2024 Highland T&F

What's Hot: 2024

BOYS ARE CONFERENCE CHAMPS! GIRLS ARE RUNNERS-UP! Congrats to all on a great Varsity Conference meet!

JV BOYS & GIRLS ARE CONFERENCE CHAMPS!!!

Both boys & girls earned the Team Academic All-State Gold Award (team average of 3.75 GPA or higher). Congrats also to our Individual Academic All-State winners (3.6+ unweighted GPA + Honor Roll Standard, All-Conference, or State Participant):

Mason, Jack, Toby, Evie, Brouke, Yao, Sam C, Ingrid, Da'Markes, Madeleine, Grace, Ellie, Zoe, Wesley, Sam P, Bryce

SUMMER TRAINING

• Join Not Fantasy Fitness! Track your training progress throughout the summer, rack up points, earn fun prizes!

• University of Minnesota track camps 

• Carleton College sprints, jumps & hurdles clinic 

• Other options from USATF 

• Participate in the USATF outdoor all-comers meets throughout the summer! More info HERE. 

2024 STRONG SCOTS

• Week 2: Sam Cocchiarella & Sam Palm

• Week 3: Jonah Wrigley, Isaac Johnson, Alexa Ramirez & Zoe Moore

• Week 6: Benny Waud & Grace Lewis-Mosher

• Week 7: Toby Hennum, Da'Markes Hughes, Yao Buchl & Alice Rapacz

• Week 8: Wesley Norquist & Ruby Anders

• Week 9: Mason Deegan & Leah Sherwood

• Week 10: Brouke Brookins, Bryce Roffe, Sasha Deans & Ellie Moore

• Week 11: Sebastian Cummins, Caleb Nesbitt, Haddie Moore & Audrey Vlaminck

• Week 12: Jack Douglas & J'Vion Giles

ALL-CONFERENCE! Congrats to the following individual athletes for placing first or second at the Conference meet and the following first place relays:

• Brouke Brookins (100, 200)

• Yao Buchl (100HH, triple jump)

• Sasha Deans (long jump)

• Toby Hennum (400)

• Madeleine Klevay (1600)

• Grace Lewis-Mosher (1600)

• Ellie Moore (400)

• Zoe Moore (800, high jump)

• Wesley Norquist (110HH)

• Ruby Peterson (3200)

• London Rademacher (triple jump)

• Bryce Roffe (300H)

• Jahmarri Westlund (200)

• Tenzing Walker, J'Vion Giles, Shawon Easley, Jahmarri Westlund (4x1 relay)

• Sam Cocchiarella, Shawon Easley, Bryce Roffe, J'Vion Giles (4x2 relay)

• Yao Buchl, Grace Lewis-Mosher, Madeleine Klevay, Ellie Moore (4x4 relay)

• Adeline Lendway, Evie Beaumaster, Brooke Roberts, Ruby Peterson (4x8 relay)

ALL-CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION! Congrats to our third place individual finishers and second place relays:

• Brouke Brookins (400)

• Yao Buchl (300H)

• Mason Deegan (800, 1600)

• Ari Kim (100HH)

• Grace Lewis-Mosher (high jump)

• Sam Palm (800)

• Alice Rapacz (3200)

• Emmett Riemenschneider (110HH)

• Benny Waud (discus)

• Isa Zamora (triple jump)

• Ruby Anders, Alexa Ramirez, Harper Franz, Siri David (4x2 relay)

• Da'Markes Hughes, Sam Cocchiarella, Tenzing Walker, Toby Hennum (4x4 relay)

2024 HONOR ROLL DAMAGE (see the full lists here) 

GIRLS

• Austin Bailey-Zimmerman: 4th in the 300H (50.37)

• Yao Buchl: 8th in the 100HH (17.95)

• Grace Lewis-Mosher: 3rd in the 3200 (11:22.05), 10th in the 1600 (5:19.47)

• Ellie Moore: 4th in the 800 (2:17.37)

• Sam Palm: 7th in 3200 (11:40.30)

• 4x8 Relay - Zoe Moore, Grace Lewis-Mosher, Sam Palm, Ellie Moore: 2nd (9:32.15)

BOYS

• Brouke Brookins: 5th in the 100 (10.86)

• Benny Waud: 6th in discus (133'1")

• Jahmarri Westlund: 10th in the 100 (11.16)

• 4x8 Relay - Toby Hennum, Ravel Martin, Jack Douglas, Mason Deegan: 3rd (8:22.40)

NUTS & BOLTS:

• The Pre-season Info Meeting was on Tuesday, February 20. Here's the agenda with all sorts of important links & information.

• Join GroupMe to stay updated on all things T&F! Join here! 

• Check out the Saturday morning brunch run schedule! 

• Do you follow us on Instagram??? Find @hptrack, @hpdistance, and @athletics_hp

• PARENT MEETING on Tuesday, March 19 at 5:30pm in the middle school auditorium. Missed the meeting? See the agenda HERE.

