Foltz N-G on all-area first team girls’ track
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By Mike Monahan
CHAMPAIGN – Tuscola senior Kate Foltz, who is headed to run cross country and track at the University of Illinois was on the 14-member first team 21st all-Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette Girls’ Track and Field team.
Foltz was fifth in the 3,200 with a season-best 11:01.21. She was also 12th in the 1,600 with a time of 5:21.82 in the finals for coach Drew Sterkel. Her best time this season in the 1,600 was 5:13.41.
Villa Grove sophomore Evalice Callison was on the 12-member second team along with Tuscola’s Kali Gailpin and Arthur Lovington Atwood Hammond’s Bella Romine.
Callison placed third in the high jump in the state Class 1A track meet at Eastern Illinois University. She went a school-record 5-5 ¼, while Gailpin, a senior, was 11th in the high jump going 5-1. Her best during the season was 5-4 ¼.
Romine Romine, a sophomore, had never done the long or triple jump before this season. She earned seventh place in the long jump and 20th in the triple with jumps of 16-1 and a season-best 35-8 respectively. Her best long jump was 17-3 ¾ in the Shelbyville Sectional.
Nineteen of the 133 earning honorable mention were from the County Chronicle area in Arcola’s Olivia Gisinger, Jaiden Miller, Scarlett Montano and Ema Simpson. ALAH had Ruby Burton, Alex Clark, Sophia Johnson, Summer Melton, Leighton Poulos, Embrey Reardon, Grace Romine and Lily Vanda earn honorable mention, along with Tuscola’s Reece Davis, Anna Marie Grant, Ava Kleiss, Tessa Neuner and Montserrat Xolo as well as Villa Grove’s Baylee Martin and Amijah Riggleman.
The athlete of the year was Mahomet-Seymour’s Madalyn Marx, while Danville’s Carl Long was the coach of the year.