The OHS girls track team rallied after a crazy Thursday and not knowing until late Friday morning if they would be able to get their track stuff from inside the school and make it to our meet. It t was a beautiful night with perfect weather for the Unity girls Invitational. The Oly girls brought home 4th place out of 15 teams. The girls had numerous PR’s including our 4x4 team of Anna Bieber, Grace Whiteside, Mallory Miller and Melissa Bieber running a super fast 4:11 to secure 1st place! Also worth mentioning is our 4x2 and 4x8 relay placing in the top 6!
Here are the other PR’s from last night:
100 hurdles:
Melissa Bieber 17.4
Kyrah Zeschke 19.8
800:
Anna Bieber 2:23 (2 seconds under state qualifying)
400:
Emma Swartzendruber- 1:07
300 hurdles:
Melissa Bieber 48.5
1600:
Cam Lawson 5:46
200:
Palmer 28.05
Kyrah 30.5
These girls are working hard and it's showing!
The OHS boys' track team took advantage of nearly perfect conditions last night at the 18-team Monticello Invitational to set a total of 24 personal record performances. The Spartans were 6th place as a team with 54 points. Top performers:
Chase Ragar- 4th in the triple jump at 40' 4.5"
Nolan Yeary- 6th in the shot put at 44' 8.5"
Reygan Sitton- 5th in the 100 at 11.33
Cooper Phillips- 5th in the 300 hurdles at 44.86
Keagan Uphoff- 2nd in the HJ at 6' 0" and 2nd in the 300 hurdles at 40.77 and 1st in the 110 hurdles at 15.77.
Logan Demling, Cooper Phillips, CJ Moore, and Wyatt Reinhart- 4th in the 3200 meter relay at 9:02.55
Come cheer on the team when they get back in action at the Olympia Coed Relays next Tuesday at 4:00!
Varsity Softball with a 16-5 victory at Eureka in 5 innings to improve to 9-2. Multi-hit game for Kat Springer, Danika Frazier, Sarah Cross and Kyla Birky. Rylee Robb with 3 RBIs.
The high school volleyball player/parent meeting scheduled for Saturday April 15th has been postponed. A new date and location will be announced later.
Activities Update for today. - No practice or games today for Baseball, Soccer or Middle school Track. Softball will play at Eureka Middle School Field at 4:30pm. HS Boys Track will be at Monticello and HS Girls Track will be at Tolono.
Updates: All OHMS students have now either left campus to drive home or have evacuated to Minier Christian Church. Parents, you must pick up your children from the designated evacuation location at Minier Christian Church. Lines for pick up are long, so please be patient as all of the necessary evacuation procedures are followed. At Minier Christian Church you will be greeted by an adult and must present an ID to pick up your child(ren). No individuals will be allowed on the OHMS campus for the rest of the day. Fire officials will be on site all evening completing their necessary work.
More information will be shared soon regarding the status of the building and plans for school operations tomorrow.
All after school events at Olympia CUSD 16 have been cancelled for this evening due the the fire at the OHMS campus.
Two school records go down this morning. Congratulations to Sarah Cross who broke our school record in the squat with a lift of 295 lbs, and to Blaine Halley who broke our school record in the bench press with a lift of 380 lbs!!!
Olympia would like to welcome Jon Rask as our new Head Volleyball coach. Jon brings more than 15 years of experience with him, most recently at Central Illinois Elite in Peoria. There will be a player/parent meeting on April 15th at 11:00am in the OHS cafeteria.
The weather was amazing for this triangular meet in Lincoln. We had a lot of fun with entries and getting girls in events they don't usually run. The distance girls has a friendly competition during their 1600 meter race.
Varsity softball falls at St. Joseph losing 2-0. JV won 7-4.
Olympia girls track team had an awesome day at the Metamora invite on Saturday. The weather was perfect and some of the girls were able to bring home some Pr's. The Oly girls team finished 7th out of the 13 teams. They have a lot to be proud of!
Here are some highlights of what these girls did:
Anna Bieber came in 4th in the 800 with a time of 2:27
Chrystal Cornwell came in 7th in the 1600 meter run setting a PR for this season of 5:53
Cam Lawson set another PR this season in the 1600 with a time of 5:54
Melissa Bieber came in 1st in the 300m hurdles with a time of 50.39
4x100 varsity team: Palmer Scheets, Melissa Bieber, Grace Whiteside and Mallory Miller came in 5th with a time of 53.66
4x800 varsity team: Anna Bieber, Chrystal Cornwell, Abby Litwiller and Emma Swartzendruber came in 4th with a time of 10:39
We still have so much season left, these girls are determined at hitting their goals. Next meet is Tuesday at Lincoln high school!
The OHS boys track team competed at the 13-team Metamora Invite today. The team racked up 32 personal records throughout the day and top finishers included:
Nolen Yeary(5th in shot put with an all-time best toss of 45' 9")
Reygan Sitton(6th in 100 m dash at 11.59)
Keagan Uphoff(3rd in 110 hurdles at 16.33 & 2nd in high jump at 6' 2")
Cooper Phillips, CJ Moore, Wyatt Reinhart, & Evan Petri were 4th place in the JV 3200 m relay.
Logan Demling, Caden Clark, Jacob Lawless, & Logan Farquhar we're 6th in the varsity 3200 m relay.
Congratulations guys! The Spartans will be back in action next Tuesday at Lincoln.
Varsity softball with a 11-0 victory over Rochester in 5 innings. Multi-hit game for Kat Springer, Jordyn Turner, Danika Frazier, Shelby Finchum and Lydia Rutledge. Lydia with 4 RBIs. Danika with a 2-hit shutout, improving to 7—1.
The JV Baseball game scheduled for today April 5th at Olympia vs. Normal West has been cancelled.
Olympia Varsity Softball defeated Pleasant Plains 15-0 in 4 innings.
The high school track meet at Greenville and the varsity softball games at UIS for Saturday April 1st have been cancelled
The JV baseball game scheduled for today at Olympia vs STM has been cancelled
The varsity and JV girls soccer games scheduled for today vs Canton have been cancelled.
Varsity Softball defeated Tremont 3-0. Multi-hit game for Kat Springer, Jordyn Turner, Danika Frazier and Shelby Finchum with Danika tossing a no-hitter. Spartans improve to 4-1. JV girls won 4-0.