tyler Bennick (Torr), Quade Jordan (Enc), Trey Parriott (Torr), Kaben Pickett (Enc), Raynor Ranum (Cam Cty), Tegen Seeds (Doug), Ben Spencer (NC).
Discus = Braydn Ballard (Cam Cty), Tyler Bennick (Torr), Brayden Brastrup (Cam Cty), Logan Class (Cody), Quade Jordan (Enc), Keaton Mills (Sund), Kaben Pickett (Enc), Tegen Seeds (Doug), Ben Spencer (NC).
Wyoming Track Classic-2023
Wyoming Track Classic-2023
Gallery Credit: Shannon Dutcher
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Two men were detained in Wyoming in connection with a fatal shooting at a downtown Salt Lake hotel that killed one man.
Carlos Chee, 23, and Chino Aguilar, 21, were both wanted for first-degree felony murder after the victim, identified as Christian Lee, 32, was found dead in a room at the Springhill Suites near 600 South and 300 West.
According to warrants issued for their arrest, Chee and Aguilar met with Lee and another woman at the hotel to sell marijuana. During the alleged drug deal, Aguilar allegedly shot and killed Lee after he tried to grab at his gun.
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Investigators said they found Lee dead in the room upon arrival, as well as a single shell casing on the floor and a small amount of marijuana on the television stand.
The woman told investigators she had met Chee on a dating app and that he agreed to come to the hotel to sell her marijuana. She had been hanging out with him in the room, which Lee rented for her to use, when Lee asked them to leave. Lee was then shot and killed following a brief confrontation.
Chee and Aguilar allegedly fled the scene in a 2013 Toyota Camry with a Texas license plate that was later found outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming just a few hours later.
The two men were taken into custody and detained at the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office.
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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming (KUTV) — A man was hospitalized with critical injuries after he was reportedly shot by a deputy responding to reports of a disturbance.
Deputies with the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and officers with the Rock Springs Police Department responded to the Sweetwater Heights apartment complex in the 2100 block of Century Boulevard just after 4 a.m. on Monday to investigate reports of a disturbance involving an armed individual.
Information that dispatch received indicated that the individual had shot himself. When officials arrived, they found the individual on the balcony of an upstairs apartment “who appeared to have a gunshot wound consistent with the initial report,” a press release states.
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During the encounter, a deputy discharged their weapon and struck the individual.
Emergency medical personnel rendered aid, and the individual was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
No law enforcement officers or members of the public were injured during the incident.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation will conduct an independent investigation.
The deputy who fired their weapon was placed on administrative leave per standard protocol.
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by Maggie Mullen, WyoFile
Albert Sommers, former Wyoming Speaker of the House, announced Thursday he will attempt to reclaim a seat he formerly held for more than a decade in the statehouse.
“Leadership matters,” Sommers, a lifelong cattle rancher, wrote in a press release. “Right now, the Wyoming House is too often focused on division instead of solutions. We need steady, effective leadership that solves problems—not rhetoric and political theater.”
Voters in 2013 first elected Sommers to House District 20, which encompasses Sublette County and an eastern section of Lincoln County. As a lawmaker, Sommers largely focused on health care, education and water issues. Over six terms, he rose through the ranks, serving in leadership positions and chairing committees focused on education funding and broadband.
In his announcement, Sommers highlighted his legislative work to establish funding for rural hospitals, prioritize “responsible property tax relief,” as well as the creation of the Wyoming Colorado River Advisory Committee within the State Engineer’s Office, “to ensure our water users have a voice in critical decisions affecting the Green River Valley,” he wrote.
As speaker, Sommers was a frequent target of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus as well as the DC-based State Freedom Caucus Network, even getting the attention of Fox News and other national, conservative news outlets. They often accused Sommers of not being conservative enough, and criticized him for keeping bills in “the drawer,” which has long been code for the unilateral power a speaker has to kill legislation by holding it back. (The practice of holding bills has been used to a much higher degree under Freedom Caucus leadership.)
In 2023, Sommers used the speaker’s powers to kill bills related to a school voucher program, banning instruction on gender and sexual orientation from some classrooms and criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors. At the time, Sommers defended his decision to hold back “bills that are unconstitutional, not well vetted, duplicate bills or debates, and bills that negate local control, restrict the rights of people or risk costly litigation financed by the people of Wyoming.”
He reiterated that philosophy and defended his record in his Thursday campaign announcement.
“I am a common-sense conservative who believes in getting things done. I support our core industries—oil and gas, ranching, and tourism—and I will continue to fight for the people and natural resources of Sublette County and LaBarge. I am pro-gun, pro-life, pro-family, and pro-education,” Sommers wrote. “I also take seriously my oath to uphold the U.S. and Wyoming Constitutions, which means I didn’t support bills that violated those constitutions. I read bills carefully and I voted accordingly.”
Following his term as speaker, Sommers stepped away from the House to run for Senate District 14 in 2024. He lost in the primary election to political newcomer Laura Pearson, a Freedom Caucus-endorsed Republican from Kemmerer, who also won in the general election. Her Senate win coincided with the Freedom Caucus winning control of the House.
“That race didn’t go my way, and I respected the outcome,” Sommers said in a Thursday press release. But “the direction of the Wyoming House,” since then, he said, has “raised serious concerns.”
Sommers pointed to the Freedom Caucus and its budget proposal, which, despite a funding surplus, included major cuts and funding denials. Ahead of the session, the caucus said its sights were set on shrinking spending and limiting the growth of government.
In his Thursday press release, Sommers criticized “decisions that cut food assistance for vulnerable children, reduced business opportunities, slashed funding to the University of Wyoming, eliminated resources for cheatgrass control, denied raises for state employees, and removed positions critical to protecting Wyoming’s water rights.”
Most of those proposals did not make it into the final budget bill.
Sommers also pointed to a controversy that dominated the 2026 session after a Teton County conservative activist handed out campaign checks to lawmakers on the House floor. Lawmakers in both chambers unanimously voted to ban such behavior before a House Special Investigative Committee found that the exchange did not violate the Wyoming Constitution nor did it amount to legislative misconduct. A Laramie County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigation is still underway.
But “controversies like ‘Checkgate’ undermined public trust, and decorum in the House deteriorated,” Sommers said.
“Transparency and accessibility will remain central to how I serve,” Sommers said. “As I’ve done before, I will provide regular updates on legislation, seek your input, and clearly explain my votes.”
Incumbent bows out
Rep. Mike Schmid, R-La Barge, currently represents House District 20, but announced Thursday morning that he would not seek reelection.
“It has truly been an honor to serve as your State Representative for House District 20. When I first ran, I had hoped to serve up to three terms and continue building on what I learned during my first term,” Schmid wrote in a Facebook post. “But life can change your priorities. Over the past year, my family has gone through some difficult times. My wife is dealing with serious health issues, and the death of my brother, Jim, just a few short weeks ago have made it clear to me where I need to spend my time.”
In March, Bill Winney, a perennial candidate and former nuclear submarine commander, announced he would run for House District 20.
The official candidate filing period opens May 14.
This article was originally published by WyoFile and is republished here with permission. WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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