It’s always great to host the Wiseman Invite. We had great participation from our athletes and excellent competition in both boys’ and girls’ track and field events. It was also great to get the entire meet in considering the weather.”

Coach Russell Stienmetz

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The Blazer and Lady Blazer track teams travel to compete at the 3A East Regional Meet in Wheatland from May 10-11.

 TORRINGTON – Torrington High School tracksters posted strong performances and new PRs, while bagging hardware at the 2024 Wiseman Invite the team hosted on May 3.

Torrington and its opponents also braved deteriorating weather conditions on Friday. What started out as a warm, sunny morning quickly transitioned into less-than-ideal conditions with a brutal, sustained wind roaring down from the north, plummeting temperatures, gray clouds and occasional rain.

The Lady Blazers secured third place as a team out of a field of 10 schools, including several large 4A squads from Cheyenne, posting 106 team points. The Blazer boys advanced to fifth place with 55 cumulative points.

Sophomore Brooklyn Asmus left the competition in the dust in both the girls’ 100- and 200-meters. Asmus opened the afternoon with a victory in the 100-meters, clocking in at 12.03 seconds. The Lady Blazer crossed the finish line 0.16 seconds ahead of the runner-up, Wheatland’s Desirae Iacovetto.

Asmus captured gold in the 200-meters, timing in at 24.72 seconds and winning by a considerable 0.60-second margin.

Junior Jaycee Hurley bagged gold in the girls’ 300-meter hurdles with a time of 49.65 seconds. Hurley beat the second-place finisher, Rachel Hedum of Cheyenne South, by nearly two seconds.

Two Lady Blazers relay teams garnered gold at the meet. The 1600-meter sprint medley relay team consisting of sophomores Natalie Hawes, Trishell Pontarolo and Natalie Long and senior Alyssa Wondercheck won with a state-prequalifying time of 4 minutes, 31.99 seconds. The team pulled ahead of Laramie by 0.56 seconds.

Hawes, Hurley, Wondercheck and Asmus captured gold in the girls’ 4x100-meter relay, crossing the finish line 2.75 seconds ahead of Laramie to post a time of 50.52 seconds.

“It’s always great to host the Wiseman Invite,” coach Russell Stienmetz said. “We had great participation from our athletes and excellent competition in both boys’ and girls’ track and field events. It was also great to get the entire meet in considering the weather.”

Next up for Torrington is the 3A East Regional Track Meet in Wheatland on May 10-11.

“We had lots of athletes prequalify for state, which gives us options and flexibility going into the postseason,” Stienmetz said. “We will be able to move athletes around in relays and hope for the best in terms of team points.”

Girls top eight

Clocking the 100-meter hurdles in at 16.75 seconds, Hawes clinched second place in the event. 

Freshman Kadence Schamel scooped up fourth place in the 100-meter hurdles, timing in at 17.49 seconds, and went on to place sixth in the 300-hurdles at 55.91 seconds.

Hurley scooped up hardware in two sprinting events, clinching bronze in the 100-meters with a time of 12.79 seconds and placing fifth in the 200-meters at 27.01 seconds.

Representing Torrington in the 400-meters, freshman Sophia Wilson placed sixth at 1:13.41.

Field event highlights included a second-place finish for Pontarolo in the triple jump with a mark of 34 feet, 9 ½ inches. Pontarolo went on to finish seventh in the 200-meters, timing in at 27.95 seconds and place eighth in the long jump at 15-00.

Wondercheck took third place in the long jump, hitting a mark of 16-09.

Two throwers broke into the top eight. Freshman Kaia Jacobson snagged third place in the discus, clearing 107-04. Junior Teryn Stokes snapped up fifth place in the shot put, hitting a mark of 33-07.

Boys top eight

Three throwers advanced into the top eight in the shot put. Senior Tyler Bennick led the pack with a second-place finish and a mark of 55-05 ¼. Fellow senior Trey Parriott came in third place, clearing 49-08 ¼. Brayden Frazier, also a senior, placed seventh at 45-01.

Bennick secured third place in the discus with a mark of 134-09.

Junior Evan Hellus picked up hardware in two jumping events, beginning with a second-place finish in the long jump at 20-06 ¾. Hellus went on to place third in the triple jump, hitting a mark of 41-02.

Sophomore Landre Greiman came in eighth place in the long jump, clearing 19-01 ½.

In distance events, senior Zabdiel Munoz captured fifth place in the 1600-meters, posting a time of 5:15.58.

Freshman Drew Kramer clinched sixth place in the 200-meters, timing in at 23.84 seconds.

The 4x800-meter relay team – senior Jorey Asmus, sophomore Brady Dagen, Munoz and junior Tyler Nicolay – placed third at 9:56.53.

Asmus, Nicolay, Dagen and freshman Matthew Rogers finished fifth in the 4x400-meter relay, clocking in at 4:16.56.