MAYO
Head coach: Donny Holcomb (13th season), hurdles.
Assistant coaches: Eric Bishop (distances, high jump), Blair Larson (throws), Ryan Fogarty (sprints), Brett Carroll (distance), Jeremiah Aakre (long jump, triple jump, sprints), Tanner Meist (hurdles), Laris Hill (distance), Matt Wittman (sprints, relays).
Last year: Big Nine, fourth (133 points); Section One Class AA, seventh (42); state qualifiers, Matt Zietlow (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles).
Outlook: Spartans are young, with only four seniors. Strength is the distance team, with Riley Macon and Steve Schimmel running 1-2, and both should should contend for the Big Nine in the mile and two-mile. Drew Burt has potential in the long jump and Nick Eggersdord in the high jump.
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Spartan captains are Billy Schimmel and Andrew Johnson.
ROSTER
Seventh-graders — Joseph Barsness, Chad Couser, Ethan Frederick, Cooper Huston, Javon Kunkel, Seth Massot, Christopher Peterson, DAnte Ross.
Eighth-graders — Samuel Barsness, Samuel Goblirsch, Issac Fritz, tremaine Jackson, Robert McBane, Jacob Marris, Kade McKinley.
Freshmen — Prescott Atkinson, Ryan Blais, Marvin Buckland, Christopher Butler, Nolan Ewing, James Findlay, Ryan Larson, Samuel Monahan, Justin Ofori-Atta, Devin Perkins, Jonathan Rojas, nathan Verkerke, Thomas Voldal, Alexander Wente, Alec Weming.
Sophomores — James Atherton-Guenther, Joshua Benson, Evan Berwick, Marcus Blount-McKinley, Tyler Bruinsma, Drew Burt, Nathan Earles, Lucas Ewing, Cameron Gray, Evan Hansen, Eric Karsten, Zachary Klein, Michael Larson, Samuel Lisko, Spencer Long, Eric Manges, Dion Mayer, Benjamin McCully, Ryan O'Callaghan, Ryan Pewowaruk, Peter Schurhammer, Alexander Selle, Jorden Serrano, Michal Zhang.
Juniors — Clare Brandt, Nikolas Brozovich, David Chaffee, Nicholas Egersdorf, Jason Fink, Benjamin Gillard, Michael Glaser, Michale Ishitani, Luke Kruger, Robert Macono, Devin Perkins, Curtis Olson, John Przybylski, Steven Schimmel, thomas Sorenson, Nathan toliver, tanner Tashann.
Seniors — Andrew Johnson, Vincent Ruedinger, William Schimmel, David Scott, Angelo Williams.
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SCHEDULE
April 12 — at Faribault Invitational, 4:30 p.m.
April 16 — at Austin Packer Invitational, 10 a.m.
April 19 — at Austin (Winona, Faribault), 4:30 p.m.
April 21 — at All-City (John Marshall), 4 p.m.
April 26 — Mankato East, Owatonna, 4:30 p.m.
May 3 — at Mankato West (Century), 4:30 p.m.
May 7 — Mayo Invitational (John Marshall, Owatonna, Park, Kasson-Mantorville, Andover, Forest Lake, Hudson).
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May 10 — at True Team Section (John Marshall), 2 p.m.
May 17 — at John Marshall (Albert Lea), 4:30 p.m.
May 20 — at True Team State Relays (Stillwater).
May 27 — at Big Nine Conference (Winona), 10 a.m.
June 2, 4 — at Section One, Class AA (Lakeville South).
June 10-11 at Class AA State (Hamline University).
JOHN MARSHALL
Head coach: Sean Allen.
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Assistant coaches: Josh Piotrowicz, Josh Arndt, Michael Sonnabend.
Last year: Big Nine, Tenth (24 points); Section One Class AA, 15h (1); state qualifiers, none.
Outlook: Rockets are young, with only one graduated senior — Abir Majumdar. Coach Sean Allen says the team has some excellent numbers and they are a very solid group of kids.
ROSTER
Seventh-graders — Dennis Nelson.
Eighth-graders —Adam Herzog, Jake Houghton
Freshmen — Andrw Moore, Benjamin Parks, Brett Cornforth, Chase Kiefer, Christopher Lam, Colton Benavidez, Emin, Bjdimlic, Gareth Russell, Jack Christensen, Jacob Back, Joshua Milligan, Justin Davis, Kyle Zander, Michael Parker, Nicolas Oldenburg, Reed McLevis Richard Trantow, Sararith, Chhan Zachary Higgins.
