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‘Unique talent’ Mariyah Elam has won 8 different events this spring: NewsTribune track and field notebook · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Unique talent. Maria Elam has won eight different events this spring.
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  News Tribune Track and Field Notebook 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. Before the season, Mendota Girls track
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  and field coach Joe Hughes said the Trojans would have
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  junior Maria Elam compete in every event we can fit
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  her into. She is a unique talent who can compete
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  for a top spot in any event she chooses to
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  compete in on a given day. Hughes said that has
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  proved to be true this spring. Elam has competed in
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  nine different events this season and has recorded wins in
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  eight of those. The only event she entered and didn't
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  win was the shot put. She threw once and placed
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  second Fearsome Forsome. The Henry Midland Girls track and field
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  team is led by what coach Ian Briscoe called a
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  talented and versatile group of four athletes and seniors Daniella Bumer,
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  Taylor Frauble, and Ali Mitchell, and sophomore Audrey Chambers. The
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  four make up the Timber Ducks four x one hundred
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  meter relay that has run the sixth fastest time in
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  Class one A this season fifty point four seconds. Each
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  also has state medal aspirations in individual events. Bummer has
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  the fastest four hundred times in one A this season
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  at fifty seven point one four seconds, and ranks fourth
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  in the two hundred twenty five point three three and
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  twenty first in the one hundred twelve point six to one.
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  Bumber owns eight career state medals, including two last spring
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  despite dealing with a stress fracture. Frawley ranks thirteenth in
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  one A in the long jump five point three one
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  meters and has beat the state qualifying standard in the
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  one hundred twelve point nine two two hundred twenty six
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  point sixty six. Mitchell is the school record holder in
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  the one hundred hurdles sixteen point three four and has
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  cleared the state standard in the high jump one point
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  five five, and Chambers is tied for the tenth best
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  long jump in one of this spring at five point
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  three six. The Forsome ran a school record one forty
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  seven point three four in the four x two hundred
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  during Henry Midland's Senior Night Meet on May seventh. The
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  timber Ducks usual four x two hundred is made up
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  of Frawleigh, Mitchell and Chambers and Piper Roach, and the
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  Forsome's top time of one forty eight point eight seven
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  ranks sixteenth in one A. Henry Midland will compete the
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  Class one of Farmington Sectional on Wednesday among the states best.
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  Henry Midland isn't the only area team that has athletes
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  ranked among the state's best this season. Saint Bede senior
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  Lily Bosnick was Class one A runner up in both
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  hurdle events last spring and is once again among the
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  top hurdle state. Bosnik has recorded the second best time
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  in one A this season in the one hundred hurdles
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  fourteen point eight eight and ranks third in the three
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  hundred hurdles forty five point three. At state last season,
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  Bosnik ran a fourteen point four to three in the
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  one hundred hurdles and a forty three point four in
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  the three hundred hurdles. Bureau Valley's Elise House ranks fourth
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  in the four hundred fifty eight point sixty nine, and
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  Amboy co Ops Bella Yanos ranks eighth in the long
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  jump five point three nine. Saint Bede Bureau Valley and Amboy,
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  along with Hall, Putnam County and DPU, will compete in
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  the Erie Sectional on Wednesday. In Class two A, Mendota's
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  Maria Elam seems poised to add to her metal collection
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  after winning the high jump as a freshman and placing
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  second last year. This spring, Elam is tied for second
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  in the high jump at one point six to eight
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  and ranks eighth in the triple jump eleven point one one,
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  ninth in the three hundred hurdles forty six point eight seven,
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  and twenty second in the one hundred hurdles fifteen point
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  eight two. Lesal Peru junior Aubrey Duttlinger owns the third
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  best long jump of the season in two A at
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  five dot sixty five, which is just shy of Shay
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  Sherry's school record of five point six to eight set
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  at the Class two A Mendota Sectional in twenty seventeen.
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  Duttlinger also ranks twentieth in the triple jump ten point
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  seventy nine. LP. Mendota and Princeton will compete in the
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  Mendota Sectional on Wednesday. Mendota Sebastian Carlos set school records
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  in the four hundred forty nine point five nine and
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  two hundred twenty two point twenty five this season, and
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  is among the best in two A this spring, ranking
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  fifth in the four hundred and twentieth in the two hundred.
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  Also in two A, lesal Peruz avery Hill ranks tenth
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  in the discus fifty point twenty seven, and teammate Caleb
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  Curry is fourteenth in the triple jump thirteen point three
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  nine and twenty fourth in the high jump one point
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  nine to one. Princeton's Casey Etheridge is fourteenth in the
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  three hundred hurdles thirty nine point nine and fifteenth in
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  the one hundred and ten hurdles fifteen point one five,
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  and teammate Landen Hoffmann ranked sixth in the discus fifty
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  one point two eight after placing second in the event
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  last year as a freshman in Class one A. Putnam
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  Counties Alex Rodriguez needled in both throws last year and
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  should be in the mix again as he ranks eighth
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  in the discus forty nine point eight seven and twelfth
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  in the shot put fifth point nine two. Amboys Ian
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  Hassler is thirteenth in the discus forty eight point five six.
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  Bureau valleys. Andrew Roth ranks twelfth in the one hundred
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  and ten hurdles fifteen point five to one and fourteenth
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  in the three hundred hurdles forty one point one two fieldcres.
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  Michael Beckett is tenth in the triple jump thirteen point
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  four eight and tied for twentieth in the long jump
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  jump six point five eight. With amboys Damien Bender coming together,
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  the Le Salperu four to four hundred foursome of Griffin Hammers,
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  Eli Hammers, Luca Verruki and Wyatt kill Day is coming
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  together well as the regular season winds down. Eli Hammers
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  is a freshman and kill Day is a first year
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  track athlete. The Cavil Relay recently ran a three two
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  nine dot five five comma, which beats the state qualifying
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  standard of three point thirty point four. Wyatt has been
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  a good athlete, same with Eli. LP coach Adam Spencer said,
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  good track teams need the football basketball players getting them
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  to buy into the four hundred. Hopefully we can make
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  state time at the sectional and run it well because
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  the Gailsburg Sectional is loaded