Track season ends for Big Foot
Correspondent
The largest contingent of Big Foot track and field athletes at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 State Meet made plenty of noise last weekend on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
And even better news for the Chiefs is all five will return in 2016.
Big Foot posted three top-10 finishes at the two-day meet, including a solid fourth-place effort by the girls’ 1,600-meter relay team.
That foursome of freshman Alexandria Demco, sophomore Gloria Esarco, freshman Grace Gillingham and sophomore Brooke Wellhausen turned a time of 4:04.94.
At the sectional, Big Foot finished in 4:05.76. The state title went to the Dodgeville-Mineral Point team in 4:00.61.
Also placing in the top 10 were Wellhausen in the 400 and freshman Jackson Enz in the boys’ 300-hurdles.
Wellhausen was seventh in the 400 with a time of 59.08, slightly better than her sectional effort of 59.1. Milwaukee North junior Shatara Mitchell won the state title in 57.21.
Enz had a time of 41.26 in the preliminaries to qualify for the finals, where he finished in 42.32. The state title in that event went to Arcadia junior Jim Hoesly in 38.5.
The Chiefs also had entries in the triple jump, as Wellhausen was 11th (34-3 1/4) and he 800, where Esarco was 11th (2:23.58).
Big Foot earned seven points in the girls’ team standings to finish 38th. Dodgeville-Mineral Point won the state team title with 36 points, followed by Mt. Horeb with 35, Lakeside Lutheran with 33, Edgewood with 32 and Jefferson with 27.
On the boys’ side, Freedom was first with 66 points, followed by Milwaukee Lutheran with 46, Little Chute with 42, Catholic Memorial with 31 and Rice Lake with 28.
