In what has become the theme of the current spring track & field season, it was a cold and windy night on Tuesday, April 19th for the Southeast Valley Coed meet. The Jaguar boys’ met the cold winds head on without flinching and walked away with the meet title. Southeast Valley’s 190 points to win the meet more than doubled up the 93 points scored by 2nd place Ogden. Third place Newell-Fonda scored 89 points.  

   The Jaguars title was fueled by a plethora of 1st and 2nd place finishes with eight different events claiming gold and twelve 2nd place finishes. Kaleb Scott and Cooper Nuss were both individual gold medal winners. Kaleb won the high jump with a jump of 6’ 2” and won the 100m dash in 11.87. Cooper claimed first in the 800m run with a 2:13.62 and running a 5:04.72 to win the 1600m run.

   Throwing a career best of 141’ 5”, Aaron Graves won the discus and running a season best in the 3200m run was Oscar Hanson in 10:58.66. Eli Johnson ran a 55.22 to win the 400m dash and the 4 x 100m team of Carl Berglund, Kaleb Scott, Kolson Kruse and Tre Fisher took first in 45.56.

   Individual second place finishes for the Jaguars were Aaron Graves (SP, 50’ 3.75” PR), Justin Loseke (Discus, 133’ 6”), Zach Thompson(400m, 57.24 PR), Ty Klatt (110m HH, 18.19), Kaleb Scott (200m, 24.12), Oscar Hanson (1600m, 5:13.71) and Caelan Oakes-Sudhish (1:05.06).  

   Five of the seven relay teams also claimed silver medals. They were the 4 x 800m relay team in a time of 9:54.51 (Z. Thompson, C. Ferry, K. Johnson, C. Oakes-Sudhish), Shuttle hurdle team running 1:14.56 (M. Eslick, J. Hanson, Owen S., T. Klatt), the distance medley relay in a time of 4:00.01 (C. Berglund, A. Miller, K. Kruse, C. Nuss), the 4 x 200m relay in 1:41.26 (C. Berglund, A. Miller, J. Hanson and T. Fisher), and the 4x 400m relay running a season best 3:55.87 (E. Johnson, Z. Thompson, K. Kruse, C. Ferry).

   Ethan Ackerson (SP, 45’ 7”) and Asa Haub (3200m, 11:39.56) both claimed third in their individual events. Ethan also took 5th in the discus (114’ 5”) and Asa took 5th in the 800m run (2:27.42). Kolson Kruse (20’ 2”) and Tre Fisher (20’ 1.5”) went 4th and 5th respectively in the long jump where the winning jump was 20’ 3” and 6th place was also a 20’ 1.5”. Tre was also fifth in the 100m dash (12.27).  

   “There is something different about winning a track meet that makes it fun. I am extremely proud with the lousy weather and all of the meet cancellations we have had this year that this team has kept the focus the way they have this year and show up every night to practice ready to get better regardless of the weather. It’s really shouldn’t be a surprise we competed this well in these conditions as we have practiced outside in the same conditions all spring,” commented Coach Nuss.

   The Jaguars will compete at Manson on Tuesday, April 26th and in Lake City on Friday, April 29th before returning to Manson on Tuesday May 3rd for the Twin Lakes Conference meet already.