BURNS – The Southeast High School track teams braved cold temperatures, wind and gray skies at the 2025 Burns Invitational to bring home 25 top eight medals and two golds.

The Lady Cyclones collected 184 points to advance to the No. 4 spot on the team leaderboard in a field of 10 schools. The Southeast boys clinched seventh place with 54 team points.

Junior Hadley Leithead battled to the No. 1 position on the girls’ discus leaderboard. Leithead snagged her first gold medal for the season with a toss of 109 feet, nine inches to beat the runner-up from Gering by a six-and-a-half-foot margin.

In boys’ distance events, freshman Cole Tregemba struck gold in the 1600-meters. Tregemba crossed the finish line at 5 minutes, 19.31 seconds – 2.13 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher from Burns.

Girls top eight medalists

Four Lady Cyclones broke into the top eight in the 200-meters, led by sophomore Bailey Mehling in second place with a time of 29.08 seconds. Junior Kaycee Kosmicki scooped up bronze in the event, timing in at 29.51 seconds. Senior Angie Logsdon garnered seventh place, posting a time of 30.94 seconds, while freshman Avery Tighe placed eighth at 31.35 seconds.

Kosmicki went on to place fourth in the 100-meters, reaching the finish line with a time of 13.99 seconds. Senior Taylar Hansen came in seventh place in the event at 14.60 seconds.

Representing Southeast in the 400-meters, senior Anna Hartman took fifth place at 1:19.60.

In the 800-meters, sophomore Liz Boche finished fourth, clocking in at 2:58.50. Junior Keana Llewellyn pulled into eighth place at 3:07.86.

Boche picked up fifth place in the 1600-meters, crossing the finish line at 7:05.07.

Timing the 100-meter hurdles in at 18.69 seconds, Hansen clinched fifth place in the event. Hansen also finished sixth in the pole vault, clearing 7-00.

Sophomore Haylee Ekwall captured silver in the shot put, hitting a mark of 38-03. Ekwall went on to snap up fourth place in the discus, clearing 92-01.

In jumping events, Mehling progressed to the No. 5 spot on the triple-jump leaderboard with a mark of 31-06 ¼.

Logsdon advanced to eighth place in the long jump at 14-01.

The 4x800-meter relay team – Boche, Hartman, Llewellyn and Logsdon – snagged silver with a time of 11:59.66.

Hansen, junior Molly Hasbargen, Tighe and freshman Kaylee Moats secured bronze in the 4x100-meter relay, timing in at 56.28 seconds.

Rounding out relay performances, Logsdon, Moats, Mehling and Kosmicki wrangled fourth place in the 1600-meter sprint medley with a time of 4:47.49.

Boys top eight

Senior Kannon Tippetts set the pace for the Cyclones at Burns, capturing bronze in the 800-meters. Tippetts crossed the finish line with a time of 2:25.10.

Sophomore Trevor Jolovich bagged seventh place in the triple-jump, clearing 25-09 ½.

In the 1600-meter sprint medley relay, Jolovich, junior Liam Haas, sophomore Connor Coxbill and Kannon Tippetts placed third at 4:07.06.

The 4x100-meter relay team of senior Emmett Coxbill, freshman Jack Hartman, sophomore Talon Tippetts and freshman Gauge Howe came in sixth place with a time of 58.61 seconds.

Additional results – girls

• 100-meters: Tighe in ninth place at 15.09 seconds, Hasbargen 13th at 15.65 and Moats 22nd at 16.82.

• 1600-meters: Hartman in ninth place at 7:36.69.

• 100-hurdles: Kaylee Gibson in 21st place at 25.61 seconds.

• Shot put: Brooklyn Leithead in ninth place at 27-02 ½, Hadley Leithead 11th at 26-08 ½ and Briley Leithead 22nd at 22-03 ½.

• Discus: Briley Leithead in 10th place at 81-10 ½.

• Long jump: Moats in 20th place at 11-06.

Additional results – boys

• 100-meters: Haas in 12th place at 13.09 seconds, Ben Gibbons 27th at 14.49, Jaxon Pressgrove 35th at 15.78, Talon Tippetts 36th at 16.07, Alec DeMarce 37th at 16.20 and Hartman 39th at 17.34.

• 200-meters: Haas in 10th place at 26.59 seconds, Jolovich 22nd at 28.35, Howe 27th at 29.34 and Gibbons 30th at 30.15.

• 400-meters: Tregemba in 12th place at 1:00.83.

• Shot put: DeMarce in 13th place at 33-01 ½, Drew Boche 14th at 32-11, Howe 22nd at 30-06, Sebastian Brumley 29th at 29-03, Pressgrove 38th at 25-04 and Hartman 43rd at 21-03.

• Discus: Howe in 13th place at 93-05, Brumley 17th at 88-06, Talon Tippetts 18th at 84-02, Boche 19th at 81-00, Pressgrove 22nd at 80-02 ½, DeMarce 23rd at 79-11 ½ and Hartman 35th at 64-04.

• Long jump: Jolovich in 11th place at 16-08 ½.

• Triple jump: Connor Coxbill in 13th place at 31-03 ¾.