The Track and Field Team is preparing for an amazing 2025 season. Intramurals started January 6th and will continue every weekday except Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. on the track with Coach Smith, and the first official practice will occur on February 15th at 7 a.m.
With new runners and runners from last school year, the Shadow Ridge Track and Field Team is headed for a season full of events, not just for runners, but also for students interested in other events.
According to Coach Smith, “We will have athletes competing in all running events from the 100m sprint up to the 3200m distance race, all relays from the 4x100m up to the 4x800m, all jumping events including high jump, long jump, and triple jump, all throwing events such as shot put and discus, and pole vault.”
The Track and Field Team is inclusive to all students of any high school grade.
The Track and Field Team is full of very talented student athletes from all grades.
“Collectively, our star runners last year (who are still at Shadow) were our boys 4x800m relay team made up of Kevin Jentzsch, Landon Larsen, Carson Wetzel, and Justin Rawe. They ran a 7:49.22 to win the State Championship and set the second fastest 4x800m relay time in state history. These boys are incredibly hard workers and gifted in their individual events – earning state rankings in the 800m and the 1600m – as well as the relay they ran together,” says Coach Smith.
Last season, the Track and Field Team set high expectations for future seasons with their amazing attitudes and running times.
Coach Smith includes, “The expectations we have for our team every year is that each individual athlete will put in their best effort at every practice and compete for the team as a whole rather than just themselves. If success and championships and records come with that, then great, but we are a team defined by effort and the integrity of our athletes.”
Senior Andie Hughes, who has been with the Shadow Ridge Track and Field Team since her freshman year, comments, “My favorite thing about track is the new people I meet, and then when the actual season starts, going to the track meets. I love to go and cheer people on and compete for myself and see how I progress.”
With her passion in track and field, she set a mark of 107 centimeters in discus during her junior year, but is striving to beat that mark in 2025.
