Warren's Emma Ryan, Fort Frye's Derek Spindler, and Morgan's Kristie Marcum each has stood on the awards podium on the Jesse Owens Memorial infield at the OHSAA State Track and Field Championship on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Last year, Ryan earned All-Ohio in the discus while Spindler did the same in the pole vault.
Marcum was an all-stater in the long jump in her freshman season of 2009.
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Warren’s Emma Ryan will be attempting to earn All-Ohio honors in the discus throw for the third straight year at the state track meet this weekend.
The trio of student/athletes are of course hoping to be recognized again at the 2012 state meet. If Ryan does achieve her goal, it will be the junior thrower's third straight year of medaling in the discus event.
Seeking their first trip to the podium from the Marietta Times circulation area this weekend will be Marietta High's Paige Grosel (pole vault), Belpre's Dakota Hoffman (long jump), Caldwell's Jenna Furr (3200), Warren's Wes Cochran (3200), Fort Frye's Stephanie Huck (pole vault), Morgan's Derek Dingey (discus), Shenandoah's Kylee Kasper (400), Morgan's Clinton Campbell (300 hurdles), Shenandoah's Brandi Farmer (long jump), Shenandoah's 4x100 relay team of Farmer, Ashley Zwick, Morgan Diehl, and Tressa Doudna, and the school record-setting Fort Frye 4x400 relay team of Natalie Hart, Sarah Biehl, Bailey Thieman, and Huck.
Allie Lawrence is a sub for the Lady Cadet relay foursome.
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2012 OHSAA State Track Championship
Schedule
Friday, June 1
9:30 a.m. Division II Field Events (5)
9:30 a.m. Division III Running Events Preliminaries
4 x 800 Relay Final
1 p.m. Division III Field Events (5)
1:30 p.m. Division II Running Preliminaries
4 x 800 Relay Final
4 p.m. Division III Field Events (5)
4:45 p.m. Division I Running Preliminaries
4 x 800 Relay Final
Saturday, June 2
9 a.m. Division II Field Events (5)
9:30 a.m. Division III Running Finals
noon Division I Field Events (5)
1 p.m. Division II Running Finals
3 p.m. Division I Field Events (5)
4:30 p.m. Division I Running Finals
A two-day event, all of the state track and field action got underway this morning.
At 9 a.m. Saturday, all of the remaining field events are scheduled to resume. The championship running is slated to begin at 1 p.m. and the final events of the day begin at 3:10 p.m.
A couple of things about today's running qualifying races. Beginning last year, the OHSAA takes nine to the finals, but scores only eight. In meets past, the top four in each event advanced to the finals, but this season, it's the top two in each heat and then the next five best times regardless of heat.
All of the Division III field events will be held today in two shifts. The first shift is scheduled for 1 p.m., and the second will be approximately three hours later. Spindler, Huck, Hoffman and Farmer each is hoping to be standing on the podium today.
Grosel, Marietta's lone Division I qualifier, is scheduled to pole vault at 3 p.m. Saturday. Last year as a junior, she was 11th in the event.
Also, Ryan is slated to throw at high noon Saturday.
