Last week The 60th Anniversary of the Jesuit Sheaner Relays kicked off with a roaring start on Friday evening 3/21. Starting back in 1964, and named after Jesuit Track Coach Herb Sheaner, every year this meet brings some of the fastest athletes from around the nation to compete. This meet is also the largest high school run meet in Texas, and also in the top ten in the entire nation. This year the meet attracted over 100 teams across multiple states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Part of its reason for its fame is because of how the event is run. The event is always executed to perfection with volunteers from Jesuit Faculty, the track team, Jesuit parents, and students working for work grant. Jesuit also hires some of the best officials in the state to run the meet to ensure a fair experience for everyone competing.
“I think it’s cool seeing some of the greatest athletes in the United states competing. seeing people from all over the country competing all at once is really cool.”-Will Price
On Friday evening the meet began with the 3200, its only event for the day with many sub 10 minute performances. Freshman Maddox Click competed in this event finishing 42nd overall out of 54 runners in the 6A standings alone.
Saturday began bright and early at 8:30 in morning. On the menu for the day was all sprinting events with a few long distance events (800, and 1600) as well as all field events except for hammer throwing and the javelin. All running events for the boys were broken up into a prelims lasting from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM and then a finals lasting from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. Due to Sheaner Policy all girls had to meet a qualifying time, height, or distance for their respective event so all girls competed in finals. The field events took place throughout the whole day along with the running events.
Prelim Sprinting Results:
100 Meter Dash:
- Jr. Harlan Beucler 10.61 sec (6th)
- Sr. John Parrish 10.89 sec (16th)
- Sr. Henry Bourett 11.29 (48th)
200 Meter Dash:
- Jr. Harlan Beucler 20.83 sec (1st)
- Soph. Hudson Wall 24.08 sec (70th)
300 Meter Hurdles:
- Sr. Jeager Krauss 43.07 sec (32nd)
4×100 Meter Relay
- Disqualified (Dropped baton)
The Finals
After the lengthy, but speedy prelims, the finals began. The only Jesuit sprinter to move on to this stage of the competition was Harlan Beucler to compete in the open 100 Meter and the open 200 Meter. This time was also the first time for distance events, the 800 Meter and the 1600 Meter runs. Partly due to the wind the finals consisted of many top ten national performances, including Harlan Beucler placing second in the entire nation in the 200.
“It felt pretty cool to go and compete at a high level with those guys. probably the coolest athletic moment of my life so far”-Harlan Beucler
Finals Running Results:
800 Meter
- Jr. Brayden Higginbotham 2:00.94 sec (11th)
100 Meter Dash
- Jr. Harlan Beucler 10.25 sec (5th)
200 Meter Dash
- Jr. Harlan Beucler 20.76 sec (1st)
1600 Meter
- Fr. Maddox Click 4:43.08 sec (21st)
- Jr. Ethan Irrobali 4:59.20 sec (34th)
4×200 Meter Relay
- 1:30.71 sec (11th)
4×400 Meter Relay
- 3:28.65 sec (13th)
Finals Field Events
Long Jump
- Jr. Beck Berry 19 ft 8.75in (28th)
- Sr. Grayson Dupre 18ft 10.75in (37th)
- Jr. Pierce Nikolai 18ft 4in (42nd)
Triple Jump
- Jr. Nick Pregler 38ft 7.5in (23rd)
Pole Vault
- Sr. Mason Adams 14ft 6in (3rd)
- Jr. Jack Lassek 12ft (9th)
Discus
- Soph. Jackson Waguespack 109ft 1in (36th)
- Jr. Travis Cantu 92ft 6in (41st)
Shotput
- Jr. Travis Cantu 33ft 10in (35th)
Despite not winning the meet overall the Rangers still competed hard with many outstanding performances from our team. Two school records were broken this meet, leaving the Jesuit Track fired up to compete in the following weeks at the Texas Relays at the University of Texas Austin and in the UIL 6A District Meet.
