June 12, 2008 at 8:25 a.m.
Wildcats run into record-breakers
Wildcats run into record-breakers
Friday, June 5, Brenna Coyle trotted out to the discus field at Klas Field at Hamline University determined to perform impressively.
The senior was seeded 12th at the meet with her best throw on the season coming in at the 117-foot, six-inch mark.
She was unable to match that mark in the damp, cool conditions, hurling the disc only 103 feet, three inches for a 14th place finish. With a dominating junior from Grand Rapids throwing behind her, it was almost a foregone conclusion the title was traveling up north.
Jessica Cagle blew out the field with a record-setting toss of 162 feet, four inches. The throw broke the 15-year old state record of 156 feet held by Sandy Fuchs of Cold Spring, and was over 33 feet farther than the second place finisher.
Lindsey Fowler-Wacholz was the other Wildcat to extend her season to the state meet, but much like Coyle, she was stuck in the triple jump event with a record-breaking buzzsaw.
Fowler-Wacholz was seeded ninth with a season-long jump of 36 feet, three inches on the year. Although she didn't match that number, she still put up a very good 34-foot, three-inch jump, good for 13th place in the event.
At the top of the leaderboard stood Jordan Helgren of Wayzata. The senior broke her own record from last year. Her non-wind-aided 39-foot, three-inch jump was a few inches over her 38-foot, 10-inch jump of last year.
Helgren won, however, with a wind-aided 40-foot, eight-inch jump. But, because of the wind speed, it doesn't go into the record book.
For Coyle the finish was a heart-wrenching one as it was her last track and field meet as a Wildcat, but there is still a bright year ahead for the senior-to-be Fowler-Wacholz.
In her triple jump field, only one underclassmen finished higher than Fowler-Wacholz's 36-foot, three-inch seed, and the top three jumpers were all seniors.
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