• Weekly Practice Plans will be updated each week. Check this often so you can be prepared for practice each day. Find the plans on the Sprints and Mid-Distance pages.

• Please fill out the emergency contact form!!!! 

2024 Season Results: click here 

2023 Season Results: click here + athletic.net 

2023 Honor Roll Damage (check out the full lists HERE)

2022 Honor Roll Damage (check out the full lists: girls & boys)

WINTER FANTASY FITNESS 

Here are the FINAL Team results. 

Congrats to TEAM ZESTY. They had 5 athletes in the top-10 and all 7 in the top-15 to win the inaugural Winter Fantasy Fitness Challenge. 

Top-5 Scorers "miles"   points

Team Zesty Totals 2,045 476

Team BB8 Totals 1,865 405

Team Bugle Totals 1,239 256

Team Libby Totals 1,285 243

Team Gusher Totals 1,075 220

Team Elmo Totals   995 194

Individually, NOAH came away with the most points. 

Rank Athlete Points

1 Noah Waln, 9 132.6

2 Gavin Roberts, A 117.0

3 Emma Connelly, 8 102.9

4 Anna Dressler, 7 101.8

5 Toby Hennum, 10 97.8

6 Ellie Moore, 11 92.9

7 Craig Huhtala, A 91.7

8 Chad Austin, A 90.3

9 Ari Kim, 9 88.1

10 Mason Deegan, 11 82.1

11 Addie Corbett, 10 80.5

12 Cooper Foss, 10 74.6

13 Ingrid Haaland, 10 71.1

14 Ezra Kusa, 10 71.1

15 Zoe Moore, 9 69.7

16 Matt Carlson, A 56.6

17 Emily Klatt, A 53.2

18 Alex Pfankuch, A 52.9

19 Shaggy Reemtsma, A 50.4

20 Audrey Ellenbaas, 8 45.6

21 Mollie Moore, A 45.1

22 Sebastian Cummins, 10 44.3

23 Yao Buchl, 11 42.1

24 Jack Douglas, 10 33.5

25 Kenneth Schumann, 9 29.9

26 Kiri Werner, 10 28.4

27 Maisy Mau, 7 27.9

28 Tim Tzeutschler, 12 22.7

29 Hazel Dressler, 9 22.0

30 Charlie St. Dennis, 10 20.8

31 Evie Beaumaster, 9 17.6

32 Will Martin, 9 16.5

33 Ruby Peterson, 8 9.6

34 Lizzy Martin, 10 5.9

35 Brouke Brookins, 12 3.5

36 Alexa Ramirez, 10 1.3

Finally,  congrats to GAVIN for logging over 700 "miles". Here's a look at the 20 athletes that had at least 250 "miles" and earned a t-shirt. These will be handed out later this season. Thanks to everyone that participated - especially those that stuck with it for all 12 weeks. Look for a survey in the near future to provide feedback on what you thought of the challenge.

Rank Athlete Actual "miles"

1 Gavin Roberts, A 702

2 Craig Huhtala, A 551

3 Chad Austin, A 542

4 Noah Waln, 9 530

5 Ellie Moore, 11 464

6 Toby Hennum, 10 440

7 Mason Deegan, 11 411

8 Addie Corbett, 10 362

9 Ari Kim, 9 352

10 Matt Carlson, A 340

11 Cooper Foss, 10 336

12 Ezra Kusa, 10 320

13 Ingrid Haaland, 10 320

14 Emily Klatt, A 319

15 Alex Pfankuch, A 318

16 Emma Connelly, 8 309

17 Shaggy Reemtsma, A 302

18 Zoe Moore, 9 279

19 Mollie Moore, A 271

20 Anna Dressler, 7 255

PAPERWORK:

1. 2024 EMERGENCY CONTACT FORM ALL ATHLETES MUST FILL THIS OUT. Do it now, BEFORE practice starts. Just a quick google form, only takes a couple minutes.

2. Parent Permission to Drive form

3. PAPERWORK and pay FEES. Info on HP Athletic Forms, Fees and Regulations page. You can't practice without doing this.

TEAM INFO:

1. Check out the 2024 team rules & expectations

2. See the MSHSL rules and policies: 2023 guidelines

3. Athletes and coaches - if you find some awesome track & field videos (technique and/or motivational), send your coaches a link. Let's post it and share with others!

4. Reminder: Need to be at school by 10am for practice and meets to be eligible. If you arrive after 10am and participate in a meet, it will result in a forfeit for the team. Please be in school.

OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:

Highland Sr High Athletics

HP Middle School Athletics

St. Paul Sports Calendars

SUMMER TRAINING INFO:

USATF-MN Summer Camp Page

Twin Cities Track Club. Check out the all-comer meets.

Join the Cross Country Team's Summer Fantasy Fitness: Info posted in late spring on XC Wiki