Canyon Lake’s District 27-4A Track Results
Cash Ziemba cashes it in with a perfect form in recent track meet.
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DISTRICT 27-4A Varsity GIRLS Junior Varsity Fredericksburg 212 Fredericksburg 195 Wimberley 105 Davenport 116 CL Hawks 97 Wimberley 104 Davenport 75 CL Hawks 97 Boerne 59 Boerne 67 Navarro 44 Navarro 27 Bandera 28 Bandera 14
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District 27-4A Track Meet results had CL Ladies finished scoring 97 points in both the Varsity and Junior Varsity teams this past Thursday.
The top 4 in each varsity event will continue their post-season in an area meet.
Overall, Canyon Lake had the Boys JV with a 3rd place finish scoring 111 points.
For this year’s Varsity, wasn’t a stellar finish in garnering 30 points while just beating out Bandera’s 25 points who finished last.
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Layton Hemann was a class act with his 10:31.51 time in the 3200 METER RUN or 40 seconds better than the 2nd place finisher. Hemann was 5 seconds off from his best time this season. That can happen in distance races when a participant is not being pushed by others runners.
Varsity Boys had Alek Villacencio with his personal best, 10:30.65 for a 5th place result. District 27-4A had a plethora of distance runners as Alek finished in 6th place but was still able to time a best ever 1600 meter run beating Hemann’s record set earlier this year by right at 4 seconds, 4:45.83.
Tristan Schenk was able to break that 5 minute barrier which placed has Schenk the 9th best on the All-Time list. Canyon Lake now has all top-ten runners with sub-five minutes for the mile event.
Alek Villacencio 4:45.83 2023 Layton Hemann 4:49.15 2023 Luke Mendez 4:52.39 2019 Mike Russell 4:55.73 2013 Adam Wiesel 4:57.00 2016 Chris Neiland 4:57.01 2013 Matt Bell 4:59.34 2018 Tristan Schenk 4:59.38 2023 Colin Baker 4:59.85 2019
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Marshall McConnell had his personal best in the High Jump (6-02) for a 2nd place finish and that moved him up to 6th place on the Hawk’s all-time list. His Coach (Heath McDonough jumped higher while competing at CL, by 2 inches. McConnell’s jump was still 4 inches better than his previous meets.
The Hawks Boys qualified two athletes for the Area Meet as Coby Mickey won the Pole Vault event with a 14 foot vault and will now attempt to make the State Meet for the second year in a row.
The Lake’s Boys Junior Varsity had 15 who scored points being led by Layton Hemann (2 events) and Harris Gilliam (4 events) 14 points.
Connor Donahue was next scoring 13 points. Connor gained his points in two relays (100 & 200) and finished 3rd in the 100 meter dash.
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For the Ladies, the Hawks will have a bus load of athletes for their Area Meet headed by Freshman Savanna Olberholtzer who scored 25 points by placing in all 5 events she entered.
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“We are excited to have girls in so many events moving on,” Head Girls Track Coach Sami Theurer said. “Now we need to rest, then prepare for the teams we will be meeting at Area.”
Savanna upped her all-time best in the 100 meter dash (12.23) and long jump (18-1.25). Other Hawks in double digits were: Alencia Lentz (17 pts) 1st Pole Vault-100-200-400 relays.
Ayren Lightfoot (13 pts) 2nd 400 dash-200 relay-400 relay
Cadence Patterson (12 pts) 3rd in 3200-1600 runs.
The Hawks mile relay beat their last year mark at the Texas Relays and had a 2nd place finish in district.
Lightfoot, Lentz, Aubrey Avey and Hannah Hammer will be working on a repeat running by qualifying for the State Meet.
AREA QUALIFIERS: Events Finish Result Grade Savanna Olberholtzer 100 meter 1st 12.23 Freshman Savanna Olberholtzer Long Jump 2nd 18-1.25 Savanna Olberholtzer 4x100 relay 4th 50.44 Savanna Olberholtzer Triple Jump 4th 34-7.75 Alencia Lentz Pole Vault 1st 13-00 Senior Alencia Lentz 4x400 relay 2nd 4:03.79 Alencia Lentz 4x100 relay 4th 50.44 Claire Schroeder 300 Hurdles 4th 48.33 Senior Claire Schroeder 4x100 relay 4th 50.44 Cadence Patterson 1600 run 3rd 5:24.89 Junior Cadence Patterson 3200 run 3rd 11:54.57 Ayren Lightfoot 400 dash 2nd 58.86 Sophomore Ayren Lightfoot 4x400 relay 2nd 4:03.79 Hannah Hammer 800 run 4th 2:25.67 Sophomore Hannah Hammer 4x400 relay 2nd 4:03.79 McKenzie Ortiz 4x100 relay 4th 50.44 Senior Aubrey Avey 4x400 relay 2nd 4:03.79 Freshman Shana Cutrer Pole Vault 2nd 9-06 Freshman
For the Girls Junior Varsity, Mia Zabarecencu headed the point parade scoring with 15 points finishing 2nd in her 400 meter dash, 1st with the 4×400 relay, and 4th running in the 2×200 relay.
Haley Petty scored 14 points with a 1st place 300 hurdle and a 4th place finish in the 100 meter hurdles.
Reece Coburn (4×100, 4×400, 300 hurdles) scored 11 points along with Lydia Ross who was the other 1st place finisher in her 100 hurdles and then scoring a point in her 300 hurdles.
14 Junior Varsity Lady Hawks scored points which will bode well for those fast approaching future years.
Also notice the number of underclasswomen who participated on the Varsity (above) showing the future depth for this Hawk sport.
Other Junior Varsity Lady Hawk Scorers: Jazlyn Kearney 9pts 800 run 4th, 4x400 relay Marley Christian 8pts 4x100-4x200 relays, triple jump 4th Jaelynn Davidson 7pts 4x200-4x400 relays Madison Vigil-Gafford 6pts high jump 3rd Zoe O’Neal 4pts 400 dash 4th Avery Hime 4pts 1600 run 4th Deliah King 3pts 4x100 relay, 200 dash 6th Mya Vorhis 2pts 4x100 relay Keira Kite 2pts 4x200 relay Emorie Jones 1pt high jump 6th
Canyon Lake continues to improve and those stair steps will continue to have better competition each step of the way.
Congrats and Let’s GO FAST HAWKS!!
