The Southeast Valley boys’ track and field team headed to Manson on Tuesday, April 29^th for the boy’s Cougar Relays. This was a boys’ only meet with a varsity and JV division. At the conclusion of the meet, the Jaguars found themselves in second place in both divisions behind class 3A Carroll. On the varsity side, the Jaguars score 101 points and finished 17 points behind Carroll’s 118. In the JV division, Carroll rolled to 140 points, while Southeast Valley scored 107. Manson was third in the varsity team race while South Central Calhoun took third in the JV division.

               The relay quartet of Dreyvon Steadman, Logan Jaeschke, Bryce Harrison and Kayden Showers highlighted the night by not only winning the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m relay but broke both the meet and school records in the process. The 4 x 200m relay winning time was 1:32.60 while the 4 x 100m relay time was 44.16. Kayden also took 1^st in the 100m dash (11.60) and 2^nd in the 200m dash (22.88). Dreyvon took 2^nd in the 100m dash (11.66) and Logan took 5^th in the 200m dash (24.16).

               Also picking up a relay title was the shuttle hurdle team of Alex Burger, Casey Hanson, Kolton Ollinger and Colin Johnson who won in a time of 1:04.04. Colin picked up 2^nd place and Casey 5^th place in the 400m hurdles running times of 57.12 and 1:01.66 (Career PR) respectively. Kolton took 6^th in the 110m high hurdles (17.12). 

               The relays continued to be the strength of the night for the Jaguars as the 1600m medley relay and the 4 x 400m relays also picked up second place finishes. Kolton Ollinger, Casey Hanson, Owen Nuss and Lincoln Akins took ran a 4:03.39 in the 1600m medley while Alex, Logan, Bryce and Keelan Wellman ran 3:38.09 in the 4 x 400m. The 4 x 800m quartet of Ethan Tucker, Drew Dorsey, Landon Vote and Logan Bintz took 4^th overall in a time of 9:35.14.

               Individually, Lincoln Akins picked up 3^rd place in the 3200m run in a season best 10:48.70, Ian Brunner was 4^th in the shot put (39-10.5”) and Steven Fisher was 5^th in the discus (118-02”).

               In the JV division of the meet, the Jaguars found four 1^st place finishes. Leo Ramirez found gold in the 100m dash (12.84) while Owen Nuss won the 200m dash (25.30). Also wining first was the distance medley relay team of Caden Cramer, Blaise Echevarria, Landon Vote and Caden Kaltschnee in a time of 4:36.52 while the 4 x 100m team of Jacob Paterson, Riley Fawcett, Leo Ramirez and Jaiden Johnson ran 49.24 to finish 1^st.

               Second place finishes for the Jaguars JV squad was Joe Kauffman (discus, 95-11”), Riley Fawcett (100m dash, 12.95) and Blaise Echevarria (800m run, 2:40.50). Grant Farnham was 3^rd in the 800m run with a season best of 2:40.81 while Jaiden Johnson (200m, 26.47) also finished 3^rd.

               Fourth place finishes went to Ian Brunner (Discus, 92-08”), Steven Fisher (shot put, 35-04”), and Caden Kaltschnee (1600m, 6:01.77) with a season best. The 4 x 400m relay team of Landon Vote, Caden Cramer, Blaise Echevarria and Wyatt Blair also finished 3^rd place overall in 4:30.12.

               The Jaguars will head to Sioux Rapids to compete in the Twin Lakes Conference meet on Tuesday, May 6^th. They will complete their regular schedule on Thursday, May 8^th in Lake City and Monday, May 12^th in Sac City. The varsity will then compete in the class 2A state qualifying meet in Ogden on Thursday, May 15^th.