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Hawkettes place 5th in 4×800, scratch out of 2 other finals at stormy Relays

April 28, 2024 by Dan Holm

Ankeny’s Charlee Cibula hands off to Morgan Johnson during the 4×400 relay on Saturday at the Drake Relays. The Hawkettes placed 13th in the event with a time of 3:59.30. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Perhaps no team was affected more by the storm delay on Saturday afternoon at the Drake Relays than the Ankeny girls’ track squad.

When the meet resumed a few hours later, the Hawkettes made the difficult decision to scratch out of two events.

“We decided to scratch the 4×100 relay and Drew (Beason) in the 1,500 because of the weather, long delay, and not enough time to return and warm up,” said Ankeny coach TJ Jumper. “Preventing injury is highly important at this time of the season as any injury would most likely prevent them from competing at conference, state qualifying and state.”

There was enough time, however, for Ankeny’s 4×400 relay to get ready to run. The preliminaries of that event had been postponed on Friday night due to another storm, forcing a timed final 24 hours later.

Ankeny’s Teagan Moyer runs the third leg of the 4×400 relay. The race was held as a timed final on Saturday after the preliminaries on Friday night were postponed due to a storm. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

The foursome of Charlee Cibula, Morgan Johnson, Teagan Moyer and Lillian Buckley placed 13th in a season-best time of 3:59.30. Buckley, a freshman, ran the anchor leg in 58.16 seconds.

Pleasant Valley won the race in 3:51.51.

“The 4×400 was able to get in a warm up just in time and ran amazing,” Jumper said. “Each of the girls had big time improvements, and three of them– Lilly, Teagan and Charlee–competed in the high school division for the first time at Drake. Morgan ran a superb split, and we could not be happier how they were able to persevere through all the delays from Friday and Saturday nights.”

Ankeny’s Ava Leinen gets ready to run in a preliminary heat of the 4×100 relay on Saturday at the Drake Relays. The Hawkettes won their heat and qualified for the final with a time of 49.11 seconds, but they later scratched out of the final after another lengthy weather delay. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Earlier, Ankeny had posted the seventh-fastest qualifying time in the 4×100. The quartet of Ava Leinen, Buckley, Jayla Williams and Karsen Jacks posted a time of 49.11 seconds.

Waukee Northwest won the final in 47.89.

“Over the three days of the meet, we were extremely happy with how things came together up and down our lineup,” Jumper said. “The depth that we have is amazing. We are starting to put things together and really execute. This was evident with Drew in the 3,000 (on Thursday), the 4×100 running a great time and the 4×800.”

Ankeny’s Lauren Jackson runs the anchor leg of the 4×800 relay. The Hawkettes placed fifth in the event with a time of 9:23.52. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Ankeny also placed fifth in the 4×800 on Saturday with a time of 9:23.52, which ranks second on the school’s all-time list. Pleasant Valley won the race in 9:01.47, nearly becoming the first Iowa team to run under 9 minutes.

Makenna Madetzke ran the opening leg in 2:19.25 for the Hawkettes. Beason, Sophia Graber and Lauren Jackson ran the next three legs.

Here’s the first exchange in the girls’ 4×8 relay. @ankenytrack went on to place 5th in 9:23.52 after a 2:19 opening leg by @MakennaMadetzke. @JaguarGirlsTF got a 2:20 opening leg from Bella Hodges and went on to finish 10th in 9:30.14. pic.twitter.com/y7EY3jT2aO

— ANKENY FANATIC (@AnkenyFanatic) April 27, 2024

“We were really happy,” said Madetzke. “That’s one of the best times we’ve ran this season.”

Madetzke rebounded after suffering a mishap on Friday, when she fell down during the opening lap of the 800.

Ankeny’s Makenna Madetzke (middle) battles for position at the start of the 800 on Friday at the Drake Relays. Madetzke later fell after Waukee’s Emme Baugh VanZee (left) caught the back of her foot on the backstretch, but she recovered quickly and went on to place 14th in a time of 2:19.71. Baugh VanZee was later disqualified. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

“I just had to forget about it,” Madetzke said. “I just tried to block it out of my mind this morning. Today was a completely different race, and I was just going to give it my all.”

In the 800, Madetzke still managed to place 14th in 2:19.71, which was close to her best time. Ani Wedemeyer of Pleasant Valley won the race in 2:09.31, edging Keelee Leitzen of Dubuque Hempstead by .43 seconds.

“I fell down on the backstretch,” Madetzke said. “(Waukee’s Emme Baugh VanZee) caught the back of my foot, and I just went completely down. She ended up getting DQ’d after the race.”

Ankeny’s Jayla Williams leaps to a ninth-place finish in the long jump on Friday. She recorded a jump of 16 feet 6.75 inches. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Also on Friday, Williams placed ninth in the long jump with a leap of 16 feet 6.75 inches. She finished 21st in the 100 hurdles in 15.99 seconds, while teammate Madeline Poock was 27th in that event in 16.29.

Williams hurried over to the long jump area after completing her race.

“I got out slow, but I ran all right. It’s pretty cold and rainy,” she said. “But it was good that I got to run before so that I didn’t have to go back and forth at least. I thought I jumped ok.”

Ankeny’s Ella Jumper runs the second leg of the shuttle hurdle relay on Saturday. The Hawkettes placed ninth in the event with a time of 1:07.02. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Williams and Poock also ran in the preliminaries of the shuttle hurdle relay on Saturday. They teamed up with Lillian Smith and Ella Jumper to place ninth in 1:07.02, but only the top four times advanced to the final.

Ankeny competed in two other relays on Friday. The Hawkettes placed 17th in the sprint medley relay and 18th in the 4×200.

. @ankenytrack runs through a downpour and places 18th overall in the sprint medley relay with a time of 1:53.85. Ava Leinen runs the leadoff leg here, then @karsenjacks later hands off to Morgan Johnson on the final exchange. Lillian Buckley rounded out the squad. pic.twitter.com/MNRLfHaMGO

— ANKENY FANATIC (@AnkenyFanatic) April 26, 2024

The team of Leinen, Buckley, Jacks and Johnson posted a time of 1:53.85 in the sprint medley relay. Waukee ran 1:46.53 to win the race, which was held in a downpour.

“It seemed fine out, and I thought we were going to get lucky (with the weather),” Johnson said. “It wasn’t raining at all and then for my race it just started pouring. And I couldn’t see the entire race, but it was fine.”

Ankeny’s Karsen Jacks runs through the rain as she prepares to make a handoff to Morgan Johnson during the sprint medley relay on Friday. The Hawkettes placed 17th in the event with a time of 1:53.85. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Johnson later combined with Smith, Buckley and Jacks to post a time of 1:45.48 in the 4×200. Waukee Northwest won the race in 1:40.46.

“The weather is kind of bad, so that kind of worsened our time,” Johnson said. “But overall, it was a good race. We had fun.”

Ankeny’s Morgan Johnson takes the baton from Lillian Smith during the 4×200 relay on Friday. The Hawkettes 18th in the event with a time of 1:45.48. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Jumper was proud of the way his team dealt with some adversity throughout the meet.

“As a staff we were happy with all the performances as everyone either PR’d or was around their PR,” he said. “Anytime you are in a competition of this magnitude and an athlete is around their best or sets a new PR, it is a successful competition. Our athletes did that.

“The team also did a great job of supporting each other. Our alternates were prepared to compete as well and really had a team-first attitude,” he added.

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