HMS athletes earn league track titles

Humboldt Middle School's Harlowe Rush and its seventh-grade relay team earned Tri-Valley League track and field championships Tuesday. Several other athletes earned medals.

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May 4, 2022 - 2:12 PM

Humboldt Middle School’s Bryce Culbertson receives a handoff from Thatcher Mueller in a gold-medal winning 4x100-relay Tuesday. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School seventh-graders Harlowe Rush, and the quartet of Collin Cook, Bryce Culbertson, Thatcher Mueller and Kreed Jones can call themselves Tri-Valley League champions now.

The youngsters highlighted Humboldt’s day as hosts of the Tri-Valley League Track Meet Tuesday.

Rush won the seventh-grade girls high jump, clearing 3 feet, 10 inches, while the relay foursome cruised to the 4×100-meter relay title, finishing in 58.7 seconds.

Other top finishes:

Seventh grade girls (fourth as a team)

Jo Ellison, second, 3200, 15:26.09

Lakyn Meadows, third, 200, 31.40

Carlie Weilert, Jo Ellison, Ella Schomaker, Harlowe Rush, third, 4×200 relay, 2:14.31

Lakyn Meadows, fifth, long jump, 11’1”

Weilert, fourth, shot put, 26’1”

Schomaker, fifth, shot put, 25’10”

Meadows, Rush, Weilert,  Ellison, sixth, 4×100, 1:03.00

Weilert, Schomaker, Rush, Meadows, fourth, medley relay, 2:30.20

Eighth grade girls (third as a team)

Laney Hull, third, high jump, 4’8”; third, long jump, 13’.25”; second, 75m hurdles, 15.69

Kalyn Baughn, third, shot put, 33’9.5”

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