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Sandwich defending distance double champ Sunny Weber set for last state meet: I’m trying to take this all in’ · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Sandwich defending distance double champ Sunny Weber set for last
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  Speaker 1: state meet. I'm trying to take this all in. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Joshua Welde. This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Sunny Weber understands
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  Speaker 1: that one chapter of her running career is about to
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  Speaker 1: come to a close as another one opens. So she
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  Speaker 1: is doing what every great distance runner would do. She's
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  Speaker 1: pacing herself as the decorated distance runner and duke commit
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  Speaker 1: prepares for her last competition for Sandwich High School. Weber
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  Speaker 1: is severing the experience. I'm trying to take this all
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  Speaker 1: in to appreciate every moment, Weber said. I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to go down with one of my best friends.
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  Speaker 1: Weber will attempt to add a couple more achievements this
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  Speaker 1: weekend at the ISA State Track and Field Meet at
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Preliminaries are Thursday, Class two
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  Speaker 1: A and Class three A Friday, with finals for all
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  Speaker 1: three classes Saturday. Weber the class to a defending state
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  Speaker 1: champion in the three thousand, two hundred and one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred eight prem champion and six times state track
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  Speaker 1: medalist will look to pull off the distance triple crown
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  Speaker 1: for the second straight school year. Weber won the cross
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  Speaker 1: country state title for the second straight year last fall.
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  Speaker 1: I am feeling good, Weber said, I feel confident for
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  Speaker 1: the three thousand two hundred. I'm going to try to
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  Speaker 1: feel good and save my energy for the one thousand
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and see how I can go. Weber last
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  Speaker 1: year won the one thousand six hundred in A class
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  Speaker 1: to a record time of four to forty one point
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  Speaker 1: nine zero. She narrowly missed the all class record in
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  Speaker 1: the event of four to forty point eight five set
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one by Normal Communities Alley ins a mark.
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  Speaker 1: Weber has her eye on trying to break that, Weber said.
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  Speaker 1: Weber ran the fastest Class two A sectional time in
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  Speaker 1: the one thousand six hundred of four fifty seven point
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  Speaker 1: five to four last week and the second fastest three
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  Speaker 1: thousand two hundred times of ten thirty point six four.
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  Speaker 1: She ran a season best one thousand, six hundred times
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  Speaker 1: of four forty three point seven two on her home
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  Speaker 1: track in April, and ran her best three thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred at the Arcadia Invitational but Weber has paced herself,
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  Speaker 1: not putting on too many miles during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: At conference, she opted to run the four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: four to eight hundred relay, just like slowly getting into
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  Speaker 1: it and not rushing. Weber said, the meets at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season matter, and those are the ones
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  Speaker 1: I want to perform in. Maybe not running at all
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  Speaker 1: the school meets, but getting quality workouts. Weber's top competition
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  Speaker 1: in Charleston could be Rockford Lutheran senior Abigail Bauman, who
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  Speaker 1: ran the fastest three thousand, two hundred of ten twenty
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  Speaker 1: six point eight four and second fastest one thousand, six
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  Speaker 1: hundred of five oh six sixteen. Bauman was indoor state
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  Speaker 1: champion in both events. It's at the Illinois Top Times
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  Speaker 1: Meet in March, a meat Weber did not run in.
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  Speaker 1: I am trying to focus on myself, not worry about
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  Speaker 1: the competition, Weber said, focus on what I am capable of.