Sophomores — Agot Agot, Alex Doblar, Alexander Amundson, Alexander Brown, Barrett Sawyer, Brandon Movall, Chase Urness, Connor Smith, Dallas Kennedy, David Keith, D'Von Vanderbilt, Evan Powell, Grant Wills, Hayden Herzog, Isaac Levorson, Jackson Wilson, Jacob Nemgar, Joseph Loftus Kennan Windmueller, Larsen Orchard, Maxwell Kazemba, Nanthanial Handahl, Peter Jada, Samuel Bellows, Scott Jaycox, Stuart Gaskell, Tanner Barlow, Timothy Lindquist, Brian Omwange, John Arachtingi, Jorge Loyo, Skylar Doll.
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Juniors — Alexander Skukrud, Brennan Arendt, Jacob Brewer, Joel Newberg, Joseph Laivell, Joshua Frei, Joshua Rackham, Keaton Riley, Malcolm Wallaker, Sebastan Niesche, Theodorer Folkerts, Zachary Peterson, Bishoy Barsoum.
Seniors — Andrew Pettengill, Aymen Murdos, Bryce Regimbal, Cole Bublitz, Joel Grimm, Joshua Laffrenzen, Maxwell Dylla, Reeve Andreen, Victor Soro, Richard Johnson.
SCHEDULE
April 19 — at Mankato West (Mankato East), 4:30 p.m.
April 21 — All-City (John Marshall), 4 p.m.
April 26 — at Winona (Century, Faribault), 4:30 p.m.
May 3 — at Owatonna (Austin), 4:30 p.m.
May 7 — at Mayo Invitational (Mayo, Owatonna, Park, Kasson-Mantorville, Andover, Forest Lake, Hudson).
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May 10 — at True Team Section (John Marshall), 2 p.m.
May 17 — Albert Lea, Mayo, 4:30 p.m.
May 19 — at Northfield Invitational (Carlton College), 4:15 p.m.
May 20 — at True Team State Relays (Stillwater).
May 27 — at Big Nine Conference (Winona), 10 a.m.
June 2, 4 — at Section One, Class AA (Lakeville South).
June 10-11 at Class AA State (Hamline University).
CENTURY
Head coach: Brian Purrington.
Assistant coaches: Ray Ashwonta, Gavin Hemmer, Keith Purrington, Paul Callahan, Scott Klote, James Robertson.
Last year: Big Nine, seventh (99 points); Section One Class AA, 12th (28); state qualifiers, Logan Lafferty (shot put).
Outlook: The Panthers are off and running. Last Friday, they won the seven-team Plainview-Elgin-Millville Invitational with 170 1/2 points, finishing ahead of host P-E-M with 154. Austin Gray won the 100, Evan Eising the 409, Graham Massot the 3200, London Thurman the triple jump and the 1600 relay team of Gray, Ryan Alpers, Mikey Allen and Nate Larson. Earlier this year Thurman won the triple jump in the 16-team River Falls All-American Invitational at 44-6 and the high jump at 6-4.
Century has a 21 letterwinners who, according to coach Brian Purrington, are "ready to make a major impact. They have been with us for four years. Most of these guys came into the season having worked hard over the winter and it shows.''
The returning letterwinners accounted for 90 percent of Century's points at the Big Nine last year.
Nathan Larson is the top distance runner returning, having advanced to state last year in cross country.
ROSTER
Seventh-graders — Elijan Anderson, Elijah Clark, Alan Martinson, Andrew Newcomb, Marcus Pfeifer, Brandon Rucker, Bruce Stevens.
Eighth-graders — Richard Ameson, Samuel Batterson, Stuart Bennett, Sebastian Eising, Ryan Kohlmeyer, Brian Muhs, Samuel Rotty.
Freshmen — Devin Alexander, Peter Beiswanger, Nils Boyum, Travis Chen, Brayden Danielson, Tristan Devick, Chase Eder, Zachary Finch, Peter Galindez, Ezra Geda, Alexander Harms, Jonathan Harris, Mark Herbeck, Nicholas Howe, Hunter Huntoon,, Bond Johnson, Andrew Liu, Scott Mullenbach, Alex Olson, Julian Phan, Steven Pho.
Sophomores — Michael Adkins, Michael Allen, Andrew Boysen, Matthew Breuer, Matthew Buettner, Aren Davis, Alexander Donadio, Colin Eakins, Zachary Ellefson, Kevin Fongnuan, Clint Frandsen, Collin Gustafson, Irwin Herrera, William Kolb, Justin Kotajarvi, Ryan Kotajarvi, Zachary Larson, Laramie Larson, Joseph Mandelko, Matthew Marks, Graham Massot, Max McGee, Dondre Perkins Samuel Prosser, Zachary Som, Gabriel Swanton.
