Glenwood grabs 16 medals at competitive Sioux City Relays

The Glenwood girls and boys combined to win 16 medals at the 61st running of the Sioux City Relays Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside University.

After weather played havoc with the Rams’ schedule, Glenwood coach Mark Starner said it was nice to get back on the track.

“We have cancelled our last three meets and were chomping at the bit to get back and compete,” Starner said. “The meet started out in true spring-like fashion with an hour lightning delay in the pouring rain. Soon, the rain went away, and everything was off and running.”

On the day, the boys had 11 season best performances, along with 11 personal best this season.  

Shane Pratt, Lincoln Skarnulis and Evan Stanislav led the Rams with a strong field performance.

Pratt had a huge day in long jump with a season-best leap of 21 feet, 11 inches to finish third and move into second place all-time in Glenwood history in the event, just an inch and a half off the school record.

Skarnulis found the podium twice in both shot put (fifth place) and discus (fifth).  His toss of 49 feet ,1.5 inches was a season best in the shot and discus throw of 151 feet, 11 inches was also a personal-best by over 12 feet. 

Stanislav, not to be outdone by his other field event teammates, set a new personal best in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, 1 inch and placing runner up in the event.   

In the running events, Haze Stephens was the only Ram to reach the podium, placing third in the 400-meters. 

In the relays, four of the Rams’ six qualifying teams were able to set personal best, with the distance medley team of Kayden Crouch, Stephens, Dylan Powles and Bryce Keller finishing third in 3:45.37. 

The 4x100-meter relay placed third and took a second off of their previous best performance last week and are currently tied for fifth fastest all-time in Glenwood history.  The relay team of Chase Razor, Ethan Eiseman, Pratt and Crouch won their heat by nearly two-seconds and finished only a three-tenths of a second to the relay champion.    

“Overall, it was good competition again and the kids responded well to the nuances of long-all day meet with inclement weather,” Starner said.

On the girls side, the Rams were led Megan Hughes in then hurdles. The junior won the “Elite” 100-meter hurdles and placed second in the Class B 100-meter hurdles.

Grace Berglund added a third-place medal in the 3,000-meters and held the Rams to a second place showing in the 4x800-meters.

Sioux City Relays

Glenwood Girls 

Top Medal Winners

100m: fifth place, Olivia Wright, 12.92.

100m hurdles: first place, Megan Hughes, 15.63.

400m: fourth place, Caitlin Hebel, 1:01.49.

1500m: fourth place, Grace Berglund, 4:54.28.

3000m: third place, Berglund, 10:21.14.

4x200m relay: second place, Glenwood, 1:49.24.

4x800m relay: second place, Glenwood, 10:00.99.

Glenwood Boys 

Top Medal Winners

400m: third place, Haze Stephens, 51.25.

400m hurdles: seventh place, Dylan Powles, 59.07.

Discus: fifth place, Lincoln Skarnulis, 151’ 11”.

High jump: second place, Evan Stanislav, 6’ 1”.

Long jump: third place, Shain Pratt, 21’ 11”.

Distance medley relay: third place, Glenwood, 3:45.37.

4x100m relay: third place, Glenwood, 43.87.

4x200m relay: fifth place, 1:31.95.

4x400m relay: fifth place, Glenwood, 3:35.49.

Glenwood girls 

second at Clarinda

The Glenwood girls placed second at Cardinal Co-ed Relays in Clarinda last Thursday.

With cold temperatures and rain limiting the meet to 14 events – five short of a full scheduled – the Rams won four gold medals to finish second to the hosts from Clarinda 121 to 106 in the team scores.

Megan Hughes, Cailtin Hebel and Grace Berglund won individual goals, and its 4x800-meter relay team topped the field in the 4x800-meters.

Hughes won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.68 while Hebel ran a 1:02.61 to win the 400-meters and Berglund ran the 3,000-meters in 10:22.06.

The Ram’s quartet of Breelyn Houser, Hebel, Jordyn Schulte and Haylee Hughes ran a 10:07 to win the 4x800.

Olivia Wright (100-meters), Schulte (800) and Ava Hernandez (shot) and the 4x200-meter relay team all placed second.

Cardinals Co-ed Relays

Girls Team Results

1. Clarinda, 121. 2. Glenwood, 106. 3. Omaha Roncalli, 95. 4. Mount Ayr, 51. 5. Shenandoah, 46. 6. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, 30. 7. Stanton, 26. 8. Lenox, 20. 9. Bedford, 14. 10. Southwest Valley, 10. 11. (tie) Glenwood Junior Varsity and Red Oak, 9.

Glenwood Girls 

Top Medal Winners

100m: second place, Olivia Wright, 12.97.

100m hurdles: first place, Megan Hughes, 16.68.

400m: first place Caitlin Hebel, 1:02.61.

800m: second place, Jordyn Schulte, 2:32.80.

3000m: first place, Grace Berglund, 10:22.06.

Discus: fifth place, Maggie Smith, 93’ 1”.

High jump: sixth place, Jenna Walters, 4’ 6”.

Long jump: seventh place, Kelsey Hughes, 14’ 4”.

Shot put: second place, Ava Hernandez, 33’ 10.75”.

Sprint medley relay: sixth place, Glenwood, 2:03.27.

Distance medley relay: fourth place, Glenwood, 4:52.92.

4x200m relay: second place, Glenwood, 1:53.41.

Shuttle hurdle relay: third place, Glenwood, 1:18.34.

4x800m relay: first place, Glenwood, 10:07.55. 

Boys Team Results

1. Council Bluffs Lewis Central, 121. 2. Clarinda, 83. 3. Atlantic, 79. 4. Shenandoah, 46. 5. Red Oak, 45. 6. Southwest Valley, 40. 7. (tie) Lenox and Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, 36. 9. Bedford, 27. 10. Mount Ayr, 36. 11. Omaha Roncalli, 21.5. 12. Stanton, 15. 13. Fremont-Mills, 3. 14. Council Bluffs Lewis Central Junior Varsity, 2.

Fremont-Mills Boys 

Medal Winners

4x200m relay: sixth place, Fremont-Mills (Paxton Campbell, Jonathan Ekpai, Sawyer Forney and J.W. Linkenhoker), 1:35.98.