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N-V competes at Neligh-Oakdale Track Invite

April 16, 2025

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On Tuesday, April 15 th the N-V track team traveled to Neligh for the Neligh-Oakdale Invite.  It was
another beautiful day for a track meet, and the Cougar athletes set many personal bests. The kids
performed very well setting one school record, two Neligh stadium records, and coming within 0.1 of
another school record!
Nine teams competed in this track meet... Elgin Public/Pope John, Elkhorn Valley, Fullerton, Humphrey-
Lindsay, Madison, Neligh-Oakdale, Niobrara-Verdigre, Osmond, and Plainview.
In the end, the N-V girls team won the runner-up team trophy falling just 14 points behind Elkhorn
Valley (116-130)! And the boys team finished in a very solid 5 th place.
Some highlights of the meet included… Delani Runnels winning 3 individual gold medals (800M,
1600M, 3200M) all while setting new stadium records in the 1600M and 3200M. Allison Sucha winning
2 golds (100M hurdles & 300M hurdles) and 2 silvers (long jump & triple jump). Arlan Lammers
winning high jump. Wyatt Shabram winning 3 medals (110M hurdles 2 nd , high jump 5 th , & 4x400M 6 th .
Wyatt also joined Alex Motacek as the first two N-V athletes to compete in pole vault. Wyatt broke
Alex’s school record set just 6 days ago with a vault of 9-0. That finished him tied for 6 th place.
Five different boys were medalists at the meet. And on the girls side, all 12 N-V athletes competing
earned medals! Here are the individual medalists:
GIRLS
Long Jump (Allison Sucha) – 2 nd place
High Jump (Amber Sucha) – 1 st place
Shot Put (Taylor Pavlik) – 2 nd place
Discus (Chloe Hanzlik) – 4 th place
100M hurdles - Allison Sucha 1 st place, Nora Kucera 2 nd place **PR**
300M hurdles (Allison Sucha) – 1 st place, Chloe Hanzlik 6 th place **PR**
Triple Jump (Allison Sucha) – 2 nd place **PR**
400M (Taylen Stark) – 4 th place
800M - Delani Runnels 1 st place, Taylen Stark 3 rd place
1600M (Delani Runnels) – 1 st place ** new stadium record 5:27.2 **
3200M (Delani Runnels) – 1 st place ** new stadium record 11:51.1 and within 0.1 seconds of her own
school rec **
4x800M Relay (Kaydence Jones, Maura Hoferer, Reina Coffman, Aliyah Yunker) – 5 th place
4x100M Relay (Kaydence Jones, Maura Hoferer, Taylor Pavlik, Emmarie Pavlik) – 6 th place
4x400M Relay (Nora Kucera, Maura Hoferer, Kaydence Jones, Emmarie Pavlik) – 4 th place
BOYS
Shot Put (Isaac Pavlik) – 5 th place (41-2.5) **PR**
Discus (Isaac Pavlik) – 3 rd place (121-10) **PR**
High Jump – Arlan Lammers 1 st place, Wyatt Shabram – 5 th place
Pole Vault (Wyatt Shabram) – tie 6 th place (9-0) **school record**
110M hurdles (Wyatt Shabram) – 2 nd place (16.62) **PR**
200M (Kellen Vesely) – 6 th place
4x400M Relay (Arlan Lammers, Alex Motacek, Kellen Vesely, Wyatt Shabram) – 6 th place
Just missing out on medals…
Jacob Motacek – 7 th place discus
4x100M Relay (Connor Thomson, Jacob Motacek, Isaac Pavlik, Kellen Vesely) – 7 th place
Arlan Lammers – 7 th place 400M
The next meet will be the St. Mary’s Invite in O’Neill on Wednesday, April 23 rd .  GO COUGARS!