Mounders’ Mueller and Miller qualify for State
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ARCADIA — Elk Mound junior Grandt Mueller qualified for this week’s WIAA State Track and Field Championships in three events while sophomore teammate Keinin Miller earned berths in a pair of sprints.
Miller was also a member of the Mounder boys’ state qualifying 4×100 m relay team, along with seniors AJ Miller and Alex Woodford and junior Carson Streifel.
Much like he had three days earlier at the regional competition, Mueller jumped his way to state by earning a pair of runner-up finishes and a third in the WIAA Division 2 sectional meet held Thursday, May 25 at Cashen Field in Arcadia.
Mueller scored silver-medal finishes in the high jump and long jump and a third in the triple jump to earn berths in each at the WIAA State Track and Field Championships slated for this Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3 at Veterans’ Memorial Stadium on the UW-La Crosse campus.
Mueller cleared six feet to finish tied for second in the high jump and was the runner-up in the long jump with a leap of 20’ 11.5”. He three-stepped his way third in the triple jump with a top attempt 41’ 7.25”. In his fourth event of the day, Mueller placed tenth in the 110 meter high hurdles with a time of :16.59.
The top four place finishers in each sectional event qualified for state while the top eight places scored team points.
Speedy sophomore Keinin Miller will be joining Mueller in La Crosse following a pair of state-qualifying finishes in Arcadia Thursday. Miller ran a :22.70 in the 200 meter finals to place third and was fourth in the 100 meters after finishing in a time of :11.37.
The 4×100 meter relay team ran a :43.77, good for third place and a trip to state.
The state meet will begin Friday morning, June 2 with Division 2 and 3 state competitions and continue Saturday, June 3 with finals in all three divisions.
Mueller will compete Friday morning in the long jump and high jump and Saturday morning in the triple jump. The Mounder boys’ 4×100 m relay will also run Friday morning in the preliminaries with finals on Saturday. Miller will be competing in Friday morning’s state preliminary races of the 100 and 200 meters.
Senior Ian Hazen just missed out on an opportunity to finish his high school career at the state meet after taking fifth in the 1,600 m run with a time of 4:32.81.
Fellow distance runner and senior teammate Aidan Schiferl also saw his high school career come to a conclusion at the sectional meet in Arcadia last Thursday. Schiferl ran a 10:11.07 in the 3,200 meters to finish ninth.
The boys’ 4×400 m relay also ran at Arcadia, finishing in 14th place.
The Mounder men finished the day with 42 points which placed them eighth out of the 29 schools that were able to score. La Crosse Logan won the meet with 74.5 points with Lakeland Union taking second with 60 points and Osceola scored 52 to nip Mauston for third.
While the Elk Mound girls’ did not have any of its four individual sectional representatives or its two relay teams qualify for this year’s state meet, they all were able to score points as the team finished in a 12th-place tie with conference foe Durand-Arkansaw after each tallied 17 points. Osceola won the girls’ sectional crown with 103 points, Rice Lake was second with 78 and Amery placed third with 57. Thirty-three schools scored points in the girls’ final team tally.
Elk Mound placed fifth in the 4×400 m relay and was sixth in the 4×100 m race.
Aleya Hadenfeldt had the highest individual finish among the Mounder girls that competed in Arcadia. The senior capped her high school career with a sixth-place finish in the 100 meters when she ran a time of :13.23.
Fellow senior Kate Mohr clocked a :17.13 in the 100 m high hurdles to place seventh and cleared 4’ 10” for an eighth-place finish in the high jump.
Junior Lydia Levra and freshman Allie Robel both copped a seventh in the sectional meet. Levra’s placement came in the 400 meters where she ran a 1:01.86 while Robel completed the 200 meters in :27.24.