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Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week: Aiden Kolkmeyer, Yorkville, track and field, sophomore · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week, Aiden Colkmeyer, Yorkville Track
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  Speaker 1: and Field sophomore, Written by Joshua Welge. This article is
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  Speaker 1: Name Aiden Colkmeyer, School, Yorkville, sophomore sport, track and Field.
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  Speaker 1: Why he was selected. Colkmeyer won the one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ten high hurdles, three hundred low hurdles, and high jump
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  Speaker 1: at the Class three A Moolling Sectional to help lead
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville to the sectional title. He was selected the Athlete
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  Speaker 1: of the Week in an online vote. Other nominees were
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  Speaker 1: Aswego Sockers, Jordan Washington, Yorkville Socckers, Lindsay Ingemunsen, and Sandwich
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  Speaker 1: Track and Fields Sunny Weber. Here is Colchmeyer's interview with
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  Speaker 1: sports editor Joshua Welje. First off, can you speak to
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  Speaker 1: the strength of this team? What did it mean to
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  Speaker 1: win conference and sectional titles? Kochmyer, Winning the first sectional
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  Speaker 1: and conference titles for our school was a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: especially knowing the role I had in helping the team
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  Speaker 1: score those points. Any particular event at sectionals you felt
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  Speaker 1: especially good about, Kochmeyer the event I felt best about
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  Speaker 1: at Sectionals was my three hundred meter hurdles, running a
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven point three in Illinois, third fastest time. How
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  Speaker 1: do you assess your prospects at state? How do you
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  Speaker 1: manage the workload in such a big environment and have
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  Speaker 1: you got any advice? Kolkmeyer for managing my workload in
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  Speaker 1: big meets, I just make sure to not only rest
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  Speaker 1: and take my time recovering in between events, but also
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  Speaker 1: doing everything I can leading up to the meet. What
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  Speaker 1: are goals for the weekend? Kolkmeyer. Goals this weekend are
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  Speaker 1: to hopefully go all state in as many events as
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  Speaker 1: possible and try to take the win in the three
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  Speaker 1: hundred s. How did you get started in track? Did
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  Speaker 1: you play any sports? Kolchmeyer thought of doing track in
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  Speaker 1: eighth grade for fun, then found the passion I have
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  Speaker 1: for it and it just kept going from there. What's
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  Speaker 1: your post high school plans if you know them? Kolkmeyer
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  Speaker 1: post high school plans are doing the decathlon in college
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  Speaker 1: and trying to get as far as I can with that.