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Perham Girls Take Fourth at AA State True Team Meet

By Craig Olson, 05/23/19, 12:30PM CDT

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Perham senior Ashley Hokanson won the pole vault title, clearing eleven feet, Mesa Schultz was the long jump champion with a personal record jump of 17-feet-three-and-a-half-inches, and the Yellowjackets 4x800 relay team took first place as Perham finished fourth at the Class AA Girls State True Team Track and Field Meet on Saturday, May 18 at Hamline University in St. Paul.

 

Willmar won the event with a score of 546.5 and Rocori was runner-up with 544.5 points.  Third place went to Waseca with 458 and Perham was fourth with 415.  They were followed by Monticello (413.5), Foley (386). Mankato East (375.5), Luverne (361), Cloquet (330), Byron (260.5) and Visitation (243.5).

Several school records were established by Perham athletes, including two in the discus where Tayler Parks threw 100-feet-one-inch, only to be topped by Samantha Charboneau with a throw of 100-feet-eleven-inches.  Charboneau placed sixth and Parks was seventh.  Maggie Ingebrand set a new school record of 36-feet-two-inches, placing third in the shot put, and Liz Birkeland ran at a school record pace of 11:48.15 in the 3200 meter run, earning the sixth place medal.

Other personal records came from Willow Thiel with a fifth place finish (4-10.00) and Shalie Lipp with a 22nd place finish (4-02.00) in the high jump; Emily VanWatermulen with a sixteenth place finish (2:36.38) and Stella Strong with a seventeenth place finish (2:39.34) in the 800 meter run; Hailey Wegscheid with a sixteenth (1:06.64) in the 400 meter dash; Mesa Schultz with a ninth place (27.06) time and Mary Wunderlich with an eighteenth place finish (28.24) in the 200 meter dash; and Lily Aakre with a twentieth place finish (19.58) in the 100 meter hurdles.

Other medal winners were Lipp with a second place in the pole vault (10-06.00) and an eighth place in the long jump (15-09.50), Lizzy LaFond with a fifth in the triple jump (33-08.00), Caitlin Covington with a seventh place in the 1600 meter run (5:25.36) and Rachel Muer with an eighth place in the shot put (33-06.50).