Canyon Lake had some surprises at the Hawk Relays last week and one of the

biggest was Mike Russell running the 1600 Meter Run.

Russell ran on the Cross Country Team and has been a long distance runner for a while.

However, his best time was 5:19.00 two weeks ago in Wimberley which for a Sophomore is still a very good outing.

Enter a week at the beach and all of a sudden his time improves 18 seconds and with this run breaks the Canyon Lake record of 5:01.70 by 0.22 seconds.

Senior Chris Neiland ran that event last season in Dripping Springs almost exactly one year ago.

“I never thought I would break a record,” Russell said while recuperating after this grueling run. “It wasn’t even in my mind, but after I finished I knew that I might be close.”

Russell surprised several people familiar with who had done what in the mile run and this race was not looking like it would or could result in such a good finish.

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The Canyon Lake Lady Hawks continue to impress this Track Season as they finished 5th with

their Varsity while the Junior Varsity finished in 3rd only behind Canyon and Hays.

First off the Hawks had Marisa Ellis match her high jump best, but she also had her best Triple Jump of the season going over that 37 foot barrier.

Canyon Lake might change their name to Canyon (we can Triple Jump over the) Lake High School soon.

Between the Varsity and JV teams Canyon Lake totaled 42 points in that one event. Another way to calculate this Feat is in traveling 203.11 Feet or over 2/3 of a football field.

Here are their Finish from Top to Bottom:
Marisa Ellis           37'3.75
Mariah Ellis           33'11.5
Trena Lorett           33'3.5
Bailey Drum            32'5
Halley McKnight        31'11
Sydney Reibschlager    31'9.75

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Canyon Lake Boys Track Team decided to have a coming out night as several Tracksters decided

to entertain their home crowd with some personal bests.

Branson Belcher had a new CL Record in the Triple Jump as he finished 5th Place with a leap of 40’11. That jump now has him with the second best jump in District 27-3A schools.

Todd Pippin had the previous record in 2011 in Blanco when he soared 38’9.25 feet.

Christian Dittman was in our spotlight last week when he finished third in Wimberley. This week Dittman hit the Moon with a vault of 14’3 a mere 15 inches higher than his previous best of 13’6.

Dittman has already beat his previous best in Canyon Lake when he hit 13’0 last year.

Jordan Anderson also beat his best in the High Jump when he finished first at 6’6. That jump tied Chase Eddington who hit that same height in a 2010 Track Meet in Brady, Texas.

Thomas Gregory also had a personal best of 132’9 throw in the Discus beating his best from last year of 126’11 during the District Meet.

With injuries, sickness, and other sports taking some key athletes out of events this week, Canyon Lake had to switch several students to events that in many cases they have never competed in.

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The Lady Hawks have an impressive team with many athletes taking their skills to another level.

Boerne is the only one team with no results posted from last week. All of District 27-3A other teams are up to date and this is how they would finish if the meet was held this week.

Also, this is not an exact science since these times and distances were held on different days and weather conditions.

Just read and enjoy  a ‘what if’ they ran a District 27-3A Track Meet yesterday results below.

One more item to consider: Canyon Lake’s Junior Varsity would score more points that Boerne and so you will see our JV times and distances below and those points have also been posted to the Hawks Varsity point total.

Except for the Relay Events. Yes, the JV has better times than other district teams….Impressive.

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Mar 25   JV Baseball   Canyon Lake     7   Wimberley                 6
                       Canyon Lake     9   Wimberley                 5
Mar 26   Soccer        Boerne Champion 5   Canyon Lake               0
         Softball      Wimberley      13   Canyon Lake               5
         Baseball      Fredericksburg 12   Canyon Lake               6
         Tennis        Johnson City    @   Canyon Lake               4:00pm
Mar 27   Golf          Canyon Lake     @   Fredericksburg Lady Bird  9:00am
Mar 28   Track         Canyon Lake Relays                            3:30pm
         Baseball      Canyon Lake     @   Fredericksburg            7:00pm
         Softball      Canyon Lake     @   Boerne                    6:00pm

This Week in Hawk Country, CL has a Playoff game at home against Boerne Champion who finished second in District 54-4A.

Canyon Lake Girls Soccer earned this right when they tied Wimberley in their regular season final last Friday night.

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The ReSporter goes through track results of each District 27-3A school and compares each athlete to

see where they would place against each other if that event was held today.

Things to remember while looking over the following results.

1. Fredericksburg has not been posted yet…still waiting on results.
2. There are mistakes with papers which makes this  not as exact.
3. Track meets are held in different areas of the state so wind and weather needs to be given some wait. No wind in one meet might result in better times in other meets.
4. Competition, many athletes might not have made a high enough place to get their results printed. (Ex. Athlete ‘A’ had a 52 second 400 meter run but did not finish in that meets top six. That would result in no points for the team and their result not being published)

The ReSporter gets all of Canyon Lake’s results and can see where they would score, but other schools that would not happen. This would help show the CLJV where they stand in district.

