Important dates

Deadline to Sign up for the Eagle Open (UW-La Crosse) - May 6th @ Midnight

Sunday Pancake Breakfast Run - May 6th @ 10am @ The Chadbarn (1601 Chadbourne Ave)

formal

Thank you to all the cows who attended our second formal of the year! Special shoutout to Luke Kubasta and Cameron Lane-Flehinger for taking some amazing pictures that can be found here. (Make sure to give them photo creds if you use these)

Awards Recap:
Rookies of the Year - Kevin Dado, Alice Hermet

Social Cows - Max Loescher, Allie Levin

Most Improved - Brett Jones, Sam Weiler, Hunter Cummings, Molly Dieball

Behind the Scenes MVP - Hanna Docter

MVPs - Evan Kohl, Autumn Wickman, Peter Van Beek, Alice Hermet

Out of Pasture Cow - Kevin Boyle

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Overall, all the cows had a blast at formal (informal??)

nationals recap

The rain, wind, cold, and car problems didn't stop the cows from kicking grass at Nationals! Shelbyville ("the Vegas of Indiana" -Butters) treated us well, and we left with a 2nd place men's trophy and an 8th place finish for the women.

Complete Meet Results | Men & Women Nationals Performance List

Men

Top 5 Individual Finishes:

110m Hurdles - (1st) Hunter Cummings (14.96)

400m Hurdles - (1st) Colton Davis (56.13)

Discus - (3rd) Michael Fink (34.26m)

Triple Jump - (3) Hunter Cummings (41-11.00)

Shotput - (2) Michael Fink (13.05m)

women

Top 5 Individual Finishes:

400m - (2nd) Autumn Wickman (1:00.88)

800m - (3rd) Autumn Wickman (2:20.24)

100m - (5th) Alice Hermet (13.17)

200m - (5th) Alice Hermet (27.15)

uw-whitewater invite recap

While this meet took a lot longer than expected, at least those of us who raced Whitewater instead of Crazylegs or going to Mifflin shared some laughs watching the victims of the steeplechase water pit.

Despite the intense winds, there were successful races all around! Most significantly, Kevin Dado, Evan Routhier, and Andre Hesini took 4th, 5th, and 6th respectively in the 1500m. Autumn Wickman finished in 3rd in the 800m (2:23.24), as well as 2nd in the 400m (1:00.57).

Complete Meet Results

top 10 list

Top 10 List Changes 

-100: Alice Hermet broke into 2nd at 13.17
- 200: Alice Hermet broke into 2nd at 27.13
- 400: Autumn Wickman broke into 3rd at 60.57
- 800: Autumn Wickman broke into 2nd at 2:20.24
- 1500: Evan Routhier broke into 2nd at 4:03.20, Kevin Dado broke into 3rd at 4:03.25 (Whitewater)
- 5000: Allie Levin broke into 2nd at 19:16.20
- 110m Hurdles: Hunter Cummings improved his 1st place time at 14.96, Colton Davis improved his 2nd place time at 15.70, Matthew Laska broke into 3rd at 16.26
- 400m Hurdles: Colton Davis improved his 1st place time at 56.13, Matthew Laska broke into 3rd at 60.51
- High Jump: Andrew Hoffmann improved his 1st place height at 1.75m, Riley Enge broke into 2nd at 1.65m
- Long Jump: Peter Van Beek improved to 3rd with a distance of 5.71m
- Triple Jump: Hunter Cummings improved to 2nd with a distance of 12.78m, Molly Dieball broke into 2nd at 9.45m, Emma Dewane broke into 3rd at 9.04m
- Shot Put: TJ Kleckner improved his 3rd place distance at 10.65m, Sabrina Belisle broke into 1st at 6.10m
- Discus: Michael Fink improved his 2nd place distance at 34.26m
- 4x100m: Team of Peter Van Beek, Will Jordan, Hunter Cummings, and Karl Tremmel broke into 2nd at 45.84, team of Emma Dewane, Alice Hermet, Lauren Schilling, and Elizabeth Schreiber broke into 2nd at 55.27
- 4x400m: Team of Colton Davis, Peter Van Beek, Hunter Cummings, and Eric Western broke into 2nd at 3:29.82, team of Autumn Wickman, Lauren Schilling, Allie Levin, and Zoe Panos broke into 2nd at 4:28.67
- 4x800m: Team of Andre Hessini, Evan Kohl, Evan Routhier, and Kevin Dado broke into 2nd at 7:58.65, team of Lauren Schilling, Molly Baus, Kaylee Sadeghpour-Hess, and Autumn Wickman broke into 2nd at 10:19.06

*NOTE: these are from Nationals unless otherwise indicated*

Complete Top 10 List

boston marathon

WTC had amazing representation at the Boston Marathon this year, with two cows in the top 50!!  Shoutout to all the alumni and current cows who make us proud to be a part of WTC. (Sorry if I missed anyone)

Joseph Pendleton - 25th place, 2:31:09

Alexander Rink - 46th place, 2:34:43

Cameron Blegen - 2:58:16

Lauren McKay - 3:27:45

Rachel Anderson

crazylegs

Shoutout to all the cows who competed in Crazylegs! Congratulations to our top finishers, Luke Kubasta who took 4th with a time of 25:58 and Allie Levin who took 19th for the women in a time of 35:46!

(Yes, I did steal these photos from instagram - thanks Luke & Molly!)

Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for people to help with the Oregon High School Special Olympics Track Meet May 5th from 12:30-4pm. In addition, we need volunteers for field and/or monitor relay exchanges on May 8th (field and running both start at 4pm) and/or May 11th (3:30pm for field and running for 4pm) at Madison East High School for the Big 8 Conference Meet. If you are able to help, please sign up here.

Summer!

Practice?

We will poll members who are staying in Madison in the summer to try and form practice times that work best for the majority of us. Last year, we had 7:15am and 5:30pm runs. Otherwise, use herdfinder or the summer running group chat to find running buddies!

Moovin' 5k

More details to come, but this is one of our primary fundraisers in the summer so we need volunteers! We use some of the proceeds to fund traveling to meets and donate some of the money to ACT. It is on June 2nd @ 9am. For those that are staying in Madison or live close, put the date in your calendars! Click here for more information.

Summer Track Series

The Summer Track Series is a set of meets for all ages. The meets are held at area high schools (June 14 and June 21 at Oregon High School, and June 28 and July 12 at Verona Area High School). Registration starts at 5pm. We need LOTS of volunteers for this! Please consider helping out. Kaylee will be sending out more info soon. Otherwise, visit our website for details.