GOSHEN – With both the Warsaw boys and girls track teams rolling to 7-0 dual seasons and team titles in the Northern Lakes Conference track championships, the Tigers and Lady Tigers were both well represented in the All-NLC lists for both sports.
Warsaw’s boys won its fifth consecutive conference championship and continue on with 34 straight NLC dual wins, taking down the conference last Tuesday with 146.5 points to runner-up Goshen’s 130 points. The Tigers won six events, and rightly, all were on the list. All-Northern Lakes Conference athletes included Daniel Messenger, Ross Armey, Owen Glogovsky, Riley Rhoades, Landan Perry and Brock Riley. Earning Honorable Mention All-NLC for Warsaw was Brandon Reinholt.
Wawasee didn’t have a regular season to remember from a record standpoint, going 0-7 in dual meets, but finished fourth at the NLC Championships with the man of the match.
Clayton Cook won two events and helped the 4×100 relay to another title. The relay members were Cook, JJ Gilmer, Tyler Courter and Cole VanLue, who all earned All-NLC nods.
Goshen’s 6-1 regular season and runner-up place at the NLC were aided by the showings of Jacob Isnogle, Gerardo Abad and Abe Medellin, each earning All-NLC awards. Nick Gerber and Andrew Pillow were Honorable Mention All-NLC for the Redskins.
Northridge had six on the All-NLC list including Nathan Blyly, Kurtis Hochstetler, Andy Kauffman, Conner Sandt, Austin Healey and Michael Fickert.
NorthWood’s Bailey Gessinger was All-NLC and teammate Derek Parker was Honorable Mention All-NLC. Concord also had one each in Dominic Proffitt on the All-NLC list and Jerell Pointdexter on the Honorable Mention All-NLC list.
Plymouth’s duo of Kennedy Schneiders and Taylor Fulton were Honorable Mention All-NLC as was Memorial’s David Doyle.
The Lady Tigers took up a lot of real estate on the All-NLC lists, having 10 athletes make the sheet. Warsaw won its 10th straight NLC title and have run off 47 straight dual wins in a row.
In Warsaw scoring 169 points at the NLC meet, Memorial’s 110 was the next closest total. The Lady Tigers won seven events in its show of force.
Taking All-NLC nods for the Lady Tigers were Sam Alexander, Abbi Curtis, Mariah Harter, Allison Miller, Audrey Rich, Jazzmine Brown, Nicole Eckert, Rebecca Lemon and Brooke Rhodes. Tennie Worrell was named Honorable Mention All-NLC to round out the Warsaw listings.
Wawasee went 1-6 in the conference, and had just one athlete make the cut in Katlyn Kennedy as an Honorable Mention All-NLC.
Memorial and Plymouth were both 5-2 in the conference, the Lady Pilgrims earning seven total nods in Kaydon Fosler, Cassi Quissell, Allie Wright, Libby Read and Katelyn O’Neal taking All-NLC and Sammi Davis and Casey Buchanon Honorable Mention All-NLC. Memorial had Deanna Cornelius and Sierra Moore as All-NLC and Tailor Schultheis Honorable Mention All-NLC.
Goshen had Adrienne Henke, Hannah Kurtz, Jillian Kissinger and Nora Rangel all named All-NLC and Tricia Place Honorable Mention All-NLC.
Concord’s Ciana Bonfiglio was All-NLC and NorthWood’s Brianna Tuttle was Honorable Mention All-NLC.
Warsaw’s Matt Thacker for the boys and Scott Erba for the girls were named Coaches of the Year for the conference.