Also, being a ‘Homer’, The ReSporter will always give Canyon Lake’s athletes all ties which means more points for the home team.

Final point: Canyon Lake has had the best 1600 Meter Relay team in this region the past couple of years and has not had a good showing yet giving  several points to other District 27-3A teams and hence a very close race as you can see below.

Fredericksburg is still the team to beat this season mainly based on having so many athletes, so when a CL athlete does not compete in more than one event, then that will also hurt a team’s point total.

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Hawks lost points for Track and Field when several athletes were dancing out of their blocks for Thursday night in San Antonio while CL was competing in Wimberley.

Canyon Lake hopes to have all of their athletes next week when the Hawks host their meet on Thursday before Easter Break.

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JUNIOR VARSITY                                                          VARSITY

100 M Dash                              Discus
 Atticus Crader     11.66 5th  2pts      Thomas Gregory    118-11    4th     4pts
200 M Dash                               Justin Monfils    109-11    5th     2
 Aaron Adalpe       25.57 5th  2        Long Jump
1600 M Run                               Christian Dittman   19-1    5th     2
 Mike Russell     5:18.00 6th  1        Pole Vault
Triple Jump                              Christian Dittman   13-6    3rd     6
 Joseph Arredondo    36-7 2nd  8        4x100 M Relay       44.20    3rd    12
 Tayvion Soliz       35-3 6th  1         Eduardo Covarrubias
Discus                                   Daniel Camarillo
 Gordon McCleary    105-4 2nd  8         Doug Hubnik
Pole Vault                               Shane Relkin
 Wyatt Wiggins        8-6 4th  4        4x200 M Relay     1:32.50    2nd    16
4x100 M Relay       47:21 5th  4         Eduardo Covarrubias
 Nick Adams                              Daniel Camarillo
 Joseph Arredondo                        Doug Hubnik
 Cody Murray                             Shane Relkin
 Robert Woods
4x200 M Relay     1:40.89 6th  2
 Nich Adams
 Joseph Arredondo
 Cody Murray
 Robert Woods
4x400 M Relay     3:55.68 5th  4
 Joseph Arrendondo
 Atticus Crader
 Hunter Lehman
 Alex Martinez

Hawks Girls Track team finished with 45 points in the Texan Relays on Thursday, March 21 in Wimberley.

Triple Jump seems to be that one event that is the in thing to do. Maybe this has evolved from Marisa Ellis reaching State last season.

If you put all the Triple Jump distances down for District 27-3A competitors, then you would have the following points from this one event:

Place  Name             Distance        Team           Points
 1st   Marisa Ellis       36'4          Hawks            10
 2nd   Singleton          34'7.5        Fredericksburg    8
 3rd   Trena Lorett       33'5          Hawks             6
 4th   Mariah Ells        33'4          Hawks             4
 5th   Shapiro            32'7          Wimberley         2
 6th   Bailey Drum        32'6          Hawks             1
 7th   Halley McKnight    32'4          Hawks

Canyon Lake’s Junior Varsity finished 3rd place beating out several larger schools. (Marble Falls, Lehman, Dripping Springs and other schools.

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Canyon Lake has had some good Pole Vaulters in past seasons and this year

Christian Dittman seems to be ready to raise that bar.

Pole Vaulting is one track event that fans are drawn to since it has so many areas an athlete needs to excel in to realize a good result.

Being coordinated to make your pole stick while running with a good amount of speed and then having that ability to accelerate off the ground to push into the air over 13 feet (in this case) in the air.

Dittman was sailing along in Wimberley on Thursday night in clearing 13’6 by what seemed to be one to two feet. Dittman had also made his lower marks by clearing that same bar with ease.

The event steward then moved the bar to 14′ with just three competitors left on this evening.

That height would be a personal record in a meet for Dittman and you could see his determination as he readied himself for his three tries to conquer another rung on this proverbial ladder.

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Lady Hawks Tracksters are pretty powerful considering the number of athletes they have participating for the team this season.

Trena Lorett is one of those athletes that would be entered in every event they would let her enter and that is certainly as asset for the Hawks this year.

Unfortunately for CL they only allow five events per meet.

Lorett has been playing Volleyball, Basketball, and every Sport allowed in Track.

Put is this way, if they had Table Tennis, then this young lady would be involved.

“I’m super competitive and driven,” Lorett stated matter of fact. “If I was in the stands watching a sport, then I would want to be out there competing.”

One thing that could be hard for most people is making the switch between sports during the year.

Lorett has that covered, “When I’m playing Volleyball, then I’m playing select Basketball and when I’m playing Basketball, then I’m playing select Volleyball.”

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