Fox Valley Lutheran's Emma Nilson won both the discus and shot put events at the WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional at Appleton North on Thursday, advancing to the state meet in both events. (Submitted photo)

Xavier, Fox Valley Lutheran combine for six titles, 16 state qualifiers at WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional

May 24, 2024 plecker

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APPLETON – Xavier’s Lillie Fouts and Fox Valley Lutheran’s Emma Nilson each won a pair of titles and were among the 16 state meet qualifiers from the two schools at a WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional at Appleton North High School on Thursday. Freedom was the host school.

The top four finishers in each event at the sectional automatically qualify for the 2024 WIAA State Track & Field Championships, which will be held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on May 31-June 1. Additional qualifiers – those who finish in the top eight statewide in all of the sectionals – will be announced on Friday.

Fouts won the girls 1,600 meters in 5:03.55 and the 3,200 in 11:04.78 for the Hawks, while Nilson posted FVL’s only two sectional titles as she won the girls discus (129 feet, 6 inches) and the shot put (41-7¼)

Also capturing a sectional championship for the Xavier girls was the 800-meter relay team of Grace Renz, Caroline Basehoar, Faith Hafner and Lauren Erickson, which won in 1:45.76.

Xavier’s Ben Olvey snagged a sectional title as well, winning the boys 110-meter hurdles in 14.99. He was the lone boys state qualifier for the Hawks.

Other state meet entries for Xavier were the 3,200 relay team of Annalise Minorik, Joy Krull, Hannah Linsmeyer and Fouts (second, 9:36.57); the 400 relay team of Hailey Hafner, Bernice Geurts, Bryce Hietpas and Yami Ornelas (second, 49.84); the 1,600 relay team of Gracie Hackl, Krull, Renz and Erickson (third, 4:04.19); Erickson in the 200 (26.31), Basehoar in the pole vault (second, 11-0), and Hackl in the 400 (fourth, 1:00.15).

Fox Valley Lutheran will have five entrants at state, with Jacoby Dobberstein capturing the Foxes’ lone sectional win as he placed first in the 300 hurdles in 40.28 seconds.

The Foxes’ 800-meter boys relay team of Jack Egan, Blessings Kapande, Caleb DuFresne and Kaleb Williams took fourth in 1:32.15 to also qualify for state.

In addition to Nilson’s two wins, the FVL girls will send its 400 relay team of Sophia Wunderlich, Annalise Patchett, Amethyst Holmes and Mya Burleton to state after it took third in 50.05 seconds. Claire Fischerl also netted a second-place finish in the 400 (59.87) and will join her teammates at the state meet.

WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional
May 23, at West De Pere High School
Girls
Team scores: 1. Freedom 85.5; 2. Xavier 83; 3. Green Bay Notre Dame 76; 4. Little Chute 71; 5. Fox Valley Lutheran 45; 6. Sheboygan Falls 37; 7. Winneconne 35.5; 8. Laconia 30; 9. Luxemburg-Casco 25; 10. Berlin and New London 22; 12. Oostburg and Chilton 19; 14. Seymour 18; 15. Campbellsport 16; 16. Wrightstown 15; 17. Sturgeon Bay 13; 18. Kiel 12; 19. Wautoma 11; 20. Brillion 10; 21. Southern Door 9; 22. Denmark and Amherst 7; 24. Ripon 4; 25. Two Rivers 3; 26. Waupaca, Winnebago Lutheran and Omro 2; 29. Clintonville 1.
Boys
Team scores: 1. Green Bay Notre Dame 78; 2. Little Chute 72; 3. Winnconne 62; 4. Freedom 57; 5. Campbellsport 51; 6. Winnebago Lutheran 48.5; 9. Waupaca 29; 10. Fox Valley Lutheran 27; 11. Plymouth 25; 12. Denmark 23.5; 13. Clintonville 10; 16. Sheboygan Falls and Brillion 16; 18. Xavier and Kiel 15; 20. Seymour 10.5; 21. Two Rivers 10; 22. Ripon and Luxemburg-Casco 6; 24. Chilton 5.5; 25. Southern Door 2.

Click here for complete results, courtesy of the WIAA