CMS track team ends season with conference meet

From left, the California Middle School seventh grade boys' team of Isaac Ash, Nathan Pickering, Alex Meisenheimer and Colden Imhoff placed first in the 4x400 Meter Relay at the conference track meet May 12 at Osage with 4:17.24.
From left, the California Middle School seventh grade boys' team of Isaac Ash, Nathan Pickering, Alex Meisenheimer and Colden Imhoff placed first in the 4x400 Meter Relay at the conference track meet May 12 at Osage with 4:17.24.

The California Middle School track team competed at the middle school conference meet May 12 at Osage, where a number of CMS athletes were top finishers.

CMS Head Track Coach Jill Meisenheimer said, "Though I haven't gotten our conference team results yet, I do know many of our athletes got their personal records for the season at the conference meet, and we had many second through sixth-place medals for our team."

Seventh-grader Colden Imhoff set two new conference records: in the Discus Throw with 121'05"; and in the boys' mile with 5:15.00.

The seventh grade boys' relay team of Isaac Ash, Nathan Pickering, Alex Meisenheimer and Imhoff placed first in the 4x400 Meter Relay with 4:17.24.

Seventh-grader Trinity Higgins placed first in the seventh grade girls' 75 Meter Hurdles event with 13.90.

Kyle Hofstetter placed first in the eighth grade boys' Long Jump event with a personal record jump of 17.07.5.

"We did a really nice job at the conference meet," Meisenheimer said. "We had a lot of peak performances."

CMS Pintos who earned the most points for the 2014 season (high point medalists) are Imhoff, first place with 144 season medal points; Toby Dalbey, second place with 101 points; and Ash, third place with 83 points.