Iowa HS’ers at Nationals
Congratulations to Rebekah Topham, Jerry Westerfield , Anna Holdiman, and Madison Waymire for challenging the nation’s best young track and field athletes at major national championship meets June 14-17. Keep doing that and you’ll soon become one of them!!!
USATF Junior Nationals, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, June 15-17
(athletes ages 14-19, including college freshmen; qualifying meet for the IAAF World Junior Championships, Barcelona, Spain, July 11-17) (complete results at https://usa.milesplit.com/meets/108123-usatf-junior-outdoor-t-f-champs )
Rebakah Topham (freshman, Griswold HS):
1500m - preliminaries, 8th of 23, 4:28.92; final, 10th of 12, 4:34.68
New Balance Nationals, North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC, June 14-16
(high school athletes only; generally considered the annual “national high school championships”, except in 2012 when in schedule conflict with the USATF Junior Nationals) (complete results at https://usa.milesplit.com/meets/110532-new-balance-outdoor-nationals )
Jerry Westerfield, (senior, Davenport North HS):
Championship division long jump - 5th of 12, 23’5.25”
Anna Holdiman (junior, Waverly-Shell Rock HS):
Championship division 2 Mile – 24th of 35, 10:47.13
Madison Waymire (sophomore, Dallas Center-Grimes HS):
Emerging Elite division 800 - 25th of 36, 2:17.21
Emerging Elite division Mile - 12th of 26, 5:06.42
Championship division 2 Mile - 34th of 35, 11:25.61