Jefferson Girls Track

Jeff girls win 9 events at Sherwood

IOWA CITY -- The Cedar Rapids Jefferson girls track team captured nine events at the Sherwood Relays in Iowa City on Saturday.

The J-Hawks dominated the relay events with victories in the shuttle hurdle relay, distance medley, 4x200, sprint medley, 4x100 and 4x400.

Rachel Broghammer won the 100-meter dash for Jefferson, Madison Ranschau took the 100 hurdles and Brianna Prohaska won the high jump.

Abbie Ranschau, Sam Kitterman, Maliya Ratliffe, Morgan Meese and Broghammer came home with three gold medals for the J-Hawks. Taylor Jacobson, Madison Ranschau, Meredith Koenigsfeld, Lucy Schneekloth and Jasmine Blue were double-winners for Jefferson.

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Jeff girls win 5 events in Mount Pleasant

MOUNT PLEASANT -- The Cedar Rapids Jefferson J-Hawks broke their own meet record in the 4x100 relay and won five events at the Mount Pleasant Relays on Thursday.

Lucy Schneekloth, Jasmine Blue, Morgan Meese and Rachel Broghammer claimed the 4x100 relay in 49.83 seconds, snapping the old mark set by Jefferson in 2010.

Broghammer also captured the 100-meter dash for the J-Hawks. Taylor Jacobson took the 400 hurdles and Emma Edelen won the discus.

Jefferson also won the distance medley with Maliya Ratliffe, Jessica Ohrnstein, Jasmine Blue and Emma Rolwes.

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Jenks, J-Hawks double up at Dickinson Relays

CEDAR FALLS - Stephanie Jenks ran 15 laps around the UNI-Dome track Monday at the A.D. Dickinson Relays, took one deep breath and then waited for the rest of the girls in the 3000 meter run to cross the finish line so she could shake their hands.

The Linn-Mar freshman had to wait a while to greet them all.

Jenks won the 3000 in 10:16.27 in a breeze. She clocked a 9:49.24 at the same distance last week at a major meet in Ames when she faced serious competition from Anna Holidman of Waverly-Shell Rock, but there wasn't much of a challenge Monday.

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Jeff girls relay teams claim 3 MVC titles

CEDAR FALLS - Marissa Estelle appeared to have a promising track career when she finished fifth in the 100 meter hurdles at the Class 4A state track meet as a freshman in 2010 for the Kennedy Cougars.

Then came the injuries.

She tore several muscles in her hip as a sophomore, then grew four inches prior to her junior year in high school and suffered from growing pains, shin splints and apophysitis in her hips. "It's when you grow too fast and the bone pulls apart," she explained.

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