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Here are five storylines to watch for Kendall County-area athletes at the IHSA state boys track meet · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Here are five storylines to watch for Kendall County area
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  Speaker 1: athletes at the ISAZA State Boys track Meet. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Welgin. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. The ISA Boys Track
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  Speaker 1: and Field State Meet is this weekend on the campus
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  Speaker 1: of Eastern Illinois and Charleston. Class one of preliminaries are
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for Thursday, Class two A and Class three A
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  Speaker 1: prilims Friday, with the finals in all three classes set
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  Speaker 1: for Saturday. Here are five storylines to watch for Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County area athletes this weekend. Owen Horani's last hurrah. Owen
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  Speaker 1: Horani's first state track meet as a freshman, he ran
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  Speaker 1: on Yorkville's state championship for four hundred relay team, can
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  Speaker 1: be bookend his career with another title. He has a
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  Speaker 1: great shot. The Yorkville senior and Notre Dame commit ran
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  Speaker 1: the state's fastest sectional time in both the eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: meter run one fifty point one eight and the one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred four thirteen point twenty five. The eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: time is the fastest run in Illinois outdoors this spring.
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  Speaker 1: Horini is a three time state medalist in the event,
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  Speaker 1: steadily moving up from eighth as a freshman to fourth
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  Speaker 1: as a sophomore to second as a junior. Yorkville has
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  Speaker 1: only had one state champion in an open track event,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Cox's Class A three hundred hurdles title in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty six. Could Horni be the second. Dontrell Young's sprint
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  Speaker 1: to the top Oswego junior Dtrell Young has already established
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  Speaker 1: himself as one of the state's elite sprinters, fifth in
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  Speaker 1: the four hundred meter dash as freshman. Young medaled in
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  Speaker 1: three sprints last year, going eighth in the four hundred,
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  Speaker 1: fourth in the one hundred, and second in the two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: He should be in metal contention in all three again.
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  Speaker 1: In Charleston this weekend, Young posted the third fastest sectional
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  Speaker 1: time in the one hundred ten point four to six
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  Speaker 1: and four hundred forty seven point nine six and second
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  Speaker 1: best two hundred times twenty one point one six. With
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  Speaker 1: sectional titles in the one hundred and two hundred, can
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville get a trophy? Yorkville's boys track and field program
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  Speaker 1: has enjoyed quite a few good weeks following up its
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  Speaker 1: first Southwest Prairie Conference championship. With a sectional title, could
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  Speaker 1: a state trophy be next? It could be a heavy lift,
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  Speaker 1: but not completely out of the realm of possibility. Horeni
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  Speaker 1: has the top sectional time in both the eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and one thousand, six hundred and is a strong metal
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  Speaker 1: possibility in both. Same goes for sophomore Aiden Kolchmeyer, who
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  Speaker 1: ran the third fastest sectional time of thirty seven point
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  Speaker 1: three zero in the three hundred hurdles and is also
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  Speaker 1: a metal possibility in the high jump and one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten hurdles. James Sapp junior in the discus and
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Shepherd in the three hundred hurdles are metal contenders
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  Speaker 1: too based off sectional marks. Whatever happens, the Foxes are
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  Speaker 1: set up for a fantastic finish. Sandwich vaulter, the area's
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  Speaker 1: best metal hope in the field events, could be in
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  Speaker 1: Class two A with Sandwich junior Jacob Ross. Ross took
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  Speaker 1: fourth in the state as freshman. He had the fifth
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  Speaker 1: best pole vault statewide at sectionals last week of four
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  Speaker 1: point sixty five meters. He went four point seven to
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  Speaker 1: eight meters at the Kishwaukee River Conference, fourth best in
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  Speaker 1: the state. This spring in two A. It's a strong
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  Speaker 1: pole vault field with the likes of Rochelle's Andrew Nuian,
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  Speaker 1: defending state champion Kyle Quaid Bowman of Glenbard South, and
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  Speaker 1: Bloomington's Central Catholics Isaiah Whitaker, who has cleared five point
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  Speaker 1: four to seven meters ross, will be in the mix,
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  Speaker 1: though Graham Rasm's run for more medals. Yorkville Christian's Graham
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  Speaker 1: Razum made history last spring, becoming just the school's second
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  Speaker 1: state medalist, first on the track. He has a good
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  Speaker 1: chance at more. The junior seventh in the class one
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  Speaker 1: eight eight hundred last year posted the sixth fastest eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred section time of one fifty seven point ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: He's also in the one thousand, six hundred as Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Christian qualified in four events.