Senior Discus/Shot Put thrower Kaelin Simmons will be on her way to Region this Week-end as

she will be searching for that one throw that might propel her to another Meet called State.

Last year, Simmons made Region Meet in the Shot Put and decided to make it two events this season when she had one of those special throws in District 27-3A Meet in the Discus.

Simmons throw wowed her and Coach Hooper when they measured it at over 110 feet.

Why? Simmons best throw was a good 18 feet less than that total for her tries throughout track season.

Simmons had her best Discus throw in last year’s district meet when she heaved that heavy frisbee for a distance of 89’9.

District Meets agree with this young lady as she went into this years Meet with a shot-put throw of 32’2 and Discus best of 93’5 feet.

She hit 34′ even in the Shot for second place and then her 111’0 Discus throw giving her a first place.

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The Canyon Lake foursome of Mariah Ellis, Brookelynn Helmke, Hannah

Graves, and Amber Ramsey are carrying on a tradition for Girls Track in that they are running in the Region Meet for the third year in a row.

Each year they are at the doorstep knocking on that door for the State Meet. With times in the 4:10 area this team seems to be the closest in that line of 1600 Meter Relay teams to break that 4:10 barrier.

That will be something they will need to accomplish in order to give them a legitimate chance of being one of the last two Relay Teams standing.

Mariah Ellis will be running in her second Region Meet this week and certainly had a spectacular run at District 27-3A two weeks ago on her leg.

Ellis made up a some ground and caught several teams on that back stretch to get the baton to Amber Ramsey for her anchor leg.

“All I was thinking was I want to make Regions,” Mariah said with resolve. “When everyone is cheering for you it pushes you to go.”

Go, is what Ellis did on that night as she had the home crowd cheering her and the other group of girls for a place to keep having a chance of advancing.

Canyon Lake did not have their best time in district but they were not off much from their run in the Hawk Relays where they had the best 4×400 Relay time ever for the Hawks.

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Canyon Lake Sports is nearing their final competition with opposing teams as Baseball will

now enter their final week and Track and Field will be entering the Region Meet this Week-End.

The ReSporter will have more Track articles as we prepare of this week’s meet.

Enough distances and times have been recorded to get an idea of how each of CL’s athletes will fare going into this week’s Region Meet.

Jordan Anderson still has the best High Jump mark and has a student that has attained that same height.

Anderson has not put a lot of time with this event in the past and now finds himself immersed in wanting to end his track career on a high note. That is certainly doable based on having the best jump in the region.

Once again, as Canyon Lake certainly proved in their District Meet, nothing is in the bag and you have to come out and bring your ‘A’ game no matter what your rank or circumstances.

Their are four athletes with a high jump of 6’4 and then a sharp drop off from that mark. IF and The ReSporter means IF, Anderson can take care of business then he will have a decent chance of advancing to State and from there can boast of going to State in competing in two different venues in his last two years.

Marisa Ellis also competed in the State Meet last year, but will certainly have her work cut out for her as her Region is certainly loaded with several ladies with high marks.

In District 25 and 26 there are two jumpers with a 39′ and almost 41′ jumps so far this season.

Being that you need to finish in the top two to advance will put Marisa in a place that will certainly need a leap that can improve her present best up to this point.

Marisa Ellis has a 37’3.75 jump and is ranked right behind those two students.

Ellis has a tough road with the High Jump also as she is tied with five other athletes with that same mark. That simply means that the one student that can reach that mark with the least amount of scratches will certainly advance.

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The results have been updated again and The ReSporter has colored some District’s with Red, which indicates those two districts have just completed their Area Meet. You will notice that those times and distances have changed.

Here is the skinny for our Hawk participants for their next match up in Kingsville for

the Region Track Meet.

First off many of the schools that just finished their District Meet will now be off to an Area Meet to try and advance again.

The Hawks already know who will be at the Region Meet and the following results will show you how our Athletes stack up to the area students.

First off the information below is for the whole State of Texas, but you need to concentrate on the Region IV districts and at this writing there are only two besides CL’s District that is known.

District 25 and 26 will be one of the toughest for Canyon Lake to try and beat out for their spot at State.

Looking at these results from around the State, Marisa Ellis will be more challenged from those two earlier mentioned district’s results.

High Jump for the Boy’s so far has Jordan Anderson looking to have a good chance of advancing based on earlier results. With only two more districts to report, Anderson’s 6’6 leap has a good chance of advancing based on the results that are in from Region IV.

District 8-3A does have an athlete that has the same height as Anderson but that means a match-up at State.

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Disappointing Track Meet for Canyon Lake as scratches and being DQ on the Relays were so dominant you needed a big eraser in order to take all those potential points that literally flew out the window.

There was some good news at this year’s event but so much bad happened you had to wonder if the Mayans were off a few months with their predictions of the world ending.

Three different Relays were DQ, two for the Boy’s and one that involved the Girl’s Track Team.

How about some good news:
Marisa Ellis came through with two first place finishes as she will try to add to Field Events to her State Track resume.

Ellis topped the 37 foot mark and also topped that High Jump bar with a 5’4 jump, which was two inches more than she had for this season.

Jordan Anderson also will be going to his third Region Tournament in Kingsville when he soared to a 6’2 inch High Jump. Anderson has a best of 6’6 at the Hawk Relays and tried for a personal best (6’7) after being the last Jumper standing.

