By David Paulsen
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
Senior Jenny Gilbreath’s two titles led the Waterford High School girls track and field squad to a fourth-place finish at the WIAA Division 1 Badger Regional held at Lake Geneva Monday.
The Wolverine girls tallied 88.5 points in the regional won by Badger.
Gilbreath won the 400-meter dash in 59.99 seconds, and the long jump with a leap of 17 feet 3 inches. She was also second in the 200 in 26.05 seconds.
Head coach Jerry Glisch noted that Gilbreath did not have much competition in the 400. He added that Gilbreath’s time in the 200 preliminaries (25.99) was a personal record for her.
“That was really impressive,” Glisch said. “She’s peaking at the right time.”
The Wolverine boys were fifth overall with 90 points, and did not have an event champion.
Glisch noted his boys squad, with a few exceptions, is very young.
The top four finishers in each event at regional advance to sectional.
For the girls’ squad, other individual athletes who advanced were Valerie Knurr (third, high jump, 4-11), Hannah Zimmerman (third, 100, 12.81), Lauren Dziak (fourth, pole vault, 9-00).
Dziak pole vault height is just six inches short of the WHS school record.
“The last two or three meets, she has just exploded,” Glisch said.
The girls 4-by-100 relay team of Sam Dziak, Knurr, Samantha Jahnke and Zimmerman was second in 51.59 seconds, while the 4-by-800 relay team of Hannah Jost, Jessica Krupinski, Lauren Dziak, and Kayla Kinateder was fourth in 10:37.65.
The girls’ 4-by-100 time was a season best.
Calvin Jaskie led the Wolverine boys with two second-place finishes. He was second in the high jump (5-10) and in the long jump (20-02.75).
“He had a nice night,” Glisch said, adding that he is coming back from an injury that had kept him out for some of the season.
The boys also had a second- and third-place finish in the shot put with Brandon Miller placing second (51-10.25) and Brandon Schindler third (50-04).
Other Wolverine boys who qualified for sectional were Aleksandr Henderson (second, discus, 144-06), Grant Brooks (second, 3,200, 10:22.45), Michael Dilley (third, triple jump, 40-10) and Collin Chart (fourth, 110 hurdles, 15.79), and Trent Rudebeck (fourth, 800, 2:03.41).
Glisch spoke of how pleased he was that Rudebeck’s time.
“Here’s a kid who is only a sophomore and he ran a 2:03,” Glisch said. “That’s pretty impressive.”
The 4-by-800 relay team of Lucas Singer, Mark Schneider, William Dubinsky and Alex Fischer was fourth in 9:03.94. All four of those runners are underclassmen.
Overall, Glisch was very pleased with how his teams performed, noting that overall the two teams are very young.
“I was thoroughly impressed with my teams,” he said. “There were PRs all over the place. Our kids did a phenomenal job.”
These relay teams and individuals competed in the WIAA Division 1 sectional held Thursday at Waterford.
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