2023 rifle Invite
17 March 2023
17 March 2023
Full MileSplit results here.
Summit Daily Article: Hard work leads to personal bests and podium finishes for the Summit track and field team in Rifle
The 2023 Rifle Invite started cold and calm, warmed up nicely and then got windy and cold. It concluded with a bit of drama as our bus driver was mandated to check into a hotel because his day was too long. We were almost left standing at the track. A big thanks to Coach Shroll from Eagle Valley! Coach Shroll volunteered to load up half of our team in his white mini-bus and drive us all the way to SHS! That's amazingly sacrificial. We owe him a lot. It's great to have good relations with the other mountain schools. And big thanks to our Athletic Director, Mr. Avery, who drove to the transportation center, checked out a mini-bus, and drove to Glenwood Springs to pick up the other half of the team.
SHS did great as a team - the girls placed 4th and the boys 6th! The Distance runners contributed greatly to those points.
We again treated this meet as a workout day - a day to get some time in on spikes and run some faster times on a rubber track. And we again had several great performances for early season.
Dom ran a tactical 1600, launched his sprint at 300 meters out and was caught just before the line while knocking 13 seconds off his season best. He then came back to win the 800 in a well paced racing, leading most of the way.
Ella won the 1600 in a new meet record and came back to win the 800 as well. Lauren made her high school track debut (delayed slightly by alpine season) with an excellent 2:33 in the 800 for 3rd place. Adaline fought off breathing issues for a new PR in the 1600. Claire and Darby made their debuts as well, contributing with fine legs in the 4x800 and 4x400.
Dominykas Remeikis
2nd Place!
New #2 on the SHS Senior list
Cain Steinweg
First high school 1600
New PR!!
Jens Phaf
First ever high school 1600 race!
New PR, 8 seconds faster than Columbine!
Ella Hagen
1st Place!
New meet record
Adaline Avery
New PR!!
#8 SHS Junior time
Jens, Jacob, Cain, Dom
Adaline, Avery, Claire, Lauren
Lauren, Darby, Claire, Ella
21 seconds faster than Columbine
Cain, Jens, Jacob, Dom
Dominykas Remeikis
1st Place!
New #2 on the SHS Senior list
Cain Steinweg
First high school 800
New PR!!
12th fastest SHS Freshmen time
Jacob Shriver
New PR
Almost 8 seconds faster than Columbine!
Ella Hagen
1st Place
Moved up to #2 on the Sophomore 800 list
Lauren McCalla
3rd place
First ever high school 800!
PR!
#4 SHS Freshmen and #7 All-time
Avery Eytel
8th on the Sophomore list
#16 on the All-time 800 list
Darby Leffler
First high school race
#18 on the Freshmen 800 list
Race Splits - a lot can be learned about pacing and effort by studying your race splits.
Updated school records are here.
WHEN: Friday, March 17th 2023
WHERE: Rifle High School
TRANSPORTATION: Bus departs at 6:00, show time is 5:45
RACE TIMES: Running Schedule, no set start times
9:30 AM - Running Events Start
800 Sprint Medley
4X800 Relay
100/110 High Hurdles
100 Meter Dash
4X200 Relay
1600 Meter Run
4X100 Relay
400 Meter Dash
300 Meter Hurdles
800 Meter Run
200 Meter Dash
3200 Meter Run
Throwers Relay (Coed - 2 girls and 2 guys)
4X400 Relay
3 individuals and 2 relays per school per event.
The meet will be on a "Running" Schedule, meaning they will just go as quickly as possible from one event to the next instead of sticking to a prescribed schedule.
Still, below is my estimate of the start times for the events - if the meet proceeds at a fairly normal pace.
Estimated Start Times
Boys 1600
Boys 800
Girls 1600
Girls 800
Full results here.
Summit Daily Story - 2022/3/19: Summit track team shows no sign of rust at season opener in Rifle
Adaline, Paige, Niamh, Avery 12:15
6th place
Ella Hagen 5:09.90
2nd place
15 second PR.
Broke meet record.
2nd on the SHS all time list
Fastest SHS Freshman time.
Avery Eytel 6:35.47
23rd
New PR
21st SHS all time
13th SHS Freshman time
Niamh Nelson 6:37.77
24th
New PR
23rd SHS all time
15th Freshman time
Dominykas Remeikis 4:31.45
2nd by 1 hundredth of a second!
1.5 seconds off meet record
2nd SHS All-time
Fastest SHS Junior time
Lukas Suddath 5:36.43
28th
First ever high school race!
10th fastest Senior time
Ella Hagen 2:26.01
4th
4th SHS all time
2nd fastest SHS Freshman time
Adaline Avery 2:53.03
15th
New PR
20th SHS All time
8th fastest SHS Sophomore time
Paige Wescott 3:14.37
35th
14th fastest SHS Junior time
Dominykas 2:00.31
1st by 11 hundredths of a second!
2 second PR
2nd SHS all time fastest
Fastest SHS Junior Time.
Lucas 2:28.35
24th
13th fastest SHS Senior time.
TEAMS ATTENDING:
Central Grand Junction High School
Partial entries are here: https://co.milesplit.com/meets/463957-rifle-high-school-invitational-2022/entries
Entries won't be finalized until Thursday evening.
Based on last year's times, so no Freshman, and not based on the actual entries.
Based on the best times last year from class of 2022, 2023 and 2024 runners. Not all of those runners will be entered in each event.