Solon Impresses While Cruising to WAMAC Super Meet Title
Ryan Murken
Your Prep Sports
INDEPENDENCE – Solon entered the WAMAC Conference meet on Thursday heavily favored but still highly motivated.
The Spartans left as two-time defending conference champs.
Solon dominated from start to finish winning eight events and finishing runner-up in five others while running away with the WAMAC team title on Thursday at Leinbaugh Field in Independence.
“Coach (Brent) Sands told us not to underestimate anyone because you never know who is going to show up that day and do something,” Solon Junior Emma Bock said. “We were going in hoping to win but we weren’t going to take anything for granted.”
Solon won four individual titles, two from Bock and one each from Ava Conrad and Kiersten Conway and won four relays while racking up 175 points to finish 77.5 in front of runner-up Williamsburg.
Mount Vernon was third with 71 points and Clear Creek Amana finished fourth with 67 points.
“I was really happy,” Sands said. “We tried to test some stuff out to see recovery time for districts next week and our girls responded great. I was really happy with what we did tonight.”
Solon showed off an impressive mix of top-end talent, depth and balance while pulling away from the field for its second consecutive WAMAC Super Meet title.
Solon had a top-five finish in all but one event and double scored in eight of 12 individual events.
The Spartans won four relays and finished second in two others while easily outdistancing themselves from the field.
“I like getting a team win over an individual win just because you get to celebrate with more people,” Solon junior Kaia Holtkamp said. “Relays make the whole team have a sense of success.”
Bock was a part of four titles on Thursday, winning gold in the 400 and 800 and anchoring the Solon sprint medley and 4×400 relays to wins.
She won the 400 in in 57.95 and held off Kora Katcher of Center Point-Urbana over the final 50 meters while winning the 800 in 2:26.84.
“We went in knowing we had a chance but we wanted to make sure we were still competing throughout the meet,” Bock said. “In my head it’s just always a close race, because they don’t really announce it so we always try to keep competing.”
Holtkamp had her own standout performance for the Spartans finishing runner-up in the high jump and winning gold in three relays.
She ran the 800-meter anchor on the Spartan distance medley relay team that won in 4:22.58 and was part of the Spartans’ winning 4×800 and 4×400 squads.
“I think we are just well-rounded runners,” Holtkamp said. “We can all be put in different events and still have success. We all support each other and we are all there for one another.”
Senior Kiersten Conway won the 3,000 in 11:12.62 and was runner-up in the 1,500 and Ava Conrad won the discus with a toss of 129-9 and finished second in the shot put.
Solon was runner-up in both the 4×100 and 4×200 relays and finished fourth in the shuttle hurdle relay.
“We have a really close team,” Bock said. “Everyone just supports one another and lot of us get mixed around in events a lot so we end up running with different people depending on the meet so that makes it a lot more fun.”
Clear Creek Amana had a strong performance while jumping from 12th at the WAMAC Meet in 2019 to fourth place on Thursday.
The Clipper foursome of Emma Mathis, Cileigh Smiddy, Kayla Jiras and Silvana Kabolo won the shuttle hurdle relay in 1:09.34 and Kabolo and Mathis placed second and third respectively in the 100 hurdles.
Haidyn Barker was fourth in the 1,500 for the Clippers which placed third in both the 4×100 and 4×400 relays.
WAMAC Conference Meet
At Independence
Team scores – 1. Solon 175; 2. Williamsburg 97.5; 3. Mount Vernon 71; 4. Clear Creek Amana 67; 5. Center Point-Urbana 58; 6. Independence 47; 6. Marion 47; 8. South Tama 45.5; 9. Vinton-Shellsburg 38; 10. Dyersville Beckman 26; 11. Maquoketa 25; 12. West Delaware 24; 13. Benton Community 20
Individual event winners; area placers
Long jump – 1. Ava Maloney (CP-U) 15-11 ½; 3. Makinley Levin (SOL) 15-9 ¼; 4. Callie Levin (SOL) 15-6 ¾; 6. Emma Descourouez (CCA) 14-10 ¼
High jump – 1. Kayla Griffith (V-S) 5-2; 2. Kaia Holtkamp (SOL) 5-0; 7. Sam Schrage (CCA) 4-8; 8. Bliss Beck (CCA) 4-6
Discus – 1. Ava Conrad (SOL) 129-9; 7. Elly Holubar (SOL) 100-4 ½
Shot put – 1. Lauren Pope (WIL) 39-3 ½; 2. Ava Conrad (SOL) 38-0; 3. Leah Kollar (SOL) 36-7
100 – 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (ST) 13.0; 4. Mia Duckett (SOL) 13.47; 8. Addie McQuinn (SOL) 13.81
200 – 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (ST) 26.68; 8. Bliss Beck (CCA) 28.8
400 – 1. Emma Bock (SOL) 57.95; 3. Gracie Federspiel (SOL) 1:01.14
800 – 1. Emma Bock (SOL) 2:26.84; 4. Anna Quillin (SOL) 2:32.91
1,500 – 1. Kay Fett (CP-U) 5:04.41; 2. Kiersten Conway (SOL) 5:16.64; 4. Haidyn Barker (CCA) 5:25.3; 8. Ashlyn Williams (SOL) 5:32.2
3,000 – 1. Kiersten Conway (SOL) 11:12.62; 4. Ashlyn Williams (SOL) 12:00.34; 8. Allie Kounkel (CCA) 12:56.37
100 hurdles – 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (ST) 15.83; 2. Silvana Kabolo (CCA) 16.39; 3. Emma Mathis (CCA) 16.52; 4. Sophia Stahle (SOL) 16.97
400 hurdles – 1. Madison Prier (MAR) 1:07; 5. Mia Stahle (SOL) 1:11.49
Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Emma Mathis, Cileigh Smiddy, Kayla Jiras, Silvana Kabolo) 1:09.34; 4. Solon (Jada Buffington, Mia Stahle, Calla Foster, Sophia Stahle) 1:12.36.
Sprint medley relay – 1. Solon (Mia Stahle, Makinley Levin, Sophia Stahle, Emma Bock) 1:51.75; 6. Clear Creek Amana (Emma Mathis, Cileigh Smiddy, Bailey Olerich, Kayla Jiras) 1:58.9
Distance medley relay – 1. Solon (Monet Barnhouse, Heather Bachus, Ashley Stinocher, Kaia Holtkamp) 4:22.58; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Silvana Kabolo, Bailey Olerich, Kiera Rogers, Haidyn Barker) 4:34.77
4×100 relay – 1. Williamsburg 50.44; 2. Solon (Sophia Stahle, Callie Levin, Mia Duckett, Addie McQuinn) 51.56; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Silvana Kabolo, Bailey Olerich, Cileigh Smiddy, Emma Mathis) 51.7
4×200 relay – 1. Williamsburg 1:47.57; 2. Solon (Mia Duckett, Mia Stahle, Callie Levin, Makinley Levin) 1:48.96; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Bailey Olerich, Cileigh Smiddy, Kayla Jiras, Bliss Beck) 1:52.88
4×400 relay – 1. Solon (Kaia Holtkamp, Makinley Levin, Gracie Federspiel, Emma Bock) 4:05.05; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Kiera Rogers, Bliss Beck, Kayla Jiras, Sam Schrage) 4:14.34
4×800 relay – 1. Solon (Kaia Holtkamp, Anna Quillin, Meghan O’Neill, Gracie Federspiel) 9:56.86; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Kiera Rogers, Haidyn Barker, Avery Allan, Sam Schrage) 10:17.16
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