Keinin Miller finishes seventh in 200m for Mounders only points at state track meet
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GOOD JUMP — Junior Grandt Mueller of Elk Mound cleared 5 feet 10 inches during an attempt in the boys’ Division 2 high jump competition Friday, June 2 at the 2023 WIAA State Track and Field Championships in La Crosse. Mueller finished in 10th place after clearing 6 feet. Mueller also competed in the long and triple jumps, taking ninth in the long jump and 11th in the triple jump. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
LA CROSSE — Sophomore speedster Keinin Miller finished seventh in Saturday afternoon’s Division 2, 200 meter final to provide the Elk Mound boys with their only two points of the 2023 WIAA State Track and Field Championships which were held last Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3 at Veterans Memorial Field Complex on the UW-La Crosse campus.
The two-day competition was marked by 90 degree plus, energy-sapping temperatures and a nearly four-hour severe weather delay on Friday afternoon.
Miller, who qualified fifth with a run of :22.50 in Friday’s preliminaries, improved his time in Saturday’s final but so did several of his competitors. Despite crossing the finish line in a time of :22.39, Miller slipped to seventh in the final standings and just missed the podium. The top six place finishers were awarded medals and recognized on the infield podium while the top eight in each event scored team points.
La Crosse Aquinas senior Collin Conzemius won the 200 meter gold with a run of :21.39, a full second faster than Miller.
The sophomore also competed in the 100 meters. Miller finished Friday’s preliminary with a time of :11.46 which put him in 12th place, just missing the final’s cut which took the runners with the ten fastest times.
Miller was also part of the Mounder boys’ 4×100 meter relay team which also included seniors Carson Streifel, AJ Miller and Alex Woodford. The foursome finished in
ELK MOUND seniors Alex Woodford (left) and AJ Miller (right) prepared to exchange the baton the WIAA boys’ Division 2 state 4×100 m relay race held last Friday, June 2 at Veterans Memorial Field Complex in La Crosse. The Mounders finished 14th. Carson Streifel and Keinin Miller were also members of the team. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
14th place in Friday’s preliminaries with a time of :44.38 and did not qualify to run in Saturday’s final.
Mounder junior Grandt Mueller competed in a trio of individual events at last weekend’s state meet.
The jump specialist just missed scoring some more team points. Competing Friday in the long jump and high jump, Mueller jumped a best of 20’ 4.5” to finish ninth in the long jump and placed tenth in the high jump with a clearance of six feet even. A pair of seniors won those respective events with Waupun’s Jacob Abel taking long jump gold with a leap of 24’ 3.25” and Tommy Huff of Westfield Area/Montello won the high jump after clearing six feet eight inches.
Saturday saw Mueller take to the runway and sand pits at Veterans Memorial Field Complex to compete in the Division 2 triple jump. His third jump produced a distance of 41’ 6.75” to finish in 11th place, less than two inches from qualifying for three more jumps in the finals. Lodi junior Gavin Sargeant won the event with a jump of 45’ 10.5”.
The two team points that Miller scored in the 200 meters placed Elk Mound in 48th place in the final Division 2 boy’s team standings.
Lakeside Lutheran was the Division 2 boys champion with 45 points. Shorewood was the state D2 runner-up with 43 points. In the girls’ Division 2 competition, Osceola scored 50 points to win the state championship, Rice Lake came in second with 43 points.
THE MOUNDERS’ sophomore sprinter Keinin Miller (left) is shown running in the Division 2 state finals of the 200 meter dash Saturday afternoon, June 3 at Veterans Memorial Field Complex in La Crosse. Miller finished seventh in a time of :22.39. He also competed in the 100 meter dash finishing 12th and was a member of the boys’ 4×100 m relay team that placed 14th during the 2023 WIAA State Track and Field Championships. —photo by Shawn DeWitt