LFC Girls True Team Third at State

Nine teams competed.  The weather probably took first place.  At an incredibly wet 2017 Minnesota True Team state track meet at Stillwater High School, the running dynasty of a number of LFC girls continued.  The Burros finished a narrow third (371.5) to Osakis (388.5) and Luverne (387).  Track events were again LFC’s strengths.  Relays were strong, as the 4×800 (Malia Tessum, Brielle Ruen, Katie Prinsen, Leah Ruen) took first, the 4×200 (Macayla Brogle, Bailey Ruen, Alida Berg, L-Ruen) and 4×400 (Tessum, Kelly Ristau, B-Ruen, Emma Breitsprecher) second.  Junior Ashley Miner again did the most individual damage with four top six finishes (2nd 200, 3rd 400, 3rd-tie P-Vault, 6th 100).  Kiera Olson (2nd 3,200, 3rd 1,600) and Kaylee Arndt (3rd 800, 4th 1,600) held down the long runs.  Breitsprecher won her baby, the 300-hurdles.  Michaela Brazee (3rd-tie P-Vault) and B-Ruen (4th 400) and had top five finishes.  Sydney Taylor (7th Disc), Cassidy Ruud (8th T-Jump), L-Ruen (8th 200), Prinsen (8th 800), and Ristau (10th 300-H) had top ten finishes (18 per event).  Alleigh Meyer, Maggie Decker, Ashlyn Guenther, Kendal Stettler, and Ally Evans rounded out LFC’s competitors.  For Olson, a senior, it’s her third different type of state track and field meet.  She’s gone individually (2015, 3,200), as a part of a relay (2016, 4×800), and now via True Team.  Emma B., Leah R., Bailey R., and Miner were also apart of last year’s two state entrant relay teams.  Olson, the Ruens, Miner, and Arndt were on LFC’s last two state cross country teams.  Minnesota is the only state that holds a “True Team” track and field competition.  The event in sponsored by the Minnesota State Track and Field Coaches Association and was started in 1987.  A first for the girls this year, LFC (Harmony/Preston Fountain/Lanesboro in early years) has sent nine boys teams.  They state title four-peated from 1992-1995.