Holmen High School senior Lydia Lazarescu will get a chance to add to her collection of WIAA Division 1 state track and field championships after winning a couple of sprints and a relay race at the Verona Sectional on Friday.
Lazarescu won the 100-meter dash (11.85 seconds), 200 (24.34) and helped the Vikings cross the line first in the 400 relay (47.96) and will run all three races again during the state meet at UW-La Crosse on June 5-6.
Senior teammate and future UW-La Crosse teammate Abry Bloyer was second in both sprints with times of 11.87 and 24.99 and ran with the same 400 relay to become a three-event qualifier.
Lazarescu won the 100 and 200 as a sophomore, was second in both events as a junior and was third in the 100 and a 200 qualifier as a freshman. She will compete in her ninth, 10th and 11th state events next weekend. Bloyer also qualified in all three events as a junior.
Senior Alivia Wickstrom also won the 100 hurdles (15.12) and was third in the 300 hurdles (46.13) to qualify in both events, and senior Brenna Schmidt was runner-up in the shot put (38 feet, 1 inch) and discus (123-2) to help the Vikings score 114 points and win the sectional team championship.
Wickstrom qualified for state in both hurdle events as a junior, and Schmidt was second in the shot put and a discus qualifier last year.
Onalaska seniors Makena McGarry and Isabella Malecek and Holmen junior Jakai Ayed also have the chance to build on past state success after string sectionals.
McGarry won the triple jump (36-6 1/2), was second in the long jump (17-8) and ran with the winning 1,600 relay team, which was clocked at 3:58.33. McGarry has already participated at state in eight events, and she is trying medal for the third straight year in the long jump.
Malecek is a senior qualifier in the 400 (59.67), 1,600 relay and high jump (5-4) after competing in nine state events and been on the medal stand six times over the past three years.
Ayed won the 110 hurdles (14.33) and 300 hurdles (39.22) on Friday. He placed fifth in both events at state last year and is a three-time qualifier in the 110s.
Logan senior Maddy Cornett became a three-time qualifier in the Division 2 100 with a second-place finish and time of 12.71 in the 100, and Logan senior Andrew Stanton is a three-time qualifier in the 400 after his winning time of 49.55 at the sectional in Rice Lake.
Luther sophomore Jaeyda Livingston qualified in four events at a Division 3 sectional in Bangor. She was second in the 100 hurdles (15.68) and long jump (17-0 1/2) and high jump (5-2) and fourth in the 300 hurdles (47.64).
Luther junior Nathan Dobberstein won the 300 hurdles (39.99), was second in the 110 hurdles (15.3) and third in the high jump (6-2) at Bangor and will compete in all three at UW-La Crosse.
Below, you’ll find the complete list of state qualifiers from schools covered by couleesports.com.
WIAA STATE QUALIFIERS
Top 3 at Division 1 sectionals and top 4 at Divisions 2 and 3
Relay names
DIVISION 1
BOYS
400: 2, Jacob Simmons, jr., (Holmen) 50.03; 3, Wylder Burch, so., (Onalaska) 50.53
