Phone:
317-846-6601 Fax: 317-575-4244 Website: www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress,
Commissioner
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June 2, 2006
After
finishing as the state runner-up in 2002 and 2003, Warren Central captured its
first state championship on Friday but the outcome wasn’t decided until the
final race of the 33rd Annual IHSAA State Finals.
The
Warriors, coached by Hope Robinson, scored 47 points to outpace Fort Wayne
Northrop and Muncie Central, which tied for second with 41 points. Ben Davis
was fourth with 40 with Chesterton a distant fifth with 29.
Heading
into the final event of the day, the 1600 meter relay, Fort Wayne Northrop and
Muncie Central were tied with 41 points each with Warren Central trailing in
third with 37 and Ben Davis fourth with 33.
Warren
Central anchor Candyce McGrone held a sizeable lead heading down the front
stretch toward the finish but saw it almost completely evaporate as she tired
over the final few meters. She managed to edge two challengers by the slimmest
of margins crossing in 3:52.471, just .007 ahead of North Central runner Ashley
Caldwell to pick up 10 points securing the team title for the Warriors. Ben
Davis placed third in 3:52.51 to collect seven additional points. A Northrop
runner, running in the previous heat, fell during the race and the team did not
finish. The Bruins had been looking to extend their state championship streak
to seven consecutive years. Muncie Central didn’t have a relay team entered.
McGrone,
just a sophomore, also won the 200 meters and was part of the Warriors’ winning
400 relay team.
Two state
meet records were set this year in
Chesterton’s
3200 meter relay team continued the trend of annually lowering the meet record
with its 9:03.77. The team of Allyson Harvey, Kelly Peller, Alison Bishel and
Sarah Kehe combined to help their school win the event for the third time in
four years crushing the previous mark set of 9:08.33 set last year. It was also
the fifth straight year the state meet record fell in the event.
The pole
vault, in its fourth year of competition and second as a scored event, saw
Northrop
senior Tamara Adams won the 100 hurdles for the second time in three years in
13.94 and her time would have set a state meet record for the event but was
ruled to be wind-aided. She edged defending champion Vanneisha Ivy of Muncie
Central by .02 in the final. Ivy’s time of 13.95 set last year stands as the
record.
Rachel Thiel of
Members of
the IHSAA Executive Committee selected Rachel Thiel of
She is the
first
She is the
daughter of Rick and Betsy Thiel of
Thiel will
graduate as the salutatorian of her class with an Academic Honors Diploma this
month. She was inducted into the National Honor Society as a junior and elected
secretary of that organization as a senior. She has been a member of the
Academic Superbowl Math and Science teams, and served as a student
representative on
Besides
track, she has also lettered in volleyball and track for the Red Devils and
qualified for the state finals in the discus and shot put as a junior and
senior.
Thiel will
attend
Indiana
Farm Bureau Insurance, the proud corporate partner of the IHSAA, presented a
$1,000 scholarship to
State Champions
Pole Vault – Katie Veith, 11,
Long Jump – Erynn Young, 9,
Discus – Sabrina Johnson, 11,
High Jump – Emily Breslin, 11,
Shot Put – Rachel Thiel, 12, Lowell, 45-3.25.
3200 Relay – Chesterton (Allyson Harvey 10, Kelly Peller 12, Alison Bishel 12, Sarah Kehe 12) 9:03.77, State Meet Record.
100 Hurdles – Tamara Adams, 12, Fort Wayne
Northrop, 13.94.
100 Meters – Tamara Adams, 12,
1600 Meters – Lauren Hardesty, 11,
400 Relay – Warren Central (Candyce McGrone 10, Ashley Seehase 12, Ebony Wright 9, Keona Bruen 9) 46.72.
400 Meters – Hannah Farley, 9, Park Tudor,
55.24.
300 Hurdles – Vanneisha Ivy, 12,
800 Meters – Kathy Klump, 10,
200 Meters – Candyce McGrone, 10, Warren
Central, 24.34.
3200 Meters – Alex Banfich, 10, Culver
Academies, 10:47.20.