The weather wasn’t great and it snowed on us a couple of times. Our athletes adapted and overcame the weather, though. I’m proud of the way our athletes didn’t use the cold and snow as an excuse to get in the way of their goals.”

Coach Russell Stienmetz

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THS tracksters compete at an invitational hosted by Cheyenne East on Friday, April 11.

CASPER – The Torrington High School Lady Blazers track team battled its way to the No. 4 spot on the team leaderboard at the Glen Legler Early Bird meet hosted by Natrona County High School on Thursday, April 3.

The Torrington girls collected 64 team points to finish ahead of nine other teams from across Wyoming. The Lady Blazers took the No. 1 spot out of 3A and 2A programs at the meet with 4A schools Laramie, Natrona County and Kelly Walsh dominating the top three.

The Torrington boys’ team came in 12th place with nine team points. Several boys’ events featured more than 100 entries with a 200-plus roster in the 100-meters.

Three gold medals anchored the Lady Blazers’ fourth-place finish at the meet. Junior Brooklyn Asmus snagged the No. 1 spot in both girls’ sprinting events.

Clocking the 100-meters in with a time of 12.35 seconds, Asmus clinched first place. The Torrington junior crossed the finish line 0.21 seconds ahead of Saige Gustafson, the runner-up from Natrona County.

In the 200-meters, Asmus left the competition in the dust with a first-place finish timed in at 25.05 seconds. Asmus beat the second-place finisher, Lainey Berryhill of Laramie, by 0.62 seconds.

Junior Trishell Pontarolo won the girls triple jump by a four-foot-plus margin and a new Torrington High School outdoor record. Pontarolo advanced to the No. 1 spot on the triple jump leaderboard with a mark of 38 feet, 2 inches. The runner-up, Erin Aune of Natrona County, finished with a mark of 34-00 ½.

Pontarolo’s leap on Thursday shattered the previous record set in 2014 by Avery Madden at 37-11 ½. 

“The weather wasn’t great and it snowed on us a couple of times,” coach Russell Stienmetz said. “Our athletes adapted and overcame the weather, though. I’m proud of the way our athletes didn’t use the cold and snow as an excuse to get in the way of their goals.”

Up next, Torrington tracksters are headed to an invitational hosted by Cheyenne East on Friday, April 11.

“We hope to get in a few more relay teams with good times (at Cheyenne) to give us more options at regionals,” Stienmetz added.

Girls top eight highlights

Two Torrington relay teams garnered silver at the meet. Asmus, junior Natalie Hawes, freshman Ellis Mortimore and Pontarolo pulled into second place in the 4x100-meter relay, timing in at 50.04 seconds.

Sophomore Esperanza Chavez, senior Callie Taylor, sophomore Sophia Wilson and freshman Illyana Ponce bagged silver in the 4x800-meter relay, posting a time of 11 minutes, 43.96 seconds.

In throwing events, senior Teryn Stokes fought her way to the No. 4 spot on the shot-put leaderboard with a mark of 33-03.

Hawes captured sixth place in both hurdling events. Hawes clocked the 100-meter hurdles in at 17.16 seconds before crossing the finish line for the 300-hurdles at 49.35 seconds.

Ponce finished fifth in the 400-meters, crossing the finish line with a time of 1:05.21.

Pontarolo clinched seventh place in the long jump, clearing a mark of 16-02 ¾.

Boys top eight

Senior Evan Hellus medaled in two jumping events. In the triple jump, Hellus snagged fourth place with a leap measuring 41-06 ½. Hellus went on to bag seventh place in the long jump, hitting a mark of 20-04.

Sophomore Drew Kramer finished eighth in the triple jump, clearing 40-01.

Posting a mark of 10-06 in the pole vault, senior Tyler Nicolay took eighth place in the event.

Additional results – girls

• 100-meters: Mortimore in 46th place at 14.36 seconds.

• 200-meters: Mortimore in 21st place at 30.46 seconds and Laney Walter 35th at 31.86.

• 400-meters: Walter in 21st place at 1:14.64.

• 3200-meters: Taylor in 10th place at 13:43.52.

• 100-hurdles: Mortimore in 20th place at 20.57 seconds.

• 300-hurdles: Grace Hibben in 17th place at 55.34 seconds.

• Pole vault: Wilson in 18th place at 7-00 and Chavez 20th at 6-06.

• Discus: Catie Reimer in 11th place at 95-06, Stokes 21st at 83-11, Wittni Bugher 22nd at 82-07, Alejandra Felipe 38th at 65-01, Karlee Mathson 40th at 64-11, Kendal Schmidt 48th at 61-08 and Ryleigh Connelly 50th at 60-11.

• Shot put: Kaia Jacobson in 17th place at 28-07 ¾, Reimer 23rd at 27-04 ¼, Bugher 31st at 24-06 ¾, Mathson 39th at 23-06 ½, Connelly 59th at 20-07 ½, Schmidt 62nd at 20-05 and Felipe 65th at 19-11.

Additional results – boys

• 100-meters: Kramer in 14th place at 11.93 seconds, Ace Heron 52nd at 12.35, Colby Sandusky 58th at 12.39, Beau Martinez 103rd at 12.87, Brady Dagen 130th at 13.21, Travis Nobs 151st at 13.54 and Xavier Sanchez 182nd at 14.33.

• 200-meters: Kramer in ninth place at 24.16 seconds, Heron 35th at 25.54, Sandusky 38th at 25.73, Martinez 72nd at 26.80, Nobs 83rd at 27.19, Anthony Sanchez 90th at 27.65 and Zade Olson 97th at 27.97.

• 400-meters: Dagen in 38th place at 1:00.83 and Damien Smith 67th at 1:10.24.

• 800-meters: Nicolay in 15th place at 2:20.04 and Smith 39th at 2:40.99.

• 1600-meters: Ty Haeffelin in 38th place at 6:30.73.

• 300-hurdles: Cruz Lopez in 22nd place at 56.81 seconds.

• Long jump: Sandusky in 15th place at 19-01 ½ and Anthony Sanchez 52nd at 15-10 ½.

• Triple jumpe: Lopez in 36th place at 31-00 ½.

• Discus: Zeek Yung in 24th place at 106-04, Cayson Morris 26th at 105-04, Brayden Hime 28th at 103-04, Gabe Posten 64th at 83-02, Nathaniel Bayless 85th at 72-05 and Brandt Eichenberger 98th at 62-10.

• Shot put: Yung in 13th place at 40-04 ½, Hime 17th at 39-10 ¼, Eichenberger 63rd at 31-03 ¾, Morris 75th at 28-11, Posten 87th at 27-03 and Bayless 107th at 22-06.