110 hurdles: 1, Jakai Ayed, jr., (Holmen) 14.33
300 hurdles: 1, Jakai Ayed, jr., (Holmen) 39.22
1,600 relay: 2, Holmen (Jacob Simmons, Ryland Eickhoff, Josiah Klumczewski, Jack Barth) 3:25.17
High jump: 1, Wylder Burch, so., (Onalaska) 6-8; 2, Tay Parcher, so., (Holmen) 6-4
Triple jump: 1, Brendan Chenault, jr., (Onalaska) 44-5
GIRLS
100: 1, Lydia Lazarescu, sr., (Holmen) 11.85; 2, Abry Bloyer, sr., (Holmen) 11.87
200: 1, Lydia Lazarescu, sr., (Holmen) 24.34; 2, Abry Bloyer, sr., (Holmen) 24.99
400: 1, Elin Gilles, so., (Onalaska) 57.94; 3. Isabella Malecek, sr., (Onalaska) 59.67
800: 3, Sadie Peterson, so., (Onalaska) 2:20.3
100 hurdles: 1, Alivia Wickstrom, sr., (Holmen) 15.12
300 hurdles: 3, Alivia Wickstrom, sr., (Holmen) 46.13
400 relay: 1, Holmen (Ava Newman, Abry Bloyer, Hadley Johnson, Lydia Lazarescu) 47.96
1,600 relay: 1, Onalaska (Elin Gilles, Makena McGarry, Sadie Peterson, Isabella Malecek) 3:58.33
3,200 relay: 2, Holmen (Naomi Wedan, Rubianne Kinsman, Claire Wagoner, Sabrina Lechnir) 9:32.26
High jump: 3, Isabella Malecek, sr., (Onalaska) 5-4
Long jump: 2, Makena McGarry, sr., (Onalaska) 17-8
Triple jump: 1, Makena McGarry, sr., (Onalaska) 35-6 1/2; 2, Rickie Tillotson, sr., (Onalaska) 35-4 1/4; 3, Bela Waters, sr., (Holmen) 34-5
Shot put: 2, Brenna Schmidt, sr., (Holmen) 38-1
Discus: 2, Brenna Schmidt, sr., (Holmen) 123-2; 3, Rickie Tillotson, sr., (Onalaska) 116-4
Pole vault: 1, Olivia Peterson, sr., (Onalaska) 11-0
DIVISION 2
BOYS
200: 4, Cade Donahue, sr., (West Salem) 22.59
400: 1, Andrew Stanton, sr., (Logan) 49.55
800: 1, Michael Torrance, jr., (West Salem) 1:56.83; 4, Gabe Driscoll, jr., (Logan) 1:57.94
400 relay: 2, West Salem (Jameson Skifton, Cade Donahue, Josiah Wolbrink, Jackson Seberg) 42.75
800 relay: 2, West Salem (Jameson Skifton, Jackson Seberg, Josiah Wolbrink, Cade Donahue) 1:28.77; 4, Logan (Viktor Kravanja, Jameson Degenhardt, Onesimus West, James Freund) 1:30.28
1,600 relay: 1, Logan (Andrew Stanton, Gabe Driscoll, Briggs Schaffer, Onesimus West) 3:21.31
Shot put: 4, Sam King, jr., (Logan) 55-5
GIRLS
100: 2, Maddy Cornett, sr., (Logan) 12.71; 3, Kaylee Skiles, jr., (West Salem) 12.84
100 hurdles: 2, Olivia Maki, sr., (West Salem) 15.23
300 hurdles: 2, Olivia Maki, sr., (West Salem) 45.19
400 relay: 2, Logan (Maddy Cornett, Lily Dettwiler, Kylie Devine, Maia Wittrock) 50.19
800 relay: 3, Aquinas (Emily Lepak, Sammy Davis, Alaina Elias, Alexa Myre) 1:45.54
3,200 relay: 3, West Salem (Anna Witte, Isabel Krueger, Elise Flock, Natalia Minard) 9:42.46
DIVISION 3
BOYS
110 hurdles: 2, Nathan Dobberstein, jr., (Luther) 15.3
300 hurdles: 1, Nathan Dobberstein, jr., (Luther) 39.99
High jump: 3, Nathan Dobberstein, jr., (Luther) 6-2
GIRLS
200: Bristol Coats, jr., (Melrose-Mindoro) 26.52
100 hurdles: 2, Jaeyda Livingston, so., (Luther) 15.68
300 hurdles: 3, Bristol Coats, jr., (Melrose-Mindoro) 26.52; 4, Jaeyda Livingston, so., (Luther) 47.64
High jump: 1, Sheila Johnson, jr., (Melrose-Mindoro) 5-2; 2, Jaeyda Livingston, so., (Luther) 5-2
Long jump: 2, Jaeyda Livingston, so., (Luther) 17-0 1/2; 3, Bristol Coats, jr., (Melrose-Mindoro) 16-11 3/4
