Simonsen Carries on Family Tradition at State Track

Northeast’s track teams concluded their season with the State Meet held at Burke Stadium in Omaha last weekend.  Both the boys and girls had a medalist as the girls scored  six points and tied for 25th in Class D and the boys had one point placing them in a tie for 47th position.

Darcey Simonsen continued the family tradition as she came up with as big final throw.  She had a toss of 113 feet 1 inch in the prelims.  This put her in the final medal position going into the finals.  She still sat in eighth place until on her sixth try she had a heave of 119 feet 2 inches.  She moved up five places.  None of the  other contestants changed positions in the final round and Darcey finished in third place.

For the Simonsen family this is their second State medalist.  Darcey’s uncle, Brock was a three time medalist.  In 2004, he took the Class C gold, but had to settle for the silver in 2005.

Taylor Fuston made his third appearance at State.  In his third  400M dash at Burke Stadium he a had a non qualifying time of 54.57.

Taylor made the most of his first attempt in the long jump field.  The senior jumper opened with a leap of 20 feet  0.75 inches.  This mark stood up as the eighth best in the Class D field, 0.25 inches ahead of ninth place.

The four first timers at State failed moved out of qualifying rounds in their events.
Chevy Henneman had the twentieth best time in the boys’ 100M dash.  Libby Henneman placed fourteenth in   the shot put with a heave of 34 feet 1.25  inches.  Also in fourteenth place was freshman Kelly Wakeley in the triple jump.  Her best mark was 33 feet 8.5 inches.  Tessie Collins ran a time of 6:40.53 in the 1600M run.  She came in twenty-third place.