Butler Competes in District Championships

by Aaron Allen

On Saturday the Butler Bears track team traveled to Skyline High School to compete in the District Championships. After a two hour rain delay the skies cleared up and we had a beautiful day to compete.

Your kids of your school represented themselves very well. I am proud of the performance that our team put out there. To advance to the sectional meet an athlete must be in the top 4 of the respected event. As a team, the Butler Bears placed 3rd place overall! I am pleased with this, since this has been our highest ranking at the district meet since I have been here. Although we have to say goodbye to some of our teammates, some of them still earned points for their team to be in the top 3.

Here are your top 8 finishers and sectional qualifiers:

Pole Vault – Ethan Gardner – 1st place and District Champion with a vault of 12’6″

Brett Behringer – 7 place

Long Jump – Kaleb Kauffman – 6th place

Triple Jump – Dylan Morris – 8th place

Shot Put – Ben Holt – 8th place

4×800 Relay – Tayje VanVoorst – 4th place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 9:28.51

Reid Davis

Tevin Taylor

Austin Castaneda

110 Hurdles – Connor Sparks – 7th place

100m Dash – Kaleb Kauffman – 4th place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 11.62

4×200 Relay – Geoffrey Algiere – 2nd place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 1:35.33

Dylan Morris

Devan Loveall

Tanner Diehl

4×100 Relay – Geoffrey Algiere – 4th place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 46.64

Dylan Morris

Ben Holt

Devan Loveall

400m Dash – Austin Castaneda – 2nd place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 52.91

Tanner Diehl – 3rd place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 53.39

300 Hurdles – Devan Loveall – 6th place

800 Run – Austin Castaneda – 1st place and District Champion with a time of 2:09.7

Tayje VanVoorst – 8th place

200m Dash – Kaleb Kauffman – 4th place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 23.42

Tanner Diehl – 5th place

3200 Run – Tayje VanVoorst – 3rd place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 11:21.36

4×400 Relay – Devan Loveall – 2nd place and Sectional qualifier with a time of 3:41.15

Ethan Gardner

Kaleb Kauffman

Tanner Diehl

As you can see, your Butler Bears performed very well. I am proud of everyone and want to thank every kid who came out to be a part of our great season. I appreciate their time and effort. Our next meet will be Saturday May 16th at Fair Grove for our Sectional Meet. There the top 4 advance to the State Meet.

Butler Competes in District Championships