Coach seeks old track and field records
The Vandalia High School Sports Boosters have agreed to purchase a new record board for the track team, and coach Jane Bell is seeking any old school records.
Records from the old board, as well as other boys track archives from before 1990, have been misplaced.
Bell said she is interested in finding the pole vault record and sprinter and sprint relay teams records from the 1970s and 80s.
Records are computed using fully-automatic timing, so any records recorded with a hand-held stopwatch have .24 seconds added to them to compensate for how long it takes a human to stop a watch.
Bell is requesting anyone with documented proof of a performance that betters any of the records listed below to contact her at the high school.
(FAT-converted times are marked with an *)
Girls records
100 Dash:
12.84* Emma Krummel 2007
100 Hurdles:
17.18 Jessie Bright 2009
200 Dash:
26.8 Tori Hagy 2008
300 Hurdles:
51.34* Robin Conder 1992
400 Dash:
59.37 Kayla Houston 2009
800 Run:
2:28.452 Ashley Durbin 2009 1600 Run:
5:34.3 Rachel Bell 2006
3200 Run:
12:24.24* Rachel Bell 2006
Long Jump:
16’ 9 ¾” Gretchen Schneider ’96
High Jump:
5’ 03” Kayla Houston 2009
5’ 03” Sierah Ruffner 2010
Shot Put:
35’ 9 ¼” Nikki Stine 2007
Discus:
101’ 9” Jaclyn Eisenbarth 1998
Triple Jump:
32’ 2” Tori Hagy 2008
400 Relay:
52.024
Tori Hagy, Kayla Houston, Paige Dodson, Ashley Durbin 2009
800 Medley Relay:
1:59.54*
Kelly Booker, Courtney Gordon, Tori Hagy, Shelby Cearlock 2009 800 Relay:
1:53.5
Tori Hagy, Kris Stunkel, Paige Dodson, Kelly Booker 2009
1600 Relay:
4:00.58
Paige Dodson, Ashley Durbin, Tori Hagy, Kayla Houston 2009
3200 Relay:
10:29.74*
Paige Dodson, Tori Hagy, Kayla Houston, Ashley Durbin 2009
Boys records
55 Hurdles:
8.89 (FAT) Quenten Austin 2010
100 Dash:
11.44* Mark Ortwig 1989
110 Hurdles:
15.94* Quenten Austin 2010
200 Dash:
23.74* Angel Osorio 2009
300 Hurdles:
41.67* Quenten Austin 2010
400 Dash:
52.87(FAT) Andy Koonce 2009
800 Run:
2:03.84* Daniel Bell 2010
1600 Run:
4:27.30(FAT) Drew Bell 2009
3200 Run:
10:01.24* Drew Bell 2009
Long Jump:
19’4” Blake Swofford 2010
High Jump:
6’7” Richard Rames 1975
Shot Put:
56’8” Larry Staff 1952
Discus:
140’3” Scott Sprehe 2001
Triple Jump:
39’8” Josh Goen 2007
400 Relay:
47.54*
Tim Ritchey, Blake Swofford, Quenten Austin, Ryan Ambuehl, 2010
800 Relay:
1:39.34*
Cody McGee, Mitch Whightsil, Michael Galletto, Angel Osorio 2009
1600 Relay:
3:43.07*
Quenten Austin, Angel Osorio, Aaron Harter, Ryan Ambuehl 2010
3200 Relay:
9:03.54*
Drew Bell, Daniel Bell, Quinn Phillips, Andy Koonce 2009