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Princeton’s Casey Etheridge looks to cap career with medal: NewsTribune boys state track and field preview · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Princeton's Ksey Etheridge looks to cap career with Metal News
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  Tribune Boys State track and Field preview written by Kevin Schlum.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. Princeton senior Ksey Etheridge has been
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  among the state's best this school year. In the fall
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  and the winter, he was an all state running back
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  in football and finished as a state runner up in wrestling. Now,
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  Etheridge looks to end his high school career among the
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  best hurdlers in the state. Etheridge qualified for the ISA
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  Class two A State Track and Field meet in the
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  one hundred, ten meter and three hundred meter hurdles, as
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  well as on Princeton's four I four hundred relay. The
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  state meet is Thursday Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charlestown.
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  The class one of preliminaries or Thursday, the two of
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  prelims or Friday, and the finals for all classes. This
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  is our Saturday. It is a blessing to be able
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  to compete in another state meet. Ethridge said, it has
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  been really cool to get a chance to succeed in
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  three different sports, and in the past two years it
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  has been fun to see the growth of my team
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  and myself in track and field. Etheridge enters the state
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  meet having run the eighth best sectional time in the
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  three hundred hurdles at thirty nine point seven six seconds,
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  a personal record, and the twenty two and fastest time
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  in the one hundred and ten hurdles at fifteen point
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  four seconds. Etheridge will run with Iden Agushi, Tyler Van
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  Derventer and Gavin Lanham in the four x four hundred relay,
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  which ran the thirty seventh best sectional time at three
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  thirty point zero one. My goals are to qualify for
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  the finals in my events and have a chance at
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  plssing among the best in the state. Etheridge said, seeds
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  don't determine results. I look to take my time going
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  into state and get another personal record. Ethridge said he
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  thinks his state experience from last spring when he finished
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  twentieth in the three hundred hurdles will be beneficial. Having
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  my past experience last year at the state meet will
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  be huge, Ethridge said, this year, I know what to
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  expect and how to handle the pressure. Also in two
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  A LaSalle, Peru will be represented by Avery Hill in
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  the discus and Luca verruk Eli Hammers, Griffin Hammers, and
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  Wyatt kill Day in the four to four hundred, while
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  Mendota's Sebastian Carlos will run in the four hundred. Hill
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  won the discus at the Galesburg Sectional with a toss
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  of forty six point five to five meters, which was
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  the nineteenth best sectional throw. His toss of fifty point
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  two seven meters at the Plano Field of Dreams meet
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  in April was the eleventh best throw in two A
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  this season. The Cavaliers forour AC four hundred ran the
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  thirty fourth best sectional time at three twenty nine point
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  seven seven. Carlos's fifty point one four seconds at the
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  Rochelle Sectional seats HYMN tenth going into state, while his
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  school record time of forty nine point five to one
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  at the Three Rivers Conference meet ranks seventh in two
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  A this season. The goal is definitely to get on
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  the podium, hopefully first. That's everyone's goal for sure, Carlos said, says,
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  I do think I can make something happen. I'm definitely
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  going to practice a lot and stay healthy. In one A.
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  Putnam County senior Alex Rodriguez returns to State after meddling
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  in the discus seventh and shot put ninth last spring.
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  The goal is to make the finals in both shot
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  put and discus and place higher than last year, Rodriguez said.
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  Rodriguez had the eighth best sectional throw in the discus
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  forty seven point sixty eight and ninth best shot put
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  fifteen point five nine. His season best are forty nine
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  point eight seven in the discus and fifteen point nine
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  to two in the shot put. Focusing on my technical
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  cues and just staying relaxed will be keys to success
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  at State, Rodriguez said, Also competing Our Saint Bede's James
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  Arkins in the pole vault, Bureau Valley's Andrew Roth in
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  the one hundred and ten hurdles, three hundred hurdles and
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  four to one hundred relay with Keenan Frickter, Tucker Shane
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  and Morgan Monismith, Shane Monusmith Richter and Kyle Velasquez in
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  the four K two hundred, and Alex Gallardo, Kane Richter,
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  Adrian Gallardo and matdis Moore in the four x eight
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  hundred fieldcress, Mikael Beckett in the triple jump, and Brayden
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  Epplin in the discus, Henry Midlands, Breckon Piles in the
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  high jump and long jump, and the Amboy co ops
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  Ian Hasler in the discus and shot put, and Damian
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  Bender in the three hundred hurdles and long jump. Beckett
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  placed ninth at State in the triple jump last year.
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  He enters state with the eighth best sectional jump at
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  thirteen point two two. His season best is thirteen point
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  four eight. Both Amboy entrants should be in the mix
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  for medals. Hassler had the eleventh best sectional throw in
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  the discus at forty seven point four to four and
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  has a season best of forty eight point nine three.
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  Bender enters with the eighth best sectional time in the
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  three hundred hurdles at forty point nine to two, with
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  the season best of forty point five to three, and
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  had the fourteenth best sectional long jump at six point
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  six to two.