Juniors — Ryan Alpers, Kirk Busche, Alvin Campbell, Logan Eckert, Alexander Fransen, Taylor Freund, Austin Gray, Paul Hale, Steven Henderson, Elleciah Humphrey, Reo Iijima, Dominick Jacobs, Ater Manyang Alan Phan, Paul Sherman, Colbren Trogstad-Isaacson.
Seniors — James Allen, Bryce Berletic, Brendan Coker, Kevin Dong, Evan Eising, Jacob Goetz, Mark Hopper, Steven Janzow, Nathan Larson, Dominique Layfield, Taylor Leet-Otley, Timothy Liu, Kyle Riggot, Mason Schweyen, Jason Stevens, London Thurman, Aaron Weckwerth, Dylan Wittlief.
SCHEDULE
April 8 — at Plainview-Elgin-Millville Invitational.
April 16 — at Austin Packer Invitational, 10 a.m.
April 19 — at Owatonna (Albert Lea), 4:30 p.m.
April 21 — at All-City (John Marshall), 4 p.m.
April 26 — at Winona (John Marshall, Faribault), 4:30 p.m.
April 29 — at Park Cottage Grove Invitational, 3:45 p.m.
May 3 — at Mankato West (Mayo), 4:30 p.m.
May 10 — at True Team Section (John Marshall), 2 p.m.
May 14 — at Burnsville Invitational, 10 a.m.
May 17 — Mankato East, Austin, 4:30 p.m.
May 20 — at True Team State Relays (Stillwater).
May 27 — at Big Nine Conference (Winona), 10 a.m.
June 2, 4 — at Section One, Class AA (Lakeville South).
June 10-11 at Class AA State (Hamline University).
LOURDES
Head coach: Jerome Garry (second year) (pole vault).
Assistant coaches: Ryan Freidhoff (throws),, Steve Strickland (sprints), John DeStazio (hurdles), Andy Poterucha (jumps), Scott Helt (distance, middle distance). Volunteers, Jeff Koivu (distance), Kevin Kirbeby (jumps). Junior high, Sarah Thome Paul Beeman.
Last year: Hiawatha Valley League, 10th (48 points); Section One, Class A, 18th (24 points), state qualifier, Reed Bjork (110 hurdles).
Last year: Big Nine, seventh (99 points); Section One Class AA, 12th (28); state qualifiers, Logan Lafferty (shot put).
Outlook: Young and improving. The Eagles have only five seniors, and three of them are out for track and field for only two seasons or less. Lourdes finished second in the subsection, for the first time in several years. Lourdes second year coach Jerome Garry said "with a nice, talented group of freshmen and sophomores, we hope to continue to improve and hopefully challenge for the subsection and section team titles in the very near future.''
Senior Reed Bjork returns in the 110 hurdles; he qualified for the state the past two years.
ROSTER
Freshmen — Spencer Adamson, Nick Alfaro, Michael Beaver, David Bui, Kane Carstens, McKay Carstens, Ian Cierzan, Calvin Kim, Johnny Lawson, Ian McMeeking, Robert Miller, Tomas Molina, Joseph Murray, Tyler Rademacher, Luke Sheirud, Ian Ttorchia.
Sophomores — Patrick Andrews, John Beckman, Kyle Besch, Alex Glynn, Matt Kempinger, Kyle Matthees Ethan Plager, Nick Steichen, Jordan Treder Andrew Victoria, Andrew Winkels, Jason Zubay.
Juniors — James Armstead, Ryan Brandt, Grady Gores, Eric Guevremont, Simon Molina, Adam Wade, Brian Williamson.
Seniors — Reed Bjork, Tim Kehoe.
SCHEDULE
April 7 — at Hayfield Invitational.
April 12 — at Stewartville Invitational, 4:30 p.m.
April 21 — at All-City (John Marshall), 4 p.m.
April 26 — at Triton, 4:30 p.m.
May 5 — at Byron Invitational, 4:30 p.m.
May 9 — at Triton, 4:30 p.m.
May 10 — at Red Wing, 3 p.m.
May 14 — at HVL (Hayfield), 9:30 a.m..
May 20 — at Triton Invitational.
May 25 — at Section One, Class A Subsection preliminaries (Lake City), 4 p.m.
May 31, June 2 — at Section One, Class A (Triton), 4:30 p.m.
June 10-11 at Class AA State (Hamline University).
----Paul Christian
