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Jordan Puvogel
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Distance running is the name of the game for Hiawatha Red Hawk senior, Jordan Puvogel and she has put together a high school career to remember and she hasn’t even finished her senior year on the track.
Puvogel helped lead Hiawatha to girls’ team track meet victory at the ACCHS Invitational last week sweeping the distance runs. Behind a time of 12:24.58 she won the 3200 meter run by over 30 seconds, while registering a time of 5:29.34 to win the 1600 meter run by over 10 seconds. In the 800 meter run a time of 2:24.36 brought home for the gold for Jordan. The senior also competed on the Red Hawks 4x800 meter relay team and along with her teammates posted a time of 10:08 to claim first place at the ACCHS Invite.
The senior along with three of her Red Hawk track teammates also took to the track last week as part of the 88th annual KU Relays in Lawrence and competed against some of the top flight high school competition. Puvogel and her running mates (Molly Kettler, Courtney Brockhoff and Kailey Davis) teamed up to compete in the girls distance medley relay, girls 4x1600 meter relay and girls 3200 meter relay. In the distance medley relay the Red Hawks took 18th of 23 teams, while placing 19th of 21 teams in the 4x1600 and 28th of 35 teams in the 3200 meter relay.
In the lone other meet this year Jordan competed in she took home the gold in the 800, 1600 and 3200 meter runs and helped the girls 4x800 meter relay teams claim first place also coming on the Red Hawks home track in a Big Seven Quad.
Jordan has quite a decorated running career, placing second in the 1600 and 3200 meter runs last year at State track as a junior in 3A, while taking third in the 800 and helping lead the way for a State title in by the lady Red Hawks 4x800 meter relay team. As a sophomore she won the 3A State title in the 3200 meter run and took second in the 1600 and fifth in the 800, while placing 15th as freshman in the 1600 in Class 4A and has four Top six finishes at State in cross country including a State title in 3A in 2012 as a sophomore.
The senior looks to return to State this year and cap off her high school career in a big way and then continue her running career at Pittsburg State University next year after adding more hardware to her trophy case to finish her high school career.
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