Body
Coach Gabehart’s season outlook: “Our weakness is definitely our number of track participants. We currently have fifteen athletes on our roster with ten boys and five girls. This will limit our ability to score well as a team. Our strength is that we do have some experienced seniors returning in the throws. We should be able to score in the boys’ Shot Put and the boys’ Discus every meet. On the boys’ side, seniors Jaxon Janssen and Tristen Ray will have the greatest impact for us in the throws. Jaxon Janssen is a returning state qualifier in the Shot Put and will be looking to return to State again this year. Tristen Ray just missed out on State last year in the Discus and will be looking to qualify this year. Junior Kaden Wager also returns as a letterwinner for us and will make an impact for our boys’ team in the sprints. He placed 6th last year at Districts in the 100 M. Dash. We have been trying to make some improvements on his sprint mechanics this season and it has already started to show. Kaden placed 5th at the Pioneer Indoor Meet with a time of 7.48 in the 60 M. Dash. Everett Bohling also returns as a letterwinner for us this season. On the girls’ side, freshman Justice Currie will have the greatest impact for us in the sprints. She has already proven her speed this year by placing 5th at the Pioneer Indoor Meet with a time of 8.86 in the 60 M. Dash. Our main goal is to develop our athletes. It is more important to us that our athletes get better on an individual level. We strive to achieve new personal records each meet and compete to the best of our abilities. We do have a couple of athletes who have a good chance at qualifying for State. Hopefully we can get at least one athlete to qualify for the State Meet this year. Our toughest competitors will be teams that our athletes have to go up against at the District Meet. We need them to score individually in the top two against schools in our District to qualify for State. Teams that we will have to outcompete are B-D-S, Diller/Odell, Dorchester, FCSH, HTRS, Johnson-Brock, Lourdes CC, McCool Junction, Meridian, Pawnee City and Sterling. I wouldn’t say our team has any rivals when it comes to track, however I know each athlete has their own rivals in their individual events. I know our boys will be very competitive this year in the throws with the additions of B-D-S and McCool Junction in our District and B-D-S will especially make it very challenging for our boys to qualify for State in the throws.”