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After being rescheduled from April to May due to snow, the Heidi Kunz Mahtomedi Invitational brought with it all the cold, rain and wind of early April, yet MPA athletes overcame the poor weather with strong performances across the board.<\/p>\nAfter being rescheduled from April to May due to snow, the Heidi Kunz Mahtomedi Invitational brought with it all the cold, rain and wind of early April, yet MPA athletes overcame the poor weather with strong performances across the board.<\/p>\n
On the girls side, the 4x800m team of senior Sarah Ley, sophomore Skylar Cernohous, ninth\u00a0grader Katie Dahiya, and seventh\u00a0grader Margo N. placed third.\u00a0Sophomore Nasri Maktal made her season debut in the 100m hurdles, running a personal best of 21.51. In the 100m, senior Quinn Campbell ran a personal best 14.26 to place fifth. The girls 4x200m team of junior Ellie Quam, sophomores Catherine Moore, and Aaliyah Kellogg, and ninth\u00a0grader Izzy Quam placed fourth\u00a0with a time of 1:53.84, just off the MPA top 10 list.<\/p>\n
In the 400m, ninth\u00a0grader Izzy Quam placed fourth, going toe to toe with some of Minnesota\u2019s top 400m runners. In the 200m, sophomore Catherine Moore had a breakthrough race, finishing second in a personal best time of 28.06, ninth\u00a0best all time at MPA. Catherine then joined teammates Gabby Law, Izzy Quam, and Keerti Upadhyaya\u00a0for the 4x400m, placing fourth.<\/p>\n
In the high jump, sophomore Aaliyah Kellogg continued her improvement, this time clearing 4\u20196 to place fifth\u00a0and move up to fourth\u00a0all-time at MPA. Senior Quinn Campbell also recorded a personal best in the high jump, jumping 4\u20194 to move up to fifth\u00a0all-time at MPA.\u00a0 Also finishing fifth\u00a0at the meet was junior Gabby Law in the triple jump, and ninth\u00a0grader Izzy Quam in the long jump. In the discus, Sophomore Zoe Hutton, new to throws, recorded a 6 \u00bd foot personal best in just her third\u00a0meet!<\/p>\n
On the boys side, the 4x800m team started off the meet strong. Juniors Matt Bourne and Henry Peterson, sophomore Henry Snider and eighth\u00a0grader Cullen Moore finished second. In the 110m hurdles, both junior Dylan Dickinson sophomore Charles Grimes recorded personal bests. Dylan is now just 4 hundredths of a second from breaking the 20 second barrier!<\/p>\n
The boys performance of the day came in the 4x200m. Juniors Tae\u2019Vion Wilkins and Ian Olson, and Sophomores Kailil Schertzing and Nathan Harvanko won the event, running 1:38.56, fifth\u00a0best all-time at MPA, and just off the MSHSL honor roll!<\/p>\n
The 4x100m relay of juniors Tae\u2019Vion Wilkins and Ian Olson, sophomore Kailil Schertzing, and, making his Track and Field debut, ninth\u00a0grader Caleb Rhodes placed third\u00a0with a time of 47.56, ninth\u00a0best all-time at MPA. In the 800m run, senior Declan Dahlberg placed first, with a winning time of 2:02.30, placing him sixth\u00a0all time at MPA and earning a spot on the MSHSL honor roll, and junior Matt Bourne placed fifth\u00a0in 2:08.93. In the 200m, both sophomores Tae\u2019Vion Wilkins and Nathan Harvanko broke 25 seconds to place fourth\u00a0and sixth\u00a0respectively. In the 3200m, sophomore Henry Snider finished first, winning in a time of 10:20.88, eighth\u00a0best time in MPA history and good for a spot of the MSHSL honor roll! \u00a0Ninth\u00a0grader Peter Manolis finished fourth\u00a0in the event with a personal best of 11:15.38.<\/p>\n
In the high jump, junior Yahya Madar went toe to toe with the 2017 Class AA state champion, and both jumped 6\u20194. Yahya placed second based on the tie breaker.\u00a0 In the triple jump, junior Tae\u2019Vion Wilkins placed fourth, jumping over 37 feet again. Junior Ethan Berning placed fifth\u00a0in the shot put, going over 35 feet.\u00a0 In the discus, senior Sumner Wu placed fourth\u00a0with a throw of 99\u201911, and senior Paul Thompsen-Nelson recorded a personal best by 17 feet, throwing over 91\u2019!<\/p>\n
The Panthers placed fifth\u00a0for both the boys and girls teams at the Heidi Kunz Mahtomedi Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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