Minnesota State Track and Field Meet 2012

Maggie Ewen already might be the best weight thrower in Minnesota girls high school track and field history. But where could she be a year from now, when she will have just completed her senior season? (via )

A number of Woodbury athletes went to St. Paul for the 2012 Minnesota State Track and Field Meet – and they didn’t come back empty handed. (via )

Eight athletes spread throughout three events helped East Ridge High School’s girls track and field team finish its 2012 season in style last weekend. (via )

  Photo by Joe Brown   ST. PAUL - The "Beau Show" has come to a close. After qualifying for the 100- and 400-meter championship races at Day 2 of the Class AA state track and field championships, Marshall senior sprinter Beau Bofferding brought home a pair of medals, taking third in the 400 and sixth in the 100, ending his high school career in style.  (via )

  Bill Johnson Brainerd's Jackson Walters (right) races in the 110-meter hurdles Saturday during the Class 2A state track and field meet at Hamline University in St. Paul.   ST. PAUL - Jackson Walters can be proud of the fact his only losses his junior and senior years were to one of the best 110-meter high hurdler in Minnesota history. (via )

Fergus Falls’ Haylie Zenner celebrates her fourth state title in the 800 meters at the Minnesota Class 2A state track and field meet on Saturday in St. Paul. ST. PAUL – Fergus Falls girls track coach Niki Welde was told a week ago she was going to see something special when it came to Haylie Zenner. (via )

Park senior R.J. Alowonle won four state championships at the 2012 Minnesota State Track and Field Meet, held Friday and Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul, helping the Wolfpack finish in second place as a team. Park senior R.J. Alowonle went out with a bang. Alowonle, who will attend the University of North Carolina on a track scholarship next fall, won four state championships at the 2012 Minnesota State Track and Field Meet, held Friday and Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul. The four state titles this year give Alowonle seven state championships overall.(via )

Eric Gebeke of White Bear Lake won his second consecutive 800-meter title Saturday, June 9, in the 2A boys track and field meet, ignoring temperatures in the mid-80s to lower his winning time from last year by more than 1.2 seconds. (via )

  Moose Lake-Willow River’s Josh Cisar (right) hugs teammate Jake Disterhaupt after the 4x400-meter relay Saturday. (Photo by Andy King / For the News Tribune)   ST. PAUL — Josh Cisar isn’t used to losing. But if someone had told the Moose Lake-Willow River senior before his first season in track and field that he would be runner-up in the 400 meters at the Minnesota Class A high school state meet, he gladly would have accepted.  (via )  

Several athletes from three Fridley-area high schools—Fridley, Totino-Grace and Spring Lake Park (on a merged team with St. Anthony Village High School)—competed in the state high school track and field meet Friday and Saturday at Hamline University. Here are the results (via )

ST. PAUL — In his formative track and field days at Duluth Marshall, Eric Miklausich practiced jumping in the school hallways since there’s no outdoor pit. (via )

Ada-Borup's Brian Blasey put his name in the state record books for the second straight year Friday at the Minnesota State High School League championship track meet at Hamline University's Klas Field in St. Paul. (via )

ST. PAUL — Dani Wubben sailed 17-11 and a quarter inch to win the Class A girls long jump by six inches at Hamline University on Friday afternoon during the first day of the state track and field meet.  (via )

ST. PAUL – Rose Jackson made it through the prelims Friday morning in both the 100 and 200 dashes at the Minnesota High School Class AA Track and Field Meet. (via )

June 7, 2012 Contact: Jody Redman or Howard W. Voigt / MSHSL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE State Boys' and Girls' Track and Field Meet Champions returning to defend 24 individual titles, 11 relay titles Twenty-four individual event champions and representatives from 11 relay teams that won gold medals last year have qualified to defend those titles this Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, when high school athletes gather at Hamline University in St. Paul for the 2012 State Track and Field Meet.  Preliminaries in track events for both classes will be conducted on Friday. All of the 3,200-meter run events will be finals only on Friday, as will be some field events. Friday’s schedule begins at 9:00 a.m. with the Class AA competition. The Class A events are scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m., but possibly may start later depending on the pace of the Class AA meet. The same schedule will be followed on Saturday.

After winning at least two of their last five meets, three relay teams from East Ridge High School’s girls track and field team will compete at the Minnesota State High School League Class AA state meet Friday and Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul. (via )

A number of Rosemount High School athletes will compete in the Minnesota State High School League track and field championships this week. The two-day event will be held Friday and Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul  (via )

The Grand Rapids Thunderhawk girls track and field team already has the big meet experience as they finished fourth in the Minnesota State True Team Championships. Now, several members of the Thunderhawks will look to place at the Minnesota State High School League’s Class AA Championships on Friday and Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul. (via )