Indoor track & field wins 10 events at Charlie Foster Invite |
| Posted by Administrator on Jan 28 2009 |
Photo by Justin Buchanan
Sophomore Michael Fruhwirth from Wray, Colo., clears a hurdle in the 60-meter hurdles. UNK's Indoor Track Team had 35 top three finishes, including 10 first place efforts, at the Charlie Foster Invite Saturday.
By Jonathan Cannon
Antelope Staff
The Loper Indoor Track and Field team experienced great success, winning 10 events, at the UNK
Charlie Foster Invitational Saturday.
Nine teams from Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado participated in the open meet. Cameron Smith a sophomore from Sterling, Colo. was a member of the 4 X 400 relay team that won the event with a time of 4:09.81.
But Smith is already looking forward to the next meet."I only placed in the 4x4 relay, which was cool, but for me this meet was practice. Next weekend at the Doane Invite in Crete will be when it matters."
Smith will be attempting to qualify for nationals in the pentathlon event. This will be the first time that this event is being offered at for Nationals, and she feels very confident and wants to make history, being the first woman to ever participate in this event at the national level.
Other UNK athletes that dominated were Dakota Cochrane, a junior from Fairbury, in the pole vault and 60 meter dash, senior Kelli Dring of Kearney in the 60 meter hurdles and freshman Allen Osborn of Chadron in the 60 meter hurdles. Both Dring and Osborn qualified for nationals, and Osborn's time of 8.20 was the third fastest in school history.
These great achievements don't come easy without coaching, and Coach Bonsall feels good about the way things are going.
"The performance that the team displayed at the meet was really impressive for me to watch as a coach. All week we had been talking about competitiveness within this team and how we were going to need to be very competitive at this meet, especially because it was alumni week. We wanted to show every person who came out, especially the alumni, that we are doing good things and that their contributions have come into play in a great way," Bonsall said.
The events that impressed Coach Bonsall the most were the throwers and distance runners.
"These events I think will be important for the team especially at conference," Bonsall said.
An athlete that impressed him the most performance-wise was Dring, who has already qualified for nationals in three out of her four events.
The Lopers are looking to improve as the season continues, and many on the team have goals of participating and winning at the National Meet in Houston.
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