Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

IOWA CITY – Kitra Bell spent most of the day stressing out about her newest event at Thursday’s Forwald/Coleman Relays.

“Throughout the whole school day I was stressed,” Bell said. “In class all day I was stressing for the 400 hurdles.”

It was an old standard event for Bell that helped chase the nerves away.

A title in the long jump spurred Bell to a big day as West High finished runner-up to Waukee at the 46th Annual Forwald/Coleman Relays at Raffensperger Track at City High.

Bell used the long jump to ease her nerves and went on to add a title in the 100 hurdles and a fourth-place finish in the 400 hurdles as West High rolled up 130.5 points.

“All the stress goes away when I get on that run way,” Bell said. “The 400 hurdles were stressing me out the most because that’s something I haven’t done very much but the long jump, I don’t stress when I’m at the long jump.”

Bell edged teammate Katie Severt by less than an inch to win the long jump with a leap of 17-9 in her first event of the day.

She bested a strong field in the 100 hurdles with a personal best time of 15.41 and helped the West High shuttle hurdle relay team to a fourth-place finish.

“I was very impressed, especially with my 100 hurdles,” Bell said. “I wasn’t expecting that. I go into every race wanting to win but with the competition around me I said ‘if I don’t win that’s fine’. I was very proud of myself.”

By the time Bell got to the 400 hurdles the anxiousness she felt all day was gone.

In just her second ever attempt at the 400 hurdles Bell finished fourth in 1:08.37.

I like trying new things, honestly and coach (Mike) Parker knows that,” Bell said. “It really tests your limits when you do that event, it is nice to have it in your mind that you did that event and be able to accomplish that.”

Bailey Nock joined Bell as a two-event winner, sweeping the distance events in impressive fashion.Nock won the 3,000 in a seas

on-best time of 10:18.92 and edged teammate Deniz Ince by two seconds to win the 1,500 in 4:50.28.

Ince anchored the West High distance medley relay team to a win in 4:19.56 as the Women of Troy finished 53.5 points behind Waukee in the team race.

“We all are very pleased and very impressed,” Bell said. “The competition here was great and so we are pleased with how we performed.”

Chandler Haight finished runner-up in the shot put with a mark of 43-7 and Alexie Little was second in the discus with a mark of 119-0 ½.

Forward/Coleman Relays

At City High

Team scores – 1. Waukee 184; 2. West High 130.5; 3. Pleasant Valley 114; 4. City High 93; 5. West Des Moines Valley 70; 6. Linn-Mar 68; 7. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 51.5; 8. Muscatine 27.

Individual Results

(Winners; Area Placewinners)

100 – 1. Elma Vojic (WAU) 12.41; 6. Emma Clark (ICH) 12.95

200 – 1. Elma Vojic (WAU) 26.05; 4. Tiara Green (ICH) 27.26; 5. Isyss Shaw (ICW) 27.44

400 – 1. Delaney Taylor (WAU) 1:00.82; 7. Saye Traore (ICH) 1:06.9; 8. Jordan DuBrava (ICH) 1:07.42

800 – 1. Payton Wensel (LM) 2:11.08; 5. Kiara Malloy-Salgado (ICW) 2:26.67; 7. CeCe Kelly-Harvey (ICH) 2:27.61;

1,500 – 1. Bailey Nock (ICW) 4:50.28; 2. Deniz Ince (ICW) 4:52.21

3,000 – 1. Bailey Nock (ICW) 10:18.92; 6. Esti Brady (ICH) 11:19.35; 8. Annalise Rummelhart (ICH) 11:42.39.

100 hurdles – 1. Kitra Bell (ICW) 15.41; 3. Caroline Schaeckenbach (ICH) 15.56; 5. Peyton Steva (ICW) 15.84.

400 hurdles – 1. Caroline Schaeckenbach (ICH) 1:05.59; 4. Kitra Bell (ICW) 1:08.37; 8. Jae Dancer (ICH) 1:11.9.

Sprint medley relay – 1. City High (Emma Clark, Emma Cooper, CeCe Kelly-Harvey, Ayana Lindsey) 1:51.9; 4. West High (Katie Severt, Favour Alarape, Isyss Shaw, Kiara Malloy-Salgado) 1:56.1.

Distance medley relay – 1. West High (Katie Severt, Matayia Tellis, Isyss Shaw, Deniz Ince) 4:19.56; 3. City High (Sydney DePrenger, Ella Cook, Tiara Green, Jae Dancer) 4:30.8.

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Waukee 1:05.61; 4. West High (Kia Noibi, Amy Liao, Peyton Steva, Kitra Bell) 1:07.91; 6. City High (Kate Swenning, Jordan Sekafetz, Jae Dancer, Caroline Schaeckenbach) 1:09.12.

4×100 – 1. Pleasant Valley 48.99; 5. West High (Peyton Steva, Katie Severt, Isyss Shaw, Matayia Tellis) 51.85; 7. City High (Emma Clark, Azzura Sartini-Rideout, Tiara Green, Emma Cooper) 52.28.

4×200 – 1. Pleasant Valley 1:44.5; 4. City High (Emma Clark, Emma Cooper, CeCe Kelly-Harvey, Ayana Lindsey) 1:48.07; 7. West High (Kia Noibi, Amy Liao, Mia Dillingham, Favour Alarape) 1:55.14.

4×400 – 1. Waukee 4:01.01; 2. City High (Sydney DePrenger, CeCe Kelly-Harvey, Caroline Schaeckenbach, Ayana Lindsey) 4:04.06; 8. West High (Amy Liao, Claire Ronnebaum, Kaisa Whittaker, Catherine Hoefer) 4:35.53.

4×800 – 1. Waukee 9:48.54; 4. City High (Anna Lindower, Amelia Morrow, Kinsee Brands, Lillian Reynold) 10:05.42; 6. West High (Catherine Hoefer, Anna Moore, Emma Kearney, Claire Ronnebaum) 10:35.51.

Long jump – 1. Kitra Bell (ICW) 17-9; 2. Katie Severt (ICW) 17-8 ¼; 4. Ayana Lindsey (ICH) 16-5; 5. Ella Cook (ICH) 16-1

High jump – 1. Skyler Presler (LM) 5-6; 3. Alia Vanderhoef (ICH) 5-0; 3. Kate Swenning (ICH) 5-0.

Shot put – 1. Kat Moody (WAU) 47-3; 2. Chandler Haight (ICW) 43-7; 3. Salima Omari (ICW) 37-5.

Discus – 1. Madison Green (WDV) 123-9; 2. Alexie Little (ICW) 119-0 ½; 3. Chandler Haight (ICW) 111-0.