Russ Pilcher Top 10 track meet
Author: MT43News sports reporter
Russ Pilcher Top 10 Track Meet
MT43 News Sports Reporter
The Montana track and field season has officially entered an exciting section of the schedule where differing regions of the state host special meets that feature top athletes regardless of class.
The Russ Pilcher Top 10 meet in Missoula was the first such meet, being held last Tuesday, April 22nd featuring the top competitors in the West. The Norm Girard Top 10 meet in Glasgow and the Midland Roundtable Top 10 meet in Laurel will both follow on Tuesday, April 29th and will feature the top athletes in the North and South, respectively.
The Russ Pilcher Top 10 was held at MCPS Stadium at Big Sky High School. It was beautiful weather and those perfect conditions along with the stiff competition, made for an impressive meet with multiple personal records including many meet records being broken.
The larger AA and A schools were well-represented, but our Broadwater Bulldogs along with Boulder’s Jefferson High School showed that Class B has some huge talents as well.
Junior Kaitlyn Noyes took on the herculean task of competing in five events, which is extra difficult at a Top 10 meet due to the speed of the meet with one heat per race. She got a pair of 8th place finishes in her runs: 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Kaitlyn achieved a 5th place finish in the high jump with a clearance of 5’. The horizontal jumps are where she shines and she earned twin 3rd places in the long and triple jumps, with distances of 17’1” and 34’9.5”.
Fellow junior Holly Newman made her first appearance at the prestigious Top Ten meet in the high jump. She claimed 6th place with a jump of 4’10”.
Sophomore Kyla Meissner qualified for the Top 10 meet in both the 1600-meter and 3200-meter runs. Distance runners cannot run more than one race at a time-shortened meet like this, so she chose to focus on the one-mile distance. She ran her personal best time at that distance, 5:16.07 which placed her 2nd to Hamilton’s Annalise Lewis.
Way to represent ladies!
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Image 1 Caption: Juniors Kaitlyn Noyes and Holly Newman, along with sophomore Kyla Meissner, represent the Broadwater Bulldogs at the Top Ten track meet in Missoula
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