Grizzlies Continue To Set Records

The Grizzly track and field team took part in the Direct.Com meet last Friday at Davis Field on the campus of Idaho State University.  Being one of the largest meets in southeast Idaho they were joined by twenty-eight other schools.  Teams included schools from a wide range of sizes from 1AD2 all the way up to 5A.  The majority of the schools were fairly local but some came from as far away as the Boise Valley, with one school traveling all the way down from the top region of the state.  With the large number of participants, spots were limited for many of the Grizzly athletes, making it very difficult to score team points.  Even though they finished toward the bottom as a team, the Grizzly athletes came away with a number of new PR’s on the season as well as a new school record.  For the Grace men, Trevor Mathews earned a PR in the 100 meter sprint, getting very close to breaking the twelve second mark.  Other runners setting PR’s for Grace were Carson Welch in the 200 meter sprint, Jonah Wilkerson and Nathaniel Smith in the 300m hurdles, Parker Yost in both the 110m and 300m hurdles, Toby Barnes in all three of his races on the day with the 100, 200, and 400 meter sprints and Brock Johnson, whose 3200 meter time moves him into third all time for the Grizzlies.  Carson Reeves set a new PR in the shot put, and Case Williams also PRed in the discus.  Setting PR’s for the Lady Grizzlies were Tessica Jorgensen in the 400 meters, Kate Williams in both the 1600 and 3200 races, Breanna Heer in the 1600 meters, Bella Eddins in the 100m hurdles, Kallie Stoddard in the 300m hurdles, and Alayna Smith in the 300m hurdles.  Their 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams also set new season bests.  The big story of the day though was the freshman phenom Brooklyn Porter who broke her PR and school record in the 800 meters by almost two seconds as well as smashed the school record in the 1600 meters by an amazing eleven seconds.  The Grizzlies will look to continue their improvements in yet another large tough meet as they travel to the Tiger/Grizz meet this weekend.