![Jefferson junior Rachel Broghammer runs her leg of the 4x400 relay Tuesday during the MVC Indoor meet at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Broghammer showed no apparent ill effects from the lower leg stress fracture that sidlined her for the latter portion of the girls basketball season. (Photo by Margaret O'Banion)](/images/resized/images/photos/jefferson/girlstrack/3_200_329.png)
7th is heaven for J-Hawks at MVC meet
CEDAR FALLS – The girls on the state champion Jefferson relay team were ecstatic after their finish at the Mississippi Valley Conference indoor track meet Tuesday night at the UNI-Dome. And it wasn’t because they won their race. In fact, they ended up a distant seventh.
“It was the worst 400 in my life,” said junior Rachel Broghammer, who anchored the J-Hawk 4x400 relay team. “But I’ve never felt better.”
And junior Taylor Jacobson, who ran the opening leg, said she couldn’t have been happier.
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