What a few weeks it has been for Panorama and ACGC track and field. Athletes from both programs are keeping recordkeepers busy.
On Saturday, April 26, the ACGC boys track and field team of Joe Crawford, Brexton Schneider, Kade Sorensen and Eli Madsen set a school record in the 4×100-meter relay at 43.25 while running at the Drake Relays. Then, just a few days later, the group broke that record AGAIN at the Bob Clark Relays on Tuesday, April 29, running a 43.16. That time also set a meet record. Three records were set in the space of four days for that group. Bravo.
Speaking of the Bob Clark Relays, Crawford, Sorensen, Dean Vela and Madsen set the meet and school record for the sprint medley relay in 1:34.92. This broke the record set by Crawford, Anthony Solorzano, Madsen and Lance Bunde one year ago by nearly 4 full seconds.
It wasn’t just the boys breaking records. Ava Campbell set the meet record for the 800-meter run in 2:21.34. This was just shy of her own school record in the 800-meter run she set last year at 2:21.27. The distance medley team of Nora Langgaard, Brooklyn Schafer, Cadence Petersen and Campbell set a meet record in 4:21.59, the fifth-fastest in program history. Bravo, again.
For Panorama track and field, Kylie Rochholz has been running blazing distance times and rewriting the record books. Rochholz set a meet record at the Bob Clark Relays in the 3,000-meter run in 10:51.45. Just a few weeks ago, she broke the school, meet and stadium record in the 3,000-meter run in 10:46.75. The previous school record was held by Ella Waddle, set in 2018. Bravo, again.
If you were keeping track of how many records that is — I was certainly having trouble — it is 10 set across the two programs in just two weeks. A massive congratulations goes out to both of these teams. The state tournament is right around the corner. Let’s see if they can keep this up.
In keeping up with our own archives and records, (these are less impressive, just a lot more words,) it has officially been one year since it was announced that Bruce Dahlhauser, Panorama boys track and field coach, would take over as the school’s activities director. Bruce has been a tremendous help to me in providing accurate and timely results for our sports coverage. Thank you, Bruce. Keep up the great work.
Around the state, Des Moines Hoover High School was playing an ineligible player for most of its season. The Huskies were the No. 1 team in 3A with an 8-0-1 record. That all came crashing down after they self-reported the findings that a student’s birth certificate was inaccurate, placing the player’s age at 20, and not 19. The team forfeited all of its wins during the games he played, bringing their record to 0-8-1, bouncing them from the IHSAA’s most recent rankings. Since all soccer teams, regardless of record, make the playoffs, Hoover will still play. The Huskies have dominated since their move to 3A. They made the state final in 2024 and were the No. 1 overall seed in 2023 before losing in the semi-finals. Meaning, it is entirely possible we could see a team with a losing record make a deep run in those playoffs
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