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Sandwich’s Sunny Weber bounces back from loss in 3,200-meter race, secures Class 2A 1,600 title to cap career · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Sandwiches, sunny Weber bounces back from loss in three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred meter race secures class to a one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred title to cap career. Written by Joel Bonnets,
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  Speaker 1: this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. Sunny Weber had a bit more
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  Speaker 1: motivation to take the one thousand, six hundred meter title
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  Speaker 1: than most years. The Sandwich senior entered the class to
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  Speaker 1: a girls' track and field state championships as the reigning
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  Speaker 1: champion in both the one thousand, six hundred and three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and was looking to defend her title in
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  Speaker 1: both events. But after losing the three thousand, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: run to Montini's Sidney Gerston, the Duke commit felt even
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  Speaker 1: more pressure on her when she came into the final
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  Speaker 1: half of her final run with Gerston right on her tail.
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  Speaker 1: But unlike her first race of the day, Weber fended
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  Speaker 1: off the fellow senior in the final half of the race,
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  Speaker 1: crossing the line in four forty seven point four to
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  Speaker 1: six to defend her one thousand, six hundred title at
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  Speaker 1: O'Brien Field in Charleston. I could tell from the announcers
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  Speaker 1: and cheers that she was right behind me, So I
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  Speaker 1: just realized that I had to try my hardest if
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get the win. Weber said, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the time that I wanted, but I'm still really
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  Speaker 1: happy about how I executed the race and how the
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  Speaker 1: meat ended. Weber initially entered the one thousand, six hundred
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  Speaker 1: race looking to take down the class record one that
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  Speaker 1: she set in twenty twenty five after running a four
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  Speaker 1: to forty one point nine, but the competition from Gerston,
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  Speaker 1: along with a headwind down the front stretch of the track,
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  Speaker 1: quickly changed her approach to the race. It definitely felt
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  Speaker 1: more like a technical race this time around, Weber said.
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  Speaker 1: It was also a little more windy, so I had
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  Speaker 1: to take that into account and try to push myself
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  Speaker 1: the best I could without stressing or worrying about my time,
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  Speaker 1: and give it all I could. Weber enacted a similar
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  Speaker 1: move in her three thy two hundred earlier in the day,
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  Speaker 1: pushing past Rockford Lutheran's Abigail Baumann for the lead with
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred meters left in the race. However, Gerston matched
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  Speaker 1: the move and eventually powered past Weber with two hundred
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  Speaker 1: meters to go to dethrone the two time defending champ.
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  Speaker 1: Despite not getting the win, Weber still came to the
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  Speaker 1: line with a very respectable ten to eleven point twenty
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  Speaker 1: three for the silver medal. I didn't expect that time
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  Speaker 1: at all, Weber said. I was trying to be a
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  Speaker 1: little more relaxed and make a move with eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: to go, and obviously it wasn't enough. But it's all okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was fine, and I just used it as fuel
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  Speaker 1: in that next race. The state meet marked the end
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  Speaker 1: of a very decorated high school career for Weber, who
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  Speaker 1: finished with six state titles across cross country and track
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  Speaker 1: and field, and while she still plans to do a
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  Speaker 1: few more postseason races before making the move to Durham,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, she's proud of her time representing the Indians
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  Speaker 1: over the last four years. I've been so great to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do this the past few years, Weber said.
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  Speaker 1: But most of all, most of all, I'm most thankful
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  Speaker 1: for getting to meet these amazing girls that I could
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  Speaker 1: make memories with, and a lot of them will be
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  Speaker 1: competing in college, so hopefully I'll get to compete against them.
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  Speaker 1: In college