Centralia Lady Panthers Track

What a year for the Centralia Panthers athletic programs especially on the girls side as the lady Panthers were 1A-Division I State volleyball runner-ups, captured the 1A-DI State basketball title and at State Track added the first girls State team track title in school history.

The lady Panthers behind 11 medals in Class 1A competition at the 2016 Kansas high school State track and field competition captured the 1A team State title with 56.66 points just edging out fellow Twin Valley League school Axtell by 2.66 points.

Leading the charge at State was an individual State Champion as Breanna Schmitz notched a vault of 10’00 to win the 1A pole vault title and her teammates, Chelsea Huerter and Breanna Hasenkamp each tied for second in the pole vault (9’06). Tara Bergman closed out her Panther track career with a pair of medals tossing a personal record, 124’06 to take second in the discus and with a throw of 33’09 placed eighth in the shot put.

Lady Panthers snagged three medals in the relays placing fifth in the 4x100 and 4x400 with times of 52.76 and 4:16.44, while finishing seventh in the 4x800 with a time of 10:40.53. Three other lady Panthers won individual events as Tamra Jones raced to a time of 5:43.42 to take fourth in the 1600 meter run, Maegan Koch with a time of 1:01.59 finished fifth in the 400 meter dash and Madison Lueger took third in the javelin behind a toss of 125’06.

Katie Glatczak and Mayda Stallbaumer each competed in individual events for Centralia the 100 meter dash and 300 meter hurdles for Glatczak and 800 meter run for Stallbaumer. Both also competed in the relay competitions for the Panthers along with Logan Whetzal, Keaton Whetzal, Sadie Jones, Regan Hueske and Ashlyne Thunder Hawk.

The trophy case continues to fill up at Centralia high school and the lady Panthers did their best during the 2015-2016 school year to add to it and put the final stamp on the year with their Class 1A State Track title.