All three of these marks are among the top in 3A meets that have been compiled up to this point.

The ReSporter will have some more research this weekend to give a better idea of where these two athletes stand as well as CL’s other qualifiers in this Region as well as in Texas.

The 1600 Meter Run was also a present surprise as Mike Russell has now broken his own record by another 6 seconds when he coasted across the finish line right in front of Senior Chris Neiland.

Canyon Lake had never had a runner break that 5 minute barrier and in this Meet had two on that same run.

That bodes well for future years as well as the JV Girls Team, who continued to impress with another good Meet.

Kaelin Simmons will have two chances at Regions when she will have an opportunity to compete in the Shot Put and Discus.

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Canyon Lake will be hosting District 27-3A Track and Field this Wednesday and Friday and The

ReSporter will break down each school and event to help in letting fans know what are some don’t miss competition.

This will be a three part series and this is our Third part for the Boys. Today we will go over Long Distance and Hurdle events.

Once again the only points Canyon Lake can muster in this group of events is 2 points and just like in the Girls Track, the Boy’s points come from Alex Martinez who runs on the Junior Varsity squad.

Since Martinez also frequents the 4×400 Meter Relay on the JV, then that reduces any chance of scoring points in these events.

However, CL could pull off some surprises if the tea leaves are doing more than just making tea.

Boerne has the long distance horses as well as Bandera this year. Both of these teams have taken more points away from Fredericksburg than for Canyon Lake.

The Hawks however might not score and that would make points that could be pulled away from the Billies will make that a hard feat to overcome.

 Long Distance Runs and Hurdles
 1. Boerne            45
 2. Bandera           37
 3. Fredericksburg    35
 4. Navarro           30
 5. Wimberley          6
 6. Canyon Lake        2

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Canyon Lake will be hosting District 27-3A Track and Field this Wednesday and Friday and The

ReSporter will break down each school and event to help in letting fans know what are some don’t miss competition.

This will be a three part series and this is our Third part for the Ladies. Today we will go over Long Distance and Hurdle events.

Canyon Lake is not known for their distance and hurdle races at the Varsity level. In fact that one point you see below was run by Sydney Reibschlager who is presently competing for the Hawks JV squad.

So, in assessing CL’s chances of scoring points with these events would not be something you could count on.

Navarro is a front runner for District 27-3A teams with a 46 point total this season and Bandera and Fredericksburg is bunched up with a 37 and 36 point total respectfully.

Wimberley’s points are coming from one young lady but when you add up the other two sets of track events, then those points become very important as teams try to amass enough to put them at the top.

Fredericksburg is a team with more depth and that always helps when you are trying to put distance between you and your competitors and the Billies have and will score consistently in each event each year to keep them head and shoulders above other district schools.

Any points Canyon Lake could pull out of these events would be a huge surprise, but that is why they put on those cleats.

 Long Distance Runs and Hurdles
 1. Navarro            46
 2. Bandera            37
 3. Fredericksburg     36
 4. Wimberley          20
 5. Boerne              4
 6. Canyon Lake         1

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Canyon Lake will be hosting District 27-3A Track and Field this Wednesday and Friday and The ReSporter will break down each school and event to help in letting fans know what are some don’t miss competition.

This will be a three part series and this is our second part for the Ladies. Today we will go over the Dash Runs and Relays.

The Hawks will have some athletes that have a decent chance of advancing to Regions and especially with the 4×400 Meter Relay where they pulled off one of the best times in this area a couple of weeks ago at the Hawk Relays.

So you know there is speed and now the young ladies will be trying their best with the help of fans coming out to encourage and cheer them on.

Fredericksburg is a team with more depth and that always helps when you are trying to put distance between you and your competitors.

Wimberley also has a pretty strong team in these venues.

The Hawks are presently ranked in Fourth Place if these events were held by just putting best times on paper.

Short Distance (Relays, 100 Meter Dash, 200 Meter Dash, 400 Meter Dash)
 1. Fredericksburg     81
 2. Wimberley          64
 3. Navarro            48
 4. Canyon Lake        44
 5. Boerne             31
 6. Bandera            18

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Canyon Lake will be hosting District 27-3A Track and Field this Wednesday and Thursday and The

ReSporter will break down each school and event to help in letting fans know what are some don’t miss competition.

This is the second of a three part series and we will look at the Relays and Dash in this segment.

The Hawks will have some impressive matches and how this Track Team performs will be based on how Jordan Anderson will be used.

This is why they pay Head Track Coach Cody Means the big bucks as he will be in his office late figuring how to run his relays based on each athlete only having three running events that can be performed.

Short Distance (Relays, 100 Meter Dash, 200 Meter Dash, 400 Meter Dash)
 1. Canyon Lake       78
 2. Fredericksburg    74
 3. Navarro           45
 4. Wimberley         35
 4. Boerne            35
 6. Bandera           12

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Canyon Lake will be hosting District 27-3A Track and Field this Wednesday and Thursday and

The ReSporter will break down each school and event to help in letting fans know what are some don’t miss competition.

This will be a three part series and we will look at the Field Events first and then get into running events in the next two days.

The Hawks will have some impressive matches and below is how each team will stack up in those Field Events based on their performances this year.

Field Events (High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Discus, Shot Put, Pole Vault)
 1. Fredericksburg     48
 2. Canyon Lake        43
 3. Navarro            36
 4. Boerne             24
 5. Wimberley          18
 6. Bandera            17

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