Chance was the achilles heel for the Bomber Boys Track Team this year. Some of the boys team shined brightly when called upon, others regretfully fell short for frustrating reasons. It first started with Senior Evan Heather who, one week before sub-sections, got his personal best in the pole vault before severely spraining his ankle on the last jump for a second personal best. Heather is now in a boot and still supports the team, but alas he could not participate in the meet where he easily could have advanced.

The next issue occurred during the sub-section meet. The boy’s 4×2 team was in second when the last hand-off the race was made to early and did not reach the exchange-zone. The team was disqualified after getting their best time of the year. The last disappointment was with Senior Max Reuger. Reuger made it to the finals in the discus throw but couldn’t make his personal best and fell short of the top three, the standard for who advances to sections. However through these shortfalls there are a few diamonds in the rough. Seniors Gabe Hall, Kyler Banks, and Zach Siebenaler all made it in the shot put, triple jump, and high jump respectively. Hall and Banks made personal bests at sub-sections and Banks is now only six inches off breaking the school record of forty-two feet, eleven and three-quarters inches for the triple jump. Siebenaler made the section standard of five feet, nine inches for high jump and moved on as well.

As for what these advancers can do Coach Ben Schopp believes that the best for them now is to “…brush up on their technique…” and not try anything fancy or new. As for the season as a whole, Schopp couldn’t have been happier, “they went right to the limit” of what they could do and ran themselves into the ground to get to the position they were in. Schopp does feel for the 4×2 team and their seemingly flawless run wiped away, but he also knows that focusing on the present is what’s best and he’s still got three finalists to mentor in hopes for redemption (both Banks and Siebenaler were in the 4×2) and move on to state.