For the first time since joining the UIL the Rangers have taken first place overall in the massive meet that we annually host. This is however a strange title that had the Rangers not winning many gold medals but consistently placing in the top 5 of events. This consistent performance proved to be instrumental in taking home the overall title.
Field Events
Headlining the field events was the senior jumper Carson Walls ’22 who snagged a gold medal with a PR jump of 21 feet and 9 inches. This performance from Walls ’22 would be key in Jesuits effort to win the overall title as it was one of two of Jesuit’s 1st place performances. Dechi Peterson ’22 would continue his hot-streak as well through his 3rd place jump of 6 feet and 2 inches. Peterson has been a medal magnet this season and Jesuit fans should be excited for his performance in the postseason. Thatch Balady ’24 would also earn a bronze medal for the Rangers through his performance in the pole-vault with a PR of 14 feet and 6 inches. Rounding out the field events, Evan Bare ’22 and Grant Kostos ’22 respectively placed 5th in the shotput and high-jump.
Track Events
The first place performance from the Miami Hurricane track and field commit Enrique Borrego ’22 in the 3200 was vital in Jesuit’s effort to take 1st place overall. Charlie Humbert ’23 put on quite the display with a silver medal performance in the 300 meter hurdles thanks to his 39.7 mark. To round out individual track performances, sprinter Hunter Krepp ’22 ran a eye-catching 10.87 second 100 yard dash, earning him 4th overall. The Rangers had two relay teams snag silver medals in the 4×400 meter and the distance medley relay. The 4×400 team of Hunter Krepp ’22, Caden Cutchall ’24, Enrique Borrego ’22 and Cole Younger ’22. The distance medley relay which is a relay consisting of a 1200, ran by Caden Cutchall ’24, a 400 which was ran by Charlie Humbert ’23, a 800 ran by Henry Beckman ’24 and finally a 1600 ran by Enrique Borrego ’22.
Analysis
What an incredible job from the Jesuit Track and field team. It seems like each week the team continues to build on their past performances and improve to new personal records. The team relied heavily on Enrique Borrego ’22 to push them into the upper echelon scoring wise and I’d expect that to be the case for the district and regional track meets as well. I’d also like to mention the breakthrough performance of Charlie Humbert ’23 and Sammy McFarland ’24 this last week. Humbert went into sub-40 seconds on his 300 meter hurdle time which is a testament to his hard-work. McFarland ’24 has continually impressed me as for the second meet in a row he has had to step in to run for an injured member of the 4×100 and you can barely tell her wasn’t the original member in the first place.
Looking forward to the next couple of weeks for the track and field squad they will be running in the Parish Invitational this upcoming weekend. They will most likely look to run more of their younger guys and try to rest some of the older guys after such a hard meet like the Sheaner Relays. The following week the Rangers will be hosting the district track meet in what looks to be quite a matchup brewing between Jesuit and the Berkner Rams. I’m very excited to see how the Rangers perform and how their success will carry into the postseason.
Thank you for reading and stay tuned to The Roundup for more Rangers’ track and field coverage.
