Top Times & Indoor Season Recap
As it tends to do, time got away from me. I sincerely wanted to take some time to write about all the amazing things our kids did during our 5 week indoor season - the longest and most successful indoor season we’ve ever had. After the IL Top Times Meet on 3/23, as a team we spent some time acknowledging all the great things we accomplished during that season, and looked ahead to what we hope to do during the next one (outdoors). That session wound up being a long one: our list of accomplishments was pretty extensive and our hopes for the next 8 weeks are high. So, as much as I would like to write (and write) about what we’ve already done, time does not stop, and we’ve got lot’s more work to do. But before we move on, here’s a quick rundown on what our guys did during the month of March (and a little bit of February).
Team Accomplishments
EIU Invite - 4th (40+ Teams)
MTZ Apollo+ Invite - 3rd (13 mostly 2A schools)
Gene Armer Invite @ U of I - 7th (Almost 60 Schools)
IL Top Times - 4 Qualifiers, 2 3rd Place (All-State) Finishers
4 Indoor School Records
Ayden Cothern
60m - Broke the School Record (5 Times), 3rd Place at Top Times (All-State), IL #8 (Regardless of Class), Broke the 7-second barrier. Winner at EIU and MTZ Invites.
200m - RCHS#2 All-Time Indoors (.01 off Gus Lathrop’s 2015 Record), 9th in Class 2A @ Top Times
Rex Hallam
LJ - Indoor School Record (3 times), 3rd Place @ Top Times (All-State). 1st place @ MTZ Invite.
Holden Hough
3200m - Indoor School Record, 11th place finish @ Top Times. Top 25 time in 2A
1600m - RCHS #3 Indoors
Saul Jones
60m Hurdles - School Record (3 times), 17th place finish @ Top Times, Top 25 Time in 2A
400m - RCHS #3 Indoors
4x2 Relay (Ayden Cothern, Dawson Brown, Rex Hallam, Saul Jones)
RCHS #2 Indoors (Less than 1 Second off of the Indoor School Record despite being severely interfered with @ Gene Armer Invite)
Our second relay team of Gavyn Cothern, Ian Pianfetti, Ian Winkler, and Jerrison Hough) is RCHS #3 Indoors.
4x4 Relay (Ryan Kirby, Dawson Brown, Julien Derome, Isaac Zwilling, Saul Jones, Holden Hough)
Various guys ran for us in this event throughout the spring. The groups that we put together ran the two fastest times we’ve had in the RCHS era.
Gavyn Cothern
LJ - #3 Indoors & Freshman Record. Won the EIU Invite.
HJ - #3 Indoors & Freshman Record
Casey Thomann
Shot - His throw of 42’4 was RCHS #3 Indoors and a Freshman Record
Ian Pianfetti
60m - Ran the race one time and clocked in at #5 All-Time and a program Freshman Record
Ian Winkler
Triple Jump - RCHS #3 Indoors
Maddox Dorn
Shot - RCHS #7 Indoors
Brody Runyon
60m - #7 All-Time Indoors
Julien Derome
400m - RCHS #6
Ryan Kirby
400m - RCHS #8, RCHS Freshman Record
