Marek Wensel Speed & Agility Training

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The Speed Alliance athletes had a fantastic State Meet! 13 athletes from 6 different schools competed. They earned 2 State Titles, 11 top-8 medals, several PR's as well as a few School Records. Also, Payton was inducted into the Iowa Girls Track and Field Hall of Fame. Congratulations to all these athletes, their teammates, parents and coaches. It's truly a blessing to have the opportunity to work with such a talented and hard-working group of athletes.

Saturday Payton (Wensel) Hunger will be inducted into the IGHSAU Track Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the State Meet. She will be the first and only member of the Class of 2018 to this point. I've been sitting on this news for quite a while waiting for a press release. However, that won't happen until after the ceremony. I wanted to get this out because I know many of you followed her at Linn Mar and the University of Iowa. Some of you may be at the State Meet, and I wanted you to share in the celebration as you were a big part of her track career.

Wednesday Casey and I hit the Augustana LCQ to watch Kyra and Peyton Steffen run the 1500. Thursday I traveled to North Scott and Central Dewitt to watch Linn Mar, Marion and West Delaware compete at their State Qualifying Meets.

The high schoolers from the group competed like champs and qualfied for State in a bunch of events. Congratulations to them, their teammates, parents and coaches!

Alburnett:
Annika SMR

Indianola:
Lilly 400H, SH
Paige 4x8

Linn Mar:
Abby M 200, LJ
Anna Sojka 400, SMR, 4x4
Brooklyn Guild 100, SMR, 4x1, 4x2
Reese 200, SMR, 4x1, 4x2
Sarah SMR, 4x1, 4x2
Josie DMR
Will DMR

Marion:
Abby C 100, 200, SMR, 4x2

Solon:
Jerzey 400, SMR, 4x4
Sydney 4x1

West Delaware:
Anna O SMR, 4x1, 4x2, 4x4

There were several meets over the past few days including all the Conference Meets. I've got several videos from a few of them. There's races for Anna Sojka, Anna O, Brooklyn Guild, Charlee, Jerzey, Josie, Kaylene, Loraiya, Reese, Sarah and Brody.

Congrats to Anna Sojka (400, SMR), Brooklyn Guild (100, SMR, 4x1, 4x2), Josie (DMR), Reese (200, SMR, 4x1 4x2), Sarah (SMR, 4x1, 4x2), Will (4x4, DMR) and their teammates on their All-MVC performances! Anna, Josie and Reese all ran PR's. The LM girls also won the team title for the fourth year in a row!

Congrats to Abby C (100, SMR, 4x2, 4x1), Anna O (4x2, 4x4) and their teammates on their All-WaMac performances. The West Delaware 4x2 and 4x4 were both Conference Records!

Congrats to Annika on her All-River Valley Conference SMR.

Congrats to Lilly H (400H, 4x4), Paige (4x8) and their teammates on their All-Little Hawkeye Conference performances. Indianola also won the team title!

Kaylene and her Marion teammates won three events (LJ, DMR, 4x2) at WaMac Junior High Championship. Her 15-5.25 jump was a School Record!

I've got several videos yet to come, but I'm squeezing in a vacation between the Conference and State Qualifying Meets, so I'm a bit behind.

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Kaylene (LJ, DMR, SMR, 4x4) competed at the CPU Girls MS Meet on Tuesday. She ran some very impressive relay splits! She anchored the winning SMR and led off the winning DMR. She also jumped very well finishing 3rd with 14-5". Great to hang out with Heidi Cordes, Nancy Cordes and Casey Cordes.

Back to the track on Monday for Brody's MS meet at Excelsior and the latter part of Marion's home meet. Jerzey (Solon) ran her 200 PR (27.34) and Loraiya (Kennedy) hit her 100 PR (13.68). Brody ran two outstanding PR's - 100 (11.5h) and 200 (24.4h).

It was a busy end of the week. I didn't get to all the meets, but I did manage getting quite a few videos for the track junkies that follow the group. Here's a few highlights...

Thursday - Kaylene was 2nd in the LJ (14-10) and ran on the Marion MS winning DMR. Cambell won the 400 and anchored the Oakridge MS SMR to a win. In Cedar Falls Abby M won the LJ (19-9.5") by almost 3 feet! Brooklyn ran a killer 12.42 PR. Reese ran her 200 PR (27.26). Anna added a 3rd in the 400.

Friday - Abby C ran on Marion's winning SMR, 4x1, and 4x2 relays.

At the American Rivers Conference (ARC) Meet, Peyton Steffen won the Steeple Chase for Central. Kyra won her 800 prelim and ran on Central's School Record 4x8 team. They ran under the Facility Record and were Runner-Up. Mary Gustason ran her 100 SB (12.34) to qualify for the final.

Saturday - Peyton added a 5K Championship. She ran under the Facility Record in the 1500 and was Runner-Up. Kyra was 5th in the 1500 and 6th in the 800 about an hour apart. Mary ran on Central's outstanding 4x1 Runner-Up with a 47.29 SB.

Didn't want to miss mentioning Brody's meet last week where he ran his 100 (11.7h) and 200 (24.9h) PR's to win both events.

Back to the track at Vinton on Tuesday to watch Anna O (West Delaware SMR, 4x2, 4x1, 4x4) and Annika (Alburnett SMR, DMR, 200, 4x1). West Delaware won the 4x200 and were runners-up on the other three relays. They also won the team title.