Greenville hosts Troy in dual track & field meet

Greenville junior high and high school track and field teams compete with Troy Trojans

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Greenville hosts Troy in middle school and high school dual track meet. (Gaylen Blosser photo)

GREENVILLE – Greenville hosted the Troy Trojans in a high school and junior high dual meet.

“When we get together we have fun meets,” said Greenville track and field coach, Bill Plessinger. “We have a lot of fun and we bounce a lot of ideas off each other. Everything in track is so competitive, you have to have some fun sometimes and when we get together we have fun meets.”

Greenville Track & Field vs Troy Trojans. (Gaylen Blosser photo)

The Green Wave varsity girls earned 9-first place finishes and the varsity boys took 8-first place finishes.

The Greenville junior high girls took 6-first place finishes while the junior high boys took 13-first place finishes.

“I respect Troy,” Plessinger noted. “Both their coaches, their whole program, they have developed a great boys and girls program. We run them a lot, we see them a lot but we’re very friendly opponents.  They’re good people. I like Troy and mostly I respect them.”

Greenville Track & Field vs Troy Trojans. (Gaylen Blosser photo)

GREENVILLE VARSITY BOYS FIRST PLACE FINISHERS

100 Meter Dash | Nolan Ellis          11.81

200 Meter Dash | John Rey Abao   25.74

300 Meter Hurdles | Johnny Barr   47.22

High Jump | Thomas Barr   6’0”

Long Jump | Nolan Ellis   17’7”

Triple Jump | Nolan Ellis   39’3.75”

Pole Vault | Joel Hays   12’0”

Discus | Landon Noble   124’9”

Greenville Track & Field vs Troy Trojans. (Gaylen Blosser photo)

GREENVILLE VARSITY GIRLS FIRST PLACE FINISHERS

400 Meter Dash | Jadyn Norris   1:07.20

100 Meter Hurdles | Hannah York   17.03

300 Meter Hurdles | Gabriella Hartzell   58.60

4×100 Meter Relays | 50.48

4×400 Meter Relays | 4:44.28

High Jump | Addie Klosterman   4’10”

Long Jump | Hannah York   15’0”

Pole Vault | Samantha Suter   8’6”

Discus | Emily Gibson   108’10”

GREENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS FIRST PLACE FINISHERS

200 Meter Dash | Rylan Grosch   29.17

400 Meter Dash | Jackson Ross   1:04.66

800 Meter Run | Blaze Burton   2:36.06

1600 Meter Run | Ethan Castle   6:40.24

110 Meter Hurdles | Corbin McCool   21.91

200 Meter Hurdles | Brody Baumann   33.64

4×100 Meter Relays   53.98

4×200 Meter Relays   2:01.98

High Jump | Cullen Schmidt   5’0”

Long Jump | Ethan Zimmer   12’4”

Pole Vault | Leland Hess   8’0”

Discus | Isaac Winner   86’10”

Shot Put | Jonathan Floyd   29’5.25”

GREENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS FIRST PLACE FINISHERS 

400 Meter Dash | Samantha Elam   1:06.89

4×100 Meter Relay | 1:01.36

4×200 Meter Relay | 2:04.21

4×800 Meter Relay | 12:52.88

Long Jump | Lillian Price   13’0”

Pole Vault | Clair Rammel   8’6”

Discus | Anna Cox   67’8”