Sports : Record Year for track: Vikings break marks set as far back as 80 years

Tyler Bartz broke Howard Johnson's 80-year-old VS long jump record this year.

8th grade record: Lauren Upmeyer broke shot put record twice, her longest toss is 32', 3.75''.

As they celebrate last week’s win at the Wamac Conference meet (and the Wamac Coach of the Year Award for coach Aric Chvala), the Vinton-Shellsburg boys track team is preparing for this week’s state qualifying meet in Charles City.

Already, this year has seen many new records set by Viking athletes – some of them as old as the Great Depression.

The list of new records set this year by Viking track & field team members include:

100m Dash - Nick Hyland 11.03, Joel Barnes 11.09 breaking previous record 11.14 from 1937;

400m Dash - Tyler Bartz 49.70, Joel Barnes 49.84 breaking previous record of 50.46 of Nolan Sagan 2014;

Long Jump - Tyler Bartz 21' 6" breaking previous record of 21'5" of Howard Johnson 1936;

4x100 - Jordan Womochil, Tyler Bartz, Joel Barnes, Nick Hyland 43.37 breaks previous record 43.66 of Cole Garwood, Joel Barnes, Jordan Womochil, Nick Hyland from 2015;

4x200 - Joel Barnes, Jordan Womochil, Tyler Bartz, Nick Hyland 1:30.43 breaks previous record of Chris Rich, Clint Ferguson, Jason Kirk, Trevor Walker 1:30.54 from 2009; and,

4x400 - Nick Hyland, Tyler Bartz, Blake Bohnsack, Joel Barnes 3:23.40 break previous record of Trevor Walker, Travis Libbert, Clint Ferguson, Jason Kirk 3:24.80 from 2008.

Vikettes set 3 records

The VS girls track team has also seen some records set this year.

The 4 X 800 team of Lily Horst, Grace Horst, Annika Schmidt and Bristi Gerber set a new VS school record with a time of 9:45.11, also at the Wamac Super Meet. Freshman Grace Horst also set a new VS record for the 1500M run with a time of 5:01.55, breaking her sister’s record. Lily also recently broke her own record in the 3000M

8th grade shot put record broken two times

An 8th grade Vikette also broke a school record – twice.

Lauren Upmeyer broke the VS Middle School record set by Monica Huelman Zaruba in 1992. At a meet at Clear Creek-Amana, Lauren’s toss was 32 feet, 3.75 inches, just 2.75 inches more than the previous record of 32 feet, 1 inch. Then at Friday’s Wamac Meet, Lauren broke the old record again, but not her new one, with a toss of 32 feet, 2 inches as she won first place, helping the 8th graders win the team title.

1992. Monica's was 32'1". Lauren's was 32'3 3/4". That was on May 2nd at CCA.

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